Salt Lake Herald | 1892-02-21 | Page 3 | Odds and Ends

ODDS AND ENDS It is estimated that fully 17000000 pounds of maple sugar were manufactured in Vermont Ver-mont in 1891 Minnesota furnished 18554 three years men during the war ana she now has 10573 men on the pension roll In the last twentyfive years the Now York Central and the Harlem railroads have paid out 250000000 in wages There are between lCOO and 1700 lawyers in Boston with scarcely business enough for UOO There has been a serious split in the Democracy of Philadelphia and tho anti Cleveland men have organized a now committee com-mittee There are 800 public baths in the city of Tokio Japan where natives are washed at a temperature of 160 degrees at the price of 1 cent Dr Fermand a well known pathologist says that the danger in using milk from tuoerculous cattle has been very much exaggerated ex-aggerated When tho effects of a man who died the other day in Leadville were examined it was found that he was engaged to marry twelve different girls in various parts of the country I think of you full often wrote Miss Poesy to unregenerate Bungly the other day 1 wonder how she know mused Bungly just returned from a protracted spree Paper quilts are coming into general use among the poorer classes abroad They are mado of sheets of white paper sewed together and perforated all over at a distance dis-tance of an inch or two apart Mount Washington is to be capped with the largest electric search light ever made and the highest beam of artificial light in the world Under proper conditions it is claimed that it can be seen from Boston A newspaper printed from Virginia says that the namo Merrimac applied to the confederate con-federate ram is a misnomer Her real name was the Virginia and the confusion grew out of the fact that one was built on the hull of the old frigate Merrimac