The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1895-09-23
CURIOUS COMBINATIONS.

There are 1000 abstaining cabmen in
London.
A person can 1--we in splendid style in
Japan for S. a week.
Glass-stopping for decaved teeth
seems commonly used by dentists in
Berlin.
Two hundred Freaoh cities are g.irg
to erect statues in honor of the lase
President Carnot
Edward has the distinction Of hav-
ing been the greatest warrior among
the British kings.
All plants are provided with bowers,
though sometimes they ar2 So small
and so hidden as 10 escape notice.
The ivy-leaved let.u3e opens it's
leaves and flowers at o'clock in the
morning and generally closes again at
o'clock.
Pure white geraniums, looking as
though they were made of almost trans
parent wax. are grown Ly English
florists.
After the civil war, a Towering plant
called the japanese clover sprang up
all over the south. Its origin is un-
known.
The orchids are true parasites grew
ing on other plants and drawing their
The pollen of flowers is in grains so
small that many kinds are no more
than a thousandth of a millimeter in
diameter.
Most perfumes, ever those most strik-
ingly characteristic, are now obtained
synthetically in the laboratory of the
chemist.
The hops used in the manufacture of
malt liquors are the flowers OF the
plant botanically designated IS humu-
lus lupulus.
An ornamental cork for bottles and
decanters, which opa is ana closes au-
tomatically, has been placed oE the
London market.
! The sheep is he only animal that is
made vicious by petting. a young ram
! that is raised by hand, al me house,
becomes bold and soon learns % attack
cattle and persons.
In 1890 about go pounds Of alligator
! teeth were sold, hunters receiving from
81 to 50 a pound for them. They are
removed by burying the heads aid rot
! ting out the teeth. Of the best teeth
about seventy make n pound.
1t appears that species Of True croc-
odile is found in southern Glc:.da en-
both coasts. It is har lily distinguish
able from the allig or except in The
shape of its head, though It grows big
! ger and attainS a length of eighteen
feet.
BY spreading a layer of lycorodiun
powder upon the surface of basin Ct
water, it is possible to plunge the hand
into the water without wetting it, as
the lycopodium powder prevents all
contact of the water with the band
A curfew ordinance will be irtrL duced
in the city council of Rockford, H.. for
keeping all children under 10 years OF
age unattended by older persons frcr1
the streets after 8 O'clock At tina;
hour bells will ring throughout the city
There is in Norway a wooden church
Of unknown age, but undoubtedly sew
eral hundred years old, which is held
to illustrate old methods of building
admirably. The queer, peaked, many
angled roof has almost an Oriental ap.
pearance.
Unfortunately alligators grow slowly
AT 10 years of age they are only two
feet long. A 12-footer may be supposed
to be rs years old. 1t is believed thai
they grow. as long as they live, anc
probably they live longer than any 9th
er animal.
Tincture of grindelia is said to be al
excellent cure for ivy poison. Dilute i
with about three parts of zyater arit
battle the affected parts. It should bt
applied as soon as the irritation is fell
and before the characteristic pustule.
appear.
Experiments have been made in Aus
tria in order to test the likelihood of
balloon being hit when fired at. A cap
tive balloon at an altitude of 1926 feet
was fired at from a distance of 4,4O
yards, and was struck nine times with
out being brought down.
Penholders are now made with a rims
for the insertion of the first finger anC
a little tongue for the pressure of tn
second 1t keeps ink from the finger
prevents contraction of the muscle
and removes the constant temptation
to lodge the pen behind the ear.
The oldest building in the world tina
has been uninterruptedly used TO
church purposes is ST Martins cathe
dral at Canterbury, England. TIL
building was originally erected for ;
church and has been regularly used a.
a place for religious gatherings TO
more than 1,5OO years.