The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-04-16

however. takes no notice of a picture,
and the cat will not spring at paint
ed bird.
The oldest herbarium in the world is
to be found in the Psychologist museum
at Cairo. It consists of a large num-
Der of wreaths and garland flowers,
collected together from ancient
Egyptian graves. These floral remains
are practically all in well-preserved
condition.
Birds readily recognize pictures, and
stories of their pecking at painted
fruit may well be true, for they readily
recognize the picture of another bird,
and the little ''love-bird'' may be saved
from moping when alone by placing the
picture of a companion in the cage.
Spitzbergen, though its shores have
been accurately surveyed, has never
had it's interior explored. A scientific
expedition will set out from England
this summer to fill this gap, one men,
Der of which will be Mr.. Trevo Battye.
who explored the island of Kolguey
two years ago.
While Sir Walter Raleigh generally
gets the credit of having introduced
the potato into England, in Germany
the credit is given to Sir Francis
Drake. At Offenburg, about twelve
miles from Strassburg, there is in the
market-place a statue to Sir Francis
in gratitude to him for having intro
duced the potato into Europe.
In the ancient worlds there was
small and insignificant animal that
may be said to have created coloniz-
ing power, and to have guided and pro-
NOTED it's subsequent growth. This
was the murex, a species of shell-fish,
that yielded to the Phoenicians the
splendid purple color with which their
famous fabrics were dyed.
The Roman was the first to substi-
tute for the laurel wreath of the
Greeks a more enduring reward for
prowess. Phalerae were probably
originally employed as an ornament
for the harness OF horses. The Ro-
mans, however, applied them to the
purpose of medals. They were cumber-
Gus pieces of metal about the size of a
soup plate and were very heavy.
The history of the shiring of Ireland
is involved in more obscurity than the
history of the shiring of England,
though not for the same reason in the
two cases. In England, the division
into counties was the result of a slow
process of growth, the history of
which is hidden in the remote past.
But the shiring of Ireland was purely
the result of the British conquest.
In the literary section of the great
Paris exhibition of 1900 there will in all
probability be seen the four inkstands
used in completing the four great
French masterpieces-the notable
works of Lamartine, George Sand, Vic
tor Hugo and Dumas, the elder. The
four inkstands were given to Madame
Hugo to be disposed of at charity
sale, and were bought back by Victor
Hugo.
Oliver Goldsmith published his "Citi-
zens of the World under the name of
a Chinese Philosopher" Much to his
annoyance, the pen-name struck the
fancy of the humorists of his acquaint-
ances, and for time he was called
nothing else. On one occasion a visi-
tor to the club of which he was a
habftue, inquired of a gentleman in
Goldsmlth's hearing if the Goldsmith
he had read so mucn about was really
a Chinaman.
George Eliot" is so well known I'M
der that name that thousands of her
readers are unaware that her real
name was Marian c. Evans. She
chose a masculine name from the fear
that she thought if it became known
that her writings were those of
woman they would not be so we'll re-
ceived. The same consideration is said
to have impelled Nine. Dudevant to Sc
lect the name George Sand as a pen
name for her writings.