The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1906-02-18
INFORMATION.

Tea was cultivated In China 200 years bcfor,
| the Christian era.
California hervests about 10000 tons oi
| grapes year, worth N5.OlO,G90
| IL Ia thought that the game OF whist was Arst
played in the time OF King Henry VIII. OF
| England.
The German Government pro0tcd last year
! over sls.Go.cD by Its postal teleernphic ant
| telephone systems.
London motor Lus drivers who avoid acci.
dents for a week receive bonus. They ar,
| fined for accidents.
| Nlne-tcnths Of the peasants in Russia live ir
| To stand in.
There wcrc l.o54. 7s7 deaths from ploguc In
India during 1901. The nGure for 1905 nlsc
! probably comes near 100000,
Experiments are being made at Montrcux
France, With new electric senrchllsht OF 30.
On,c10 candlc-powcr that VIII project rays n.ty
miles.
The earliest election Of which the number
polled have been preserved is that al Lincoln
England, in li17. At this eighty-four voices
We're cast.
In recent years the construction OF railways
proceeded In Germany at the rate Of about
G215 miles year. The entire mileage cx-
cceds at present GI,lS miles.
In the United states O0oo ocrcs OF
peanut land and 10000 pcanutters, Three hun
drcd million pounds OF peanuts. worth Sl Op1,
90 ore produced hero every year.
In The Wisconsin zinc field there thr-
teen magnetic separation plants In operation,
ism Is greatly Increasing tho yield OF zinc in
that district.
The golden crested wren Ia the smallest not
only OF British but or all European birds It's
troy that II would tnkc seventy two OF the
birds 10 weigh a pound.
As negro headed the llst OF olIgIbIes for a
position on tho Seattle police force he was op-
pointed and his appointment has created
some excitement HIS general grade was S9.Z9
and his physical %.
r
Ministry resigned the ChanccllorshIp OF Eng
land. rctrca at the advanced age OF 81 years
on pension of S25.coo after he had received in
sixteen years N,VOGO In salary
Tho curiosity OF a woman. who examined
some colored rock she noticed In San Bcrnnr-
dino county recently. resulted in the unearth-
Ing II n tur1uOis mine. II has Just been sold
for 81. .0ND TO 9, w. Baldwin OF New York
The Youngest king in the world Is DaudI
Chua Of Uganda. Africa, protcctorutc OF
England. He is now about s. and holds court
seated on a scarlet throne with leopard skin
under mis- feet and bearing In his hand toy
gun.
Tho tnlcst building In tho world is bcirg
erected in New Gorl, by life insurance com
pnny IL VIII DO go feet high, fvc feet
higher than the Washington monument and
eighty nvc foct higher than 81 Peters. Rome.
case of widow burning In reported from
Margpur village. I'm the Hurnal district. India.
\ woman who lost her husband two or three
Years ago recently made funeral prrc, set
drc TO It and perishcd In tho flames In the
presence OF lnrgc number OF persons
Arthur Spccl OF GlouccStcr, England. re-
ccived such shcck on hearing OF his fathers
Gsath that hc lost tho power OF spocch E"-
Gently hc went to football game. In hin OK
element lac tried To cheer and succeeded In Jo-
Ing p" flo can speak as hu"nty as over now.
IT H. said that one OF the Duke OF rccks an
ccstors, who charcoal burner pointed
out silver mine to n German Emperor who
bad been driven Into exile WHOM the Kaiser
rcgaIncd his throne with tho MD OF wealth
thus obtained he made tho charcoal burner O
duke,
Australia has adopted the system OF drying
milk which vs. said 10 have bocn very success
hlI in London. England Tho milk Is dried be-
tween steam rollers and sold a powder
from which nothing but water has bson
uactcd and TO which nothing but water