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

than in any other country in the
world.
The property of the Salvation Army
in the United States is valued at near
S., 900.
Physiological uses of the Roentgen
rays have so increased that the pub
LEGATION of the Archives of Clinical
SlSiagraphy has been begun in Lon
/ don.
A Paris shopkeeper who does not
smoke is trying to get a divorce from
his wife, the only evidence he offers
of her infidelity being that her clothes
always smell of tobacco.
When a Randolph, VT, man was
asked how much property he had he
/ thrashed the assessor who asked the
question and was arrested, convicted
and bound over for the offense.
! A single glass eye can rarely be worn
more than year without being pol
ished, for the surface becomes rough
ened by the action of tears, etc, and
irritates the lids as they rub over it,
/ The great new Boston public library
! has already been found to have been
/ i'll planned and inadequate. 1t costs
! 81, 600 and now $4,000 is about to be
expended to construct a suitable read
ing ROOM"
! The Burns exhibition, which is to
commemorate the centenary of the
poets death will be held in the Glas-
gov Fine Ant institute from July till
October. Her majesty has consented
to become a patron.
Intemperance among London women
is increasing. The metropolitan police
returns show that there has been a
decided advance during the last two
years in the number of women appre-
fended for drunkenness.
The revenue from tobacco in Eng
land was greater during the last year
than ever before, which fact the chan
cellor of the exchequer attributes TO
/ the greatly increased consumption of
cigarettes by children.
Every ton of Atlantic water, when
evaporated, yields eighty-one pounds
of salt; a ton of Pacific water, seventy
nine pounds; Arctic and Antarctic wat
ers yield eightyfive pounds to the ton
and Dead sea water 1877 pounds.
There are numerous hotels in New
York wher suites of rooms, consisting
of bedroom, paTlor, bathroom and one on
two sitting rooms cost $500 to $500 a
week. This, of course, includes table
service and private dining-room and
attendance.
a queer accident happened near Wal
sail, in England, lately, where a canal
fell into a coal pit. The canal flowed
over the pit. the underground sup
ports of which gave way, letting down
the ground above. draining the canal
of water and putting a stop to all
traffic.
Paris is rushing into the Bots de
Boulogne for residence and abandon
ing the district around THE Elysee
| al tiOr7 70 ;e,
so constant that people are already
speaking of the not distant time when
the Bots de Boulogne will be the center
! of Paris
The salt product of the United
States during 1865 was 1856, $40 bar
rels of $50 pounds each, valued ait S4,-
423, 0S6. About one-half of it was pro-
duced in the state OF New York. AL
though THE amount was greater by 500
barrels than in any previous year the
value was 100000 less.
At the Pasteur institute in Palermo
2,221 persons have been trealed in ten
years. While the greater number of
cases were of dog bites there were in
stances of bites by donkeys, mules,
oxen, pigs, wolves, a horse, ferret
and rabbit, and sixteen cases of
bites by human beings suffering from
hydrophobia.
A small town in Bavaria is about to
celebrate the three hundredth ami
versary of a lawsuit with line of
barons concerning the ownership of a
forest of oak and beach trees. The
villagers will come into full possession
next month and have managed THE
property so well that its value has in
creased to 100000.
Sleeping in the open air is a grievous
and severely punished offense in Eng
land. Two little girls, one five years
old, the other two, were brought before
a London police magistrate recently,
charged with sleeping out without
visible means of subsistence. He re-
fused to commit them and ordered
/ them to be let loose in the streets
again, as their parents had abandoned
them.
On the boundary line of Penobscot
and Hancock counties, Maine there is
a post, it is said upon which a man
may sit with his feet IN Hancock coun-
sty and his coattails hanging down in
i PenobScot county. He may take a
pipe out of mis- pocket in Holden, to-
bacco out of a pocket in Bucksport
and lighting the pipe. blow smoke into
the town OF Dedham.
Lord George Hamilton recently said
in parliament that The English system
of primary education was thu most ex-
J., pensive in the world. Sir Charles Dixie
thereupon asked the government tc
give official figures, asserting that the
; United States spent two or three timeS
, as much money on schools as England
does. This is likely to be true, vel
, the results obtained probably justify
Lord George Hamilton's statement.
Mrs. J. V. Bloomfield of Deerfeld
Me-, observed that her young child
was restless and called a physician
An examination led him to believe tbs
little one was Suffering from some
affection of the blood and he advised
: poufticing The thigh. In few day:
a full-sized needle was removed from
. the thigh the theory of the doctor be
! ing that the child had at some time sal
!, down upon it and that 1T had worked
!, upward and out.
IL A scheme is On foot to double the
: area of Edinburgh by the annexation
S of certain rural districts and also the
' towns of Leith and Portobello. II
/ seems that the present area of the city
a is less than ten square miles, while
: the population is more than 275,000
. The present acreage of the city is 6,21t
E land the proposed rural extensions 5.7Si
: acres. The area of Leith is 2,044 acres
/ and the area of Portobello 257 acres
2 so that the area of the extended city
t would be Il, 400 acres.