The broad ax. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1895-19??, 1907-04-06
FACTS IN FEW LINES

guages of the world vary from II t
-202 letters.
The Jews were banished from Eng
land In 1870 and not recalled until thu
time OF Oliver Cromwell.
Iceland ponies are a fad in England
They are In great demand among thu
British who can afford to indulge thel
whimS
II Is doubtful whether the frigatC
bird or the Alpine swift can fly faster
Both are credited with possible speed
of over 80 miles an hour.
The Blaine donkey. once the property
of James G.. Blaine, still rOams around
the outskirts of Bar Harbor. He is
said to be over forty years old.
In the coke ovens and blast furnaces
of England. Germany and the United
States the gases that 60 TO waste rep
resent at least 100000 horsepower
i yearly.
A StOckbridge Mass) man buys
each day a quart of milk and pound
Of crackers. which is his sole diet, but
in summer he includes apples and Der
| ries. He Is a bachelor.
T. n. WItherell Of Essex Junction,
Vt, has newspaper that has been
preserved in his family for over a hun
dred years. 1t Is the Ulster County Ga
zette, published in Kingston. y. Y,
Jan. 4, 1900.
TwO-thirds of all the sulphite digest
l.. h.,fl
by a Portland NIeJ company. From
eighty 10 a hundred orders day is
! the usual record found on the COM
pany's books.
In sending his yearly subscription Ia
one of the Winnipeg newspapers a
Manitoba faruer wrote: Dear Sir-If
you see any women that want to get
married send them this way want a
wife myself and a good many more"
Twenty-fOur patients in a ward of
st. ROchus hospital. Budapest, declared
they would take no food or medicine
until a certain nurse was removed.
After the strike had lasted nearly
twenty-four hours the director yielded.
Not less than 37O,OOO,OOO pounds of
copper wire were In use on the tele-
phone lines in America last year. This
year there Is expected an increase OF
53,000,000 pounds. Considerable guam
titles OF copper are used in the manu-
facture of brass for telephone instru-
mentS.
The ownership OF the national banks
Of the United States is not in the
hands Of the rich few. as is commonly
supposed, because fully One-half of the
banks have capital OF less than $780,
600 each. Twelve per cent have CAPT
tallzations of from 100000 to $4,000,
while only per cent range between
$4,000 and $1.OOO,OOO.
A foreign exchange In a story from |
Rome says that the chief maid of the |
DOwager Queen Margherita makes |
about 5000 or $4,000 year by the |
sale of her mistress CASTOR gowns. |
She holds a sale twice a year. and |
among her best customers are Ameri-
can women, who are willing to pay
high prices for these souvenirs Of a
queen.
John William HOllins, probably the
smallest adult dwarf In England. re-
Gently died at Stoke. Some years ago
he refused Barnum & Bailey's offer of
81 $50 for exhibiting him. Though
twenty-six years old. he was only three
feet four inches high. His parents
and six brothers and sisters were per-
sons OF normal stature. He was active
and lively.
Domestic servants at Wellington.
New Zealand, have formed a union
and demand that their work on Mon
days, Tuesdays. Fridays and Satur-
days shall cease at 7:3O in the evening.
on Thursdays and Sundays at In the
afternoon and on Wednesdays at 10
p. m, all dOmestics to be home by 10
O'Clock except on Thursday. when they
may stay out till midnight
A French mariner thinks advantage
may be taken of the favorable winds
at the edge Of cyclone for facilitating
navigation. By means Of observations
with the barometer and other instru-
ments he would ascertain the direction
in which the storm is going and SO
shape the course Of the ship that It
would be carried along by the sweep
Of the atmosphere without becoming
involved in the dangerous center OF
the storm.
investigations Of the scientists at
have recently developed
the fact that at present the area Of the =,
Dismal swamp is slowly sinking, and
Lake Drummond. in its center. is grow
Ing larger. Similar changes have &C.
CURED in the past, periods Of elevation
and subsistence gradually succeeding
one another. The average elevation
above sea level is so slight that nat
nral drainage Is insufficient to remove
The rainfall.
Hollow tile was first used in this
country in the Vancolears fats, New
York city. erected about thirty years
lgo. 1t was the first tile Of that style
made In the United States. The ex- 1
pertinent was successful. and In 1877
here were 100 nm tons NJ hoIlovv fila