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The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1892-01-03
Queer Facts About Familiar Plants.

Some we'll established and interesting
facts in botanical history relate to the ORR
gin of familiar plants. The ancestor of
the large and fleshy cabbage was a verita-
BILE pigmy-a small plant weighing alto
gether scarcely half an ounce; a diminu-
tive little vegetable, reddish in color and
bitter in taste, has been metamOrphO sed
into the inestimable potato the sweet,
juicy Altringham carrot, weighing from
five to six pounds. is in a wild nditiOn, a
dry, slender root, unfit to eat; the delicate,
we'll favored Vienna glas caui rapi, as
large as mans fst, is when wild a slen-
der, woody, dry stem; the caulitiowsr in
its natural locality is thin bran hed flow
ering stem, with little green, bitter flower
buds.
That the luscious peach has been de-
rived from the hard-shelled almond can no
no longer be successfully denied. 1t is said
that the peach in its original soil was a
virulent poison, and that the Persian war
riors brought to Persia some of the seeds
and planted them for the purpose of poi
soning the points of their arrows so as to
render wounds caused by them TO be fatal,
but a change of climate and soil produced
| fruit which is not only luscious, but is
esteemed exceedingly healthful.
The small black sloe has been trans
formed into the Juicy and golden-yelOw
gage plumb, and the most delicious pippins
owe their origin TO the diminutive, acrid
| crab apple. The savory cantalOup in 8
wild state in India varies from the size OF
| plumb to that of lemon, and in most cases
is either insipld or bitter.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1892-01-03
People and Countries.

The population of Iceland falls by 1000
year at present.
Every year l 200 children are born in the
warehouses; in London.
A man of fifty has spent over 5000 days
of his life asleep.
Single women on an average live longer
than single men.
The death-rate amongs convicts is only
eight per 600.
There are nearly 5000 small islands
round the British coast.
Nearly 100000 people are engaged in
wine cultivation in France.
The art galleries of the Australian colo
MES now represent cash value of $780,
600.
Between the years 1890 and 1880 no less
than 3, 400 women were burned in Scotland
for witchcraft.
There are about one thousand one hun
dred men employed in the Bank OF En-
gland, and their united salaries, including
pensions, amount TO about Sl,500,O00 per
annum.
| According to official returns, the popula-
ton of China numbered in 1887 3O2, OoS, IA
inhabitants, and increased IN 1883 to BOB,
244. 969 giving an increase of more than
one million souls in year.
New Zealand has a population of $40, 600,
of whom 10000 are Maoris. One OF the
principal industries is the gathering OF
kauri gun, which is used in the manufac-
ture of varnishes. 1t 10 usually founo
there in a semi-fossilized state.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1892-01-03
Land Transformed by Ants.

A traveller in Central Australia has dis
covered that the surface of the country has
been greatly changed by what may appear
at first thought ridiculous agency-the
white ants. On plain and in thickets their
nests are so numerous that it is difficult to
drive among them. The clay with which
the nests are built is, when cemented with
resinous matter, as hard as brick, and
when the nests fall to pieces they form
clay flats, almost impervious TO water and
not easily cut up by traffic. The work of
these creatures can be studied in all stages;
first IN the thickets, where they are com
mencing work; then in the more open
country, where they have crowded out the
timber; next on the plains, where half the
hills will be found deserted: and lasUly on
the clay flats, where they have almost en-
tirely disappeared and the scrub has began
to grow again. The nests are further re-
markable for the large proportion of iron
they contain.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1892-01-03
OUR CABINET.
The Herald's Museum Of Curl
OSities.
Odd and Remarkable Things Saved
Up for Inqusitive PeOple-WOn
ders of Nature.

