The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1889-10-25
CRISP CONVERSATIONS.

"a Russian drawing room uses 80, 600
candles,
. Soap was first made at London and
Bristol in 1924.
In Paris goats are MIXED on the street
for customers.
There are at least eighty temperance
periodicals in the United States
The Chautauqua literary and scientific
circles have already about 10000 gradu-
atea
A young lady whose father and moth
err are absent describes herself naively as
a"grass orphan"
Several orchestras made up of women
are to be heard at the cafes in the Paris
exposition grounds.
Backing the nose as a preventive of
gnow blindness seems to have become
recognized as successful.
New South Wales has greater length
of railway in proportion 10 its population
than any other country ON the globe.
Miss Jennie Slack. aged 16, residing
near Villisea, Ia, has planted and cult
waited thirty-five acres of corn this season.
The family of Richard Wagner re-
ceived 60, 600 as their share of the profits
from the recent performances at Bey-
reuth.
The force which a California pumpkin
exerts while growing is equal to the
styength OF a large horse attached tc a
sick of timber
It is said that sixty-three millionaires
reside in the territory between Dobb's
Ferry and Tarrytown. N. Y distance
of only six miles.
The japanese government has coined
$50, worth of nickel five cent pieces
The people like them much, and the coin
age will be continued.
The Russian minister of war has or
dered that military races shall be in
dulged in from time to time as means
of improving the cavalry.
Men of science who have investigated
the subject declare that the coast of New
%ersey is sinking at the extraordinary
rate Of two feet in a century.
The twenty-four photographed rock
marks along the west coast of Sweden
show that the land has risen about 0.5
centimeter during the last century.
A tin peddler who travels through
Canada can exhibit forty-one scars
where farmers dogs have taken hold of
him to see whether he was a dummy or
live man.
A woman in the railroad depot at To-
ledo saw a mouse and jumped through a
window with such vigor that she broke
tEfo ribs and an ankle.
There are ruins near Gallup, Cal, the
fc bndation walls of which can be traced
f5r two miles, indicating the existence
of large town in the locality in bygone
times
The congress of Orientalists at Stock
holm went lately to the grave of Odin at
UpSala, where the minister of the interior
drank to the health of the congress in
the regular old Viking mead.
Burls, used in making veneers with re-
markable eccentricitieS of grain, are ex-
creScences that grow upon various trees,
such as the walnut, rosewood, mahoga-
ny, oak and ash. The largest and best
come from Circassia and Persia.
Valentine Stenerwald, who lives near
Brazil, Ind, reports that he has a sun
flower which weighs eight and q half
pounds, the stalk measuring ten inches
IN circumference at the ground. He has
another bearing just fifty flowers.
Berezovski, the Pole who tried to
avenge his country's wrongs by shoot
ing at the Gar Alexander II during that
monarch's visit to the Paris exhibition
Of 1867, is now a white headed old con-
vict in the French penal settlement of
New Caledonia. off the coast of Aus
tralia
The ancient Arabic alphabet consists
of twenty-four letters, to which four
ha&s been added. The Turkish consists
Of thirty three, the Russian of thirty
nine, the Spanish of twenty-seven, the
italian of twenty, the Latin of twenty
two and the French of twenty-three
letters
Vulcan, the largest vessel built by the
British government, has been launched
recently She will form floating work
shop, and will be supplied with hydraulic
cranes, on which torpedo boats can be
hoisted in and out of the water. The
Vulcan is Of $500 tons burden and 10, 900
horse power.
Fifty-five years ago Rockland (Me.)
,-o,,fL IF on xuro+a a lattar RI ono Of tho
giETs in school. The sudden appearance
OF the teacher up that way frightened
him and he tucked the missive between
the laths of the petition behind him. The
school house was torn down the other
day and the letter was recovered by the
writer.
During some maneuvers Of the Ger
man cavalry at Breig a woman and her
little boy got in front of a regiment
Of cuirassiers charging in full gallop. |
The leading officer shouted to her to lie |
down, and she did, lying upon her boy. !
The whole regiment passed over her /!
without iniuring her, every horse i'll
whose track she lay having been made to
jump over her.
ThS queens yacht, the Victoria and
Albert, is exquisitely clean and neat,
even for yacht, and is painted in white
and gold, which adds to the spotlcssness
of its appearance. The internal arrange
ments were designed by the late prince
consort, who showed his excellent taste
by having everything as plain as pos
incl &c hka off