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

Reports covering the first four
months of this year show that the
production of gold in British India is
fast increasing. More of the yellow
metal will be mined in 1896 than was
ever before taken from the earth in
one year.
Some idea of the amazing growth of
our universities is furnished by the
statement that nearly 1900 students
have presented themselves for this
years examination admissions to Yale
alone, and the prosperity of Yale is
no exception to the general rule.
Brent house, at Brentford, England,
where Nell Gwynne lived, caught fire
recently. The billiard-room was
burned, but the broad staircase up
which Charles II is said to have rid
den his charger, was untouched. The
house is used now by conservative
club.
NJ. Andre, who taught the prince i'm
perial how to swim and acquired
wealth as q, fashionable teacher under
the empire, has just died in great pow
erty due to drink. His last means OF
earning a livelihood was to shave
poodles, and his own black poodle fol-
lowed him to the grave.
Canada has just bestowed names on
its territory bordering the Arctic
ocean. 1t will hereafter appear on the
map in four districts or provinces,
Ungaga, Franklin, Mackenzie and Yu-
kon. The four combined contain 1,421,-
600 square miles, or nearly seven
times the area of the province OF
Ontario.
Frances funded debt, the interest on
which the government proposes to tax.
amounted at the end of 1895 to $780,,
oT0 611 frapoc al Sl 200 mn n00 Re-
sides these there are the floating debt,
treasury notes and other obligations.
The interest charge is 81 1865 francs,
or 21.17 francs per head of the popula-
ton yearly.
One of the largest life insurance cor
porations in New York is discharging
number Of its clerks owing to unusual
dizziness in its business at the present
time. The custom is to make changes
and raise salaries in March. 1t is the
first time in the history of this COM
pany that clerks have been discharged
at this season of the year.
A Norway correspondent says: I'm
til this year there have been but few
American bicycles sold here, and the
English and German manufacturers
have had this market almost to them
selves. This year, however, the Amer
lean cycles have taken the lead en-
tirely, and the demand for the. Ameri-
can machines is even larger than the
supply"
While Henry Kinder, farmer at
Elwood, Ind, was standing in his door
way watching a storm, lightning
through, catching him just below the
hips and running down his legs to the
floor. His pants and Shoes were torn
off and he was rendered unconscious.
Although badly shocked, he is recover
ing.
The lash was recently applied to the
back of a man in England who had
committed highway robbery. He
knocked down a young woman and
stole her purse. Justice Day of the
Kent asszes expressed his disapproval
He thereupon sentenced Ellis to a
months imprisonment and thirty
lashes from the cat"
The Yankee Notion arrived in Bel
fast, Me, recently. 1t is frail, monde
script looking vessel, twenty feet long,
six feet wide, with a house amidships,
and is constructed of odds and ends
of lumber The occupants are Cob
bier William Cottrell of Swans Island
and his yellow dog. Captain Cottrell
proposes to navigate the Maine coast,
earning his living at odd jobs of cob
bling.
When General George B. Morgan was
forced by confederate to evacuate
Cumberland gap. thirty-two years ago,
he buried cannon, rifles, ordnance and
stores A year ago number of rifles
were dug up and digging ceased. Now
Colonel Kesterson has begun again.
Cannon balls, muskets, knapsacks and
boxes Of tallow candles in perfect pres
servation have been eXcavated.
A picturesque Sixteenth century tav-
ern, of which not a stone or a plank
has been touched in 800 years has been
discovered a few steps from the ST.
Michel fountain in the Latin quarter
of Paris. 1t is called. the Auberge du
Cheval Blanc, and in 1862 was the
starting point for the weekly coach
between Bordeaux and Paris. Later
it was the headquarters for the post
chaise service.
Three expeditions to observe the Au-