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

sine has baseball club called the
Pe1inessewassee.
The average age of the twelve English
bishops is 10 years.
One In five of the entire population of
Great Britain is in the Sunday schools.
A Maine man has raised blue pig,
which he will exhibit at the state fair.
This years graduating class at Vassar
college numbers forty-nine young ladies.
A careful estimate of the Chinese in
San Francisco places the number at 49,
coo.
Professor Newton estimates that 400
100000 meteors fail to the earth annu-
ally,
One Of the city's suburbs near Buenos
Ayres y inhabited almost exclusively by
English.
lis asserted that there are eighty diff
ferq - varieties of tomato, not including
the canned.
NSw York city has G., 900 Italians. A
majHhsy 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 a London
season the average amount spent in flow
ers daily is $4,000.
The attendants in the queen of Eng
lands household are on duty only six
months out of twelve.
ConstantinopIe has forty printing and
as many photographic establishments for
population of about 100000.
One ton of toys is the present recently
made by the Duchess of Portland to the
children of an English village.
A Milan, Mich. woman claims to have
used b.. &c paper of pins during all of
her twer-y years of married life.
There are 400 women in the art de-
partmen in Cooper Union. The grad
yates and pupils have earned 1865
during the past year.
A London journal states shirts of chain
armor, which cost about 600, are now
worn by more than one distinguished
per$on on the continent.
The first railway in Cuba was built in
1886 and is known as the Habana rail
Rad. 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 II, 900 millionaires in
the United States, according TO n recent
estimate. Hotel clerks and plumbers
are not included III the list.
A Californian named John Fessler has
quartz mine that has paid him $4,000
in tyS years. He does his own work,
and Nfs only mill is a hand mortar.
Women have often successfully hid
valuabies in their hair, and a 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.
A Chinese custom practiced at San
Francisco is the throwing into the ocean
of thousands of pieces of paper when
friends are about TO sail away. Each
piece bears. in Chinese characters,
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
them in India.
There is curious little museum in
Berlin iAwhich no relics are kept except
royal gafSers 1t is run in conjunction
with the Hohenzollern museum and was
fourAed by William !. Carriers from
the legs of all the princesses who have
been married since 1877 are to be found
in this unique collection.