The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1888-06-24
TIMELY TOPICS.


A SYSTEM of tactics worked out b,
Gen. Terrier is to be tried in the French
army.
The result of the jubilee coinage ha
been to lay up in cabinet about $780,,
600 in gold.
LEoNITE is the last smokeless explo
sive, and its inventor describes it a.
meeting all the requirements.
ELECTRIC experts are confessing tt
New York that its overhead light wires
are dangerous things.
LAWN tennis bats made from trees
felled by Mr.. Gladstone are becomin:
fashionable and popular in England.
THE Kings Daughters" now numbel
10000 in the United States. The society
Is to have a monthly paper.
THE big diamond which Charles E.
Leland used to wear, and which was
valued at 81 500, was sold in Albany fol
$500.
NEARLY three thousand of the former
EMPLOYEES of the Chicago. Burlington
d Quincy system are still out of work.
SLAUGHTERING cattle by electricity
has proved successful in st. Petersburg
Russia. Death is nearly instantane-
Gus.
A ST. LOUIS doctor says that cocaine
not only destroys, but will make a viii
lain out of the most honest man in the
world.
THE French chamb Der of deputies has
passed resolution in favor of settling
all disputes with the United States by
arbitration,
A BILL "to prevent the gateerinr of
wild flowers" has, for some unknown
reason been introduced into parliament
by Mr.. Shaw LefeVre.
THE latest wrinkle in manners is
this: To show great pol1teness, ad-
vance one step and bow. To show
the reverse sentiment, draw back q
step and bow.
A WHOLE village in Brazil has &C
copied the gospel through the instru-
mentality OF young business man,
who invited a missionary to that place.
THE first concert programme of List
is exhibited at Vienna. 1t is addressed
to the High Aristocracy, Honorable
Artillery, and Respected Public.
THIRTY thousand rupees have beeu
promised by American Young Mems
Christian Associations toward establish
ing Young Mems Christian Associa-
ton in each university town in India.
THE Pope has issuedIan encyclical on
slavery, urging the abandonment of
in Egypt, the Soudan and
Zanzibar, and praising Dom Pedro for
abolishing slavery in Brazil.
LONDON has eight homes for poor
girls, at which breakfast,
dinner, and tea cost only 81 a week,
and room not over 81 more. They are
said to be we'll managed and literally
by charitable people.
The San Francisco Theological semi
nary expresses its gratitude to Mr.. w.
S. Ladd, of Portland Ogn., for his
gift of $4,000, and is
TO make up another $780,
BOO by contribution the Pacific Coast.
THE Boston school board has ex-
Guided Swinton's English history from
use ID the city schools, GU the ground
that it treats the subject of TIE doctrine
Of indulgencies in manner unfair and
offensive to the Catholics.
REALISM attains its climax in Mr..
Henry Irving's performance of Robert
Macaire. Real water is now an old
feature, but Irving jumps through a
window of real glass. The fifty or sixty
small panes have to be reset every night.
THE trustees of Cornell university
will begin this year the custom of giving
TO the alumni of the university annual
dinner. The dinner will occur this
year tomorrow, and promises to be
very largely attended by many pro a.
.nent alumni.
TAE reign of Kaiser Fritz has been
marked with The abolition of the
cavalryman' curiass. This is the last
ouriass in Europe, and England is now
calling for its abolition in her army. In
the German army the revolver has also
been discarded in favor of the carbine.
ALL the window-glasS factories in
and around Pittsburg and the west
have closed in accordance with reso-
The shut down will continue until Sep
and employers agree an wage scale.
feet long, unlocked, and with but
weeks ago bound for Benguela, in
southwest Africa. 5000 miles away.
She draws three feet OF water only,
steams four knots an hour, and carries
four Portuguese sailors and an English
captain!
QUEEN MARGARET College. Glasgow, is
the only woman's college in Scotland.
Inc college buildings, which cost $780,
06O, were purchased by Mrs. Elder,
widow of the well-known Clyde ship
builder, but will not be absolutely con-
veyed to the trustees of the college till
the endowment fund reaches S100, 600.
THE American Sunday School Union
last year 1852 schools, with
6 1926 teachers and 54,129 scholars.
Schools aided first time. 1,54S, having
Isl ,055 members Schools previously
aided, 3,615, having 2l3 9S9
members. Bibles distributed, 6,56S:
tpstaments, 10, 1902; families visited, 3D.
666.
HERR TUxEN. Danish painter who
received a commission from Queen
Victoria for q picture representing the
meeting of the royal family at the
jubilee, has completed the work. The
picture contains nearly sixty portraits.
1t will be placed on exhibition in Lon
don for time and will then be hung in
the grand corridor at Windsor Castle.
MRS. DAHLGREN, the widow of the
admiral, has two mementos of the civil
own 70 tn har differentiation