The broad ax. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1895-19??, 1908-05-16
FACTS In FEW LINES

The messengsfs are moanteo % comc
els.
Jewish soeietisS IN London are agi-
tating the problem Of restoring the
pure Hebrew OF antiquity to use as the
JewiEh national language.
The mine ownsrs n TIE TsansvAAl
expect q considerable reduction In prof
its when the 5000 Or more coolies
there employed are repatriated.
The volume Of freight sent by water
from New YcFk can better Be realized
when one considers the fact that l,S50
tons are loaded on ships every hour.
Throughout the Mexican state % san
Luis PotOsl about 1900 miners aFs
employed The products are gold. lead.
mercury. zinc. cinnabar. copper and
silver.
The price Of meat has become 20 sx-
Orbitant In Chile because Of two dry
seasons that the government hhs tsm-
poraTily Suspended the duty on cattle
from ArEsatina.
samuel 2. Graves. q miner near Ks
talla, Alaska. who has been swallow
Ing gold for three years In order 60
conceal theftH. has been operated on.
and an ounce 81 nuggets were found
In his appendix.
The Luxembourg government In treat.
Ing lncorriglblc yHgabondH to bread
and water for the first four days 81
their Imprisonment mud TO the lowest
scale ~ ordinary diet twice week
aftcrward. The PRISONS are said TO De
0mptying fast.
A cotton mill la Zurich has among
It's employees 10 italian girls. for
whom n special lodging house has been
| built II Is looked after by six Caiho-
lie nuns. who are pail by the firm.
! Each girl pays 30 Crntimcs n day u74
cent? for food nnd lodging.
The Give crushrrs Of Spain had q
meeting the other day. nt which some
| claimed that without adulteratiun ex-
pOrtntion would H. impossible. while
others Insisted that only their absolute
purity would insure the sale Og Spanish
olive oils in foreign markets.
A Russ'.u girl. aged twenty. shot
herself deaG In a forest near I.Indau.
She left a letter inCluScd In volume
Of Tolstoy explaining that she h=d
| taken her life 'sccHuSe sbc cJund II too
/ dull end asking 10 Ice buried aS 4
| paupcr. as she did not wish to reveal
her identity.
The native peIrlerS 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 tie shortage noted is
entirely due to the class OF divers hav-
ing deteriorated.
Johnny COT. who was Roosevelt's
guide during his Colorado hunt. is now
living near Cody. Wyo. One OF COTS
neighbors. when contemplating n trip
to Washington the past winter, men
toned the fact to Con. Say, II you
60" said the guide generously, "lemme
know. I'll drop the president a line
and have him look you up"
DR.. George e. Nichols Of Phippsburg.
Me-. owns one Of the oldest signbOards
In the country. Eighty years ago. when
a ferry was In operation over the Ken.
nebec river from PhIppsburg TO
Georgetown. this sign was located on
the main highway and read. ITO Ar
rowsic and Georgetown over Lees fer
~"
At present all the world Il building
warships. In the shipyards Of Europe
and Asia. public and private. there are
now under construction IL battleships.
q armored cruisers. Is scouts. o. de
stroyers. c. torpedo boats and log sub
marines. Great Britain. France. Ger
many. Japan and Russia are all urging
work on war vessels.
La Nature INSERTS that the military
population Of the German empire num-
bers 66SS53 men. In Alsace-Lorraine
are quartered SLIGO; at Metz. 1905;
In the environs OF Metz. 11.Sl9: at
Strassburg. I5.4OS: environs OF StrasS-
burg. LIB: at Colmar. 5.O32; at Null
house. 3.SJO. 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 II j.
reported that Secretary Of State Root
has recently attempted TO brfbe a mes
senger In the war department 70 carry
70 the cellar and lose the -portrnit
painted for him when he was secretary
Of war.
The request Of Emperor Francis Jo-
seph 20 bis people 10 celebrate the SIX
tisth anniversary OF bis reign. u they
wish to.eeIebrats AZ all. by ''dolng good
TO the people" has been regarded By
DF. Hermann Fiscbe. a large landown'
er near CEeFDowItz, who has given
6O0O00 kronen for the erection OF q
ehildren'G hospital at .CsernowitE to
eommsmorate fhe Francis Joseph Jubl-
les.
A record IN tiger shooting n surely
established By the feat OF his hlgbness
NaWnb Mohammed Nasrullah Khan
Bahadur, beir apparent Of Bbopal. il
II = a. . II - al