The broad ax., 1907-08-10
FACTS IN FEW LINES


Toulon, and she was ruined
It Is estimated that the total first
cost Of England's present navy was
S670,000.000, and about $390O00,O00 has
been spent In the last ten years.
In 1882 there was a ten hour move
ment among the shipwrights and caIk-
ers Of New England. and several
strikes resulted. which proved success
ful.
Having started its American series
with the America, the Hamburg Amer
lean steamship line continues with the
President Lincoln and next fall will
add the General Grant
Theodore II. Davis, the archaeolo-
gist, has just brought to this country
from Egypt an alabaster statue OF
Queen Tel which dates back to 1900
B. o. 1t Is to be presented to the New
York Museum Of Art.
Work upon the tunnel which Is 70
couple Turin with the Riviera has not
yet begun. The railway line between
Cuneo and Ventimeglia, by which 1t r.
approached on the italian side, is, how
ever. practically completed.
Work has been begun by German
philologists on material collected dur
ing the last nine years for a dictionary
Of the Egyptian language. The Ian
guage goes back more than 5000 years, |
and there are more than 100000 signs |
used In It.
In every room In a certain Maine |
hotel Is pinned on the wall a large |
sized piece Of sandpaper. Over It Is
this request: Please don't scratch
your matches here" Needless to say.
that is where all the matches are
scratched
Two nine-pound shot were dug up
BY workmen in Waterville, Me-, re-
Gently. 1t is thought that they were
fred from British warships or from
the American batteries across the har-
Dor during the occupancy Of the town
by the English forces.
Out Of a 100000 appropriation by
the Cuban congress for the relief Of
suffering occasioned by the last win
ter's floods In the different provinces
OF the island a Havana paper states
that $203.O 900 has been allotted to road
building In Pinar del Rio province.
In the new disease known as tennis
elbow there Is usually local tender
ness on pressure. with acute pain on
extending the arm. There is seldom
any swelling. The trouble Is thought
60 be due to tearing Of the muscular
fiber. and 1t Is very persistent, often
even after long rest.
It is a woman, Miss NJ. E. Sullivan,
who supplies the United States navy !
with its stationery, note paper, menu
cards and invitations. She is a Con-
necticut girl, but she got the training
that makes 1t possible for her to do
this kind Of work at Pratt institute.
Making card plates In the beginning,
she has worked up her splendid busI-
ness
Excavations IN Rome being conduct
ID on he Palatine hill have shown a
curious and interesting circumstance.
The Metropolis has been found to con-
lain remains Of the ninth, eighth, sixth
md fourth centuries before Christ. All
fragments Of the seventh and fifth Gen.
turies are lacking, and psychologists
Ire engaged In a close study Of the
aeld In order to find the reason.
In Arbury Park. warwickshire, Eng
and, the ancestral seat Of the Newde- J
gates, tapered pillar In gray granite
N q three stepped pedestal has been
.rected to perpetuate the memory Of
George Eliot. Her birthplace Is near
~, and her father, brother and neph-
w served the Newdegate family In
he ONCE Of land agent The monu-
nent Il the gift Of +. A n. Newde-
,ate.
In the city Of Springfield, Mass, Is Q
Irivate art collection which is the lar
est and most varied owned by any one
'erson In the country. 1t Is the proper
y Of g. W. V. Smith, who has spent
yer flfty years getting 1t together, and
( Is ranked with the New York Metro 9
'olitan museum and the Wallace mu-
cum Of London. Mr.. Smith has loaned .
II collection to the city Of Springfield
D make the pictures eventually the
roperty Of the citizens.
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md Of Hawaii il going to make an
Rort for the preserving Of the Ha-
Eaiian> Language. There have been
norts in the past to preserve the Ian
mage In its purity. but the encroaeh-
1snt Of commercialism, the introdue- q
lon Of the English language as the
mcial tongue and the exclusive use Of
,ngiish In the public schools have q
raduaIly undermined all efforts to 4
reserve some semblance Of the beau
Cal language Of the native Hawaii
n.
Probably not one person out Of 500
ltering me south car In the elevator
Aaft Of the Fifth Avenue hotel ever
bps to read the little framed notice
Ihieh hangs IN one corner, says the
iew York Sun But TO the observing
~ this little notice tells story: In
lis very space forty-eight years ago
rs placed the first passenger elevator