The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1905-12-18
SOME cURl0S AND ODDITIES
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Physicians. said one of them. are
not mereenary. They could make
oceans of moTey~if they cared to stoop
little, but they remain upright. Look
al the case Of the barking cat.
The barking cat?'
Yes. DelarmeFs barking cat You
know Delarmel, the French laryngOlo-
gist2 No2
Well, Delarmel, to prove certain
claim OF his. operated on n cats vocal
cords and larynx in such way a. 70
cause the animal TO bark like 2 dog.
The singular freak attracted no great
attention among scientists, but show
men from ali parts of the world be-
sieged Delarmel. imploring him 10
make barking cats for them.
a cat furiously and hoarsely bark
ing would be a strange. attractive
sight and one that would prove 2 splen-
did drawing card for showmen. These
men accordingly offered Delarnel sums
from 800 to 81 600 for barking cats, He
could have sold undoubtedly 1000 OF
them at $500 apiece For the rect 0f
his life he could have kept probably
employed at this work, buying ordin-
airy eats for n dime or so and turning
them out bankers as valuable IS
horses.
Delarmel. though. would not stoop.
He only MADE one barking cat. and
that has been dead now for two years.
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Il have taken part as a representa-
tive OF the insurance underwriters In
the investigation Of 400 shipwrecks-
Most of these wrecks are due 10 run
ming aground. The causes of wrecks
are drink. fogs, neglect to use the
sounding lead and unknown currents
The speaker was q bronzed ex-skip-
per He went on:
Tire most dangerous waters lie on
the east coast Of England, Cape Ushant
and Cape Finistere.
Sin the past the shifting Of the CARGO
caused q good many wrecks. but the
adoption Of feed pipes has changed all
that. Cargoes liable to shift consist oil
wheat iron ore. coal and so on. Great
feed pipes, filed with part Of such car
goes. now run down into the hold. and
if the cargo shifts at all the pipes auto
matically pour more cargo into the
space that has been made vacant.
"On a wild part OF the South Amer
lean coast a four-master loaded with
high-heeled French shoes was once
wrecked The native Indians stole the
shoes. but couldn't wear them. They
used them instead for boxing gloves,
giving each other terrible taps with the
French heels"
"Jacobites still remain in England.
said an ANTIQUARIAN. "These men don
believe in the reigriuG house OF Guelph.
They want to see the descendants OF
Janes II put back on the throne.
"Jacobites to express their scOrn and
hatred. of the peresent royal family. al
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upside down. That you see, is gross
Insult to the portrait on each stamp.
''ln England you rarely get letter
with an upside down stamp OF II, for
loyal Englishmen affix their stamps
with reverent precision always. When
YOU do get such a letter, rest assured
il from a discontinued Jacobite.
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1--WE ell are sprung from D'asm.
said a nature student. Why Should
il be strange. then, 10 discover that
animals not less than ourselves, have
industries and trades?
There are. for instance, birds that
sew. The tailor birds not only sew
they make their own thread, too. Upon
theIr beaks they weave into thread
suiderweb and bits of wool and cotton
Then the male pierces with his bill two
rows of holes in the big, tough Leaf
that has been chosen for a nest. re
stands on one side of this leaf. ms
mate on the other. and as one pushes
the thread into the hole the other pulis
it through. The leaf is sewed into me
form of a bag and that is the tailor
birds nest. =,
The sponge crab also is tailor j
makes for itself a coat out Of sponge
4 Frenchman. NJ. 'Herculats' re-
moved the sponge from one Of these
crabs. substituting a piece Of WhlL'
cloth. The crab took 10 the cloth KIND
IN. 1t made forthwith crude Whlt'
overcoat with four sleeves for its claws
and chief fiippers. ,..,,
"There are fish that are huntsneh
They XIII flies by shooting at theli
with great force a globule OF water.
"There are farming ants-they TalS
mushrooms and rice. There are hotei
keeplng mussels-they have IN theii
shells q small compartment that Is al
ways occupied by pea crap. Ihei,
are candie-making birds-to Keep on
snakes they stick every night dozel
drefies in a lump of soft clay III Iront
OF their nests
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