A lover of the curious in numbers has
figured out some interesting facts concern
ing the city of Berlin. The city has 210
miles of streets, so that a person might
walk ten days in the German capital with
out going up or down the same street twice
If the 100000 Inhabitants were to turn
out at "a grand review, and march in double
file, they would form line $50 miles in
length, a column long enough to reach
nearly entirely across France. If the citi-
Zens should all determine to start on a
journey on the same day and at the same
time, all the cars in Germany would &C
commodate but two-thirds of their num-
Der. If formed in a single file, each with
his hand on the others shoulder. the col
umn would be nearly two thousand miles
long. If separated until only within
speaking distance of each other, the col
umn would be human telegraph line long
enough to reach from Berlin to Calcutta,
| India
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1892-01-03

1t is to be hoped that the gigantic dams
which are being erected in the west for IT.
rigating purposes are being constructed
soidly enough to insure the safety Of the
people living in the valleys below them.
Persons who have never seen an irrigation
dam have but d slight conception OF their
immensely. The following are the dimen-
sions of four of the largest that have been
completed within the last year: THE
Walnut Grove dam, near Prescott, Ariz.,
no feet high, inclosing $50 acres, with a
capacity OF 4,OOO,O COO gallons. 2-The
MERGED dam, Central California, l mile
long, go feet high, $50 acres, capacity
100000 600 gallons. 3-Sweewater River
dam, near San Diego, Cal, 90 feet high,
725 acres, capacity 6,0O0,O0O,O0O gallons.
1.-The Bear Valley dam, in San Bernar-
dino county, Cal, Is 90 feet high, inclosing
2, $50 acres, ana will hold lO,OO0O 600, 900 gall
Ions of water.-St. Louis Republic
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1892-01-03
Sacred Nnts Of .Ianan.

Although well-known to travellers and
collectors of curiosities, the horn nut or
sacred NUT of Japan was almost wholly
unknown to fruit and nut dealers in this
country prior to 1888, when a Broadway
New York; commission merchant received
the first large consignment They are
called sacred nuts" because usad in GER
tain forms of Japanese worship, where
they are placed on the altar and ignited.
Being very rich in oil they burn with & not,
blush flame and give off peculiar odor,
the fumes being supposed to rise as an &C
ceptable incense to the Gods. They grow
under water, ard have a leaf like an Ameri-
can lilly, the form of tie nutltseIf being an
almost exact counterpart of an Asian buff
falo's head, dropping horns and all In the
raw state they are hard asd tasteiess, but
when cooked the flavor resembles that of
boiled chestnuts. They are said to retain
their edible qualities Tor upwards OF
twenty years.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1892-01-03
ODDS AND ENDS.

Each discharge of 11O-ton gun costs
$1,000.
The tusks of an ordinary elephant weigh
about 100 pounds.
Italy sends 100000 eggs to England ev-
cry week.
There is village called A. B. c. in New
York state.
Nearly 300 vessels pass through the
Suez canal yearly.
England has 5000 mounted yeomanry,
costing $3.50, 900 per year.
The snowdrifts in North park, Colo, are
said to be twelve feet high already.
The best wines are found to be produced
from grapes grown upon volcanic soils.
There is fish hatchery in Michigan that
has 81, 900, 600 white fish eggs in process of
cubation.
a quarter of a million dollars worth OF
fish is sold every week in Billingsgate.
In 100 years $500 worth of pennies would
only be worth $3.50, so quickly does copper
money wear away.
A pin manufacturer in Ansonia, Conn,
is about to utilize some twenty barrels OF
imperfect pins in building a sidewalk in
front of his residence.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1892-01-03
PERSONAL MENTION

C. R, VAN NORMAN. of Dixon, Wyo., is at the
Continental.
DIR. FREEMAN and family will leave the city
next week for California, where they intend
making their future home.
MRS. JOHN LEE, Lander, Wyo.; John c.
Marshall Mexico; James Y. Marshall Lead
vile, Col. and W. s. Marrow, New York, are
at the Cullen.
GEORGE GODDARD PARK and G. B. Squires,
of Bingham are at the VIII tie.
N. BEEMAN, Evanston, and j. H. Roynard,
Omaha, are at the Walker
C. c. MILLER and WIFE Colorado; Miss Kate
Hubbs, Ogden; Martin Williams, of Mammoth,
are at the Gift.
CALEB B. WICK, Youngstown, O., and j. II.
Burpiend. Beaver are at the knutsford.
MRS. M. A. GREENE, of Minneapolis, is visit
ing her daughter, Mrs. j. W. Campbell, ia A
street.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1892-01-03
WONDERS OF NATURE
Some Strange Things About Trees, Plants,
Etc.

