The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-08-03
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The Louisiana legislature has passed a
| bill to license poolroomS at $1,000 a year.
| Recently most of the clerks in the great
London city houses received formal per-
mission to wear straw hats
! Tacoma, Wash, is proud of the fact that
1t has had its first annual July rose car
nlVal and that 1T was a great success.
! Minnesota farmers have taken to killing
! wolves for a living, and some of them
! have earned as high as 500 a month at the
| business.
| The use of cycles in France has increas-
| ed so rapidly, says Paris correspondent,
| that even the budget estimate of the in
crease of the revenue to be expected from
the tax on velocipedes will be consider
ably exceeded.
A lock of Napoleon's hair, cut when the
emperor was on board the Bellerophon at
Plymouth in August 1915, and sent with
a letter to Capel Loft of TroSton, Suffolk,
was sold at Southebys in London the
| other afternoon for $780,
A new street corner indicator has been
invented. The name of the thoroughfare
is, IN TACT inclosed in a glass brick of
special construction, and is intended to be
made the corner stone and to be held in
place by the other paving blocks.
German cyclists have an effectual way
of getting rid of troublesome dogs. 81
cycle bombs are now manufactured in
the Fatherland-small, but extremely
noisy. explosives, which exercise a magi-
aggressive o.
pensities,
Sir A. Harris pantomime. Cinderella. Z,
last year, is computed to have cost S125,-
900 before the curtain was raised on box
ing night Sir Augustus did not finch
from dressing a chorus girl receiving "a
$500. - a.
The recent exposition of the Royal Dub
lin Agricultural society demonstrated that
while our farm machinery equals that of
the BRUSH IN strength, it is of much light
er pulld. Our consul at Dublin suggests
mat on this account our machinery is at
a disadvantage, as the Irish farmer pre-
fers heavier looking implements.
Hedingham castle, the Essex stronghold
OF the earls of Oxford, and pronounced
to be the finest Norman keep in the world,
is in the market and will shortly be put
up at auction in a London salesroom.
Here Queen Matilda is generally believed
to have died, and Henry Wis visit to the
property is We'll known in history.
A novel way of Illuminating a tunnel
mas been devised in Paris Refectors
throw light from many electric lamps six
Teen feet above the rails to the sides of
the tunnel, where it is again reflected by
FURNISHED tin, a soft and agreeable LIGHT.
The trains automatically turn the current
tunnel. INC
About year ago Wichita, Kan, man
was Juryman at the trial of a man ac-
cuSed of counterfeiting. The implements
OF the eounterfeiter were in evidence.
ana the juror examined them closely.
Aver the trial was over he went home
alie maze some counterfeiting tools him
SELF He was caught was recently tried |
and is now in prison.
The automatic postman is a new inven-
non: This is an adaptation of the pneu |
l matte principle already in use in connec-
tioh with the London telegraph offices. |
car driven by air pressure is propelled |
through an underground tube and auto |
haaucally gathers the letters deposited in /
boxes at the various stations and carries |
them to the central office.
Many insects can fly faster than birds
Inc common house fly can ordinarily fly |
twenty-five feet a second But when if is |
alarmed 1t has been found that it can in /
crease It's rate OF speed to over 100 feet |
per second. If it could continue such
rapid flight for a mile in a straight line |
IT would cover that distance in exactly !
thlrty-three seconds.
Some of Great Britain's latest guns will
be employed for the first time during the
autumn campaign in the Soudan. They
carry u highly explosive shell ten miles
ana each shell is capable of disabling 200
rapid fire capacity that before the first
shell bursts three others are on their Wav
in the same direction.
Connecticut has a new law against the
adulteratlon OF food, and the state agents
nave found by careful tests that the arti-
cles most tempered with are coffee mus
tard, maple syrup, lard, milk, cream of
tartar and honey. Coffee both ground
ana unground, is subject to imitation and
adulteration 10 a remarkable extent 1t
is the opinion of the Connecticut experts
that more than half of the coffee sold in
TINS country is sham and swindie.
, The scarcity of the best brands of to-
bacco in Cuba has led to the authorization
OF the fragrant weed to a large extent in
Europe, and incidentally to the invention
OF smoking material that contains no mic
otine and is designed to cure tobacco low
ers of their habit by lessening the erav-
ing. BY mixing SunfloWer leaves, euca-
lyptus leaves, pine needles, poplar bark,
clover flowers, corn silk and other com
mon MOI weeds with fair grades of tobacco,
the Imitation is so close as hardly to be
noticed by the smokers of cheap cigars
The large Importation of American
horses into Ireland is attracting the at
tention of the British authorities. The
American trotter and the American draft
horse is in big demand in Ireland, and is
imported and sold at a smaller price than
IS asked for English horses. The Amer
can horse seems to be conquering the
markets of Great Britain as we'll as those
Of Germany and France. The ponderous
English coach horses are giving way in
popular favor to the 1.-the, sinewy. stylish
and fleet American horse, which as
hing of beauty far outrivalS the English
horse.
1t sounds incredible, but it is stated as
: fact, that 60 per cent. of the retail
lIuS SlOISS VI OFOOhlyI ana New Ork
ire for sale. The cause for the depres-
sion in drug store values is the growing
practice of doctors in using compressed '
ablets. Instead Of writing prescriptions S
% be taken to drug stores to fill, they '
land out these tablets to patients, giving E
he patient directions for their use An
pther reason for the depression is that
department. stores have taken the trade {
f the druggists in combs, brushes, soaps
md perfumery, and the candy dealers
lave corralled the soda water business.
The truth may be buried but this {
world is too small to make a grave t