The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1898-09-19
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Out in Kansas, William Office has just
been elected sheriff.
The cheapest rate of postage in Europe
is that of France.
The maximum annual rainfall at Ma
Mia is 1O2 inches the minimum 50.
Last year there were only IS deaths
from smallpox in the SO great cities of
and %, respectively, in the four preceding
years.
One hundred and nine thousand loco
motives are at present running in various
600, Asia $500, Australia 1000 and Africa
100.
An ambulance cycle has been invented
b. a Berlin doctor. 1t is a litter resting
on two wheels at one end and attached
to an ordinary tricycle. at the other, and
is worked by two men.
The Murray City (KyQ council has
passed this ordinance: IF any person
shall tie or faSten any rattle-boX or SIM
liar continuance to any dog or other ami
NAL within the city of Murray he shall
be fined ST.
The council of state of the Hawaiian
government has just held an amnesty
session" at which it pardoned over 200
fences of five years or less. Many of
these We're political prisoners.
Frances imprimerie rationale is pre-
pairing as show piece for the exhibition
of 1890 The e. History Of French Printing Thg
turtles by A. Claudin, with loo plates
of reproductions from rare books.
Omitting Herr and 'sHochwohlge-
b'oren" in addressing an official in writ
ing is no longer an insult in Germany, as
these words form no part of any legal
title. This is the decision the appeal
court of the empire at Leipzig has been
obliged to render in a recent case.
Austria's kreuser is doomed. It was
wit G-ax ms q
on July l, and will not be accepted even
by the government after Dec. 81, 1899. The
coin has been in existence since the fif-
teenth century and took its name from
the cross marked upon it.
A Kansas volunteer wrote home the
other day that Uncle Sam is feeding his
soldiers "a lot better than the farmers
of Kansas feed their hands," and that
the fellows who do the kicking probably
want to make it appear that they "are
plutocrats at home and had pie all the
time
AS the Sag Harbor Corrector tells the
story. a native of the village, accosting a
well-known banker having a summer res
idence there, exclaimed: See here l was
told you called me the biggest fool in
the place." Not at ALL" responded the
banker. as he resumed his way, 81 don t
limit you.
1t is related at Chickamauga that
when the news of the destruction of Ger
vera's fleet reached camp one of the
hospital. He had got as far as the state
ment that the Brooklyn had been hit 45
times when a fever patient, a little out of
his head shouted: Good Lord! Who
pitched for BROOKLYN
There are some circumstances under
which girl is very willing to admit she
has sweetheart. observes the Kansas
City Journal. "At a church social in
lady said: Now, all you girls who have
sweethearts in the army come forward
and wait on the tables 1t is related that
every girl in the room rushed to the
'front.'
1t is claimed for the Washington artil-
lery of New Orleans, La. which was or
ganized III 1916, that it is the oldest artil-
lery organization in the United States. 1t
was the first in the south to tender its
services to the government in the war
with Mexico, and on the day after ac-
ceptance 1t was ready. 1t now is COM
posed of five batteries, with a total Of
about $50 men.
According to an opinion just handed
down by the supreme court of New
Hampshire, municipal ordinances COM
polling citizens TO keep sidewalks in front
of their residences clear from snow are
unconstitutional. The enforcement of
such ordinances is held to be virtually
double taxation, and, therefore, in direct
violation of the constitution of the United
States.
Germany's oldest student corps, the
Onoldia of Erlangen. has just celebrated
the hundredth anniversary of its founda-
ton when a society building costing $12,-
900 was dedicated. The German consul
general in New York Mr.. A. Feigel, is a
graduate member of the corps. The name
is taken from Onoldsbach, the early name
of the town and margravate of AuSpach,
now a part of Bavaria
Bismarck's career. says the New York
Tribune, was a series of battles; first,
for the Prussian crown against repub-
licanism; next for the Prussian crown
Arrcr Co. frr- h.
crown against the vatican and finally
for the German crown against political
factions and socialist tendencies. From
first to last he wore the uniform of the
king man.
The question of distinguishing marks
on ballots is to be brought before the SUI
preme court in Massachusetts in a case
arising in Wellesley, where two ballots
were rejected, one of which had a ring
instead of a cross before the name, and
the other a name written without
cross, and one ballot was counted on
which the mark was made with a blue
pencil. This action decided the election
of member of the board of education
Since Mr.. Gladstones death, Mrs Glad
stone and the family have received many
thousands of kilograms, letters and reso-
buttons expressing sympathy. OF these a
large proportion are from public repre-
sentative bodies. 1t is proposed to class
fly and index the majority of them.
probably in book form, for private circu-
lation, on account of the extreme interest
of such a record and often. striking char
acter and composition of many of the