The Salt Lake herald-Republican. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1909-1918, 1910-04-03
SCRAPS.

The regulation step of the British army
is 10 70 the minute.
A baby born amid the floods at Abort
vile, Paris, has been named Moses.
Salmon, pike and goldfish are said to
be the only fish that never sleep.
Gas lighting has recently been doomed
in Japan, and ten new companies are 10
De floated.
Peanut cake seems to be suppIanting
cOtto9seed cake as the preferred food for
swedish cattle.
Ten countries of Europe have entered
into an arrangement to prohibit the use
Of saccharine in foods and beverages.
Last year the geological survey fixed
prices on 1855, 6H acres of public coal
lands and classified l0,S57,512 acres as non
coal land.
The Paris Gaulois says that a British
Catholic whose name is not stated has
given the pope 100000 with which to
establish a Bible institution.
An all-rubber automobile wheel has
been patented, rigid at the center and
with the hardness lessening gradually IN
III the circumference is reached.
A French chemist has advanced the
theory that the doors from vegetation
disseminated through the air diminish the
actinic powers of the solar radiatiOns
sufficiently TO affect photography.
There are tWenty-One states in the
union whose combined business does not
equal that of the New York postoffice,
which is more than the postoffice business
OF Philadelphia and Chicago combined.
1t is already proposed. with the ap-
prevail Of the mayor, to re-establlsh the
nickel-in-the-slot machine in the cigar
stores of San Francisco and TO restore the
recently suspended privilege OF smoking
in street cars.
On ride of 1850 miles, at an average
of forty-four miles daily, a Russian cav
airy officer lost only six pounds in weight,
while his hoTse-neaTiy twenty years old
lost forty-flve pounds. One DAY eighty
miles were covered.
The oil palm is, perhaps the greatest
commercial asset in West Africa. On the
palm the African has long depended for
food, clothing, shelter, furniture, utensils,
tools, weapons, ornaments, medicines and
intoxicating beverages.
During the last three years there has
been a fairly steady increase in the
quantity Of natural gas used in this
country for domestic purposes, a decrease
in the quantity used for manufacturing
purposes, and an increase in the average
price.
Here is a fish story OF the 1910 crop
published by the st. Jamess Budget;
While Mr.. McRoTie, an angler visiting
Loeb Tay, was fishing in the KILN wa
tiers with two rods, two salmon took the
| bats simultaneously and both were Sc
cured. The salmon weighed seventeen
pounds each"
Mrs. Gabrielle MuIlner is reported to be
| the author Of the proposed city ordinance
leu llIc dIl4lS III btA1dal Ae1SNOA hCo IA
/ New York Mayor Gaynor is said TO
| have told the City Federation OF Women :
Clubs that If It would have an ordinance
| drawn up that would hold water he would
use his Influence to put it through.
Montreal is said to be in a bad sanitary
condition The water supply has been
condemned in parliament, and the method
of sewage disposal Is far from satisfac-
| tory medical member Of parliament
declares that the Montreal water fur
nished on the cars OF the Intercolonial
railway, where alcoholic drinks are not
allowed, Is a distinctly dangerous bever-
age, containing disease and death" Ty-
phoid fever is prevalent in the city.
/ The number of automobiles owned by
| farmers is growing rapidly. Out OF ten
/ thousand autos in Iowa, five thousand
are owned by farmers. Kansas farmers
spent 50 900 for automobiles during 1903,
and 81 750,0 900 IN 1908. In one Nebraska
town Of eight hundred population, forty
autos were sold last year to farmers near
the town and retired farmers In the town.
Careful estimate OF the number of auto
mobiles owned by farmers in the entire
United States Is 1900.