The broad ax. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1895-19??, 1906-09-15
FACTS IN FEW LINES

convict dress, half yellow. half brown.
A Winthrop CMeJ man celebrated
bis ninety-nfth birthday the other day
by leaving on using tobacco In any
FORM he had used II steadily for
eighty years.
The national Baptist convention, the
largest body Of colored Baptists In
America, has decided to establish q
theological seminary of tn own. It al
ready has q large and prosperous pub
fishing house.
The largest and eostiiest building
thus far undertaken In New York, tbs
cry Of immense structures, II the
magnificent 100000 Episcopal Ca
thedral OF st. John the Divine. now
being erected on Morningsids heights.
Among the curfosItIes Of church AZ
chltectre IN America may be men,
toned the fact that 10 Santa Rosa.
Cal, Ii a church with a seating capac-
ity Of 200 which Is built entirely of
timber sawed out Of a single redwood
tree. 90
The big elm tree known as the La
fayette elm. where Lafayette, met his
New Hampshire soldiers In the Revo-
luton. has been struck By lightning
and destroyed The tree was more
than q hundred years old and was
planted by q patriotic citizen to mark
the spot where the great general re-
eeIved his greeting from Granite State
people.
There seems to Be q pan-Islanic
propaganda movement afoot. Mushlr
Hosein Of 0udh and Abdul KadIr Of
Lahore. who have spent some time- IN
London. are now In Constantinople.
and Il IL said they have been invlted
BY sheIk u Islam, who 10 the Moslem
archbishop Of Turkey. to confer with
him on the extension and propagation
Of Mohammedanism In Asia.
Relic hunters In New York have
whitfield up dozen or more tables In
the Madison Square roof garden. think
ing they have secured pieces OF the Ia
bic at which Stanford White sat when
Harry Thaw shot him. The attendants
place a new table on the correct spot
a. soon as Its predecessor has been 30
chopped up that 1t will not longer
stand. Chairs are going about as rap
Idly.
The last Of the estates Of the late
Charles Stewart Parnell, which have
been in the Irish land courts since his
death, has been disposed Of by the sale
Of houses situated in St Stephens
Green, Dublin. The Ayondale house
and demesne, the home Of Mr.. Parnen,
are now the property Of the govern
ment and are used as a school Of for
estry by the Irish department Of agri-
culture.
King Leopold of Belgium, on coming
out Of the water after a bath at Bar
ritz CHANGED to collide with a man
who evidently did not know the king
In a bathing suit. what do you mean,
sIr2" he snorted savagely. BE more
careful! / would have you to know
that am a member Of the Paris city
councilr' Then offer a thousand
apologies" replied Leopold at once. Il
am only the king of the Belgians." .
Buenos Ayres has more newspapers
In different languages than any other
city OF its size In the world The num-
Der Of papers is about $50. Besides, Of
course, the national language. with
its wide Emergencies from Spanish,
there are papers published In Castilian,
In Catalan, In Italian, French, German
and English; In Basque. in Norwegian
and In Danish: in Arabic. Syrian, He
braic, Servian and In several dialects.
President Roosevelt has an account
/ at the Riggs National bank In Wash
Ington. The bookkeepers have no end
OF trouble keeping the presidents bal
ance straight, bcause so many people
who get checks from the president fail
to cash them. preferring to preserve
the checks as souvenirs So many
persons are willing to pay from 81 to
| $40 for an uncashed check signed by
the president that hundreds Of dollars
are saved by him every year.
Ever since 1910 the skull Of Sir
Thomas Browne has been on show In
museum at Norwich. II has now
been restored to the vault whence
It was taken. sylvanus Urban in the
Gentlenan's Magazine condemns this
morbIdness and that Of certain people
I who proposed to have Shakespeare's
skull similarly examined. Let such
RhoulIshly Inclined busybodies," he
says emphaticaIly. "confine their atten-
ton to the anatomy Of Jonathan Wild"
Winston Churchill. who triumphant
" carried through the parliament Just
adjourned the bill for q constitution
for the Transvaal, has been given the
sobriduet Of the ~Bienhelm pup" and
/ for several reasons. One r. the fact
that be Is a Churchill. descendant OF
the great Duke Of Marlborough who
humbIed the pride Of the French at
BIenheIm. Another II the bulldog
J fashIon.In which he fights his political
battles. BIS face Il said also to have
a bulldog look. He won his victory
for South African autonomy a. under