The broad ax., 1907-06-15
FACTS IN FEW LINES


America, Japan and elsewhere.
While Australia has the reputation
Of a great sheep growing country,
there are more of these animals In In.
dia.
The number Of different species of
animals known to naturalists Is rough
ly $4,000. of which 1880 are verte-
brates or backboned-
In Greece the usual price OF olive oil
is only about 20 cents a quart at
wholesale. When the yield Is excep-
ttonally large pure Of Is still cheaper.
The thin paper on which the Oxford
Bible is printed Is made after a secret
process by the Oxford University
Press. The secret Is valued at $1.250..
900.
Professor Burt G. Wilder of Cornell
Is out with a declaration that cats
ought to be licensed and that cats thai
are not worth licensing ought not to be
permitted to live.
The late Sir Walter Besant ten years
ago estimated that there were fifty
novelists in England who earned up
ward Of 5000 a year. There are now
probably nearer $50.
Mrs. Harding, testifying In a London
court against her son, said he had been
a brute 20 her since his bOyhoOd. 'Tn
fact" she said. "a husband could not
have treated me worse"
A college of foreign languages has
been opened In Canton. China, the part
Of the Chinese empire from which the
greatest number Of emigrants sail to
distant parts OF the globe.
A record IN saving laths has been
made by a crew at Smiths mills. at
Machias, Me-, when in one day OF a
little over nine hours 61. 600 good laths
and over 6,OO0 poor ones were sawed.
At the Norwich England rural coun-
ell Councillor Watts reported a case OF
a boatman who willed and bequeathed
his son Fred to another boatman, who
paid half crown to make the transac-
tion, as he imagined, legal.
After handling 100000 In currency
Cashier John F. O'Brien OF the city
collectors office In Chicago fell from
his seat In a dead faint. He got the
money In all shapes. and the strain of
counting and sorting proved too great
The japanese premier. Prince Kung.
tried to compliment General Grant In
English when he was in Japan by as
suring him that he was born to COM
mand. His words were, however.
"Sire. brave general, you were maoe to
orderr'
The adage which advises people who
live in glass houses not to throw stones
win have to be revised. The glass that
breakable. 1t looks like white marble
and Is used in the same way as that
material.
The Grosecloses brothers Of Sully
county, s. D., have a large tract Of
land which they are cultIFating entire
" without the aid Of horses or other
animals. Flowing, narrowing. seeding.
harvesting and marketing are all done
with motor machinery.
A box containing a thousand cigars
arrived at Buckingham palace recent
IL. It was a present from Baron
Rothschild to King Edward. For over
thirty years his majesty has received
similar present from Rothschild. The
cigars are worth about $2.65 each.
The Merchants bank In Salem, Mass.
is a young mems bank Henry NJ.
Batchelder, its president, is the young
- In fhn 0ffu
Clifford, the cashier, only recently
passed his thirtieth year. while F. A.
Brooks, assistant cashier. and A. n.
Barnet, teller, are both under thirty.
The steel bridge the Portland and
Seattle railroad is building across the
Columbia at Vancouver will be a mile
and a half long. the longest steel
bridge In the world. 1t Will be finished
next January. Twenty thousand tons
Of steel will be used In II, not includ-
ing the weight of the double track.
The drawbridge is 464 feet long.
All mechanics In France are obliged
to serve an apprenticeship Of from two
to three years, during half Of which
period at least they receive no wages
and must board themselves In addi-
ton to this each one must give up two
years Of his life for military service,
for which he receives a cent day and
board and clothes. 1t will be seen that
every mechanic In France must expend
four or Eve years Of his life without
wages.
One Of the growing methods Of
cheating IN New York Is by short
change" The system has taken firm
root In many ticket Offices and shops
and has notably increased when small
payments are being made through
dumb walters, In which latter instance
the person delivering goods says too
little was sent down or that he re-
turned more than the receiver can find
and that there must have been a loss
IN transit.
Just outside the city limits Of Nash
ua, N. h, there have been all sorts
Of dog fights and 50 called sport OF
that kind for years, but It Is now at an
end. Mrs. Jennie Kimball, little wo-
man. 1--WE feet high, decided that good