The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1895-07-14
FROM EVERYWHERE.
Peru was named from the river Pal

Peru was named from the river Paro.
Formosa is a Portuguese word sig
nifying beautiful country
Some of the giant cactus trees of
Arizona are over sixty feet in height.
There are over 700 varieties of cacti.
many of which are indigenous to Cali
fornia.
Nova Scotia, or New Scotland, was
named by Sir William Alexander, who
received the grant in 1921.
The Congo Free State is nearly 1000
900 square miles. or about one-third the
size of the United States.
Norway is more properly Norea,
meaning North Isle" 1t is called by
the natives the North Kingdom"
Ceylon has $1,000 square miles, or
about the combined area of Vermont,
/ New Hampshire and Massachusetts,.
/ William of Orange was an admirer
of Seneca and fond of quoting the
moral aphorisms of the great states
man.
With a population of hardly two and
a half millions. Greece has d debt OF
1854, 100000, or about SIS per capita.
Servia has $4,000 square miles, and is
as large as Massachusetts, New Hamp-
shire and Rhode combined.
The Egyptian Soudan has nearly
| 100000 square miles. 1t is almost as
large as all Europe, excluding Russia.
Addison's specially was the history
| of medals and coins and he eagerly
perused anything treating OF this suJ
ject.
In seasons of scarcity of food the
coyote and other wild animals subsist
upon the leaves of the cactus plant.
Greeks, the original word signifying
the land ''of the burned or black
faces
Alabama, Arkansas and North Caro-
lima are nearly of the same size, being
between $4,000 and $1,000 square miles.
Cortez always carried in his bosom
little prayer book, which he religi-
ously read from beginning to end every
month.
Pope Adrian is said never to have
read any books but the Bible, the
works of St. Augustine and the Offices
of the church.
Gladstone's principal reading for
pleasure has been in the line of the
Greek classics, particularly in Homeric
literature.
Paraguay was so called from the
river Paro, meaning the river of wa
ters,' an allusion to its numerous
tributaries.
Pope studied the poems of Matthew
Gregory Lewis very carefully. and
confessed that from them he learned
versification.
Mendelssohn was a close student of
Jewish history and remarkably we'll in
formed as to every particular of Jew
ish annals.
Greece, at the present time, has over
1000 miles Of wagon road, built in
many instances over mountains, at a
cost of S1O,OOO,OOO.
For the hide of full-known giraffe,
greatly sought after in Africa for whip
and sandal making, the native hunters
get from SIS to S25.
One firm in Los Angeles makes a
speciality of handling cactus plants,
and keeps collectors searching the
southwest for new and rare varieties.
Professor Cayley, the famous mathe-
matician of the University of Cam
bridge, England, who died recently.
was the author of 500 mathematical
treatises.
The nickname of the Plumed knight,
as worn by James G. Blaine, was given
to him by Colonel Robert G.. Ingersoll
in the Cincinnati convention of 1876.
Astronomers calculate that the sur
face of the earth contains $685. 25
square miles. of which 23,S14121 are
water and 1911, 504 are land, the waters
thus covering about seven-tenths of
the earth's surface.
From the time of the ancient Greeks
the cypress has told of death, and the
cedar, gloomy, yet grand, conveys the
idea of strength" and of "incorrupti-
bility." To the laurel or bay from very
o,.Ir- hoe cd f1,a clio
nificance of human glory
The Journal of Horticulture says:
Many cultivators of the dahlia may
not be aware that this flower, named
after Dahl, a Swedish botanist, came
very near being called Georgia" in
honor of our reigning family; probably
it would have been had not an Ameri-
can state already owned the name.
DR.. Klein, f. r. S., lecturer on gen.
eral anatomy and physiology at st.
Bartholomew's hospital, London, de-
livered a lecture on cholera recently,
in which he said that the prevention
of cholera was beset with less difficulty
than that of some of the communica BILE
diseases which in town they had al
most constantly among them.
BY the draining of Lake Kopais
Greece gains $4,000 acres of rich allu-
vial soil. The Greek merchant marine
counts QS93) 116 steamers of S3,50S net
tonnage, and 944 sailing vessels aggre-
eating a burden of some 100000 tons
Much of the carrying trade of the Lee
want and nearly all of that on the
Danube is in Green bottoms.
In Devonshire, England, on Christ
mas eve, it is believed that oxen low
and kneel at midnight, and those who |
can witness it are sure of happiness. |
The Yule dough c'Yule," Christmas;
and dough" from dow" baby, was
in the last century presented by bak-
ers to their customers at Christmas,
being cake in form of a woman and |
child, and which was meant to repre-
sent the Virgin and Child originally. |