The broad ax. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1895-19??, 1908-06-20
FACTS IN PEW LINES

Il $50 - ~ - NNAAAI4 llAlL-A.I..
A new monthly postal service acres
TIE sahara has Just been established
me neassnesFs ne nOqnfed % an
Jewish FOcietiss N London are axi.
t1ing TIE DrO6lea q restoring the
pure Hebrew Of antiquity to use ss the
gewiEh national language.
The mine owners n the Transvaal
expect q considerable reduction "a prof-
III when tie 5000 o. more coolies
there employed are repatriated.
The volume q Freight sent By water
from New York can better be realized
when one consider the fact thEf I..s50
tons are loaded on ships ever hour.
Throughout the Mexican state OF San
Luis Potosi about 1sOoO miners are
employed The products are gold, lead,
mercury. ZINC. einnabar, copper and
silver. " 81 ~
The pride Of meat has become 90 ex-
trbi1nt n Chile because OF two dry
seasons that the government has tenn
porarily suspended the duty on cattle
run ArkenClna.
Samuel T. Graves. a miner near Ka.
talla, 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 Luxemburg government Is treat
ing incorrigible YaRabonds to bread
and water for the frst four days Of
their Imprisonment and to the lowest
scale Of ordinary diet twice 8 week
aftervard- The prisons are said to Be-
empVing fast
A cotton mill In Zurich has among
its employees 125 Italian girls, for
whom q special lodging house has been
built 1t IL looked after by six CathO-
&c nuns, who are paid by the nrm.
Each girl pays 90 centimes a day OLA
eentN for food and lodging.
The olive crushers Of Spain had a
meeting the other day, at which some
claimed that without adulteration ex-
portation would be impossible, while
ofhers insisted that only their absolute
purity would insure the sale Of Spanish
olive obs in foreign markets.
A Russian girl, aged twenty, shot
herself dead In a forest near Lindau.
She LETT a letter inelosed In a volume
Of Tolstoy explaining that she had
taken heF life because she Sound It teo
dnIl and asking to be buried as q
pauper, as she did not wish to reveal
her Identity.
The native peariers oppose the as
sumption that the pearl fisheries Of
Burma are becoming exhausted and
need long rest They claim that the
productiveness Of the banks Is as great
a. ever and that the shortage noted Il
entirely dne to the class Of divers hay
ing deteriorated.
Johnny Coz, who was Rooseveit's
guide during his Colorado hunt e now
living near Cody, Wyo. One Of Gors
neighbOrs, when contemplating a TIP
70 Washington the past winter. men
toned the fact to Coz. Say, II you
80" said the guide generously, femme
know. III 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
q 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
rowsie and Georgetown over Lees fer
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At present all the world Is building
warships. In the shipyards Of Europe
and Asia. public and private. there are
now under construction Al battleshipS
p armored cruisers. 13 scouts, % de-
stroyers. 60 torpedo boats and Jog sub
marines. Great Britain, France, Ger
many. Japan and Russia are al urging
work on war vessels.
La Nature asserts that the military
population Of the German empire num-
hers 66SS5S men. In Alsace-Lorraine
are quartered S1.10o; at Metz. 1905;
IN the environs OF Metz. 11,S19; at
StrRssburg. 15.40s: environs Of Strass-
burg LIB; at COlmar. 5o32; at Null
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the frontier are much less important
Portraits Of cabinet ministers are
painted at Washington By all sorts Of
Grtists with al kinds OF paint and
hung in their departments, and II b
reported that Secretary Of State Root
has recently attempted to bribe q mes
senger IN the war department to carry
b the cellar and lose the portrait
painted for him when he was secretary
of war
TIE request OF Emperor Francis Jo-
seph b his people 10 celebrats the SIX
t1sth anniversary OF his reign. II they
Wish 70 celsbrats at al. By sdoing good
b the people" has been regarded By
Dr. Hermann Fisehe, q large landown-
e near C5ernoWitz. who has given
10000 kronen Cor the erection Of 4
ehIldrenss hospital At CsernoWia to
sonmsmorsfs thS FEaneis Joseph jubG
A record u tieer shooting Is surely
.stabllshsd b tie feat Of bis hIghness