The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1894-12-28
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Emerson, Neb., has one brick building.
Germany will increase the tobacco tax.
Wheel theft has been added to horse
stealing as the unforgivabIe crime in
In England S,624,6O families live in
houses or cottages that rent for less than
$1C0 a year.
Wagner was an epicure He was fond
OF any sort of food provided it was
highly seasoned.
once said that cabbage and German go
together"
Acute madness and suicide most fire.
quently follow in cases where people are
deprived of all fluid.
One hundred years ago yellow fever
was more common in northern cities than
1t is now in tropical towns.
Not more than 100000 Mexican cattle
can be sent to the United States this year
IN consequence of the drouth.
During the first three months Of this
year not single passenger and but one
employee was killed on English railroads.
In Peoria house has just been cut in
half and one piece torn down because the
half owners disagreed, one only wanting
to rebuild.
Panthers, wolves and coyotes are the
terrors eff Texas sheep and cattle ranch
ers. These animals are increasing in
stead Of decreasing.
The great hearth fire in the hall of
Roby castle, England. is said never to
have been permitted to go out for CEN
turtles. That in warwick castle will burn
a quarter of a cord of wood at once.
Indiana produces 10000 600 bushels of
corn, 100000 of wheat, $4,000, 900 of oats,
and over 1,000000 tons of timothy 1t has
l0,00O,0W fruit trees bearing 56,000000
bushels of apples and 4.000,000 of peaches.
In these days of luxurious comforts it
it interesting to know that originally
there. were no pews in the old English
churches. Stone benches along tine sides
Of the church were the only fixed seats.
Benamin F. Hunter, a New York col
solving the colored. question. He. will
and employ only negro laborers.
In Italian families children's nurses are
of the household. They are well paid,
petted finely clothed, and all the other
servants are expected to wait upon them.
1t is stated that the gun and amnu-
milton trade at Birmingham, England, is
now more active than at any time during
the past twenty years. The fact is at
ributed solely TO the demand for war
material in the east.
When America was discovered the po-
tato was cultivated in all the temperate
parts of South America, but not IN MeXi-
co. Hieronymus Carbon, Spanish priest.
is believed to have introduced the plant
in Europe.
1t is reported that a company has been
organized In New York to transport coal
from the mouth of the mine to the place
of consumption, by reducing, it to powder.
mixing it with water, and pumping it
through a pipe line.
There is a Spanish proverb that con
Tuesday one should neither travel nor
marry and this superstition is so in
grained that, even in Madrid there are
never any weddings on Tuesdays, and the
trains are almost empty.
Parrots are, put to practical use in
Germany. They have been introduced
iIltn he tat n
call out the name while the train stands
there, and thus save people the trouble
of making inquiries.
Near Rockledge, Fla, farmer discov-
cred tramp asleep in his barn, He
sent for the town marshal to have the
man arrested, but when the tramp was
being questioned it was discovered that
it was a long lost brother OF the farmer.
AS compared with 1880. it appears that
in this country there has been a net in
crease in the number of occupying
owners of farrns-farms worked by the
ewners--of 15S,951, while the number of
tenant families has increased by 599,557.