The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-09-06
NOTES OF THE DAY.

The income of Oxford university, Eng
and, is slightly under $4,000.
1t has been found that nearly all the
rivers in west Africa, within LOGO miles
east and west of Ashantee, yield gold.
A doctor says that half the deafness
prevalent at the present time is probably
the result of children having their ears
boxed.
A carpet used in the room of the Eng
liSh mint, after beng in wear some years,
was recently burned in pans and yielded
$500 worth of gold.
If any member of the imperial family
lives out OF Russia for more than one
fourth of the year, then his or her income
is considerably reduced.
At the beginning OF the century the
population of London increased yearly &c
per cent. 1t increased only 10 per cent.
from 1881 to 1881, and now the increase is
still less.
The petrifed remains of whale eighty
feet in length have been found in the
hills north of Lombec, a, few miles back
from the sea in Santa Barbara county,
California.
remarkable success is claimed for
the London Schools Swimming associa-
ton. During last year no fewer than 10,
600 school children were taught TO SWIM
by it's instructors.
The most curiously made soap in use is
that supplied to the stations OF the Lon
don & Northwestern Railway company,
which is made from the fat and grease
washed out of their meat cloths.
In a coroners jury empaneled in Lon
don the other day, there were twelve
Smiths, one Jones and one Brown. To
complete the cycle it is only necessary
to mention that the deceased's name was
Robinson.
Within the last twenty years 30 new
British peerageS have been created, while
ffty-four have become extinct; nearly
half the peers and baronetS have inner
tied or received their titles within the
last ten years.
England's nickel trade is passing
through a severe crisis, owing to the di-
minished consumption of the metal in
German coinage and the competition of
the French Nickel company, which has
reduced the price from 81 a pound to q
cents.
At South Beach. Staten Island, an en-
terprising concert hall proprietor has en-
gagged the Stapleton Salvation Army
corps, with brass band, from New
York, to hold prayer and song services
on the stage while beer Is being sold on
the main floor.
In 1897 Portugal will celebrate the four
hundredth anniversary of the voyage of
Vasco ola CANA to India by way of the
cape of Good Hope, and it has invited the
United States to send some of their men
of-war to Lisbon to participate in the cell
ebration.
One of New York'S comic weeklies has
for many years had an old man on its
staff whose duty it is to see that no old
jokes are accepted. He has a remarkable
memory, and nearly every week he
kills something which has passed mus
ter with the younger editors He knows
the files of his paper thoroughly, and not
infrequently when a stolen sketch or an
old joke is submitted he can name the
month and year when it was first print
ed. Long years of mirtl killing have left
their mark in the deep burrows that line
his face. 1t has made him suspicious Of
every one, and particularly Of writer's of
Jokes and comic artists. This man has
passed his whole life in New York, en-
ployed at the amending task Of exposing
fakirs He said to q friend not long ago
that old Jokes haunted his sleep and made
life a burden, but it is his boast that
none of them has ever worked its way
into his paper.
During the reign of Emperor William
I, when the present emperor was a boy,
Prince Bismarck walking one day
through a corridor of the royal palace at
Berlin, came upon a strange scene. Heart
ing within the room which he passed a
great racket, he opened the door and saw
the young grandsonS of the emperor
dancing about, while their. father, the
crown prince, ground the handle of a
hand organ. All were in high spirits,
and, seeing the chancellor the young
princes laughingly invited him to join in
the dance. Prince Bismarck declined, but
he offered to turn the organ if the crown
prince would join his sons, Prince Fred
erick consented, and the chancellor
turned the handle with great animation.
| The laughter and sport grew louder with
the increased speed of the playing just
then the old emperor came in; He took
in the situation at a glance. see, my
lord chancellor, he said said with a
smile, that you are beginning early to
make the princes dance to your music