The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1895-09-22
FOR THE CURIOUS.

The Goethe archives have just yield
ed another treasure. This is a manu-
script volume of verse, intermingled
with prose, containing about 100 pages.
Only eleven of these pages contain
poems that at some previous time have
been given to the world.
Whether women shall practice as
surgeons and physicians in Austria is
question now under consideration by
the government in consequence Of a
petition to be allowed to practice pre-
scented by Baroness Possauer. Prussia
has just decided to throw open medical
studies and degrees to women.
A horrible story of the death of a
pearl diver comes from Western Aus
tralia. While engaged in pearling in
the Barrow passage a Japanese diver
remained down longer than the usual
time. A second diver who then de-
scended found that his comrade had
been attacked and killed by sharks.
A French geographical society pro-
poses to divide the face Of the clock
into ten hours of ten minutes and 100
seconds each. This is to make time
uniform with the decimal system or
count by tens. The count by twelves
which now shows on the face of the
clock survives from the earliest times
probably from long before the inven-
ton of letters.
Ten thousand and eighty-fve tour
lists visited Lucerne during the month
of May last, 1928 of whom were Ger
mans, 2,717 English, 1877 from the
United States and Canada, 431 French,
1913 from the Netherlands, the rest, in
Guiding 1872 Swiss from other cantons,
being Of various nationalities. In May,
1894, the total was 1926, showing a
decrease this year of 1,12O.
Prof. Richet publishes in the "Revue
Scientifique'' some figures of mortality
from diphtheria which seem to show
that either the disease has this year
! taken a milder form or else DIR. Roux S
serum treatment is effective The
deaths in 1884 in Paris hospitals were
| 1,400; from 1887 to 1891 they were 900 to
$50 year; from 1892 to 1894 they aver
aged 1888; in 1895 they were 239
Gigantic remains of elephants have
been found in new railroad cutting
in the department of the Charente
France. Besides two tusks, one of the
! extraordinary length of nine and one
half feet, there are elephants molars
teeth of rhinoceros, bison and hippo
potamus, and large number of flint
instruments. The discovery of human
| is very unusual.
| In the punic cemeteries of Carthage
Father Delattre had already examined
120 tombs. He has found painted
! terra Gotta mask, with oval face
short side whiskers and close-shaven
chin, and bronze rings in the ears; and
also a disk of terra Gotta with a war
rior on horseback in relief upon it, un.
der the horse running dog, and above
the figure lotus flower and a cres-
| cent moon.
Gaping Ghyll, an unfathomed abyss
near marlborough. in Yorkshire, was
recently explored by M. Martei, the
French cavern hunter After a
stream, which falls into the cave, had
been diverted he was let down into a
| depth of $50 feet and there found a
chamber followed out in the limestone
45O feet long by $50 broad and 100 feet
high, with a level bottom covered
with sand and pebbles. There were nc
bones either of men or animals, which
| is unusual with these caverns,