Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1888-11-17
FRACTIONAL INFORMATION.
Skimmings from the News Pot---A Medley of
Facts, Fanciss and Events Boiled Down.


At Milan all the leading stores are in a four
square arcade.
The railroads consume half the coal used in
this country.
The lead trust has disappeared. 1t sank Of
its own weight
About 10000 tons OF shoddy are shipped
from Germany yearly.
Electric motors are to 10y used on the under.
ground railway in London.
Laurel, Delaware, is one Of the largest fruit
shipping markets in the world.
In the United States there are 40000, 00C
acres in wheat, corn. rye aud oats.
The bagging trust has shutdown eight Of the
firms in the combination.
Britannia rules the waves no longer. This
is the reign of the ironclad
New South Wales, Australia, increased its
sheep 5000, 600 during the year.
Many emigrants are passing through Mon
tana to Washington territory.
General Sheridan's memoirs viii be publish
ed in London on November 26.
The amount of strength exercised in or
binary handshake is eleven pounds.
Italy's coral fishery that used to employ 406C
men, now furnish work for only 1000.
The New York Sua says the prohib,tionist
is the person who cheers, but not inebriates.
The bullion product Of Leadyillc, Colorado
is estimated at 81 10000 less than last year.
LONDON held the first worlds fair in 1851,
Paris held the next in 1866 and the third in
1873.
\ severe drought has nearly eIterminated
the rabbits in some portions of New Soutt
Wales.
Alexander H. Stevens during his life time
gave 80 boys and fifty girls collegiate educa
tions.
Asquash that was five feet. four inches IN
diameter was exhibited at n fair in Boise City,
Idaho.
1t has been estimated that an average of five
feet of water falls annually over the whole
earth.
The largest carpet in the world is at the Gin
cinnati exposition. It measures 27OO yards In
area.
The Pennsylvania Central company owns
10000 of the $4,000 freight cars in the United
States.
A Texas man was fred at and the bullet was
turned aside by pack of cards in his breast
pocket.
Pet dogs wearing seal skin blankets are
among the sights to be seen on Broadway,
New, York.
The He'll gate electric tower has been sold
for old iron. The light was said to have blind
ed the pilots
In many towns of Germany the boss barber
never shaves people He pulls teeth and does
surgical trade.
1t is estimated that there are between 100
and 200 American bocdlers, big and little. in
various parts of Canada.
New Workers have taken out 4047 patents,
more than any other state. Pennsylvania,
& with 2, 100. comes second.
y terrible cattle disease is raging in the
Philippine islands. In one province alone
over &c, 900 animals have died
1t has cen decided by the supreme court o
Indiana that college students of legal age have
the right to vote in college towns.
In one of the italian quarters in New York
shave can now be had for three cents. And
yet most of the Italians prefer to wear boards,
In Philadelphia the classes in the Industrial
Art school rumber 500 pupils, and the Ladies
Decorative Art Club has two hundred mem
bers.
South Africa, Colyon and India are now
paying much attention to tea raising, and
China's great monopoly seems to be on the
wane.
An American elevator will assist in trans
porting visitors to the top of the thousand
foot Eiffel tower at the worlds fair in Paris
next year.
Pueblo, Col, is to have a new union railway
station which, with the grounds, will cost not
: less than 5000, Co., Five railroads center at
Pueblo
The day of the long seal skin cloak is about
oyor. Short seal skin jackets are coming into
fashion. The Louis " jacket is also looming
/, UP again.
: A single pair of herrings, if allowed to repro
duoe undisturbed for twenty years. would not
only supplyrhe whole world with food, but
would become inconvenitly numerous.
The Buffalo Express says: The United
States will have when the count of 1890 comes
70 he made. more great cities than any other
country in the world now has or ever will have.
A colored man named Bradley, who died at
Denton. Nd, few days ago, was noted for
his great strength. He had on occasions
walked through the streets with 500 pounds of
iron on his shoulders.
A Mrs. Manning, of Illinois, who died few
DAVIS ago took to her bed nine years ago, de
daring that she would never leave it because
hor son married girl she didn't like. She
kept her Word
A Chicago man was sentenced to twenty
wears imprisonment the other day for stealing
mint bottle of whisky. If it had been a
onart bottle the unfortunate wretch would
,robably have expiated his crime on the gal
lows.
A Pbilsdelphian in moderate circumstances
recentlv gave 4 poor woman two twenty-five
oo,t nieces to hold the lids of her dead hus-
hands ewes down. Just before the funeral he
..,+ his man around to secure the return of the
coins.
Two young women of Allegheny, Pennsyl-
ronia. read somewhere that the Juice Of water
,,,slon would beauty the complexion. They
tried it, and with faces broken out, red and
,,oisoned, have concluded that it is not al
vavs wise to toy with nature.
The most original as well as artistic suicide
ct comes from Yadkin County, n. c., where
,,c- Tpovis I,rol-a into his Dsirhbnr'S still