The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1898-08-26
CURIOUS COMBINATIONS.
C. T. HARTE.
Secretary.

There is some talk of starting a daily
paper in Jerusalem.
The population of Russia is increasing
at the rate of 100000 year.
The recent census showed G2.000 Protes-
tants among the 100000 of Italy.
Last year Greece was buying guns, and
this year it has ordered 10000 pleughs
OF the 143 holders of the Victoria Cross
no fewer than IA are army surgeons.
The reports from all parts of Ireland are
The queen is said to be prouder of her
Stuart blood than of anything else in this
world.
The Hottest cliff on the coast of Eng
land is Beachy Head, the height of which
is 564 feet.
The average walking pace of healthy
man or woman is said to be 10 steps a
minute.
Before the war Cuba contributed about
one-twelfth of all the tobacco used in the
world.
The number of medical students in
France has more than doubled since 1870.
rising from 1000 to S.4Si
In the United States 81 per cent of chill
dren under 5 years of age die from gas
tro-intestinal disorders.
Greasy baths may be made perfectly
clean by lightly securing with wet fan
mel dipped in common salt.
Boots and shoes to the number of ~
OOc 900 are said to be manufactured yearly
in the United Kingdom.
A nugget of gold weighing 1,6S6 ounces
and valued at S32 500 has been found at
Kanowna in West Australia.
Eight churches have stood on the site
of ST Paurs cathedral in London. The
first one was built in the year 70.
London has street lamps in operation
which supply pedestrians with tea. cof-
fee cocoa and hot water on the penny-in-
the-Slot system.
The Lakes Superior. Huron, Erie, On
tario and Michigan have an aggr gate
area of "a, $50 square miles, which is larger
than the area of Great Britain.
The Belfast Irish News has declared a
dividend of 1872 per cent, and that IN
city where in previous years no Nation
alist organ was ever able to make ends
meet.
Partisan BARRIERS are legally compelled
to wash their hands after attending GUS
toner and before waiting on another.
They must also use only nickel-plated
combs.
The exodus of the priests from the
Church of France is attracting the atten-
ton of the French press. Some of them
are qualifying for the Protestant ministry,
and others are going into business.
The first stone of monument to be
erected in Dublin to the memory of Wolfe
Tone and other United Irshmen who were
executed in 1888 has been laid on the site
/ of the old Newgate prison.
Theatrical companies that do not pre-
sent the attraction they have billed are
subject to fine in Mexico. A fine is also
placed on bull fighters who give a poor
| performance, or who do not begin on time.
Japan is TO send to the Paris exposition
! a huge house, hexagonal in shape and
] composed entirely of porcelain. II meas
ures several yards in circumference. and
/ its weight will not be less than 10 tons.
| Mr. Harry Furniss the caricaturist. is
exhibiting in London just now $50 sketches
! of Mr.. Gladstone, which he had drawn at
/ various stages of his career. Mr.. Furniss
has him in almost every conceivable style.
One development of the fight between
J the English tea firms has been their TAX
part of the business. Now one of the oh Ell
/ contestants announces that newspapers
| books and magazines will be sold in all
4 its tee stores.
| The Kennebec Journal prints a story OF
a witness who refused to tell the amount
| of his gross income. Finally. when the
4 he said: Your honor. 1 have no cross
/ income I'm fisherman of Machias Bay
and it's all net
The war has had a very damaging eff
| feet on the Belfast linen trade. Shipments
! to the states have shown a greet drop
| trade with Spain is said to be hardls
! worth mentioning. and the exports 70 the
foreign West Indies are down to $500
week, against $3.50 last year.
Mr.. Kensit, the London bookseller who
started the new militant anti-rituaiisti.
] campaign, was a choir boy in a ritualis
! church at the age of To- He then he
l came firmly convinced that ritualistic ser