Walker Lake bulletin. (Hawthorne, Nev.) 1883-1926, 1905-06-16
FACTS IN FEW LINES

VIII beuSlS Ill tiitiiu iusl year eAtetu-
ed $4,000.
The entire output of sugar in Russia
for the year 190o-19 has been placed
at Io,000,00o poods,
The natives of Morocco think Euro.
peans are dirty because they wash in
water that is not running.
SaXony has PSI people to the square
mile against only 104 to the mile for
the rest of the German empire.
The wreck of the French hstt's }
Sully on the Cochin China CO
ly represented money loss OF
600.
An effort to form an actors union is
beng made in England. ii. b. Irving
and Seymour Hicks are at the head of
the movement.
Some French engineers are said TO
have applied to the Russian govern
ment for franchise to build Il bridge
| across Bering strait.
The first dolls of which there is any
knowledge We're found among the
treasures unearthed from the ruins of
terra Gotta and ivory, beautifully
carved.
A chapel which is being finished in
Westminster cathedral, London, will
cost $4,000. The money Is the contri-
button of converts to the Roman Cath
olic church as thank offerings for their
conversion.
The only fire engine at Beaeonstield,
England, was bought in 1915. The 10
cal authorities afraid that 1t may get
out Of order some time or other, are
beginning to discuss the purchase Of
n new one.
The son of one of the Indian princes
was recently in London and Is said to
have gone to the circus every night
while there. Now that he Is at home
again he says that the circus Is the
greatest thing In the world.
A fourteen page letter written by
Mary, queen of Scots, in January,
1862, stating that she had under con
sideration the formation of large par
ty of the nobility, was sold at auction
in London the other day for $4,000.
Katie Bodklns, aged thirteen, Of
Marion, Ind, escaped a hard lesson In
arithmetic by marrying After an abb
sence of three days from school the
principal sent the truant officer to the
girls home, where the ceremony had
just been performed
James McKenna, who was naturaliz-
oil In 1899 hos jI,ct fnr1nI fbot n hic
papers he is made to foreswear al
legiance to the king Of Italy. He in
dignantly requests the United States
district court San Francisco, to set
the papers right, declaring that he nev-
er had anything to do with Italy.
With view Of drawing an audi
ence apparently the London Chemical
society announced the other day In
the papers that that evening at its
meeting w. II. Perkins, Jr., would read
a paper on 1.-THE Action of Ethyl Dibro-
mopropanetetracarb on the Dis
odium Compound of Ethyl Propanete-
tracarboXylate."
Recently Barcelona invited the archi-
tects of the world to send in compet-
tive plans for enlarging the town, beau
tifying the working class quarters and
for unifying the five or six suburban
towns. The first prize, $6,0O0 has been
won by young Frenchman. Only five
architects-two Spanish, one French,
one German and one Italian-compet-
ed
A Montreal couple, Mr.. Pierre For
get and his wife, recently celebrated
the seventy-sixth anniversary of their
marriage. Mr.. Forget Is 100 years and
months old, while his wife Is ninety
six, and both are in good health. One
of their thirteen children will herself
celebrate her golden wedding three
years hence, though she is only sixty
seven now.
A little red button worn by some sou
women, old and young, married and
single, among the leading social sets of
the City Of Mexico, marks new de-
parture, or, rather, new step In prog
ress. This little round red button sig
nifies membership in what Is known as
the Antikissing league. Members Of
the league take a solemn pledge not to
kiss one another In public or private
on the ground that kissing Is conta-
g;ous, or, rather, the means of convey
ing contagious diseases from one fair
lip to the other
For one of the most important col
lections of Napoleonic relics which
have come under the hammer only 100
guineas was given at Christie's rooms,
In London, recently. 1t covered his
whole career, starting with a silver
statuette of the first consul and ending
with o lock Of his hair and the death
mask taken at ST. Helena. There were
miniatures of the great Corsican him
self, Of his son, the III fated king Of
Rome Of Desiree Beauhernais, Marie
Louise, Nine Bonaparte, medals,
crosses Of the Legion Of Honor, Wa.
terloo relics and a remnant of the flag