The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1895-07-21
NOTES OF THE DAY.

Three townships of Muskegon coun-
~, Michigan, have more than 1000
acres set to peppermint.
More newspapers are started in
southern Colorado than all the rest Of
the Rocky Mountain country.
Ludington, Mich, Roman Catholics
will erect flag staff in front of their
parochial school and keep the stars
and stripes floating the year round.
Philadelphia has just discovered a
paved street that sunk out of sight
long ago( and was supposed by the
present city authorities never to have
been improved.
1t has been found ms t. Louis that
more than one hundred Office holders,
not citizens. Their dismissal has been
demanded.
There are in Early county. Georgia.
six men over 100 years old, the oldest
being 103. They are said TO be hale
and strong, and work in the fields reg
ularly six days a week.
The Boston public library has put
in typesetting machine ITO keep its
indexes up to date. The world has
learned to agree with the old author
who declared that good indexes double
the value of a book or library.
1t has been discovered that the Lex
or obelisk in the Palace de la Con-
corde in Paris is crumbling away I'M
der the influence of the atmosphere.
The obelisk was taken to Paris from
Egypt in Louis Phillipe's reign.
One of the attractions of the streets
of Hammond, Ind. Tuesday, morning
was the big sturgeon brought to the
city by Jasper Bassett. The fish
weighed 100 pounds and was caught
with an ordinary hook and line.
Three locomotives on the Cincinnati
Southern road run without producing
smoke. They are supplied with smoke
devices, and the firemen understand
that it is expected they will attend to
their part of the work.
Sir Robert Hart, who created the
Chinese custom service, employs $500
persons, manages an annual foreign
trade of 1920, 000 900, collects SS,0O0,000 a
year, clears 80, 900, coo tons of shipping
annually, and lights 1850 miles of
coast.
William A Masters, of Grayling,
Mich, caught a pickerel which was
three feet three inches long and
weighed fifteen pounds, recently. In
landing the fish he used his hands as
a scoop net and got a severe wound
from the fsh's gills.
Among the graduates from the Port
land, Me, high school this year were
the son and daughter of a. poor labor
ing man whose daily income is but
$1.39. and who moved to South Port
land so that he could the better afford
to put his children through the high
school.
In England it seems to be the fash
ion just at present to use the word
''predecease" as a transitive verb. For
instance, one Londoner, in writing
about the late Sir Charles Murray,
dares to say: "Sir Charles youngest
brother. Admiral Henry Murray, pre-
deceased him by thirty years"
Tighten years ago Charles Darst, of
Decatur, H.. gave his infant daughter,
Orpha, to his mother, Mrs. Jesse Nc
Cullough, to rear and educate. Darst
lately instituted habeas corpus pro-
ceedings to regain possession of his
child. Judge Vail heard the evidence
and gave the girl to her father.
At the upper free bridge in Peoria
some one bet John McMasters 81 that
he could not throw man named
George into the river. McMasters took
the bet, and picking George up cast
him bodily into the water. The bet
was paid, and George demanded and