The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-04-21
NOTES OF THE DAY.

The average cost of criminal prose
cutions in England at present is SIG
each.
In Norway people who are not vacci
mated are not allowed to vote at al
election.
The wassail ale of merry old England
was made of ale, nutmeg, sugar, toas
and roasted apples.
During the sixty years of Queen Vic
toria's reign the English debt has beer
reduced nearly a billion dollars.
Returns show that sixten persons il
1000 who are confined in lunatic asy-
lums have been made insane by love
affairs.
Four young men were arrested anC
fined SIS each in Bangor, Me, last week
for chewing gum and whispering il
church. q.
In every school in Paris there is q
restaurant where free meals are served
to the children who are to poor to pay
for them.
A new libel law in Utah requires
double publication of a retraction foi
a period of three days in mitigation OF
damages.
The Italian pharmac opoeia is revised
every five years. Important innova-
tions are expected to be made in the
text this year.
A doctor says that probably half the
deafness prevalent at the present time
is the result of children having ther
ears boxed.
Walnuts and butternuts are being
successfully cultivated in Whatcom
county, Washington. They are not ma
tive to the region.
There is said to have been much less
snow in Maine at the beginning of
March than ever before at this season
in forty-five years.
Dr. Paul Gibier says: IF this habit
of expectoration in public places could
be stopped l am sure that in time
tuberculosis would die out altogether"
Mrs. Langtry possesses a dressing
bag which is, perhaps. the loveliest and
costlieSt of its kind. 1t is adorned with
gold and jeweled fittings and cost
only $500.
1t has been discovered that most pre-
cious stones, such as the ruby, sap
phire and the emerald, can readily be
told from their limitations by means of
the Roentgen rays.
The Turkish court pianist receives
50, 900 a year for his services, but he is
temporarily suspended every time he
plays a tune the sultan does not care
to hear.
Good iron ore has been found on Red
mountain, near Oneonta, Ala, and
preparations are making 10 develop the
vein.
Under direction of the state horti-
cultural society the state of Arkansas
is going to make an intelligent effort
to raise sugar beets.
Only about two minutes are required
for the blood to course through the
heart, thence to the lungs, back to the
heart and then through the entire body
and return To the heart.
The Jewel of the coming London sea-
son is the emerald. Good specimens
command high prices, and recently a
single stone of karats sold in the
English metropolis for 100000.
The ear of the elephant. like his eye,
is very small in proportion to the size
of the animal. although the flap of
skin which covers it is of considerable
size. The hearing of the elephant,
however, is singularly acute.
After diligent inquiry the postmaster
at Lexington, Va, had to reply to an
inquiry by mail for the name of some
person there, male or female, who ad-
vocated woman's suffrage, that there
was none 10 be found.
The specie-room on ocean steamships
is usually sixteen feet long, ten feet
wide and eight feet high. 1t is formed
of steel plates a quarter OF an men
thick. with a steel door, which has
combination lock-
While carrying d tightly covered pot /
of hot meat out of the house a Cum 1
berland, Md, woman was severely i
burned by the grease spattered over
her by the explosion IN the pot which /
contact with the cold air caused.
In the West India Islands and in
South America grows a tree whose {
fruit makes an excellent lather and is /
used TO wash clothes. The bark of a /
tree which grows in Peru and of
another which grows in the Malay is
lands yields a fine soap.
The extraordinary. rainfall of last
summer and autumn was disastrous 70
The vineyards of Italy. The wine had
% be doctored with alcohol and color
ng matter to such an extent that it
became injurious TO health and large.
quantities have been destroyed by the
sanitary inspectors.
A method of photographing the
sounds of the heart has been COM
nunicated to the Academy of Science
~ NJ De Holowinski- The sounds are
transmitted by sensitive microphone
o an optical telephone, the diaphragm
# which produces Newtons rings.
which are then photographed.
A Kansas preacher told his flock the
,ther day that the great trouble with
he Kansas farmer as a general thing
s that he farms TOO much land too
title He assured them that 81 man
.culd do better with eighty acres well
filed than with 400 acres cultivated as
most of the farms in the sunfiower
tate now are.
A rumor in Athens, Ca, says a COM
amy of students of the University of
ieorgia are going to Cuba during the
irrnrl1a1- HOLIDAYS and fight with the in