The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-04-15
NOTES OF THE DAY.

1t is estimated that over S4U,UUu,uOO
year are spent for manuring purposes
in the United States.
In Mexico the school children who
have done best are allowed to smoke
cigars while pursuing their lessons.
The legislature of New Hampshire
has passed a law providing for the in
spection of all ice sold within the state,
to guard against disease.
The largest pin factory in the world
is that at Birmingham, Eng, where
81 ZOO, 900 pins are manufactured each
working day in the year.
Starke, Fla, said to be the largest
strawberry shipping place in the state.
sent out 100 bushels on ST. Patricks
day, and that was an off day.
A giant sewing machine has been
finished at Leeds. Eng. The machine,
which is to be used for attaching cot
ton betting. weighs five and quarter
tons.
A New London, Conn.,, man was fined
the other day for defiling a street car
and endangering dresses by expectora
| ton. 1t was the first case of its kind
| in the state
| A week having passed without an adj
dition TO the birth or death record at
| Silverton, Col, the local paper ex-
presses sorrow, in the knowledge that
there were lots of fellows around who
ought to die.
| A ball will be given by the benchers
of Gray's inn, in the grand hall of the
inn, to celebrate Queen Victoria's an
niversary. The last ball held there
was 300 years ago, when Queen Eliza
beth danced.
1t is reported that an eastern capital
list has purchased the Stonewall fur
mace in Cherokee county Alabama
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cast cannon duringst war. and will
develop the ore mines there.
North Dakota has recently expert
enced a boom in all branches of in
dustry, owing to the large number of
new settlers which has been pouring
into that state. 1t is said that most
of them have been induced to immi-
CRATE by agents.
Nearly all of the members of the Ger
man and Austrian Alpine club, only
one of whom is an abstainer on princi-
pie, condemn the use of alcoholic
stimulants ir mountain climbing. Only
five voices were raised for a moderate
consumption of wine or brandy.
Two large colonies of citizens from
western and northwestern states are
about to settle in Sumter and Lee
counties, Ga, within 20 miles of Amer
icus. a colony of Armenians has just
purchased the property of the Amos
keag Lumber company, in the same
state.
The palace of the king of Siam is in
closed in high white walls which are
mile in circumference. Within them
are contained temples, public offices,
seraglios, stables for the sacred ele-
plant. accommodations for 1000 troops,
cavalry, artillery, war elephants and
arsenal, and theatre.
In the crockery township of Ottawa
county, Mich. a farmer last year grew
a few bushels of coffee beans, and this
year he used them in place of coffee
of the usual kind with such satisfac-
tion that he intends to plant large
section of his land to the same crop
the coming season.
1t is said that enterprising New Eng
land hunters who live near the bound
airy lire of Maine and New Hampshire
are taking advantage of the bounty
laws of each state and getting double
pay for each bear killed. New Hamp-
shire pays so much for each pair of
ears. while Maine keeps tally by the
nose.
Offers of too much for ones money
are regarded with slSepticism in parts
Of Missouri, as a Springfield dry goods
firm found out when it offered to sell
during one and one-half hours of a
certain day 5-cent calico at l cent per
yard and drew crowd of 1000 per-
sens, to sell only $50 worth of goods in
all.
IT is remarkable that not only in
Russia but in Austria, Italy and
Spain, the health of either the sover-
eign or the heir presumptive is a cause
of anxiety to statesmen; and even the
German emperor is afflicted with a con-
stitutional malady which is said to be !
not without it's effect on international |
politics.
Paris is making d sanitary record of /
every building in that city. A munich |
pal reference register will be COM
pleted by 1900, in which will be in !
cluded a full hygienic description of |
each houses drainage, plumbing and |
location, tigether with a complete rec
ord of the deaths which have occurred |
during a recent period within its walls |
Such a scheme has been often sug-
gested for the cities of the United /
States It's adoption would do much TO |
remedy the slums and tenement con-
ditions and to secure the abatement of |
nuisances. 1t would require. perhaps, |
difficult and arduous labors on the part |
of the health officials of the larger |
cities; but the smaller towns could now |
easily lay the solid foundations of most |
valuable house registers.
Superstition That Pays.
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