The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1906-07-10
FACTS IN FEW LINES

1t Is said that in Australia there is :,
regular traffic in lending engagement
rings.
In 1905 there were 955 fatal acct
dents In the collieries of Great Britain
and Ireland.
Only IS per cent as many children
are born in England now as were borr
thirty years ago.
In Surrey, England. the "cud" is
called "quid.' The expression "quid
OF tobacco" probably comes from this.
Twenty three hundred million bush
els Of wheat are required annually by
the n7,OOO,OOO bread eaters of the
world.
Wire drawing was invented by Ru
dolph Of Nuremberg in the early par,
Of the fifteenth century. Wire was
first made In England In 1868.
This country ranks first in the paper
making industry. Germany Is second
and Great Britain comes third. The
production In America Is two or three
times greater than in Great Britain.
A collection Of the heads and horns
OF practically every variety Of big
game to be found in northern Rhode
sia has been added to the British South
Africa company's museum in London
Fearing that he would be punished
for spending sevenpence on sweets in.
stead Of buying fruit for his mother
schoolbOy at ABORT, SaXOny, threw
himself in front of a train and was
killed.
A bushel Of bituminous coal is differ
ent In different states. In Illinois
Iowa, Missouri and Kentucky it
weight is eighty pounds, in Pennsylva
MIA seventy-siX pounds and in indiana
seventy pounds.
A cold storage trust is one of the de
velOpments promised for the near flu
ture in South Africa All the ice and
cold storage plants in the "subcont
Dent' will be amalgamated if the
present plans carry.
The federal government has G7t
clerks who have reached the age OF
threescore years and ten. In the gov.
eminent printing Office there are sew
enty-siX printers who have handled
the stick and rule for more than halt
a century.
The tulip is the emblem of Hun
garian and anti-Austrian sentiment. 4
tulip league has been formed in Hun,
gary to boycott everything Austrian
The members wear a badge of tulip
in the Hungarian cOlors-red. white
and green
In the London mine at Newbrdge
near BendiGo. in Victoria. Australia
a nugget of gold has been discovered
weighing 33J ounces The nugget was
found in the Nick of Time Rush. When
cleared of the rubbish the nugget will
weigh about 300 ounces.
In order to keep a newly painted
floor clean a western Massachusetts
woman placed newspapers on the floor.
On removing them it was found that
she had the news of the day firmly
printed on the new paint, and it has
been impossible to remove the ink.
When the Prince and Princess OF
Wales desired to inspect the Golden
temple at Amritsir, in the Punjab, the
Sikhs declined to allow them to enter
the main gate because they were not
Sikhs, but said they could enter by o
side door. The offer was declined
A court of law is Renaissance of
the time when justice sat in the open
courtyard, and the dock" is from
German word meaning receptacle.
while the bar" is a Welsh word
meaning q branch Of q tree used to
separate the lords of justice from their
vaSsalS
After being missing for two weeks
cat belonging to Il family in Wiltshire
England. was found clinging to the
side OF a well thirty-five feet from the
surface and just above the water. She
was apparently none the worse for her
experience when she was brought to
the top.
Sea gulls invaded a boat load of her
ring at Nanaimo, Wash, while the fish
ermen We're away. When the fisher
men returned sixty had eaten so much
lbdI tllcy tOuitl IOl ny dN ds. LIE uSli-
ermen lifted them into the water, and
they just managed to swim to the
shore, where they lay down to recover
from their dinner.
Sir Walter Gilbey, whose father was
a stagecoach proprietor, has at Elsen-
ham Hall, his beautiful Essex resi-
dence, one of the finest sporting pic
ture galleries and libraries in the Brit
ish realm. Some volumes date back to
the sixteenth century, and every branch
of recreation is represented, from fox
hunting to cockighting.
Blowing wells. sometimes known as
breathing wells, are now being inves-
tigated by the United States geological
survey. The best known examples of
this type of we'll are found through
out Nebraska. The force Of the air
current in Que of the Louisiana wells