The broad ax. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1895-19??, 1907-01-12
FACTS IN FEW LINES


more than a thousand years old.
The Russian empire holds the record
OF having under its sway sixty-five
separate and distinct racial groups.
The vulture can travel $50 miles an
hour. 1t is a question whether it or
the English kestrel Is the swiftest bird.
Sir Humphry Davy said it was as
reasonable to talk of ventilating Lon
don with windmIlls as to light the
big city with gas.
Coal mining in the province OF Shang-
tung, China, is steadily increasing.
Last year one district produced 1885,
800 tons. or 100000 tons more than the
year before.
Two ostriches which escaped from a
colonial exhibition at Paris Joined in
the promenade in the Champs Elysees,
Paris. They were captured by the po-
lice after a chase.
The reduction works at Canso, n. s..
handled 1900 tons OF dogish last year
and produced therefrom 1900 gallons
Of fish oil, besides 200 tons Of fish
scrap, which makes a good fertilizer.
In order best to influence the British
government. a meeting of HindoOs Op-
posed to the partition of Bengal de-
cided the other day to observe the an
niversary Of partition day" by fast
Ing, praying and bathing in the
GRnges."
The activity in shipbuilding in Eng
land is now greatly reducing the num-
Der OF unemployed in the shipbuilding
Industries. A year ago there were
above IL per cent unemployed. Now.
by board of trade report, it is shown
that the unemployed are brought down
to about per cent.
The Preston England free library
committee has decided to distribute
hundreds of pictures among the ele-
mentary schools of the town. with the
object Of teaching them history. The
pictures deal with the poetry. legends
and history OF the country and the
great events of the world.
A group of several engineers and
capitalists, headed by William o. Web
er Of Boston, believe they have revO-
lutionized the Industrial system by a
new device utilizing the power Of the
tides so as to manufacture compressed
air. 4 plant is about TO be erected at
South ThOmastOn, Me-, TO demonstrate
the value of this invention.
The spotlessly pure marbles Of the
island of Paros. Greece, are mined by
an English company. Many of the
celebrated statues left 10y the ancient
world were sculptured from the mar
bles of the Parian mines. The green
marbles of TinOs and the red of Mani
are likewise controlled by foreign cap
ital
An ingenious inventor has Just pat
ented n folding bed that can be carried
on motor car. The bed opens treIlis
fashion and when shut holds n mat
tress and pneumatic pillows. When
open it can be used also as n table.
and when shut it can be made to serve
as front seat for a motor car.
Ireland obtains credit for being the
first country to register a national
trademark. The design reproduces an
antique Irish ornament with the words
''Dlanta Eirinn," meaning made in
Ireland" It is applicable TO anything
produced or manufactured in the coun-
try.
Memorials to animals are fairly CON-
mon, but there is one in England exist
ing inside a church. This is the effigy
of a COW displayed in Durham cathe-
dral. Tradition asserts that it was
placed there In order to keep In re-
membrance the facts relating to the
burial within the sacred ediflce Of the
remains Of st. Cuthbert.
The smallest newspaper printed In
Maine is the North Wayne Star, pub
lished twice a month for the past two
or three years by two young boys call
ing themselves the Pine Tree Printing
company. The pages are only "A by 8
inches, but there are twelve OF them,
and they are always filed with inter-
esting local news, articles Of general in
terest and a few advertisements.
Ii VI NhC AOAC-
sight and wisdom and the indomitable
courage which led William H Seward,
then secretary Of state, to induce an
unwilling congress to purchase Alaska
for his country the citizens Of Seattle
will erect a monument to commemo-
rate the act which has endeared the
grand old statesman to the people Of
the northwest. 1t Is planned to COM
plete the monument In time for the
Alaska-Yukon-Paciflc exposition, which
is to be held In the summer Of 1909.
One Of the striking vicissitudes OF
life has been revealed by the death Of
an old cabman at st. Germain-en-
Laye, France. 1t transplres that the
unfortunate old fellow was entitled to
style himself the Marquis de Loz de
Gouet- Gouraud. 1t is an old Spanish
peerage, and In his earlier days the
last unfortunate holder Of the title had
lived in circumstances BETTING his
rank. But the latter part Of his life
was clouded by constant misfortune,
and at last, two years ago, poverty