The broad ax. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1895-19??, 1907-08-03
FACTS IN FEW LINES

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ing the sluices too soon sunk the
French submarine boat Gymnote at
TouIon, and she was ruined.
It is estimated that the total first
cost Of England's present navy was
500 100000. and about $390.O00.000 has
been spent In the last ten years.
In 1892 there was a ten hour move
ment among the shipwrights and caIk-
ers OF New England, and several
strikes resulted. which proved success
full
Having started fits American series
with the AmerIka, the Hamburg Amer
lean steamship line continues with the
President Lincoln and next fall viii
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 800
B. c. 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
vet begun. The railway line between
Cuneo and Ventimeglia, by which 1t b
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 1t 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, Ne, 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
ters foods in the different provinces
Of the island a Havana paper states
that $4,000 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
to be due to tearing of the muscular
fiber, and It is very persistent, often
recurring 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 It 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
ed on the Palatine hill have shown a
curious and interesting circumstance.
The Metropolis has been found TO con-
tain remains Of the ninth, eighth, sixth
and fourth centuries before Christ All
fragments Of the seventh and fifth CEN
turtles are lacking, and archaeologis1
are engaged In a close study Of the
Held In order to hnd the reason
In Arbury Park, warwickshlre, Eng
land. the ancestral seat Of the Newde-
gates, a tapered pillar In gray granite
On q three stepped pedestal has been
erected to perpetuate the memory OF
George Eliot. Her birthplace Is near
BY, and her father, brother and neph-
ew served the Newdegate family In
the ,oface Of land agent. The monu-
ment IL the gift Of r. A N. Newde-
gate.
In the city Of Springfield, Mass, Is q
private art collection which Is the lar
gest and most varied owned by any one
person in the country. 1t is the proper
u Of G. W. V. Smith, who has spent
over fifty years getting it together, and
e Is ranked with the New York Metro
polItan museum and the Wallace mu-
.EUu VI LOuuOus MI O14AlA ho5 AoohCo
his collection to the city Of Springfield
to make the pictures eventually the
property Of the citizens.
Senator Palmer P. Woods Of the Is
land Of Hawaii Is going to make an
effort for the preserving Of the Ha-
waiian language. There have been
efforts In the past to preserve the Ian
guage IN its purity, but the encroach-
ment Of commercialism, the introduc-
ton Of the English language as the
OGlcial tongue and the exclusive use Of
English In the public schools have
gradually undermined all efforts to
preserve some semblance Of the beau
ffful language Of the native Hawaii
ans.
Probably not one person out Of 500
entering the south car In the elevator
shaft Of the Fifth Avenue hotel ever
stops to read the little framed notice
which hangs in one corner, says the
New York Sun. But to the observing
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