The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-12-16
NOTES OF THE DAY.

Stammering is almost unknown
among savage tribes.
Nearly 100000 was given in the form
of charitable requests in Berlin last
year.
People never think of whistling in
Iceland. 1t is violation of the divine
law
Estate duty has been paid on s2SO,oOO
as the value of George Du Maurier's
personal estate.
The asparagus served at the Elysee
banquet in honor of the car cost 8
francs a stalk. or 80 cents a bundle,
and there were 200 guests.
Vermont newspaper congratulates
the people of the state that there was
less drunkenness during the last ses-
sion of the legislature than usual.
Lord Roberts. commander-in-ch chief of
the army in Ireland. has become an in
defatigable cvclist. He may be seen
any day careering through the Dublin
streets.
During his entire career Stradivar-
ius made from 5000 to 1000 violins. Few
of these were sold for more than S25
during his life. Now some of them
command $4,000 each.
A wealthy gentleman in Vienna stip-
ulated in his will that an electric light
must be constantly BURNING in his
tomb, and another inside his coffin, for
L months after his death.
In certain parts of China the young
women wear their hair in a long. single
plat, with which is intertwined .
strand of bright scarlet thread. which
denotes them to be marriageable.
People often find a difficulty in keep
ing their shelled eggs from cracking
while boiling. This can be remedied
by throwing a small quantity of salt
into the water before putting in the
egg.
By an Italian law any circus which
does not perform every act promised
in the printed programme, or which
misleads the public by means of pic
lures. is liable to a fine of $4,000 for
each offense.
The secret marks on Bank of Eng
land notes by which forgeries are so
rs pidly detected are constantly being
changed. The microscope Will reveal
many such peculiarities to an observ-
ant eye.
1t is said by philologists that there are
Is original languages-the Greek,
Latin, German, Slavonic, Welsh, Bis
cayan, Irish, Albanian. Tartarian.
Illyrian, Jazygian, Chaucin and Finnic.
At public meeting of citizens. held
under the presidency of the lord
mayor of Belfast. it was decided to
erect a statue of the queen in COM
memoration of her maiestvs reiNn.
The cost of the statue will he $4,000.
An auditor in a japanese theatre is
allowed for a small fee to stand uD,
and the unfortunate individual be-
hind him has no right to demonstrate
or TO rise and get peep at the stage.
He may hear, but he cannot see-
The first railway in Corea is to be
built by an American, !. r. Morse. 1t
will connect the port of Chemuloo
with the capital, Seoul, which is only
IS miles distant. The cost is estimated
at S1,S50.000.
Here is a verbatim of a postal card
received by Frederick Sylvester, one
of the leading real estate operators in
Philadelphia: Mr.. Silveste / want
them seller stares fixt rit off, my wife
fel done last mite and like to brek her
dam mex. Yours truelie, A. Nickolus.'
An extraordinary suicide is reported
from Lisburn, near Belfast. where an
inmate of the Thompson Consumptive
hospital, named Cowan, was found
in a shallow stream. in which,
Judging from his recumbent position,
he must have held his head until he
expired.
Iron made in Alabama is steadily
pushing it's way into the markets of
the old world, the latest order being
for 1000 tons for shipment to India.
Rotterdam and Genoa have
already made liberal purchases of the
furnace product of the south. and
there is likely to be a still further de-
mand for it in those other European
cities.
In looking over documents in the
Office of the state sinking fund COM
mission at Columbus, O.. Secretary
Jennings came across an old
compendium of the federal census of
1870. 1t shows that there We're at that
Lawrence, one in Morgan and one in