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The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1892-01-17
Miscellaneous.

Fish are always sold alive in Japan.
A ton of coal yields nearly 10000 feet of
gas.
ST. Petersburg is the coolest capital in
Europe.
Twenty one thousand stitches in an or
binary shirt.
Forty-seven newspapers published in
Ecuador.
The Rhine flows at three times the rate
of the Thames.
Chess is an old game 1t was played by
the Chinese Ia years before Christ.
The Vatican contains 2OS staircases and
!, 1U0 different rooms.
The unexplcred area of Canada is 100000
square miles
Two and half million parcels are sent
monthly by British parcel post.
The value of property in London has
trebled since 1856.
The worlds press is stated to include
| $1,000 newspapers.
The theatres in London regularly employ
over IL, 900 people.
! Alexandria possesses the largest artificial
harbor in the world.
The Italian government raises $4,000, O0C
yearly by holding lotteries.
| The total income of the Church of Eng
land is about 81, 100000 week.
Our enterprising American florists sold
S14, 175. 32S worth of flowers last year.
There are now 65,OO7 postofices in the
Countrywide highest number ever reached
| One dollar minute is the charge fol
using the telephone line from London tt
Paris.
More than 10000 900 Chimes are engaged
either directly or indirectly in the tea in
! dustry.
There are nearly two and a quarter mil
lions of acres in Scotland occupied by dee
forests
A fine quality Of sugar is now being ex
tracted from the sap of sugar pine trees il
California.
All petitions to the British house of com
mons must be in hand writing, and ma,
not be printed.
in proportion to population, exactly tire
times as much spirits are drunk in Scotlan
as in England
/ A London money lender recently sue
for repayment Of loan on which he re
ceived 600 per cent interest.
A London cabman was recently fined flo
carving fourteen persons in his cab at on
time.
Twenty million copies of Hymns, Al
Gent and Modern" have been sold sine
1872.
In proportion to its size, England ha
eight times as many miles of railway as tn
United States.
:. Forty-hye per cent Of the water cor
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1892-01-17
THE HERALD CABINET
Unique and Singular Things OF
Various Kinds.
Curious and Interesting Facts in Nature, Art
and Science-An Intellectual
Museum.

A writer estimates that during the period
Of twenty years. from 1867 to 1856, inclu-
siVe, there were granted in the United
States 32S, 7l6 DEGREES for divorce. The
number in 1867 was 9,937. Tbs increase
during the twenty years was steady and
rapid, the number for the last year of the
period being %, 535, an increase of nearly
l51 per cent. in the twenty years. The pop
ulation of the United States increased dur
ing the same period abont 60 per cent.
Only four states in the Union, not consid-
ering South Carolina, where no divorce law
exists, show decrease in their divorce fig.
ures. OF the 1913, TIC divorces granted in
the United States for the twenty years
specified, 216, Us or 65.S per cent. of the
whole, were granted to wives on their pc
tltions for divorce from their husbands,
and liz, $40 were granted husbands for the
alleged fault of their wives, being 34.2 per
cent of the whole number; that is to say, in
the proportion of nearly two to one, it is
the wife who seeks a divorce
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1892-01-17
Astronomical Noyeltit $.

The moon is said to move 1888 feet PEI
second.
Rigel, the magnificent star of the first
magnitude in the constellation of Orion,
has recently been discovered by astrono-
mers TO be one of the most distant stars in
the celestial vault.
The natives of Madagascar formerly fol-
lowed the moon in determining time, but
since the influx of missionaries the Queen
issued an edict that the Christian year
should be followed. But in commencing
the year the first day was set some time in
October or November.
Algo, the variable star in Perseus. has
long been in mystery. Its light remains
constant for two and half days. 1t then
begins to fade, and in less than four hours
diminishes to an insignificant star, remain
ing thus for about twenty minutes, when
1t regains its former brllliancy. 1t has Ions
been suspected that dark body revolved
about Algol, and which coming between us
and that star, intercepts more or less of its
light
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1892-01-17
Sneed and Force.

