The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1898-08-23
SOME THINGS TO KNOW.

] The Miss de Lesdenier, who is re-
ported to be organizing a regiment of
/ lady rough riders" in Oklahoma is a
/ great granddaughter of an officer IN
/ der Napoleon. He called himself The
Last Call" (de les denier) because he
/ was very young man when Napoleon
called him into service.
A statistician has estimated that an
average man of 80 years old has worked
$500 days, has slept 5000 has amused
I himself 1900. has walked y 900 miles.
! has been i'll 500 days. has partaken Of
SbUO meals, eaten $4,000 pounds of meat
and 1000 pounds of fish, eggs and veget-
ables. and drank 1000 gallons of fluid
Burmese women do not smoke cigar
cites. but cheroots. the Burmese substf-
tute for cigars. 1t is a curious and
very picturesque sight to see one Of
these Burmese girls in the enjoyment
OF her cheroOt. The greater number of
them choose one that is fully ten inches
in length, and green, and in a day they
smoke many of them.
The men in the fleet off Havana are
beguiling the weary days by shark
hShing on somewhat novel lines The
men fasten small dynamite cartridge
TO the end of wire attached to an
electric machine. lump Of pork ia
overheard. and as soon as the creature
swallows the bait the current is turned
on, the dynamite eXplOdes and the
shark is blown to pieces.
Experiments with plant seeds sub
Jected to extreme cold have shown that
the power of termination is not de-
stroyed but merely suspended by the
cold. By the use of liquid air, seeds
Of barley, oats. squash. cucumber. peas.
sunf1ower and some other plants were
recently kept for 10 hours at a cold
of 1873 degrees to 1872 degrees centri-
grade. They were then carefully and
slowly thawed for 80 hours They were
then planted and sprOuted as we'll as if
they had not been frozen.
Captain Boitscheff, Prince Ferdinand
of Bulgaria's former aide-de-camp. and
Project of Police Novelitch have been
hanged at PhilippopOlis for the murder
of the singer, Anna SzimOn, a year ago.
The first sentence to death was COM
muted TO Imprisonment for life. but as
they appealed against it they were con-
demned a second time. Boitscheff raved
like a maniac on being told that he was
to be executed: accused Prince Ferdi-
nand of abandoning him; refused to
listen to a priest and had to be
to the scaffold by violence.
Every human being has a specific
odor of his own, according to A .Bethe
in the Archiv der Gesammten Physiol-
ogie, by which ne can be recognized not,
merely by dogs but by persons with
sensitive organs of smell. The case is
mentioned of man who blindfolded
could pick out each individual in a COM
pany of 20 by his odor. The smell is
not born with u.s. but develops gra-
1ually until the age of puberty. after
which it remains unchanged. Members
IF a family have a kind of common
odor, which persists even when they
nave lived apart for long time.
Major General Crease of the British
-oyal marine artillery has devised p
lew scheme for the coast defense %
Britain. His plan is to build IS float
ng batteries of II. 500 tons each 7thiekly
trmored from deck to keel so as to be
practically torpedo-proof. but of such
light draught that they can fight in
shallow waters. They are to be armed
ach with Is heavy guns in four two
tory turrets. and manned by naval
militia. He would have. besides, nine
battleship exterminators." armored
lestroyers of great speed. supplied with
ram. torpedo tubes and light guns.
'he cost would be 800. 100000 General
,rease is now on the retired list.