The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1895-05-02
CURIOUS COMBINATIONS.
Haiti means mountain country"
Sumatra means the happy land"

Haiti means mountain country
Sumatra means the happy land
The TransvaaI is the country beyond
the Vaal.
Chile is a Peruvian word. meaning
''the land of snow"
Turkestan was originally the stan. or
land of the Turks.
Canada is an Indian word. meaning
collection of huts.
Mexico is the city of Mexititi. the
Mexican god of war.
Tasmania was named in honor of Tas-
man, the diScoverer.
Uruguay was named from the river
which flows through it.
meteorological institute is about to
be established in the University of kief
Russia, at an estimated cost of $4,000
The Big Sandy, in Kentucky, took its
English name from its sand bars. The
Indians called it the Chatteroi, meaning
''the sandy river.
The German house builders always con-
trive to leave a small fiat place on the
roof of each house, for the storks to rest
and build on.
The woodpecker is an excellent car
penter; the hole he bores in tree is as
exactly round as though lined out with
a pair of compasses.
The pelican's pouch is its game bag.
1t stores the fish in the pouch. and when
it has captured enough, goes to land and
devours them at its leisure.
The cuckoo does not build nest, but
deposits its solitary egg in the nest of
another bird. The intruder is always
cared for by the deluded hosts.
The eye of the vulture is so con-
structed that it is a high power tele-
scope, enabling the bird to see objects
at an almost incredible distance.
Young doves and pigeons are fed with
a sort of pap secreted by the parent
the squads. They die without it.
The offensive weapon of the ostrich is
his leg. He can kick as hard as a mule,
and it is remarkable fact that his kick
is forward. never backward.
The first English book on stenography
so far as known, was written by Dr.
Timothy Bright in 1883. Its earlier inven-
Ennius, to Seneca. Cicero and several
others.
The bower bird is so called because
several of this species unite in construct
ing bower or playground, apparently
for no other purpose than amusement.
There is an "Old Woman of the Woods
in Tennessee, who lives alone nobody
knows exactly where and always shrieks
like mad at sight of children.
Connecticut's Leather man." so called
from the popularity of his attire is hard
ly hermit. since he enjoys human COM
partnership, but he is a mystery. at least
Tom Gallagher. the hermit of San Gle
mente Island in the Pacific, lives almost
as lonely life as Robinson Crusoe in a
hut. Now and then a fisherman calls to
get water.
a Coward-Customer- won't let your
apprentice shave me any more. Barber
contemptuously)-And yet YOU pretend
you have taken part in three campaigns!
-Laubaner Tageblatt.
During the revolutionary era in Eng
land. both Protestants and Catholics
used the dramatic form as a means
of controversy. and the plays published
at that time contained as many argU-
ments as the sermons.
NJ. Charles Margot. of the physical
laboratory of the University of Gen
eva. has found that by rubbing on
glass with an aluminium point. clear
metallic lines are obtained. which can
not be removed by washing. no matter
how often repeated
Investigation shows that the COM
mon sunf1ower exhales II ounces of
with an estimated number of 700 0o0
leaves, would in the same way give
off something like 200 tons of water
during the five months It carries it's
foliage.
Turkey sends out tobacco. the ce-
reals. nuts. almonds. olives. all sorts Of
dried fruits. coffee. madden. opium. and
an enormous amount of wine. the last
named article to France. to be re-
bottled and exported. a very impor-