The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1898-09-03
SOME THINGS TO KNOW.

The inspector Of the Fifth gendar-
merle corps of France has forbidden the
use of the bicycle in the service. He
has evidently not read General Miles
assertion concerning the victory that is
to perch on the first army to adopt
the wheel.
A shrewd shopman on Broadway,
New York, has placed genuine 13-inch,
Pinch and S-inch shells and and l.
FOUNDER shells in his big window. The
huge messengers of death and destruc-
ton draw crowds of ''rubbernecks'
from the bulletin boards.
Natural gas has been flowing for
ages in several sections Of the Cauca-
sian provinces bordering the Caspian
sea. Many of these gas wells have
constantly emitted flames for a period
beyond the memory of living men, and
are superstitiOusly spoken of as the
eternal fires
The lighthouse on Armish rock, IN the
Hebrides, is about 500 feet from the
shore To avoid having an attendant
on the rock the light is produced on the
shore and projected across the water
upon a mirror in the lighthouse, the
mirror rejecting the light in the de-
sired direction.
designations from the French Legion
of Honor, owing to the persecution Of
lola, continue. NJ. Jules Barber, the
we'll known comic opera librettist, eulo-
giZes in his letter of retirement the
great Zola,' and remarks that he is as
glad to resign the rOsette Of the legion
as he was to receive it.
The crown princess of Greece, who Is
a trained nurse, is making thorough
investigation of the German hospital
methods. She intends also TO make a
tour of the English hospitals, with a
Vie 70 hor haf- nT Un-rO-0pra
hospitals erected in her own country
Immediately upon her return.
Denmark makes a clear distinction
between the thriftless and the respect
able DOOR The former are treated like
English paupers. The latter never
cross a workhOuse threshold. If des-
titute they receive a pension ranging
from S14 to SS4 a year; or, if too feeble
to look after themselves, they are
placed in an old age home.
Near the main highway leading
through York Harbor, Me-, are the re-
mains of the mansion where, $50 years
ago, dwelt young English nobleman
Sir Thomas Gorges, the first mayor
of Georgiana, in the province Of La
COMA In the year 1641 York was in
vested with the powers Of a city cor
porate and became the first English
city in America
Dickens would have been pleased
with the title of the Church of Eng
land Burial, Funeral and Mourning Re-
form Association" which, at its 10th
annual meeting, has issued the follow
ing manifesto: NO darkened house,
no durable coffin, no special mourning
attire, no bricked grave, no unneces-
sary show, no avoidable expense, and
no unusual eating or drinking"
The railway from the Congo rivers
mouth to Stanley Pool 24O miles in
length. has finally been completed, after
eight years work. and a vast area of
the interior of Africa has thus been
opened to modern methods Of trade and
commerce. There are 10000 miles of
navigable waterway above Stanley Pool
and 20. O0O, coo people inhabit the terri
tory which may be thus reached.
The following is the oath which the
queen of Holland will take at her core
nation soon: I swear to the Dutch
Deople that 1 will observe and always
maintain the constitution. 1 swear that
I will defend and guard with all my
power the independence and the terri
tory of the empire; that 1 will protect
public and private liberty, and the
rights of all my subjects, and that
viii use every means confided 20 me
bv The law to foster and uphold the
national and Individual well being as a
good queen should do. And may God
help me-