The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-06-20
NOTES or WINE Dan.

A steel plate. said to be the longest
ever made, has just been turned out by
a Stockton. England. iron company.
1t measures, after shearing, IS feet
inches, by feet, by clio of an inch In
thickness, weighs five and half tons,
and is without a flaw.
a newspaper published in an Okla
homa town, where the women recently
carried the election. sent the following
order to a supply house: please send
us one small cut of a hen. Women
carried the election here, and l suppose
we will have to swing out hen instead
of rooster
Russian hens are progressive. They
laid II 5000 eggs for export in 1870,
23S, 900, 900 in 1885, and 1,250,000.0O0 last
year The eggs are sold in Russia at
from 6 to 10 cents q dozen. They are
exported to Hungary. then sold to Ger
many as Hungarian eggs, and finally to
England as German eggs.
The Simplon is a pass over the Alps.
celebrated for the military road built
by NAPOLEON, which connects Geneva
with Milan. 1t was an immense work.
the road being forty-two miles long,
thirty feet wide, and containing several
long tunnels. 611 bridges and sixteen
houses of refuge
In New South Wales the annual
death rate is less than one-half that in
Spain, Austria and Hungary. and fax
below that in the United Kingdom,
France. Italy. Germany, Belgium, Den
mark Norway and Sweden. The aver
age of all these countries Is 23.15 per
1000 In New South Wales it Is 1866
instruction is absolutely gratuitious
in the universities and faculties of
France. They are open without reserve
to strangers as we'll as to native stu
dents and the grades established are
the same for each. 1t is required how
ever, that both foreign and native stu
ents should give evidence of certain
preliminary study.
The popularity of fox terriers at the
present time in London, is shown by
the fact that though between 1000 and
5000 have been ilnpounded in London
recently. being two-thirds of the stray
unmuzzted dogs in the British metrop-
oils, the Daily Telegraph states that
there has been no appreciable diIninu-
ton CT their number.
The rapid manner in which modern
cllurns convert cream into butter is
one of the wonders Of the dairying age.
Butter can now be made while the Ia
BILE is being laid, five or six minutes be-
ing all the time needed to churn. while
in a few more minutes the butter can
DR. Jameson's goods and chattles-
CAPTURED during the recent raid-were
sold one morning lately on the market
square of johannesburg. There was a
large attendance of Dutch farmers and
high prices were obtained. Jameson's
double-seated spider was sold for f34.
while a number of mules fetched prices
ranging from Els to f25.
The Oldest mountain railway In
Europe is the Righi, opened in 1871. but
the Mount Washington railway, in
America, was established in 1868. This
is also one of the steepest, and an
| other is the Green mountains line, also
in the United States. The Petersburg
In Germany. is very steep. but the
steepest of all is the Mount Pilatus, in
Switzerland.
One of the orders voted down at the
recent Mortified, VT, town meeting,
was as follows: Ordered, that when
dance is in progress in the town hail
the street lights shall be turned out
This action is explained by the fact
that the town has a rater Inadequate
electric light plant. and the street
lights are put out in order that all the
| power may be had by the hall lights.
In country town in Kentucky there
| is store where they sell most every
| selling intends to be brilliant hand
at repartee some day. Meanwhile he
practices on the patrons In general
with preference for colored patrons
! An old "Aunty." with mellow IF
teenth century finish on her cheeA
borss, cahne in one day and inquired
''You amt got no eends @ satin cu
squintin'. is you?" II didn't say
hadn't. aunty." well you needn't b
so smart, mister I amt arst you ism
you; I arst you amt you. Is you?"
A few days ago company bought
of j. w. Adams. of Pullin, KY, all his
walnut timber. from twelve inches up,
at good price. In cutting the timber
they came across an old walnut tree
that had been blown down for at least
thirty years and had been threatened
to be burned up several times. but
when they made an examination of ii
they found it TO be a birdeye walnut
worth considerable money 1t meas
ured seventy feet and they will get
$40 per foot, which will amount to
$500.