The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1899-12-03
QUAINT AND CURIOUS.

I
Armagh is said to be the apple or
chard of Ireland.
A color expert declares that pure
white flower does not exist.
The importation of wood pulp into
Italy is greatly on the increase.
Six thousand S panish immigrants
have arrived il Cuba during the past
three months.
Cement is used in France to protect
iron railway bridges. from the fumes
of locomotives =
Fully 100000 domestic animals, vail
ued at Sc, 000, 600, are annually devoured
by. the wolves in Russia.
! The fifth centenary of Gutenberg's
birthday is to be celebrated with great
splendor at Mayence next June.
Fried wasp soup is considered a
great delicacy in China 1t is stated
that it is quite an acquired taste.
For the last ten years there has been
an increase of 1000 annually in the
number of Great Britains insane.
The juice of the mulberry was at one
time declared to be sovereign remedy
for govt and rheumatic affections.
Nine columns in the great hall of the
famous temple at Karnak, on the site
of ancient Thebes, have fallen down.
1t is said that property to the value
of over goo, 900 is left in the railway
carriages of Great Britain every year.
"Peggoty's Hut" at Yarmouth. made
famous through Dickens David Cop
perfield,' is about to be sold at auc-
ton.
In Surrey. Eng, there is a great
poultry fattening establishment. which
annually sends about 10000 fowls to
London.
An analyst has made the discovery
that California roses contain 20 per
cent more perfume than those grown
elsewhere.
One test for distinguishing diamonds
from glass and paste is to touch them
with the tongue. The diamond feels
much the colder.
Withdrawals of money from the
trustee savings banks of France DUR
ing the first nine months of 1899 ex-
ceeded deposits by S11,250.000.
Norway supplied Great Britain with
twice as much ground wood pulp last
year as the United States, Canada,
Sweden and Holland combined
A London man. arrested for burglary,
was found to be wearing three over
coats, a morning coat. a golf jacket
a tweed suit, and four pairs of trousers.
One of the most valuable timber
trees in the great northwest, the red
cedar, grows 10 a maximum height of
300 feet and diameter of fourteen
feet.
In Boston the other day a man who |
had been arrested on a charge of nom |
support was fined $50, and his neglect |
ed wife secured his release by paying |
that amount
Some students of the Chicago uni |
are going down into the noun
tain regions of Kentucky to study the |
peculiar sociological conditions that |
prevail there.
The artillery and cavalry horses of |
the Beers have all been inoculated |
against the .tse1se fly and rhiDder-
pest, both of which are apt to play
havoc with green horses in that dis
trict.
There are AGO millions of people in the
British empire. 1t is said that the
queen would have to iivI another sew
enty years to enable her to see them all
pass before her night and DAY for all
that time.
So far as known, the flag of the
rransvaal. the South African republic.
ices not fly over any vessel. no mat
er how small. land that country, with
he Orange Free State. is entirely
without navy.
1t is a curious fact that Queen Vic
oria should have an equal number of
and great-grandchildren
-thirty-two of each-which. together
With her seven children. makes the
number of her descendants seventy
me.
) While the infant mortality in Sweden
md Norwa-r is not over IL per cent il
Uses in the German empire to % and in
nc Bavarian highlands to 40 per cent.
The italian minister of public in
truction wants TO introduce an "arbor
lay on which everyone should make
n effort TO plant some trees on bar
en- mountains.