A bullet from Mannlicher rifle will go
straight through four men standing close
behind each other.
A line of steamships is about to enter into
a contract to carry the mails between Eng
land ana Canada in five days
The highest velocity ever given to a can
non ball is estimated at 1925 feet per sec
ond, being equal to q mile in 3.2 seconds.
The velocity of the earth at the equator,
due to its rotation on its axis, is LOCO miles
per hour, or mile in 3.6 seconds. There
fore, if a cannon bali were fired due west
and could maintain its initial velocity, it
would beat the sun in his apparent journey
round the earth.
A large steamer engaged in the Austria
liam and New Zealand dead-meat trade re-
Gently completed voyage that is remark
able from the fact that the vessel steamed
at full speed for 1869 nautical miles with
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1892-01-17
Using Liduids at Meals.

A great deal of misrepresentation is often
found to exist in the popular mind in re-
gard TO matters of eating and drinking; the
cause of this to some extent is to be traced
to oldtime sayings, which have come down
to US in the form of a concentrated infu-
sion Of somebody's opinion upon subject
of which he or she was wofully ignorant
One of these misapprehensions to which we
may refer is as to the injuriousuess Of tax
ing fluid with meals. One frequently hears
it laid down rs a maxim that sit is bad to
drink with your meals, it dilutes the gas
trio juice" By way of explanation we
may remark, says the Medical Press. that sit
| implies that the fluid taken is harmful"
| Whence this sagacious postulate originally
came we can not tell; it has quite the ring
about it of an inconsequent deduction
formed by person whose presumption of
knowledge was only exceeded by lament
able ignorance of the subject Medical
men often find much difficulty in dealing
with these museum specimens of anti
| quated science, for even educated persons
are disposed to cling to the absurdities Of
/ their youth. Upon this matter MIR. Hutch
ison remarks in the last number of his
| ATchiUes: 81 observed with pleasure that
| the verdict of general experience and COM
! mon sense has been confirmed by scientific
| experiment in the matter of taking fluid
with meals. Or. Kew. u. Stfat1eVSky, or
] ST. Petersburg, after elaborate trials, has
found that fluids materially assist the as
sanitation of proteids, and announces the
following conclusion, which it is to be
hoped no future experiments will contro-
vert-on the whole, the widely-spread GUS
tom of taking fluids during or just before
ones meals, proves to be rational and fully
justified on strict scientific grounds. To
take fluids with the meals is almost as i'm
portant an adjunct to digestion as is the
masticat1on of solid food preparatory to
swallowing it. 1t is obvious, however,
that there is limit to the amount of
fluid one can swallow with impunity-
not to speak of comfort-just as much with
meals as at other times" 1t would be
dangerous TO create a general Impression
that fluid is good with food irrespective of
quantity 1t is, moreover, a well ascer-
: tanned clinical fact that an excess Of cum
, prandial fluid does retard digestion in GER
tain people, and gives rise to discomfort in
most. A little attention to ones sensations
, in such matters will far better fix the de-
sirable limit than all the ''data" in the
world.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1892-01-17
Human Statistlcs.

Two thousand four hundred and ninety
five students at Harvard.
Four thousand two hundred and thirty
seven American residents in Paris
Fourteen school children per 1000 popu-
lation in Russia.
One hundred and ninety-seven school
children per 1000 population in this coun-
try.
Mr.. Gladstone's library contains 10000
volumes.
Queen victoria's chief cook receives
50, 500 year.
The average marrying age of French
man is thirty years.
To every 1000 males in London there are
/, 1913 females.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1892-01-17

Two million nickel threecent pieces still
outstanding.
The pennyweight was the exact weight
of the old British silver penny.
The cost OF making 81, 900 Bank of Eng
land note is less than penny.
Dried fish was formerly, and is still, to
some extent, medium of exchange in Ice
land.
Apples were worth from one to two shil-
lings each in the reign of Henry VII
Germanium is chemical substance, but
it Is worth sixty times its weight IN gold
The treasury silver stock weighs II, 600
net tons, aud to carry it would require 1000
freight cars carrying eleven tons each, or
1900 cars carrying five tons each, or $500
two-hOrse wagons carrying two tons each.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1892-01-17

sumed or drawn for domestic purposes in
London is wasted.
1t would take Al, 900 cars of 400 bushels
each to haul the wheat grown in Kansas
this year.
1t is stated that the Australian agricul-
turlsts lost last year by rust in wheat over
81, 100000.
During the heavy gales the waves Of the
Atlantic are from twenty-four to thirty-six
feet in height-half above and half below
the mean level of the sea.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1892-01-17
About Eggs.

