The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1886-04-01
FACT AND FANCY .


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Angeles, Cal.
Among the l02 zoo shareholders Of
the Panama Canal Company are 1900
women.
Monkeys. like men. have a great
enemy in consumption, and as they are
much more susceptible to the disease il
sooner proves fatal with them.
The sad intelligence is made public.
on the authority of a dealer in musical
instruments. that brass bands are on
the increase throughout the country.
Numbers of people speak of the pop.
ular and expressive word crank" as a
slang expression. But it is a legitimate
term. found IN the dictionary, with its
definition.
/ Memphis lawyers slap each other in
court. This is not so dam aging rs the
custom OF the st. Louis lawyers, which
Is TO wear out the courts furniture on
each other.
Moody and Sankey are drawing such
immense crowds IN New Orleans that
the Washington Artillery Hall. where
they have their meetings, will not be-
gin to bold the throngs.
Yiolin-playing girls are multiplying
IN fashionable society. and have crowd
ed out those who put their musical az
lection in banjos. Itmakes quite har-
vest for the professors.
During the recent cold snap and snow
storm in Florida the unsOphistlcated
chickens greedIly snapped up the first
snoWfiakes that fell, surprising them TO
be new species Of food.
The receipt of large bag of rutabaga
turnips from our old and staunch friend.
Mr.. Isaac Jessup, enabled us TO bridge
over last week safely so far as ratiOnS
were concerned. = QHitman ga Free
Press.
The latest style in hair-dressing is
called sweet disorder" 1t Is said that
in order 10 be fashionable in this regard
all girl has TO do is 10 let her hair go
as il lays" in the morning after night
of uneasy rest.
On Holy Innocents' day in Antwerp
boys and girls are dressed M like men |
and women, and are for that day allow |
ed 10 be the masters OF the house. Here |
IN America many little folks are mas !
tiers all the year round.
The latest instance Of English ignor. /
ance OF American geogr. ply is rather a |
hagrant one. The 81. .TqIaes' G0-,ss. /
IN an editorial on the Florida land swim /
dies. makes II con picuously apparent 4
that the able editor believed Florida Il 1
b. situated in Central America.
II Edison has arranged matters so
that telegraph messages are able 20
Jump through the air from point TO
point, the unwary pedestrian is placed
n precarlous position. What with
Ippery sidewalks. banana and orange
leel. and the liability OF getting knoce-
ID down by Geographic message that
: IN bury TO get somewhere, out
IGOR lie will be burden.
No article OF commerce Is subject to
,reaier fluctuations in price than whale
,one- 1t may sell for - pound in
anuary and 50 IN June. according TO
ne catch and the run of ice in the
yhaling regions. The main supply
ONES from the North Pacific. arriving
n November. The South Sea supply
lrrives in June. New Bedford and san I
francisco are the great whaling ports.
Little Billie Hutchins. OF Lawrence
ilie, ga, Is ! hero. A can of powder
.ropped into a basket of chips and was
brown on the FIRE, before which stood
stlle : three ntIe sisters. The bow l
umped for the can. but Just as he seized
the powder exploded. The little girls
7ere not hurt at all. but the boy was
'adly burned. Someone asked him why
Ie grabbed the powder He answered
S well as be could. for he was suffering
Intensely, TO save the giils.'
James Gross. the sexton of the East
Srandywine Baptist church, of Potts
own, was an old man. The other
vening, he and his aged wife. who is
otaliy blind, sat quietly by their kitchen
tove, as was their wont. Their son
oined them.snd talked with his mother
q undertones, for Il e. thought that the
Id man was doing: but when bedtime
anne the old man still sat motionless in
is chair. He was dead; and had died
5 he sat by the fire with his wife before
is son came in.
A white gorilla is on view at the
loyal aquarium at Westminster
' neither the animal is a true species or
highly-developed croSs-breed Is cues
on for the naturalists. Its height is
bout twenty-six inches, and its age
robably three or four years. Its body
nd limbs. both arms and legs. are a.
lost Tree from hair, and il has no tail.
he animal IS very gentle and affection
te, clasping Its keeper around the neck
nd kissing him like a child. II drinks
ON tumbler, and has a most inteih
ent manner. 1t is housed in a large
andsome cage or chamber. with an en-.
re glass front