The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-06-14
NOTES OF THE DAY.

NOTES OF The DAY.
The British museum has cost Great
Britain I'll, 900 year in the last 142
years.
The dome of ST. Paurs is about as
many feet high as there are days in the
year.
In proportion to its size, the horse
has a smaller stomach than any other
Quadruped.
Madison Square Garden realized a
profit of $4,000 last year. In the pre-
ceding year it lost $4,000.
Iowa's population includes 1S2,S4
Germans and $4,000 Irish immigrants,
119,SS9 negroes and 1894 Indians.
About 1000 fishing nets of unlawful
mesh have been seized at Grand Haven,
Mich, by the state game warden
The croak of the male bull frog is
lower in tone and more powerful than
the slight grooming noise of the fe-
male.
France boasts of navy of 40S ships
of 200, 900 tons and 621, 600 horsepower,
and so others in process of construc-
tion.
Among the four longest-lived trees
are the olive and the yew-both ever
greens. The maximum age of the for
mer is 1000 years and of the latter
$3.50.
Someone has calculated that the post
men of London walk, together, some
thing like 4S,36O miles per day, a dis
lance equal to twice the circumference
of the globe.
When a Russian family moves from
one house to another, it is customary
ITO rake ali the fire from the hearth of
the old domicile and carry 1T in d closed
pot to the new residence.
A New York statistician has, after
careful study and inquiry, reached the
conclusion that the consumption of
wheat in this country is a little less
than four bushels per capita.
The largest bronze casting ever made
in America is the buffalo's head which
hangs ait the eastern entrance of the
Union Pacific bridge, between Omaha
and Council Bluffs.
Every ton of Atlantic water, when
evaporated, yields 81 pounds of salt;
ton of Pacific water, 70 pounds; Arc
tic and Antarctic waters yield So pounds
/ to the ton, and Dead Sea water, 1877
pounds.
A yoemanry regiment may be COM
PEELED to do duty in any part of THE
! United Kingdom. That is one of the
conditions under which the yeomanry
cavalry are allowed to assemble in milf
tary array.
The native bustard is now extinct In
England. The last was killed at SWaff
ham, in Norfolk, in 1888. Any that have
been shot since have been merely cas-
ual visitors, probably coming from the
plains of Saxony.
This year the Martini Henry rifle
will be used for the last time at the
shooting for the queens prize at Bisley.
Though the money value of many of
the prizes has been reduced, over $4,000
will be distributed in the competitions
Visitors to Carlyle's house in Cheyne
row, London, continue to be fairly nu-
merous. The average weekly attend
ance during the past three months has
been about eighty persons, which more
than comes up TO expectations.
1t is stated that about $4,000 acres in
middle, east and southern England are
out of cultivation. Yet in some dis
tricts in Scotland good farms were
never more easily let than at present.
Landlords do not need to advertise
them.
| A vast acreage OIL grain lids DecH
sown this season in Klickitat county,
Washington, and all bids fair to pro-
duce an abundant yield. One observer
estimates that the wheat crop of Kick
ftat county will this year be somewhere
near 100000 bushels.
There is one kind of grouse the male
/ of which has two bare orange-colored
sacks, one on each side of the neck, and
these, when largely inflated, produce
hollow sound which browns the cry
of the female. The great throat pouch
of the European male buStard also
gives it a peculiar note, deeper in
pitch than its consorts.
A new feminine employment, which
requires skill and cleverness rather
than means, is the dressing of fashion
dolls for shop windows. A woman
with real taste can thus find scope for
her talent in designing pretty cos
tunes for little figures, which must
be just as elegant in every detail as
the full-sized ones. The models are
about fifteen inches high and accurate
ly represent the latest fashions.
In preparation for next winter an
Italian has invented a. snow-melting
machine. In this machine a lift re-
ceives the snow gathered up by a
shovel. subjects it to the heat of pipes
filled with boiling water, and allows
the liquids thus obtained to flow into
a tank and then into the street gut
ter. The machine is driven by a motor
and a brush at the rear sweeps to the
side whatever escapes the shovel.
One night recently a swarm of bees
in their flight took refuge in a, street
lamp in Comiston road. Glasgow. They
Were gath 9red in a mass at the tor
of the globe, into which they got
through the apertures in the lid. A by
Stander procured an empty box, which
he fixed mouth downward on the tor
OF the lamp. covering the whole with
a white cloth. In a. short time the
bees hived in the box and were thus
secured.
The crocodile's methods for capturing
large game are plural as well as singu
lar Sometimes he will lie on the river
bank, partly covered with sand or mud
until an aIbsent-ninded native wander.
within reach. Having grabbed his prey
he will waddle into the waiter and ther,
drown the struggler. He will then dras
his victim ashore and bury him il
sand or mud, and wait for days be
fore he gorges himself.
The finest wire in the country il
made at Taunton, Mass. This meta
cobweb of minute diameter is exactl.
J the 1-50Oth part of an inch in phickness
much finer than human hair. Ordinar,
} wire, even though of small diameter
is drawn through holes in steel plates
but, on account of the wear, such plate
cannot be used in making the hair wire
The Taunton factory mentioned use
drilled diamonds for shat purpose.
There are many birds of which 'th
male and female have the same call
such as the raven TIE rnnlS the Nep