The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1892-09-29
FROM ALI SOURCES.

FROM ALL SOURCES.
Chinese streets are not often more than
eight feet wide.
The foreign trade of China last year ag-
gregated $3.50. 0O0 900.
Eighteen Of the London theatres are &C.
cupieu for divine services on Sunday even
ings.
Persia has race of pygmy csmels who
are but twenty five inches high and weigh
about fifty pounds.
II takes an expenditure Of nearly $50, 600
to carry vessel Ike the Majestic across
the Atlantic.
Sweden is the most Protestant country,
for out of q population of 4. IA, 449 only $40
are Roman Catholics.
On an average each inhabitaut of France
consumes fifty liters or quarts of wine in o
year. In Paris they do better-or worse
with an average consumption of 1856 liters.
japanese iugglers are defs smokers. Sew
eral Of them viii sit before curtain and
from the tobacco smoke which issues from
their mouths will form succession of
readable letters.
The Manhattan Elevated railroad, New
York, carries, it is claimed, 5000 passen-
gers daily. AT this rate a years. total
would amount to lS2, 500, 600, and at5c. fares
Iu6 I6C6fpLs WOulu DC Ct. l-O.OUU.
The gray rat came TO Europe from India
by way of Russia, and 10 now popularity
known as the Norway rat. from mistaken
tradition that it came from Norway to Eng
land and from the latter country to Amer
lea.
The graduating class at Harvard college
was divided as follows: Episcopalians, "a !;
Unitsrians, 40: Congregationslists Al;
Baptists, 10; Roman Catholics, {; Metho-
dists, 9; Presbyterians, 8; Jewish. 4; Free
Thinkers. 4; urclassed, 56.
The best isinglass comes from Russia,
where IL is obtained from the giant stur-
geon which inhabits the Caspian sea and
the rivers which run into it This fish
often grows to the length of % feet. and
from its air bladder the isinglass is pre-
pared.
Four cities in Europe stand wholly or in
part on islands. Venice is the best known
On account of its historical past; next comes
St Petersburg, the capital of Russia, and
the two last are the cities of Client and
Amsterdam, situated respectively in Bel
GUM and Holland.
There are at present in the Gobelins
manufacture two large state carpets
valued at $4,000 and $4,000 respectively,
at the least. They were made for the en-
pirs. one being ordered by the Italian gov
eminent and the other being intended for
the palace of Fontainebleau.
There is playing in Paris a Russian horn
band, each horn being capable of produc-
ing single note only. So perfect is the
training that the band produces the effect
Of one equipped with ordinary iustru-
ments, ana even running scales with the
rapidity and precision of violin
King Shen Kung of China is said 10 hav g
discovered tea entirely by accident. While
repienishing fire made Of branches of the
tea plant some of the leaves fell into the
pot in which he was boiling his supper
and ever since that date-2696 b. C.-the.
Chinese people have been tea drinkers.
Menu cards under microscopes is the
latest novelty, produced on the occasion of
the annual dinner Of medical members Of
New York university at Delmonico's res
taurRnt. By the side OF each plate was a
small bottle, end in this brass mounted
microscope. an inch in diameter and two
inches long. On loaking through the glass
at the eye piece the bill of fare, IN the form
OF DOCTORS latin prescription, was dis
ccverable-
General statistics show that since the
Trojan war, 3. 900 years ago, not single
year has elapsed in which some war has
act killed its proportionate number. Dur
ing the thirty centuries which have elapsed
since the beginning OF Asiatic and Euro
pean history, loss of 10000 900 q century
makes the total number destroyed by war
to be ], 200, 00e. 900. number very nearly re-
presenting the total population Of the globe
at the present day.
The ruby 10 valued highest when it con-
fains the least azure. The largest ruby
that history speaks of belonged to Eliza
beth OF Austria. the wife Of Charles TX 1t
was almost as big as hens egg. The
virtues attributed to rubies are TO Danish
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away annoying thoughts. At the same
time it symbolizes cruelty, anger and
carnage, as well as holiness and bravery.
a changein it's color announces a calamity.
but when the trouble is over it remains Its
primitive luster.
Twenty -four-carat gold is all gold; 81
carat has % parts OF gold, l of silver and
! OF copper; lS-carat gold has Is parts OF
gold and 3 each Of silver and copper; 10
carat gold lie half gold and has 81 parts OF
copper. IL special gravity is Is, aud that
of pure gold is 10.
The lntest form Of steamship propeller ID
an English invention and is designed SC
that when in motion there Is no weight OF
water on the blades or the rise and fall of
the propeller due 10 the pitching of the
vessel.
AZ three OF the large London railway
stations. Charing Cross, Cannon street
and London Bridge. as many as 80, 96e
movements for signal and point levers
have to be made every twenty-four hours.
quite apart from the telegraphic opera.
iions.
A pair OF moving machines made in 1922
were the frst manufactured In this country.
and there were only two of the original
pattern built. One Of them is still in the
barn on Samuel Worth's farm at Marshall
ton. Chester county, Pa.
The passage through the Suez canal
grows shorter every year. According to
the average report the average duration is
% hours 81 minutes, some IS minutes less
than twelve months ago. The improve
ment is due to the electric light enabling
the vessels to continue their voyage at
night
A manufacturing concern 10 BROOKLYN
has substituted large fan for a smoke
Stack. BY the draft created. the smoke.