The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1889-09-29
CRISP CONVERSATIONS.


BcAnersewassee.
The average age of the twelve English
bisiorl is 70 years.
One In five of the entire population O
Great Britain is in the Sunday schools.
A Maine man has raised a blue pig
which ne will exhibit at the state fair.
This years graduating class at Vassa,
college numbers forty-nine young ladies
A careful estimate of the Chinese ;r
San Francisco places the number at 40.
600. ~
Professor Newton estimates that 400.
0OO,OOo meteors fail to the earth annu-
ally. - -
One of the city's suburbs near Buenos
Ayres y inhabited almost exclusively by
English.
e is asserted that there are eighty diff
fer9nt varieties of tomato, not including
the canned.
New York city has 65, 900 Italians A
mai& ~ neglect to learn English or be-
come citizens.
A sixteen pound cannon ball came up
IN Walter Dixon's oyster dredge in New
ark bay recently.
1t rs calculated that during London
season the average amount spent in flow
ers daily is $4,000.
The attendants in the queen of Eng
lands household are on duty only six
months out of twelve.
Constantinople has forty printing and
as many photographic establishments for
population of about 700,0
One ton of toys is the present recently
made by the Duchess of Portland to the
children of an English village.
A Milan, Mich. woman claims to have
used but one paper of pins during all of
her twenty years of married life
There are 400 women in the art de-
partment in Cooper Union. The grad
mates and pupils have earned $17,8O5
during the past year.
A London journal states shirts of chain
armor, which cost about 600, are now
worn by more than one distinguished
pefson on the continent.
The first railway in Cuba was built in
1896 and is known as the Habana rail
read. 1t has always paid dividends of
eight to twelve per cent.
The heat has been so intense in Foo
chow, China, that the authorities, in the
hope of bringing rain, ordered the kill
ing Of pigs to be stopped.
w. R. Shadman, of Glynn county,
Ga. has three acres of olives. His is
believed to be the only olive grove east
Of the Rocky mountains.
As iron expands with the heat, the
Eiffel tower is said to be five inches
taller when the temperature is high than
it is in the cool of the day.
There are over 4, 900 millionaires in
the United States, according to recent
estimate. Hotel clerks and plumbers
are not included i'll the list.
A Californian named John Fessler has
quartz mine that has paid him $50, 900
IN tSS years. He does his own work,
and lffs only mill is hand mortar l
Women have often successfully hid
vaiuabies in their hair, and young
French lady recently found a 900 franc !
note in her deceased mothers chignon.
A farmer in Harrison county, O..
while repairing his house recently, found =
pocketbook that he lost in 1910. He
will preserve as a curiosity the bank
bills it contained. I
A Chinese custom practiced at San S
Francisco is the throwing into the ocean e
of thousands of pieces of paper when 0
friends are about TO sail away. Each
piece bears, in Chinese characters, a q
prayer.
Swamee Phaskara Nand Saraswatee ia
the name of an East Indian from Lahore %
who is now living in Philadelphia. He
is in the United States to acquire prac-
teal knowledge of certain mechanical
industries preparatory to introducing
5hem in India.
There is a curious little museum in
Berlin inwhich no relics are kept except
-oyal gafters. 1t is run in conjunction
With the Hohenzollern museum and was
ourASed by William l. Carriers from
he legs of all the princesses who have
,een married since 1877 are to be found
n this unique collection.