The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1892-06-12
ALL SORTS.

Twenty " ords per minute is the average
at which long hand is written.
No fewer than 629, S97 people named
Muller are now living in Germany.
The theatres in Melbourne are almost
all equipped with billiard rooms
Electricity, in its various application, is
said to give employment to 5000, 900.
Wars during the last thirty three year
have cost 100000 men and So, 900, coo, 600.
Last year %, ia men offered to enlist in
the United States army, and 6,647 were
taken
Out of the 100000 that inhabit New
/ York and Brooklyn only 1900 own their
own homes.
Hackney coaches were forbidden during
the reign Of Charles II. on the ground that
they destroyed the kings highway.
Late statistics show that out of London's
! 100000 inhabitants more than 800, 600 earn
/ less than shillings family day.
In the Old Testament, although great
numbers of women are mentioned, the age
of but one is given. That is Sarah, Abra-
hams wife.
There are fourteen great gates to the
Escuriai, the palace of Spanish kings, and
the building is lighted by 100 outer and
1,57S inner windows.
In 1865 there were over 9, 800, 900 buffaloes
on the plains between the Missouri river
and the Rocky mountains. All these are
now gone except very few.
Tertullian, who wrote about A. d. 1876.
said that kissing was first instituted for
the purpose of discovering whether the
person kissed had been guilty of tipping.
The most reliable authority on the popu
lation of the earth makes it 1,4S0. OOO, 600.
The figures for China have been reduced
bv 55 900, GOO. Tie increase since 1880 has
been 10000, 900.
Umbrellas are rarely used in Alden, Ara
bia. Rain has fallen there only twice in
twenty-nine years. Previous to the last
rain, which occurred in 1888. there was
period of dry weather which lasted twen-
six years.
Some authorities insist that the great toe
ought to project farthest, others that it
should not project quite so far as the sec
ond toe; while others, again, maintain that
the two should be OF equal length 1t is
VOL known that in antique statues the sec
ond toe is usually the longer OF the two.
while the first is longer in living men.
A curiosity in the Botanical gardens at
Washington is plant afflicted with
genuine consumption of the lungs or leaves.
There are three species of this, all of
which are being cultivated for this pe-
culiarity it is the custom of the gardeners
10 throw away all that seem healthy. The
disease first appears as white spot ON a
single leaf, which increases and gradually
spreads over the entire leaf and then to
its neighbors.
In some condors the expanse of wing is
fourteen feet. though the average is about
ten feet. They live on the SUBMITS of
mountains in air so rare that mems vitality |
is reduced so that they cannot stand. The
condor sits on its eggs seven weeks. IL |
its young for year before allow |
ing them to leave the nest. 1t has a swift |
flight, keen eye, and can adapt itself to
the regions of perpetual snow or the tropi-
cal gardens at the base of noun tains.
Long heads are usually associated with
the possession of great intellectual
strength and mental capacity Herr ID
Ammon, however, who made examination
Of the cranial capacity Of 5000 soldiers at
Baden, the results of which he conmuni-
Gated to the German men OF science at
Heidelberg, is of the opinion that the size
II the skull depends almost invariably on
The proportions OF the body. Tail men he
'ound to have long skulls, or skulls of
Medium length, whereas the short fat :
men, as q rule, have round, fiat heads.