The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1905-03-31
FACTS IN FEW LINES


A warehouse Ia Paris has been built
| with glass floors.
The game of chess is still included
In the curriculum Of Russian schools.
| More cider is produced in the United
States in a single year than in all tbs
| rest Of the world in five years.
Six hundred and thirty-seven million
bushels of wheat is our average wheat
| crop, one-fifth the whole worlds out
| put.
A number of towns on the northern
| coast of France are now connected
with London by telephone. The charge
| is 50 for three minutes.
! The Tibetans offer daily prayers. for
| the minute insects which they have
swallowed inadvertently in their meat
and drink, and the formula insures the
rebirth of these microbes in heaven.
On exhibition at Coventry, England,
is pile carpet "a by IA feet which
was made in Lahore in 1854 for d.
! rector of the old East India company.
The beautiful coloring is still perfect.
Ex-King Prempeh Of Ashanti Is
such an admirer Of Joseph Chamber
lain that he wears monOcle and
clothes made after the Chamberlain
style. But he is short on buttonhole
orchids
While in France the annual rate is
one murder to every 100000 inhabit-
ants, in northern Italy it is four in the
middle provinces twenty-four and in
the southern provinces, including Ma
pies and Sicily, it is thirty.
Argentina has larger amount of de-
posits than Brazil, Peru, Chile, Uru
quay and Bolivia together. At the
present time the abundance of money
has reduced the interest to from Az
to 51a per cent in private banks.
Every Oct 81 the base Of Nelson's
monument, Trafalgar square, London,
is covered with memorial wreaths, and
always among them Is one to the mem
DRY Of 1.-THE gallant sailors of France
and Spain" who fell in the battle Of
Trafalgar.
Captain Leonard Of the Indian med
ical staff has invented useful instru-
ment for snake bite, which is so COM
mon in India. 1t consists of a small
lancet mounted in a hollow handle.
which is filled with permanganate of
potash crystals.
At last the Prince Of Montenegro has
ordered that railroad be built
throughout the principally to connect
with the trunk line of the Servian state
railways. The line will be one meter
gauge, and work will be commenced in
the early spring.
A gold toothpick and case given by
had charge of the king in prison until
he went to his execution) and the blue
ribbon worn by Charles at the time Of
going to his execution were sold at auc
ton the other day in London for $4,000.
When it Is borne in mind that the
meats and breadstuffs, are as high as and
even higher than in the United States
and that rents of houses are nearly if
not quite as high, the wages Of unskill
ed laborers seem very low to an Amer
lean.
dimple in her chin. Indeed. this kind
of dimple seems to be more frequent
in men than in women. 1t has another
peculiarity-namely, that it is perma-
nent, whereas other dimples Of the
face come and go with changes Of ex-
preston.
Since the bureau Of plant industry
was organized three years ago it has
been necessary to increase it's force
nearly so per cent, and it now employs
500 workers. 60 per cent Of whom are
engaged in scientific investigation and
it's application to the farm, the orchard
and the garden.
The Ratcliff- Rotherhithe tunnel now
being built under the Thames will take
five years to construct. Its length will
be 6,SS3 feet, with an external diane
ter of sixteen feet and two foOtwayS
four feet eight and One-half inches
! wide. When it is finished there will
be three tunnels under the Thames at
London.
According to Mulhalrs Dictionary of
Statistics, the amount of money an
nually expended on alcoholic liquors in
the United States is 1925, 100000 $15,-
100000 going for wine, $210,0O0.00O for
beer, $5,OOO.O00 for cider and $95, O00,-
600 for spirits. One hundred and elev-
en- million dollars is estimated to be
paid in taxes.
At stylish country houses in England,
says Vanity Fair. a good deal Of the
time Of the ladies Is taken up with
changing their dresses. Smart gowns
are worn for breakfast, to be replaced
shortly after by serviceable tweed or
frieze for going out. Tea gowns are
worn for tea and low dresses with
| diamonds for dinner.
When the Transformation Of cities by
electric power and light Is completed
we may expect the air to be practical
| ly as pure as that Of the country. 1t Is
estimated that the carbOnic acid e1-
hailed yearly by the people Of New
York city is about 10000 tons. but