The broad ax., 1907-09-07
FACTS IN FEW LINES


birthdays were celebrated as far back
as the time OF Pharaoh.
Cane Colony has now 10000 acres OF
vineyard, with 60.OO0.0o0 vines.
Prince Bismarck OF Germany would
never sit down to a dinner with tnir-
teen at the table.
In Australia engagement rings are
lent out by certain jewelers. as part OF
their ordinary trade.
No one in Saxony is allowed to shoe
horses unless he has passed a pubic
examination and Is duly qualihed.
In Holland II is illegal for a cyclist
10 use a horn, as this instrument Is
reserved for the exclusive use or mo-
florists.
Moii. Japan, an obscure place gen
Grafton ago. IS now a large city, with
a foreign commerce worth $45,OO00OO
a wear. It exports sugar, coal, timber,
cotton yarn and cement and imports
rice, wheat, sugar, raw cotton oil CAKE
machinery and kerosene.
The Alaska-Yukon exposition, to be
held in Seattle in 1909, is to be located
on University heights. The buildings
and their collections OF Alaskan prod
ucts are to become the permanent prop
erty of the university after the exposi-
ton closes.
Mrs. Katharine s. Hueppe complain
ed to Magistrate Corrigan In New YORK
that her husband was making fool OF
himself by his odd way Of doing busi-
ness. Don't interfere" said the mag
istrate. IF he wants to make a fool
of himself let him do So"
Professor A. L. Kroeber Of the Uni
yersity of California Is an expert on
Indian languages, and he says that IN
stead of being mere jargon, as Is popu-
lariy supposed, they are well denned
languages. He declares that California
has more distinct Indian languages TO
the square mile than any other state.
Miss Ellen Terry was born In Coven-
try fifty-nine years ago. Two houses
I'm that English city claim to be her
birthplace. One house has the sign,
This Is the birthplace Of Miss Ellen
! Terry" the other, Just opposite, bears
/ the legend, This is the original birth
place Of Miss Ellen Terry"
/ The biggest cannon ball ever made
weighed 1900 pounds and was manu-
featured at the Krupp works, Essen,
| for the government OF the car. The
gun from which this projectile was
fred is also the largest In the world
and is placed In the Notifications Of
Cronstadt. This gun has a range OF
| twelve miles, and II has been estimated
that each shot costs $500.
Professor Francis Brown Of Union
Theological seminary has become q
member Of the general committee OF
the Palestine Exploration fund, which
I now has ten American members. DR..
Brown will be In charge the coming
year Of the American school at Jeru-
salem, and this, 1t is thought, will pro
mote the cooperation Of England and
America In the work Of verifying and
Illustrating the Bible.
Only a few years ago America i'm
ported more portland cement than 1t
manufactured. Now the tables have
been turned, and this country has tax,
en- the front rank both in the produc-
ton of cement and its use in construc,
ton. 1t has been estimated that the
quantity of portland cement used in
this country In 1905 would be sum
Gent to lay a sidewalk sixteen feet
broad all around the earth at the equa'
tor.
An ingenious device has been in
vented by a street railway employee
and Is being tested. Whenever a pas
senger stands on the lower step a buzz
ger sounds in the motorman's com
partment and warns him not to start
the car until the signal ceases, which
It does the instant the passenger
reaches the platform or the ground
Contact points are placed in the steT
which are brought together by the
weight of the passenger.
c. Parker Woodbury., a New York
banker, will build for himself a glass
house. he has engaged an architect
to draw plans for the novel dwelling
which is to be erected at Beechhurst
NY. Bricks Of compressed opalescent
= 1 kldb6 Will LOEL1 NHC ans. AhC AnACAAoi
, and partitions are to be Of the same
material worked into thin slabs, and
!, the roof Is to be Of glass. In fact
!, wherever it Is possible glass is to b
employed, as Mr.. Woodbury. is a greai
believer in sunlight.
King Edward carries a gold key tina
! has no duplicate. 1t opens his private
, writing desk. Every time the kint
quits his personal apartment an as
7 sistant secretary destroys the content
, Of the wastebasket, the plotting pad
and even the wrappers Of the newspa
pers that come from every capital o.
Europe. His majesty takes no risks o
/. spying eyes, and 1t Is an unwritten law
: that private secretaries shall not In
dulge in gossipy diaries, after the man
= ner Of Samuel Pepys.~
, The historic house Of BENJAMIN
| ura,trlfn IN paris "a for sale Thi