Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1909-04-17

the veins and arteries so supple and
free running that there can DO no
cloggin- mp, and hence there IS no
deposit OF challSy matter around the
joints or of poisonous waste I'm the
muscles. IL is the stiofening and hard
ening OF the blood vessels which bring
on old age.
Forests cover one-tenth OF the sur
face Of the world and ono-quarter ot
Europe.
Two thousand yards was tho utmost
range Of the fifty two hundrodweiEht
guns used az the battle OF Trafalgar
II IS calculated that by 1850 there
VIII be no coal left iu Britain within
1000 feet Of the surface.
Seventy thousand tons OF cork ara
used yearly for bottllng beer and min
cral waters In England
The longest recorded hair from a
woman's head is eight feet, but a hsiI
twelve feet long has been noted IN
mans beard.
Fifty-four gallons out OF every hun.
dred OF Loudon's water supply come
from the Thames and twenty-five gal-
Ions from tho Lea.
Cabbage, like all vegetables which
have been cultivated from remote
times, Is believed TO be Of Europeau
origin.
An air gun Of large size. working on
the principle Of tho pneumatic ham-
mer. has been devised for killing ami.
mails in a humane manner.
Louisiana has 100000 acres n
marsh lands which. II properly treated,
would exhibit great fertility.
Some Of the cities Of Florida are al.
most entirely dependent on cisterns f0f
water supply, and q has been realized
lately that these tanks must furnish a
favorable place for the propagation 81
mosquitoes. one of the suggested
means OF conducting warfare against
the pest consisted Of stocking these
reservoirs with small fish 90 feed on
the mosquito larvae.
The first attempt 70 steer a ball0On
was made I'm Paris I'm 1854
OF the 5sS locomotives I'm Roumanis
427 use petroleum for fuel
Electrically heated plates, operated
by levers, are the principal feature ID
a new clothes pressing device.
In new electric device for drying
tho hair with an air blast a resistant,
can be switched in Tor heating On,
hair
At Tule. IN tho courtyard OF tht
Church OF Santa Maria. IS the great
Iule tree. The tree Is fourteen feet Ia
SIX feet from the
ground. More than a hundred year
ago. whom Humboldt was travellnl
through Mexico, he cut out a secuor
If the bark and in IL anixed "a tablet
bearing an inscription dedicated 10 The
rec. This tablet can still be seen. all
.hough nearly covered by bark
or 100000 miners employed in tht
world. 100000 are English or citizeni
,f the United states
Tho world produces $4,000. 900 tons ri
'ottou "a year. 100000 of which CONT
rom America aad 100000 from ln-
lia
Two hundred and hfty-ninc On oyerJ
thousand Of tho worlds population owl
King Edward VII as sovereign.
Passenger locomotives in Europe eau
'n am average Oh pence per milo run
hose Tor merchandise 90 pence pei
nile
a three months old oyster is the si"
N shilling at six months % is as bg
s half crown, but an oyster Ia not
n 90 eat until 70 iH four years old
ln London 900 600 persons are lyini
moro than two in room and 26o1t
iN on more Boa room.
Tho first submarine cable was laId 10
august, 1850, between Dover and CAPT
.r'sucz
Am oak trco at "a hundred years avsf'
ges forty-onc inches in diameter
arch forty inches. an elm huy inches
ma yew nine inches
An Bouaparte'H wars cost France
My $4,000 600 Th. Crimo1n WA
ost Dor to300O.O00 mo Fwnco-Gor'
nan f3iG.OOO.OOO
During tho last century Gralt hIl'
in ana ireland lost 9.bG0000 people
81 emigration Next comes Germany
'th O. loss of 5.C10O0O. ana then lialy
lth 358OO0O
ln "a hundred Br.tona you VIII mig
My foriy-throo llght complexion"
gainht On dark The other siH a"
ad haired.
Bears arc liable to ta1ation in som'
ipauoso villages The origin of ono
lrlous custom ia unknown.
The Sydney lighthouse has the mos
oworiul light of any 10 is clocnh
ld OF 10000 candle power. NJ can Pc
'ou for nfIy miles