The broad ax. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1895-19??, 1906-09-01
FACTS IN FEW LINES

Japan gets $4,000 recruits yearly for
her regular army.
1t takes fifty Of the Chinese edible
birds nests to weigh a pound, and the
price per pound is about $40.
The prison population Of India Is
only thirty eight per 100000 inhab-
itants. Sixty years ago there were 150.-
600 children at school In India. Now
there are over 100000.
Postmaster Carrier Of East Litch-
field, Conn, has been obliged to erect
q high fence edged with barbed wire
to protect what Is left Of his garden
from the deer which abound in that
vicinity:
In the latitude of England the ground
twenty-five feet below the surface or
the earth does not reach Its highest
temperature Of the year until Novem-
Der or December. The coolest month
that far down is May.
During the digging Of a cellar In
Montowese, Conn, the men came upon
q huge rock which withstood all at
tempts to break 1t up. 1t is a dark
metallic substance. and II has been de-
termined that the mass is a meteor.
Jewsharps are made principally in
Boccorio, the seat OF the industry since
the sixteenth century. A good work
man can make seven dozen In a day.
Simple as the little instruments are,
twenty different kinds Of tools are used
In their manufacture.
The late Hendrix Ibsen was once
asked his idea OF Americans. WELL"
said Ibsen, smiling, 1T is my idea that
the average American baby five or six
months old sits in his mothers lap and
eyes his own cradle to see II he can't
invent q better one or at least suggest
some improvement"
Mrs. James Ryan OF Lyndon. vt, has
a curiosity in a pillow tick which. filed
with turkey feathers, had lain In the
attic for several years. Upon opening
the tick the inside was found to be q
handsome gray plush. the feathery
part of the feathers being snugly inter
woven into the cloth by moths.
A South Carolina farmer made $14,-
600 net on a farm Of thirty-five acres
In one year. The crop was potatoes.
the average production being a few
barrels more than 100 per acre. The
potatoes sold for So barrel, q total Of
81. 500. 1t cost 81 per barrel to put
them on the market, or $500. leaving
a net profit Of $4,000
Lord wolseley's spirit was character
istic. At the end Of 1854 in recognition
Of his services In the Crimean war he
was gazetted as captain, but 1t was
discovered that he was little more
than twenty-one, and Ii was Cancelled.
The young man protested so vigorous
" that the cancellation was Cancelled
and the captaincy restored
A train at Brattleboro, VT, picked up
a bulldog at one Of the crossings. The
dog sailed upward to the height of
about fifty feet and came down with a
I thud upon its back in a mud puddle.
He picked himself up. looked at the
passing train with an indignant growl
Of defiance and then trotted or uncon-
cernedly, apparently unhurt.
One Of the fishermen to hold out
against the motor boat for fishing Is
Samuel Tobey Of Kittery, Ne. He
still uses sail and oars for his fifteen
foot dory, feeling that to change at
this time Of life would be foolish.
Tobey is eighty-seven years old, the
Oldest fisherman in New England, and
is still very active in the business.
One Of the largest expenses connect
ed with the government printing office
Is that for paper, nearly $1.000,OO0 be-
ing spent for the 10000 tons used ev-
cry year. There are 100 different kinds
OF paper used. Nearly $4,000 Is real
lied from the sale Of the waste paper,
consisting principally Of sheets spoiled
In the various processes Of manufac-
ture.
While Captain John F. Barrett, one
Of the assessors Of Milford, Mass, was
making a trip through the town on
business he left his assessors books
on a doorstep while he went into the
house. During his stay a dog came
smiling around the pile Of books and
suddenly made OF with one. On inves-
tication after recapture the book was
found to be the dog record Of the
:; town.
The first million dollar life insurance
policy ever written was bought by
George W. Vanderbilt In 1907. He was
thirty-hve years old at the time and
agreed to pay $4,000 a year for twen-
ty years. According to the Worlds
Work. If he had taken out this policy
twenty years ago he would have paid
in by this time 100000, which at per
cent compound interest would nave
amounted to nearly $1.1O0oOO.
A remarkable invention for prevent
ing railway accidents has been tried
;, with success on the western railways
! of France. The invention Is placed on
. an engine. II the driver for any cause
passes an adverse danger signal the
apparatus blows a whistle on the en-
| elmo continuously and also throws up