The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1906-08-14
FACTS IN FEW LINES

| The Duke OF Bedford is Tie prenieA
peer of Scotland and hereditary keeper
of Holyrood castle.
In five months of this year there
have been three advances in the price
! of all burial casket hardware, the last
/ raise one of % per cent.
The gasoline engine, like the steam
engine, in fact, like all engines, IS all
the better for being run light for few
minutes before it Is called upon to ex-
ert its full power.
Four thousand wOrkmen are employ
ed In the manufacture Of straw DraidS
and hats at Florence, Italy, and oOOOO
women and children devote their spare
time to braiding and plating.
It has been suggested that African
and Asiatic elephants be imported
into South and Central America, in the
vast forests of which they would null
tiply and provide future source OF
| ivory.
American literature is found In every
Canadian home, writes Consul Seyfert
from Stratford The village and city
libraries are filled with American
| books, and American periodicals pre-
dominate.
The Ridgefield Comm band is one
of the oldest institutions in town. 1t
was organized in 1889. Only one men,
Der of the old band is living, Joel l..
Rockwell, who played the bass drum
over sixty years ago.
Word comes from Servia that eX-
Queen Natalie will present all her prop
erty, amounting to $15,OOO,OOO, to the
government for the erection of cathe
dral, provided that her murdered son,
King Alexander, and her husband,
King Milan, are buried in it.
After a struggle lasting several years
the respectable portion Of the English
community in Burma has succeeded in
securing the passage of a law forbid
ding the employment Of women as bar
maids The Lancet hopes that this ex-
ample will be followed in England.
One of the most remarkable photo
graphs on record was recently made
at the naval observatory in Washing
ton quite by mistake 1t is the picture
Of an exploding meteor which wander
ed across the sky when the phOtOgra
pher was hunting new stars.
The largest loaves of bread baked in
the world are those of France and It
ally. The pipe" bread of Italy is
baked in loaves two feet or three feet
long, while in France the loaves are
made in the shape Of very long rolls,
four feet or five feet in length, and in
many cases even six feet.
A London periodical says that many
masterpieces in the private collections
of the British nobility are being clan
destinely disposed Of. One day, it
says, Reynolds or GainsbOrough is
! taken down. A few weeks later the
cleaned" picture returns. 1t is really
copy. The original has been sold.
Consul Britain of Keil explains the
new method of keeping clean the con-
geSted business streets of the larger
German cities. Metal tanks are insert
ed at intervals in the level of the
street and covered with iron lids. Into
these the offal is easily swept In the
night the tanks are hauled to the dump
ing grounds.
Representative German-American cit
liens Of Chicago have applied for incor-
pOratiOn in Illinois to carry out plans
for perpetuating the memory of the
late Carl Schurz by the erection of a
statue in one of the Chicago parks and
additional endOwments for the Carlisle
Indian school and for Booker Washing
tons TuSkegee university.
The people Of Grimsey, an island on
the arctic circle near Iceland, have de-
clared the birthday of the late Pro-
fessor Willard Fiske a provincial holt
day. Professor Fiske by his will left
a trust fund of $4,000, the income to
be used for lettering the conditions Of
the islanders, Of whom there are only
eighty.
A great California industry is the
manufacture of salt from sea water.
In Alameda county 100000 tons were
produced last year Only few years
ago the state imported all it's salt
Now it produces enough for it's own
use, which is enormous owing to the
fisheries and packing houses, and ex-
ports large quantities as we'll.
An old hand printing press was re-
Gently sold at Palmyra, N. Y, for $500
This is large sum when it is taken
into consideration that the press has
been doing business since 1899. But it
was bought by representative of the
Mormon church and will be kept at
Salt Lake, as on it the first edition of
the Mormon Bible was printed.
King Edward has taken to eques-
TRAN exercise as means Of keeping
! down his weight. Since the rabbit hole
mishap which famed him his majesty
has been unable to take walking ex-
ercise. His liver began to show signs
of rebellion, and the best his Dhysi-
+, clans could do was to order their royal
, patient into the saddle. Equestrianism
so far has not reduced the kings waist
| measurement
The Germans are to make another
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