Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1890-05-27
DESERET EVENING NEWS
PICKINGs PROM EXCHANGES.

Beers Is the name Of the Austrian
sculptor who has succeeded in dis
covering n process for moulding
marble fluid precisely as bronze is
moulded.
IL was predicted in n meeting OF
the Pittsburg Stenographers' AssO-
citation recently that the phonograph
would soon take the place Of the
stenographer.
There are two birlis at the Lon
don Zoo that have great regulations
as ventriloquists- One is a crane
like bird called the trumpeter and
the other is the emu.
The late T.. W. Yerrington, the
champion wing shot Of Connecticut,
attributed most Of his skill to the
fact that he never used liquor or
tobacco in any form.
French engineers propose ascend
ing the Jungfrau by a succession Of
slanting roads, forming a zigzag OF
some 1900 feet, landing nearly at
the summit Of the mountain.
The experiment Of ladies' choir,
the members OF which were ar
rayed in velvet supplies and
trencher-caps, at Melbourne pro-
cathedral, has proved a disastrous
failure.
The English home Office warned
the proprietor OF the Westminster
Aquarium that he would be prose-
cuted il Succi, who was holding a
forty days fast There, should hap
pen TO die.
\ receut lawsuit in DahlOnega,
Ga, originating about a hen and
chickens, compelled the Defendants
husband 10 sell the only cow he pos
sessed In order 10 get his wife out
Of it.
There is n strike among the fire
cracker makers Of China, and in con-
sequence there is only a supply Of
$50, 600 boxes in this country. The
ordinary supplyiat this season is
l,OOO,O0O.
Lake Chelan, Washington. never
freezes, although in Is degrees
north. The reason given Is that it
Is so deep and the warm water al
ways rises from the bottom 10 sup
plant the cold, which goes down 10
warm itself.
According to official returns, in
which the capital is not included,
no less than 10000 fires took place
last year ia Russia. About Is, 900
houses were burned down and the
estimated damage was 100000
rOubles.
French doctors are reportsd TO
have discovered that the essence OF
cinnamon, when sprinkled in the
room Of typhoid fever patients, kills
the bacteria within twelve hours
and prevents the disease from
spreading.
The sacrifice Of widows ON the
funeral nyre still goes ON in Bali,
an island near Java. They are
burned along with the remains Of
their husbands. The latter's SLAVES
also share the same fate il he be If
high rank. a short time ago three
wifes Of chief were cremated.
1t is an interesting fact that in
Columbia, where potatoes form n
chief food Of the people, and where
potato disease runs not very often,
the greater the altitude at which the
vegetable Is grown the less liable Il
is 10 disease, and nj g.UOJ feet above
the sea it grows in a perfectly
healthy state.
Rene, from being 4 city set upon
seven hills. Is likely 20 be seaport.
The mountain Is not To be cast into
the sea, but "A prOfane American COM
pany il willing, for the sum Of
IS, 100000 france, 10 undertake TO
bring the sel TO the mountain by
means Of a canal eleven miles long.
The scheme was suggested by Carr
baldi and has since been approved
by Lesseps.
Chinese doctors are very UaIticu- |
lar about the distinction being very
strictly kept up between ply sicians |
and surgeons, and would not tres
pass ON one an0ther's ground for the |
world; but this delicacy Of feeling
has n rather disastrous effect ON the |
patients pocket sometimes. a Chi |
nee gentleman was struck by an |
arrow, which remained fast in his |
body. a surgeon was sent for, and. |
modestly requesting his fee should |
he paid in advance, lac broke of the |
prOtruding bit Of the arrow, leaving
the point imhedded in the wrUtched |
mans body. He refused 10 extract |
ii, because, hesaid, medical etiquette |
forbids it; the case is clearly one for
a physician, since the arrow is in
side the body.