The native agave or mague is one of the
most useful plants known to the Mexi-
can. 1t has been cultivated there
certainly as far back as 1919 and its roots,
leaves and juice yield variety OF products
Paper is made from the pulp of the leaves,
Irvine and thread from it's flores, and
needles from the sharp tips of their leaves.
These leaves also serve as matching for
the houses of the poor. The rare and val
uable Mexican manuscripts in ancient
times were made of the pulp, which re-
sembled the papyrus, Ptlquc. the national
drink of the Mexican, is also made from
that there is a train on the Mexican rail-
wav which leaves the plains of Apam
every day laden with nothing but puIque in
barrels and skins, from which it derives q
revenue of over $1,000 q day from the
shipments.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1892-01-03

inside the cave it is warm and damp, and
the drip, drip Of the water as it continually
falls from the rocks above reminds one of
spring or the dropping of rain after an
April shower from the caves of a summer
cottage.
The cave is renowned in the legends of
the Chickasaw and Winneshiek Indians.
Less than sixty years ago old DEBORAH,
chief of all the Winneshieks. used it for
preserving dressed game, such as deer and
antelope. DEBORAH is a town of 1900 m
habitants about 125 miles northwest Of
DUBUQUE
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1892-01-03
he Explosion at Dublin Castle Was Not Gas.

DUBLIN, Jan. 2 The theory that the ex-
plosion at Dublin castle was that of gas
was effectually disposed of to-day. Those
making an examination, in examining the
beams supporting the floor directly over
the cellar where the explosion occurred,
found a NUMBER of small pieces of metal
deeply imbedded in the timbers. This Is
evidence beyond question that the explo-
sive, whatever it may have been, was en-
closed in metal case. Investigation is
still going on and the police say it will re-
veal some clue that will lead to the detec-
ton of the perpetrators of the outrage.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1892-01-03

ceived twenty-four barrels, or about two
and one-half tons of gum in one day, and it
will have 125 barrels 5000 pounds, before
the close of the season. The first grade of
the gum is clean and clear, and ready for
chewing 1t sells at wholesale for go cents
to 81 a pound. The dark colored gum,
mixed with bark and pitch, is worth from
to IS cents pound, and is purchased by
refners who boil it, skim off the dirt, add
some other things, and produce many vari-
cites of spruce gum.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1892-01-03
Discovery of Gutata Percha Forest.

1t is reported that new forest of the
most valuable species of gutta percha has
been discovered near Singapore. This par
ticular quality of gutta percha was for
merly in great demand for sub marine
cables, but the ignorant natl res where the
forests were located destroyed the trees in
their eaegrness to supply the market.
Steps are being taken to have the British
government take action to preserve the
forest before it is too late.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1892-01-03
HOTEL TEMPLET IN

Opposite temple and tabernacle. The only
strictly first.class hotel in Salt Lake city.
Dining hall on sixth floor, giving splendid
view Of the city Cuisine and service un-
surpassed west of Chicago.
ALoNzo YOUNG, Manager.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1892-01-03
KNIGHTS OF PYTHIAs.

Calanthe lodge met as usual on Monday
evening. The chief business was the cleo
ton of officers for the ensuing term which
resulted as follows:
II. F. Clark, past chancellor; w. B. Hol-
land, chancellor commander; A. S. Martin.
vice chancellor; Thomas Kane, prelate;
w. M. Risley, keeper of records and seals !;
Il. Jones, master of exchequer; S. d.
Evans, master at arms, W. b. Morton
master of finance; S. Z. Walker, trustee.
The installation of these officers elect
will take place tomorrow evening
Myrtle lodge met on Wednesday evening.
There was very good attendance. One
application for initiation was read and a
good deal of business, incidental TO the
closing of the lodge books for the year was
transacted. and the following officers were
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1892-01-03
The Gum Business is Booming,

The spruce gum season is on in Maine,
and business is booming. One firm re-
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1892-01-03
Southern Pacific Offices to Go to New orlean,

GALVESTON, Jan. "A gentleman promi-
nently connected with the Southern Pacific
railroad company stated here to-day that
the general offices of that company will
shortly be removed from New Orleans to
Houston, Texas.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1892-01-03
SECRET SOCIETIES.
MAsoNs.

