Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1912-04-19

WAYSIDE GATHERINGS.

The first railway was that of Sci
mems. at Berlin in 1879.
Nearly 1000 tubercular patients
are now in sanatoria in Germany.
The Cathedral of Notre Dame in
Paris is now lighted by electricity.
Comets are composed Of substance
$50, 900, 900 times lighter than our
air.
The smallest horse in the world is
22s inches high, years old, weighs
seventy pounds.
In England ninety-nine towns own
their gas works. the average net in
come being 81 ,947, 125 per annum.
Japanese florists have succeeded
in cultivating a rose which looks red
in the sunlight and white in the shade.
Near Tiverton, Devonshire, Eng
land, there is to be seen blackbird
with white head and speckled
back.
Women are forbidden to be en-
ployed as barmaids or in liquor stores
in any capacity by the Bengal Legis-
lative Council
More work is put upon naval guns
in target practice each quarter than
they were required to stand during
the Spanish war.
The largest tree in the world lies
broken and petrifed at the end of a
detile in Northwest Nevada. 1t is
said to be 666 feet long.
The enlisted men of the navy will
have added to their menu 23O, 900
pounds of frankfurter sausage and
ID, 900 pounds of sauerkraut.
The Belgians are great pigeon
breeders. and one OF the choicest birds
of this kind is the true Antwerp car
rier. which is comparatively rare.
When lemon is large enough to
fill test ring two and five-sixteenths
of an inch inside, it is picked, and if
it is still green it is stored until it
ripens.
There are more than 1900 ma
chine-tending operatives in Lowell.
Mass, caring for 838, 900 spirdles
and earning over $500. 600 a month
in wages.
In Chicago and New York, accord
ing to recent statistics, pneumonia
has now superseded pulmonary tu-
burculosis as the cause of greatest
mortality.
In commemoration of the Thirty
Years War the battlefield of Lutzen,
where King Gustay Adolf of Sweden
met his death, was turned into q
public park.
The Warsaw poland Jail contains
a wholesale bigamist, who is known
to have gone through the marriage
ceremony with seventeen women, all
of whom are alive.
Machinery has been ordered for
the Argentine Republic to turn out
25O tons week OF !" Molascuit," the
new cattle food made from molasses
and sugar-cane fiber.
A speed of eighty-two miles an
hour for fifteen miles has bten at
tained on the Midland Railway OF
England with their compound loco
motives, with a 35O-t ton load.
The trolly car is not drawn or
pushed by the electric current at all,
but is lifted again and again by the
attraction of magnets for the arma-
ture coils OF the motor.
Manchuria rivals Oregon in fer
tility, timber and climate. and has
abundance Of gold, silver. iron ard
coal. It has the area Of Texas and
three times the population Of New
| York.
The normal human eye can read
letters even-twentieths of an inch
high at distance Of twenty feet. In
ability so to do shows defective sight,
which should be corrected with
glasses,
The German army has swimming
school for troops, where every one
must learn to swim. The best SWIM
mers are to cross stream OF several
hundred yards width. even when
carrying their clothing, rife and am-
munition.