The broad ax., 1907-08-17
FACTS IN FEW LINES

Il EBench SuDmdrine boat Gymnote a
Toulon, and she was ruined
II Is estimated that the total frsi
cost OF EngIand's present navy wa
S670.000O00, and about $390.0o0,00o has
been spent in the last ten years.
In 1880 there was a ten hour move
ment among the shipwrights and caIk'
ers Of New England, and several
strikes resulted. which proved success.
frl.
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 a. Davis. the archaeolo-
gist has Just brought to this country
from Egypt an alabaster statue Of
Queen Tel which dates back to 1900
B. C. 1t Is to be presented to the New
York Museum OF Art
Work upon the tunnel which Is to
sOupIe Turin with the Riviera has not
Jet begun. The railway line between
Cuneo and Ventimeglia. by which It r.
approached on the Italian side, Is, how
ever, practically completed.
Work has been begun by German
phflologists on material collected dur
ing the last nine years for q dictionary
Of the Egyptian language. The Ian
gaaRe 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 q large
Sized piece of sandpaper. Over It Is
this request: Please don't scratch
your matches here" Needless to say.
that "a where all the matches are
scratched.
Two nine-pound shot were dug up
By wOrkmen In WateTvIIle, Ne, re-
Gently. 1t is thought that they were
fired 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 $2.OoO.OO0 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
hat sos. 900 has been allotted to road
building in Pinar del Rio province.
In the Eew disease known AZ ''tennIs
allow" there IN usually local tender
hess On pressure, with acute pain on
the arm There Is seldom
INV a-aIIt-,rr Qs1,n S-ouk,l-. q. &ho-~kk
10 be due to tearing OF the muscular
iber, and 1t Is very persistent, often
even after long rest.
1t IL q 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 1t 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 PaIatine hill have shown q
'urious and interesting circumstance. |
The Metropolis has been found to con- |
ain remains OF the ninth. eighth, sixth |
nd fourth centuries before Christ. An |
fragments Of the seventh and fifth GEN.
uries are lacking, and archaeologists |
ne 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, a 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 Eewdegate family In |
be Office Of land agent The monu-
nent is the gift Of F. A n. Newde-
ate.
In the city Of Springfield, Mass, is q
rivate art collection which is the lar
est and most varied owned by any one
erson in the country. 1t is the proper
Y Of G. W. V. Smith, who has spent
yer fifty years getting ii together, and
! Is ranked with the New York Metro
olitan 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
fort for the preserving Of the Ia
rattan language. There have been
forts in the past to preserve the Ian
mage n fits purity. but the encroach-
aent Of commercialism, the introduc-
lon Of the English language as the
mcial tongue and the exclusive use of
.ngiIsh In the public schools have
raduelly undermined all efforts to
reserve some semblance Of the beau
ful language Of the native Hawaii
rs.
Probably not one person out Of 800
ntering the south car In the elevator
1aft Of the Fifth Avenue hotel ever
tops to read the little framed notice
-hich hangs IN one corner, says the
iew York Sun But to the observing
~ this little notice tells a story: an 1
IFS very space fOrty-elght years ago
n placed the FIRST passenger elevator |,
- fTlfIf On fha vvorld - In 10rQ vwhan