The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1895-05-05
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Maldayia took it's name from the river
Naldaes.
Hogarth was fond of joke books and
farces, and enjoyed them immoderateiy
The Chinese claim they used visiting
cards as far back as the time OF ConIu-
ciuS.
Mario, the great tenor, read anything
he could obtain relating to sports or hunt-
Gregory the Great said that the world
did not elsewhere contain SUCH WISDOM as
was found in the epiStes OF Paul
Alexander the Great always slept with
a COPY of Homer under his pillow. HIS
life was modelled after that OF Achilles.
Balzac was passionately fond of fairy
tales, and the wilder ana more eXtIaV d.
CANT they were the better he liked them
The scales used in weighing diamonds
are So deiicately poised that the weight
of a single eyelash will turn the palahce
A Huntsville Ala, merchant made a
recent shipment of 5000 dozen eggs, all
bought from the farmers OF Madison
county.
The Florida tomato crop, which will
be ready to ship this week, is one OF the
largest that has ever been raised in that
state.
their visits to each other by a board on
the branch of tree artistically carved.
Mrs. Hemans was a lover of the Span
ish romances, and often entertained
small domestic audience with one OF these
tales.
Lord Bacon was a diligent student Of
Aristotle. He said that Aristotle had
the mightiest intellect the world ever
knew.
Bancrofts Specially was the early his
tory of the United States, and for many
years all he read had bearing on that
subject.
Henry VIII. of England, was fond OF
the controversial works that were COM
L. 1orv ~rara q
Luther.
NAPOLEON III. was student of military
history, and particularly OF the history or
the Roman State about the time OF Cae-
Sar.
A curious fact has been noted by the
Arctic travelers-snow when at very
low temperature absorbs moisture and
dries garments.
The natives of Sumatra have a visiting
card consisting of a piece of wood about
a foot long. decorated with bunch Of
straw and knife.
On January /, 1890, South Dakota had
50,15O farm mortgages; Nebraska, 1O7, 10;
Kansas, 203, 306; Minnesota, 9707S, and
North Dakota, 1874.
The natives of northern Alaska and ST.
IBERIA have no knowledge of money, and
tourists to that country have to exchange
the same into barter goods.
Paris has had the monopoly of supply
ing the monarchs of the world with Wis
iting cards ever since they became a so
cial necessity under the Second Empire.
1t has been computed that a hole one
sixteenth of an inch in diameter, with a
water pressure of IS pounds per square
inch, will liberate GAS gallons daily.
A full-grown reindeer-and they may be
considered full grown at the age of three
years-is about AZ feet high and about
feet long from its nose to its tail.
Reports from Albemarle county, Virgil
mia. are to the effect that. this years
peach and apple crops promise to be very
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growing localities.
The horns of a reindeer, when full
grown, measure about 21a feet from tip to
tip, and there is but little difference be-
Those of the male are little larger
around.
1.-The" in front of royal of princely
title denotes that the person is sover-
In England it is employed in addressing
peer-for instance, The Right Honor
able"
The number Of sheep in the sheep-rais-
79S in Walton to 1907 in Washington coun
ty. The varieties which have proven
most profitable are the Cotswold and the
Southdown.
Strawberry shipments are being made
to the north from the vicinity of Lawtey,
Fla. One grower who covered his vines
during the cold weather sold 20 quarts at
a profit of nearly S1.50 per quart. They
Baton Rouge, La, was named from the
fact that for many years after the town
was established a gigantic cypress, the
bark of which was red, grew on the site.
The name means red stick, and was be-
slowed by the French settlers.
Brooklyn, N. Y, was named by the
Dutch from a small village near Amster-
dam named Breucklen: The name is
found in the city archives spelled Be
reuckelen, Breucklyn, Broucklyn, Breuk
Ign, Brockland, Brucklynd and finally
Brooklyn.
A local committee gave a name to Mem
phis, Tenn, from the famous old City of
read of the city when he was boy, and
thought the name sounded grand and
would give a classical tone to the neigh
hood.
Annapolis, Nd. was called in honor of
Queen Anne. The Catholics, who settled
it, called it ST. Mary's; it was renamed
Arundelton, in honor of the Earl of Ar
undel. still later was christened Anne Ar
undel. and finally the present name was
bestowed.
The visiting card of the Emperor of
Austria reads: Francois Joseph l., En-
pereur d'Autriche, Roi de Hongrie." This
is in the very worst taste to English no
the Christian name in connection with
Professor Weber has recently found
that fhe normal temperature of all kinds
Of inca,ndescent filaments is said to be
shonf N1e same. ranging only from 1892
) ueant ~ a 16-candle power lamp only
changes $50 degrees cent in temperature
when thA candle power is raised from to
g candle power.