The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-01-24
NOTES OF THE DAY.

The city of New Orleans is now six
! inches lower than it was 40 years ago
Beer is now bottled in Germany in
| siphons in the same manner as aerotid
waters.
! Postmaster ]. W. Durham of Middle
burg, KY, has a 9-year-old son who
weighs 900 pounds.
On a conservative estimate the apple
crop of the United States this year
amounts to two barrels for every man,
woman and child.
A sleigh owned by Alden Rich of
Gouldsville, VT, was made 155 years
ago, in 1741, but is still in use and good
running order.
An Iowa man was sentenced a few
days ago to SO years in the penitentiary
for murder and three years for horse
stealing.
1t has been accidentally discovered
that to bury man up to his neck in
wet sand is practically certain cure
for apparent death from an electric
shock.
a woman's club has been formed in
Beirut, Syria, by the European women
1t was organized by Mrs. Hannah Kor-
ney, the Syrian envoy to the world s
fair.
A citizen of Westbrook, Me. re-
garded as intelligent by his tOwnsmen,
says that whenever he has a severe
attack of rheumatism he confines him
self TO a diet of fried salt pork, and
soon regains his normal health.
Fur bearing animals are becoming so
scarce that the feasibility of breeding
them is being discussed. 1t is con-
coded that Siberia would be the best
place for the establishment of farms
for this purpose.
On New Years night Mr.. and Mrs.
George Barry celebrated the 6Oth an
niversary of their marriage at their
home in Milton, Mass. The house is
the birthplace of Ms. Barry The
couple were married in it and they
have lived there ever since.
The ultimate result of the sugar
coffee war, in the opinion of some
shrewd observers who are acquainted
with the conditions of the struggle,
will be big coffee combination trust,
which, like the sugar trust in the
sugar trade, will control the trade in
roasted coffee.
A miniature cannon, made of pure
gold, mounted upon carriage of rose
wood, inlaid with costly gems, is a
unique bauble of warfare that has
come into the possession of the imperial
army of Berlin. 1t is valued at S25, 900
and could not be purchased for twice
that sum.
Four months ago there was rule
placed in effect on the Galveston. La
Porte and Houston that engineers
would be required to pay for all stock
killed by them on that line, and since
then the amount paid for dead cattle
has not exceeded $50 per month. while
before it had amounted to nearly 81, 200
per month.
If plan now on foot is carried out
Vice-President-elect Hobart will call
the next United States senate to order
with q gavel made from limb of one
of the old apple trees standing on Athe
farm where he was born. The gavel
will be highly embellished and will
bear an appropriate inscription on a
gold plate.
The city of Lowell, Me-, with a pop
ulation of about $4,000 inhabitants.
burns its garbage for about so cents
a ton. The cost of operating it's plant |
one week. during which 100 tons of
garbage were burned. was $S0.75. Burn
ing at the rate of 100 tons per week, !
the cost of operating such a furnace |
is about $4,000 per year
An enterprising schoolmarm of West |
brook, Me-, seeing a fine rooster chok-
ing to death on her way to school one |
caught it, cut open it's crop,
which was cleaned out thoroughly. |
sewed up the incision with silk and put !
the rooster ~ p barrel where there /
was nothing to eat. Three times daily |
for two days she gave it medicine and |
it came around all right.