The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1892-11-29

strong that even Ulysses was obliged to
dilute IL with twenty parts Of water.
In the Southern provinces of Russia a
drink resembling brandy is obtained by
distilling the juice of the watermelon.
In making champagne the grapes are
squeezed six times, each pressure making
wine OF 8 different quality.
Hippocrates mentions wine made of med
lars, mulberrles, asparagus, orlganum,
thyme and many other herbs.
The Lacryma Christi is Portuguese
wine, made from the juice that first flows.
without pressure, from the grapes
In 1871 $50 lending doctors of England is
sued q cautionary declaration against the
use Of alcohol IN MEDICAL practice.
There has been but one total eclipse Of
the sun at London since the year 49, that
of lTI5. and according to professor Holden,
there will not be another until after the
! opening Of the Twenty-frst century.
Mrs. Lewis Washington Of Charleston,
w. Va, owns the faulty Bible which for
merly belonged to General Washington's
mother.
Patti owns an open-faced stsm-winding
watch that is smaller than q United States
dime. It's almost completely covered with
diamonds and is valued al g, coo.
''Tipperusalem" City, o. T., is com
of Jew and an Irishman. The former
wanted the city named Jerusalem; tue lat
! ter wanted it named ripperary. Neither
would give way to the ctner, and Upper
uealem is the result.
At Trenton, Mo-, 6 man over eighty
years old has achieved local fame by let
ting the dentist pun twenty-one OF his
teeth at single sitting Without taking gas
or chloroform.
The Empire State Express on the New
York Central has 8 record Of 147 miles in
$50 minutes, including five-uinute stop.
The run was made between Albany aud
/ Syracuse.
The cost of lighting for the Worlds fair
at Chicago viii be about ten times the cost
of lighting the exposition held at Paris.
4 The estimate is st present placed q I
8, 5Oo 0Oo.
/ 4 pine tree in Pennsylvania recently
scaled S,033 feet of lumber. It made sew
enteeu saw-Iogs, y and l6 feet in length,
and the top end of the butt log was 5S
inches in diameter.
Bergen, Norway, boasts paper church
large enough to seat 1000 persons The
! building is rendered waterproof by q
solution of quicklime, curdled milk and
whites Of eggs.
A Leipsic scientist has demonstrated by
! facts and figures, what most people have
always believed that colds are oftener
caught by those who wrap themselves up
and avoid tue severity of the weather than
/ by those who dare 10 brave the elements.
OStriches are commonly plucked once
every eight months, yielding one pound
weight of feathers each, but many farmers
only pluck sixty feathers at 3 time, so as
not to cause too much irritation and infiam-
nation, which is very injurious to the
health of the birds and lessons the next
crop Of feathers.
The French Congo country is i've times
the size OF France. IL is believed that it
con tains 5000 900 people, and more than
half of them are Pahouins, as De Brazzs
calls them, or Fans, as Du Chaillu made
4 them known. Those who know them best
say their name is properly Fsngs. They
are by far the most remarkable people in
west Africa.
A man who has been looking up the mat
ter says that an old law is still in force in
Pennsylvania that il it were enforced,
would bear hard on society women. 1t de-
clares that ''if any white female of ten
years or upward snail appear in any public
street, lane, highway, church, court house,
! ball ROOM theatre or any place of public
resort with naked shoulders, that is, low
necked dresses, being able TO purchase the
necessary clothing, she shall forfeit and
( pay fine of not less than 81 nor more than
5000"