The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-09-20
NOTES OF THE DAY.

The room in which Napoleon died
is now q stable.
Whole fields of tobacco in Kentucky
have been abandoned because of
worms.
One Maine man has gone into the
unique business of raising doves for
weddings, parties, etc.
In Australia there are bird e11trap-
ping spiders that spin webs sometimes
thirty feet in diameter.
There are said to be $50 generals on
the active list of the Spanish army,
with other officers in proportion.
Orange county, California, women
will hold a mock election to ascertain
if the majority want woman suffrage.
A speed of q mile in f1fty-eight sec
onds is claimed for a motor cycle re-
Gently exhibited at the Imperial insti-
tute, London.
Careful scientific observations show
that the average speed of the trans
mission of an earthquake shock is 49,
900 feet per second.
A recent estimate places the output
Of the mines in the Occur d Alene
country, in northern Idaho, for the cur
rent year at $S,00o.000
Dreaming Of an arctic journey.
Phoenix, Arizona, barber awoke to find
that a thief had called and stolen the
blankets from his bed
A bill to give domestic servants a
half holiday each week has passed its
second reading in the New Zealand
house of representatives.
Mosquitoes have so preyed upon con-
victs of an Indiana prison that the
warden has taken special measures to
drive the pests away.
Farmers in Douglas county, Kansas,
are educating their horses to eat pota-
toes, which they can feed at IL cents,
while corn stands for II cents.
While at play in cemetery at Hall
fax a girl leaned against tombstone
back of which her brother was sitting
and it fell on him. breaking his thigh
At Richmond, Mo, thorn from
hedge he was trimming flew into the
eye of a gardener, and, the point break
ing off in the eyeball, sight Eas des-
troyed.
While descending by means of para
chute an aeronaut at Dallas, Texas,
got between the forked limbs of tree,
his head caught in the CROTCH and he
was hanged.
Patent needle threaders were sold in
considerable numbers by an itinerant
huckster who visited Arkansas City,
Kan, one day, but men were his only
customers.
Cheops' pyramid reproduced on a one
sixth scale in cotton bales or iron
duplicates of them is proposed by the
commissioners of Shelby county for
the Tennessee centennial.
All kilograms in China are sent in
cipher AS there are some thousands
of logographs, or word signs, no tele-
graphic system could manage them.
Code numbers are used instead.
A furniture dealer named Vais, liv-
/ ing in the Rue de Poliveau, Paris, re-
/ Gently bought a mattress at a sale.
On taking il home and unpacking it he
found 10000 francs worth of bonds in
side it.
The city of Portland, Ore, which
owns its water system, sprinkles its
streets through the street car company,
the work being done after 5 p. m. The
! arrangement is said to be very salts
factory
The Arabs have superstition that
the stork has human heart. When
/ one of these birds builds its nest on a
housetop they believe the hapinesps of
that household is insured for a year.
In England and Wales 1919 miles of
railway out o. 9.044 miles of double
lines are worked on the block system.
In Scotland practically the whole of
the mileage is worked on that system.
The custom of living in flats is very
! general in Denmark. and the Danish
women are most excellent housekeep
ers. There are no open fire places,
only stoves, and in order to exclude the
intense cold of the north in winter
double glass windows are fixed. with
trailing plants growing between the
two sheets of glass.
The wool produced in Germany COW
ers only one-sixth Of today's demand;
nor does even that pay for the efforts
put forth in competition against the
products of the Cape colonies, South
America and Australia.
The longest Egyptian railway now
extends to Girgeh, 326 miles from Cairo.
1t is soon to be extended to the first
cataract, 10 miles from the coast. This
means, of course, an ultimate connec-
ton with the British possessions in
South Africa
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