The broad ax. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1895-19??, 1906-07-28
FACTS IN FEW LINES

university unless she Is married.
The ratio Of married couples living to
celebrate II the golden anniversary is
to 1000.
Paris soon will have hanson cabs the
fronts Of which will be opened or shut
by the fare pressing the button.
The hypodermic injection Of sea va
ter In twenty-rour tuberculosis patients
at Paris hospital is said to have been
followed by remarkably favorable re-
suits.
The first order received from San
Francisco after the earthquake by q
New York publisher was for Success
full Houses" and zone Hundred Best
Houses"
A Kansas mai. claims to have made
the discovery that water below a dam
Is much softer than that above II. He
says that falling over the dam breaks
the water.
A beautiful Green shade Of gold
which Is often used In making fine
jewelry is the result of an alloy con-
sisting Of five parts Of silver and nine
teen parts Of purS gold.
An Italian has invented a machine
for printing railroad tickets as they
are needed The apparatus can print
and register 400 difterent kinds Of
tickets, with station, date and fare.
Several old Liverpool tram cars have
Just been. purchased by a hospital for
consumptfyes- II is proposed to place
the cars IA the grounds Of the institu-
ton and use them as bedrooms for the
eonsumptive patients.
An English newspaper published re-
Gently an advertisement reading thus:
''Widower. living retired, without in
eumbrance, would like to correspond
with lady about forty. with small
means, with one leg preferred, with q
view to early marriage"
When Edouard de Reszke comes to
this country next fall to sing he will
begin again to make his fortune, 1t Is
said Most Of the money that he made
here has been lost, 50 the basso finds
himself, near the md Of his career,
compelled to start over again.
A farmer IN Mcpherson county, Kan,
makes his automobile do double duty.
He uses 1t In the daytime to run er-
rands and to oversee things on the
farm. At night he jacks 1t up OF the
ground, connects it with a small dyna-
mo and supplies his home with electric
lights.
Every department SE labor Is united
In Holland with all other departments.
So the other night the spectacle was
seen at the Amsterdam Opera House
Of q crowd Of bootmakers and cobblers
wrecking the performance Of an opera
for which nonunion choristers had been
enlisted.
A heroic equestrian statue Of George
Washington, 20 be erected at the Brook
Ign terminal Of the new Williamsburg
bridge, has been cast In bronze. 1t was
modelled by Henry Merwin Shrady, and
Washington is represented In Continen-
tai uniform and as he appeared at VAL
ley Forge.
A man who wNB arrested for break
Ing into a house In Berlin explained
that he only wished pair Of shoes be-
longing to a celebrated Russian wom-
an pianist who was staying In the
house. A collection Of women's shoes,
all docketed and catalogued, was found
In his room.
A negro went into a Brooklyn drug
store the other day to get a glass Of
fee cream soda. The proprietor said
that he would ask 81 for the soda. The
negro said that was all right II the
druggist would give him a receipt.
Then the druggist saw his danger and
came down.
The priests Of tho various parishes
In Spain had a busy time on Alfonso's
wedding day. There was a rush Of
betrothed couples Of the poorer classes
to be married on the same day as the
king. In one parish alone forty couples
were united. This is typical Of the
other parishes.
The crown prince Of Sweden when he
was first married took his young bride
into the headquarters Of his regiment
and said, Gentlemen, the colonel In
command Of the regiment desires to
introduce his wife to the regiment"
She was received with applause. and
the name has stuck.
The evidence before the British army
stores commissioners as to graft dur
ing the Boer war shows that there was
only one regiment the contractors were
unable to cheat That proud distinc- |
tion belongs to the Seventh hussars.
They weighed everything and checked |
the quality Of everything supplied |
them.
Denmark's kings for 3S4 years have |
an been named Christian or Frederick. |
It Is the law OF Denmark that Chris |
tan must be succeeded by Frederick |
and Frederick by Christian. To at
tain this every Danish prince, no mat
ter what other names he may receive, |
always has Christian and Frederick |
among them.
Ole Janson. for whom the town Of