The broad ax., 1907-07-20
FACTS IN FEW LINES

Is spread over 40 square feet.
The population Of Paraguay has IN.
creased in thirty-fve years from 2O0..
600 to 100000.
In the oudtshoon district, Cape Colo
ny, there are 100000 ostriches. The
annual value Of the feathers yielded
by each bind is SIS.
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 phIIol-
ogist, has unearthed a new manuscript
Of Archimedes at the Convent Of the
Holy Sepulcher at ConstantinopIe.
The United States has more newspa-
peFs than any other country. Every
week day there are 100000 COPIES
issued. and on Sundays the number is
100000 copies.
The proposed iron bridge to be erect
ed at Yaulanman, near Canton. China
Is to be 1,220 feet In length and 20 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 2S7,O53 In 1900,
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
ayear earlier.
To his collection of more than 800
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 laEun, 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 q
specimen at Milan recently containing
as much as So per cent Of rubber.
Surgeon General Rixey has called at
tention to the curious fact that the
navy, unlike the army, has no regular
CORDS Of trained nurses, and at tia
next session OF congress he VIII urge
the necessary appropriation for the
organization Of q nurse corps With
1900 he feels that he can make q re-
spectable beginning In the organization
Of the proposed corps.
ItaIy's tragedian, Tommaso SalVini,
has got ready for himself magnih-
cent walnut wood coffin. Salvini has
Just been to Florence to assist In var
nishing his coffin, which after his death
win be sealed inside an enormous solid
block Of marble In the family mauso-
Ieum at the Porte Sante cemetery, In
Florence, with the simple epitaph,
'Tommaso Salvini, nineteenth century
actor"
To be worth 100000 or S4,0oo,oO0,
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,
a. far back as 1878
General Louis Botha, the Boer leader,
while recently In London learned that
q famous military chaplain, Mr.. Col
Inns. was III In the Millbank Military
hospital and every day sent the sick
man an exquisite bouquet M. Collins
was the chaplain who from SpAOn 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 II providing
instruction In problems Of aerial navi-
cation In connection with the military
establishment and the aeronaudeA
clubs. The most important military
post Is at Chalals-M eudon. between
Paris and Versailles, where La France,
the first dirigible balloon ever built,
was tried by Colonel Renard twenty
three years ago. Aeronautical work, II
d said, has been carried on at this post
for more than a century, 1t being
combined arsenal and experiment sta
ton.
A fund il being raised at Mable-
thorpe, Lincolnshire. England, to re-
pair the belfry and bells Of the OLD
parish church. In all there are hve
bells, pitched In the key Of r. No. /
treble bell Is undated, No. 2 bell bears
the date of 1924 the third bell, dated