The consumption OF eggs in Paris is
something extraordinary. According to a
municipal statement the city consumed last
year no less than $4,000 tons, equal to 147
eggs per capita.
The artificial incubation of eggs origin
ated in Egypt, where it is still carried on.
According to consular report no fewer
than 70, OOO, coo eggs are Matched in this way
every year on the banks of the Nile.
New England is coming forward with
fabulous egg stories. The Newburyport
(Mass.) NelCS says: "a thoroughbred hen
an egg with q shell that fairly glittered
with tiny specks of gold" A second news
paper relates hat Portsmouth IN. H. J
woman recently found a one cent piece in
an egg which one of her hens had laid. and
later on the same hen laid an egg with a
ten cent piece in it."
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1892-01-17
nYSYEPSIA

That nightmare OF mans existence which
makes food mockery and banishes sleep
from weary eyes, readily yields to the
potent intuenc. Of the celebrated English
Dandelion Tonic. 1t tones up the diges-
tive organs. restores the appetite, makes
assimilation OF food possible and invigor.
ates the whole system. All druggists sell
etA MAJ hattleA
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1892-01-17
Animals.

The musk antelope can send forth such q
powerful ordor of musk that even at the
distance of 100 yards he can smother his
enemy to death.
Camels are the only working cattle used
in certain part of the Ural districts, some
large farms possessing hundred each
The baya bird of India spends his nights
catching tire-fies, with which he plasters
his nest. The baya does not kill the n.y.,
but simply attaches it 10 his nest by means
of piece of moist clay. On a dark night
baya's nest has the appearance OF an cleo
trio street lamp.
Many huntsmen through along life has
chased the fox with an enthusiastic ardor
who would be surprised to know that IN
the very tip of his tail or brush is little
bunch of hairs, from twenty to thirty in
numbe which gives forth to the despair
ing and almost vanQuished beast the re-
freshiug and stimulating odor of violets.
Canary birds are q good deal troubled
by mosquitoes. The toes OF the bird are
amply provided with small veins, and as
the memb rane between the toes is eX-
tremely thin an ooservant mosquito may
see his favorite fluid circulating in plain
sight A bird with a swollen hind toe was
brought 10 a bird fancier recently and be
pronounced the trouble poisoning from q
! mosquito bite He said the thing was not
uncommon.
4 granger hailing from Placer county
brought to the San Francisco Chronicle OF
flee a curious freak of nature in the shape
of live snake with two distinct heads
There is no malformation, the body and
neck of the reptile being perfect and the
; heads being each of full size and develop
ment Each head has two eyes, and tine
snake when aroused darts forth it:
| tongues from both mouths, simultaneously
at times, and at others using only one
! tongue. The reptile is a little over foo
long and belongs to harmless variety.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1892-01-17
Interesting Works of Art.

In the new works of the Piraus-Athens
railway station the marble head of woman
has been found, of good workmanship. 1t
wears a diadem, and the features are very
finely carved. II is thought to belong to a
headless statue found on this site in the city
q little time ago.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1892-01-17
DELICIOUS HOT BEVERAGES.

The oecoctions served to the thirsty anC
warm at the Occidental are delicious. pur,
and superior. First-class wines, liouors
beers, ales and cigars. Family supplies
specially . 49,, n,, ,
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1892-01-17

out slowing up. The engines, which are of
the triple-extention type, were in excellent
condition at the end of the trip. The aver
age speed was between eleven and twelve
knots.
What is probably one of the quickest
pieces of work on the telephone was per-
formed by newspaper correspondent from
Cheltenham to Tewksbury, England, on
the occasion of the installation of public
station at the former place. The limit OF
time allowed users of the telephone be-
tween towns there is three minutes, and
during this period report for the local
paper numbering 700 words was communi-
Gated,
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1892-01-17

A man is obliged to breathe seven hogs
heads of air in a day.
The population of the United States in
creases by 100000 persons yearly.
The smallest parish in England is Wilcot,
Oxon. 1t contains seven persons.
Within the last thirty three years 100000
couples have, we are told, been united at
Manchester cathedral.
There are reported to be 10000 Canadians
who are drawing pensions from the United
States government.
The Kelley institute in Indiana has q
child only five years of age who is con
hrmed morphine eater.
An English socialist economist declares
that old age is a more important element
among the causes of pauperism than either
thriftlessness or drink
1t is encouraging to know that the num-
Der of marriages in Boston during the past
year show an excess of over three hundred
over the figures of the preceding year.
Paris has increased in population about
! Z per cent. during the last i've years. In
1856 it had 1890 945 inhabitants. Now il
has 2, 422, 500.
Great Britain has more women worker:
than any other country in proportion tc
population; 70 per cent, of the industrial
classes are women,
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1892-01-17
p IT. NYSTRUM

