The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-12-21
SO Years of Cures.

spectacles were first used in the year
Peanut meal is not only more nutrit-
Gus, but far cheaper than beef. peas,
potatoes. rice. rye flour. milk or butter
The Baltic is almost a tideless sea.
On an average there is fluctuation
of three feet in only about % days in
the year.
The production of raw iron in Rus
STA in 1894 was 1916 tons more than
in 1898. The total amount produced in
1894 was 1,446,2S6 tons.
Bookkeeping was first introduced. in
England from Italy by Peele in 1863.
1t was derived from a system of alge-
bra published in Burgo at Venice.
The census of 1890 gives the whole
number of oenitentiary convicts il
the United States as 1928. OF them
SO,546 were white and 1857 colored-
The Keil canal is lighted over 90
miles by electricity, and is the longest
distance in the world lighted continue
ously that way There are 5000 poles
The first great international EXPOSE
ton was held in London in 1851. 1t
lasted ten days. The buildings and
grounds covered 20 acres. There were
1000 exhibitors and 6,039. 900 visitors.
The date OF the earliest certain ac-
count of the modern writing pen is
6S6. Steel pens were first made by
Wise, in England. in 1903. Quilts. how
ever, were used for writing in the fifth
century.
The first known treatise on stem
ography is the curious and scarce little
work entitled. ''Arte of Shorte, Swifte
and Secrete Writing by Character, In
vented b. Timoth1 Bright, Doctor of
Phisike."
The first attempt at stereotyping in
America was made in 1775 by Benjamin
Macon, a printer of Philadelphia He
cast plates for number of pages of
the New Testament, but never COM
oleted them.
The art of printing, according to DIR.
Halde and the missionaries, was prac-
ticed in China nearly so years before
the Christian era In the time of Con-
fucius. B. c. 500. books were made of
bamboo, and about $50 years after
Christ paper was first made.
The Austrian Countess Hohenau
wears a novel riding costume 1t con-
sits Of a wide corduroy skirt. with
leather leggings, a silk shirt waist. and
a morocco belt, with long frock coat
of cloth and a jockey cap Thus
equipped she sits astride of her horse.
A recent official medical report pub
lished in London quotes with approval
the words of Professor Conn, that The
public health is placed in jeopardy
when oyster dealers. for the sake of
producing plumpness. place oysters in
the mouths OF fresh-water creeks in
close proximity to sewers
The fetes commemorative the 400th
anniversary of the discovery of the sea
route to India by Vasco da Cana were
to have been held at Lisbon next year,
but have now been postponed until
May, 1895. 1t was in the month of
May, 400 years ago, counting from
1898. that the great navigator arrived
at Calicut
The import of iron into Russia in 1894
amounted to S57, $50 tons. consisting of
40, 467 tons of raw iron and 6S7 1892 tons
of wrought iron, steel. machinery and
other iron products, against 510,3i7 tom
imported in 1898; consequently, the to-
tai amount of iron consumed in Russia
in 1894 was 1904 145 tons, being 453 65S
tons more than in 1898.
Although in Austria women have but
few rights, they cannot under any cir
cumstances be im9risOned or con-
demned 70 death; instead. after SEN
tence has been pronounced upon a
woman. she is sent to a convent and
kept there a certain number of years
There is no prison discipline. only that
of the ordinary conventual life.
Raw silk is said to have been first
made by a people of China called Ceres
$50 B. C. 1t was first brought from In
dia in the year ga, and a pound of it
at that time was worth pound in
gold. The manufacture of raw silk
was introduced into Europe from India
by some monks in $50 Silk dresses
were first worn in 1445. The eggs of the
silk worm were first brou=ht into
Europe in ~.