The broad ax., 1908-12-26
FACTS IN FEW LINES

Nue btiusn salmon Il said to be
worth $3.50 a ton.
Denmark has population Of 25eS.-
600. OF these 10000 are In Copenha-
gen and It's suburbs.
There isa great shortage Of officers
In the Russian army. In the Infantry
alone It amounts to 5000.
During each month for the last two
years about 1900 Russian Immigrants
have entered the port Of New York.
Britain, Canada, Australia and New
Zealand had to pay a deficiency OF
$S11.S10 on last years working OF the
Pacific cable.
An air gun Of large size, working on
the principle Of the pneumatic ham,
mer, has been devised for killing ami
mails In q humane manner.
On her preliminary trials the British
destroyer Swift maintained for sew
eral hours a speed Of 1913 knots, or
nearly forty-hve miles an hour. She
Is the fastest vessel ever built.
Seven hundred Of the persons who
died In Ireland last year were stated
to be ninety-flve years Of age or up
ward. and no fewer than las were re-
ported to be centenarians or upward.
The British built but German owned
ship Columbia, dismasted by a hurri-
cane on Cape Flattery, has been pur-
chased by Americans and converted
into the first six masted barkentine IN
the world.
Lassa, the mysterious capital OF
Tibet, Is beginning to show longings
for the amenities OF western civiliza-
don 1t has just placed a contract
with q Calcutta firm to supply large
number Of European band instru-
ments.
Nine. Poppova Is a Russian woman
who has invented an airship and has
called it the Annotated Dragon, which
gives one an idea Of its shape. There
Is a system OF hoops that serves TO
steer It, and the ship Is said to adapt
itself to every sort Of wind very read
ny.
A Pittsheld QAass.) business house
has adopted the policy Of having a
young woman bin collector. The girl
Is meeting with more success than
three men, 1t Is said Her favorite
form Of salutation Is to smile prettily
and ask, Don't you want to pay your
bill todayT The answer Is nearly al
ways yes.
A few years ago the currency Of
Austria was changed from guldens
and kreutZers to crowns and hellers.
To deceive customers figures are still
sometimes placed in shop windows In
such a way that forms are mistaken
for crowns and bills made accordingly.
By a recent ordinance this has been
made a punishable act.
There has died In the workhouse at
Dorchester, England, a woman named
Harriet Hammett, a native OF Toll
puddle, who was admitted to the
Workhouse in 1874 As her age at
death was sixty-nine, she must have
donned workhouse garb when i've
years old. The only home she ever
remembered was ''the house"
The beneficial effect Of storage on
the sanitary quality OF water now
seems to be well established, and a
further contribution to the data on the
subject has Just been made by one Of
the experts OF the London water board.
He has shown that typhoid baciIn put
In river water gradually disappear as
the water remains longer In storage.
Sweden has three factories building
limitations Of American mowers and
reapers. The largest Of these built
1000 to 1000 machines for the season
Of 1908, copying almost exclusively one
OF the best selling American mowers.
Their reaper is an exact copy OF the
American original, Swedish made
parts fitting American built machines.
The new Turkish minister Of educa-
ton says: I'VE have compulsory edu-
cation at present, but we lack primary
We shah establish them. We
shall develop the existing higher edu-
cation. The study Of history WIN now
be allowed We want a regime Of
ADcAAg VI Tic PAcoos GNNA VIII al luc
evils It means. for it Is a necessary
eTiI."
There has been opened In Mannheim,
Germany, q tuberculosis museum, the
object Of which Il to educate the pub
lie as to the causes, cure and proven
tion OF consumption. The museum Il
opened three times a week for q period
Of two hours. and during that time
physicians are present who instruct
visitors In the manner Of fighting the
disease.
While the clock industry Of the Black
forest has held its place IN the mar
kets Of Europe and America foE over
two centuries, the Introduction OF mod
em methods has given II % great an
impulse that within six years France
has more than doubled her import Of
Black forest clocks, the Argentine Re
pubic has tripled her imports, ana the
United States has more than quadru-
pied hers.
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