The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-07-09
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A curious scare ran through the pro-
vince Of Assam. in India. recently.
which it took the officials some time
to understand The story was that
Queen victoria wanted five chiidren's
heads from each village. The Bengal
coolies went frantic. asking for axes
and knives to defend their families;
factories were fortified, watch being
kept all night, and in some villages
all the iuha bitants hid themselves.
The heads, they believed, were wanted
to put under the foundations OF
great bridge being built. It is the ira
dition among these people that their
ancestors placed human victims under
the great prehistoric monoliths.
In Austria drunkards are treated un-
der the cuTatel law, that applies to
persons mentally afflicted and to
spendthrifts, their affairs being placed
in charge of an administrator. A per-
son suffering from excessive indulgence
in drink may be brought judicialiy I'M
der this law. But in Gailacia, Cracow
and BukoWina there are special laws
for the punishment of persons drunk
in public places, while persons convict
&c Of drunkenness three times in one
year are prohibited from visiting pub
lie places. 4 bill has been introduced
in the Austrian reichsrath providing
for the erection of pubic asylums for
drunkards, who may be detained for
two years on complaint of their rela-
tives or of the public authorities.
The Oklahoma courts have struck
puzzler in t1e Indian custom relating
to plural marriages. The law of Okla
homa is very severe on polygamy, and
Indians on reservations are not ex-
r0t from g tfor
poos have an average of five squaws
each. The Cheyenres and Arapahoes
are nearly all polygamists. as are the
kfcwaS and Apaches, CommancheS
and Wichitas. 1t is stated that the
courts have decided to take action in
the matter at once unless polygamous
practices cease. Captain Woodson, of
Anadarko agency has issued orders
commanding Indians on his agency
having several wives to at once de-
eide On the wife wanted and give up
the others, and no little uneasiness
has resulted in all the polygamous
tribes, as it IS claimed by the Indians
that one sQuaw cannot raise corn
enC3gh 70 support an eX-Warrior in
becoming dignity.
Coal oil as substitute for flushing
by water in public urinals has proved
highly successful after three years
trial in Paris, Vienna and Berlin. Che
of offensive matter to the
stone or cement walls is prevented by
making a fatty substance soak into
the stone. The stonework is first thor
ougnly cleansed with a solution of
hydrochlor!C scid in water. then dried,
and coal or other mineral oil applied
with whitewash brush. With a re-
newed application of oil only once in
ST.. H., So,
fectly sweet and clean In practice
piled every morning The cost in two
large institutions in France has proved
to be very slight. At the marine school
at Bordeaux $3.50 of Gil was used in
three years. while at the Rambouillet
school 81 in oil sufiiced for a
year. This IS out of all proportion to
the cost of water for flushing in the
same time.
The statistics of crime in France are
several years in arrears; those relating
10 1898 were published about a month
1So. Tney are complete and special
attention has been paid to the offanses
against the established rules OF So
,iety by French women. Criminolo-
yists may be interested to know that
IF 1853 accused persons in 1899 in
France, 1878 were males and $50 were
'emaleS. 9 proportion of six to enc. In
yther words, women were responsible
or IA per cent. of the crimes COM
nitted, which, according to the Stats
les, is diminution since the period
If 1S71-T6. wnen the percentage was II.
In pursuance Of traditional GUS
ON of the court of Spain, q magnifl-
,ent royal coach, orawn by six horses.
accompanied by grooms and outriders
n full livery, was recently driven to
he palace on the Castellana, oc-
.upied by the Duke of Hijar. Within
he coach were a functionary of the
oval palace and a royal valet, who
leld on a rich silver platter the cloth
ng worn by the young king. Alfonso
XIII. on the last Epiphany day. The
irlv.lege of possessing this clothing
mo- of sitting at the kings table on
hat day was granted in 143f to Don
Rodrigo de Villandrando, who saved
uan XXI, at Toledo from falling into
he hands of the prince royal, Don
1nrico, who had conspired with the
-randees of CASTLE to assassinate him.
Apropos of the new census of London
writer says: The suburban move
aent has in recent years become I'M
fashionable. Property has deprecated /
n value in suburbs that were smart
nut few years ago, and the tendency /
f the richer folk is to return to the /
quares and flats Of inner London.
Sut the people who decree whether a
articular mode of life shall be fash t
enable or the reverse are very small /
raction CT the whole, and their move I
lents have no appreciable effect upon
he aggregate. If the upper classes I
re migrating back from the suburbs |
. town the middle and working (
laeses are flowing out in an infinitely T
roader stream. The large suburban /
lila is pulled down and its garden (
ug up to make room for rows of little /
ouses which. accommodate the clerk /