The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-07-03
NOTES OF THE DAY.


A nursing exhibition is being held in
London. 1t is of the appliances used by
hospital nurses.
Recent statistics show that there are a
million more women than men in the IA
therland.
The deepest running stream in the world
| is said to be the Niagara. river just I'M
der the suspension bridge.
Elections by the dozen to the La Plata
legislature are declared TO have been
fraudulent and have been annulled.
The total population of the Argentine
Republic on May To- 1895, was 1850, 600, the
urban population being 1,646,664.
The white rhinoceros has become nearly
extinct. There are two stuffed specimens
! in England and one in the Cape Town
museum. 1t is the largest species of the
genius.
a clergyman of the church of England
who gave his fortune of 100000 to char
ity has just died in the Market Bosworth
workhouse. He had once been curate of
the parish.
Wolsey's seal ring is preserved in the
Tower of London It is set with a. pc
known but which was believed by his
enemies to possess magical properties
Voters in Italy get on the average 90
cents each for their votes, and must show
by the blotting paper which they have
used for their ballots that the vote was
cast for the right man before drawing
their pay.
More than goo pairs of shoes will be
saved by the changes in the British army
regulations, by which the soldiers may
wear their shoes until used up, instead
of having new pair issued at stated in
tervals.
One of the first visible fruits of the con-
quest of Madagascar in Paris is a show
of specimens of some of the tribes The
Hovas look uncommonly intelligent and
even the Antatiavas are far from being
savages.
The observatory on Mont Blanc is now
complete, with the exception of one large
telescope, which cannot be taken up the
mountain until the snow is less deep.
Regular work will therefore be begun this
summer
Prof. Falb of Vienna announces that
the earth viii collide with a comet on
November y. 1899. The earth itself Will
survive the shock, but every living thing
VIII be choked with poisonous gases and
be finally crenated.
Prof Sylvanus Thompson. speaking of
the cause of the kissing frequently no
ticed in arc lights, says that at such
times the lower carbon is not only melt
ing at the tip, but actually boiling and
throwing off minute portions of the car
bon.
Mr.. Mallett investigated the depth of
the center of shock in the case of the
Calabrian earthquake of 1857 and found it
to be nearly six miles, While DR.. Oldham
ascertained that the center of the Caclar
earthquake in 1869 was thirty miles below
the surface.
During house cleaning, if an old wall
paper IS to be removed before going to
work close the doors and windows tight
ly, place an old boiler or tub in the room
and fill it with boiling water The steam
viii moisten the paper and the work may
be done quickly and more easily.
Church of England chaplains at Nice
Cannes, Monte Carlo and other places in
the Riviera have issued an address Sug-
costing that English cieTgymen keep
away from the gambling tables, concerts
and other amusements of Monte Carlo. as
their presence there furnishes a bad eX-
ample.
The dangers of ballooning are to be
slightly mitigated by the invention of a
Frenchman who provides for the equip
ment of cylinder of membrane to the
car so arranged that by the pressure of
a button it may be automatically inflated
with air in the event of the balloon fall
ing into the sea.
A Frenchman who thought he could
make a good thing out of the Franco
Russian alliance filled some bottles with
pure water and sold it on the boulevards
as eau de Cologne des Tsars, I'm
luckily purchaser opened his bottle on
the spot and Immediately handed the
VendeT over to the police.
Twenty-Five Anamite pirates were re-
Gently beheaded in one batch on one of
the bridges at Hue by six executioners.
In only one case was it necessary TO give
a second sword stroke. a strange part
of the ceremony was the presence of
detachment of French marines, who pre-
scented arms as the heads fell.
4 home for twenty women has been
added to the eDileptic colony at Chalfont.
England where thirty-siX men have been
~ = CT fUrn in
ket gardening, carpentering and shoe
making. Their general condition has inn
proved and the doctors think the treat
ment has had beneficial effects even on
the epileptic fits.
The artesian well al Great Island, in
Long Island sound, near Darien, Conn,
has reached the enormous depth of al
most 1,500 feet through solid rock, and at
present furnishes a supply of pure and
soft water at the rate of six gallons a
minute. The well was begun over three
Years ago, but work was delayed by
numerous accidents TO the machinery.
Bernard Palisey. the discoverer of the
white enamel, out of whose euterprieg
grew the great factories of Sevres and
Dresden. spent sixteen years in discover
ing his secret-years of prfvation perse-
cution and hunger-which eliminated in
that well-known episode of maintaining
the furnace fire at the cost of sacrificing
all the furniture of his humble home.
Philately has begun to develop crimes
of its own. While Paris is excited over
the discovery in a trunk of the body of
a stamp collector, murdered for his coll
lection, London has had a burglary, the
main object of which was rare collec-
ton belonging TO some dealers. AS 1t
was locked in a safe which the burglars
could not oper they took away what al
buns and loose stamps they could find
A strange custom is still observed in
Roumania which reminds one strongly of
Robinson Crusoe. When a servant has
displeased his or her master the defender
takes his boots in his hands and places
them before the bedroom door of his mas
ter. 1t is a sign of great submission, and
the boots are either kicked away as an
intiination that the fault Will not be for
given, or else the servant is told to place
them on his feet, which shows that he
is forgiven.