The Yakima herald. [volume] (North Yakima, W.T. [Wash.]) 1889-1914, 1892-11-24

whose plumage is finer than that Of her
mate.
The arid region Of the United States
comprises 100000 square miles, or near
y One-third Of the extent Of the entire
country.
From ll6l to 1880 il was customary 10
England to return the price Of admission
at theateRs to persons who left before the
close Of the frst act.
There are about Il, 900, 900 men Of vOt.
ing age in the United States. The census
Of 1890 showed q foreign-born adult pop
ulatiOn Of ASS, 459.
A London financial paper predicts that
no iess than t25O, OOO, 600 Of foreign money
win be left In America as the harvest Of
the exposition; and that America viii
be literally buried with money seeking
investment.
Alcohol was invented 100 years ago BY
the son Of q strange woman, HagaF, In
Arabia. Ladies' used Il with powder 70
paint themselves that they might appear
more beautiful, and this powder was
called alcohol.
The new Mormon temple at Salt Lake
city will be opened Nay 0, 1893. It has
been in course Of erection for forty years,
hiss cost q, 500, 900 and will be, without
doubt, the biggest architectural night.
mare in the country.
The inhabitants Of the Andaman il
lands are the smallest known race Of hu-
man beings; that is, taken as an aver
age. The height Of q full grown Anda-
mandi seldom exceeds 81 feet, and few
weigh over O5 pounds.
Three-quaTters Of = second IL the time
occupied by the fall Of the knife in the
guillotine. The knife is weighed by / 200
pounds Of lead, falls nine ioet, and cuts
through flesh aud bone as easily as
through bar Of soap.
The estimated wealth Of tho United
Siates-that is, the value Of ell lands,
buildings, railways, etc., is put At S84,.
0OO,OOO.OOO. The amount Of money Of all
kinds Is estimated by the secretary Of the
treasury to be y, lbs, lsO,O92.
The managers Of the great electric light
at Eari's Court, near London, have sue
eeeded not only in throwing the distinct
forms Of gigantic letters upon the clouds,
but they have even made the we'll known
features Of Mr.. Gladstone appear in ghost
~ outlines in the heavens.
The electric omnibus is eOming-with
pneumatic tires, too. Weight 1000
pounds. Heavy, rather, but then, the
inventors say, this bus carries its own
horses, and on a smooth pavement, with
broad pneumatic tires, it will do very
well. They have them 10 London.
Adlai E. Stevenson, the democratic
nominee Tor vice president, never allows
any one to write bis name on a hotel req.
isteF. He always does Il himself with a
dash, thus, - \. E. Stevenson. No
one can put Hon" Or any other title be-
lore bis name. He never writes"Adlai,' -
the initial "a" invariably suficing.
All the car works and locomotive shops
In the country are busy trying to all the
orders for 1900 new passenger coaches
and 40 new locomotives to be delivered
70 roads Centering at Chicago By May l,
1893. II is estimated that the outlay for
additional rolling stock and motive power
BY the Chicago roads alone will not fall
short Of Il, 100000.
The obtaining Of tortoise shells involves
Intense cruelty to the tortoise. When the
creature is caught Il Il fastened 20 the
ground and covered round the shell with
leaves and grass, which are set aflre.
The heat forces the scales Of the shell 70
separate, and they are then cut of with a
knife. The poor reptile Is then released
TO grow new scales.
The red glow Of the planet Mars has
puzzled everybody except q French az,
tronomer, who gives 1t as bis opinion that
the vegetation Of that Iaraway world il
crimson instead Of green. He also saws
that he hasn't the least doubt bot that
there are single flowers on the war god'u
suFiaee which are As large rs the incor.
porRted limits Of Paris.
The NOrweeians Of the northwest arr
having portrait Of Lief Erikson painted
in Norway at a cost Of $4,000. They
will take this pOFiEait 70 Chicago and IN.
veil Il there on May II. The NorWegianu
insist that It was not Columbus Who dis.
covered the new world. but that Eriksou
was the Grst white uIan who landed here.
Salt is an important article Of lcod, and
's obtained chiefly from the mineral king,
dom. In the human body Il is an Ingre,
dent Of al The solids and fluids. Exper,
iments upon domestic animals show thai
The Withdrawal Of salt from their food moi
only mAEes their hides rough and causes
The hair to iall ont, but also inte1EeFeu
with the proper digestion Of food. Hit /,
Withheld persistently, they become en-.
tirely unable 70 appropriate hOurishment,
and die Of starvation. Il shows rs what
an important element salt Is 10 our diet.