The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-01-16
CURIOUS CONVERSATIONS.


poppy 81 900 and the tobacco 10000.
Spearing frost fish is now a popular
occupation with frequenterS of the Saco,
Me. river front.
Twenty-six American women have
matriculated for the new term of the
Berlin university.
The wheat crop of New South Wales is
estimated at 100000 bushels below the
colony's requirements.
The great diamond mines of South
Africa have yielded in the last 20 years
1876. 100000 worth of diamonds.
1t is said that people who drink great
deal of water have rheumatism less than
the non-water drinker.
Japan's total population amounts to As
900 000 and she accordingly takes fifth
pace among the great powers of the
world.
Two churches of Jasper county Mis-
souri,, have been visited by thieves who
stole even the carpets of the aisies and
pulpit platform.
1t costs Great Britain $4,000 a year to
maintain the queens pack of deer hounds.
The people are petitioning her TO give
them uD.
Of 27s members Of the ,, Connecticut
month. 100 are farmers. The lawyers
number only 23.
AS early as the time of Alexander H..
of Scotland. man VINO let weeds go 10
seed on a farm were declared to be the
kings enemy.
Wilcox (Ariz) tramps who thought it
would be safe in that territory to catch
chickens on baited fish hooks have been
in jail since Thanksgiving.
Probably the most extraordinary, jour
nal in the world is published weekly at
Athens. It's contents are written entirely
in verse even to the advertisements.
During the ten years war in Cuba the
deaths among the Spanish soldiers aver
aged about 10 per cent year, OF Whlch
O0a-half WeF. from disease.
Sacramento now reveices a 15.0OO-volt
current of electricity from plant 81
miles distant. and had previously secured
a partial supply over "a miles or w,re-
Boston's mighty organ. long dumb, is
to be sold at auction. For years 1t oc-
cupied a place in the great music hail OF
that city and a place in the hearts or its
people.
A, scientist declares that the elements
entering into the cornstalk can be made
TO produce alcohol. .cellulose, paper, mat
ing. smokeless powder and CONDITION
powders for cattle.
The Hon. David Rankin has farm of
200 acres in Atchison county. missouri
Several hundred acres We're planted IN
corn and a careful test showed that It
yielded 101 bushels to the acre.
Colonel Gouraud has bought the Inter-
national hotel at Niagara Falls. He will
tear down that structure and the Catar-
act House. and will replace them with
the largest hotel in the world
The total value of the fish landed on
the coasts of Scotland during November
was $4,000 net increase on 1888 or SloU,-
COG. The total value for the II months OF
the year is given as Sl,I19,OOO.
Augusta, Me-, is talking of the cato
two tails such an animal being owned Dy
Perc:val Bros Only one OF the taiiS can
ba stepped upon that in the usual loca-
ton; the other is on pussy s back
burglar in Chicago was taken for
Santa Claus by three children, their par
erts being absent. The little ones had
rnerry time with the visitor, who, in the
end carried off $500 worth of property
One of the best known South African
millionaires has frankly told. his friends
that he has no intention or ever marry
ine because he knows he is so ugly that
no girl would wish to marry MIN except
for his money.
A new electric road in Maine is adding
to the uses which those lines usually
serve. 1t is engaged Is hours day IN
carrying passengers, but from midnight
to in the morning, it is engaged eXclu-
sively on freight, which it handles noise
lessly.
Careful weighing shows that an ordi-
nary bee not loaded, weighs the 5,OOth
part of a pound. so that it takes 5000 bees
to make a pound. But the loaded bee,
when he comes in fresh S~om the fields
and flowers. freighted wi oney or bee
broad weighs nearly thr ines J ore
An extraordinary story of the credulity
of Russian peasants comes from Slav-
yansk, in southern Russia, where wom-
an whose little 10-year-old girl had sore
eyes consulted witch doctor and was
told to apply gunpowder to the childs
ewes and touch ii off with a match. She
obeyed. binding the child and injuring
herself.
Many persons in Maine make a few
spare hundreds of dollars each year in
picking spruce gum at a dollar pound |
Most of the Maine gum goes TO the west
and south and a man who comes in from
the deep woods with lots of gum ~ his
cack may look on his load as so much |
cash for the market is never Slutted |
With spruce gum.
An enormous crowd of people assembled
IN the streets of Rotterdam on the Sth |
inst to witness a wedding party on the |
Wy to and from the church. The bride |
and groom rode to the church on tan |
dem and the other members of the party !
were all mounted on wheels. A large |
force of police had to be requisitioned to |
clear a passage for them as they left the |
church.
In the district of Derryinoer. in the |
Montaigns. near Lurgan, Ireland. tub |
of butter was eXcavated from the peat /,
moss. 1t was discovered to be in an ex- !
cellent state of preservation. being quite |
firm and hard. and weighing about II |
pounds The probability is that it had lain |
imbedded in the ground for more than a
hundred years. and was deposited there |
during the troublesome times