The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-05-03
CURIOUS COMBINATIONS.

A Paris doctor has discovered the
microbes that makes bald heads.
Already nine-tenths of the trade of
Bangkok is in English hands.
The British navy estimates for the
current year aggregate S100,0O0.000.
Alabama coal, coke and iron outputs
for 1896 were the greatest in it's history.
The Rome Iron company, of Rome.
Ga, is to build 20 new charcoal ovens
More accidental deaths occur in Brit
ain from drowning than from any other
cause.
At the British army maneuvers at
Aldershot in August 10 militia bat
talions will be modified.
During the past few weeks there
have been some of the highest tides
ever known in the Thames.
An ammunition factory in London is
| fianked on one side by a hospital and
on the other by graveyard.
The Dominion line has ordered new
steamship from Harland & Wolff, of
Belfast, for st. Lawrence trade.
Six thousand persons have visited
Carlyle's house at Chelsea since it was
opened to the public in July, 1895.
1t is stated that every year the rail-
way servants of Britain get no less
than $l,5O0,000 in tins from the public
False alarms for ambulances. coming
with annoying frequency, are disquiel-
ing the hospital authorities and sur
geons in Montreal.
The Massachusetts legislature has
refused to entertain the bill to prohibit
the exhibitions of pictorial reproduce
tions of prize fights.
About 700 rabbits were killed in a
drive along the Crooked river, Crook
county, Ore, the line of heaters ex-
tending at the start four miles
Great Britain broke its record fer
shipbuilding in 1896, the number of tons
launched being 1.326.S22, as against
1,15651 tons in 1895.
By far the greater portion of the
enigrants from Britain still favor the
United States. but Canadian emigration
is slowly on the increase.
England has one member of parlia-
ment to every 10.250 electors, Ireland
one for every III, Scotland one for
every 1874 and Wales one for every
s.61s
The winter has been so mild in Eng
land that as early as February 20
snowdrops. crocuses and other spring
flowers We're in full bloom in the Kew
gardens
Only 70 years have elapsed since the
first railway in the world was finished.
During that comparatively brie period
100000 miles have been constructed
The half-yearly report of the Man
chester ship canal states that the re-
ceipts show an increase of 1858 pounds
over the corresponding half of last
year.
A Kansas woman, who Travelled to st.
Louis to marry a man who had adver-
tised for a wife, has brought suit
against him because he backed out
when he saw-her.
a sought. gold vein has been
discovered in a Georgia mine. The
mine has been operated for years by
the placer process, but the vein is ex-
pected to be far richer.
A travelling evangelist in the west
has an assistant stationed outside his
meeting places, and every time he
brings down a fresh sinner he signals
to his man who sends uD skyrocket.
Sam Stevenson of Mcpherson county,
Kan, went away to Cuba and joined
the insurgents. He was captured by
the Spanish ard, after remaining in
prison for some time, was given the
choice of being shot or swearing al
legiance to Spain. He naively wrote to
his friends in Mcpherson that while
was a patriot, l was not a d-n
fool"