The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1894-08-15
STARBEAMS.

A Chautauqua lecturer states that the
best teaching of higher English is done in
the German universities.
Thomas Barring, the famous English
banker, with the Hon. Cecil Barring ar
rived in America this week 20 attend a
meeting of railroad directors in Boston
Down in Maryland the crows are eating
up the water melons. One melon grower
carried out of his patch the other day 100
melons which the crows had pecked into
worthleSSneSS.
The Saratoga National Gallery of Fine
Arts" which was damaged by fire last
week to the amount of $4,000, was heavily
insured, and the fire is now supposed to
have been of incendiary origin.
1t is now rumored that the German en-
visit Paris may be .gratified This autumn.
as the French wish to acknowledge his
courtesy in releasing the two French Cf-
ficers as a mark of mis- sympathy with the
nation in the loss of President Carnot.
Chicago. it appears, has bicycle store
where all the stolen bicycles from all over
the country are sent. There The numbers
and tel-tale plates are removed parts are
interchanged and the altered ma chimes Of
fered for sale. The business was so good
that branch offices were opened in many
ether cities.
The teacup has ever been TO woman
Indian, but two New York women have
found use for it, and one of them is now
In a prison cell and the other in a nos
pital because after drinking a friendly
cup of tea they tried to break the cup
over one another's heads.
New York laws forbid anyone giving
food or shelter to the English sparrow,
but DR.. Houghton the pastor Of the Little
Church Around the Corner, defias this law.
In the big trees around the church and
rectory he provides food and coteS for the
assertive little bird, and in that one spot
in the city there is always colony of The
despised little creatures.
Samuel L. Smedley, once chief engineer
of Philadelphia, died recently leaving an
estate of 100000. Out of this amount &c.
600 goes to the publication of 1.000 copies
OF. the snedleg genealogy from the time
tied in Pennsylvania in 1852. Another
Sc. 0G0 is left to the Historical society fol-
the publication of other genealogies.
At Spring Lake, n. J., the other night
they were holding a fire works festival
with hoatful of fireworks. n sending
them up a premature explosion occurred
ard in an instant the man and boat Were
a mass of flames. The nearest boat mar
rewed over and capsizsd the burning craft
and the unfortunate young merry maker
reached shore with his hair and clothes
burned but without serious injury.
A maddened steer came charging up ne
aisle Of an Episcopal church at Newark
| n. j.. last Sunday morning during ser
| vice The animal had broken away from
| a herd being driven through the streets
and had cleared everything before it in its
course through town. The number %, o.
Creatures spirits and ne paused. An ole
cattleman in the congregation promptly
| twisted the invaders tail, whereupon the
| steer turned and trotted out of the build
| ing.
A terrier chased a Maltese cat up into
| an elm in good residence street il
Brooklyn. In her awful terror the cat
rushed upward until she came to a crotch
| on a very slender branch. Then she dis
covered that she couldn't turn around
couldn't get down at all. 20 she begin tc
NEW For nearly forty hours, she be.
walled her fate while the neighbors anc
the police, the board of health and the 5
P. c. A. attempted in vain to get, ,hel
down. The creatures noise was 90 blooc
cUrdling that the theory was that the
| fright had overthorwn her mind, and nc
one was brave enough to go near her
Mice and fish and milk were offered hel
| in vain and the neighborhood gave VI
| trying to sleep. At last a young mar
with a ladder reached the cat and though
size fought, he managed TO catch her BY
the back of the neck and brought her II
safety to her home.