The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1900-02-07
QUAINT AND CURIOUS.

Up to 1752 the 18th of March was the
beginning of the legal year. though the
lst Of January was universally recognized
as New Years day.
A tenement hOusa census in Brooklyn
shows that 574959 inhabitants of that
borough live in 31.6S7 tenement houses
an average Of eighteen persons to each
house
From Corfe Castle to Bournemouth
West Cliff English military men have
passed acetyien0 gas signals a distance of
twelve miles. the messages being clear
TO the naked eve.
German authorities made test of the
nutritive value of bread for soldiers, using
twenty-fOUr different kinds, from fine
-four to coarse meal and found the coars-
er bread much interior in results.
In German cities merchants are not al
lowed to put up selling out" signs unless
they are honest. In Mayence d fine Of 800
marks IS inflicted for every transgTession
Of this law.
The age Of the decease of philosophers
was: SpinOZa. a, Descartes. So: hegel
81; Aristotle, %; Socrates, IS; Leibnitz 20;
Linnaeus, 20; COpernicus, 20; Calico IS;
Kant. 70, Plato, 81; Newton, 81; Humboldt
Girls working in the match factories
Of England become permeated with the
chemicals and minerals used. The sulphur
sometimes eats their jaws in the most
painful and disgusting way. Their wages
average S1.5G a week
soap enough to supply 10000 for one
year has recently arrived in Denver in one
load. II was carried in a special train Of
fOrty-flve carloads and if stacked up.
one bar on top of another. this soap
would make a pile over 135 miles high.
A very yaluable book is Hebrew
Bible in the vatican In 1872 the Hebrews
tried TO buy it of Pope Julius II for its
weight in gold It is so large and heavy
that two men can hardly lift il, and it
would have brought 500 600.
The Austrian emperOrs crown was
recently Photographed in order to correct
imperfect representations Of it on coins
and otficl II documents. The crown is re-
gard6d s one of the finest works of Eur
opean gClcsniIhs. The material alone is
worth s5040o1
An English commission is busily en-
gagged III Investigating and preparing a
report on the automatic coupling Of rail-
ROAD cars as the percentage Of injury and
death caused by tho present system has
been so great a reform il the system has
been demanded.
Manchester and the people Of England
Will feel the pinch Of southern competition
long before Fail River and Providence.
Ihere are 100000 spindles in the word
OF these y, 10000 are in the United tSates
and S55Oo0e are in the southern states.
When the Beers modified their forces
It is said that they only called out the first
levy Of men, between Is and "a. some 2. 900
In all The second levy would consist of
those between 35 and so The third levy
would sweep in everybody else capable
OF bearing arms.
Highland seems to be a popular name
for a railway station among the noun
tains of Africa. There is a Highland sta
ton in Natal. There is another one of
the same name in kaffirland, on the line
between Port Elizabeth and Grahamston.
beyond Alicedale Junction.
Within the next five years Missouri
will startle the world. prCphesies State
GeolOgist Gallagher, in a recent inter-
vie>r. with the great ambuut of leao.
zine. copper. nickel, cobalt and coal mined
in the state. Missouri is rich in these
minerals. the richest of any state in the
country.
Before the Irish Inland fisheries COM
mission one witness said he was convinced
that irish salmon was sold in the London
market as Scotch. Irish salmon was
about the best 10 be got. and the Scotch
men knew that, and consequently sold
Irish as Scotch to get a good name for
their own fish.