The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1893-10-21
FOREIGN FLASHES.

Jdpdu6S6 CQllUTon. are taught TO
write with both hands.
The highest steeple in the world is
that of the cathedral of Antwerp,
476 feet.
The little island of Iceland, with
about seventy thousand inhabitants,
has the same number of newspapers
as the great empire of China
A native of Calcutta is on the point
of establishing snake laboratory
for the study, under strictly scientific
conditions, of snake poisons and cures
for snake bites.
At the beginning of the last war Gin
1SS6)the population of Paraguay was
reckoned at 10000; today it is less than
100000, and fully six-sevenths of that
number are women.
In Dutch Guiana the women carry
upon their persons all the family saw
ings in the shape of heavy bracelets,
anklets. necklaces, and even crowns
of gold and silver.
Great Britain and her colonies have
27,9O6 ships of all kinds; France has
1928; Germany 1885; Russia, f. 4O6;
Italy, $50; United States, 22,623; the
world, 1O7137.
ahere was recently given in Denmark
a concert that may be regarded as alb
soidtely unique as regards the instru-
ments used. The instruments included
two horns from the bronze age, which
are believed to be at least $500 years
old
In Hawaii, one of the Sandwich is
lands. there is a spot called the Rock
of Refuge. If a criminal reaches the
rock before capture he is safe, so long
as he remains there. Usually his fam
|: hi L
able to make his escape, but he is
never allowed to return to his own
tribe.
Captain Boyton's water toboggan in
London are the Right Hon. Arthur ]
| C''Bloody'D Balfour and Prince Edward
of Sake Weimar. Mr.. Balfour is Sc
date and dignified man at most times
but when he gets into the Chute" as
lit is called. he wheops and shrieks
| like Comanche.
The largest family is that of the
King of Siam. He has two official
wives, lightweight of the second class
and seventy-two children. He has fiji
ty brothers and sisters, and 226 uncles
and aunts. They all board with the
king, so that there are more than 200
cooks in the royal kitchen.
France is soon to adopt an interest
| ing innovation in the postal card syS-
tenn The card will be issued in the
form of check books, with stubs The
sender of the postal card can make
memoranda of its contents on the stub
and can have this stamped at the post
Office before the card is detached, so
that a verified record of the cores
| pondence can be kept.
King Leopold of Belgium is always
looking out for. the main chance and
| speculates heavily. 1t is limited that
/ if the true inWardness of the Panama
speculation on the Paris Bourse is
brought to light, His Majesty will fig
ure as one of the chief manipulators.
He is not at all popular with his sub
| jects and is set down as a cold-blooded
insincere man of the world, who cares
for nobody but himself.
Kerosine oil is rapidly growing in
favor as a cheap illuminant in China
The consumption, which was $685.
600 gallons in 1882 has risen to 40
| 34S,0OO gallons in 1891 OF this amount
so per cent was imported from Amer
lea and 20 per cent from Russia. The
illuminant before kerosine was intro.
duced was bean or tea oil The Chi
nese have discovered, however, that
kerosine is cheaper and gives a better
light. 1t is called fire oil by them
The eight women colonies of the
| German army, who draw swords only
semi-occasionally and their salaries
regularly, are: The empress of Ger
many; the dowager empress, wife 81
the late Frederick the third; ths
Princess Frederick Charles of Prussia
the queen regent Sophia, the Queer
Wilhemina of the Netherlands; the
duchess of Connaught; the duchess O
Edinburgh, sister of the empress O
Russia, and Queen Victoria of Eng
land.
There is a tree at Tule, state o
Oaxaca, Mexico, which rivals in ex
tent of ground covered by it's branche,
some of the monster trees of tn,
Orient. A traveller who saw it recent
ly says that he found resting unde
it's branches detachment of troops
numbering 500. Most of them be
longed to the neighborhood, and tfiei
wives and children had come to thu
rendezvous to meet them, and wer
under the tree, besides number o
vendors of all sorts of eatables ant
several horses. All these had plent,
of room, and they were all within tn
wall which surrounds the tree, Will
its branches extend some twenty fee
beyond the wall on either side, afford
ing shade for as many more.
Mrs Pruner-Have you got ac
lquainted in the church yet? Mrs. Prin
Yes, indeedi I already belong to on
of the oldest factions in it.-Plail