The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1906-02-11
INFORMATION.

a boot-blacking machine has been in
vented
1t is said that I'm Australia there is {
regular tralilc in lending engagement
rings,
In most japanese mills tho hours ar,
from a. m TO p. m, and there is nj
SUNDAY of,
When the lofty palm tree of Teilan put,
forth Its flowers the sheath bursts with g
report like pistol
The natives In China eat very little
butchers meat. except pork Poultry 1,
abundant, also game.
There are more accidental deaths from
drowning every year in most countries
than from any other cause.
An elephant has so delicate a sense OF
smell that when IN n Wild state II can
scent an enemy at distance of l00i
yards.
Londons Lord Mayors have. during the
past decade, collected more than 500 COZ
o." for charitable and benevolent pur-
poses
Il costs London 500 a year to educate a
child I'm school, In Germany the average
cost is about SH I'm New York about $31.
Cork though the most buoyant sub
stance, viii not rise to the surface again
NJ sunk 100 feet below the oceans surface
owing to the great pressure of the water.
homlng pigeon, five months old at
the time, was released on the Isle of Man
In August 1893 IL was long ago given
up for lost. At last II has returned to
its loft in Liverpool.
The British naval officers who helped
entertain the French feet recently nj
Portsmouth expected to receive crosses
from the French Government, but they
received only souvenir paper knives.
After thirteen years spent In it's con-
struction. the new Croton dam is com
pleted II Will hold 100000 600 600 gallons
This Is enough to supply New York CITY
for 100 days without drawing on any
other supply.
1t is believed that piecc OF wood un-
earthed in eycavating for the foundation
CT big office building, near the lower
end OF Manhattan island. must have
come from a tree which stood where New
York is now, before the glacial period in
North America,
In the unending controversy as to the
reasoning powers Of animals tho weight
of numbers inclines more and more
against the eminent naturalsts who hold
with John Burroughs that instinct is
nearly tho sole guide and reason plays an
extremely small part
Mohammed Ben Terna, young Moor
iSh Srandee. has gone mad from unavail-
Ing efforts to keep three wives together
I'm peace and seclusion In a fiat In Paris.
Mohammed goes TO an asylum and his
wives go back to Tangier
II Is true that 60 per cent of the deaths
among the Sioux and Yankton Indians
now are from tuberculosis and 1t is also
unknown among the Indians. and has
fastened upon them only since the COM
ing OF tho white man to Dakota.
The longest bridge in the world is that
crossing the Danube at Cgcrnavoda, with
length OF l205 feet; followed next by
the Galveston bay bridge. in Texas. with
ll,l9l feet The Firth of Forth bridge,
near QucensprIng, In Scotland. ranks
eighth, and the Brooklyn bridge ninth
Henry Hearthfeld of Cardiff. Wales.
was accused OF stealing lead from a roof,
and broke jail and fed. After he had
Travelled 260O0 miles he surrendered and
was tried on the charge of theft and ac-
quilted, But he was held for trial for
escaping from prison
a Nlenncse. whose larynX was cut out
for cancer, has invented n speaking pipe
with artificial vocal chords, which he In
scrts In his throat when he wishes to
speak He spoke before the Vlennese
Medical society at It's last meeting. The
voice is n high falsctto. but what he said
was easily understood.
In an attempt to liquefy helum Prof.
Olszewski recently produced the remark