The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1895-07-05

ing TO local legends, when it is not
raining it is showing, the annual rain
fall is 127 inches, or nearly as much
as Sitka, in Alaska.
There are no undertakers in Japan
When a person dies it is the custom of
his nearest relatives to put him into
coffin and bury him, and the mourning
does not begin until after the burial.
What is asserted to be the Oldest
lifeboat in existence is preserved at
South Shields as a valuable relic. 1t
was built in 1880, and during more
than fifty years Of active service was
instrumental in saving 1,02S persons.
Tennis was proclaimed illegal by
Henry VII. who, however INDUCED IN
the game himself, following the eX
ample of Charles Y of France, who,
while forbidding all sports, exempted
such in which, for the time being, he
might be participating.
Marcus Ulpins Trajanus Crinitus.
the Trajan of Roman biography and
one of ROme's most renowned en-
perors, constructed or was responsible
for the construction of three of the
most remarkable works of the early
Christian era-Trajan's Column, Ira
JAMS Wall and Trajans Floating Pal
ace.
Don Carlos, of Spain, who bears the
title of Duke of Madrid and is the
head of the historic house of Bourbon,
has repeatedly pawned the jeweled
badge of the Order of the Golden
Fleece. which had belonged in turn 10
Duke Charles of Burgundy and to En-
peror Charles V of Germany and Spain.
1t is said that heat holidays have
been established by law in the public
schools OF Switzerland. Recognizing
the well-knoWn fact that the brain
cannot work properly when the heat
is excessive, the children are dismissed
from their tasks whenever the Their
mometer goes above d certain point.
John Wesley protested against the
decline Of the belief in witchcraft. He
enters in his journal of 1852 his sol
emn protest against this violent COM
pIiment which so many that believe
the Bible pay to those who do not
believe it, The giving up of witch
craft is, he writes, in effect giving
up the Bible"
According to story now currant on
the boulevards, an amateur picked up
the other day, for sixpence, a study in
red chalk. On examining his bargain
more carefully. he found that he had
become the P9ossee5;sor OF Rap19eIs err
Dispute del Sacramento now in the
Vatican.
King Milan, or Servia, who, on one oc-
caSion, when a Vienna emperor Fran
els Joseph having declined to lend him
any fore money TO pay the heavy losses
which he had incurred at the card table
of the Jockey clubG deliberately pledged
the Jcweled sword which forms part Of
the regalia Of the rulers of SerVia.
Perhaps one OF the most constant pa
irons of the paWnshop was the late King
of Naples who died a short ne
and whose silver plate and jewelry have
during the past twenty years, spent much
more time in the vaV'1s of Messrs. At
tenhoroush. in L0nuon. than on the
table of the central figure of Daudet's
Kings in Exile
y graphic idea of the immense size OF
Siberia may be CLEANED from the follow
ing comparison: All of the states, king
domS, principalitieS empires etc of
Europe Except Russia, and all of the
United States including Alaska, could
he placed side by side in Siberia, and yet
but little more than cover that immense
country.
Edward III, in 1869. issued a general
prohibition, which forbade the ordinary
rural pastimes on Sundays and holidays
on pain of imp2ls5nment. Similar acts
were passed in the reignS CT Richard II,
both James l and James II ordained
THAT the football and golf be utterly
cryed down, and not TO be used"
Judge Remy once boosted that he him
self had been the means of putting 10
death in sixteen years, 800 witches LII
ther states 1900 witches were burned at
Treves-600 by a single bishop of Bam-
burgh, 500 in single year in the bish-
oprick of Waltzburgh. 1000 in the pro-
vince of Como, 100 at Toulouse at a single
execution, 500 at Geneva i'll three months
and IS in Sweden.
Although there was no Irish law
against witchcraft till after the Reforma-
ton, the very last law on that subject
which remained on the statute book of
any European country was the Irish
statute, which was not repealed till 1921
The last trial for witchcraft in Ireland
was in I'LL, apd -the last judicial execu-
ton IN Europe was in Switzerland, in
7S2.
In Arabia there grows a Laughing
Plant" 1t takes its name from the
effects produced by eating it's Seeds The
natives dry these seeds and reduce them
TO powder. A small dose of the powder
has similar effects to those arising from
the excessive use of intoxicants 1t
causes the most sober person to dance,
shout and laugh with the boisterous ex-
element of a mailman.
An enterprising advertisement has been
the cause of a law suit in Brussels A
firm of booksellers placarded the walls
with the picture of a man walking madly
through the streets with the inscription,