The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-07-04
NOTES OF THE DAY.

The commissioners of the Yosemite val
ley reservation have decreed that Their
shall be no more feecing of tourists b!
the hotel keepers who have set up there
! Forage will be furnished free and tn,
highest rate TO be charged for guest.
Is fixed at g day. 1t is supposed tina
tourists.
The electric third rail has proved SC
| successful on the New York, New Haver
| &, Hartford railroad. between Hartford
and New Britain. that ii is to be extend
| ed al once to two other manufacturing
! towns. The passenger traffic on the half
| hourly trains has been larger than was
anticipated. 1t is proposed to run freight
| trains soon by it.
The movement against the indiscrimin-
/ ate killing of birds has taken practical
shape in the state of Massachusetts. The
/ legislature has passed and Governor
! W oodford has signed a bill imposing a
severe penalty upon any person in whose
! possession is found the skins or feathers
OF birds. the destruction of which is pro-
| hibited by the laws of the state.
The steamship Augusta Victoria of the
Hamburg-American line has been length
ened about 90 feet by the insertion of a
new section amidshiD Her masts have
been resteD9ed and her tunnels placed
farther apart. Her horsepower has also
been increased by about 1.500 which it is
expected viii enable her to make 20 knots
an hour. instead of Is. as heretofore.
A Massachusetts man recently tried to
get a divorce from his wife because, she
called him "a fool IAN idiot" and "a
brute, and told him he hadn't sense
enough TO know when he was insulted. -
The court held. however. that. though
the husband was affected injuriously in
his health TO some extent, the wife was
moved in part by what seemed 10 her
good motives and by a desire for his sue
cess IN lfe.
Speculation is rife in Europe as to the
cause of the astounding percentage of
suicides among the medical profession in
Russia. In the Auscovite empire the rate
of suicide for ordinary mOrtals 80 in the
million. But the rate for doctors is no
less than 63l in the million. according to
recent official returns. This is all the
more matter of concern. as Russia
suffers more than any other nation in
Europe from scarcity of medical men.
When a circus parade was passing Sixth
and Market streets. in Wilmington. Del,
a few days ago, an elephant swung his
trunk, striking Mrs. w. A. Sparks in the
face and knocking her down. Mrs.
Sparks threatened to bPing suit against
the circus manager. but compromised the
juries. As result of the elephants
trunk striking her face the sight of Mrs.
Sparks right eye has been badly dam
aged. and she may lose it.
a hospital has been opened in London
for the treatment of wounds, ulcers and
kindred ailments by oxygen gas. The
new method of treatment was suggested
by the Zulus- When they are wounded
wounds to the pure air of the mountain
tops. After the Turco-Russian war, it
was noticed also the inValids sat with
their wounded limbs bare on the deck
Scientifically developed. and with the adj
dition of oXygen-one part of oxygen TO
one part of purified air-that is the prin-
ciple now adopted at the Oxygen home.
In a recent divorce suit in England the
judge and jury accepted as true the state
ment that the wife had been unchasted 4
before marriage. The court however. re-
fused to annul the marriage. saying that
he could understand the broad principle
that unchastity before marriage should
vitiate the contract. as it did in some of
the American states. on the ground that
a man believed he was making a pure
woman his wife. but this was assuredlv
not the law of England. and unless there
was to be one law for the man end an
other fo- the woman, it was impossible
20 suppose lit could ever be-"
Bicycle fever has so infested one of the
hospitals in New York that members of |
ne staff have been making their rounds !
n knickerbockers. and the superintendent /
vas only persuaded to withdraw a ukase !
orbidding such apparel in the wards by /
he discovery that several prominent phv- /
icians who visited and have charge of |
-arious departments of the institution
we're as culoable IN the matter as their |
uniors. The superintendent hated TO /
Jack down. but he concluded that there |
we're occasions when circumstances al |
cred cases. even in matters of that dis
iDline in the enforcement of which he
otes.