Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1907-03-29
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Scraps of Information Gathered Here. There
and Everywhere.
In Germany more than 500 out of
every thousand women reach the age
of 30 years, while only 413 men live
SO long.
The huge statue of Liberty in New
York harbOr is built up of cast iron.
The surface is covered with a thin
layer of copper.
The Colorado river took it's name
from the color Of it's water, the Span
ish name meaning red. 1t is muddy
only at high water.
The largest prune orchard in the
world is at Los Gatos, Cal. 1t con-
tains 80, 900 trees, and Yields an an
ual profit of $50, 900.
Pearl fishing in Moro province,
Philippine Islands, can only be done
by vessels built in the United States
or in the Philippines.
According to careful estimates,
three hours of close study wear out
the body more than a whole day of
hard physical exertion.
1t is estimated that two tons of
bananas can be grown on a space of
ground which will produce forty
pounds weight of wheat.
The oldest tree in the word stands
in Ceylon. 1t is estimated, accord
ing to geographical magazines, that
it is over 1900 years old.
The name Oklahoma was first sug-
gested by Boudinout a half-breed
Cherokee. 1t means "Red Mans
Country" or Red Mans Land.
Cape Lookout is said to have been
thus named by sea captains. who
when they saw it began to look out
for Cape Hatteras and its storms.
The Brandywine took its name
from Dutch distillery on its banks
in the early days. The Dutch name
for brandy is brand win, or burnt
wine.
The stroke of q whales tail is the
strongest force in the animal king
dom. The second is the kick of the
giraffe, and the third is the stroke of
a lions paw.
At the Solar Observatory on Mt.
Wilson, California, will soon be placed
telescope with a rejecting mirror
one hundred inches in diameter, the
largest in the world.
Some of the cents made in 1870 to
1888, of which there are about dozen
varieties and all bearing Washing
tons head. are worth large amounts.
Some considered cheap at $500.
The farmers in York County, Pa.
estimate their tobacco crop this year
to be the largest grown for many
years and they expect to receive
about three million dollars for the
yield.
In France man under twenty-five
years of age, whose parents are dead
and whose grandfather or grand
mother is alive, cannot marry with
out the written authority of both or
either of them.
From Paris comes the news that
the best people are taking snuff
again, and giving it. A medical pa
per holsters up the fad by saying
that few pinches day will guard
against influenza.
The largest shark ever captured
was drawn out of the water in San
Pedro Bay, CAL, weighing 1000
pounds and measuring thirty-two
feet from tip to tip. Its mouth was
nearly three feet across.
Emperor William has issued strict
instructions that his son, Prince
August Wilhelm, who is an under
graduate at Bonn, shall attend the
lectures on the history Of the Ameri-
can Constitution, to be delivered in
Berlin University.
The American Museum of Natural
History has been largely enriched by
the gift from an Arctic explorer of
the skins, skulls, antlers and prin-
cipal bones of fourteen white reindeer
and the taxidermists are already at
the work of mounting.
The greatest structure of its kind
in the world will be the fifty-story
tower, plans of which have been filed
with the building department of New
York City, to complete the marble
Office building of the Metropolitan
Life Insurance Company.
Many experiments have been made
to test the speed and destination of
corked bottles thrown into the sea in
different parts of the world. The
most remarkable one reported is that
in which bottle travelled {, 900 miles
in about two and one-half years.
Another claimant to Shakespeare's
honOrs appears. In q new book by
DIR. Karl Bleibtreu of Berlin is an
nounced the somewhat startling dis
covery that Roger, Earl of Rutland,
was the author of all the plays for
three hundred years ascribed to
Shakespeare.
In the reign of Henry VIII. a bailiff
named Dun gained a great reputation
for making persons pay their debts.
When every other method of getting
payment had been tried without sue
cess, Dun was put to work, and dun
him" became the popular advice as q
last resource.
The strangest street in the world
is located in Canton, China. 1t is
rooted in with glazed paper fastened
on bamboo and contains a great num-
ber of signboards, but they are all