The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1895-03-24

Address. in the first instance. c., care
Of William Negus. Esq, SO Blooms
bury square, London, W. c.
The Clarkson CTenn) Tobacco Leaf
Chronicle believes in plain talk. 1t
says: For small, crawling, creeping,
sneaking thievery, the Tennessee leg
islature stands out in bold relief and
uneXcelled. Why not count
out Evans by resolution and end the
farce? Why not count in Turney by
resolution and end the shame? Why
be a cad or a thug or a sneak thief?
Be a highwayman"
The official utterances of the German
war minister are unusually pacific this
year, but the fact remains that more
than 5000 workmen are kept engaged
night and day in making cartridges
and other ammunition. Forts along
both the eastern and western bounda-
ries have been newly equipped. and,
while the empire is talking of peace,
only the button need be touched to
bring about transformation for war.
Brooklyn e at present overrun with
tramps. Ever since the strike began,
tramps have been fiocking from all
over the country to the seat Of war,
and may be seen going over the bridge
by dozens. They are interesting them
selves in the strike because they ex-
pect to get plenty to eat and drink by
simply showing sympathy with the
strikers, and some of them have gone
so far as to get SO out Of the strikers
fund by making bluff Of applying
for work. They also get more aid than
usual from servants by representing
themselves as starving strikers.
Waltzes and two-steps, marches and
quick-steps will continue to be en-
joyed by pupils in the public schools
of Cleveland who like to dance dur
ing intermissions. This decision was
reached by the school authorities the
other day, and Superintendent Jones
sent letter to Rev. DR.. John Mitchell,
chairman of the committee of Metho-
dist ministers, who had denounced
ing that no interference would be
made SO far as recreation dancing was
concerned but that the use of the
school building for dancing parties
would be in future denied, unless by
action of the board Of education.
At the folk lore congress, in Mem
phis, the other day DR.. Selim II. Pea
body delivered lecture on the fire.
stick, or ''swastika." DR.. Peabody
said that probably the first discovery
of Importance made by the primitive
man after he had become aware OF the
fact that death would surely occur and
that the sun was the earth's torcnlgnt'
was the discovery of the ire-stick, by
which a blaze was made. The speaker
pointed out the varied symbols taken
from ancient drawings and inscrip-
lions and said the fire-Stick was the
stepping stone by which the prehistoric
man seems to have gone from earthly
to things heavenly.
The uses Of aluminium do not seem
to have been exhausted yet. 1t Is now
coming into use in the decoration OF
wall papers, many beautiful concep-
lions being shown in which this metal
is a conspicuous feature. In horaI
striped effects the motives are printed
on beautiful embossed grounds, which
gives a FURNISHED effect 70 the alumni
ium that is very desirable. An effec-
tive arrangement of daisies and fern
leaves around the metal line Is said to
make a choice decoration for parlor or
bedroom. The use of aluminium with
colors, with or without the addition of
gold, is spoken of as another special
feature OF this new class Of papers.
Although Mr.. Croker's horse, lost on
the way to England, was insured for
$1,000, horse life insurance is not an
every day matter, and the policy in
this case may nave Deen some mooln-
cation of marine insurance. Live
stock is not esteemed by the under
writers as good risk. because the
moral hazard is great, and although
horses are constantly insured against
fire and against the accidents common
in the course of transportation, the
rate for regular horse life insurance
is high, often as much as per cent
It is usual, also, to limit the risk to
not more than two-thirds of the value
of the animal. The consequence is
that live stock insurance, though Of
ten tried. does not greatly flourish.