The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-04-02
NOTES OF THE DAY.

Partisan epicures are hiring English
cooks.
England pays s7OOOO,OO yearly for
foreign dairy produce.
Three Irishmen represent Scottish
constituencies in the British parlia-
ment.
Opals, when taken from the mines.
are so soft that they can be picked 10
pieces by the finger nail.
Eighteen tons of steel disappear daily
on the London and Norehws stern rail-
way through wear and rust
Accurate calculations make it GER
tain that 1000 tons of sOct settle
monthly within the rs square miles of
London.
Circles around the moon are some
time large and sometimes small, b.
cause they are formed at different
heights in the air.
A patient in the Kankakee asylum
for the insane possesses the queer de-
fusion that he is a silk hat. He is f-ept
confined to prevent him from sitting
ON the heads of his fellow patients.
Down to the depth of 200 fathoms,
whsre daylight appears, the eyes OF
tie fish get bigger and bigger BeyonA
that depth, small-eyed forms set in,
with long feelerS developed to sup
plement the eyes.
The first coin known is Chinese. 1t
is copper, and specimens weighing
from one pound to five pounds and
supposed to date from a period of at
least 1000 years before Christ are still
| in existence.
At the next winter exhibition Of the
Royal academy in London there is 20
be a deceased masters section.
There will be a. room Of honor" de-
voted to the pictures and sculptures
of the late president, Lord Leighton.
A man in Bourges is still wearing the
blouse he had on when the Prussians
entered France. He swOre that he
would never wear another and by
means of patches has kept his oath.
The town council has offered him 100
francs for it for the town museum.
The powder used in big guns is queer
looking stuff. Each grain is a hexa-
gonal prism, an inch wide, and two
thirds of an inch thick, with a hole
bored through the middle of L. In ap-
pearance it resembles a piece of w0cd.
If you put lighted match to it it will
take seven or eight seconds to go off.
Even apart from it's biblical history.
the Jordan possesses many points of
interest. During its course IT falls over
1900 feet. At no point is it navigable
even by a small craft, to any consider
able distance, and presents the unique
spectacle of river which has never
been navigated flowing into a sea
which contains not one living creature
Algiers is becoming an important
coaling station, many English. German
and Belgian steamers preferring it to
Gibraltar and Malta, as more central.
Whereas in 1886 only eighty-five steam
ers put in for coal, there were last year
1870 besides those which brought car
goes. Coal to the amount of 209, 900
tons was imported last year. of which
2S9, 900 tons came from England.
An odd shooting match between the
national guardsmer of San Francisco
and the guardsmen of Honolulu was
held last month, the result being just
announced. Fifty men from each CT
ganizatlon assembled at their respec-
tive ranges, in California and Hawaii.
on an agreed day, and made their
scores. The Hawaiian score arrived
by steamer in San Francisco last week
and showed that the Hawaiians had
won the prize by severity points In
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