Best of wines, liquors and cigars. Fami
~ supplies specially. Give him acall a,
AZ First South.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1892-01-17
SINGULAR FACTS
A Mass OF Information Condensed Into Brief

Mass OF Information Condensed Into Brief
Space
Who would believe that any one could
make money out of cigar ends? Yet the
business of gathering them is so lucrative
that the Russian Phianthropic society has
organized regular system in ST. Peters
burg of collecting these tritfes and dispos-
ing of them for the benefit of the poor.
Upward of 81, 600 was realized in the month
of J-ly. AS towhat is the ultimate desti-
nation of This refuse matter it would be
hazardous TO decide.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1892-01-17
A WONDERFUL VASE.

New Orleans Ttmes-I srnOcrdt: In the
cathedral of Genoa is preserved, and has
been for 600 years, vase immense value.
1t is cut from a single eme aid. Its princi-
pal diameter is twelve and a half inches
and its height five and three-fourths inches.
1t is kept under several locks, the keys of
which are in different hands, and it is
rarely exhibited in public, and only by an
order of the senate. When exhibited it is
suspended around the neck of priest by
cord, and no one is allowed to touch it but
him. A decree passed IN 1916 forbids any
one going too near the precious relic. A
Genoese antiquarian has written hook to
demonstrate that this vase is one of the
gifts made to Solomon by the Queen of
Sheba
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1892-01-17
COLOSSAL cARvERs.

There are in the window of Nassau
street cutlery store q colossal carving knife
and fork that are said to be the largest in
the world, and probably the most costly.
They were placed there on exhibition day
or two since. They are upreared in the
window, resting on the handles, with the
blade and prongs crossed. They fill the en-
tire front of the window and look like the
arch of a great gateway.
The knife is ten-and-a-half feet long, the
blade sixteen inches wide.
The fork is seven-and-a half feet long.
The handles were made by the proprie-
tor of the store out of an extra large pair
of elephant tusks, and alone are worth
over $780, The knife and fork together
weigh 800 pounds. and are valued at about
81 500.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1892-01-17

EYE AND EAR, DR. LYONS
Hooper & Eldredge building, 40 S. Main
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1892-01-17

thought he needed for his future work. In
1888 and 1884 he made several exploring
trips through Yeman, the first one with
four Turkish batallions, which he accom-
panied on their war trip against an
'Imam," high religious dignitary. Look
ing for old monument inscriptions, Chaser
was often forced to leave his camp and go
into places occupied by the enemy which
made the trip very dangerous for him.
The first evening in camp he took supper
with one of the four battalion commanders.
All at once
Santa Fe daily New Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1885-1897, 1892-10-03
RELIGION and Fried Chicken.


A we'll known southern divine has in his
congregation an old colored man who has
great confidence in his pastor. One day
Uncle Willis came into the DOCTORS study
Scuse me, sah," he said, "but Use
come to talk wild you on pint dat posters
me a powerful sight"
"What is it, uncle'" inquired the doctor
kindly.
"Well, sab, Use been gwine to yo' chu'ch
for long time an been a-tryin to do de
right"
Eyes, uncle, you have been very faith.
full"
II hope so. sab, but hits been mighty
hahd wuk sometimes, an de ole sarpent
Keeps a-quilin an quilin round me tell he
most smuvers de BRET outen me-"
whats wrong now?"
Hits dem chickens of Kunnel Browns,
sab. De coop he keeps UNI in butts up
agin de lot Use libbin Oh an de palms off
de fence, so dat dey gets ODER in my gar
den. Dey's fat and sassy, sab, and dey's
gittin long ter dat age wha' you kin mighty
nigh smell UNI fryin, an l hahn tasted
chicken dis yeah. Use powerful fond oh
my 'ligion. sab, an it's comfertin to me,
but, sab, human nacher CANT stan cherry
ting, sab, an I spec eff de kunnel don't
take dem chickens away befo' dey's plum
ready to fry, my 'ligion's gwine ter slide
out from in under me, shot 'Ligion Is q
powah, sab, but dar's sumpin satisfyin
about fat chicken dat 'ligion CANT sup
ply, an eff you tell de kunnel my feelins
on de subjick, sab, p'r'aps he'll take dish
yer great temptation away frum me, sab,
and wallop de ole sarpent, sab, right in
his tracks. Scuse me, sab, but I ain akin
too much, is IW
The doctor had the chickens removed
Detroit Free Press.
Santa Fe daily New Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1885-1897, 1892-10-03

