The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1906-02-09
FACTS IN FEW LINES

The earth's surface covers 1877, O00O0C
square miles. Three-fourths OF TINS
area is water.
Only 1.4OO Russian pilgrims went to
Jerusalem this year as against the
usual average of 5000.
Swearing on the Bible was originated
about 500 A. d. and introduced into
judicial proceedings about 600 A. d.
A recent weighing of dandelion down
has shown that 100000 of the dainty
parachutes are needed to make pound.
Several centuries ago it was consid-
cred fashionable to carry silver tooth
picks suspended around the neck by
chain.
Glass is said to have been in use as
early as 1000 years before Christ, and
yet it was not used for windows until
about 300 A. d.
Several rural clergymen at diocesan
conference at Carlisle, England, re-
Gently stated that the reason churches
were kept locked up on weekdays was
to prevent sheep coming in.
Korea was hot injured, but greatly
benefited by The Russo-Japanese war.
Both the armies employed labor and
bought provisions, thus bringing in
millions of dollars of unexpected and
unusual money.
A French farmer who kept a mum
Der Of dogs and cats constructed in
geniously, in order to protect the lat
ter from the former, a veritable cats
nest, which he placed among the
branches of a stunted oak tree.
In Van Ness avenue, San Francisco
long avenue 125 feet wide, asphalted
and without car tracks, the city has
placed an extra number of electric
lights so as to make it better for the
night drills of the national guard.
The Leightons Corner correspondent
Of the Carroll County On. H.) Pioneer
says, "After twenty-one years of mar
ried life we all congratulate Level
Ign Wa dron and wife at the birth Of
an eight and one-half pound boy a few
days sine &C."
In Abyssinia it is considered a crime
to smokey The law forbidding tobacco
was at first intended to prevent priests
from smoking in church, but it was tax
en- too literally, and nowadays even
foreigners have to be careful not to be
seen smoking.
Last August Hugh Brown had a
strange arrival at his farmhouse at
Calais, Me. X,he house is long dis
lance from 3brook or pond, but one
hot afternoon 4 turtle walked into the
yard from the highway and has since
remained about be place.
| It has been decided that the meat Of
animals used for obtaining vaccine Is
not made unfit for pod. The carcasses
Of many calves that have been vaccinat-
ed are sold in the Ldpdon market, and
their use as food ell pets a saving Of
many thousand dollar annually.
In a letter to an English friend q
South African farmer Erites: MANY
Of the fighting Beers hav} told me they
are quite willing to cree statue to
General Buffers memory this coun-
try. They declare he is TIL only man
who came out to fight 1em In q
straightforward manner"
A coon dog tackled big Cd IN on a
ledge near Pittsford, VT, and lively
fight ensued. In the struggle Tie ami
mails rolled over and over for Meter
than a quarter Of mile, finally hitch
ing from the edge of the cliff into Men
bricks pond. Both, being too muchN X
hausted to swim, were drowned
The momentum Of a swiftly fyia
bird is considerable. A partridge fled
against window Of the gymnasium al
Williams college, crashing through the
glass and falling to the floor dead
The force Of the blow may be judged
from the fact that the glass was. triple
thick and not more than 20 by II inches
In size.
Mrs. G. D. Austin Of Springfield, Vt,
found in a book she bid off at an auc-
ton recently curiosity in the shape OF
a three dollar state bank bill. 1t reads:
''The president, directors and company
of the Hallowell and Augusta bank
promise to pay to D. Lowell or bearer
S." The bill, which was issued July IA,
1903, is No. 456
A few years ago the best known loco
motive in this country was 900, which
drew the Empire State express. The
| progress in locomotive manufacture
| and the rapidity with which improve
ments are made have left 900 far be-
hind. She now hauls a very modest
| train. and the fiiers are handled by q
younger generation.
Miss Belle Long Of Holyoke, Mass,
has an old porta BILE melodeon which in
the early days used to furnish music
| in the First Baptist church in that city.
The bellows were worked by one arm
and hand, while the other hand was
used to press the keys. The instru-
ment was carried to the church by the
organist each Sunday.
The Hamburg-American Steamship
company is to call the five decks above
| the hold Of it's new steamer Amerika
| by the names of famous statesmen.
/ American names were to have been
used, but after Roosevelt, Washington,
/ Cleveland and Franklin the names Of
sufficient prominence gave out or the
nomenclator's memory failed him, and
with much regret he was obliged to add
kaiser.