The Salt Lake herald-Republican. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1909-1918, 1910-03-01
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Canada will be largely represented in
the international hunting exhibition TO be
held this year in Vienna.
Electricity has supplanted gas for car
lighting in nearly all the state railways
OF Italy, Switzerland and Denmark.
Since 1873 here have been 1921 crema-
tons in Germany. In the United states
in the last year alone there were 345oO.
A Roman tomb of the second century
before Christ, containing d marble sar-
cophagus of exquisite workmanship five
feet long and admirably preserved, has
been discovered at Grosseto.
Professor Herdman, lecturing at the
British Royal institution, and describing
how to tell the age of a fish, said the
lines on the scales of the herring are
lines of annual growth. The number of
lines on the bones are another indica-
ton.
When widow in Oklahoma needs the
wages her son of school age might earn
the state pays the mother the amount
and the boy continues in school. The
women of Oklahoma are now trying to
have the same law passed for daugh-
ters.
Cape Cod figures that she produced last
year about $4,000 barrels of cranberries.
out Of the 55O,0eO produced in the whole
country. Let Cape Cod furnish the cram
berries to the people and she cares not
who provides the turkeys to go with them
Boston Globe.
A four-story laboratory for research in
to the nature of Tadium Is about to be
opened in Vienna Infinitesimal quantities
of the precious substance (about one-sev-
enteenth of a gram) will be sold for S2l6
in a vial, the present market value OF
''10 per cent" radium being estimated at
$50, 600 a gram.
A st. Louis woman is advertising for
pure buttermilk. The advertiser recites
that no dairyman need apply. She says
she has tried all the diaries in st. Louis
and has been half around the world in
vain search for buttermilk of the good
old fashioned kind ehurned in the good
old fashioned way, with little pieces of
butter floating around in it.
The bulletin Of the Geographical Society
of Italy announces another arctic expe-
dition. The leader will be Baldwin, the
leader of the artic expedition of 1SO1-1SO2.
He proposes an exploration of the polar
regions and 10 reach the pole. lie pro-
poses to follow the route taken by Nam
sen in the Fran. 1t is proposed to spend
four years altogether in the search.
Lucien Klotz, Partisan art expert and
| collector, has in his possession what is
claimed to be an authentic autograph of
! the poet TassO, appended to a writing
which, translated into English, reads: 4,
the undersigned, acknowledge to have re-
ceived from NJ. A. Levy rs livres, Tor
which he retains in pledge a sword of my
! father, six shirts, four sheets and two
tablecloths. March 2, 1850. Tasso."
DR.. Sophie Herzog of BraZoria, Tex,
] is said to be the only woman railroad
surgeon in the world. She is native OF
Austria, came to this country in 1885,
studied medicine and surgery and Tor
nine years after graduation pracbceo
medicine in New York Soon after NOV
| ing to Texas her work as a surgeon at
| traeted the attention of the st. Louis,
Brownsville & Mexican railroad, and she
was appointed surgeon for the road.
Experiments in Ireland go to show that
ten tons of peat have the Hcalorific value"
of one ton of ordinary coal.
The famous Homestake mine at Lead.
s. D., the largest gold mine in the
| United States. will soon be completely
electrified from developed water power.
Rice production IN the United States
grew from an average of less than lOo,-
| 100000 pounds per annum Few years ago
to an average of 50O,000,0O0 pounds per an
mum in recent years, and reached over
| CO., 10000 pounds in 1908.
| Trade of the United States with its non
1 contiguous territories aggregated $l72,cOO,-
| 600 in the year just ended. against about
! S64 600 600 q decade ago. In addition to the
| S172, co., 600 worth of merchandise there was
received from Alaska s1S,OO0,Oo0 worth OF
/ gold of domestic production.
Pennsylvania is a large state, with plen-
! ty of mountain territory, and it is de-
/ clared by the state game commission that
l the number of bears killed there In recent
wears has surpassed that of the deer.
| During last season between 600 and zoo
/ bears were killed.
J Prince Rudolf Liechtenstein, first lord
! chamberlain to the imperial court, who
died several months ago, left mysteri-
/ Gus legacy to the Vienna Academy OF
| Science in the form of a sealed case OF
documents. They were understood to be
| of great historic interest, but the seals
are not to be broken for fifty years. For
many years the prince was intimately
| connected with the court and the family
| of the HGpsburgs.
In Spain the old-style charcoal brazier
| is still in use for heating purposes.
| Canadian housekeepers complain be-
cause general houseworkers want 81 a
month instead Of Sc.
Just closed, the Yarmouth and loves
loft herring season has yielded SOO,OOO,OOO
/ herrings, which sold for $5,O00,000.
| On an average man requires sixteen
| hundred pounds of food per annum;
woman twelve hundred pounds, and
! child nine hundred pounds.
/ 1t is said that enough horse power goes
/ to waste in the rivers and streams be-
/ tween Austin and San Antonio, Tex, TO
run all the industries in the state.
! Owing to the rapidly growing popula-
| ton of Germany, especially in the indus
| trial cities and towns, and the relative
scarcity of productive land, the nation
becomes each year more dependent upon
| foreign countries for its food supply.
Bagdad and Bassorah are excellent
| prospective markets for motor boats and
| pleasure craft. The possible buyers, how
| ever will pay no attention to catalogues,
| as they wish to sit in the boat itself, feel
it go through the water and enjoy the
noise made by the engine.