The broad ax. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1895-19??, 1908-06-13
FACTS III rev LINES

There IS a woman's prison IN Rou-
mania that has only women ofRcialA
A new monthly postal service across
the Sahara has just been estabIlshed.
THE messengers are mounted on cam
els.
Jewish societies IN London are agi-
tating the problem OF restoring the
pure Hebrew Of antiquity 10 use as the
JeEish national language.
The mine owners 10 the Transyaal
expect considerable reduction IN prof
Its whea the 5000 or more coolies
there employed are repatriated.
The volume Of freight sent By water
from New York can better be realized
when one considers the fact that $50
tons are loaded onships every hour.
Throughout the Mexican state Of San
Luis Potosi about 1900 miners are
employed The prodnets are gold, lead.
mercury. zinc, cinnabar, copper and
silver.
The price OF meat has become so ex-
brilliant In Chile because Of two dry
seasons that the government has tenn
pOrarily suspended the duty on cattle
from Argentina.
Samuel E. Graves. a miner near Ka-
taIla, Alaska, who has been swallow
Ing gold for three years In order to
conceal thefts, has been operated on,
and an ounce OF nuggets were found
IN his appendix.
The Luxembourg government Is treat
ing mcorrigible vagabonds to bread
and water for the FIRST four days OF
their Imprisonment and to the lowest
scale OF ordinary diet twice a week
afterward. The prisons are said to be
emptying fast
A cotton mill In Zurich has among
its employees 125 Italian girls. for
whom a special lodging house has been
built II Is looked after by SIX Catho-
! lie nuns, who are paid by the 6rm.
Each girl pays 90 centimes a day QT.4
eentsl for food and lodging.
The olive crushers OF Spain had a
meeting the other day, at which some
claimed that without adulteratiOn ex-
portahon would be impossible. while
others insisted that only their absolute
purity would insure the sale OF Spanish
olive oils in foreign markets.
A Russian girl, aged twenty, shot
herself dead In a forest near Lindau.
She left a letter inclOsed in a volume
OF ToIstoy explaining that she had
taken her life because she SOund II too
duh end asking to be buried as a
pauper, as she did not wish to reveal
her identity.
The native pearlers oppose the as
sumption that the pearl fisheries Of
Burma are becoming exhausted and
need a long rest. They claim that the
productiveness OF the banks Is as great
as ever and that the shortage noted is
entirely due to the class Of divers hav-
ing deteriorated.
Johnny Con, who was ROosevelt's
guide during his Colorado hunt, is now
living near Cody, Wyo. One Of Cons
neighbOrs, when contemplating a trip
to Washington the past winter. men,
toned the fact to Con. Say, II you
60" said the guide generously, femme
know. I'll drop the president a line
and have him look you up"
Dr.. George c. Nichols OF Phippsburg.
Ne, owns one OF the oldest signboards
IN the country. Eighty years ago. when
a ferry was in operation over the Ken
nebec river from Phlppsburg to
Georgetown, this sign was located on
the main highway and read. TO Ar
rowsic and Georgetown over Lees fer
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At present all the world Is building
warshlps. In the shipyards OF Europe
and Asia, public and private. there are
now under construction Al battleships.
81 armored cruisers. 13 scouts. o. de-
stroyers. g. torpedo boats and log sub
marines. Great Britain. France, Ger
many, Japan and Russia are all urging
work on war vessels.
Ia Nature asserts that the military
population OF the German empire num-
bers 66S.S53 men. In Alsace-Lorraine
are CHARTERED SLIGO; at Metz. 13O35;
IN the environs OF Metz. 11.S19; at
Strassburg, I5.4Os; environs Of Strass-
burg. LIB; at Colmar. 5.032: at Null
house 1850. The other garrisons on
the frontier are much less important
Portraits Of cabinet ministers are
painted at Washington by al sorts Of
artists with all kinds OF paint and
hung IN their departments. and It Is
reported that Secretary of State Root
has recently attempted to bribe a mes
senger In the war department to carry
% the cellar and lose the portrait
ipainted for him when he was secretary
Of war.
The request Of Emperor Francis Jo-
seph 70 his people to celebrate the SIX
tieth anniversary Of bis reign. If they
wish 10 celebrate at al. by "doing good
% the people has been regarded BY
Dr.. Hermann Fisehe. large landown-
e. near CzernoWitz. who has given
10000 lronen for the erection Of a
ehIldren's hospital at Czernowitz to
eommemorate the Francis Joseph jubi-