The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1905-02-06
FACTS IN FEW LINES

AhC oiSCSt SuhiHS snip III the WOflQ,
a bark Of 5000 tons. is being built at
Bremerhaven.
1t is estimated that Germany will
have to spend $50.OOO.OOO in crushing
the rebellion in Southwest Africa.
During the twelve months ended
with last March there were in London
400 known cases of infants suffocated
In bed.
BY flying 3O1 niles in four hours the
pigeons of the Adelaide (Australia) Fly
ing club have established a worlds
record.
Cape Town sergeant of police, con-
victed Of accepting brides from women,
has been sentenced to sixteen months
Imprisonment.
The latest returns show that in 1902
the local Indebtedness in the United
Kingdom was SLIT OS2, $40, an in
crease Of 81. 252, 9S2. 40 in twenty-eight
years.
For baby show in Plaistow, Eng
land, mean old bachelor offered a val
liable prize for the hOmeliest baby, but
the managers were wise enough to de-
cline it.
The building of new harbor works In
Odessa is projected. The Southwestern
Railroad company of Russia Is build
ing several large grain elevators at
that port.
The growing of cotton in Spain is be-
ing encouraged by the government by
exempting land from taxes and offer
ing prizes for the most successful ex.
periments.
The disprcportion of the sexes Il
still very great in some parts Of Aus
tralia. In West Australia. for example,
there are only $4,000 women in pOpu.
lation of 10000.
The tobacco farm at RandalstOwn,
Ireland, is proving success. Fourteen
thousand pounds weight of leaf, the
product of twentYacres. is being pre-
pared for the factory
Bulgarian newspapers give the names
of two doctors Of philosophy who have
taken the teachings of Tolstoi SO much
to heart that one of them has become
a cobbler and the other bOOtblack.
Thorium nitrate to the amount Of
1880 pounds. valued ut 1922, 155. was
imported into the United States last
year for use principally in the manu-
facture Of incandescent gaslight man.
Ties
Owing to the success Of the no tip
In
don, other restaurants are about to en-
force the no tip rule. The popular
walters receive wages and a commits
sion.
Two men were charged with stealing
slippers from a church at Cl0ntara,
Ireland, and the slippers were found
on the premises Later 1t was discov-
cred that a sacrilegiOus dog had stolen
the slippers.
The locomotives for the railroads In
Korea are bought exclusively In the
United States, presumably because
they aFemore quickly obtainable there.
The friendship for the United States
is increasing
The most costly inter in the United
States, q inter which represents $1O,-
O0O worth of jewels and precious
stones, is worn by Bishop HOrstmann
of the Cleveland diocese of the Roman
Catholic church.
We have $4,000 postofices and 50O.-
GOO miles of postal routes. with a year
ly travel over them amounting to $780,
10000 a year The receipts now al
most equal the expenditures and have
doubled In the last ten years.
The first order for lumber for the
Panama canal construction has been
received by Bellingham CWash) mills.
A little mere than 1850, 600 feet will be
supplied in the first consignment, in
tended for construction Of houses along
the canal route.
The median age Of negroes is 1914
years-that is, half the negroes in the
United States are below that age. The
median age Is four years below that Of
the whites, 23.4 years. difference
closely connected with the high birth
rate and high death rate OF the ne
groes.
This advertisement in San Fran
cisco paper resulted in happy reunion
and a wedding at the japanese mis-
sion: Observation-Disclosures Mototaro
Hirasawa Of San Francisco by his for
saken bride, who waits him in Victoria
in the hands Of Foreigners Mototaro,
etc., had thought his bride would come
direct to San Francisco.
Ecuador has given the nuns In the
country the option Of retiring to public
hospitals. where they will be cared for
at the expense Of the cities and towns,
or Of leaving the country. In the event
that they decide to leave the country
they will receive an indemnity Of about
81 400 In gold each. The converts and
other property are being conhscated.
One Of the most remarkable prisoners
in the United States IL convict IN
Sing Sing who edits the prison paper,
the Star of Hope. He Is there FOR
burgl3ry, but In his time has been law
yer, reporter, confidence man, secretary