The broad ax. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1895-19??, 1907-04-13
FACTS IN FEW LINES

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The alphabets OF the various Ian
guages of the world vary from l. TO
2O2 letters.
The Jews were banished from Eng
land in 100 and not recalled until the
time Of Oliver Cromwell.
Iceland ponies are fad in England.
They are in great demand among the
British who can afford to Indulge their
whims.
1t is doubtful whether the friSate
bird or the Alpine swift can fly faster.
Both are credited with a possible speei
of over 100 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 go TO waste rep
resent 1T least 100000 horsepower
yearly.
A StocEbridge (MassJ man buys
each day Il 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. y. Withcreil of ESSEX Junction,
VT, has newspaper that has been
preserved In his family for over hun
dred years. II Is the Ulster County ia
zette. published in Kingston. y. l.,
Jan. 4. 1900.
Two-thirds of all the sulphite digest
ors used I'm the United States are built
by a Portland Mel company. From
eighty TO n hundred orders day Is
the usual record found on the COM
pany's books.
IN sending his yearly subscription TO
one of the Winnipeg newspapers
! Manitoba far1er wrote: Dear Sir-f
Won see any women that want 10 get
married send them this way. l want n
wife myself and a good many more
Twenry-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
the director yielded.
Not less than 3TO.OOOOOO pounds of
copper wire were In use on the tele-
phone lines in America last year. This
year there is expected an increase or
53,OO0OO0 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'a capital Of less than $780,
900 each. Twelve per cent have CAPT
talizations Of from 100000 TO $4,000.
while only per cent range between
$4,000 and $1.OO0.OO0.
A foreign exchange In a story from
Rome says that the chief maid OF the
Dowager Queen Margherita makes
about 5000 or $4,000 a 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 80 for exhibiting him. Though
twenty-six years old. he was only three
feet four inches high. His parents
-. ole
sons of normal stature. He was active
and lively.
Domestic servants at Wellington.
New Zealand, have formed n union
and demand that their work on Mon
days, Tuesdays. Fridays and Satur
days shall cease at 40 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 a cyclone for facilitating
navigation. BY means OF observations
with the barometer and other instru-
ments he would ascertain the direction
1 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
Washington 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 Oc-
CURED in the past, periods Of elevation
and subsistence gradually succeeding
| one another. The average elevation
above sea level is so slight that nat
ural 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
| ago. 1t was the first tile of that style
made in the United States. The ex-
| narimanf vUaS SuccaSsfuI md IN 1877