The holidays interfered with work in the
Masonic order. The only notable event of
the week was the visitation of the Grand
Lodge to Argenta subordinate lodge on
Tuesday evening at which the third degree
was exemplitied.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1892-01-03
a Promising Product.

The manufacture of a new disinfectant
and deodorant called Sauridod has been
commenced at Maryhill, Eng. 1t is a resi-
dual product of an uncommon kind Of
blackstone shale. which is composed of
animal and vegetable remains, is remark
ably light, and yields a large proportion Of
a heavy volatile oil. Tie oil Is extracted
by distillation, and the residual product ia
reduced to grains of different sizes, vary
ing from five powder to the size of pea.
The powder is claimed to have an instan-
taneOus effect upon obnoxious matter,
while also being tasteless and colorless and
harmless to all animal life. In the granu-
lated form the substance acts powerfully
for fltering and sweetening water. The
oil, mixed with other substances, is used as
a manure, which combines the qualities of
a fertilizer and powerful inseeticide.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1892-01-03

Mrs Jeanette Crawford will give her
'Initial' recital at the parlors of the Metro
politan on Monday evening. January 4.
Her introduction to the public is heralded
by testimonials of a tlattering character,
and treat is in store for those who attend.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1892-01-03

Main street, Thursday, January {, from 2
to p. M, for the benefit Of the Orphans
home This worthy charity will appeal to
the hearts of our people and generous re-
Spouse will be looked for. Tickets may be
procured at the door,
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1892-01-03
The Deepest Mine.

The st. Andre de Poirer mine of France
is the deepest in the world 1t is now
worked 4, GOO feet below the surface.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1892-01-03

The Southern society will meet on We'd
nesday evening, the 9th, at the Walker
house parlors a full attendance is de-
sired, and it is hoped all members may find
it convenient to be present.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1892-01-03

The Ladies' Literary club met on New
Years day and most interesting paper
upon Municipal Reform was read by
Miss Helen Crawford.
Daily tobacco leaf-chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1890-1895, 1892-05-26
Attention, Subscribers.

The Atlanta Constitution has
notified the LEAF CHRONICLE that
the clubbing arrangements be.
tween the two papers, whereby both
can be had for $2.O0per year, will
expire June /.
Those who wish to take advantage
of this unparalleled offer should dc
so at once or the chance will be lost.
A great many have taken advantage
of the proposition all over the
GAINESVILLE Tobacco District. There
are many more no doubt who have
decided to avail themselves of the
offer who have not yet found it con.
venient to do so. This notice, there.
fore, is intended for them, and they
are hereby given warning. The
LEAF-CHRoNICLE alone is worth the
price of both papers, and no one can
afford to let the chance slip, by
which two good papers can be had
for the price of one. Remember the
date, June 1, and send your subscrip.
tiops before it is too late. DIT, sw3t
Daily tobacco leaf-chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1890-1895, 1892-05-26
THE ANTi-HlLLlTES.
Prospects of Big Convention Mt SYRIA
cuae Next Tues6av

Prospects of n Big Convention Mt SYRIA
cuse Next Tuesday.
SYRACUSE, N. Y, May 26.-Next Tues
day this city will be the scene of one of
the greatest kickers' conventions ever re-
corded in the history of Democracy in
the United States 1t will size David b.
Hill up in terms that will astonish the
natives. Two hundred thousand sigma
lures of professors are said to have been
secured, and it is stated that 500 dele
gates will be here by Tuesday morning
The place of meeting was changed
Tuesday from Weiting opera house to
the Alhambra, the largest hall in SYRIA
cuse. This decision was made by the
local committee after the arrival here of
Captain b. w. Fay, of Brooklyn, who
came as the representative of the pro-
visional committee.
The convention will not only protest
against Hills capture of the state at the
II bruary convention, but will probably
indorse Grover Cleveland, though Gov
ernor Flower is a favorite with many
delegates. Ex-Mayor Grace, George
William Curtis, Carl Schurz and other
leading Democrats of the state will or
ganize the convention.
Daily tobacco leaf-chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1890-1895, 1892-05-26
A BIG DAY AT HELENA, ARK.
dwelling of the Monument to the Com
federate Dead.


