The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1905-05-05
FACTS IN FEW LINES

Cannons were first used In 1346.
A mans heart beats 92,160 times
day.
It Is said that no real Mormon ever
plays poker.
Greater New York consumes 1885,
600 quarts Of milk a day. and the peo-
pie never see a COW.
It. costs on an average $500 to put
out q fire in London and 500 to ex-
tinguish one in New York.
Classes for the study Of German and
Yiddish have been organized by Lon
don's commissioner of police.
Skeletons are now being sold in Rus
STA for $1.15. Before the outbreak of
the war In the east they were worth
at least 81. 4.
Sugar refining in Russia gives en-
ployment to more than twice as many
people as the grinding of grain-11O.O 600
against $4,000.
OF the TO, 100000 acres of land max
ing up the total area Of Argentina "a
600, 600 are arabic The principal crops
are corn, wheat and fax.
Reports just issued show that the
Irish fax crop last year yielded 1871
stones per acre, which was well above
the decennial average Of 900 stones OF
fourteen pounds to the stone.
DR.. William Henry, an English ply
stefan, states as the result Of expert
ments that in all forms Of animal life,
insects included, exists the taste for al
cohol He says that fishes are the only
real teetotalers" In creation.
A recently discovered manuscript
written by schoolmate indicates that
Napoleon l. knew so little of the
French language when he was sent to
the military school at Brienne that
private teacher was engaged for him.
Fifty numbers of newspaper 300
years old have been found In the state
archives at Stettin, Pomerania, con-
tanning quaint descriptions Of the
plague, shipping disasters, ETC., the
news Of January being given only in
August.
Perhaps the finest mausoleum in ex-
istence is that in Agra, India, which
was built by the Emperor Shah Jehan
for himself. 1t was twenty-five years
in course Of erection, and on 1t 2O,OO
men were constantly employed during
that period.
A man arrested in Dinapore, Bengal,
died before his case could be heard, but
the local magistrate nevertheless tried
and convicted and fined the dead man
and then ordered the heirs, his neph-
ews, to pay the fine. The high court
has reversed the judgment.
Argentina reaches into the equatorial
hot belt on the north and through the
temperate zone on the south, having
thus wide ranges Of temperature. Two
thirds of it's people nearly are native.
Italians to the number of almost half a
million lead the foreigners.
Far eastern punctuality was illus
trated the other day by the viceroy Of
Wuchang, China, who had an appoint
ment to review 5000 school children at
8 a. m. and appeared smiling on the re-
view ground at 2 p. m. The children
had waited for him six hours.
Professor Tuxen, Danish court paint
er, sold copy Of the painting Of King
Edwards coronation to the car for
1900 rubles. Upon the presentation
the bankers said the cars checks were
never paid in full. His Russian males
ty afterward made up the difference.
The Waterman who is maintained by
the railroad at the base Of Mount
Washington during the winter slipped
while descending the mountain recent
~ and rolled about 800 feet before he
was stopped by rock. He broke no
bones, but was badly shaken by the
fall.
1t is very seldom that steamship Of
1000 tons disappears, leaving not
trace, in voyage that should have
taken only five days. But that is the
case Of the Idum, which sailed from
Drammen, Norway, on Nov. Is for
Preston, England, with load of wood
pulp.
At the Paris Opera Comique recently
the refrain of a song, eau jeu, au jeu!'
C''To the Gamerl was mistaken b. a