The broad ax. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1895-19??, 1908-05-23

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expect q coaslderabie reducsioa in prof.
n when fha 5000 or more coolies
there e1lpsoyed afe febAtfizted.
The volume q frelshs sent By water
/ from New York can better be realized
when one considers the fact that 1,S5o
tens are loaded On ships every hour.
Thro1gh0ut the Mexican state OF san
Iuis Potosi about 1900 mInets are
employed. Ths products are gold. lead.
mercury, zinc. einnahar. copper and
silver.
The price OF neat has become 50 ex-
oroltxnt IN Chile because OF two dry
seasons nat the government has tenn
porarily suspended the duty on cattle
from Argentina
Samuel B. Graves. q miner near Ka-
t1lla. Alaska, who has been swallow
ing gold for three years In order 70
conceal theftH. has been operated on,
and an ounce OF nuggets were found
IN IFS appendix
The Luxemburg government Is treat
ing ineorrigible vagabonds to bread
and water for the hrst four days of
their Imprisonment and to the lowest
scale Of ordinary diet twice a week
afterward- The prisons are said to be
emptying fast
A cotton min In Zurich has among
its employees lbs Italian girls. for
whom a special lodging house has been
built II q looked after by ak CathO-
lie nuns. who are paid BY the arm.
Each girl pays 90 eentimes day (l7.4
eents) for food and lodging.
The olive crushers Of Spain had
meeting the other day, at which some
claimed that without adulteratIon ex-
portation 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 a forest near Lindau.
She left a letter inelosed In a volume
Of Tolstoy explaining that she had
taken her life because she sound Il too
dull and asking to be buried as
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 h as great
as ever and that the shortage noted Is
entirely due to the class OF divers hav-
ing deteriorated.
Johnny Con. who was Rooseyelt's
guide during his Colorado hunt, Is now
living near Cody. wyo. One OF Gofrs
nelghbors, when contemplating a trip
to Washington the past winter. men
toned the fact TO Con. Say, n you
Co. said the guide generously, 'flemme
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
a ferry was In operation over the Ken
nebec river from Phippsburg 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 sill 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. 13 scouts. o. de-
stroyers. 90 torpedo boats and log sub
marines. Great Britain. France, Ger
many. japan and Russia are all urging
work on war vessels.
Ia Nature asserts that the military
population Of the German empire num-
hers G6sS53 men. IN Alsaee-L Lorraine
are quartered SLIGO; at Metz, 13.0e5;
IN the environs OF Metz. 11.s19. at
Strassburg. 15.4Oe; enTirons Of Strass-
burg. 1.133; at Colmar. 5.032; 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 a.
artists with all kinds Of paint and
hung IN their departments, and It Is
reported that Secretary OF State Root
has recently attempted to bribe a mes
sengef IN the war department to carry
b the cellar and lose the 'portrait''
painted for him when be was secretary
q war.
The request Of Emperor Francis 10
seph 10 his people % celebrats the SIX
nth anniversary OF bis reign. n they
Wfzh 70 neisbrats at al. BY 1doing GOOD
% ne peopleg has been regarded b.
d.. Hermann Fisehs. large Iandown-
& near Ctetnowifx, Who has gisen
10000 kzo6sn Tor ne erection o. a
ehfldrsnss hospital ct cEernoWitz 70
commsmorafs ne Francis Joseph jubi-
A rscosd IN Hssr shooting b surely
established b. TIE feat Of his hlehness
Nawab Eohammsd Nssrullah khan