The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-03-28
Notes OF the Day.

than in New York.
Thirty years ago Berlin was smaller
than Philadelphia, and now it is larger
by $780, 0O
A pocket book containing SAC. 600
which was lost in st. Louis, was found
by a negro bell boy in a hotel and re-
turned to its owner
There is said to have been very much
less snow in Maine at the beginning
OF March than ever before at this sea
son in forty-five years.
Potatoes for 1000 families will be
raised on land on the outskirts or Buff
falo during the coming season. Mayor
JeWett is a practical farmer
There is a tradition in the British
royal family that boys must wear
highland costume until the queen
deems it proper to order a change.
A general chapter of the Christian
Brothers (Roman Catholic) will soon
be held in Paris to elect a successor
to the late Brother Joseph, superior
general of the order
a mining prospector, whose expert
ence is said to cover almost every
mining region of the northwest, has
been lately waxing enthusiastic over
the future of the Cascade range in
Oregon as gold-producing section.
>. ID,
who died the other day in Columbia
City, Ind, has been found over S. 900
secreted in various places. Mrs. Sharp
for long time lived in squaIid
poverty.
An attempt to acclimatize ostriches
in south Russia have proved success
full. The oStriches born in Russia are
much less sensitive to cold than the
imported ones, and their plumes are
equally good.
New Haven, Conn. is soon to have
a society of those whose ancestors
came from Great Britain and were en-
titled to display coat armor according
TO the records of the Herald's college
in London.
Cattle from the United States sold
higher in England last year than those
from South America and Canada. The
English, it seems, prefer 10 buy Anne
rican cattle, but the Germans do their
best to keep them out.
The people of Wolfe Valley, Tex,
have organized a rabbit club. The club
pays l cent for each cotton tail scalp,
and 21a. cents for each jack rabbit.
The organization of this club is a ne
cessity. Rabbits have ruined, all fruit
trees this winter which were not pro-
tected by oak bushes.
The senate of Tennessee have passed
a bill making. the first Thursday in
August next the time for the vote of
the people upon the proposition to call
a convention to revise the constitution
of the state and elect delegates thereto.
The house is expected to concur in the
change of date from April.
OF seventy-eight young men and two
young women who were subjected TO a
hard and prolonged examination for
to the bar in Boston, forty
one of the men and both the women
passed. The young women, Miss Mary
E. Corbett and Miss Helen ]. Wescott,
are justly proud of their success.
An interesting series of experiments
in the cultivation of the olive tree has
been lately in progress in India. At
tention being called to the immense
growth of wild olives in the hills below
Murri, large number of the best tres
have been imported from Italy for the
purpose of making gratis" upon the
wild varieties, which. in their present
are quite unproductive.
A Baltimore man who demanded
IS, 500 from a street railroad company
as damages for the alleged breaking of
his arm was offered 800 as a compro-
mise and refused it, and was then sub
lected to the test of the X ray, which |
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was not broken and never had been.
Then he offered to settle for SIS, but /
he company was no longer in a COM
mood.
In Connecticut there is hardly a I
farmer who does not raise tobacco. The
Connecticut leaf is particularly valu- /
ible for wrapping purposes, and also /
.xcels in flavor. In Ohio the growers
say that the total expenses of their
,rops average $S5 per acre. but they
ind tobacco growing profitable even at
hose figures. There is said to be a
growing belief among American to-
,acco consumers that homegrown to-
)acco equals the imported article.
Tobacco is grown in at least dozen
states, Pennsylvania leading in the
mount of production, while Ohio has
%, 900 acres given uD to the culture.
md an average crop of S0,OOO,OOO
pounds.