The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1905-08-07
SOME cURIos AND ODDITIES
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The Danish method would do away
with a great deal Of drunkenness, said
a woman with a white ribbon fixed 10
her breast.
THE Danish method? What is that?'
In Denmark" was the answer,
when a drunken man comes forth
from a saloon or a cafe he Is at once
put into a cab and driven home, and
the cabman's bill is paid by the liquor
dealer from whose house the man is
sued Any liquor dealer who allows a
man to depart from his establishment
in an intoxicated condition is COM
PEELED by the Danish law to pay that
mans cab fare home.
The Danes, in consequence, are a
sober people"
a clerk in the department OF agricul-
ture said:
so you think that scientific farming
is = blur? You demand some illustra-
tons OF the good that is accomplished
by the scientific method! Very well.
when clover was first introduced
into Australia il grew there beautiful
", but il never seeded. The soil was
all right The climate WAS all right.
W mat then, was the trouble2
"A scientist studied the matter and
this is what he found:
He found that the native Australian
bees had tongues too short TO reach the
cloVer's pollen-forTning organs. These
IN the heart OF the tube-lf<e petals and
they can only be fertilized by the long
tongued bunlblebee. II red clover is NOT
visited by bumblebees, who bear the
golden pollen grains from one blossom
10 another, II never seedS-it cannot be
grown The scientist aware OF the
fact, soon put his finger on the barren
Australian ciover's trouble. He import
ed a lot OF long-tongued bumblebees,
these bees hourished. and Immediately
yr~f eI, had sol
to be a failure, became one Of the cOun-
try's richest and finest crops
During my stay in Gambia" said
the sailor. the king was taken sick.
He rolled all over the mud floor of the
royal kraal, he groaned and swore. and
he clutched his TAT stomach with both
hands He had, it seems, a cramp
Gambia is on the African west coast
and the people there are primitive
When the medicine-man arrived to
treat the king 1 went into the kraaI
behind him, being anxious TO see what
Gambian prescription would be like.
THE king stopped rolling about He
lay quite still on his back, His stom-
ach, much swollen. stuck up in the air
and he rubbed it gently with the palm
OF his hand
Do your best for me, father he
says to the physician.
- Have no fear, son. the physician
Then this African n ID. took out a
wooden slate and Il charcoal crayon
and began TO write. Scratch, scratch
scratch. a gay he went. The slate filed
up with fine, close writing.
. Do your best, father repeats the
king.
- spare no palms. says the ply
sician.
What are you writing2' says L.
A prayer for our great kings re-
eovery.' was the answer.
When the slate was full the ply
stefan took some water and washed il
clean. and ne saved all the dirty water
in CUP
In this dirty water hGr says, is
the prayer I have just written. Drink.
my son, the draught. In it the prayer
lives
The king drained the darkish fluid
out OF the cup. Then he sighed and
said L feel better already
The Gambian people told me that
! the drinking of prayers In that way
was the only kind of medical treatment
they ever got.