The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-04-25
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Indiana prisoners deprived of work
are to be drilled.
An Oregon girl with two suitors
named Mann and Mouss decided to be
a Mann.
A large increase in tobacco acreage
over that of last year is predicted in
Pennsylvania.
! In Derbyshire county. England.
there Is subterranean road seven
miles long. 1t connects two mines.
The great Mohammedan school at
Cairo, Ell Azhar. meaning the splen-
DID. has clear records dating as far
back as 975.
at Niagara falls secured through cleo
trical appliances is over $4,000 horse
power.
In the Belgian parliament when a
member is making a long speech he
may be supplied with brandy and wa
ter at the governments expense.
The origin of the phrase ION tick
meaning credit, was ION ticket" the
idea being that articles bought and
not paid for at the time had to be
noted on a ticket.
The Turkish language is said by
scholars TO be the softeSt and most
musical language of modern times. be-
ing better adapted to the purpose OF
musical notation and recitation than
even the Italian.
BY the new school-book law in Kan
sas. if at any annual school meeting
two-thirds of the electors of a district
vote in favor of district ownership OF
books. the district must thereafter fur
nish books free to pupils.
A delegation is to be sent from Ger
mo ~ To- NJ To mn,
lines of trade. especially in textile
products The Cotton Exchange has
contributed $4,000 marks and the gov
eminent 10000 marks TO help defray
expenses.
The old Washington hall in Durham,
England. which is supposed by some
to have been the seat of George Wash
ington's ancestors, has been bought by
an American for $4,000. 1t is described
as picturesque and full of rheuma-
tism''
Nine-tenths of the whisk broOms sold
and used in the United States are
made from broom corn grown in KAN
sas. Most of the brooms are manu-
featured in Rochester and other east
ern cities, but the raw material comes
from Kansas.
The state geologist of Kentucky has
grieved and disappointed many of its
ClliLChS by that NACAt 10 4AC
gold in the state. Some ore recently
analysed by another chemist was
found to contain copper and iron, but
no gold.
Among the birds there are few better
fighters than a goose. or a Saader more
particularly. The ragged white Rus
sian geese bite ferOciously; it is no
mere peck with them; they bite and
hang on with all the tenacity Of bull
dog.
A white boar, roasted whole. was the
chief dish at a state dinner given by
the prince of Montenegro. 1t was
brought in smoking hot. Inside the
boar was a turkey. and inside the tur-
key was a snipe, which had been shot
by the host.
The Paris prefecture of police has
has bought a wooden horse. harnessed,
and all candidates for the position OF
cabman must show that they know
how to harness and unharness him and
pass an examination in whatever other
tests the project may propose
Governor Cooke of Connecticut has
appointed Friday. April 16, as q day -
fasting and prayer in the state, doing
so, he says. in harmony with the Gus
tom and laws of the state and practice
of a God-fearing ancestry who sought
the favor and help of the Lord
Paris is learning how 20 handle a
franchise. 1t will allow a
to build As miles of railway
it's streets at a cost of 100000.
600. the fare to vary from cents to 1
cents. AT the end of So years the city
will take possession of the entire prop
erty without paying a cent.
Two more 1S-story hotels. to cost So
600. 600. are to be erected at once in New
York City and the architects say they
are to be the finest structures of this
class in the city 1t seems TO be the
opinion of shrewd real estate people in
New York that the transient pOpula-
ton of New York has already been
vastly increased by her magnificent no.
tells.