The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-06-14

Orloff, weighs lS5 carats.
A metal workers magazine says that
platinum wires have been drawn so
fine that two of them twisted together
could be inserted in the hollow of
human hair
A small unmounted pocketbook of
elephants leather costs about $40. A
small satchel made from the same
leather would probably cost as much
as $500.
Theodore A Havemeyer is to build a
splendid structure for Delmonico al
Fifth avenue and Forty-fourth street,
New York. lit will be completed in
about TWO years.
The quantity of bananas shipped
from West India and adjacent ports
into the United States now amount to
13,00o coo or 14,000,0 900 punches annual
~, valued at considerably over S2O,-
00O.000.
The discovery Of human skull in
good state OF preservation by we'll Gig
gers al d depth OF forty feet beneath d
solid four-foot vein of coal, is attract
sCou deal OF attention at Dick
inson, n. D.
Prof. Garner. of Central African
monkey fame, and Editor Labouchere,
outs. Accordingly Prot. Garner has
named one of his simians ''Labby," and
says ne intends to exhibit it.
One of the amazing literary success
es OF the century is Surgeons ser
mons. The Westminster Gazette says
that 1886 of these sermons have been
printed and sold and that the sum to-
tai Of the sales nearly reaches 0,0OO,-
900 copies per sermon.
The seven Bibles of the world are
the Koran, of the Mohammedans; the
Tri Pixies, of the Buddhists; the Five
Kings, of the Chinese; the Three We
das, of the Hindoos; the Zend-Avesta,
OF the Persians; the Mormon, and the
I! Scriptures Of the Christians.
Queen Victoria has had tree planted
near the drives leading from the SOW
ereign's entrance at Windsor castle to
! Frogmore, in memory of General Sir
Henry Ponsonby, who was for many
years her majestys private secretary
and keeper of the privy purse.
A queer memorial window has just
been accepted by Hawarden parish,
Rev. Stephen Gladstone, the rector,
/ presiding over the meeting. 1t is con-
tributed by several Armenians to COM
$4,000 ArmenianS under Turkish mis-
rule.
In mineral production last year was
/ a remarkably good one for the United
! States. The total reached S62S, ISL, 505
an increase over 1894 of SS4, Al, All. The
aggregate yield OF metals was $40, 000,-
{ QUO. an increase, of $40, Geo. The
production of bituminous coal in
/ creased from $103, 75S96T to $125, 4S9 .4SS.
! There are now 40 tents at the sheep
camp, on the Yukon trail, occupied by
! er weather to cross the moantains. In
! dian packers, including Chilkats, Chill
koots ana Sticks from the interior are
/ there in large numbers, but horses are
scarce and the rates high.
! The result of the excessive bowling is
/ that Paris matters do larger business
than those of any other city. Nothing
ruins a hat so quickly as constant
bows with il. In London, where men
are less polite hat lasts twice as
long, usually giving way first at the
crown, instead of at the nape or brim,
AIS do French hats.
1t costs more to send a ton of goods
from London to the west of Ireland
than to Japan. A ton of wooden goods
can be forwarded from London to
New York for EOS. to Chicago, a thou
sand miles inland, for 35s., and to ia
pan for sos The same goods sent from
Derry to Lond5n' cost I0s. and from,
G'weedore, so miles inland, 12Os.
During a terrific but short thunder
+ STORM ~ Lyman, England, on a recent
evening, large fochs Of wild ducks and
! geese flew over the town in a panic
stricken condition, screeching very
loudly They had been driven from
the banks of the river, and SO low did
they fly in the country that farmers
went out nd knocked them down with
! sticks.
A large-sized. long and narrow gal
/ ley, L4UpeieG py oars and sails, was
/ much in use in the Mediterranean un-
til the end of the eighteenth century
! for coast navigation, and oars were a
great advantage in the dead Gains SO
frequent in the Mediterranean until
| the introduction of the steamboat.
The Hilton Armstrong gun has an
extreme range of fourteen miles, firing
! a shot weighing 1890 pounds. and re-
I quiring $50 pounds Of powder. The
! enormous expense of these large guns
! has led to their being practically aban-
| doned. for besides the actual cost OF
each shot, the gun itself was unable tic
bear the strain of being fired a hundred
times.
one Of the shortest wills ever filed
was offered the other day at the sur
rogate's Office in New York. 1t was the
work of Andrew Wesley Kent, a law
yer, and was written on sheet of his
Office paper. 1t read My WILL. l
give, devise and bequeath unto my
wife, Ninah Kent, all my estate, both
! real and personal 1 appoint her ex-
ecutrix shereof, and revoke all former
wills
An old man, a resident of England
who recently died at the age of b. at.
tracted considerable attention in the
community in which he lived on &C
count of a phenomenal growth of hair
which appeared on his head iusl
before his death. For over twelve
years he had been bald; and then, in
some inexplicable way, heavy growth
of hair suddenly appeared, like thai
of an infant.
The little town of Nasso, in Sweden
has feminine department, $50 strong
in its fire brigade. The water works
Of the village consist simply OF -four
great tubs, and it is the duty of the
women "firemen" to keep these full IL
case of fire. They stand in two con.
tinuous lines from the tubs to the lake
about three streets away, one line pass
ing the full buckets and the othel
sending them back.
The queen passes her time at CT
miez in the same manner every day
Her majesty rises at s and has a lighi
breakfast in her sitting room, which
I adjoins the bed room. Shortly before
10 the queen descends to the hall of the
hotel in the lift, and then goes out fol
an hour in her donkey chair If the
weather is fine and warm her majesty
breakfasts at o'clock in a tent or
the lawn.
belated romance has just come t.
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