The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-04-27
NOTES OF THE DAY.

An Inverness, Scotland, paper places
Judas MacCabeaus in its list of famous
Scotchmen.
The battle ship Massachusetts is ex-
pected to exceed contract requirements
as to speed
Two years ago King Menelek applied
for admission to the postal union, but
Italy objected.
A custom of puritan times has been
revived in Machias, Me-, in the open
ing of the town meeting with prayer.
Great stretches of the Venetian lagoons
are being drained and cultivated. The soil
redeemed is extraordinary productive
In the Marquesas islands when a man
marries he acquires the rights of nus
band over all his wife's sisters, while
his brothers obtain the same rights over
the bride,
Swedish and Norwegian servants
threaten to drive the British housemaid
from her place. They are said to be
more efficient and willing and are ready
to work for lower wages.
An English mining expert says of Geor,
gia THAI sit has the richest gold field
known on the face of the globe today.
There are mines in north Georgia which
are capable of producing $4O,OOO,OU0 OIL golo
a year. l believe that the record of the
Comstock in Nevada, will be exceeded by
some of these Georgia mines, perhaps
within the next two years.
Two hundred New York saloons have
been converted into "hotels" since March
20, and there are hundreds more to fol-
low. Ten rooms and a sandwich enable
the .hotel keepers to sell liquors at all
hours. All along the Bowery the saloon
keepers have made arrangements with the
ten-cent lodging houses over their places
to become a part of the new hotel.
Succi the faster, has had an unpleas-
ant experience in Vienna, where he in
tended to exhibit himself in his feat of
fasting forty days. The police authorities
refused to allow the exhibition, but at
last permitted him to fast in private on
condition that no charge for admission
should be made and that only the medical
observers should be present AS Succi's
blood was up, he accepted the conditions.
1t is subject of newspaper comment
in southern California that cents are be-
ginning to be used there in stores and in
commercial tranactions generally. 1t is
only a few years since any coin smaller
than nickel was a great rarity any
where west of the Missouri. If the price
of anything figured out the cents, the
odd cents were deducted; If ) or cents,
the purchaser paid nickel.
While the boulevards and public places
of Paris are said to be much more free
from street walkers than ever before, it is
said that he cafe concerts and even the
theatres are far more Objectionable than
even under the second empire. Living pic
lures and audacious ballads are seen ev-
erywhere, and the dangers which these
shows present to public morals have been
pointed out by Senator Beranger.
An Italian scientist is trying to take the
sting from the recent defeats of General
Baratieri in Abyssinia by showing that
the Italian forces were beaten by men of
their own race. He attempts to prove
that the Mediterranean shore was over
run by the Hamites, who came out of
Somaliland and Egypt, and that the orig
inal race, from which most Italians are
sprung, is now found in Abyssinia.
The most expensive Tokay wine that
has ever been drunk is doubtless being
drunk at present at Frankfort-on-the
Main. Baron Willy Won Rothschild, the
head of the Frankfort house, who has
just recovered from severe attack of in
fiuenza, has been ordered to take some
fine old Tokay wine. Application was
made to a gentleman, known as a gour-
met and connoisseur, who cheerfully sent
five bottles to the convalescent baron, at
the same time declining payment for the
same. Whereupon Baron Willy sent to
the municipal council for the poor of the
city a check for 5000 marks-equal to LOCO
marks a bottle.