Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1910-06-11
QUEER ODDS AND
ENDS OF LIFE

The record price OF sis was recently
given for butterfly at London auc-
tion room.
The quill pen which DioNens used at
.he villa Les MontincauA, where he
wrote part OF Hard Times" Bleak
House" and Little Dorrit," has been
sold for Cs los
a complete library OF Italian and for
cIsn newspapers from tho earliest times
is to be instituted In Home, and more
than 100000 collections have already
been secured
owing a money lender els a dairy
man was ordered IA the Lincolnshire
county court to pay instalment5 81 Id
month, at which rate Il will require
aeO years to lGudatc the debt
Al Vicksburg. Mississippi, Il million
alre planter named David Baker who
died recently. has left TO three OF his
children equal divisions OF his fortune
and has cut on "A fourth with the sum
OF s.. because this son did not believe
in tho Bible as a divlnely inspired
book.
According 60 an official return the
net rateable value OF city property In
the parish OF the city OF London" is
E5.479,j7s. In addition. the ned rateable
values of the Middle Temple and the
Inner Temple are respectively glass;
and G25,243. The area Is only a square
mile
II is estimated that woman who
has Just died at the Hackney Union in
firmary East London. where she had
been an inmate for 70 years. cost the
guardians near q 800 she suffered
from decisions, one OF which was that
she owned the workhouse.
A new method OF raising money for
foreign missions has been tried with
success by lady who resides I'm the
far north or Scotland. She Travelled
during the summer In Austria, GER
many and Holl ma. and had Kept
Journal during her travels on return
Ing home she Invited her friends TO
hear the diary read aloud, charging
sixpence 10 each person for admission.
one Of the quaintest railway stations
I'm the kingdom is Langford. on the
Witham q Maldon Essex branch
line The sole staff consists Of an aged
of station master for many years.
Her cottage, situated In garden, is
also the booking office: a small wooden
shed on the single narrow platform
represents the waiting room ana
trains stop only when there are pas
sengers to take up or set down
BY an official decree issued not long
ago every COW in Belgium must wear
earrings. This docree embraces all
animals OF the bovine species that have
attained the age OF three months ana
is based on hygienic grounds. Belgian
breeders are obliged To keep n strict
account OF the animals raised by them.
and the ring, wherein Is engraved a
number. 10 fastened I'm the animals ear
for the purpose of preventing the sub
stltution OF one animal for another.
The extraordinary precautions taken
TO prevent the Infection Of wounds at
surgical operations were described by
n doctor from St Bartholomew hos
pital at an inquest I'm London. He said
that under the Lister system-invented
by the celebrated surgeon of'that name
the doctor before going into the OPP
Grating theater was envelOped In a
white gown, which had been sterilizcd.
and he wore over his head a cap which
had been similarly treated. The in
strumeuts were boiled. which killed |
all microbes. and then placed in an
solution, which kept other |
away All the sponges and
DRESSINGS were sterilized IL the doctor