The broad ax. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1895-19??, 1909-01-16
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Denmark has a population Of 259e,
900. OF these 100000 are In Copenha.
gen and fits suburbs.
There Is a great shortage Of officers
In the Russian army. In the infantry
alone 1t amounts TO 1900.
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
SS11,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 a humane manner.
On her preliminary trials the British
destroyer Swift maintained for sew
eral hours 4 speed OF 3S.3 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-fiYe years Of age or up
ward. and no fewer than 145 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 hrst six masted barkentine IN
the world.
Lassa, the mysterious capital OF
Tibet, Is beginning to show longings
for the amenities Of western civiliza-
ton 1t has just placed a contract
with q Calcutta firm to supply a 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
Il q system Of hoops that serves to
steer It and the ship Is said to adapt
Itself to every sort Of wind very read
Ily.
A Pittsheld Mass) business house
has adopted the policy Of having q
young woman bin collector The girl
Il meeting with more success than
three men, 1t Is said Her faEOrits
form OF salutation Is to smile prettily
and ask, Don't you want to pay your
bm todayT The answer Il 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 stIl
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 punishable act
There has died In the workhouse at
Dorchester, England, q woman named
Harriet Hammett, a native OF Toll
puddle, who was admitted to the
vorkhouse in 1874 As her age at
death was siIy-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 10 the data on the !
subject has just been made by one Of |
the experts Of the London water board. |
he has shown that typhoid baciln 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
II 1908, copying almost exclusively one
II the best selling American mowers.
Their reaper Is an exact copy OF the
American original, Swedish made
ARTS fitting American built machines.
The new Turkish minister OF educa-
ion says: "We have compulsory edu-
alton at present, but we lack primary
'chools. We shah establish them. We
hail develop the existing higher edu-
,ation- The study Of history win now
,e allowed We want a regime Of
liberty Of the press, even with all the
wis It means. for it Is a necessary
VII"
There has been opened In Mannheim.
Germany, a tuberculosis museum, the
'bjeet Of which Is 70 educate the pub
le as to the causes, cure and proven
ion Of consumption. The museum Is
pened three tines a week for period
& two hours, and during that time
MUSICIANS are present who instruct
-isitors IN the manner Of fighting the
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