The broad ax., 1906-09-22
FACTS IN FEW LINES

A Winthrop QAe.) man celebrated
bis ninety-ffth birthday the other day
By leaving on using tobacco In any
FORM He had used It steadily for
eighty years.
The national Baptist convention, the
largest body Of colored Baptists In
America, has decided to establish a
theological seminary Of its own. 1t al
ready has q large and prosperous pub
fishing house.
The largest and eostliest building
thus far undertaken In New York, the
city OF immense structures is the
magnificent 100000 Episcopal Ca
thedral OF st. John the Divine, now
being erected on Morningside heights
Among the curiosities Of church ar
chitecture In America may be men
toned the fact that In Santa Rosa,
Cal, is a church with a seating capac-
lty OF 200 which Is built entirely Of
timber sawed out Of a single redwood
| tree.
The big elm tree known as the La
fayette elm, where Lafayette met bis
| New Hampshire soldiers In the Revo-
luton, has been struck by lightning
and destroyed. The tree was more
than a hundred years old and was
planted by patriotic citizen to mark
the spot where the great general re-
celved his greeting from Granite State
people.
There seems to be a pan-Islamic
propaganda movement afoot Mushlr
Hoseln OF Oudh and Abdul Kadir Of
Lahore, who have spent some time In
London, are now In Constantinople,
and 1t is said they have been invited
by SheIk III Islam. who Is 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 a dozen or more tables In
the Madison Square roof garden, think
ing they have secured pieces Of the Ia
BILE at which Stanford White sat when
Harry Thaw shot him. The attendants
place a new table on the correct spot
as soon as its predecessor has been so
chopped up that it 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 Avondale house
and demesne, the home Of Mr.. Parnel,
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 Blar-
ritz. CHANGED to collide with a man
who evidently did not know the king
4 In a bathing suit. what do you mean,
sIr7" he snorted savagely. BE more
careful! would have you to know
that am a member of the Paris city
councIl!' 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
/ ut 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 fall
to cash them, preferring to preserve
the checks as souvenirs. So many
persons are willing to pay from II 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 Q
museum at Norwich. 1t has now
been restored to the vault whence
II was taken. Sylvanus Urban In the
' Gentleman's Magazine condemns this
morbidness and that Of certain people
! who proposed to have Shakespeare
i slvull similarly examined. Let sucf
9houlIshly inclined busybodies," h'
: saws emphaticaIly, 'confine their atten
ton to the anatomy of Jonathan Wild
Winston Churchill. who triumphant
" carried through the parliament jus
q adjourned the bill for constitution
: for the Transyaal, has been given IN
Y sobriquet Of the "Blenheim pup" am
: for several reasons One Is the fac
q that he Is q Churchill, descendant o
, the great Duke Of Marlborough Wn'
v humbled the pride Of the French a
4 RIenheIm. Another IL the bulldog
d fashion In which he fights his politics
3 battles. his face ID said also to haV
d a bulldog look. BE won bis VICTOR
g for South African autonomy as unoei
Il