The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1906-08-01
FACTS IN FEW LINES

hats to New York annually.
About $4,000 tons Of Holsters are
caught and marketed every year in
Canada.
The Central labor union Of Rutland
VT, plans to build a labor temple BY
assessing the members of the unions
cent a day.
1t is stated by the Irish Independent
that collins for children are being sup
piled by contractor to south of Ire
land almshouses at cents each.
A homing pigeon which was sent to
the Isle of Man two years and four
months ago returned to its home cot
In Blackburn, England, recently.
1t has been suggested that African
and Asiatic elephants be imported into
South and Central America, in the
vast forests of which they would mul.
tiply and provide a future source of
ivory.
In the last twenty-five years the
number Of life insurance policy holders
in Japan has increased from 1,439 to
1891 at the date of the latest official
statistics. 1t is probably at least $780,.
600 now.
Dainty little India rubber boots are
now offered for sale in London for the
fleet Of toy terriers or other dogs
that may be the pets of wealthy mis-
tresses. These are tied round the legs
with silk cord.
In the mythology of Europe horses
have always been considered bearers
Of luck, and there was a superstition
which once was current that the pres
ence of horses hoof under the bed
would cure certain complaints.
A committee headed by Joseph H.
ChOate has been formed in New York
| to erect bronze tablets on the buildings
in that city in which William Lloyd
Garrison and Henry George died. The
committee has limited the maximum
A present Of a very unique kind was
made to Princess Ena This was a col
lection Of postcards from the whole of
Spain, with "piropos' dedicated to her
royal highness. A 'propo" is short
phrase eulogizing the beauty of wom-
| cial albums, with artistic bindings, one
for every province in Spain.
Peoria, ILL.,, claims the most remark
able bicyclist in the world, considering
his advanced age. This man, Thomas
| w. Davis, Is now in his seventy-sev-
| opfh voor opd hoe riddoD ovor 100 O0O
| miles. He received from the Century
Club Of America the first prize for the
1902 mileage record. He led all COM
petitors by riding 5000 miles.
The astonishing fact has come to
light that Professor Richard Garrett,
librarian of the British museum, who
died recently, for years had devoted
much time to the "blaak art" Of astrol
ogy. Even more extraordinary Is the
circumstance that business men of
| New York and other cities regularly
! consulted him regarding contemplated
ventures.
Richard Franklin Pettigrew wants to
be the first Socialist to sit in the Unit
ed States senate as SUCH He is going
to invite his state of South Dakota to
elect him senator three years hence.
He has served two terms already. Be
| ing an eclectic in politics, Mr.. Petit
grew was first elected as a Republican,
reelected in six years to become
Demo-Populist, and now he is going to
make try as Socialist.
The vagaries of artists are many
the artistic temperament has much to
answer for-but it is not usual, to say
the least Of it, for a painter to have
studio in a victoria. Therefore an
elderly German lady may be said to
have set up new record. She has
been one of the sights of Berlin lately,
driving up and down Inter den Linden
and busify painting panorama of the
famous street. So much attention did
she attract that the police had some
difficulty in dispensing the crowd
drawn" by the unusual spectacle.
Mrs. Anna L. George of Hayerhill
has very many old books which have
been handed down to her by members
of her family. One of them is a day
book of the Merrimack bank, which
was the first bank in Haverhin 1t is
in the handwriting Of her grandfather,
who was the first cashier. In an &C
count dated Sept Is, 1904, with Iris
tram Dalton, Mrs. Georges great
grandfather. appears this odd entry,
which illustrates the bartering Of that
day: ITO one candle box, with differ
ence in flatirons shillings ninepence."
The Eastern railway of Mexico will
be ballasted with gold ore between
Texico and Rio Puerto, distance OF
27O miles. This ballast rock is obtained
from the gravel bed adjacent to the
new line of the road Repeated assays
have shown that the ballast runs up
ward of So in gold to the ton. About
$500 tons of rock are used to the mile,
making the value of gold $1,000 to each
mile of road, or $2,43O,OOO for the 27O
miles The gold values in the rock are
not sufficient to make it mining prop
osition, but passengers will ride over