Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1891-04-15
NEWS IN A NUTSHELL.

The German census shows an In
crease Of 2,6G5,i3S.
At twenty years purchase London
II ut this moment worth 81, 25D, OOO, 900.
Reports OF diamond discoveries la
North Lapland are In circulation.
Girls attending college at Columbia,
Mo-, pay, under u mutual agreement,
finc OF % cents each time they have
gentlemen escorts to whom they are
not engaged.
Chauncey NJ. Depew says he ''never
reads n newspaper edltorial.v Now let
Mr.. Dcpcw explain how no manages
TO conduct his business so successfully,
II he can.
"Some persons may not think am
pure, gaspod Bootless Bob, the tramp,
as he reached the meadow fence
In advance Of the bnll, "but | certain
~ am chaste."
II IL said that Richard X. Fox OF the
Ioiscc Gdsctfo did his nfst Newspaper
work for n religious newspaper. This
seems credible. Mr.. Fox'a present Jour
nal IL largely devoted 10 expounders.
They are eating Russian reindeer In
Germany because other meat Il NJ
scarce aud dear. Under such clrcnm-
stances the American hog IL u bristly
boon.
'If every person spoke the absolute
truth about every other person, crime
would disappear from the earth In one
years time" SO says a reformer, and
he Is probably correct. There wouldn't
DO any one len alive to commit a
crime.
The most valuable Oriental mats In
the world are owned by the Shah, the
Sultan aud the Maharalah Of Baroda.
The former two po-se-s some valued
mt over g., 5000 each, and the latter,
ono ornanlentcd with pearls and Ola.
monds Ia said to DO worth si,7oO,OO0.
A Benjamin Franklin autograph
sold In London yesterday for $50; one
Of Lord Byron's letters brought $40,
and II must have been worth the
money, II, M the dispatch says, II
gives complete history OF his rela.
lions with tho Countess Guiccloli."
Some Of the striking curlosities at
lllt ~ hAbt AnktltN
are horse ears apparently made Of
oranges; u clock tower twenty-four feet
high, composed Of oranges, lemons,
LINES and raisins; model OF the San
Gabriel mission made OF small, ira
gmnt Taugcrine oranges.
A Hamburg steamship company
having difficulty In obtaining flrcnicn
who would remain at their posts when
strikes were ordered by labor fedora.
|ilons sent an agent 10 East Africa 10
secure natives for the service. Sunday
last fify-six Africans arrived at the
port aud were immediately put TO work
ON the steamships. The result O. the
experiment Is awaited with great in-
terest.
Coal oil has been selling nj st.
Joseph, Mo-, for the past few days at
cent gallon. This low price was
brought about by the efforts Of the
STANDARD OIL Company 10 crush out a
local firm. Everybody In town who
could muster u cent aud Jug bought
gallon OF coal oil and over forty
thousand gallons were sold In two
days.
Tho New York Recorder says that
Piol has offended tho Germans OF
Germany 10y its caricatures OF the
Emperor William, aud Will not here
after be allowed 10 show It's head in the
German Empire.
our chromatie friend, Pace,
Has had tho grcatluck
10 stir up a Neruan sensation.
irs made fun 0f tho Kaiser,
And that makoa him cry, air,
And swear u Hhan't come ~ the nation.
Farm statistics will soon be issued
from the office Of the Secretary OF
State 10 show Michigan farmers that
wheat, corn and oats were produced
last year at IN actual Ions. Tho total
cost OF the wheat crop WIS SIS, 200, 900,
its total value SID, 700, 900. OF corn the
total cost was i2,.50,OO0 aud total
value 81, 100000, while the total cost OF
oats was $40, 10000 and its total value
only s7,W1,010. This means that the
Michigan farmers lost last year In crop
values sl0, 0OO, 900, besldgs tho Interest
on their lanls, aud considerable cash
outlay.