The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-07-07

gust solar eclipse have already left St.
Petersburg. One. sent out by the
Academy of Sciences has gone to Nova
Zembla; another, sent by the AStro-
nomical society, is making Its way to
Olek minsl, on the upper waters of the
Lena, while the Geographical society S
party will observe the eclipse from
the Mouman coast, in the extreme
north of European Russia, northwest
of the White sea.
There are only two giraffes in Amer
lea This may seem a startling state
ment to people who think they can re-
member seeing many of the long-neck-
ed beasts, but it is nevertheless true.
There is only one in England, and on
the continent of Europe the dearth is
remarkable. In the wild beast mar
kets there are none to be had, and col
lectors are compelled to send agents
into the interior of south Africa to Sc
cure them.
An agent of the English firm that is
constructing the extensive system OF
drainage canals near the City of Mex
leo told an American tourist that when
they first employed native workmen
their methods seemed too slow, for they
nut the earth and rocks in bags, plac-
ed the bags on their heads and march
ed off with them. So the firm ordered
a. large number Of WheelbarroWs. Inc
natives filed the barrows with eartn
and put them on their heads, too.
Newspaper headline writers some
times fan into strange mental ai1u
verbal habits. We are told that on the
New York Tribune a headline maker
fell into the habit of asking questions
in his heads, as Was 1t MURDER OF
Suicide?" viii This Pan OUT ana so
on and so on. 1t so annoyed Whitelaw
effect: This morning you ask VIII
Mr.. Plaat Consent? How in the ii
do I know. Ask fewer questions. A
great newspaper ought to know more.
Two French medical men, NM Car
rion and Cantru, as the result OF IN
vestigations among gaseous beverages,
which they commend for certain pecull-
arities of digestion, speak most highly
of cider In certain forms CT dyspepsia
they claim it to be very desirable, es-
pecially when the process of digestion
is too hurried, and for the govt it is
recommended as a correction of the
uric acid diatheses. Gout is held re
sponsible for SO large a number of all
mentS nowadays that cldef is enlltleo
to much favor.
LII. EdIOIl, pIS6iuCIlI VI NleAQ-SOAi NAAA-
versity forty years ago, was beloved by
the students and his good opinion
courted above all things. One COM
mencement day the student who had
delivered the vaiedictory approached
the doctor and tinidlv asked him what
he thought of the effort. The doctor
looked at him a moment and then said
slowly: Edward, if you would pluck
a few of the feathers from the wings
of your imagination and stick them in
the tail of your Judgment you would
make better speeches.
In order to enable workers with the
balance to read the position of the
pointer more accurately and readily
resort is often had to the device of fix
ing a magnifying lens before the di-
vided scale. Another simple contriv-
ance is suggested by w. H. F. Kuhl-
mann, in which the scale is reversed,
SO as to face concave cylindrical mir
ror, attached to the column that sup
ports the balance. The pointer is much
finer at the end than usual, and moves
between the scale and the mirror, in
which magnified image Of the
pointer and scale appears.