The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1892-11-18
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Welsh.
The choir Of the Mormon temple at Sal
Lake is 300 strong.
In the reign of Queen Victoria ENGLAND
has had fifteen wars.
Billiards were invented in the reign O
King Charles TX in France.
There are four times as many IrishmeI
IN the United States as Englishmen.
California's wine crop will equal q quar-
for every man, woman and child in tn
United States.
Between the years 1890 and 1850 no les
than 3. 400 women were burned il Scotland
for witchcraft.
1t was Martin Luther who said: "He WIFI
is not handsome at twenty, strong at thirty
educated at forty, and rich at fifty, viii
never be handsome, strong, educated Of
rich"
One-ffth Of the 10000, 600 families il
France have no children. As many more
have only one child. and of those who have
as many IS seven children the number ii
only $4,000
There are only four places in the world
where women possess all the privileges oil
voting which are accorded to men, VIZ: Ice
land Pitcairn island, the Isle of Man and
Wyoming, .. S. A.
There are now two colored women law
yers, twenty-four doctors, six civil engin-
GERS, nineteen photographers and thirty
two artists. There are also liz colored
women pursuing studies abroad.
Lake Baikal, ia Siberia, is the deepes,
lake in the world. 1t only has an area oil
5000 square miles, but ii has a depth OF
from 1000 TO 5, 600 feet, 30 that its volume
is nearly equal to that of Lake Michigan.
The graudest tomb in the world is, with
out doubt, the Tai Mahal, or crown OF en-
pires, at Agra. IL is an octagnal building
of the purest white marble, the interior be-
ing decorated with inlaid work Of precious
stones.
DR.. HERSHEY has added new terror to
leap year by telling, in the american Medi-
cal NelUs, how patients have been cured of
severe gastric anc other troubles simply by
sticking 20 ice cream as a steady diet. And
any number of young ladies will rise up
and call DR.. HERSHEY blessed.
As war material becomes more deadly
every year, scientific men are estimating
the terrific loss of human life which will
ensue in the next war. A bullet from a
Mannlicher rife would 20 straight through
three or four men standing close behind
each other, so that there will be no more
shelter in marching in dense lines.
The coats mentioned in the Bible were
square garments of fine lambs wool, worn
by every Israelite. There was a hole in
the center for the head to 90 through, and
it hung down before and behind. 1t was q
coat by day, a covering at night and a
shroud in the grave. If seized by cred
itOr il had TO be returned at sunset.
Take pencil and multiply-twice two
are four, twice four are eight, etc, and you
will dnc that in the twentieth generation
you had l,04S, $40 ancestors, without count
ing the intermediate generations, and that
in the thirtieth generation you had over
1,OOO, Co., 600 ancestors, without counting
those between yourself and the thirtieth.
During the early part of this century and
previously the official tax gatherers on the
Island of Hawaii, in the Sandwich group
did all their accounts on q rope 400 feet
long which was divided into lengths, each
corresponding to q district. Loops, Knots
and feather tufts along the rope served as
memoranda tor the hogs, pigs and pieces of
sandal wood collected from the taxpayers.
BY the law Of Prussia no prince of the
royal family is allowed 10 borrow money,
nor is any one permitted to lend him money.
II any one does lend he can not recover.
Acting on this law, Frederick the Great
never repaid any PrussiRn who had ad-
vanced BIN funds when be was heir to the
throne, for he deemed that such a person
had not only violated the law, but ought to
lose his money for having done an i'm
proper action.
The single tribe of the Betsi Fangs, In
the Congo country. according to DE
Brazzs, numbers oVer2, 900, 00O souls. Their
most important villages are from three to
ten miles back from the rivers. Father
Leieune estimates that along the OgoWe
river from Lamberene to Ndyole there are
900, 600 FsnRs. But all the rivers forming
o network through the country are in the
possession Of this race.
OF the 32e. ZIG divorces granted in the
United States for twenty years, 2l6. 176, or
SIS per cent OF the whole, were granted
TO wives on their petitions for divorce
from their husbands and 1l2,546 were
granted husbands for the alleged fault of
the 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 divorce rather than the husband.
The ialand o. MADAGASCAR has two dis
tinct climates, two classes OF natives and
two classes of fauna and fora. The island
is about the size of France. Along the
coast IL IS tropical and nalarious. and the
natives are darker and larger than in the
interior The interior is high table land and
mountainous. There the climate is cooler and
he natives smaller and lighter in color
han on the coast But IN the interior
ney are more intelligent and they rule
the island.
The famous maxim about two blades of
grass growing where one grew before has
been attributed 10 many prominent men,
and among others, especially to Lord
Psimerston. 1t really occurs for the first
time in "Gulliver's Travels:n "Whoever
could make two ears OF corn or two blades
OF grass grow upon q spot of ground y here
only one grew before, would deserve bet
ter of mankind and do more essential ser
vice to his country than the whole race of
politicians put together"
Although AlDhonso XII of Spain has
been dead six years his BODY is not yet
finally inferred. According 10 ancient Gus
tom the royal remains rest for time in a
weird cavern called the "Pudrido," deep in
the side Of the mountain on which the Es
curial is built. The body lies on a slab of
rock near stream OF running water. wait
ing until il becomes mummified, and so lit
10 be transferredsso its proper niche among
the remains OF It's numerous ancestors Is
the jasper vault under the great dome of
the beautiful Escurial church.
horse trainer is authority for the fol-
lowing: There is more good work in a
horse above TO or u years, year for year OF
his life, than in any year under that age.
always provided that he has not been
Timed or broken down. 1 refer to kind