Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1898-09-03
An Oregon sheriff made service of pa

An Oregon sheriff made service of pa
pers on the defendant in foreclosure
suit by forwarding the document to the
defendants address at Cavite, Philippine
islands. The defendant is first lieutenant
of a company of Oregon volunteers.
Japan is to send to the Paris EXPOSE
ton a huge house, heXagonal in shape and
composed entirely of porcelain. 1t meas
ures several yards in circumference, and
its weight will not be less than 70 tons.
The demand for government liquor IL
censes in prohibition Kansas this year
has been the greatest in the history OF the
state.
Coal is mined in % counties in Iowa,
and the total area includes 10000 square
miles.
The report os the New York Aqueduct
Commission shows tht the cost OF the
new aqueduct up to date is $37 1913, l22.
General Hay and his staff are here
and will return home Immediately. Cen
eral Garretson will succeed General
Henry.
A cable message announcing that Mrs.
Miles, accompanied by her daughter,
sailed for Ponce on the transport OLDHAM
from Charleston last Saturday will delay
the departure of Miles and staff probably
several days.
General James H. Wilson has assumed
control of the district of Ponce and has
ordered all saloons closed for three days
with a view of quoting existing disorders.
General Grant has established headquar-
tiers here.
The Pennsylvania and Missouri yolun-
teers and batteries are to follow the other
regiments home.
Fifteen years ago William Glenn of
Powhatan county, Va, was dark mu-
latto. His color has been gradually chang
inc ever since, and now he is white with
the exception of few spots on his face
and neck. He says that he has never been
sick.
In India the rhododendron grows to a
height of 80 feet. NIarigolds i'll North Al
rca reach height of four or five feet.
The Soudan railway is now completed
as far as the junction of the Atbara with
the Nile.
One development of the fight between
the English tea firms has been their tax
ing up the sale of wines and liquors as
part of the business. Now one of the chief
contestants announces that newspapers
books and magazines will be sold in all
its tea stores.
Mr.. Harry Furniss, the cartoonist, is
exhibiting in London just now $50
sketches of Mr.. Gladstone, which he had
drawn at various stages of his career. Mr..
Furniss has him in almost every conceiv-
able style.
Theatrical companies that do not pre-
sent the attraction they have billed are
subject to fine in Mexico. fine Is also
placed on bullighters who give poor
performance, or who do not begin on
time.
Not that very much depends on the an
swer, but is the hammock summer con-
trivance or an accomplishment OF the
fall ?-Philadelphia Times.
A ton of Atlantic water yields, after
evaporation, 81 pounds of salt; OF the
Pacific, 70; of the Arctic and Antarctic,
So; of the Dead Sea, 1877.
In New York the best butter can be
bought for % cents a pound, cooking Out-
ter at Is cents and sweet butter at 5O
cents pound.
The Tartarian alphabet contains 2O2
letters, being the longest in the world.
Indiana's cement belt covers about
twenty square miles Seventeen miles are
in operation.
In Greenland potatoes never grow larger
than marbles.
In stipends, salaries and wages to their
numerous officers, clerks and staff the
Corporation of London spends yearly up
wards of 100000.
The cabbage still grows wild in Greece,
where it originated. Radishes are native
to China, but have been grown in Europe
for centuries.
The City of Mexico has prison for
women exclusively.