No external remedy ever yet devised has
SO fully and unquestionably met these
three prime conditions as successfully as
Allcock's Porous Plasters. They are safe
because they contain no deleterious drugs
and are manufactured upon scientific
principles of medicine. They are sure be-
cause nothing goes into them except in
gradients which are exactly adapted to
the purposes for which plaster is re-
quired. They.are speedy in their action
because their medicinal qualities go right
to their work of relieving pain and restor-
ing the natural and healthy performance
of the functions of muscles, nerves and
skin. Do not be deceived by misrepresen-
tation. Ask for Allcock's, and let no
solicitation or explanation induce to ac-
cept substitute.
Santa Fe daily New Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1885-1897, 1892-10-03
Too Much Attention.

Railway ticket agents are not the only
people annoyed by foolish questions. A
Vermont farmer sent large black hen to
his married daughter, who lives in town
and who wished to keep this present as a
pet. The lady put the hen in coop within
sight of the street.
Almost Immediately the neighbor pass.
ing by said:
"Ah, you have hen. haven't your"
EYES," said the lady.
!'Nice black one, isn't it,"
"Yes."
Soon another neighbor came along and
said: -
why, you have hen"
"Yes."
"Just one hen"
"Yes."
Goal black, isn't it"
"Yes."
In few minutes another acquaintance
came by:
"Well, you have al
Bridget" said the lady to her servant,
kill the hen for supper. Youths Com
panion.
Santa Fe daily New Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1885-1897, 1892-10-03
eileen on Left Side.

Many persons are unable to sleep on
their left side. The cause has long been
o puzzle to physicians. Metropolitan
papers speak with great interest of Dr.
Franklin Miles, the eminent Indiana
specialist ON nervous and heart diseases
who has proven that this habit arises from
diseased heart. He has examined and
kept on record thousands Of cases. His
New Heart Cure, wonderful remedy, is
sold at A. @. Ireland, jr.'s. Thousands
testify to its value as cure for heart dis.
eases. Mrs. Chas. Benoy, Loveland, Colo,
says it's effects on her were marvellous.
Elegant book on heart diseases free.
Santa Fe daily New Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1885-1897, 1892-10-03
Had 1t In for JACK.

Genevieve, he whispered, as the twilight
descended from the hills, if Istop smoking
and drinking, resign from the club, go to
church, save my money and all that, would
you be willing to marry me?
Oh, George, she answered, of course I
would.
Well, then, if do more than that would
you be willing t marry my brother Jack
Santa Fe daily New Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1885-1897, 1892-10-03
That naar old Word. Good-by,

Is mighty sad one when 1t Is tie parting sa u
tatlon between friends whom thousands OF
miles OF salt water are about to separate MARI
ners, buyers in foreign lands for heavy houses
commercial travellers who have made many
trips across the stormy Atlantic, think little OF
an ocean voyage but to the first voyager the
initial trip Is momentous affair. Sea sickness
is to be expe cted as a matter OF course. HOW 10
prevent it? The finest remedy and preventive
sell the jarring motion of the screw Of steam
shin. or o. a locomotive tain, Is Hostetter's
Stomach Bitters, pronounced by sea captains,
the finest stomachic and best defense against
ailments of the bowels, digestive organs and
liver in existence. Malaria, rheumatism, KID
new trouble and debility are remed1ed by II.
Santa Fe daily New Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1885-1897, 1892-10-03
A Muta Recoxers sneech.

Alphonce Hemphling, of Summit town
thip, Butler Co., Pa, made an affidavit
shat his II year old son, who had had st.
Vitus Dance for twelve years, lost his
speech, was completely cured after using
three bottles of DR.. Miles Restorative
Nervine, and also recovered his speech.
Thousands testify to wonderful cures from
using it for nervous diseases, dyspepsia,
nervous debility, dullness, confusion Of
mind, headache, etc. Four doses of this
Nervine cured Mrs. W. E. Burns, South
Bend, Ind, who had been suffering with
constant headache for three months.
Trial bottle and elegan, book free at A..
@. Ireland, ir.'s.