The Leavenworth echo. [volume] (Leavenworth, Wash.) 1904-current, 1914-06-19
Curious and Interesting Facts


than 1000 telegraphers in its ranks.
A Chilean province has established
two floating schools to enable the resi-
dents of islands to obtain an education.
The patent office announces that the
first typewriter dates back to 1850.
Bet you could't make her prove it,
though.
Kansas will need 100000 men for its
harvest fields. 1t is a safe venture
that the I. w. w. will give the state
wide berth.
The $20,000,000 fortune left by the
late Charles w. Post Of Battle Creek is
an impressive reminder Of the fact that
it pays to advertise.
In the early days Of American col
leges about one-half OF the graduates
adopted the ministry as profession.
At the present time only about S per
cent.
The school board OF Denver, Colo
RADIO, has dropped the instructor Of sex
hygiene, and sex hygiene will no lon
Ter be taught in the Denver public
schools.
Because he signed saloon consent
petition, Rev. Wallace M. Short, pas
tor of the First Congregational church
Of Souix City, Ia, was compelled to
resign.
Washington has a new cocktail which
it calls the A. B. c. After getting
outside OF few samples the inhaler is
said to be ready to swallow the whole
alphabet.
Without missing a word Lucie Klie,
IA, of the Horace Mann school, and
Mildred Schwinn, IA, of the Webster
school, East St. Louis, each spelled
correctly 1900 words without stopping.
At recent election in Sweden the
fact was revealed that only 3.6 per cent
of the women voters were disqualified
from voting for failure to pay taxes, as
compared with 24.6 per cent of the
men.
The post card whose use is reported
to be declining, is not an American in
vention. The honor Of having been
the first country to use it belongs tc
Austria, where it was introduced in
1869.
Vendors OF newspapers in Berlin are
to be limited to calling out the names
of the journals they sell. To make
known the contents Of the papers or tc
indicate any particular item Of news is
forbidden.
A manufacturer Of women's clothing
promises that after next fall men will
not be ashamed to see their wives
dressed in the height of the seasons
fashions" Perhaps so, but some hus-
bands will be Enthusiastically
Mr.. Morgan is dead; have no in
tention to besmirch his memory" said
President Mellen, but the next day
when he got through with Morgan's
memory it looked like it had been
dragged through a sausage mill by the
tail.
India has population of BIS, 1885,
3o6, of whom 217.586,892 are Hin
dus, 66,647,299 are Moslems, TO-
721,453 are Buddhists and 3,676,2O3
Christians. The census was taken in
one night by 100000 persons and
cost only $675,OOO.
According 10 Sir Arthur Conan Doyle,
woman suffrage in England is an econ
omic impossibility, since England has
practically two women for every man.
England is not yet ready for petticoat
government, not even if the petticoat is
practically out of fashion.
During a heavy storm in Keola, Colo.
farmer lost his hat, and some time
later received it by parcel post from a
man in Sidney, Neb., which is forty
miles away in a straight line. The
latter had found the hat on his farm
and discovered the address of the owner
inside.
This seasons cotton crop prospect is
one Of the poorest known for many
years. On May 25 the official reports,