Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1906-05-11
MATTERS OF INTEREST.

Woisu F<OO.
France has the largest public debt
|-$5,S 1856, ,706,4O3.
We have spent s64 ,2S9 ,6OI on irriga.
ton in the West.
Potatoes are ten times more nutri.
tious than cucumbers.
or our 274,7O6 Indians, Il6, 1888 wear
modern American dress.
The United States owns four OF the
fourteen Samoan islands.
The U. S. authorities arrest abou,
4OO counterfeiters annually.
A cubic foot of water weighs 1000
ounces-of gold, 1,204 pounds.
Our little island of Guam in the Pa.
cific, has population of 8,661.
Cincinnati has the largest playing.
card mandatory in the world.
1t takes four pounds of fresh leaves
to make ono pound of dried tea.
Pennsylvania. with lOO,92O, leads
the list OF government pensioners.
There are ten thousand members OF
women's clubs in New York city.
The British isles are said to contain
nearly one million too many women.
Eighty-three and two.tenths of the
population of Porto Rico cannot read.
Laudanum is simply the name pop.
ularly applied to the tincture OF OPT
um.
John F. Spence, of California, has
produced seedless, corelesa, wormless
apple.
A Chicago homing pigeon flew 100
miles in one hour and twenty-five
minutes.
The present area OF the United
States is five times that OF the thirteen
colonies.
Tho Negroes of the Philippines re.
gard the flesh OF the python as . great
delicacy.
The ancient ocesn beds in South
Dakota are estimated to be ten million
years old.
Investigations prove that the coal
beds in England will last from 800 to
400 years.
A thousand dollars q pound was de-
clined for prize dog at the New York
Dog Show.
The Sicily Islands produce nearly
100 tons Of flowers annually for per-
fume.making.
1t is estimated that a million pen.
MES q day 60 into the slot machines in
New York City.
Moscow's orphan asylum, founded
by Catherine H., is supported by . tax
on playing cards.
Mosquitoes we're unknown in Swift.
zerlsnd until the completion of the
st. Gothard Tunnel.
Lou Dillon holds the worlds trot.
ing record, 1854. Dan Patch is the
fastest pacer-l :554.
The new Canadian power works At
Niagara Falls will reduce the flow of
water over one-third.
A snail crawling without pause
would require fourteen days and five
hours 10 cover . mile.
The value of electrical apparatus
produced in tho United Sntes last
year, was $l75,OO0,OOO.
A chasm thirty miles in length has
been excavated by the waters OF the
Grand Falls of Labrador.
New York has 1854 policemen
more than Chicago, Boston, Philadel-
phia and st. Louis combined.
The Simplon tunnel, under the Alps
from Italy to Switzerland, is the long.
est in tho world Is 1926 miles.
An elephant has so delicate sense
of smell that when in . wild state il
can scent an enemy at a distance of
1000 yards.
Canada has forests which at the
present rate OF consumption of timber
for paper will supply the world with
pulp for $40 years.
The giant bamboo OF Ceylon grows
to . height of eighty feet. II 10 used
in construction of houses and bridges.
Also water pipes are made of it.
The blow of . whales tail is the
strongest animal force in the world
the kick of the giraffe is second, and
the stroke OF lions paw the third. :.
The message stick" is q sort oI
flag OF truce used by the natives oI
Western Australia when travelling be.
yond the boundaries Of their own tribe
Before chrysan themums are exbib.
tied At the various shows they are
curled and frilled by specialists to
make them appear to the best advan.
tage.
1t is estimated that to collect one
pound OF honey from the clover, g..
VVO,OOO head of clover must be de.
prlved OF nectar and 3,75O,OOO visit,
from the bees must be made.
Whales from three hundred to fou,
hundred years old are sometimes met
with. The age is ascertained by the
size and number Of layers of the whale.
bone, which increase yearly.
TIE Oldest diary in the world j.
found in Japan. belonging to the Ho.
zake family, by whom it has conscien.
tiously been kept for close on to four
centuries. And even four centuries
ego the subject of greatest importance
was-the weather.
The London police have collection
OF 10000 sets of finger prints of crimi.
malls. II has been completely estab.
lished that the thin capillary ridges
on the tips Of the fingers undergo nc
natural change of characteristic from
the cradle to the grave.