The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1895-09-29
NOTES OF THE DAY.

The woman suffrage societies
throughout the country will celebrate
| the birthday of Mrs. Elizabeth Cady
! Stanton November u.
A number of Santa Cruz men have
started for an island in the Pacific,
about 800 miles off the coast of Peru,
where they expect to find some buried
| treasures.
| Instead of 5000, 900 boxes of oranges,
which is Florida's usual crop, only 100.-
900 boxes will be shipped. These will
come chiefly from the Manatee region
on the gulf of Mexico.
The two sides of the human face are
never alike. In two out of five the
eyes are out of line; one eye is stronger
than the other in seven cases out Of
ten, and the right ear is generally
higher than the left.
A Chinese laundryman was in Bruins
wick, Me, looking for a stand. He re-
ceived little encourage and, as he
would find it rather lonesome, con-
Guided not to settle. Brunswick, SO
far, hasn't had a Chinese resident
Electricians say the safest place of
refuge during a thunder storm is a
trolley car, and that no instance is
huOWn VI OHe IdNIHS US6u SIIuCh Dy
lightning. The wires and car pole are
a far better protection than any light
ming rod.
In California it has been found that
peach stones burn as well as the best
coal, and give more heat in proportion
to weight The stones taken out of
the fruit that is timed or dried are
collected and sold at the rate of SO per
ton.
The city of Rochester, N. Y, is consfd-
ering a proposition to purchase for the
sum of $50, 900 seventy-fve Myers bal
lot machines for use in local elections.
The company guarantees the machines
with all the new Improvements for ten
years.
The question of whether actors and
actresses really feel the emotions they
simulate is being discussed by physfol-
ogists, some of whom think that the
nerves is the same in kind, though not
in degree as the real.
If by any means a bird attained the
Hghtness of a balloon it could not fly
A balloon drifts with every gust;
its course. The bird-balloon, as light
as the wind and as strong as iron, is a
Pigment of the ina gination.
In the principal streets of Canton
may be noticed many shops where
foreign provisions are sold entirely for
Chinese consumption. Foreign wines.
especially champagne, are seen on the
shelves, together with Sweets" bis
cults. salad oil and preserved milk.
A ten foot wind wheel fnANebraska
raises 1000 gallons of water daily to
height OF seventy-five feet These wind
wheels are coming more and more into
use IN the west, and it is thought that
they will have a very important bear
ing on the industries of the future.
The "cap of maintenance is borne
before English sovereigns at their GER
onation. 1t is made of errnine, and has
two tails or pendants behind Several
dignitaries in England and a number
OF mobiles have also the right 10 carry
a cap of maintenance on state occa-
sions
A resident of Oxford, New Haven
county, Conn, claims to have noticed
frosts every month this year, and
claims that as the remaining months
promise others, the town will be able
to claim on New Years day the unique
record for frosts in every month Of
1895.
Among a series of notices in the Lon
don Gazette notifying the closing of
various church yards for further in
terments appears one relative to- the
parish churchyard of Stratford-on-
Avon, within the limits OF which, but
inside the church itself, Shakespeare
lies buried.
Thirteen years age Egypt was in
solvent and it's securities almost I'M
salable at one-half CT two-thirds their
face value. as a consequence of IsmaiPs
while today the country is
in a condition which. comparatively,
might be called financial prosperity.
To make the wooden butter dishes
seen in the groceries the heavy timber
is cut into blocks ten or Twelve inches
in length and bciIad If. huge vats until
softened. The hot 5locKs
are placed in machines, which SCOOP
out The butter. dishes out the hutter
dishes at the rate of 200 minute.
In order to gain about twenty min
utes' time for its express. trains the
Great Western railway of England re-