The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1900-11-15
CURIOUS INFORMATION.

The EXPRESSION. "robbing Peter to pay
Paul" had It's origin in the rivalry exist
ing between Westminster Abbey. formerly
ST Peters cathedral. and st. PauIS ca
UheuTai in London. In loo there was d
deficiency in the treasury of St. PAU ;,
and an appropriation or money DelOhSlIiS
TO St Peters was made to cover the de
ficiency. The people who were aXerse 70
ne action asked me question, W ny LQp
St Peters to pay St. Pauls? When w IL
liam Pitt died the question of where he
should be buried, whether at St, Peter
or St. PaUTs, again put the question INTO
the mouths OF the English people
At Windsor Castle one of the. most
charming apartments Is the queens Dou-
dOir which is upholstered IN req daHl5SA
and gold On the door is written, IN her
najeSty's own beautiful and neat. sym
metrical handwriting Every aTJlcIe ~
this room my deeply-iamented husDahd
selected for me in the twenty-fOurth year
of my reign" Medallion portraits OF all
the kings and queens of England since the
conquest are hung around the wide bay
window in this room, which commands
one of the most magnificent views IN the
country Recently the queen mas L Iaht =, Il
to having her pet birds in her own private
apartments and in this particular bou-
DOR are kept bulhnch ana uhheI
which her majesty bought year OF Two
ago. The queen has great fOndness
for these birds. which are under the eX-
press care of d special attendant
When pins were first invented, in the
fourteenth century, the maker was al
lowed to sell them on the LIST and I'd OF
January only. and upon these days the
ladies f1ocked to buy them. They were
so expensive that it was customary TO
give as a wedding present a certain sum
of money to be used as pm money
hence the term
The largest toy factory in the world is
in New York where pIaythings in tin are
r1an11f7ctured literally by the million. Il
stands five stories high, and turns out
1917 distinct varieties in tin toys. No. 1
is a tin horse, 1907, "A tin menagerle- ne
output of circular tin whistles Is Z.Vejt .
per annum. To make a tin horse twelve
inches long dies have TO be cast costing
els The children of different countries
have different tastes, but tin swords are
' wanted all over the world. the military
il s Iuct being as universal in tn nurseries
as in the courts and cabinets OF the World
The oldest dressmaker's bill was found
TN the ruins of q temple of inc City OF
Nipur and can not be less than $. 40 years
old 1t contains the names OF ninety-tw5
vestmentS given to the temDle by the king
of BabylOnia. Among the items are
twelve white robes of the temple, eight
robes of the house of his lady, ten collars
OF the house OF his lady. ten pure golC
collars. two white robes and four scented
robes" 1t was no doubt the custom II
RabvIOnia to scent the robes. The dOCu
ment shows what great development there
was at that early date in the textile
fabrics of Chaldea.
It is not generally known that in France
It Is d penal offeuse TO give any form o.
solid food to babies under q year old, un
less it be prescribed in writing by rTOD
erIy qualified medical man. NursF- ar
also forbidden o use TOT theiT. charges an
sort OF feeding bottle having Tubbe
tube These and other equally stringen
laws have recently been enacted by TN
French government, for, in despair of IN
CTeasiug the birth rate OF their country
they are now doing their utmost 20 saw
the lives of the comparatively small mum
Der OF babies who are born.
There is really but one place in tn
world where Vfolius are made extensive
~ That place is INSTRUMENTATION, Wit
: eether about 1890 people living there VII
) do nothing else but make violinS. III
! inha bitants from the little urchin to tn
old gray-headed man, the small girl an
! the old grandmother, all are engaged !
making some part OF a fiddle.
! The star chamber" was so called froI
the Mace i'm which the court was hel
l. tn one of the rooms of the kings palac
: in Westminster Upon the ceilings weT
stars. hence the camera stellata, or chan
/ bar of stars. 1t was of very ancient CT
! igin and had excessive powers, but coul
not pronounce the death penalty 1t wa
; abolished by act Of parliament in 10
- unfortunate monarch was sentenced
r be beheaded from this same star chan
ber "
I The towers of silence" are two ia
r towers in Persia. so called by the Pa
d sees. They never bury the dead, bl
! leave the body exposed on the top
! one Of these towers until the sun and II
! rain and the fowls of the air have clea,
/ ed the bones of all flesh. Then the bone
are collected and placed IN the oth'
. towers. The Parsees are followers
Zoroaster and are very devout, but the