Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1898-09-10
The WORLDS MINOR NEWS
UoME AND FOREIGN ITEMS
ODDS md Ends From the Four
Quarters of the GIobe-Business
Affairs and Matters-Facts and
Figures, Crimes and Accidents.

moo 600 barrels Oh uOuI II year anu con-
snme 6OO00,O00 bushels of wheat.
Spain was originally formed from Ii
KINGDOMS, and now has an area of 1896,
l731 square miles, and population OF IL
100000.
The officers of leading London hospi-
tai believe the general increase of cancer
is due to excess in meat eating
A large part of Cuba is occupied by
impenetrable forests, not more than 10
per cent. of the island being under cult
walton.
More than 5000 species of plants are
cultivated and most of these have been
broken up into varied forms by the hand
of man.
The matchmaker, Lobner, of Berlin, has
perfected mechanism capable of meas
uring and recording the thousandth part
OF a second.
The healing of the Lee-Metford
wounds is, as a rule, very rapid, and good
cases seem, under treatment, to heal III
from to IA days.
1t is estimated that al the gold mined
in California since l848 could be put into
y
5 % yards high.
Official reports show tnat the rich gold
prospects found in Alaska cover an area
of 100000 square miles, being $50 miles
wide by 600 miles long.
The Colonial Danes of Boston have Of
fered a prize of $3.50 for the picture that
best embodies the spirit OF the colonial
,,ro1,;OoioI Yario1s
Millions of men in India live, marry
and rear apparently healthy children
upon an income of 80 cents week, and
sometimes it falls below that.
About one-half the bulk of wheat, rye,
oats, pease and, beans is starch. OF pota-
toes about one-ffth is starch, and OF rice
and corn about three-fourths.
DIR. Norman Kerr, an authority on in
ebriety, says that female drunkenness is
increasing and that out OF 5000 cases he
found heredity was the cause in half
that number.
A foreign savant has declared that a
most prevalent cause of hysteria in Wont
en- is high-heeled shoes, and that If the
Objectionable boots are abandoned the
hysteria will cease.
Mrs B. A. Corthell of Milbridge, Me,
has made a wonderful patchwork quilt,
the centerpiece of which is a lot OF blue
bunting from signal flag saved from the
battleship Maine.
In the streets and suburbs of London
there are now not only 7l2 fountains for
human beings, but $50 large troughs for
horses and cattle and 40 small troughs
for sheep and dogs.
The Salvation army during its last
self denial week" raised $4,000 to
carry on its work among the lowly and
neglected. This is an increase OF $4O,-
600 over the amount of last year.
A London specialist says the most eE-
pensiye drug is called physostlgmine, an
ounce of which would cost nearly 500,
600 1t is prepared from the Calabar
bean and is used in diseases OF the eye.
The American national anthem, THE
Star Spangled Banner" happens to be
English. 1t is better known, as far as
it's tune is concerned, under its original
name, "To Anacreon in Heaven"
Gaust is the smallest republic in the
world 1t has an area of one mile and
population of lao. 1t has existed
since l64S, and is recognized by both
Spain and France. 1t is situated on the
flat top of a mountain in the Pyrenees
1t has president, who is elected by the
council of twelve.
Railways represent an enormous addi-
tion to public wealth. The value OF the
railways of all countries is something like
5556 millions sterling.
To stop bleeding from the lungs take
a teaspoonful of table salt and swallow
it dry. Keep perfectly quiet, in a re-
eumbent position, until physician ar
rives.
In this country last year the number
of mich COWS increased about 20 per
cent. and the number of other cattle over
80 per cent, while the number OF sheep
and swine slightly decreased.
The constitution of South Carolina pro-
vides that jurors must be between the
ages of 81 and 50, and new trial was
recently granted in a criminal case be-
cause one of the jurors was to years ola.
Over 100000 acres of land are devoted
to the cultivation of tobacco in the world.
William Badenhop, farmer at Nlchol-
son, o., drank glass of carbolic acld for
whisky and died.
An order has been issued forbiddlng
visitors boarding war-ships at the Brook
lyn navy yard.
Lieut. Hobson has been advanced to the
grade of naval constructor without I'M
dergoing an examination.
A formidable British fleet is assembling