The broad ax. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1895-19??, 1906-09-08
FACTS IN FEW LINES

A Winthrop Me.) man ceIehr,,a,
bis ninety-fifth birthday the Other H.
By leaving on using tobacco in am
form He had used 1t steadily for
eighty years.
The national Baptist convention. tho
largest body OF colored Baptists n
America, has decided to establish
theological seminary OF its own. II NJ.
ready has a large and prosperous puh.
fishing house.
The largest and costliest buidin,
thus far undertaken In New York. the
city OF immense structures, is tba
magnificent 100000 Episcopal Ga.
thedral Of st. John the Divine now
being erected on Morningside heights
Among the curiosities Of church ar.
chltecture In America may he men,
toned the fact that In Santa Rosa
Cal, Il a church with a seating capac.
Ity Of 200 which Is built entirely ~
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 Reyo-
luton, has been struck by lightning
and destroyed The tree was more
than a hundred years old and was
planted by a patriotic citizen to marx
the spot where the great general re-
celved his greeting from Granite State
people.
There seems to be a pan-Islamlc
propaganda movement afoot Mushir
Hoseln OF Oudh and Abdul Kadir Of
Lahore, who have spent some time In
London, are now in Constantinople,
and 1t IL said they have been invited
by SheIk vi 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
bic 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 1t will not longer
stand. Chairs are going about as rap
Idly.
The last Of the estates Of the late
Charles Stewart ParnelI, 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.. Parnell,
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.
sir?" he snorted savagely. BE more
1 would have you to know
that I am a member OF the Paris city
Then I offer a thousand
apologies" replied Leopold at once. II
am only the king Of the Belgians."
Buenos Ayres has more newspapers
n different languages than any other
eity OF its size in the world. The num-
Der Of papers is about $50. Besides, Of
course, the national language, with
Is wide Emergencies from Spanish,
here are papers published in Castillan,
n Catalan, In Italian, French, German
Ind English; In Basque, In Norwegian
md In Danish; In Arabic, Syrian, He
'raic, Servian and In several dialects.
President Roosevelt has an account
It the Riggs National bank In Wash
ngton- The bookkeepers have no end
f trouble keeping the presidents bal
nee straight, bcause so many people
Vho get checks from the president fail
o cash them, preferring to preserve
be checks as souvenirs. So many
ersons are willing to pay from 81 to
10 for an uncashed check signed by
be president that hundreds Of dollars
re saved by him every year.
Ever since 1910 the skull Of Sir
'homas Browne has been on show in
luseum at Norwich 1t has now
cen restored to the vault whence
was taken. Sylvanus Urban in the
Ientleman's Magazine condemns this
lorbldness and that Of certain people
rho proposed to have Shakespeare's
kun similarly examined. Let such
houlishly inclined busybodIes," he
lys emphatically, "eonfine their atten-
on to the anatomy OF Jonathan Wild"
Winston Churchill, who triumphant
: carried through the parliament Just
djourned the bill for a constitution
'r the Transvaal, has been given the
obriquet Of the 'rBlenhelm pup" and
" several reasons. One Is the fact
at he d q Churchill, a descendant Of
70 great Duke Of Marlborough who
nmbled the pride Of the French at
lenheim. Another IL the bulldog
Ishion In which he fights his political
.tties. BIS face IL said also to have
bulldog look. He won his victory
z South African autonomy as under
'cretary for the colonies, q position