The broad ax. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1895-19??, 1906-10-06
FACTS IN FEW LINES

4 weaving cOItOn III AIr1Ca - SiOh anu
dIficuIt work. A skilled workman can
( weave about three yards day.
Bokhara, the most popuious part of
| Turkestan, Is gradually being changed
/ into a desert by the incursions Of the
sand dunes.
An Official return Just issued by the
japanese government gives the wealth
Of Japan at the end Of 1904 as $6,51O,-
4O3,O 900, or $145 per head
The first arctic expedition was made
BY Corte Real, a Portuguese, in the year
1900 This was ffty-three years before
that under Sir Hugh Willoughby.
According to Borough President Co
Ter, Brooklyn in a few months will re-
ceIve an addition to It's water supply
Of 100000 gallons a day from arte-
sian wells.
The purest breed OF Arab horses are
the Kochlani, whose geneology has
been preserved for 1000 years. They
are said to be derived from King Sol
onions stables.
The estimated number Of cantaloupes
shipped from the famous Rocky Ford
district In Colorado last season is r.
100000. Seven hundred cars were sent
out, being an increase Of 1OS cars over
the previous season.
While looking over some old articles
q Wilton On. H. man ran across an old
map Of Massachusetts, which was print
ed In 1920 Just after the census was
taken. The map gives Boston as hav-
ing 1928 people and the whole state
523,2S7.
When Richard Harding Davis met Ii
Hung Chang in St Petersburg he was
asked how old and how rich he was
and what he did. He replied, Il write
books" "Why do you writer said
the viceroy. Are you not strong
enough to work?"
One Of the few bells cast by Paul
Revere now in existence is to be taken
from the belfry of the old Baptist
church In Warren, r. l., to be recast
at Troy. A member of the church will
oversee the task and will write an ac-
count Of the undertaking for historical
purposes.
Captain Cooks chest, the one which
he carried with him on his voyage Of
discovery over hundred years ago, oc-
cupies q conspicuous place In the home
Of Rev. r. Crosby OF North Branch,
Mich. The chest has been In the pos
session Of the Crosby family for many
years, but was recently shipped to
America by the English branch Of the
family.
Motor car reliability trials were held
In Scotland recently. and the drivers
were astounded at their reception
along the route. In every town and
village the women and children lined
the roadside and shouted enthusiastic
welcomes. Sprays Of lilac and other
flowers were thrown into the cars as
they passed and Invitations to stop
were given.
For peach harvesting j. II. Hale Of
Glastonbury, Conn, never employs any
but Italians. When the season is at its
height he has $50 Of them working in
NAC OAShoAo- 4laAAoh " oAlCAb DCl-
monico's, Sherry's, the Waldorf and
other places 60 there on their vacations
and 60 to work In the orchards. They
love to be near the fruit.
Advertisement In Five Islands On. 81
exchange: 81. r. Fuller, dealer In soft
and hard coal, ice cream, wood, lime,
cements, perfumery. nails, putty, spec
tacles and horseradish, chocolate cara
mels and tar roofing gasfitting and I'M
dertaking In all its branches, hides,
tallow and maple strip, fine gold jew
elry, silverware and salt, glue, Goldfish
and gents neckwear, undertaken and
confectioner, diseases Of horses and
children a specially"
The so called potato king" il q
shrewd negro Of the name of Groves,
who lives on a farm near Kansas City,
Kan, and raises and sells more pota-
toes than any other man In the world.
Besides his own production he buys
and sells the potatoes Of others. In
Kansas City he maintains a commits
sion ONCE and employs some ten
SS~-N6Aep1CAo oA6 OOOAhCCPCLb. hCdl-
King that such a large business needs
a well trained head, he has sent his
son first to the Kansas Agricultural
college for an agricultural education
and then to a business college for a
business education.
Rev. Charles Wolfe, the author Of
the immortal poem entitled The
Burial Of Sir John Moore" was ac-
cused not long ago by a magazine of
literary piracy. 1t was said that Wolfe
had cribbed the poem bodily from the
French. The matter has been given
wide currency In the press, owing to
the great popularity the poem has en-
5oyed for nearly a century. Now It
has been discovered that the French
poem was a literary hoax perpetrated
BY Rev. Francis Mahoney c'Father
Prout'0 and published In Father
Prouts Reliques" among the Songs
Of France" It Is really a clever trans
lation Of Wolfe's Enalisb verae