The broad ax. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1895-19??, 1908-07-11
FACTS IN FEW LINES

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In Cuba the state telegraph ofHces
have been combined with the postal
department.
Fo1r thousand graves IN South AZ
rica Of British soldiers who fen In the
late war stfl remain unmarked.
There are now nearly 100000 hogs
In Argentina Cattle, sheep, horses
and other animals are relatively as
abundant.
Over 100000 l. to be spent In Mel
bourne and Sydney In entertaining the
officers and men Of the American bat
tleship feet
The women members OF the parlia-
ment OF Finland have introduced a
bill to raise the marriageable aga Of
girls from fifteen to eighteen years.
A very cneditable exhibition OF orien-
tai paintings, both modern and ancient
examples, was held at the India Gov
eminent School OF Art In Calcutta re-
Gently.
Parts Of the Bible are now printed
IN seven Kongo languages, though It
was less than quarter century ago
that none OF these had been put into
written form.
The production Of -four In Germany,
owing TO the constantly increasing con-
sumption Of the same, has increased
within the years 1893 and 1907 from
$4,000 to 100000 tons annually.
DisraeH In his SCuriOsities Of Liter
AZURE" records an exhibition Of minute
writing by Peter Bayles, an English
man. who with a pen transcribed the
whole Bible within a space so small
that the manuscript was contained In
an eggsheIl.
In Denmark only the interproyincial,
the intercommunal and the interna-
ttonal telephones are worked by the
state, while the local telephones are
worked by private limited companies,
TO which the state has granted conces-
sions.
Two thousand dollars has been Of
fered by a FrenchmGn to the man who
can make a flying machine-not q
dirigible balloon-that VIII stay In the
air fifteen minutes. The best known
aeroplane experts In Paris are working
for the prize.
In modern steel plants electricity IL
the motive power used In driving the
various machines, such as rolls, saws,
punches, etc. The electric motor II
particularly adapted to this work,
since 1t can be made to drive the ma
chimes direct without the use Of belt
ing or shafting.
The ameer Of Afghanistan, some Of
whose subjects have been attacking
the British on the frontier Of India,
has issued a decree that any one who
breaches a war against the English
win have his tongue cut or and that
any one who leaves Kabul for the pur-
pose Of fighting the British VIII have
his feet cut OF.
A new method By which the audience
at a theater can show its approval or
disapproval Of a play without disturb
ing the performance Is being intro
duced by the Italian dramatist Ira
versi- Before leaving the theater every
person is to drop a ticket into one Of
three boxes marked "Good." "Indiffer-
emit" and bad"
The father Of the late Marquis Of
LinIithgow, the English peer, who died
at forty-seven, was one Of the shiest
Of men. 1t is said that when the late
peer was born the father was con-
Quoted by the nurse to see his son and
heir. Lady Hopetoun, the mother,
inquired afterward II he had kissed
the baby, and the nurse replied, ais
rlordship shook 'ands with Lord 'ope."
The fnroads made by the sea on the
shores OF England were the subject OF
some excited discussion. A commission
was appointed to thoroughly investi-
gate the matter. This commission has
now issued reassuring report, which
declares that, while the sea does wash
away much land, the proportion is
more than maintained by the extra
land secured by damming and filling
In.
The sum Of S417 an hour seems a
fairish wage even for those in the
first rank Of the buIlnghting profess
sion. whether the remuneration is ad-
equate In view Of the risks incurred
may be open to discussion Certain II
Is, an expert in the Madrid Epoca tells
US that buIlhghting Is such an emf
nently heaIthful occupation that its fol-
lowers, II they retire unhurt, tnTaria-
bly, reach a green old age.
Joshua Poole, known as "Fiddlel
Joss" who has died at Bradford, Eng
land, at the age Of eighty-two, in bis
early days was a notorious gamblel
ana drunkard and served several
terms Of Imprisonment. While IN
wakefield jail be came under the IN
huence Of a prison warder, whC
brought about bis reform. and on bis
release he became celebrated as 9
preacher and temperance advocate.
Il & rumOred that Princess Victoria
daughter Of the king OF England, Il en-