The broad ax. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1895-19??, 1908-06-27
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A new monthly postal service acrouu
the saAaFa has Just been estahlishsd.
The meseengsu ere mosutsd q en-
els.
Jewish societies d London are an
tating tie problem q restoring the
pure Hebrew OF antiquity to use as the
SewtFh national language.
The mine ONne,s n De TssnsVaal
expect 4 considerehia rsdnctlon m prof
its when the 5000 OF more esolIss
there employed are reparIatsd.
The volume a fEeight sent By water
from New York can better be realized
when one considers the fact that 1850
tons are loaded on ships every hour,
Throughout the Mexican state Of San
Luis POtOsi about 1900 miners are
employed The products are gold, lead
mercury, E'ne, einnabar. copper and
silver.
The price OF meat has become 50 ex.
brilliant IN Chile because OF two dry
seasons that the government has tenn
pOrarily suspended the duty on cattle
from Argentina
Samuel 3. Graves, q miner near Ka-
talla, Alaska. who has been swallow
ing gold for three years in order to
conceal theftz. has been operated on,
and an ounce OF nuggets were found
in his appendix
The Luxembourg government Il treat
ing incorrigihle vagahonds 70 bFead
and water for the first four days Of
their Imprisonment and to the lowest
scale q ordinary diet twics a week
afterward. The prisons are said to BE-
emptying fast
A cotton mill In Zurich has among
It's employees LIS Italian girls, Tor
whom a special lodging house has been
built. 1t is looked after by six Catho-
&c nuns, who are paid BIZ the drm.
Each girl pays 90 confines q day 1T.4
osntl for food and lodging.
The olive erushers Of Spain had a
meeting the other day, at which some
claimed that without adulteration sx-
portati0n 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 q forest nsar Lindau.
she left q letter ineiosed In q volume
a Tolstoy explaining that she had
taken her life because she SouEd 1t too
dull and asking to be buried a. q
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 Coz, who was Roosevelt's
guide during his Colorado hunt, Is now
living near Cody, wyo. One Of Gonrs
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 q line
and have him look you up"
On. George G. Nichols Of Phippsburg.
Ne. owns one Of the eldest signboards
In the country. Eighty years ago. when
q ferry was IN operation over the Ken
nebec river from PhIppsbuFE to
Georgetown, this sign was located on
the main highway and read, '9ro Ar
rowsic and Georgetown over Lees fer
~"
At preseat all the world Is building
warships. In the shipyardS Of Europe
and Asia, public and private. there are
now under construction Il battleships.
q armOred cruisers. - scouts. o. de-
stroyers, 02 torpedo boats and 100 sub
marines. Great Britain. France, Ger
many. Japan and Russia are all urging
work on war vessels.
La Nature asserts that the military
OF the German empire num-
bers 66Ss53 men, In Alsace-Lorraine
are CHARTERED SLIGO; at Metz. 1905;
In the environs OF Metz. 11.S19; at
15.408; environs Of strass-
burg. 1.1ss; at COImar. 5,OS2; at Null
house 3.s5o. The other garrisons on
the frontier are much less important
Portraits OF cabinet ministers are
painted at washington By all sorts Of
artists with all kinds Of paint and
hung In their departments, and 1t Is
reported that Secretary OF State Root
has recently attempted to bribe q mes
Ienger IN the war department to carry
b the cellar and lose the portrait
painted for him when he was secretary
u war.
Ths request Of Emperor Francis 10
Ieph 10 his people to eelebrats the six
18th anniversary OF his reign. II they
Kish 70 celebrate at al. By ''doIng good
b the people" has been regarded BY
Dr. Hermann Fisehe. q large Rundown
= near Csen0Witz. who has given
10000 lEFonen Cor TIE erection Of
.hIidren'S hospital Ct cEernoWits to
ssmmpnorats the Francis Jossph tubi-
a record a tigeF shooting q surely
sstahlishad hy tha feat 81 he hlghness
'fawab Mohammaf Nnsruilah Khan