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

There are over 1000 amateur photog-
raphers in Chicago.
Fifteen Russian anarchists have been
expelled from Geneva
The Texas cotton crop is estimated to
be worth $S4 600, 900 this year.
Josef Hoffman has a rival in young
violinist named Alice Lehman.
Over 1000 Cinnamon arrived in the
City of Mexico one day recently.
Cold baths are now said to be effica-
cious in the cure Of typhoid fever.
One man in western Australia owns
and controls nearly 100000 acres of
land.
Mrs. Kesterson, of Fulton, KY, has
five sons, and the birthday of each is
July "a.
The University of Oxford has appli-
ances for printing in $50 different Ian
guages.
Philadelphia Hibernia Fire Engine
company, still in existence, was organ
lied in 1852
A West Virginia girl has promised her
lover to marry him when 1.-The count for
governor is over"
The oldest public house in England is
1.-The Seven Stars" at Manchester. 1t
dates back to the time of Edward Ill.
The largest private library in Wash
ington is that of George Bancroft, the
historian. 1t contains $4,000 volumes.
Weber's opera, "Sylvana," has been
successfully revived in Berlin. 1t was
first produced as 1.-The Dumb Girl of the
Forest"
In Australia there are nearly 247, 900
more males than females. Including
New Zealand and Tasmania, the excess
of males over females is 301 ,949
A Mohammedan mosque has been built
in Working, England, and a Buddhist
temple has been opened in Paris. There
are about 800 Buddhists in Paris.
Thomas Furlong, of Pasadena, CAL, is
an ardent amateur naturalist His latest
addition to his collection was 300 taran-
tulas that he Matched in an incubator.
A man named Clemmer has been dis
covered in Reading who has made 300
clay idols, which he keeps in his house
and worships with idolatrous devotion.
Birch bark" lawn parties are the
latest in Maine. The invitations are
written on birch bark and refreshments
served from plates of the same material
The name of Slams postmaster gen
eral is Somdetch Phra Chow Nong va
Thor Chow Fa Bhaumangsi Swauguvus-
ga Kooma Phra Bhaunbhaddareongs
Vavadey.
At Asbury Park among the latest and
most curious of the fads affected by the
foppish young men on the Boardwalk
are bracelets, japanese parasols, wells
and silk mitts.
An oyster bed of unusual size and rich
ness was discovered recently by Dan
ish fisherman near the coast Of Jutland.
1t is some eleven miles from land and
fifteen miles long by seven miles wide.
Solomon Zook, an Ohio gentleman,
aged eighty-six years, who is visiting
friends in Miff1in county, Pa, distin-
guished himself by picking 200 quarts of
raspberries in two days during the sea-
son.
The dramatis persona in the now cele-
brated Terry Broderick duel numbered
thirteen. The duel was fought early on
the morning of Sept. 10, 1859, within
ten miles of the center of San Fran
cisco.
The British consul at Nish, in Servia,
says that at Avala, near Belgrade, a
green colored mineral has been discov-
cred and called avalite, which. it it
thought, may become substitute for
arsenic.
The British museum has paid $1,000
marks for the prayer book which the
late Louis OF bavaria ordered from Franz
Fleschutz. 1t is adorned with copies of
the decorations of the famous SO called
great church treasure.
Florida has $4,000. 900 invested in the
orange business, and the sales this year
were a fourth of that big sum. Ten
years ago the fruit was luxry. Now
everybody eats oranges, which are al
most as common as apples.
There is nov running at the Paris ex-
position a hydraulic train that consists
of four carriages and has room for about
100 passengers. The train runs as
smoothly as a boat on water. There are
no wheels, no steam, no electricity, APP
parently nothing to make it 60
Free.
1t was in the Sunday school. The teacher