The broad ax. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1895-19??, 1908-11-28
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\ sen and 81 suburbs.
Thsrs 4 4 great shartass Of omees
A ne Russisn army. n TIE Infantry
elone & amounts . aooo.
During each month for the hast two
lyaas about 1900 Russian Immigrants
have entered the port Of New York.
Britain. Canada, Australia and New
1ealand bad 80 pay q deficiency OF
Ss1Ielo on last years working Of the
PAelhc cable.
An afr gun Of large size, working on
the principle o. the pneanatic ham
mer, has been devised for killing ami
mails IN q humane manner.
On her preliminary trials the British
destroyer Swift maintained for sew
srai hours q speed Of SIS knots, or
nearly forty-ays miles IN hour. She
a TIE fastest vessel ever butt.
Seven hundred Of the persons who
disd ln Ireland last year were stated
o Be nineV-1ve years of ags Or up
ward, and no fewer than rs were re-
ported 10 Be eentenarians or upward
ne British built but German owned
ship COlumbis, dismasted by q hurri-
eaae OF Cape Flattery, has been pur-
chased by Americans and converted
Into the hrst six masted barkentine in
ths world.
LAssa, the mysterious capital Of
Tibet = beginning to show longings
for the amenities Of western civiliza-
tiOn- II has inst placed q contract
VITA Calcutta firm to supply a large
number Of European band instru-
mentA
Nine. PoppOTa h q Russian woman
Eho has invented an airship and has
ca1sdlit the Annotated Dragon, which
gives one an idea Of its shape. There
q q system Of hoops that serves to
steer It and the ship IL said to adapt
itseh to every sort Of wind very read
~.
A Pittsneld QGass) business house
4 has adopted the policy OF having q
young woman bE1 collector. The girl
4 meeting with more success than
three men, It Il said. Her favorite
form Of salutation = 30 smile prettily
and ask, Don't you want to pay your
bH todAyf The answer Il nearly al
~yS yes.
A few years ago the currency Of
Anstxia vas changed from guldens
and heutzers to crowns and hellers.
10 deceive customers figures are stnl
somettmss placed In shop windows In
such q way that forms are mistaken
for crowns and bnls made accordingly.
BY q recent ordinance this has been
made q punishable act
There has died In the workhouse at
Dorchester, England, q woman named
Harriet Hammett q native Of Toll
puddle, who was Animated to the
Workhouse In 1874 As her age at
deGth was stxty-nine, she must have
donned wOrkhouse garb when i've
years old. The only home she ever
remembered vas ''the house"
The beneficial effect Of storage on
( the sanitary quality Of water now
seems 70 be well established, and q
further contribution 10 the data on the
subject has 5ast been made BY one Of
the experts Of the London water board
he has shown that typhoid bacilH put
In river water gradually disappear as
the water remains longer n storage.
Sweden has three factories building
limitations Of American mowers and
reapers. The largest Of these built
1000 to 1000 machines for the season
Of 1908 copying almost exclusively one
OF the best selling American mowers.
Thelr resper q an exact copy Of the
American original, Swedish made
parts fitting American built machines.
ne new Turkish minister Of educa-
ton says: I've have compulsory edu-
cation at present, but we lack primary
schools We shah establish them. We
shah develop the existing higher edu-
cation The study Of history VIII now
be allowed We want q regime Of
Hbsrty Of the press, even win an the
ems n means, for # h q necessary
exH."
There has been opened IN Mannheim,
Germany, q tuberculosis museum, the
object O. which II to educate the pub
lie - - tie csRsss. ems and prsEen-
Ten q eousumption. Ths museum 6
opened three tins q week for q period
q two hoara ana during that time
physicians are present. who instruct
Yisitors In the manner Of fighting the
aiseass.
While the clock industry Of the Black
forest has held itB place IN the mar
ketz Of Europe and America for over
two centuries. the introduction Of mod
en- methods has given II % great an
impn.sp that within SIX years France
has more than doubled her import Of
Black forest clocks, the Argentine Re.
pnhiIe has tripled her imports. and ne
Unitsd States has more than quadru-
nlsd hers-
Il has been found that underlying
TIE plain o. sharon, IN Palestine, at
various depths. ranging from eighteen
g eighty feet, there Il an fnexhausti-
BE supply Of good water for an pur-
po1lA FuR ares TIE Inhabitants have
utinsd this knowledge, pumping up