The broad ax., 1907-02-02
FACTS IN FEW LINES

taste good you should live on dog meat
awhile.
Since last year the coal companies OF
India have advanced prices nearly 1OO
per cent.
Fifty years ago -four was SO bar
rel, pork $50 a barrel and butter 80
cents pound in Minnesota.
The Russian navy has ffty-three ad-
mirals, vice admirals and rear admi-
rails and only eight battleShips.
The Who's Who for 1907 is such a
bulky volume that the London World
says the question now does not seem
so much who's who as who isn't
Some scientists believe that North
America was in contact during prehis-
toric ages with Africa and with Eu-
rope, the former connection coming
first
No live creatures except bees will be
carried by post between Great Britain
and Nicaragua, according to a parcels
post agreement just concluded between
the two countries.
There Is in India a large element o!
wealth which is wholly inactive. The
boarded wealth In the form Of Orna-
ments, jewelry and buried treasure
has been estimated at many millions.
1t Is largely held by princes, rajahs
and other mobiles.
1t has been stated that the average
earnings ~ the lahnrrr IN India is -
ruaees or about 80 year. but Il table
In the Indian directory of 1855 rnahI,.,
on" To figure out the average earning
for the cody laborcr TO be :jG rupees. o..
about SlS.GG II year.
During the early fall. when the ne
groes of the south are shocking corn.
they build the shocks over several
large, ripe watcrmelons. then leave
them until Christmas. The shocks pro-
tect the melons from freezing and also
keep them cold enough to be fresh.
Japanese articles are stated 10y Rus
sian editor To fail to make much head
way in the Manchuria markets. being
for the most part articles of luxury.
such as silk textiles. cabinets and toilet
accessories. which are beyond the
means of the masses Of the people.
Probably the smallest inhabited house
In the country is at Llandyssul. South
Wales. Built by the owner, bachelor.
who occupies il, it has a frontage Of
five and Il half feet. is six feet from
front To back. six feet from the ground
to caves and about four feet more TO
the ridge
Near one entrance of the Cathedral OF
Seville hangs a patched and painted
crocodile, which once served as q
princcly love token that failed of its
mission. In 1860 IL was sent by the
sultan of Egypt to a beautiful prin-
cess ~ Spain. who declined a sutton
whose first present could scarcely be
said TO speak of affection.
The fact that America. through its
missions. puys as much money into In:
dia as England does and draws out
nothing. whereas England draws out
S1O0,OOO.OO0 a year. was cited by Mr.
W. j. Bryan as evidence that the Unit
ed States was the most altruistic ma
ton In the world. when this statement
was challenged by group Of Anglo
Indian officials in India.
The rapid reconstruction OF a trestle
was recently carried on at Galveston,
Tex. Fire destroyed 400 feet Of the !
long railroad treStle which extended ]
from the mainland to the city and I
stopped traffic. The construction fOrcea |
and materials were Immediately start I
ed TO the work, and by midnight Of the !
same day the trestle was sufficiently |
to allow traffic to be resumed. |
Some OF the most noted Partisan art
lists have cOntrived to transform Ed |
mOnd ROStand's country home. Arraga, /
In the south OF France, into n fairy !
land. The walls Of his magnificent ,
apartments. whose windows look out |
over the crests OF the Pyrenees, are 1
covered with the very delightful tales /
which Hans Christian Andersen and |
the Grimm brothers have immortallzed.
Germany and Japan have made good
use Of the idea, first suggested in the
United States, Of equipping ships with
products for sale abroad and sending
the vessels to the ports where trade
might be developed. In that way. &C
cording to a report transmitted by
Consul General Michael, Japan got her
first order from the Argentine Repub-
lie. with which she now has consider
able trade.
While preaching in Pueblo, Colo.
lew years ago Rev. Edward ]. Wilcox
'ound himself in the embarrassing pO-
'ition OF being unable to pay his debts.
Knowing that IL he stuck to the pulpit
he would have small chance Of getting
wen with the world, he quit preaching
Ind went into the mining business.
Today he owns mines In Colorado
worth 100000. besides a great deal
If other valuable property.
1t has Just been discovered that
Iashavant G. Pandlt, a very wealthy
Ugh caste Hindoo and a protege Of
he gaekwar Of Baroda, is working as
aommon lahorer I'm an acid factory !