The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1898-10-09

and these, decorated with the views of
Buckingham palace, are printed in COL
ors.
Peter Murray died at Wichita, Kan,
at the age of "a years. He had IA chill
dren, so grandchildren, 32 great grand
children, and two great great-grand-
children. Eleven of his children, five
sons with their wives, and six daugh-
tiers with their husbands, attended the
funeral.
Randolph H. Waters, an inmate of
the Soldiers Home at Leavenworth,
Kan, visited a cemetery at Elmwood.
grave which was supposed to be his.
His sister had placed the headstone
over the grave two years ago. Waters
ran away from home at the beginning
of the civil war, and after it was over
he went west.
A curious tax on the childless has
been resorted to in NADIA gascar in or
der to keep up the now waning popu-
lation With the beginning of next
year every man of % years who is not
a father of a child, whether legitimate
or illegitimate, will have to pay an an
nual tax of SO, while single or childless
women over % years will have to Da-'
half that amount.
~
eign of the Congo Free State, has given
orders Cor, the construction Of a tele-
graph line from Lake Tanganyika to
Nyangwe, on the upper Congo. From
the latter place the line will be con-
tinued along the river bank to Stanley
Falls. where it will connect with the
telegraph to BonSa and the <ower Con-
90. Another line will be -un from Stan
ley Falls, following. the course of the
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Nile.
The people Of Honolulu are very
much interested in a natural curiosity
which there exists in the shape of an
algaroba bush. or honey MESQUITE,
which is growing upside down. This
remarkable plant is the property of G.
B. Reynolds, who drove an algaroba
branch into the ground, small end first,
as a support for a vine. To his sur
Prise the branch threw out other
branches and leaves, all inclined toward
the ground, and it is still growing lux
uriantly.
John w. Bookwalter, the millionaire
manufacturer of Springfield, o., writes
to a friend there that while at Ricti
in the Apprentices, recently, he had a
narrow escape from death in an earth
quake, which almost destroyed the
place. The shock was more severe than
any felt since the twelfth century. Sew
eral mountain villages were badly shat
tered. and some lives were lost. Mr..
Bookwalter left Ricti an hour before
the hotel where he stayed was shaken
into ruins.
Bangor, Me-, has a tramp dog that is
a traveller like the late dog Owney. This
dog is a long, lean hound, owned by
c.. F. Shepley He will not stay in his
for hi hfIt ho re :
per offices and the police station, and
when tired of Bangor gets on the Erst
train he sees and Journeys over the
state. He always rides in a seat until
made to get down, and invariably aD-
plies at railroad restaurants for food.
Dewey CHATS his nance never gets
lost, but after a week or so on the road,
heads back to Bangor again as if he
knew the way.
A movement has been started in IN
dia TO change the name ''Pariah'' to
''Panchama." According to the Afriti
Bazaar Patrika, pariah means zone who
beats the tom-tom, ''Ssvhile panchama
means "a member of the fifth caste"
the innovators attaching their euphem-
ism to the four classes of Maria, the
Brahmins, Kshatriyahs, Vaisyas and
Sudras. The great majority of the
PariahS, however, prefer to retain their
old name. The Eurasians. it is said.
do not like their name and think their
condition would be improved by the
change.
Major General Crease Of the British
Royal Marine Artillery, has devised a
new scheme for the coast defense OF
Britain. His plan is to build Is float
ing batteries of II 800 tons each, thickly
armored from deck to keel, SO as to be
practically torpedo-proof, but of such
light draught that they can fight in
shallow water. They are to be armed
each with 16 heavy guns Sn four two
story turrets, and manned by naval
militia. He would have besides nine
''battleship exterminators," armored
destroyers of great speed supplied with
a ram, torpedo tubes and light guns.
The cost would be 500, 900, 900.