The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1898-08-26
POINTED PARAGRAPHS.

The great city of London began on
, the bank of the Thames. surrounded
on all sides except the river by bull
wark of forest, interspersed with
swamps Paris rose on an island of
the Seine, with a protecting wall of
water all around.
Birds cannot open the foot when the
leg is bent; that is the reason they do
not fall off their perches. If you watch
a hen walking you will notice that it
closes its toes as it raises the foot and
opens them as it touches the ground.
The Cherokee form of marriage is
perhaps the simplest and most express
sive of any. The man and woman mere
ly join hands over a running stream,
emblematic of the wish that their fu-
ture lives, hopes and aspirations should
flow on in the same channel.
Throughout the entire world there
are about 10000, 900 square miles of I'M
explored territory. In Africa there are
6 ,500,000 square miles; Arctic regions,
100000; Antarctic regions, $780, 600;
America, 100000; Australia, 100000;
Asia, 200, 900, and various islands, $780,
900.
The town in England best provided
with places of worship is the ancient
one of Rochdale, where there are 14o
churches and chapels. Fifty belong to
the Church of England and 95 to the
Nonconformists. The Church of Eng
land accommodates "a. 449 and the Nom
conformists $3.50 persons in sittings.
The entries in the British museum
catalogue under the name of William
Ewart Gladstone cover % printed pages
and embrace a period of exactly 80
years his first work-.'The State in Its
Relation with athe Church"-having
been issued in 1898, and his iast-'Later
Gleanings," second edition-in 1898.
The sounding of the mayors horn at
Ripo is one of the most ancient GUS
toms in the kingdom. 1t formerly an
nounced the setting of the watch, but
il has not lapsed into the formality of
three blasts given at 8 o'clock every
evening at the mayors residence by
his official horn-blower, and three more
at the market cross.
Mrs. Elizabeth Custer, widow of Cen
eral Custer, has just returned to her
Georgia home from a trip to. Egypt,
where she was engaged in gathering
material for another book Mrs. Gus
ter has written several valuable works
on her husband and western camp life,
her whole time since his tragic death
having been devoted to this work.
Horatio David Devies, lord mayor of
London, and member of parliament for
Chatham in the Conservative interest,
who is to visit America, was born in
London in 1912. His salary as lord
mayor is $4,000 for his year of office,
but it usually costs a lord mayor an
other $50, GOO to 500, 900 out of his pri-
vate pocket to maintain the dignity of
the office.
Speaking of Spanish girls, a CORE
spondent from abroad has said of
them: Spanish girls are convent bred.
Their education consists largely of ac-
quring the art of embroidery, which
they learn to perfection. Early mar
riages among them are seldom happy,
but divorce is unheard-of. People I'M
happily married simply separate and
live out their lives as best they can"
Somebody calling himself a traveller
writes to a paper in Portland, Me-, pro-
testing against the present dilapidated
condition of Henry w. Longfellow's
birthplace, and recommending that the
city purchase it, repair it and make
Longfellow museum of it. 1t is now
a tenement house and bears a tablet
with a vainglorious inscription saying
that in it Longfellow was born.