The broad ax., 1907-06-08
FACTS IN FEW LINES

America, Japan and elsewhere.
While Australia has the reputation
Of 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
iy $4,000. of which 1890 are verte-
brates or backboned-
In Greece the usual price of olive oil I
is only about % cents a quart at .
wholesale. When the yield is excep. .
tiOnally large pure oil IS stu cheaper.
The thin paper on which the Oxfor! .
Bible is printed Is made after secret +
process by the Oxford University
Press. The secret is valued at $3.50.
600.
Professor Burt G. Wilder Of Cornell
Is out with a declaration that cats
ought to De licensed and that cats thI;
are not worth licensing ought not to he
permitted To live.
The late Sir Walter Besant ten years
ago estimated that there were fifty
novelists in England who earned up
NdAu VI sst.iNFt n NthA lAEAF AAN AApN
probably nearer 40.
Mrs. Harding. testifyinS in n London
court against her son. said he had been
a brute TO her since his bOyhOOd I'm
fact" she said. "a husband could not
have treated me worse"
4 college of foreign languages has
been opened In Canton. China. the part
of the Chinese empire from which the
greatest number OF emigrants sail t.
distant parts OF the globe.
A record in saving laths has been
made by n crew at Smiths mills. at
Machias. Me-. when in one day Of n
little over nine hours I'll. ON good lIths
and over GOOO poor ones were sawed.
At the Norwich CEnglandJ rural coun-
Gil Councillor Watts reported a case 81
a bOatman who willed and bequeathed
his son Fred To another boatman. who
paid a half crown To make the transac-
ton. as he imagined. legal.
After handling S2UOO.OpO 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
surfing him that he was born TO COM
! mand. His words were. however,
"Slre. brave general, you were maze 10
/ ORDER
/ The adage which advises people who
/ live In glass houses not TO throw stones
will have to be revised. The glass that
I Is now used In making houses is nOr
breakable. 1t looks Ike 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 cultivating entire
/ IL without the aid OF horses or other
/ animals. Flowing. narrowing. seeding.
harvesting and marketing are all done
with motor machinery.
= A box containing n thousand cigars
arrived at Buckingham palace recent
". 1t 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 S2.65 each
The Merchants hank in Salem. Mass.
Is a young mems hank Henry NJ.
Batchelder. its president, is the young
est bank president In the city. ]. II.
Clifford, the cashier. only recently
passed his thirtieth year. while F. A.
Brooks, assistant cashier. and A ii.
Barnet, teller, are both under thirty.
The steel bridge the Portland and
Seattle railroad Is building across tbs
Columbia al Vancouver will be mile
and a half long. the longest steeI
bridge In the world. 1t Will be finished
next January. Twenty thousand tons
of steel will be used in II not inciud
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 wage:
and must board themselves In add
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. II will be seen tina
every mechanic In France must expent
four or five years Of his life without
wages.
One of the growing methods o.
. cheating In New York Is by "shor
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 to-
little was sent down or that he re
turned more than the receiver can hn6
and that there must have been los
In transit.
lust outside the city limits OF Nash
ia. n. H, there have been all sort
of dog fights and 50 called sport o
that kind for years, but IT is now at al
, end. Mrs. Jennie Kimball. a little wo
, man. FIVE feet high, decided that goo
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