The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-09-05
NOTES OF THE DAY.

In Germany the men as well as the wo-
men wear wedding rings When either
dies the survivor wears beth.
Thieves turned up the cornerstone of a
new church in London, Ont, and stole the
money deposited in it.
Trenton, Mo-, was 50 circus hungry that
it went on an excursion eighty miles up
into Iowa to have a look at a show.
The caterpillars are great eaters. the
different species consuming from five to
twenty times their own weight of food
each day.
They have sometimes a curious way of
deciding lawsuits in North Siam. Both
parties are put under cold water, and the
one staying under the longer wins the
suit.
An orchard twenty years old is so I'M
common at NIissoula, Mont, that -four
ishing one in which there are 100 apple
trees. some with twelve-inch trunks, is
made the subject of comment.
Mandolin club serenades have become
such a nuisance in Lawrence. Kan, that
the papers are calling on the city council
for an ordinance which shall wholly pro-
hibit them-at least after II p m.
England's neglect of her discharged SOL
diers is shown by the fact that out of
SOL tramps relieved at the Winchester
workhouse in eight successive weeks
lately 1853 were discharged soldiers.
The most curious use to which paper is
to be put is that suggested by the recent
IL
is new style of bath tower, consisting
of full suit of heavy blotting paper. A
person upon stepping out of his morning
tub has only to array himself in one of
these suits, and in second he Will be as
dry as a bone.
The Oldest star route stage driver and
United States mail carrier HOW perform
ing active service is Uncle Ira Jennings
of Bibb county, Georgia. He was born
July 10. 1915. at Dandy Tompkins county
CT mi from Ithaca
pike Though he is 81 years of age, he
is robust and hearty and travels $50 miles
weekly in his buggy with the mail.
Devils island. on which ex-Captain
Dreyfus, who sold military secrets of the
French government, is confined was for
merly inhabited by lepers, who raised
poultry, which they sold to the hospital:
These lepers were removed to the Island
Maroni to make room for DreyfuS, and a
house built for the six officials who guard
the spy, and who live there with their
families.
An act of official vandalism has been
perpetrated at Spalato in Dalmatla, the
great palace of Diocletian. The beautiful
Romanesque tower on Roman foundations
at the entrance of the emperor'S mauso-
leum has been torn down and new
tower is rising in it's stead, into which
capitals and sculptored stones OF all dates
from the third century to the twelfth are
being built.
Fakirs is the name given to celebrated
class of fanatics found in many parts or
the east but more particularly In India
Some of them will make VOW of con-
tinuing all their lives in one posture, and
adhere to it strictly; others never lie
down. but remain in a standing position
all their lives, upheld only by sticks or
rope under the armpits. They pretend to
have subdued every passion OF mortals-
A dog who has eaten UP farm and a
set of buildings has been found in eastern
Maine. This dog killed neighbor.
sheep. The neighbor offered to call 1t
square if the dog was killed. The dog s
master refused to agree to this and a
lawsuit came next. To pay the costs and
damages assessed by the court the owner
of the dog had to mortgage his farm for
$780, The mortgage had a bigger appetite
than the dog, and soon his farm was gone
and the owner had to move away.
1t is reported that the Russian govern
ment intends to give up Siberia, as a place
of exile, for the sake of colonizing 1t, and
will hereafter send convicts to the remote
provinces of Saghaien, Archangel, and the
far northern islands, which are as fright
full as Tatarus for a. place of abode. This
will make the penal system of Russia.
even more terrible than 1t is now. The
great rush of peasants into the newly
opened district is such that the great
Siberian railroad is congested, and can
not carry all the passengers who present
themselves.
Robert Burkhard, of near Helena, Mont,
witnessed two horses, one his own saddle
horse fight on the plains the other day,
he saws that it was the fercest combat
between animals that he ever saw, and
that he never realized before how des-