The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1895-07-21
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ducking.
Arizona can produce almost any
thing, and now lays claim to having
| discovered a ledge of the finest roof
ing slate twelve miles north of Phoe-
nix and of the finest quality. The vein
is twenty-five feet wide and is mex
haustible. The slate can be taken out
in large slabs from an eighth of an
inch thick and upward.
a farmer in Hale, Mo, has Just fin
ished planting fifteen acres with corn
for the third time this year. Bugs have
eaten every seed and blade of the two
previous paintings. a farmer of
Knox county Maine reports that
crows have just finished pulling UP
1900 hills of corn which he planted
last spring.
The longest, largest and most ex-
pensive railway bridge in continental
Europe is that across the river Wis
lula, between Forden in Prussian Po-
land and Culmsee in Germany. 1t was
opened for traffic in December. 1893,
and is 1,450 yards in length. It was
begun in 1889 and cost 5000, 900 marks,
exclusive Of the piers.
Deputy United States Marshal VIII
liam Collins, from Sitka, says there
are too many men seeking employ
the alaskan coast. They have been
induced to go north because of the
cheap steamer fares and the hope of
some way or other reaching the gold
fields of Yukon and making a fortune.
Upward of 200 men in New York
earn a living by selling printed songs
in sheets at a penny each. Some of
the men work regularly, even system
atically. They have a special route
for each day of the week. and begin
all over again when Monday comes.
But the great rank and file of the
army wander where their fancy leads
them.
A Flemish artist has painted On the
smooth side of a grain of common
white corn a miller mounting a stair
with a sack of grain on his shoulder
The mill is represented as standing on
a terrace, and near it is a horse and
cart, while a group of several peas
ants are shown in the road near by.
The picture is beautifully distinct, and
does not cover a surface of half an
inch square.
A young Finlander of Calumet, Mich,
took his best girl on an excursion to
Isle Royale. He went forward to
smoke and when he returned found
another fellow hugging his sweetheart.
The Finn wanted to die then and
there so overheard he went. The wa
ter. however is cool up that way and
the young mans thirst for death was
speedily quenched, and he was very
glad to grab rope thrown to him.
George A. Belt, of Auburn, Me. has in
vented a device for feeding his morse,
and he does it with one of the ordin-
ary alarm clocks. The horse gets Its
feed grain when the alarm goes oil.
For instance, if Mr.. Belt wants the
horse to have it's morning feed OF
grain at 5 o'clock and he himself does
not care to turn out till 6 o'clock. he
sets the alarm at o'clock and when
morning comes the horse gets It's
breakfast an hour before its owners
eyes are open.
The next North Carolina legislature
will be asked to leZalize the marriage
of prominent architect of Raleigh
and a half-blood Cherokee maiden.
The latter is highly educated and &C
comp4sned, was the Official steno-
grapher of the last state convention
of teachers, and her father was a MEM
Der of the Legislature. The North
Carolina law prohibits marriage of
a white to persons of Indian blood to
the third generation, and to avoid this
they were married outside the state,
but now it is discovered that they
would be subject to prosecution if they
returned to the state.