The broad ax., 1906-06-30
FACTS IN FEW LINES

last season. They were all used by one
firm.
The ceremonies attending a high
class Brahman wedding last week
and are the most complicated In exist
ence.
Milton was plain In his eating, as In
everything else. His breakfast was a
bit of bread and cheese or a chop and
a glass OF milk.
A Dalton Pa) man boasts that
he can live on SO a year. He eats but
one meal a day, and that consists OF
raw fruits, vegetables and nuts.
Ivy does not make a house damp.
/ On the contrary, its small roots extract
every particle Of moisture from the
brick or stone to which 1t clings.
In the canyons Of the Andes bridges
1 from precipIce to precipice are made
of rope cables Joined by smaller
strands to make a trough shaped
bridge.
Ants are extraordinarily fond Of liver
and may be exterminated by laying
raw liver near their haunts. The liver
when covered with the insects should
be thrown into boiling water.
! A brood of chickens was the limo
| cent cause OF a divorce case in Win
sted, Conn. The wife claimed that the
husband loved the chickens more than
! he did her and asked him to move TO
the hennery, whereupon he left her.
While workmen were engaged in
cutting railroad ties near Wllloughby,
Md, they discovered a gold ring In the
heart OF an oak tree. The ring was In
perfect condition except that In saving
! down the tree the saw had dishgured
the set Of the ring.
The postmistress OF Iron Mountain,
Tex, is eIghty-four years old, has held
/ the position over fifty-three years and
, has served under twelve presidents,
/ beginning with President Pierce, and
under both the Confederate and United
States governments
: For thIrty-three years there has been
no session OF court held In Labrador,
/ and In fifty years the only criminal
charge which is recorded Is that against
an Eskimo whose jealousy was aroused
| against a rival In his wife's affections
and who shot the man as he walked
with her.
A man In Damariscotta, Me-, brought
a pair of horses from the city for use
In the country. The animals were
broken to autos, electrics and every
other horrid thing" but they had new
er seen oxen. The very first time they
saw a yoke OF the strange animals they
! ran away.
Bangor, Me-, Is hoping for revival
Of the pottery industry In Maine. The
substitution Of kaolin for clay brought
the Maine pottery works to an end a
long time ago, but the Bangor people
base their hope now on the recent dis
coveries Of clay deposits equallng even
the Chinese kaolIn In purity.
Homer Case Of the town Of Lafa-
yette, n. Y, willed the church choir
there the sum Of 500 on condition that
the choir should sing America" every
Memorial day. The money Is to be in
vested, and IL the choir lets three years
elapse without singing the national
hymn the money reverts to the estate.
Consul Britain Of Kehl explains the
new method OF keeping clean the con-
gested business streets Of the larger
German cities. Metal tanks are insert
ed at intervals to the level Of the street
and covered with iron lids. Into these
the offal Is easily swept. In the night
the tanks are hauled to the dumping
grounds.
There are In Belfast, Me-, seven per-
sons representing four generations In
direct line who live In one family and
eat at the same table. They are Cap
tain and Mrs. Thomas Condor, the
daughter Lucy and her husband, ELI
sha n. Hanney; the granddaughter
Cleora and her husband, Clarence E.
Read, and the baby, Master Carlton
Arthur Read.
Judge. Won der Meden Of Hamburg,
who recently disappeared while on his
honeymoon at Hanover and was found
wandering In the streets OF Zurich,
has now been declared insane. Among
papers found on him was a letter from
his wife. On the envelope he had writ
| pcu. L h4o hOl AAO" q uudn COu4u Dc
50 happy. I am so very happy that /
think shall go mad"
SOLID alcohol has been introduced
from Belgium. 1t 10 In small cubes,
Just the right size to slip into the
pocket and burn under q chatting dish.
The body Of the preparation Is fur
nished by nitrate Of cotton and a little
amyl acetate, which takes up large
quantities Of alcohol and keeps II
ready for combustion. The mixture
contains 90 per cent pure alcohol
Among the blocks Of marble recently
raised In West Rutland, Vt, were four
Weighing from twenty to twenty-five
tons each. Each block win furnish one
Of the lions for the monument to Pres
ident Mckinley at Buffalo. The blocks
were % large and heavy that 1t wal
found expedlent to reduce their weight
By trimming them In the quarry to the
afEe actually needed for the fiRurea