The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-08-18
NOTES OF THE DAY.

1t is stated that China is about to en-
ter the Postal union, application having
already been made through the inspec-
tor general.
An independent telephone company
at Detroit has secured a subscription
list of 1000 names, of which nearly 5000
have signed a three years contract.
The temples of India are to be lighted
by electricity, the example having been
set by the great shrines at silva and alt
Kochicaddie. near Mutwal, in Ceylon.
The great clock of Rouen has been
measuring time and striking the hours
and quarters for over 500 years and, it
is said, has been all this time without
interruption.
AT Redditch, England. 10000 people
make more than 10000, 900 needles a
year. and they are made and exported
so cheaply that England has no rival
and practically monopolizes the trade.
Paris is getting short of water, and
the engineering experts declare that
three new reservoirs must be construct
ed at once and new sources of supply
found, else in 1900 there will not be
enough water for the inhabitants of
Paris.
The difference in the length of the
cables in the East river bridge, Brooklyn,
when the thermometer registers zero
and when it registers 100 degrees above
is two feet four inches. The difference
in the rope which hauls the cars is
seven feet six inches.
The largest ship yards in the world
are those of Harland & Wolff of Bel
fast, Ireland. The works employ at
present over 5000 skilled workmen and
apprentices. Since it's organization the
firm has turned out over 100000 tons
of ocean-going craft.
Italy has a new magazine rifle which
holds only six cartridges, but can be
filled and discharged in fifteen seconds.
The bullet has an outside covering Of
German silver with a case of lead, hard
ened by anthony, and will go through
a brick wall three feet thick at a
range of a quarter of mile.
The report presented at the annual
gathering of the Catholic Total Absti-
nence Union of America shows won
derful increase in the growth of the
organization. Last year it established
100 societies, with membership of 5,761,
and in three years a total membership
of 1882 has been enrolled.
Kites will likely be used in future
warfare for carrying such explosives as
dynamite. For this purpose a series of
seven kites, built on light bamboo
frames, will be employed, and the eX-
plosives could be carried to an enor-
nous distance and then automatically
dropped by pulling string.
Owing TO the recent death of two chill
dren in Philadelphia, attributed to eat
ing ''snowballs-a very cheap variety
of waterloo sold on the streets-an
analysis was undertaken by DR.. Henry
Lehman. DR.. Lehman found the eX-
tracts used were artificial in some. con-
tanning fusel oil and anilin dyes, and in
others old and dangerously fermentedL
Bitter complaints are uttered by the
italian press on account of the behavior
of the British man-of-war' s-men who re-
Gently visited Rome. The tars PROB
ably did not get drunk more than is
their wont, but the proverbially sober
Romans did not know that Jack is won't
to kick over the traces when on shore,
and the British visitors were described
as a horde of wild men,
Arrangements have been completed
for the purchase, it is believed, of all
the New York city bonds which were
not sold some time ago. and have since
been readvertised. The firms who will
take them are practically the same syn
dictate who took the last previous issue.
This time, however, it is said the syndf-
cate will dispose of them in conjunction
with the same interests who are Oper-
ating the sterling pool exchange, and
preventing the export of gold.
When the vigilantes were in full
swing in San Francisco the Herald
was the most prosperous daily on the
Pacific coast, and the Alta California
was a mere auctioneer's sheet. What
position to take regarding the vigilance
committee was a problem for editors.
The editor of the Herald, after much
hesitation, came out in opposition.
Within twenty-four hours it was with
out readers or advertisers. The Alta
California had two editorials in type,
one for, the other against, the commit
tee. By a. mere accident, the editorial
favoring the committee got into the
forms, and the papers fortune was
made.
Armand Daot published an article in
the Figaro, Paris, in which he demands
prohibition for the Bretagne. Some
twenty years ago a drunkard was a
rarity among the Bretons, and the chill
dren would point their fingers in scorn
at him. Today everybody gets drunk,
young and old, women and men. The
evil is of all the greater importance to
France as Brittany furnishes so per
cent of the seamen in the French navy.
The evil is traced to the decline of the
vineyards, owing to tine ravages of the
phylloxera. Dram-drinking has increas-
ed as wine became more scarce and ex-
pensive.