Salt Lake Herald | 1892-02-21 | Page 3 | Paragraphs of All Sorts

PARAGRAPHs OF ALh SORTS Mr William Astor is credited with owning own-ing 2000000 worth of jewelry It is the fashionable thing for a bridegroom bride-groom to present his bride with a set of sables Free cider is kept on tap by many Minneapolis Min-neapolis commission merchants for the benefit ben-efit of the retail customers Over one hundred thousand dollars worth of pearls was found in mussels on the Sugar river Wisconsin last summer The largest farm in the world is said to be in Louisiana It is 100x25 miles and embraces 1600000 acres It cost 550000 to fence it The very latest fashion in diamonds is not to lose them but to announce that they are about to be sold for the erection of a hospital The highest altitude Now York is only 175 feet above tide water in east river The highest point on Long Island is Harbor hill where an altitude of 3S4 feet is reached