Salt Lake Herald | 1896-12-16 | Page 2 | Curious Cullings

Curious Culling The body of a dead Chinaman la often kept by his relatives for three or four years before It is buried At thcboginnlng of this century a most peculiar cholera remedy was In use In Persia It consisted of wadding i up a leaf from the Koran and forcing it down the patients throat In partsv ot the north of England when a child is taken from a house for the first time It is given an egg some saltand a small loaf of hred and oc caslonally a piece of money to insure llt against coming to want