Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1897-07-24
Notes of the Day.


found that the sailing date OF popular
ocean steamer from Boston was set Tor
Friday many persons who had wished 70
Europe in her refused to book passage
for that particular trip, and the date
was changed to Saturday.
The greater part of the csst-of uni
forms of British soldiers find their
way into the shops Of dealers in second
hand clothing. The coats are then either
cut up, sold to theatrical managers, or
exported to Africa and elsewhere for trad
ing purposes with the Katfirs and other
uncivilized people.
A company of men and some ofncers
OF the British ship Intrepid were taken
from Vera Cruz to the City oil Mexico by
the English colony of the capital city, at
an expense of $4,000, and gave concerts
there which captured the town The
men were we'll entertained and as well
pleased as the citizens.
A man SO years of age recently jumped
from parapet feet high into the river
near Strakonitz, Bohemia, to save
school boy whom he saw being carried
away by the current. He brought him
to the bank and sank back exhausted,
but was himself saved by girl of Is,
who happened to be passing.
The average attendance at places OF
worship in England and Wales is com
puted to be between 100000 and H.
OO0, 900 persons. There is a place OF wor-
ship for every 500 individuals taking the
country all through, and a stated min
lister for every 700. About $4,000 ser
mons are preached every Sunday now
days.
OF the hundred replies received by the
commissioner of labor of Nebraska from
representative farmers to the question,
"Does farming pay?" seventy-one gave
az their opinion that farming does not
pay, twenty-one say it does, four that it
pays as well as anything else and four
gave up the conundrum.
A tropical leather-bhck turtle, weigh
ing 68F pounds, got astray into Chesa-
peake bay few days ago and was cap
tured by some stout fishermen. 1t is 6
feet and five inches long and 3 feet 3
inches broad. The shell is black and
rather soft, like leather, and seven lon
gitudinal ridges run down the back from
head to tail
Hungary has taken the king OF Slams
fancy. He says it is the only country in
Europe be would care to live in. The
gala dress of the mobiles he declared was
the most splendid he had ever seen, and
before leaving BUDAPEST he went into
the hotel kitchen and found out for him
self how paprika sauce is made.
During the last few years nearly $780,
600 Hebrews have entered Jerusalem,
and the arrival Of another host is said to
he imminent. Already the railways are
opening the country between the coast
and Jerusalem and Damascus, and
Hebrew migration on large scale may
cause Syria to become once more of vast
Importance in the east.
Borneo is no country for Il lawyer.
Some traveller has reported that this
people not being up to civilized ways,
settles all its serious disputes in this
fashion: The two litigants are each
given little lump of salt of the same
size to drop simultaneously into water.
The one whose lump first dissolves is
deemed to be in the wrong.
Another fragment OF the famous Par
ian chronicle, part OF which is in the
Ashmolean museum at Oxford, has been
found on the island OF of Paros. 1t is
very important, as it contains the chron-
ology of the years from 336 to 293 before
Christ, the period of Alexander of Mace
don, and of the Diahochi, the generals
who divided his empire among them
selves.