The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1905-03-23

One Partisan cams living by skim
ming grease off the Seine.


riages in Berlin, and the vehicles are.
numbered.
The new Japanese loan was the first
international loan ever placed in Lon
don, New York and San Francisco
Jointly.
Salt Lake has planned for an extern
sion of its water supply that will cost
S1,OOO,OOO and make the supply ample
for city of 100000 individuals.
The United States has the only gen
uine horse marines. Twelve marines
have been mounted at the navy yard,
Mare island. California, and regularly
patrol the island.
The invasion Of Tibet by a British
force was mission" The army Of
$500 men now being sent into the
Nyam-Nyam country, central Africa, is
officially patrol
The Wisbech Cemetery company was
unable to pay dividend last year,
lowing to the low death rate in the
town." Wisbech is an English town
of 1900 population.
The international committee of an
archists, which recently met at BARGE
Iona, decided to establish a new center
of anarchists at Tangier, where the
cause can be carried on openly.
Pennies are soon to be introduced into
South Africa. Heretofore the Hickey"
has been the smallest coin, and it Is
worth about 6 cents. The penny will
be of copper and worth 2 cents.
The music of the triumphal march In
Handel's Judas Maccabaeus" has been
adopted by the Imperial College of
Music at Tokyo as Japanese air en-.
titled "The Victory on the Yalu."
The coal measures of Coahuila dis
trict are being extensively developed
They are the only extensive coal mines
in Mexico. The minimum daily output
is 5000 tons of coal and 1900 tons Of
coke
1t is stated by the Frankfort Gazette
that General Bobrikon, the murdered
governor of Finland, after ordering the
suppression of newspaper published
in Tornea, discovered that the town
was in Sweden.
1t has been discovered that the wild
silkWorm produces a silk with more
luster than does the pampered worm of
captivity. Those who are up on silk
culture claim that the tame worm has
lost much of it's power because it is
taken care of so well.
A prisoner recently confined in Wash
ing county Vt) Jail soon returned for
another term. On being questioned re-
garding his anxiety to go back he said,
well, you see, liked the board, and,
besides, got interested in a novel they
have at the Jail, and l wanted to finish
it."
A side light ON Chinese immigration
or importation into South Africa is cast
by the following remark in the South
African Press Bulletin: "Quarrels and
fights with drawn knives between KAT
frs and Chinese are of almost daily Oc-
currence in Market square, Johannes
burg"
The 700 shoemakers' shops at Canton,
China, employ 5000 men and 10000
women, who work from daylight to
dark Kerosene lamps were recently
introduced into the shops so the hours
could be heightened. The workers get
from $3.50 to S. month and rice and
salt fish for food.
The corporation of Birmingham, Eng
land recently pulled down al working
mems dwellings for street widening,
forgetting the law that requires other
dwellings to be provided before the old
ones are demolished. So now it finds
itself liable to a fine of $1,000 for each
offense, total of $360,0OO.
Mexico is making big strides In the
manufacture of goods for home con-
sumption, such as shoes, cotton and
wooden goods and dynamite. None Of
these are exported, as they bring bet
ter prices at home and are inferior to
the goods manufactured in the United
States. Nearly all the better class OF
Mexicans wear American shoes and
clothing.
Five pensioners are on the roll on &C
count of the Revolution, Lis on ac-
count or the war Ol 1O1|, f,oif oh ~
count of the Indian wars and 1884 ON
account of the Mexican war. The
great bulk of the roll is as follows:
Civil war, invalids, 03,456; widows,
24S,39O; Spanish war, invalids. 300;
widows. 1862; regular establishment,
invalids, 9,17O; widows, 1888.
A Budapest scientist has made cal
culation of the energy expended by
earthquakes. He finds that an amount
of work equal to the raising OF the
mass of the earth through little less
than one-fiftieth Of an inch was done
by each of the 200 world shaking earth
quakes registered during the eight
wears from 1895 to 1902. The work done
systematically by these earthquakes
represents 100000 horsepower work
ing continually night and day.
The pan-Celtic congress, In session Z
at Carnarvon, Wales, recently, is con-
glomeration Of several gatherings.
chief of which is the great Welsh els
teddfod. Ireland has two annual Ceit-
ic gatherings, the Oireachtas and the
Feis Cecil. The highlands OF Scotland