The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-07-04
NOTES OF THE DAY.

Nearly S1,500,000 worth of articles are
paWIled In London weekly.
France proposes to follow Italy's ex-
ample and tax the income from gov
ernm emit bonds.
American ebony is one Of the beay-
lest woods known, weighing S3.1S
POUNDS to the cubic foot.
The Bank of England has 500 offic-
lals on its rolls, and LOCO clerks. If
a clerk is late three times he receives
a warning, and the fourth time he is
discharged at once.
General Sir John Adye, in pleading
that old soldiers should be employed in
the postal service of Great Britain,
says that about $1,000 men every year
return from the army to civil life at
an average age of 26.
Cincinnati wheelmen are making
strenuous efforts to have an ordinance
passed which shall regulate the sprink-
ling of streets. 1t is suggested that
"a path three feet wide shall be left
at either side of the street
A German newspaper contains the
following offer in an advertisement by
an enterprising trader: Amy person
who can prove that my tapioca con-
tains anything injurious to health will
have three boxes of it sent to him free
of charge
Japan's population at the close of
1894 was 100000, to which must be
added the 100000 in Formosa. That
puts her sixth in the list of countries
according to population. China, India,
Russia, the United States and Ger
many surprising her.
I0y-inoa Do
dovisi's library of 10000 volumes in the
Cenci palace at Rome is to be sold by
his heirs. The prince was a historian
and mathematician of European repu-
tation. There are many rare fifteenth
century editions among his books.
On the day following the perform
ance of a certain play in Melbourne,
Australia, the management received
this note: My dear sir-Your perform
ance last night was SO bad that several
dAedhtadB have written demanding
that their names be removed from the
free list
The longest bridge in the world is
the Lion bridge, near Sangang, in
China. 1t extends five and a half miles
over an area of the Yellow Sea, and is
supported by 300 huge stone arches
The roadway is seventy feet above
the water and is enclosed in an iron
network. A marble lion, twenty-one
feet long, rests on the crown of each
pillar. The bridge was BULL at the
command of the Emperor Keing Long.
For the past twenty-three weeks
and ending on June 5, the Boston Gus
tom-hOuSe has made a remarkable rec
ord in the collection of customs duties.
1t has been given the distinction OF
being the only custom-house in the
United States where the receipts have
been on the increase, while all other
large customs districts, New York,
Philadelphia, Chicago and San Fran
cisco, have been on the decrease.
According to official figures, the an
nua1 consumption of beer in this coun-
try has tripled within the past twenty
years. The present enormous output
of 1,000,000,000 gallons annually gives
a consumption officially stated at 1895
gallons per head of population, against
6.S3 gallons per head in 1876. Thus the
consumption per head has a little more
than doubled in the same time that
the consumption has tripled.
One of the most peculiar shooting
cases on record occurred in New York
the other day in front of police head
quarters. A big bay horse that works
for a brewing company shot himself
by chewing a. loaded cartridge The
animal not only shot himself, but came
near shooting a shop girl who was
passing on her waysto work. 1t is sup
posed that the animal, while nosing
in an ash barrel, got a cartridge in
his mouth and began to chew it. The
cartridge exploded in his mouth The
bullet that was discharged flew across
the street from the animals mouth
and went through the balloon sleeve
of badly frightened girl
A high-up physician of New York,
who has studied seasickness, is author
ity for the statemnt that bromide of
sodium will make life on the old ocean
quite pleasant. He says: L began
three days before. sailing to prepare
for preventive of an attack of sea-
sickness. 1 took 100 grains of bromide
of sodium in divided doses each day
for three days before 1 started, and
kept up the treatment four days after
sailing. L was not sick at all in
crossing the Atlantic. l experienced no
i'll effects whatever from the use of
the medicine. A thorough bromization,
according to the doctor, will enable
all voyagers to overcome the distress
ing illness caused by the rocking and
the rolling on the bosom of the broad
or the choppy swells of the
English channel