federate Dead.
HELENA, May 26.-The streets of this
little city were filled Wednesday with
thousands of strangers who came by
steamboat and train to participate in the
exercises attending the unwilling of the
Confederate monument. All the build
ings on the Main street were completely
hidden under decorations, consisting of
flags, bunting and the national colors.
"Old Glory" ia size and small and great
met the view at every turn, and its folds
caught the whirlwinds of enthusiasm.
Confederate flags appeared occasionally,
but not conspicuously. Over one of the
main streets were stretched the Union
and Confederate flags, and connecting
them a canvas on which was written the
legend: Omitted We Stand, Divided We
Fall"
The reunion was held under the aus
pices of the Ex-Confederate Veterans
association Of Phillips county, Ark.
Tuesday night at the opera house Sen
ator Berry, on behalf of the Ladies' Me-
mortal association, presented the monu-
ment to the Sons of Veterans. The
speech of acceptance was delivered by
d ulSG ~. w. NlCUOllS, DIS pISSl'ltllo VI
the Sons of Veterans organization.
Speeches were also delivered by Colonel
James Blackburn and P. d. McCol-
Tough.
The monument was unveiled, and an
Grafton delivered by Colonel John r.
Fellows, of New York, at o'clock
Wednesday afternoon. The grounds Sc
lected for the Confederate cemetery at
Helena, and for the site of the monu-
ment, is a plateau of wooded hillside 300
feet above the level of the Mississippi
river. This plat of ground was donated
by citizens of this place. The monu-
ment from base to apex is thirty-seven
feet high, with three sections of base,
the lowest base being nine feet square.
The four sides are ornamented with a
plinth, with nodded gable, the front
gable having thirteen stars in bas re-
lief, below which, in raised lettering, is,
Confederate Memorial" Eight cannons
occupy corners and centers between.
On the west and east side of the shaft
are appropriate inscriptions.
Shortly after 1 o'clock Wednesday
afternoon the different organizations as
sembled in front of Fitzpatrick hall,
and, at the firing of the signal gun,
marched to Confederate hill.
Daily tobacco leaf-chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1890-1895, 1892-05-26
NOT YET SETTLED.
The Granite Labor Troubles Are Still on
in the East.

BOSTON, May 26.-The secretary of the
Granite Manufacturers association,
state that trouble between the granite
company and its employees over the pro-
posed change in date in the bill of prices
has not been settled, as was reported,
That company is in the hands of the re-
ceivers, who have made an arrangement
with the union whereby they are al
lowed to keep their men at work until
certain contracts upon which they are
now engaged are completed, the present
bill of prices to continue in force.
AS these contracts may last till Jan. l.,
the present bill may run until that date,
but it is not specifically stated in the
agreement that the bill of prices shall
extend to Jan. /.
This agreement was entered into by
the receivers against the protest of Col
onel Josh II. French, the president of
the company, who declared that as long
as the company was a member of the
Manufacturers association it should live
up to the decisions of the latter, and
should not resume work until the asso-
CATIONS permission is received.
Daily tobacco leaf-chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1890-1895, 1892-05-26

Il London cable says it is extremely
doubtful that Ted Pritchard and Bob Fitz
simmons will meet in September for the
purse offered by the New Orleans club
Pritchard claims that he would not have
sufficient time in which to train.
The Albert medal of the London Society
of Art has been awarded to Thomas A
ADDISON for electric lighting, the telegraph
and the telephone. Among former holders
of the medal were Faraday, Liebig, Dc
Lesseps, Bessemer and Helmholtz.
The Merchants and Miners bank, of
Tallapoosa, Ga, has been placed in the
hands of Book-keeper Gilbert. as receiver
An inspection by the state bank inspector
showed Irregularities Vice President
Spencer has been placed under arrest.
Colonel Albert Pope, of Boston, offers 0
reward of $500 for the apprehension and
conviction of the person or persons who
maliciously stretched barbed wire across
the path of the bicyclersin the relay race
from Chicago to New York, and maliciously
cut the tires of the bicycles
Red Cedar Lake, Wis, is again agitated
by the long tale Of a monster, which has
lain dormant during the cold months. A
farmer lost five valuable sheep by the
visit of the varmint Their mangled forms
were found in the mud, partly devoured
1t is supposed to be a monster mud
turtle