The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1885-10-18
THE WORLD IN BRIEF.
Lady Tennyson IS in bad. health.


Arizona has a newspaper called The
HoULer.
The Pope's personal expenses are only
81 day.
Potato rot in the East prevails and
spuds are spuds.
Liquid cheese, looking like maple
syrup, is the latest invention.
The refugee Presidents of Peru are
pillng into New York in platoons.
The failure of the American tourist
crop mas bankrupted Switzerland.
Floridi is proud of lemon raised at
PanasUtfke that weighs four pounds.
Chicago lawyers are raising money to
raise monument to Emery Storrs.
The cholera hospital nurses in Spain
are all Sisters of st. Vincent de Paul.
Register, but don't be hog" is IL
advice to voters given by the Ohio Press.
Pneumonia has increased in Massa
chusetts since 1857 faster than the pop
ulation.
The Irish National League in Killar-
ney boycotts all stores selling English
goods.
Flockmasters in Tennessee are given
up the sheep business for lack of dog
law.
Walnut fire-wood is selling in Kansas
for S. a cord Timber owners learn
nothing.
tits said that consumption is more
prevalent amongst the Irish than any
other race.
The young ladies of Portland, Me-.
are getting vaccinated on the left leg, and
that's why they limp.
A woman instinctively shades her
eyes by turning her hand palm up, so
the back will not sunburn.
King Humbert is again visiting his
cholera-stricken people 10 the shame of
cowardly little ALT, of Spain.
Cuffs are manufactured in the New
Jersey State Prison. The cons. take to
the work, already having had their
hands in.
General Miles, in his report to the
War Department, speaks of New Mexico
as "a block in the pathway of civillza-
ton.
The oldest drugstore in Berlin has
been running on pills and powders for !
400 wears. and was lately sold for three !
million dollars.
The Captain of the English cricketers, /
now IN this country, is a clergyman,
and preached in Philadelphia last Sun
day on Strength"
The Boston Globe says there are hun
dreds of men and hundreds of women |
in New England who wish to get mar
ried. Who Is holding them back2
The Empress Eugene intends to re-
move next month the coffin of her nus I
band ard son from ChiselhurSt to Il
which she has erected at
FarnsbOrough.
The United States has only thirtv-nine
ships in its navy, but it has 100 doctors.
100 Paymasters and 2i2 engineers.
There are also seven Rear Admirals and
forty.five Captains.
A Belgian has invented an armed cot
fin which waits until the grave is filled
and the crowd gone when It pulls a dag
ger and plungeS it into the heart of the
corpse. This sepulchral assassination is
to prevent burial aliYs.
A London woman earns a living by
filling up wormholes in old books. each
leaf being separately and patiently
dealt with, the material being chewed or
"pulped" and pressed into the hole.
The charge is sixpence hole.
The obelisk in Central Park. at New
York. is being painted with melted
paraffine, to protect it from the action
of the weather. The London authori-
ties gave their Obelisk coat of hydro
carbon, wax and corrosive sublimate.
According to Thompson, the African
traveller, the greatest compliment You
can pay q member of the Nasal tribe Is |
to spit on him, or her, as the case may
be. Clearly 4 politicians chances of
success in that country would depend
not SO much on the length OF his tongue
as on the working of his saliyary glands.
Her Majesty's Theatre in the Hay
market and COyent Garden are both
doomed. The former was the scene of
the triumph of Rachel and Jenny Lind.
1t is to be converted into district par
eel and post depot Covent Garden has
existed in some form since 1862, when
Charles II. granted patent to Sir Will
liam DaYenant. 1t was the scene of the
murder of Miss Reay, Of the first intro
duction of horses on the stage, OF the
performances of Mrs. SiddOnS
and Charles Kemble, and the triumphs
of AlbonI and Patti. 1t witnessed TWO
riots, and was burned down twice. The
present building was opened III 1858. |!
Neither establishment has paid for some I
years.