The broad ax., 1907-07-20
FACTS IN FEW LINES

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Twenty-seven thousand vessels enter
the port Of London In the course Of 4
year.
| The smoking Of dried colts foot
] leaves antedated the introduction Of
| tobacco In England
Probably the oldest dog In the state
OF Maine is Jack, owned by c. E. Free
man Of Norway. Mr.. Freeman claims
that the dog Is thirty-two years old.
There were 35,91S emigrants from
Ireland to England last year, an in
crease Of AGA over the previous year,
this being the first time in five years
that an increase has been recorded.
Cocoa importations into the United
States are now averaging more than
81, OOO, 900 a month against $3.50 1000 per
month a decade ago. Meantime i'm
portations OF both tea and coffee show
q decline.
In his Queens of Spain" Major
Hume says that Isabella l. authorized
the burning of 700 persons in Seville
alone and condemned 5000 more TO life
Imprisonment and the confscation OF
their property.
Mayor Fitzgerald observed Arbor day
by planting an elm tree on Boston Com
mon. The tree is an offspring Of the
Washington elm at Cambridge, which
was presented to the city by Jackson
Dawson OF the Arnold arboretum.
William Blount OF Bayonne, n. j., Is
only fourteen years old, but has run
away from home 100 times. He has
been publicly spanked in court and
threatened with hanging, but these
methods OF correction have no effect.
DR.. Paul Prayer, an army surgeon
Of Vienna, suggests that mOlds Of the
mouths OF prisoners would be much
better than finger prints for Identified
ton purposes, as the palate remains
absolutely unchanged throughout life.
A complete set Of the signatures OF
the signers Of the Declaration of indie
pendence recently sold in New York for
$2,S50. A Portsmouth On. H. man has
q nearly complete set and which in
cludes that Of Button Gwlnnett, which
Is very rare.
Northeast Australia develops very
slowly. Fanmers grow maize in the
old fashioned way. The maize crop in
Queensland this year Is a record one.
Canning pineapples is becoming an i'm
portant industry In Queensland Opal
mining is growing steadily.
The lack Of raIlvoad transportation
has been the main Cause OF keeping the
state Of SInaloa from taking her posi-
ton as one Of the leading and largest
states Of Mexico, 1t having $1,000
square miles of splendid farming land
and thousands Of rich undeveloped
mines.
A little bit Of land, not too far from
the city, IL intellIgently cultivated, de-
clares Bolton Eall, author OF Three
Acres and ,-rty," will support a
family and re them a life far more
wholesome IA they could ever have
n the crow~-d cit- Intensive cult
Walton Is the passv[1 now.
Charles Doolittle (slcott, the new
head OF the Smithsonian institution For
Scientific Research, was state geologist
of New York and In 1888 attended the
international geological congress in
London, where he won much praise for
his addresses. Since 1902 he had been
secretary Of the Carnegie institute
He lives In Washington.
The home OF the poet Keats in the
Piazza di Spagnl. Rome, which Is to
be preserved as a memorial to Keats
and Shelley, will be overhauled, and
the floor on which Keats lived viii be
made into a memorial museum. A
fund for the purchase Of furniture has
been started by Nelson Gay Of Boston,
secretary Of the local committee.
Baron d'Estournelles de Constant,
one Of the prominent figures at the
peace congress In New York, Is a men,
Der Of the French senate, an officer Of
the Legion Of Honor, author, lecturer
and champion Of international arbitra-
don. He came to this country as head
Of the French section at the congress,
and his motto Ii, my country's good
through the peace Of the world"
A New York woman who has en-
ployed several japanese male serv-
ants declares that she viii have no
more Of them 81 do not care" she
says, ito have q butler or waiter who,
however humble he may appear. car
ries with him the air Of knowing more
about everything than do. A Japa-
nese servant will do az he is told, but
bis manner Of doing It suggests that
be knows a better way."
According to q shelbyVille CORE
spondent, Combs p. Parrish Of that
city claims the stump removing cham
pionship Of Indiana Parrish has been
In the business Of stump blowing for
twenty-eight years. A few months
ago on the Adams farm, near Shelby.
vile, he removed 1900 stumps. his
record for fast work was In March,
when In i've days, with the assistance
Of several men, he blew 2,s75 stumps
from the ground.
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