The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-02-23
NOTES OF THE DAY.

M. Hoefer, the welI-known Partisan
entemologist, has prepared a land
scape which is wholly made of insects.
great and small. The subject, which
consists OF river, mill, bridge, wood
ana mountain, is made UP entirely of
insects, not less than 550, 900 specimens
OF bugs" and flies being used. This
curious painting is valued at $4,000.
st. Paul, Indianapolis, Albany and
providence are the only cities
Of over one hundred thousand inhab-
ltants represented by citizens in
the United States senate. Kansas
CITY is credited with Senator Vest, but
ne lived in Sedalia so long that he is
counted as belonging there. Spring
field, Ill, is the only city that can
boast being the home of both senators
from the state.
The revived interest in Burns affects
the sale even of ''relics" which the poet
never saw. In London recently a large
wooden snuff-boX, the lid carved with
Jack o'Hazeldean in high relief, and
with dogs and sheep round the sides.
sold for f.. The auctioneers carefully
guarded themselves with the printed
intimation that this snuffIbox is said
to have belonged to Robert Burns"
The largest walnut tree ever hewn
in Pike county, Pa, was cut down a
few days ago near Milford by With
Angle of Washington, N. J., for gun
stocks for the United States govern
ment. The first sixteen feet will make
about 1000 feet of lumber and will
furnish enough gun stocks to supply a
regiment. 1t was Pike county which
furnished the tallest pine tree along
the Delaware river for the mainmast
of the frigate Constitution many years
ago.
Some idea of the sadness of the wa
tiers Of the Dead sea may be gained
from the comparison made below. The
Dead sea is situated in Palestine
twenty miles east of Jerusalem. 1t is
thirty-f1ve miles long and from ten to
fifteen miles wide, with an average
depth of twenty fathoms d2O feet.
Common ocean waters contain but
thirty parts Of salt to the LOCO: those
OF the Dead sea contain $50 parts to
the 1000, which makes the briny solu-
ton exactly one-fourth salt.
Artesian wells are in use in some
parts Of the west to give power for
running electric light and power
plants. AT chamberlain, s. D., a few
days ago a new, big, artesian well.
sunk to supply power for the electric
lighting of theg town, was put into SER
vice, and the results are highly salts
factory. The water is forced through
a three-inch nozzle on to a Pelton wa
ter wheel, which runs the dynamo,
giving power for 275 thirty-tWo candle
power incandescent lights. There is
power sufficient for twice this num-
Der.
There Is a project to generate power
in Kern county, Cal, by the agency Of
waterfalls. The power is to be used
to light the city and run the electric
street cars. Many similar projects are
" StTs1 I.fi lit,
power in the mountains of the state.
that hitherto has run to waste be-
cause SO far removed from business
centers or inconveniently situated for
use by direct application on the SPOT.
Several such schemes have been
worked out and they have proved
highly successful.
The lack of snow in Maine this win
ter drove one man insane and he is
now in the state insane hospital. He
was prosperous lumber merchant of
Sangerville. Last fall he took large
contracts for the cutting and delivery
of lumber. He had the lumber cut,
but because there was no snow, an
unusual contingency, he could not de-
liver it. He had expended large sums
of money and became involved be-
cause of not being able to make col
lections. Disappointment and anxiety
drove him insane.
A Santa Fe train in Arizona was
stalled for five hours by an odd acci-
dent few days ago. The engine ran
over a COW and the cows foot became
firmly wedged in the blow-off cock,
used to empty the boiler, with the
result that the steam and water went
out and the engine was killed. A
brakeman had to walk five miles to
the nearest telegraph station to tele-
graph for another engine. It was five
hours before another engine reached
the stalled train, and the passengers
played games among the sand hills
and sage brush during the wait.