The broad ax., 1907-08-31
FACTS IN FEW LINES

Toulon, and she was ruined.
It Is estimated that the total first
cost Of England's present navy was
500, 100000, and about $S90O00,O00 has
been spent In the last ten years.
In 1892 there was a ten hour move
ment among the shipwrights and caIk-
ers Of New England, and several
strikes resulted, which proved success
ful.
Having started its American series
with the Amerika, the Hamburg-Amer-
lean steamship line continues with the
President Lincoln and next fall will
add the General Grant.
Theodore II. Davis, the archaeolo-
giSt, has just brought to this country
from Egypt an alabaster statue OF
Queen Tel which dates back to 1900
B. G. 1t is to be presented to the New
York Museum Of Art.
Work upon the tunnel which Is to
couple Turin with the Riviera has not
Jet begun. The railway line between
Ounce and Ventimeglia, by which It Is
approached on the Italian side, Is, how
ever, practically completed
Work has been begun by German
philologists on material collected dur
ing the last nine years for a dictionary
Of the Egyptian language. The Ian
guage goes back more than 5000 years,
and there are more than 100000 signs
used In it.
In every room In a certain Maine
hotel Is pinned on the wall a large
sized piece Of sandpaper. Over II Is
this request: please don't scratch
your matches here" Needless to say.
that is where all the matches are
scratched.
Two nine-pound shot were dug up
by workmen In WatervEle, Me-. re-
Gently. 1t is thought that they were
fred from British warships or from
the American batteries across the har-
Dor during the occupancy Of the town
by the English forces.
Out of a 100000 appropriation by
the Cuban congress for the relief Of
suffering occasioned by the last win
ters floods In the different provinces
Of the island q Havana paper states
that $4,000 has been allotted to road
building In Pinar del Rio province.
In the new disease known as tennis
allow" there Is usually local tender I
ness on pressure, with acute pain on
the arm. There Is seldom
my swelling. The trouble Is thought !
10 be due to tearing OF the muscular |
dber, and 1t Is very persistent, often !
even after long rest.
It is a woman, Miss n. E. Sullivan,
who supplies the United States navy
With its stationery, note paper, menu {,
ards and invitations. She Is a Con-
lecticut girl, but she got the training |
hat makes II possible for her to do |
his kind Of work at Pratt institute. |
Making card plates In the beginning, |
he has worked up her splendid bust
less.
Excavations in Rome being conduct
d on the Palatine hill have shown a
.urious and interesting circumstance.
The Metropolis has been found to con-
ain remains Of the ninth, eighth, sixth
md fourth centuries before Christ. All
fragments Of the seventh and fifth GEN.
uries are lacking, and archaeologists
Ire engaged In a close study Of the
Ield In order to find the reason.
In Arbury Park, WarwickshIre, Eng
and, the ancestral seat Of the Newde-
;ates, tapered pillar In gray granite
n a three stepped pedestal has been
rected to perpetuate the memory Of
George Eliot. Her birthplace Is near
y, and her father, brother and neph-
W served the Newdegate family In
be ONCE Of land agent. The monu-
nent Is the gift Of +. A. N. Newde-
ate.
In the city Of Springfield, Mass, Is q
rfvate art collection which is the lar
est and most varied owned by any one
erson In the country. 1t Is the proper
, Of G. W. Y. Smith, who has spent
yer fifty years getting II together, and
Is ranked with the New York Metro
olftan museum and the Wallace mu-
cum Of London. Mr.. Smith has loaned
Is collection to the city Of Springfield
D make the pictures eventually the
roperty Of the citizens.
Senator Palmer P. Woods Of the Is
md Of Hawaii Is going to make an
nort for the preserving Of the Ha-
Faiian language. There have been
forts In the past TO preserve the Ian
mage in its purity, but the encroach-
1ent OF commercialism, the introduc-
lon Of the English language as the
mcial tongue and the exclusive use of
Hngiish In the public schools have
radnaIly undermined all efforts to
reserve some semblance Of the beau
ful language Of the native Hawaii
n
Probably not one person out Of 500
atering the south car In the elevator
aaft of the Fifth Avenue hotel ever
tups TO read the little framed notice
'hich hangs In one corner, says the 4
iew York Sun. But to the observing ,
~ this little notice tells a story: ~In /
is very space forty-eight years ago
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