The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1906-06-11
FACTS IN FEW LINEs

The smallest quadruped In the worI,
Is the pygmy mouse Of Siberia.
1t is now proposed to make suit. -,
clothes of paper. which can be throu"
away when soiled.
1t is thought that the game Of u..,-.
was first played in the time of EinD
Henry VIII. of England.
Edinburgh has adopted a schema 6.
collecting for charity through centro,
office on lines of the Liverpool svstor
Brazirs chamber of commerce has os
fered a prize of 100000 to the nEr
stefan who shall discover permanor.
cure for cancer.
From Paris comes the news that a..
best people are taking snuff again owl
giving it. A medical paper holsters Nm
the fad by saying that a few plpcbos
a day will guard against influenza
1t Is the custom in Brittany to die I'm
the bones of the dead after a certo,p
time and preserve the skull only in
small box with heart shaped openrs
in it's front. Each box n marked With
the name and date of the dead.
The will Of a Natick (Mass) ma,
who died recently provides large sim
of money. the interest of which il N
be expended every year In buying elec.
tric car rides for school children ha-
tween the ages Of six and ten years
Ladies seldom rise in Spain to 70
ceive a male visitor, and they rarely
accompany him to the door. For a
Spaniard to give lady, even his wife
his arm when out walking Is looked
upon as a decided violation of pro.
priety.
One Of the results of the last German
census was the discovery that the vi.
lage Of Boerbusch, in the district Of
Burgdorf. In Hanover, has only four
Inhabitants, two males and two fe-
males, and is therefore the smallest
municipality in the world.
A good many men judge the quality
Of cigars by the little yellow specks
on the wrappers. A dealer declared
that these spots are due to drops Of
dew acting as burning glasses and
making small spots on the tobacco
leaves. 1t is not test of quality at
all.
There are no white soldiers or police
in British New Guinea. where the ma
tIves number 100000 The government
consists of a British administrator. an
executive council and the magistrates
sta toned at centers near the coast
There are 800 nonofIicial white resi-
dents.
Some of the large paper machines of
the country supply a stream of paper
at the rate of mile in ten minutes
Great difficulty is experienced when
this sheet of paper breaks, for the bro
ken shreds come so fast that the room
Is filed before the machine can be
stopped.
AT the Austrian court perishable arti-
cles never appear twice on the imperial
table. Thus there are large perquisites
for the various attendants. To one
man fall all the uncOrked bottles, to
another the wine left in the glasses, to
joints and to another the game
or the sweets.
In an endeavor to foster home In
dustry the Canadian government has
established a number Of bOunties to
be paid to manufacturers and miners
who last year aggregated S1,9ooc~
on iron and steel products, $334,OOO on
lead. 1898, 900 on crude petroleum and
5000 on manila fiber.
Among the most precious books in
the library Of congress Is a copy OF "A
Revised System Of Cavalry Tactics
For the Use Of the Cavalry and Mount
ed Infantry, C. s. A." by Major Cen
eral Joseph Wheeler, c. s. A. The book
was published in Mobile, Ala. in lS6S-
The book was picked up at an aucuOn
sale for 65 cents.
Sir Robert Ball, who has been max
ing careful study of the glacial pc
Rod. announces that the next great
frigid epoch in the northern hemisphere
will come about 100000 years from
now and cover all northern Europe
and the northern part Of North Amer
ca with ice thick enough to overtop lne
highest mountains and fill the deepest
DR.. Daniel Bella, a New York MIL
ster. has compromised his cialln
against the New York Central rairoau
Tor the fracture Of twenty bones III
7iaduct collision last fall. Figuring
IN the basis of $1,000 bone, the con-,
)any has agreed to pay him SZo,o"
FOR his injuries. This Is considered "
De quite q step in advance In regaru "
he basis for personal injury claims
Locked up in bank vault at lieu.
ding, Cal, is the flag which freinon'
lnfurled on the summit Of the Rochle'
IN 1871. The banner was made WIN
Mrs. FremOnt's own hands previous "
her husbands start on his eXplorine
tour in the far west The flag dilei'
from the standard United States ua7
n field only, where a large American
eagle, surrounded by twenty-six Stars
S skillfully wrought in hand emDToi0'
Try.
Judge J. T. Fleming Of Oklahoma
,ne of the unique characters q tnaS
territory. He served for several yea..