The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1898-09-15
CURIOUS COMBINATIONS.

sumo $4,000, 900 bushels of wheat.
Last winter Andrew Burns of Ore
| gon was frozen and lost an arm by
amDutation. A few weeks ago while
| hunting in forest he was overcome
with heat, from the effect of which he
! died. His body was found four days
later guarded by his dog.
The I'll Trovatore" wheel, made in
/ Germany, has a musical continuance
/ fixed 10 the handlebar and worked by
| the front wheel, and plays over 900
/ tunes 1t can be stopped by spring
and set on again for half an hour, and
so on. ed infinitum. until the machine
wears out.
| The largest bog in Ireland is the Bog
| Of Allan, which stretches across the
center of the island. east of the Shan
non, and covers nearly $4,000 acres. AL
/ together there are nearly 100000 acres
of bog in Ireland-that is to say, about
one-seventh OF the total area OF the
country is bog.
Elevators have now been rendered
safe IN case of fall by means Of air
cushions. An elevator in the Empire
building, New York, was allowed re-
J Gently 70 fall 20 stories The fall OF 800
feet did not break eggs lying on a
marble slab in the middle OF the car
nor spill water from glass.
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palace, which is now 1870 years old,
having been planted in 1868, shows no
| falling off in fertility, and contains L.
200 punches of fruit. The grapes are
| just beginning to ripen, and in about
a weeks time the fruit, which is sent
to the queen for use at her table, Will
be fully matured.
At Dunworley bay, County Cork,
they are diving for Spanish pirate
I -. \
black slave, the only person saved, told
of gold and other treasure on board,
and from time 10 time -rinkets have
been washed ashore. Twelve cannon
and some coins have been raised al
ready, and the divers hope to reach
the treasure soon.
DR.. Smiles tells us that his well
known book, Self Help" was so con-
temDtuously refused by he first pub
Usher to whom he offered it that he
put q away in his desk for years. He
brought it out again after he had
made a reputation by another book;
and about 100000 copies have been sold
in Great Britain alone, while IL has
been translated into II languages
Health Commissioner Reynolds of
Chicago has informed the fruit dealers
of that city that the ordinance pro-
hibiting the covering of fruit exposed
lBI safe WIN GOlOitQ VI liz
use OF any other device which may
tend to deceive purchasers, will hence
forth be enforced strictly and i'm
partially. The city authorities tried to
enforce {. last year and failed.
Mons in Belgium, apparently by the
well known computation of interest on
4 penny put in the savings banks by
Adam, has decided to present to every
child born in the town, savings bank
book, with one franc rredited in 1t,
which is never to be touched. The OBJ
ject is to encourage saving. Many
Belgium towns are making ready to
follow the example of Mons.
1t is said that wonderful shaving
machine CT wood has been made by one
MelchioT Farkas, convict in the peni-
Tertiary of the city of Szegedin, Hun
gary. Farkas was put 10 labor in the
cabinet making shop of the prison.
where he soon displayed great inven-
tive ingenuity. With his machine he is
said to have shaved all the inmates of
the prison, nearly $50 in number. in
rather less than an hour.
Police Commissioners Jones and
Johnson of Atlanta, Ga, will present
fine gold medal to the policeman of that
city who shall give the best answer to
the inquiry: What constitutes a good
policeman" The answer is to be in
not more than 90 words, and it is be-
lieved that, aside from the entertain
ment that will be afforded. the novel
contest will be the means of bringing
out some thoughts and expressions
which may be of benefit to the police
department.
Mattapoisett, the old shiDbuilding
town of Plymouth county, Massachu-
sets, is to be connected by trolley with
neighboring villages. rs there no old
town sacred from the invasion of the
motorman?" asks a New England jour
nal. Eff attapoisett-quaint, pretty,
pious, teetotally abstinent and colon
tally artistic Mattapoisett-is TO have
trolley cars running through its streets,
ere long they will be turning Independ-
enoe hall, Philadelphia, into a depart
ment store"
A very unique collection of royal
hair is the latest temptation which is
being placed in the way of the eurios-
ity hunter in London. "A few hairs
from the head and beard of Edward
" (whose locks, it will be remembered
figured not long since in the same auc-
ton room taken from the vault on
March a. 1888" and specimens of the
hair of Napoleon, of Princess Char
lotte of Wales, and of George III, to-
gether with a small portion of the cere-
the attractions.
At an ancient church at Valsbol, in
Russia, it has been customary for the
congregation to turn TO a blank wall
and bow reYerently before leaving the
church. Why they did this nobody
knew, except that their foFefathers
had done so, and had handed down the
custom. In making some repairs re-
Gently the origin of the custom was dis
covered, for beneath many layers of
whitewash and paint a picture was
found of the Virgin Mary, which must
have stood out brilliantly on this wall
five or six centuries ago.
With the French sense of fitness a
bull fight was gotten up recently for the
benefit OF the Bourgogne sufferers at
Toulon Four thousand people crowded
into the bull ring, and after waiting for
an hour and half were informed that
the managers of the entertainment had
with the entrance money,
and that the bull fighters would not
fight until they were paid. The spec
tators thereupon began to tear down
the woodwork of the building and set
it on fire, and there was a panic in
which women and children were tram
pied under foot.
There is one collection of garters in
and another in the north Of
England. In one there are some 200
examples, classified into two sections
the curious and the historical, One of
the most interesting of the latter class
is a faded garter of green silk, sewn
with a design of hearts and diamonds
in gold thread, which is reputed to have
80,