The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1889-10-13

A stone mansion built in 1850 on a
fern near Greenbush, N. Y, still stands.
A pigeon which cost 500 is owned by
A. B. Hoskins, of Media, Pa.
Thieves at Franklin, Ncb.. carried of
the 1 300 pound hammer of Pile driver.
The Granite Mountain mine, in Mon
tana, has yielded S7,O0O,000 worth of sill
yer since 1884.
John Brown, negro, of Macon coun-
tv, Ga. in Il few DAYS caught 554 rats in
pot of water.
AT Coshocton, Pa, pie eating match
recently the winner disposed of eighteen
pies in one hour and a half.
Fred Mather, u London fish cultlIrist,
estimates that six pound eel produces
100000 eggs in one season.
A potato weighing two pounds and
ten ounces is one of the curiosities ex-
hibited in Aroostook county, Me.
A school item from Alaska states that
last month the boys of the Sitka school
caught and sailed nineteen barrels of
salmon.
A weather prophet that Conshohocken,
Pa, people swear by is a tree frog i'm
prisoned in Il jar of water at the railroad
station.
Isaac Heed, of Burrs Mills. o., has
raised tomato that measures seventeen
inches in circumference and weighs over
three pounds.
A ,.hfIl- hof.hn1 ND,1- d.,
saw the light of day through three eyes.
1t had two mouths. but did not know
how 10 use either, and died.
A Waverly, Mich, man saw his wife's
foot sticking up above the lower end of
the bed, and thinking it was burglar
he shot at it. His wife now imps.
Lillian Brill, of Carroll, n. H., not vet
years old, has knit all her own stock
ings and those of an older brother and
younger sister ever since she was 6 years
old
John Cardwiller, an Iowa well digger.
claims to have found at the bottom of
one of his diggings a piece of rock on
which the Stars and Stripes are distinct
" formed.
Newspapers are Il necessity. \ Mercer
county, Pa, man stopped his paper re-
Gently, and few Sundays later he took
his marketing to town to sell it, having
forgotten the days of the week.
The oldest Morse telegrapher in the
world is j. d. Reed, the statistician of
the Western Union company, at New
York. Mr.. Reed is II years of age,
Scotchman by birth, and is as vigorous
and cheerful as man of 25.
An English tenor who gets about 800
for singing at a concert at home asked
$4,000 to sing in five concerts in Boston.
He explained why he asked such an ex-
Orbitant price by saying that it is worth
that to sing in an American provincial
city.
A monstrosity in the shape of calf
with four eyes, four nostrils and four
ears, and a mouth like a fish, is exciting
the citizens of Jennings township, Fay
cite county, Ind. 1t belongs to Mrs.
Brown, and large number of people
have gone to see it.
A Miss Annie Johnston went down and
stayed under water at a summer resort
in England 3 minutes 10 seconds, which
beats the amateur record of minutes
514 seconds. Miss Johnston is only 10
years Of age, and is accounted the best
lady swimmer in the world.
The "Angelus" left Paris in blaze of
glory. 1t was lined with red satin and
laid in beautiful black box, bound with
iron, which, in turn, was inclosed in ar
other-stronger, but no less beautiful.
In deep silence the picture was then
handed over to therepresentatives of the
American Art association.
While some laborers were engaged in
chopping timber in big woods near De
catur, Ind, they accidentally discovered
what is supposed to have been counter
feiters' rendezvous. Beneath the earth /
surface was found brick furnace, sew
eral half dollars, dated 1916, and some /
of the metal from which the spurious
coins were made.
Made to Order.
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