The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1881-07-24
FACTS AND NE VS..

the Bible.
Mushrooms will be cultivated in
tbs Mammoth Gave.
The strength Of an elephant is rec
koned at that of AZ men.
The chances OF business success
during lifetime are said to be but
8 in 100.
Kangaroo tail soup is low canned
in Australia AID exported in great
quantities.
Two gentlemen, while shooting in
Kansas, killed hundred turkeys in
one night.
Volusia county, Florida, has the
largest orange grove in the world,
000 acres.
Yale College has 108 instructors,
1,O37 students, and 126, 900 volumes
10 the libraries.
In Connecticut there are 1.647
SCHOOLS. employing 752 males and q
3Z9 female teachers.
In eighty years the Eoglish-spesk-
Ing population of the globe mas in
ca ased go per cent.
Tne meal hours at tne White
House ara breakfast q: $50, dinner
at 2 and supper st7.
A Raoeiials OF tee edition OF I'LL
brought $4,000 at racsnt sale IN
Paris, $500 volume.
Nav York nes Just put up 1850
new buildings so Tar this year, at q
cos; Of oar Sl9. 00.000
Eakilrn pig iron is within 5 per
cent AS NV 49, IN January. 1879, q
time OF proiouod desperation.
The huge hunting splders OF South
America AID Ceylon have legs which
cover a foot OF ground.
Fuel for Boston public schools
costs yearly about $4,000. and gas
and water each about 81 900.
There are q valedictorians of col
leges occupying desks in the Treasury
Department at Washington.
The average price of prime mutton
Ia Melbourne through the year is hse
cents, and OF beef six cents.
Collins strSet, the Broad way Of
Melbourne, is one third broader than
Broadway below Fourteenth street.
The church at Irwin, COL, is TO-
900 feet above tidewster-probably
tue highes: Presbyterian church in
she world.
Funerals cost about 81. 900, 900 an
nually IN Chicago, $1,000, 900 in Il
hnoia, and 500, 0O0,000 in the United
6tAtes.
The New Workers are about to erect
hotel for hogs IN that city to cost
$50, 900, and to accommodate 10, 900
Clnoinnatians.
Large as the annual product of the
precious metals now is, it is significant
that the amount is less by SIS, 000,-
600 than in 1853.
The deepest well in the world is s.
ECO feet, or more than three-fifths OF
q mile in depth, and is located at
Buda. Pesth, Hungary.
Ipe value OF the exports from this
country during the twelve months
ending with May exceeded the value
o!the imports by 1926, 773. 1866.
There ara about twenty. FIVE tons
of silver bullion in the mint at Pnila-
deiphia. The gold and silver Oh hand
is valued at $3l, 100000.
The greatest length of the United
States from east to west is $500 miles,
greatest breadth, north to south,
1 900 miles; average breadth. / 200
miles.
It is estimated that last year the
total product OF gold in the whole
world was S11S. 100000, nearly half
Of which was mined on the continent
Of America.
There are now but 100 books
printed In raised chsra cters for the
blind, and steps are being taken in
Boston to raise fund so as to print
1t least twelve books year.
It is estimated that during the is-
gal year ending June Both there will
be used $50. 600. 600 postal cards,
total for the last four years
Of almost precisely 1000, 100000.
The Royal Observatory at Green
Hich, England, last year took photo
graphs OF the sun on 149 days, and |
found that there were only eight
lays on which the disk was free fro m
3pots
Putting the statement in round fig
ares the national debI was cut down |
300 900 ,00O, and the national bank
REGULATION increased SIG. 000, 0H0 dur
The year which just ended.
Great Britain has increased iu
population to IS. 600. 900 in the last de-
oade. having a growth OF little over
100000 or nearly Is per cent This
does not compare we'll with the IN.
creasein America OF 80 per cent.
The Japanese government has es-
tablished SO, 600 schools; there are $50
and magazines published
in that country, and mechanical, ar
tistic and agricultural exposisions
have become the fashion.
The scales used for weighing gold