The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-07-14
NOTES OF THE DAY.

The East London Water Company
has issued a notice forbidding the use
of garden sprinklers and all similar
apparatus. A drouth in London is i'm
minent.
In some parts of England when you
haul a drowning man out of the water
you get nothing, but if you let him
down and then haul him out you get
5 shillings.
More than 10000 persons are engaged
in the manufacture of explosives in
England. Last year forty persons in
the business were Killed and 167 injur-
ed by accidents.
L.ifeboats are now being made in
some quarters out of pumice-stone.
This is material of great lightness
and strength and boat made thereon
will support a considerable load, even
when full of water.
Madrid schools are so bad that Ger
man residents of the city have united
to establish a school where their cI-l-
dren may obtain as good an education
| as in more civilized parts of Europe
| for a reasonable outlay of money.
A penny was recently sold at auction
in England for 81, 900. 1t was of gold,
worth 20 pence Gao cents) and was
But two specimens are known to be in
existence. They are in the British mu-
scum.
A feather bed ON which they were
sleeping. saved the lives of two women
at Bonnie Terre, Md, last week. Light
ming struck the house, hit the bed, set
| the shuck mattress in a blaze, but the
feathers diverted the electricity from
| the women.
According to a Swiss contemporary
an engineer named Tauxe has just in
vented a new process of temDering
steel by electricity, which not only
makes the steel much harder but at
the same time gives it the proper elias
ITCHY; that is, it is not brittle like steel
made very hard by the usual process.
Visitors to the Derby race course this
| year say that the gypsy fortune tellers
who always have been very prominent
there, have received an unusual
amount of patronage from fashionable
people, and this is regarded as addi-
tional proof of increased superstition
aanong the British upper classes.
Librarians are at work cataloguing
the Indian library of the British India
office. and when finished the library
| will be the most complete for oriental
scholars probably in the world. There
are now seven miles of book shelves,
| and when the new floor is completed
there will be nearly fifteen miles of
shelving.
A non-poisonous match has been de-
| vised by a French chemist, potassium
permanganate and amyl acetate be-
ing among the inoffensive ingredients.
The matches are made easily and with
out danger, ignite readily, are not Ia
! ~ yboy, CTR in n
THY, and have an odor said 10 be posi-
lively agreeable.
At a recent meeting of the Paris
academy of medicine, NJ. Guinkoff
stated that he had successfully photo
graphed the interior of the eye. The
I advantages of this method are i'm
I portant, since it enables actual pic
lures of the disease of the retina to be
secured and compared from time to
time to determine whether disease pro-
cesses of the eye progress or not. The
| picture is made in two seconds. The
apparatus can thus serve as an ophth-
almoscope, and any number of persons
can thus observe the results.
There are many authenticated ex-
amples of increased power of mind
during sleep. One of the best known
is that in which the great naturalist
Agassiz successfully reconstructed
from certain remains the skeleton of a
fossil fish, at which he had been work.
ing unsuccessfully in his waking mo-
mentS for several hours.
A recent issue of L'Energie Electri-
que gives the following mixture for
cleaning the parts of machinery,
which, it states, attacks the hardest
crust of hardened Oil: Boil the parts
for thre minutes in a solution of $50
| rf +a VII
of cauStic in soda in 1000 of water, AFT
ter which rinse and dry the metal
A statistician who has been interest
ing himself in the population of the
earth says that 80, pa, 900 die annually
that is, an average of 9S,S40 day, 4,01C
4 an hour and 81 a minute. The annual
number of births, on the other hand
is estimated at 36,792,000, an average
of 100,S00 a day, 1920 an hour and 70 a
minute, so that the population is in
creasing at the rate of three to the
minute.
A sensational discovery has been
made by the appeals and transfers
committee of the city council of Cum
berland, Md, which involves the tax
alton of over $4,000 worth of property
in South Cumberland. 1t appears thai
boundary stone has been moved in
have been evading taxation. The city
engineer has ascertained the true line
and the property above named has
been included in the city limits.
A druggist at Winnimac, Ind, receiv.
ed another order the other day from
President Cleveland for three boxes O.
fish-hool1s for bass fishing in the sea
With the order is a letter from thu
president stating that the last ordec
had been received and used by him
self and Secretary Thurber with goot
results" This is the third order 70.
fishing tackle that the druggist hal
received from the president, and he il
proud Of his ability to please.
A curious instance of the -tapeisn
of the English postoffice comes from
Norfolk. A letter carrier, with a lon,
country round, recently purchased ;
tricycle., which enabled him to ge
over his district with greater ease ant
q. more convenient promptness to tn
public. In some way or other the de
partment, became aware of this fac
and sent down an official. censure t
! him for having dared to buy his ma
chine without having received permits
sion from headquarters.
The Orange Free State is very nearl,
; as large as England and just as larg
as the state of New York. It lies fror
1000 to 5000 feet above the sea and i
; mostly level, with some low range
of hills The surface is bare of WOOD
except in a few sheltered spots alon;
the streams, but is we'll covered wit
heritage. The air is pure and bracing
much like that of Colorado or Wyo
ming. There are, happily, no blizzard
but violent thunder storms are not un
common and the hailStOneS which ia
. during such storms sometimes kill tn