The broad ax., 1907-07-13
FACTS IN FEW LINES

600 to 100000.
In the oudtshoorn district, Cane Colo
ny, there are 10000 ostriches. The
annual value Of the feathers yielded
by each bind Is SS5.
Students Of Pennington seminary.
Pennington, N. J., found a skeleton IN
the ruins Of an ancient building. with
pot Of coins by its side.
Professor HeIberg, the Danish phIIoI-
ogist has unearthed~a new manuscript
Of Archimedes at the Convent of the
Holy Sepulcher at COnstantinople.
The United States has more pewspa-
peEs than any other country. Every
week day there are 100000 copies
issued, and on Sundays the number Is
11,5O0,0o0 copies.
The proposed iron bridge to be erect
ed at Yaulanman, near Canton. China.
Is to be 1,220 feet In length and 40 feet
IN breadth The capital Of the company
is to be 100000 in 100000 shares of
SO each.
At present the population Of Cyprus,
after Sicily and Sardinia the largest
island In the Mediterranean, Is more
than 100000 as against 237O53 In 1000.
three-fourths being Greeks and the
rest Moslems.
In Tasmania no person under thir-
teen years Of age is allowed to smoke
In a public place. Nearly everybody
smokes In Japan. The girls begin when
they are ten years Of age and the boys
year earlier
To his collection of more than 500
relics Captain John Ryan Of West
Newton, Mass, a veteran of several
wars, has recently added a cane the
materials Of which represent three
wars in which he participated-the
Mexican, civil and Spanish-American.
Traders now pass freely between
Calcutta and Tibet The masses Of
Tibet are eager to trade with the
white people," says Consul General
Michael Of Calcutta. The important
products Of Tibet are borax, inter, rock
salt iron, silver, copper, gold, tur-
Quoise, lapis laZuH, musk, etc.
The india rubber tree grows freely
In gardens as an ornamental shrub in
southern Italy, and steps are being
taken to make an Industrial business
Of growing It Professor Bozzi Of the
Palermo botanical gardens exhibited
specimen at Milan recently containing
as much as IS per cent of rubber.
Surgeon General Rixey has called at
tention to the curious fact that the
navy, unlike the army, has no regular
corps Of trained nurses, and at tia
next session Of congress he viii urge
the necessary appropriation for the
organization Of a nurse corps. With
5000 he feels that he can make re-
spectacle beginning in the organization
Of the proposed corps.
ItaIy's tragedian, Tommaso Salvinl,
has got ready for himself a magnif-
cent walnut wood coffin. Salvini has
Just been to Florence to assist in var
nishing his coffin, which after his death
will be sealed inside an enormous solid
block Of marble In the family mausO-
leum at the Porte Sante cemetery, in
Florence, with the simple epitaph,
'Tommaso Salvini, nineteenth century
actor
To be worth 100000 or 100000.
with a palace in fashionable Portland
place and peers and ambassadors for
neighbors, that Is the lot Of Henry Ar
thur Jones, the richest and most sue
cessful Of living dramatists. He has
literally held the stage" these thirty
years, ever since he produced the little
one act piece, Its Only Around the
Corner" at the Theater Royal, Exeter,
as far back as 1878.
General Louis Botha, the Boer leader,
while recently in London learned that
a famous military chaplain, Mr.. Col \
Inns. was I'll in the MilIbank Military
hospital and every day sent the sick
man an exquisite bouquet Mr.. Collins
was the chaplain who from Spion kop
and Pieters hill reported manfully the /
great humanity and fairness Of the |
Beers and their leaders In those sangui- |
nary engagements Of the South African |
war.
The French government is providing |
instruction in problems Of aerial navi-
CATION in connection with the military |
establishment and the aeronautical
clubs. The most important military
post is at Chalais-M eudon, between
Paris and Versailles, where La France,
the first dirigibIe balloon ever built,
was tried by Colonel Renard twenty
three years ago. Aeronautical work, 1t
Is said, has been carried on at this post
for more than a century, it being !
combined arsenal and experiment sta
tion.
A fund is being raised at Mable-
thorpe, Lincolnshire, England, to re-
pair the belfry and bells Of the old
parish church. In all there are i've
bells, pitched in the key Of F. No.
treble bell is undated, No. 2 bell bears
the date of 1924, the third bell, dated
1T24, Is badly cracked; the fourth bell
Is also dated 1724, while the tenor ben,
which weighs LOO pounds, needs