The Seattle Republican. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1???-1915, 1902-02-28

IN the OnlJ0U hIuSuOm Cu0I0 dlS
10000 Britains living at present who
were born in the English colonies.
Honolulu has a public committee
whose sole duty it is to devise means
and manners for eXter4 ~tnating rats.
The Italian government has officially
announced that as many as 100000
Italians leave that country annually
for America.
Policemen in Halifax have been pro-
vided with a sack of salt, which they
are compelled to carry and sprinkle on
iceslides about the city.
CAPTAIN Crossman has invented
shoes with which one can walk on the
water with as much ease as one can
walk on the snow with Indian shoes.
The total hull losses of the Pacific
Coast last year amounted to $4,000
fONONA~
goes amounted to $6,000,00O.
An Eglish statistician says that for
every man killed in war ton OF lead
is fred. Only one man is killed, he
claims, out of every 5000 to 10000
shots fired.
The Bible is to be dispensed with
hereafter in administering oaths IN
the United States district and circuit
courts, and a great many Of the state
courts are likewise adopting the same
rule.
John Cunningham is the name OF an
Indian who recently died at Alexan-
dria, Ind, weighing 400 pounds. Gun
ningham was an athlete during his life
time and never did anything but trap
and hunt for a living.
But a few weeks ago some forty odd
bartenders attended church service IN
Cleveland, Ohio, by invitation and so
unaccustomed were they of attending
such gatherings that they did not know
how to act nor where to look for seats.
It is learned from the French gov
eminent that the colony Arab and
Kayle in Algeria has doubled its popu-
lation within the past fifty years. In
1856 the colony numbered 2,OO7 200,
and the late census SHOWS it to have
4.O71 900 inhabistants therein.
The Roumanian government has
passed bill making it obligatory on
the part of the gypsies in that country
to settle down wherever they may hap
pen to be at the time the law goes into
effect, which will be soon. There are
estimated to be 100000 gypsies in
Roumania, and they threaten trouble
in case they are forced to discontinue
their roamings.
A young woman in Wilkesbarre has
sued a merchant of that city for hug
ging her so tight as to displace one OF
her ribs. She claims $1,000 damages.
The merchant answers the complaint
by saying that the girl and her friend
came into the store and made propo-
sition to him to hug her as tight as he
could. with the result that he Rugged |
her too tight, causing the trouble.
DR.. Unschutzaempfe, a noted French
scientist, is forming an expedition
with the view of sailing as close to the
north pole as possible, and then, tying
his ships to the ice, set out with a
submarine boat and thereby reach the |
north pole. He claims that he can
travel four days under water at a
depth of ninety feet, and by that means |
avoid any interference from the ice.
Of the Prussion cities of over So |
900 inhabitants, the millionaires
were distributed as follows, &C
cording to the assessment OF
1899: Berlin, 1906; Frankfort-on-
the-Maine, 447; Cologne, 217; Char
Gutenberg, 1911; Dusseldorf, Isl; |
Wiesbaden, 149; Bresdan, 1O1; Han
over, 95; AK la Chapelle, 90; Magden- |
berg, SO; Elderfeld, 80; Halle, so; Gre
field, "a; Dortmund, Al; Essen, "a; |
Cassel, "a; Koeingsberg, 80. The
%, rIzc no. If 70 /
only $250,OOO in American money to |
be a Prussian millionaire.
Mrs. Susan KEGS, of Walla Walla, |
Wash, is the heroine of the press at
present. Recently she prevented a |
Jail delivery in Walla Walla and prob
ably saved the jailer and her husband |
from immediate death by appearing |
on the scene in the nick of time with |
a As Colt revolver, which she could |
handle with neatness and dispatch, I
and commanded the prisoners who |
had overpowered the jailer and the
sheriff to go to their cells or suffer the |
consequences. Mrs. KEGS is 80 years
old, and was born and reared on the
Walla Walla river in that neighbor-
hood, and on the farm she learned to
rope a steer and shoot a gun with as |
much ease as any man on the range, |
which served her well in this instance.
The citizens of Walla Walla, on learn
inor tho fontc rrocnntnd hnr NTH q Gil