The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-08-16
NOTES OF THE DAY.

NOTES OF THE DAY.
When the Trans Siberian railway is
completed I'M 1900 it will be possible for a
globe trotter to encircle the globe in tlir-
ty days
The six gunboats captured from China
by Japan have been relocated to harbor
defense work, their big guns having been
found unavoidable in seaway.
India, on account of the splendid condi-
ton OF II the roads, is paradise for cy-
clSts. The 'men on wheels may ride
from Calcutta to the Khyber pass almost
without a break or a serious incline
The river at Tien-Tsin is almost dried
up by the dTouth. The Oldest inhabitant
has never seen things quite so bad Both
the Monocacy and Maya (Japanese) are
lying on deep cradles of hard, sandy mud.
Although Americans claim to possess
the most Sumptuously appointed trains
in the world, they have, none that can
surpass in general excellence the famous
Orient express which runs from Paris to
Constantinople, via Vienna and Bel
grade.
Warnings have been issued by the prin-
cipal medical bodies of London, Paris
and Berlin against the use of hired opera
in numerous instances the hired glasses
have proved the medium of spreading Sc
rious diseases of the eye.
In Germany city of $4,000 people which
has not heard 'Lohengrin' is a curiosity,
but Worms had that distinction until re-
Gently. 1t is rather curious. for as the
city of Nibelung legend, Worms is more
closely associated with the Wagner
operas than any other except Nureln-
burg.
Three hundred letters by Andrea. DORA,
high admiral of Emperor Charles v have
been discovered in the Este archives at
Modena by Signor Carboni, and will be
published soon. They form part of a col
lection of 100000 letters bequeathsd by the
MarcheSe Campori to the town of Modena.
and placed in the Este library.
Under the habitual criminal law of
Connecticut man who has been con-
victed of a crime three times shall, at the
expiration of his third sentence, be
in prison for twenty-five years The first
application of the law has been made in
the case of George A. Minor, who is now
detained in the Weathersfield prison.
The new municipal technical school
opened the other day at Birrningham
England, contains 1874 rooms, of which 116
are devoted to teaching; occupies a space
of 1000 square feet, and cost $445, 900. It's
expenditure is about $4,000 a year. The
school is used by LEGO students, of whom
about two-thirds are instructed in science
and one-third in metaIlurgy.
According to Professor w Flinders
Petrie. who is now at work clearing the
ruins of temples at Luxor, the granite
tablet recently discovered at Thebes,
Egypt, contains the first Inscription
found on Egyptian monuments that in
any form makes mention of the Israel
ties. The tablet was made under the di-
rection of King Merenptllah and records
that during his war in Syria, about 1900
B. c., he fought the people of Israel and
spoiled them.
How strong the sense of duty is in Jap
anese officials is shown by the following
incident of the great earthquake wave
1.-The director of the Kamaishi telegraph
Office saw his family swept away before
his eyes In spite of his sad misfortune
he at once went in search of the tele-
graphic instruments that mad been wash
ed away and as soon as possible restored
them TO proper order. To his Self-Sacri-
ficing zeal the public is indebted for the
speedy re-establishing of communica-
tons"
In France. it seems, there is a. strong
superstition that the operas of Ambrose
Thomas bring some sort of i'll luck. The
Paris Opera Comique and the Theatre
des Arts at Rouen were burned on the
night of the performance of 'Mignon," in
which, it may be recollected, a fire scene
actually occurs. The Grand Opera, Paris,
was burned on the night of a perform
ance of Hamlet" Ambrose Thomas him
self was well aware of the superstition,
and used laughingly to declare that he
was lucky in other ways.
duty in all cases in sixty-nine countries
out of 10 whose laws have been investi-
gated by III. LIE Soudier In thirteen 9th
ers unbound books are free, but there is
a duty on the binding. In twenty-eight
countries books pay duty, though in eight
of them exceptions are made in favor of
books intended for teaching. In most
cases the duties are very slight, hardly
interfering with importations. In China
the customs duties on the books imported
by missionaries is a cent or two a pound
on the weight.
Germany is fast turning out it's older
generals, thirty-two having been forced
to retire within a year, which beats the
record. The average age of a brigade
commander is 53 wears, to 81 in the French
army where the average age of all ranks
is higher than in the German No Ger
man brigadier is more than Sc, while
thirty French brigadierS are over 81. Ger
man cavalry colonies average As years
months, only seven being over 80, while
the French officers in the same army
average % years 5 months, fifty-three col
onels being over 81
The extent of the work to be done in
improving the navigation of the Mississ-
ippi river is disclosed in the latest an
nual report of Major Hamburg, in charge
of work on the channel between the IL
linois and Ohio. According to this report
1873 snags were removed during the year.
The work of the Snag boats never ends.
Next year as many or more snags will
have to be removed in order to insure
safety in navigation. Major Hamburg re-
ports that in the work OF destroying the
causes OF which snags are the effect the
snag boat crews had destroyed within
the year 1868 leaning trees.
A missionary who lives in the province
of Kansu. Cq1ina, where the Mohamme-
dams are in rebellion tells this story of
primitive surgery: we have attended
to somewhere near 2cN0 wounded since
the beginning. Tt has been a great mercy
that we could buy such good medicine in
the native shops, or what could we have
done at such a time. being shut off from
the outer world for FIVE and half
months of the time besieged? What we
felt the lack of was instruments to ex-
tract bullets, but with the aid of a razor
to cut the thick skin and a sharp pen
knife to cut the flesh, we managed to ex-
tract a large number without making a
big hole"
No waste with Wa-sat-ka siphons
Telephone $50.