The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1894-03-14
STARBEAMS.

SIAkBIAMS,
The new king of Dahomey is not
fully married yet, having only a few
more than seventy wives.
! England still expects every man to
do his duty. The papers over there are
roasting" Mr.. Charles Mitchell saw
agely for being knocked out so easily
i by a 'blawsted Yankee"
Uncle Sans official account of the
rebellion is nearly finished. 1t will
fill 120 large volumes and it has taken
nearly twenty years to prepare it. It's
total cost will be about 21s million dol
lars.
A New York man celebrated" the
anniversary of his sons death by Civ
ing supper ana dance in a public
hall. 1t was largely attended by
! friends of the father and the former
companions Of the dead man.
| John Herbert Firth, an Englishman,
has secured IA million acres of land
in Mexico and is going to colonize at
least 500 families of Hindoos on it.
They will be exempt from military
duty and certain taxes for period of
ten years.
! A Boston paper says: 1.-The only use
OF birds tail is to serve as a rudder
during flight" This looks like orni-
biological ignorance. Almost every
body knows that the principal use for
birds tails is to furnish feathers for
ladies' hats, and for little boys to try
and put salt on.
man at Niagara Falls took the
place of striker during the recent
trouble on the Lehigh road. He is
now dead and his father. who is an
engineer on the New York Central re-
fused to have anything to do with the
] nf a II
had no money and was consigned to
potter's field
Henry Mill, an Englishman. was I'm
doubtedly the father of the present
typewriter. Nearly two hundred years
ago he invented and obtained a patent
for AN artificial machine or method
for impressing or TRANSFERRING of let
tiers one after another, as in writing,
etc. The machine, however, passed
through the hands of many inventors
before it arrived at its present perfec-
ton.
The Emperor William is said to very
much like all things precious, even if
they are little gaudy; his artistic
tastes do not seem to be greatly re-
fined. He likes everything which is
massive and imposing on a colossal
scale, and is likely to overthrow all
boundaries fixed in matters of art by
usage or tradition. He is a law unto
himself and overrules the august
senate of the Royal academy
Miss Bradford has beautiful hazel
eyes and wealth of dark brown hair
She is of medium size and slender
build. This does not sound like the
description of a pawnbroker, but it is.
Miss Bradford, sister of the Rev. Dr..
Amory H. Bradford of Montclair, N.
j., has opened a philanthropic pawn
shop for the benefit of the deserving
poor who will be loaned money on
their belongings at 4 per cent. or less.
A New York man has been reading
about the unpleasant way the cannibals
OF the New Hebrides have of eating
missionaries when their supply Of
fresh meat runs out. He has written
long letter TO one of the papers sug-
costing that someone turn pair of
rabbits loose and provide the savages
With the meat of their numerous pro
geny and thus save the missionaries
for other uses. He says all the condi-
tlons of the islands are favorable to an
increase such as has cursed Australia.
A little boy in Frankfort, Pa, had
the earache. His fond parents put
warm water and all the simple rene
dies they could think of IN his ear to
relieve the pain. 1t got worse instead
OF better and a doctor was sent for.
BY series of small mirrors he dis
covered a lump in the ear and took it
out with instruments. 1t proved to be
grain OF corn which had sprouted
and was growing lamously, due to the
heat and watering 1t had received.
The little boy got we'll Immediately.
Mrs. Margaret Benton, of Chicago.
has undertaken to form a great CO.
operative club for the advancement of
self-supporting women. The idea was
taken from Walter Besant's ideas ex-
pressed in his story, "AlI Sorts and
Conditions of Men," excepting that il
will be narrowed down to the use Of
women and at the same time it's scope
widened. 1t will probably be called
the 'Women'S Business Club of Chi
cago. Cooperative living, practical
and artistic education, amusement and
assistance to struggling women sud
denly thrown upon their own resources,
to say nothing of endeavoring to regu-
late the laws inimical to women in
each state, indicate the magnitude of
the work. A building large enough
to give living room and board to 1000
women at actual cost will result
"Grandfather,s clock" has squared
itself with one family. Several years
ago James Ruffel a miser of Sodus
New York, died and in dying handed
his son a package of bills containing
$500 and pointed to an old clock in the
corner of the room. 1t was not sup
posed that he possessed more than he
had given his son so no search was
made for more. In the meantime the
son, who had become very poor, moved
back to the old house. which was
mere howell. A few days ago the little
grandson of the dead miser was hunt
ing about the room for some marbles
that he had lost, and looking behind
the place where his ''grandfather's
clock had stood saw an old shot sack
covered with dust. He drew it forth
and it was found full of gold and silver
coins to- the amount of $500.