The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-04-18

gion of Florida and is now being Gull
tivated extensively.
The city of Liverpool is about to
copy Glasgow and take over the whole
of the street railroads. The price to
be paid is s., 500, 500.
The Canadian government has ar
ranged a system of cold storage on
railways, at ports and on steamers.
for. the preservation of perishable
goods.
Fifty-six Kansas counties bear the
names of soldiers of the late war. Only
TWO of them, however. bear the names
of privates-Osborne and Rocks.
A new species ofgrrabbit has been
found in Mexico at an altitude of 5000
feet. on the volcano Popocatepetl. 1t
is very small, has short ears and no
tail
One of the oldest protests on record
is that of the ladies residing upon a
street in Cleveland. who petition
against naming the thoroughfare
Nissan street
In North Dakota the killing of quail
and English and Chinese pheasants is
prohibited until 1906, and beaver and
otter cannot be trapped and killed un-
til 1903.
In Zululand, when the moon is at the
full, objects are distinctly visible at
as great a distance as seven miles. By
starlight one can see to read print with
ease.
Pension payments during the last
ten years were s1,256 $780, 4S. This CO.
lossal amount was S719,64s. l67 in eX-
cess of the payments for the preceding
ten years-1S77 to 1886.
The scientific academies of several
German universities are planning the
issue of a comprehensive Latin diction-
airy of II quarto volumes of about 1000
pages each.
1t is stated that the lighting of GER
tain of the London prisons by electricity
is under consideration, and it is pro-
posed to erect a special description of
treadmill to supply the motive power.
Waterproof materials are likely to
be superseded by a fabric of pleasing
appearance. the surface of which has
a dressing of powdered glass The re-
suit is to produce surface of a soft,
silky and luminous description.
At independence, Mo-, the other day
a young lady recited ''Curfew Shall Not
Ping Tonight" Ever since she has
been sad because in the climax she
reversed a couple of words and said:
Co your liver loves said Crom-
we'll"
i ne fastest DAILY run IN G1eaI
Britain is from Perth to Forfar, on
the Caledonian railway. the distance
32la miles-being performed in 80 min
utes, or at the rate. of about 81 miles
an hour
Rev. DR.. Mayo of Massachusetts de-
clares that the 16 southern states are
paying as much for public schools
every year-s2O, 100000 or $50, O00, OOO-as
she British parliament votes for the
public school system of the British is
lands.
A Londoner is now able to drop a
penny in the slot for a six hours sup
ply of an eight candle power incan-
descent light, and he can take the
whole amount at once or divide it into
small daily instailmenfs. This is cheap
enough, but a good penny newspaper
provides far more for the money
Governor Rogers of Washington has
vetoed bill providing for the erection
of a new state capitol. The bill con-
templated a cost of 100000, and the
governor intimated that a building
erected for that sum by modifying the
plans, which were for a ST.
900, 900 outlay, would be an eyesore and
n disgrace.
A French philosopher has raised a
great disturbance by proposing to send
D
where there are better opportunities
for their marriage. The girls remind
him that this would be a sentence of
exile, and they think he should be Wis
tied with civil death and banished
from Paris.
Pennsylvania. is considering the adj
visa Utility Of extending its system of
taxation from collateral to direct in
heritances. and a revenue of 100000 is
from this source if the bill
before the house of representative be-
zones a law Pennsylvania, however,
has not yet come to the idea of taxing
such inheritances on the progressive
principle.
A member of the Massachusetts |
house of representatives has made a
mild sensation by offering an order di-
'ec.ilg the attorne general of the state
% ascertain the present custody of the
original deeds TO the land about Bunker I
ill monument. and what provision has
1een made for the preservation of !