The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-08-09
NOTES OF THE DAY.

the realm.
TIE word ''selrage,, means "selfedge, y
or that which is an edge of itself without
being hemmed.
The city of Paris has spent $4,000 at
II the salon this year in buying pictures,
I Sz,bOo being the largest price paid.
At the Drummond Castle disaster near
( ly all the bodies found had life belts on
ana only three persons were saved.
There is a grapevine at Oys. PORTUGAL
that bears a sufficient amount of grapes
TO make an average of $50 gallons OF VINE
Z year.
Queen Victoria now rules 1867, 900 900 peo-
pie, greater number than has ever be-
fore Acknowledged the sovereignty Of
either king, queen or emperor
The titanosaur, an extinct animal which
formerly lived in the bad lands, was six
ty-five feet in length and stood about
thirty-eight feet in height.
The British steamship Strathdon, which
has just arrived at Philadelphia IS en-
tirely manned by Japanese. They have
shown themselves to be excellent sailors.
TIL expense of heating London theatre
the Vaudeville-by electricity using
storage batteries connected with radia-
tors. is said to have been less than 70
cents an hour.
The mosque of st. Sophia at Constanti-
NOBLE was laid up in mortar perfumed
with musk. 1t was built thousand YEARS
ago. yet the musty smell is still notice.
able.
1t is recommended that every lifeboat
carried by ships should be provided with
bottle of citric acid which precipitates
chloride of sodium, and, it is said, con-
verts sea water into palatable drink.
The number of unmuzzled dogs seized
in the streets of London between Febru-
airy II and June 13 was 20,942, and of those
1852 were claimed at the police stations.
The number of cases of rabies from the
beginning of January to June IS was LOG.
The decree of the Italian government
indefinitely extending the time of the
has been declared by a parliamentary
commission as contrary to law and void.
The final decision rests with the full
house OF parliament.
Parental authority is rapidly losing
ground in European codes of law. In
France the formalities for dispensing
with parents permission in marriage have
been simplified and the age up to which
it is required reduced, and now Germany
has cut down the age up to which pater-
nal assent is needed to y.
One of the most advanced" countries
under the sun is New Zealand, where
they propose to create an old age pension
fund, allowing $3.50 week to every per
son who reaches 65, by taxing public
amusements. This idea is still being Sc
riously agitated in England, although
they have settled there upon no source
of funds.
A 5-year-old boy in Dover, N. H, was
taken to a dentist and had three teeth ex-
tracted. He behaved so nicely that the
dentist gave the boy a dime as ne was
leaving the office That dime bought
some candy, and when the boy wanted
some money for firecrackerS for the
Fourth with genuine Yankee instinct, he
took himself to the dentist to ask to have
some more teeth extracted.
The United States consul at Havre,
France, recently sent home some samples
of new textile fabrics which were ex-
hibited at the state department in Wash
ington. They were woven from the fbres
of peat which, as they proved. can De
bleached to whiteness and will then take
any dye. These fabrics are said to be
especially advantageous from the facl
that they have antiseptic qualities which
viii prevent them from harborng disease
germs.
One hundred and four out of a possible
1G5 was made at a rifle match at Ilford
By a volunteer of the East Surrey, Eng
land regiment recently. The score was
81 for seven shots at 200 yards, So at 800
yards and 80 at 500 yards. This is believed
10 be a worlds record.
The citizens of Weisbaden intend to buy
the neighboring hunting seat OF Platte
and present 1t TO the German emperor,
who recently expressed great admiration
Of the forests that clothe the Taurus
mountains, and intimated a desire to
spend some time there every year.
A gang of twenty-one burglars has just
three years had committed more than 20
ourGiaries. They were admirably organ
..rd never used violence and made spe-
cialty Of robbing churches and priests
houses. The cher OF The band is believed
tee III The United States.
There is considerable risk incurred in
snoeinS vicious horses, both to the black
smith and to the horse itself. To remove
this risk altogether an Australian has in
, ented scrl OF wooden cage, the sides
and top of which are padded. The horse
is led in, the door is fastened, and the
cage is then turned completely UPSIDE
down, the animal resting On its back with
its feet up.
The most expensive and extensive wine
ceAar IL the word is owned by the Rou-
manian government. railway tunnel
Z,6vO feet long, situated between Galtaz
and Barbosh could not be used for rail
Structlon Its cost was nearly 100000
francs. 1t was leased to a wine dealer,
who turned it into an immense and eX-
cel,ent wine cellar.
The gold brick industry is languishing
at present, but in Idaho an Old trick is
being revived. Recently at Idaho Falls a
young man presented to a bank a bail of
amalgam, asking them TO weigh and send
to the mint on his account. AS the stuff
looked well the bankers did not hesitate
to advance u small sum of money on it,
The ball OF ANA GAM however, was an
iron bal well covered with gold.
William Palmer, an engineer of Middle
town, n. ~ While riding on a bicycle a
few days ago along a Iowpatch of the
Delaware and Hudson canal, attempted to
pass one of The canalboat mules, when
The animal wheeled suddenly and let drive
his hees, which caught The cycliSt pre-
cipitadng him with his wheel into ten
feet of water. After q hard struggle by
the captain and crew Of the canal boat
Mr.. Palmer was tshed out i'll an exhaust
ed condition.
eEr
found what he took TO be black rock on
his farm. These have been identified as
fine specimens of anthracite coal. A
further investigation showed several
.arge humps of anthracite iInbedded in a
slate formation similar to that of the
Pennsylvania coal regions. Ii viii require
more digging 10 ascertain whether there
Is coal enough to make mining profitable
The owner of the farm viii not make his
name known a present, as he wishes to
project his crops from coal prospectors.
How great the growth of ritualistic
practices has been n the Church of Eng
land during the last fourteen years is
shown by some figures compiled by the
Tourists Church Guide. In 1882 daily
communion was administered in l2s
churches in Great Britain; in 1896 474
churches. Incense, used in nine churches
fourteen years ago, is now used in 3G7 The
figures for the churches using lights on
the altar are 5S1 and 5.59S; for chose where
yes tments are employed, 336 and 1632, and
for those where the worshippers face the
east, 1G62 and 1891.
Paris has had its first serious motor
carr age accident. The Automobile club
had had a run TO the Pavilion Henri ".
at ST. German. On the return, in going
down the steep descent between St Ger
main and Port Marty, the leading car
rage in charge of Comte de Deon, came
TO grief. In trying to steer between a
heavily laden farmers wagon and the
steam tramway train that runs on the
side of the road, the automobile carriage