The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1892-07-24
FROM ALL SOURCES
"A String of Items About Things
Not Much Known.
Little Statistical Statements to Put Away
in Your Scrap Book for
Reference

There are 300, 900 commercial travellers In
the United States.
A Russian can plead infancy for long
time, as he does not come OF age till be is
70 years old.
Two little islands, Zanzibar and Pemba,
furnish four-fifths OF the cloves consumed
by the world.
In 200 years $500 worth of pennies would
only be worth $3.50, so quick does copper
money wear away.
1t is estimated that fully two-thirds of
the whole amount of public money held
by the London banks does not bear IN
terest
Denmark has q system of henevolence
by which the honest poor of 90 years OF
age are insured against want II is on the
pres umption that they have always PAID
taxes.
A pneumatic tube connects Paris with
Berlin. IG is used for postal purposes an d
makes it possible for letter mailed IN
Paris to be delivered in Berlin IN thirty
five minutes.
The largest whale ever captured was run
down by TIE New London Conn, wbaler
Lizzie Simmons, in 1854. 1t was captured
/ in the Cumberland Inlet, aud yielded l6S
barrels of oil and 259 pounds of whale
bone
Russia has become infected with the
vice of ether drinking, and the pernicious
habit has spread so rapidly that the
Government has judged it necessary to
prohibit the free sale OF ether and OF GER
tain of It's compounds, and 10 schedule 1t
among the poisons.
With the opening up Of the world by
railway and steamship communication the
demand for diamonds has increased mar
velously- The world now purchases about
S25 0O0, 900 worth per annum. twenty
years ago the amount was about half q
million sterling.
The first living skeleton was Claude
Sewart, born in France in 1872 He was
tall. and would have been well shaped had
there been any flesh on his body; as 1t was,
every bone could be distinctly seen. His
arms were compared TO two ivory flutes,
and his abdomen seemed to cling TO MS YER
tebre. He made fortune exhloiting
himself, retired to his native village, and
died suddenly at the age OF 81.
The name of porcelain Tower was ap-
plied TO Chinas unique structure on &c
count of the fact that the whole OF the out
aide work was covered with porcelain slabs
OF various sizes and colors, but principally
of red. white yellow and green. AT every
one of its nine stories the projecting ROOF
of the gallery was covered with green tiles,
each corner being provided with a bell,
varying in weight from 300 to 1000 pounds,
Eighty years ago boys in the United
I States under s years Of age worked III
factories, in instances fourteen hours g
day: soc week was not uncommon rate
of wnces for women; very capable
/ 4 do at "a re- u
which she must give six months of unpaid
service to learn; with calico ut SOC yard
a voman's earnings for ten weeks WOULD
only suffice TO buy the material for {
dress.
M. Morouet, friar of the Florentint
Order in Paris, has constructed u perfect
watch only quarter of an inch in diameter
| Besides the tw hands seen on ali watches
II has third which marks the seconds. be-
sides q microscopic dial which indicates the
days, weeks, months and years. IL con-
tains an alarm, aud on its front lid is an In
peniously cut figure of st. Francis. Or
The back cover, by the aid OF powerful
glass. you can distinctly read two verses Of
the "Te Deum."
In museum of curiosities at Salem
Mass. there is preserved common Cherry
seed or stone. followed and fashioned like
a BASKET Within the basket are twelve
tiny silver spoons, the shape and finish o.
which can not be distinguished with the
naked eye Tie name of the artist whit
constructed this little wonder has beer
lost. but the actual existence of the thing
itself Will not be questioned by any one
from the old witch headquarters Of tht
Bay State
The word 'calico" has a queer origin
MANY centuries age the first monarch o.
the province of Malabar gave TO one of hi
chiefs, as a reward for distinguished ser
vices. his sword and all the land within
the limit of which cock Growing at a Ger
tain temple could be heard. From THU
circumsi ance the little town which grew
MP in the center OF this territory wa
called Calicoda, or the cock growing. AT
forwards it was called Calicut, aud from
this place the first cotton goods were i'm
ported into England, bearing the name o
calico