The broad ax., 1907-06-29
FACTS IN FEW LINES

America, Japan and elsewhere.
While Australia has the reputation
OF a 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.
ly $4,000. Of which 1880 are verte-
brates or backboned-
In Greece the usual price OF olive oil
Is only about 20 cents a quart at
wholesale. When the yield is excep-
tionally large pure OF is still cheaper.
The thin paper on which the Oxford
Bible is printed Is made after a secret
process by the Oxford University
Press. The secret Is valued at $1.250..
900.
Professor Burt G. Wilder Of Cornell
Is out with a declaration that cats
ought to be licensed and that cats thai
are not worth licensing ought not to be
permitted to live.
The late Sir Walter BeSant ten years
ago estimated that there were fifty
novelists In England who earned up
ward OF 5000 a year. There are now
probably nearer 10.
Mrs. Harding, testifying in a London
court against her son, said he had been
a brute 20 her since his boyhood. ain
fact" she said. "a husband could not
have treated me worse"
A college OF foreign languages has
been opened In Canton, China, the part
OF the Chinese empire from which the
greatest number Of emigrants sail to
distant parts Of the globe.
A record IN saving laths has been
made by a crew at Smiths mills. at
Machias, Me-, when In one day Of a
little over nine hours 81 900 good latbs
and over G,O00 poor ones were sawed.
At the Norwich England rural coun-
ell Councillor Watts reported a case OF
q boatman who willed and bequeathed
his son Fred to another boatman, who
paid half crown to make the transac-
ton, as he imagined. legal.
After handling 100000 In currency
Cashier John +. 0'Brien OF the city
collectors once In Chicago fell from
bis 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,
''Sire, brave general, you were maee TO
orderr'
The adage which advises people who
live In glass houses not to throw stones
will have to be revised. The glass that
q now used In making houses is not
breakable. It looks like white marble
and Is used In the same way as that
material.
The Grosecloses brothers Of Sully
county, 8. D., have a large tract Of
land which they are cultivating entire
y without the aid Of horses or other
animals. Flowing, narrowing, seeding.
harvesting and marketing are all done
with motor machinery.
A box containing q 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 $2.65 each.
The Merchants bank In Salem. Mass.
Is q young mems bank Henry N.
Batchelder, its president, Is the young
est bank president In the city. ]. n.
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 the
Columbia al Vancouver will be a mile
and a half long, the longest steel
bridge In the world. It viii be finished
next January. Twenty thousand tons
Of steel will be used In It, not includ-
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 wages
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 that
every mechanic In France must expenj
four or Eve years Of his life without
wages.
One Of the growing methods Of
cheating In New York Il by short
change" The system has taken firm
root In many ticket onices and shops
and has notably increased when small
payments are being made through
dumb walters, IN which latter instance
the person delivering goods says too
little was sent down or that he re-
turned more than the receiver can find
and that there must have been loss
IN transit
Just outside the city limits Of Nash
"a, N. a, there have been all sorts
Of dog fights and 30 called sport OF
that kind for years. but It Is now at an
end. Mrs. Jennie Klmball, q little wo-
80 hN-e AanfHa6 that oNOOH