The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-05-27
NOTES OF THE DAY.

Bombay is now known as the ssMan.
! chester of India"
AT least $720, 0OO 900 worth of British
property is always on the sea.
A majority of the members of the
Milwaukee city council are active
wheelmen.
The luxury of woe" is such in the
orient that women seize on the slight
est pretext to indulge in it.
The sultan of Turkey has q. mania
Tor collecting carriages. He has near
ly 500 of them and often loses half an
hour before deciding in which one he
will ride
Since the Cuban war began the CO.
lonial debt of the island has been in
creased by 1905, 551 $50 The previous
debt was S163, 551, $780, making a total of
sass, 552 OPS.
Either the offices or the citizens of
Williamsburg, Me-, are of an unusual
sort. One man was elected there, IN
opposed. a few days ago, TIC hold seven
different Offices.
English whist players are considering
the invitation of the American whist
congress to send a team to the inter-
national tournament, which is pro-
posed for the meeting at Brooklyn in
June
Arbor day has been celebrated in Ne
braska by the planting of over a mil
lion trees between. sunrise and sunset.
Premiums for the largest paintings
were offered by societies and indiyid-
uals.
All Irish peers not peers of parlia-
ment are eligible for seats in the house.
of commons and may represent any
borough, county or university in Eng
land or Scotland, but not in Ireland
Paris is said to have salon nation
al de Ia mode, where every style of
dress and everything pertaining to the
dress, both of men and women, will be
shown. The exhibition will be of art
for arts sake.
Large quantities of dead fish have
been cast ashore on the banks of
many lakes in Michigan since the
of the ice. 1t is thought that
the ice froze so thick and so solid dur
ing the winter that there were no air
holes.
A 2-year-old elk. drawing an ordinary
buggy, with a man driving, trotted
into the town of Aberdeen Wash. a
few days ago. The elk was harnessed
in the usual way, was in every way
as tractable as a horse, and stood
quietly when tied UP to the hitching
post.
The question Of experiments with
germ destroying filters is now under
the consideration of the government of
India Some large cantonments, in
which typhoid has been, or is, preva-
lent, will probably be selected, and
complete installation of filters will be
made in such places.
A Bengal artist of Calcutta has pre-
pared a map OF the world according ITO
the ancient Hindus. The artist has
enhanced the interest of the man by an
explanatory descriptive account of it,
which will form valuable help to the
study of ancient geography, according
to the Hindu rishis.
Sir George Newnes is about to start
a new daily paper in London. which
is designed especially for ladies. 1t
will be literally illustrated and will
ignore politics. AS Sir George Newnes
has succeeded in everything that he
has undertaken he will doubtless sue
coed with this unique publication
The narrow Baltic seas have worse
record for wrecks than any other por-
tion of the globe. The annual number
OF such casualties exceeds one a day,
ranging from 425 to 1874, and in one
half of these cases all the crews were
lost. In the four years from 1877 to
1881, no less than 700 lives were lost
there.
The entire town of Robertson, or
Montefore, as it's founders first called
it, is soon ito be sold under mortgage
foreclosure by the Sheriff of Cumber-
land county, New Jersey, where the
town is located. A Trenton building
and loan association holds the mort
gage, which aggregates $4,000. For a
year no one has lived in the place.
The penny-in-the-slot gas meters are
such a success in London that one
company is taking in over a ron of
pennies a day and is behind in it's or
ders tosthe extent of $4,000 machines.
The consumer pays in advance, and is
satisfied that he gets the worth of his
money, and the company does a cash
business with very light expenses.
A cat belonging to resident of Cam
eron, Mo-, is nursing litter of wild
rabbits and caring for them with
motherly solicitude. Several kittens
were born to the cat a week or so ago,
but they all died. A neighbor found
nest of very young rabbits about the
same time and they were put in charge
of the cat, with the happy result told.
A number Of Philadelphia capitalists
have decided to build in that city a
colosseum to be devoted to all forms
of sports 1t will be two stories high,
with an auditorium seating 10000 peo-
pie on the second floor. The first floor
will be used for an artificial ice rink,
horse, dog and cat shows, bicycle ex-
hibition, athletic games, conventions
and concerts.