The broad ax., 1908-06-06
FAcTs ~ EEw lines

There IS a woman's prison In Rou-
mania that has only women officials.
A new monthly postal service across
the Sahara has just been established.
The messengers are mounted on cam
els.
Jewish societies in London are agi-
tating the problem OF restoring the
pure Hebrew Of antiquity to use as the
Jewish national language.
The mine owners in the Transyaai
expect a considerable reduction In prof
its when the $4,000 or more coolies
there employed are repatriated.
The volume Of freight sent by water
from New York can better be realized
when one considers the fact that 1850
tons are loaded on ships every hour.
Throughout the Mexican state Of San
Luis POtosi about 1900 miners are
employed The products are gold. lead,
mercury, zinc. einnabar, copper and
silver.
The price OF meat has become so ex-
brilliant In Chile because Of two dry
seasons that the government has tenn
porarily suspended the duty on cattle
from Argentina.
Samuel E 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 Luxembourg government is treat
ing incorrigible vagabonds to bread
and water for the first 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 mill in Zurich has among
fits employees lbs 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 90 centimes a day Q7.4
cents 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
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 inclosed in a volume
OF TolstOy explaining that she had
taken her life because she SOund 1t too
dull and asking TO be buried as a
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 long rest They claim that the
| productiveness Of the banks is as great
as ever and that the shortage noted is
entirely due to the class Of divers hav-
ing deteriorated.
Johnny Coz. who was ROosevelts
guide during his Colorado hunt, is now
living near Cody, Wyo. One Of Cons
neighbors, when contemplating a trip
to Washington the past winter. men
toned the fact TO Con. Say, II you
CO." said the guide generously, "lemme
know. I'll 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
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 Al battleships
p armOred cruisers. Is scouts, % de
stroyers. G. 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-
bers G6SS53 men. In Alsace-Lorraine
are quartered SLIGO: at Metz. 1905,
In the environs OF Metz. 11.S19; al
Strassburg. 15.4OS; environs Of Strass-
burg. 1.133: at Colmsr. 5.OS2; at Null
house. $3.50. 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 it 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 Jo-
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 iandown-
er near Czernowitz. who has given
100000 ronen for the erection OF a
children's hospital at Czernowitz to
commemorate the Francis Joseph jubi-