The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-01-11
NOTES OF THE DAY.

The private estates of the car cover
100000 square miles.
This year is the centennial of the
silk hat, which first came into COM
mon use in Paris in 1897.
In a I.ambertville, n. Y, court re-
Gently man was fined $3.50 for
swearing in public street.
The only woman who has ever asked
for an Office in Daviess county Mo, is
seeking a postmastership
An Arizona editor hangs this sign
on his Office door: Gone out to take
q drink. VIII be back tomorrow"
A Belfast. Me, judge has ruled that
shaking dice for cigars is not gamb-
ling, but shaking them for money is.
One of the results of Ii Hung Chang
journey round the world Will be the
teaching of English in the Chinese
schools.
a Boonville minister after much
study has determined that marriage is
not a failure and is telling the people
all about it at % cents per head.
The coming Legislature of South Da-
kota viii be petitiOned to pass a law
for the protection of the public against
incompetent dentists in that state.
4 child in Rochester swallowed a
penny, and very soon after the coin
was exactly located in the aesophagus
by the Y ray and removed without
difficulty.
Dollar gas under municipal control
gave the Philadelphia treasury $3.50, 00G
last year, despite the fact that 100000
worth of free gas was consumed by
street lamps.
Pending the adoption of a plan to
dispose of impounded and unredeemed
dogs at Macon, Ga, by electricity, an
experiment has been made upon rats.
1t was successful.
In Callam county. Wash, a mountain
lion was shot which weighed $50
pounds, measured ten feet from tip to
tip, and had a fourfoot tail and whis-
kers eight inches long.
After long and luxurious yawn one
morning a Westwood (Mich.) man
couldn't close his mouth. His jaw had
been dislocated. He was so frightened
that since it was set he doesn't dare
even to smile broadly.
A Fossil (Ore.) woman who had shot
a coyote which her husband had
missed, after discovering it trying to
steal his turkeys. carried the scalp to
the newspaper Office and applied it on
her husbands subscription.
A grocery firm OF Liverpool. Eng
land. recently sent out circulars an
nouncing the sad death of a partner,
and on the blank page gave the cur
rent prices for bacon, eggs, butter and
other staples dealt in by the firm.
Frederick J. Bliss. director of the
work of the Palestine exploration fund,
is reported TO have discovered the
staircase leading to the pool of Sloan.
The staircase is 40 feet wide and eX-
tends back from the pool a distance of
200 feet.
Beef cattle sold from the counties of
Harvey and Malheur. Ore, this season
a value of more than $1,000,
600, or more than S12 each for all the
men, women and children in the coun-
ties. The sales were more than 10000
head.
A new instrument, called the pho
enables the skilful medical
man to hear the sounds emitted by all
the organs in the human body-the
heart the lungs, the liver, etc.-and
discover If they are in a healthy con-
ditiOn or otherwise
Stealing a calfskin from one store at
Augusta Ne. 4 12-year-old boy took
it to another hide dealer and sold it to
him, and managed at the same time TO
nam the purchaser a sheepskin,
which he boldly carried back to the
first store and sold to mis- first victim.
Ic %dlie1UAdA - COASlC-
ering the adyiSability of deepening the
ST. Lawrence and the canals from
Montreal to Lake Erie to q feet. Grain
then may be sent by steamer from
Duluth to Montreal and thence to
Europe at great saving of time and
money.
No fhan ore-thi-d of the entire
population OF these United States now
i've 10 cities In some states il is
much greater: In Massachusetts 20
Per cent. in New York so per cent. in
Connecticut "a per cent, in New Jersey.
50 per cent In 1890 there were but
six cities ii. e.. having a population
OF more than $1,000, in 1890 there were
AS such cities.