The broad ax. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1895-19??, 1908-05-09
FACTS IN Few LINES

Thew " NUinaIth pna0n IN Hoe
mania that'has oalt wohsen oiiclals,
A new monthly pseihl service aenaas
the Sahara has Just btdi psiabllsl,sd.
The messengers an indlnled 0a cam.
als. al
Jewish societies In LShdon sFV Asi.
tatlnE The problem OF rpsiociaE The
pure ilebFrw of Antiquity 10 uss m the
1ewifh national language
The mine owners IN be TansSial
expect considerable rejection In prof.
U In when the 5000 q more coolies
s.sers employed are repalfiated.
The volume Of freight cent by water
from New FORK can better be realized
when one conaidep the fact that 1850
tons are loaded on ships every hour.
Throughout the Mexican state Of San
Luis rotosi about ta.0OO miners are
employed. The products ARE gold. lead.
mercury. zinc. clunabar. copper and
silver.
The price OF meat has become 40 ex.
brilliant In Chile because OF, two dry
seasons that the government has tenn
porarily suspended the duty on. cattle
from Argentina.
Samuel +. Graves. a miner near IA
talla, Alaska. who has been swallow
Ing gold for three years In order 10
conceal thefts, has been operated on.
and an ounce OF nuggets were found
In his appendix.
The Luxembourg government is treat
Ing lncorrigible vagabOndJ TO bread
ana water for the first four days OF
their Imprisonment and TO the lowest
scale Of ordinary diet twice week
afterward. The prisons are said tOIbe
emptyinG fast.
A cotton Rill in Zurich has among
Its employees f2j- 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 firm.
/ Each girl pays 30 confines a day uT.I
cents for food and lodging.
The olive crushers OF Spain had
meeting the other day. at which some
claimed that without adulteration ex-
1IpOrtation would lie impossible. while
Others insisted th2t only their absolute
tpurity would lnSire the sale Of Spanish
olisa6 ils In foreign markets.
4 BussIsd giri. aged twenty. shot
hepseh dead IN forest near Lindau.
She left a>1etteP>1nclosed in a volume
If Tolstoy explaining that she had
taken her life because Ehe :Ound Il too
dull end asking TO be buried as Il
pauper. as she did not wish 20 reveal
| her Identity
! The native pearlers oppose the as
sumption that the pearl fisheries Of
Burma are becoming exhausted and
need n long rest. They claim that the
J prOductiveness OF the hanks Is as great
as ever aud that tie shortage noted Is
entirely due TO the class OF divers hav-
ing deterIorated.
Johnny Coz. who was RoOsevelt's
guide during his Colorado hunt. IL now
living near Cody. WyO. One OF Cons
nelghbors. when contemplating a trip
to Washington the past winter. men
toned the fact 20 Goa. Say, II you
CO." said the guide generously, femme
know. III drop the president a line
and have him look you up"
DIR. George c. Nichols of PhIppsburG
Me-. owns one OF the oldest signbOards
In the country. Eighty years ago. when
ferry was in operation over the Ken
nebec river from Phippsburg TO
Georgetown. this sign was located on
the main highway aud read. TO Ar
rowsic and Georgetown over Lees fer
~"
At present all the world Is building
warshIps In the shipyards OF Europe
and Asia. public and private. there are
now under construction IL battleships.
81 armOred cruisers. u scouts. 81 de
stroyers. e. torpedo boats and log sub
marines. Great Britain. France. Ger
many. Japan and Russia are all urging
work on war vessels.
La Nature asserts that the military
population OF the German empire num-
ters G6SS53 men. In Alsace-LOrraine
are quartered SLIGO; at Metz, 1905:
in the envlrons OF Metz. 11.S19; at
| Strassburg. 15.40S; envlrOns of StrasS-
burg. LIB: at COlmar. 5O32; 81 Null
house. $3.50. The other garrisons on
the frontier are much less important
Portraits OF cabinet ministers are
painted ut Washington by all sorts Of
artists with all kinds OF paint and
hung In their departments, and IL Is
reported that Secretary Of State Root
has recently attempted to bride a mes
senger in the war department TO carry
to the cellar and lose the portrait"
painted for him when he was secretary
Of war.
The request Of Emperor Francis 10
seph to his people to celebrate the six
tieth anniversary OF his reign, II they
wish to celebrate at all. by doing good
to the people" has been regarded by
DR.. Hermann Fische.. large landown-
er near CzernowitZ. who has given
10000 kronen for the erection Of
chlldren's hospital at CZernowltz to
commemorate the Francis Joseph jubi-
lee