The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1894-03-15

Jack Hooper, Of Cont street, Mobile,
recently exhibited a plant oyster taken
from the oyster beds ut Fowl River,
which, unopened, weighted eleven
pounds
Captain r. ID. Bell, of Alaska, says
that the Indians of that territory are
being cleaned out by fiseas. and bad
whisky at such rate that in ten years
an Alaskan Indian will be almost a
curiosity.
A dainty feast was spread not Iong
ago by tribe of SitlSa Indians to en-
terrain some visitors from other tribes.
! The rare dish Of the feast consisted of
last seasons wild STRAWBERRIES pre-
served in seal oil.
Beggars swarm so in Malta that the
only way to avoid being pestered by
them is to put out your hand and an
! ticipate them with their own whining.
Give me something" Me plenty poor
man." ME very large family
The number of religious sects entered
| by the registrar general at Somerset
house in 1873 as having places of wor-
ship in England was 125 In twenty
years they have more than doubled, the
number last year being 270.
A project is on foot to introduce into
| the United States the edible lichen of
Japan. 1t is gathered off the granite
contains large quantities of starch and
other gelatinous substances.
single pair of robins have built
chain of eleven nests linked together
| by means of dried orchard grass on a
girder in a tobacco shed on the plan
tation Of Howard Pitkin, East Hart
! ford, Conn The string of nests was
built last spring.
The increased cultivation of the pop
py in various parts of Europe has, 1t
is said, led to a marked gro With in the
honey the properties of which are
much Influenced by the flowers from
which the bees gather it.
] Although Jupiter is 1900 times as
large as the earth, it is only BIG times
as heavy In order to become as solid
as the earth it must condense to one
quarter of it's present size Such a
process of condensation is now going
on, scientists say.
The London fire brigade received
about 5000 calls during last year,
calls proved false, although the mag
! istrates have the power of inf1icting a
| fine of Ego on anyone found maliciously
! tampering with the fire alarms.
A ST. Petersburg editor has hit upon
the notion of printing his Journal on
paper suitable for making cigarettes.
IT is said that its circulation has been
greatly increased by this means, s the
Russians are largely given to smoking
cigarettes. which they make them
selves.
| A strange avenue of trees is owned
by the Duke of Argyll, and it is year
by year growing longer Each of the
trees has been planted by some nota-
Bile person, and brass plate is fasten-
ed to the iron fencing surrounding in
the tree, signifying by whom it was
planted.
The tallest companv of solliers in
the Ritish army belongs to the Scots
Guards. This COMPRISES ninety men.
avera ging 6 feet 81 inches, twelve of
/ them standing, in their stocking feet,
i Not q man of the ninety is under 6
fleet.
Earthenware sleepers. he invention
Eof Matsui Tokutaro. a Japanese. were
recently experimental on at Shimbas-
hi Station. Japan Fairly good re suits
/ were obtained. It is claimed that the
increased cost of earthenwlre sleepers
is amply compensated by their free
dom from decay.
! John Thacker of Waterford Va be-
ing accidentally at Cincinnati. bought
trunk in which he found property that
proved to be that of a relative who
had been missing for years, and the
incident has led to the reunion of a
long separat ted family.
A curious marriage took place at
Verviers. in Belgium ten DAYS ago,
when Mile. Elizabeth Kunneich. with
out arms, was married to her impress
sario, an Austrian. The woman sign
ed the register with a steady foot and
the wedding ring was placed by the
priest on her fourth toe.
! The Saracens burned the Alexandrian
library and the great library Of Mat
thew Corvinus. king of Hungary, which
contained 100000 volumes. When Ora
NADIA was taken. Cardinal Ximenes re-
torted in kind bv destroying all the
Korans and Moorish books to be found
in the city
{ A rare record is boosted of by Tim
othy DYER, of Vinai Haven Me, who
is in his 91st year. Until he was IS
years old he never wore a shoe. He
has never ridden on car, and but
once on a steamboat; he has never en-
tered a tavern, never quarreled with
anyone and barber has never shaved
him.
St Louis has feminine elevator
boy. She is young, rosy-cheeked and
pretty according to the st. Louis pa
pers; the pink of propriety; does not
whistle nor smoke cigarettes; polite
and willing to give information; in
short a decided improvement on the
surly chaps usually found running ele-
vators.
"Hear, hear" is perhaps the most
familiar interjection beard during de-
bates in the house of commons, but how
few members know the origin Of the
phrase. It will be a surprise 10 many
to know that the earliest instance cf
its use is to be found in II Samuel TX.
49, "Then cried wise woman out of
the city, Hear, hear
Investigation is being made as to The
silk spider of Madagascar, with the CT
ject of creating lew industry. A
single female spider gave Il French mis-
sionary 5000 yards Of fine silken III cad
recently in twenty-saven days. Small
textures woven by these spiders ere
used by the natives OF Madagascar fer
Fastening flowers on SunShGdeS and fer
other purposes
The West India migratory crab Is the
only creature that IS born in the sea,
natures in fresh wafer and passes its
adult life on land. Once & year these
creatures migrate in thousands from
the uplands of Jamlica, deposit their
larvae in the sea, then migrate 10 the
rivers and streams, pass through
fresh water stage, after which they fol-
low their parents to land until the time
comes for them to return to the sea to
lay their eggs.
Among the New York clubs recently
formed is the Parole Coterie," made up
of about twenty men-lbout-town, who
have taken an oath never to write let
tiers to anybody but men. 1t is a sort
of mutual protective society, and each
member pledges himself to act as far
as he is able as a verbal messenger for
the other. The club has no note pa
per, and a member who writes a pri-
lvate letter to woman is liable to ex-