The broad ax. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1895-19??, 1907-07-06
FACTS IN FEW LINES

In the oudtshoorn district. Cane Colo-
ny, there are 10000 ostriches. The
annual value Of the feathers welded
by each bind is SIS.
Students OF Pennington seminarv
Pennington, N. J., found a skeleton IN
the ruins Of an ancient building. with
pot Of coins by its side.
Professor Heiberg, the Danish phIlol-
ogist has unearthed a new manuscript
OF Archimedes at the Convent Of the
Holy Sepulcher at ConstantinopIe.
The United States has more newspa-
peEs than any other country. Every
week day there are 19,6O0.OOO comics
issued, and on Sundays the number IA
11,5OoOO0 copies.
The proposed iron bridge to be erect
ed at HaulanmAn, near Canton. China.
Ii to be 1,220 feet In length and 40 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 10000 as against 23TyO53 IN 1900,
three-fourths being Greeks and the
rest MosleIhs.
In Tasmania no person under thir-
teen years Of age Is allowed TO smoke
In 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 500
relics Captain John Ryan Of West
Newton, Mass, q 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.
Calcutta and Tibet. The masses Of
Tibet are eager to trade with 1.-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 lazun, 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
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
corps Of trained nurses. and at the
e, H. Ill
the necessary appropriation for the
organization of a nurse corps. With
5000 he feels that he can make a re-
spectacle beginning in the organization
of the proposed corps.
Italy's tragedian, Tommaso Salvini,
has got ready for himself a magnif-
cent walnut wood coffin. Salvini has
just been to Florence to assist in var
nfshing his coffin, which after his death
will be sealed inside an enormous solid
block of marble In the family mausO-
leum at the Porte Sante cemetery, in
Florence, with the simple epitaph,
''Tommaso Salvini, nineteenth century
actor"
To be worth 100000 or $4,OOO.OOO |
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, IT'S Only Around the
Corner" at the Theater Royal, Exeter.
as far back as 1878.
General Louis Botha, the Boer leader,
while recently in London learned that
a famous military chaplain. Mr.. Col
Inns, was Ill in the Millbank Military
hospital and every day sent the sick
man an exquisite bouquet. Mr.. Collins
was the chaplain who from SRion kOp
and Pieters hill reported manfUly the
great humanity and fairness Of the
Beers and their leadersin those sangui-
nary engagements Of the South African
war
The French government is providing
instruction in problems Of aerial navi-
CATION In connection with the military
establishment and the aeronautical
clubs. The most important military
post is at Chalais-Meudon between
Paris and Versailles, where La France
the first dirigible balloon ever built,
was tried by Colonel Renard twenty
three years ago. NAerOnautical work, 1t
Is said. has been carried on at this post
for more than a century, 1t being
combined arsenal and experiment Sta-
ton.
A fund is being raised at Aable-
thorpe, Lincolnshire, England, to re-
pair the belfry and bells Of the old
parish church. In. all there are nve
bells, pitched in the key Of F. No. 1
treble beIl is Undated, No. 2 bell bears
the date OF 1924, the third bell, dated
1724, Is bacly cracked. the fourth bell
Is also dated 1724, while the tenor bell,
which weighs LOO pounds, needs
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