The broad ax. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1895-19??, 1908-05-30
FAcTs IN FEw LINEs

me cahnra has Just been established
The messengers are mounted on cam
els
Jewish societies In London are aEi-
tating the problem OF restoring the
pure Hebrew Of antiquity to use as the
Jewish national language.
The mine owners in the Transvaai
expect a considerable reduction In prof
its when the 5000 or more coolies
there employed are repatriated. ii,,fi'
The volume Of freight sent by water
from New York can better be realized
when one considers the fact that 1,3JO
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. Eine. cinnabar. copper ana
silver.
The price OF meat has become 80 ex-
brilliant IN Chile because OF two dry
seasons that the government has tenn
porarily suspended the duty on cattle
from Argentina.
Samuel Z. 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 125 Italian girls, for
whom q special lodging house has been
built. 1t Is looked after by six Catho-
lie nuns, who are paid by the firm.
Each girl pays 80 eentimes a day QT.4
eents) 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 II 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 IL as great
as ever and that the shortage noted is
entirely due to the class OF divers hav-
ing deteriorated.
Johnny COZ, who was Roosevelt's
guide during his Colorado hunt, is now
living near Cody, Wyo. One OF GOGrs
neighbors, when contemplating a trip
to Washington the past winter. men
toned the fact to Goff. SAY, II you
60" said the guide generously, femme
know. I'll drop the president a line
and have him look you up"
Dr.. George G. 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, ITO Ar
rowsie 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. 13 scouts. "a de-
stroyers, 81 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-
bers G6S.S53 men. In Alsace-Lorraine
are quartered s1,1O9: at Metz, 1905;
IN the environs Of Metz. 11yS19; at
Strassburg. 15.4OS; enyirons Of Strass-
burg. LIB; at Colmar. 5.032; 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 bribe 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 regmded by
d.. Hermann Fisehe, a large landown-
er near Czemowitz. who has given
100000 kronen for the erection Of
ehildren's hospital at Czernowitz to
commemorate the Francis Joseph jubi-
lee.
A record In tiger shooting Is surely
established by the feat Of his highness
Navab Mohammed Nasrullah Khan
Bahadur, heir apparent Of Bhopal. II