The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-06-14
NOTES OF THE DAY.

Christmas is the title of the latest
addition to the Maine postoffices. 1t
is in Lincoln county.
Gar Nicholas IL expects a possible
czarowitz some time next fall, says the
London Court Journal.
Every year an average of 44.0O2 YES
sells pass in and out of Liverpool, While
the daily average is 120 vessels.
During Queen Victoria's reign san'i
tary reforms have increased the aver
age life of the English by three and
one-half years.
Mont, is a splendid antidote for the
tobacco habit is attracting the atten-
ton of slaves of the weed.
Among the four longest-lived trees
are the olive and the yew-both ever
greens. The maximum age of the for
mer is 1000 years and the latter 1850.
The speaker of the house of com
mons in state ceremonials stands next
to the barons and is Immediately fol-
lowed by the commissioner of the great
Saal
Elephants in Africa are becoming SO
scarce that it is proposed to establish
protected reservations for them on ter
ritory under British protection. like
Somaailand
Seattle, Wash, is selecting new
chief of police by competitive eXamina
ton, notwithstanding the fact that the
appointing power lies with the mayor
of the city
Someone has calculated that the post
men of London walk, together, some
thing like 4S,360 miles per day, a dis
lance equal to twice the circumfer-
ence of the globe.
Pupils in the German gymnasia and
Real schulen as steadily decreasing i'm
number, preferr>ing to go to the schools
where English and French are sub
stituted for Latin.
A New Canaan. Conn, woman, to
whom her husband made over his house
during recent business troubles, has
now driven. MIN from the house and
will allow him So a week to spend.
Bimetallism is the latest subject En-
peror William has taken up. He has
sent to London and to Paris for the
latest reports on the subject and will
carry them as ballast ON his summer
cruise.
A monsrosity in the shape of a calf
that has the head. tail and skin of "a
dog and the feet and teeth of its own
kind has been stuffed and is now on
exhibition in Invercargill Australia.
In Lagos, west coast of Africa, out
of an estimated European population
of $50. the deaths in 1894 were twenty
three or rate of 154 per 1000, as COM
pared with a death rate of 1913 in En-
gland.
All Persian opium is cultivated on
irrigated land; conse 1uently the naois-
ture is practically under the farmers
control. This is mos important, as
| rain. when the plant is nearly at ma
! turfty, would be certain to dest1ay the
opium elements.
| In full bearing an acre of olives will
produce an average of about sixty
| four gallons of oil. One year the
quantity may be very much greater,
but the following year, after a full
crop, the trees will probably bear lit
| tie or no fruit.
The season for the sale Of CONNER
| cial fertilizers has ended and the ag-
ricultural department of North Caro-
] lima finds the sale twice as great as
they were a year ago. The cotton
crop is so per cent greater than last
! years acreage.
One of the most painful episodes OF
the Paris commune, the shooting of
Monsignore Darboy, archbishop OF
| Paris, and his hostages, was com
memorated on May "a the twenty-ffth
anniversary, by requiemmasses in the
| Paris churches.
1t is said the first match was the
| product of the ingenuity of John Fred
erick Komerer, who early II this cen
! fury was imprisoned in the peniten-
! tiary at Hohenasperg. in Germany. He
! invented the luciter match while in his
! gloomy dungeon.
Perhaps the oldest fireplace in this
/ country is in the home of Bangor
/ Me, man. The fireplace was built ovel
4 200 years ago in West Bedford, Mass.
and it is SET up in the house perfect
and standing with the same kettle
( tongs, etc., as it was 200 years ago.