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The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1881-08-28
Names of Countries.

The follow;ue countries, it ls said,
were orlg'o ~ Ell by the Fboeni-
cans, e. ss5s,ss- commercial people
10 the wa:c Ems names ia the
PteDlcIan language signified some
thing ehsfao;erist'c OF the places
which tbey designate
Europe signifies country of white
"omnl xloD; 80 named because Lhe
inhsbit4n S were o. a rglter comple K.
IL than those OF Asia Or Africa.
Asia slgnIfes between, on in the
middle, from the fact that the geogra
piers placed it between Europe and
Africa.
Africa signifies the land of corn, or
ears. Il was celebrated for it's abnD-
dance of corn, and all sorts OF grain.
Siberia signifies thirsty or dry
very characteristic.
Spain, county of rabbits or CO.
MES. Il vas once 80 infested with
these animals that it sued Augustus
br an army to destroy them
Italy, a country Of pitch, from its
yielding great quantities of black
pitch.
CAIabria, also, for the same reason.
Gaul, modern France, signifies yell
low haired, as yellow hair character
zed its inhabitants.
The English OF Caledonia is high
hill. This was rugged, mountain.
GUS province OF SCOTLAND.
Hibernia lie utmost, or last habiis-
ton; for beyond this, westward, the
Ph@uicisps never extended their voy
ages. t
Britain. the country of tin, great
quantities being found on it and ad-
jacent islands. The Greeks called 1t
Albion, which signifies in the Pre-
nicisn tongue either white or hign
mountains. from the whiteness OF its
shores, or the high rocks o. the west
Gro coast. .r.
Corsica signifies woody place.
Sardinia signifies tbs footsteps OF
meD, which it resembles.
Syracuse, bad SAVIOR, so called from
the unwholesome march on which it
stood.
Rhodes. serpents or dragons, which
it produced in an abundance.
Sicily, tee country of grapes.
Scyla, the whirlpool of des;ru ction.
Etna signifies furnace, or dark.
or smokey.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1881-08-28
Why Uncle Pleasant Married,
or smokey.

Uncle Pleasant Batkins is sixty and
his wife seventy-two. The other day
a TREND said: 'Uncle Pleasant, why
in the mischief did you marry a wO-
man nearly old enough to be your
mother?" 'You see, boy" he re-
piled with a sigh. Il was workin fer
Long John Freemon. in Hanover,
when l was iust eighteen, and 5sry
Ann Russ, oli Mrs. Russ only
daughter. was thirty il she wuI day.
Az every quiltin' she used to chuse
me for a...partner, and every body said
il 'neared like she wur courtin' me.
Che gimme four pair of cotton socks
and heap OF things. but still didn't
have no notion OF her. Well, one
Christmas eve [ went to the old
wom8n;s aDd bad hardly sot down
before Sary Ann brought me some
sweet potato pie, which she knowed
l was monstrous fond of. While /
was eatih' it heard the old woman
40 stairs a countiu' silver dollars
Now there was no lsster to the cell
in, and the up stairs floor had crack
in it as wide as my finger. 80. you
see,..I could besriathe jingle of the
money jest as well as If had been up
thar myself. When she had counted
nine hundred and six ! drswed up to
Sary Ann and popped the question.
In course she said she'd have me. nd
the next Thursday We was married.
Now, what do you think found out
the next day? Why, that old woman
aidn't have but thirty Mexican dsllsrs
and that she bad counted them over
and over jest to fool me. Don't marry
for money, boy. specially for silver
dollars"
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1881-08-28

1t Invites the Most Critical
Analysis.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1881-08-28

-
It's main line runs from Chicago TO Council
Bluffs passing through Joliet, Ottawa IL Sale
Gene>eU. Moline. Rock STAND. D;tVeHpnrI. YES
Liberty, Iowa Cl'5 v d = i5TCeKIy ~ iiei'
Des NoineS (the CAPITAL IF Iowa }. Stuart, Atlan-
tic and AvOca: with branches from bureau
junction 10 Peoria: Wilton junction 10 " uSca-
tine Washington. Fairfield EldOn, Belanap.
Centrevilie, Princeton. II GatCIi Ga!.dtln. came
Washington 10 SiEourney, OSkalc0Sa and Knox
vile: KcOkI6 TO Pennington, BODaparte, Ben
tonSnOr' Independent. Fldon. Ottumwa. Eddy-
Vile OskalOoSa. Peila. Monroe, and Des MONIES;
Nit zion 10 KeOsauqua; Newton TO Monroe: Des
MoineS to ICiaVOla and WinterSet; AtlanLe 10
GrisWcld and ACduDOu; and AVOca 10 Harlan
and Carson. This is positively the Only Rail
read. which owns. and operates through me
Through EApreSS Passenger Trains, with Pull
man Palace cars attached. are run each waydaily
between CHICAGO and PEORIA, KANSAS CITY,
Council BLUFFS, LEAyENW0RTH ana =, AICal-
SON Through ears are also run between MlIWau-
kee aud Kansas City. via the " Milwaukee and
Rock Island Short Line"
The "Great Rock Island is magnifcently
equipped. It's road bed is simply perfect, ana us
track is laid with steel rails.
What Will please you most will be the pleasure
OF ENJOYING your meals, While passing over the
beautiful pTarieS of Illinois and Iowa in one OF
our magnificent Dining Cars that accompany all
meal as good as is served in any frs-class hotel
for sevenly-nve cents .
Approaching the fact that majority Of the
people prefer separate apartments for dl1erent
of this line warranting it,. we are pleased to an
nounce that this Company runs Pullman Palace
PULLMAN PALACE CARS are rul
COUNCIL BLUFFS. KANSAS CITY, A
all Ticket agents in the United States
For information not Obtainable AT 3!
r z. CA BLEs OIL -r4
Vice President and General Manager.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1881-08-28

a fEslgnt irsID golag -,OI ,.sas-a v deH
jsify, sc s. Il an. Brigham, 8,95 en-. sum,
nit, 20 Is 2 u: Logan, II so 2 n FTaDk lins
sra Eagle Rock % q N; Beaver Canyon,
3 = 70; T-ing Hill, u 50 Il; Dillon p
pm. Com Sonth Train leaves Dillon 10
D z; SpFing JUi. 7 D u; Beaver Canyon
rOl5 an; Onei1F SIS an Er5lsiIn 6sOt
Pm Eszso 1876 IN; SumC.It. 90 2
a~irhe3 $ r.r tT.is Ing a. lzden sts@1c
GEO, Y. THAJOBER 4,it
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1881-08-28

Everybody who drinks Champagne
will admit that this Wine Eclipses
Everything.
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A REGULAR BATHING TRAIN

Will leave Salt Lake at 40 pm, arriving at
Black hock at $50, Garfield at 5.35, Lake Point
AZ $40 Returning, will leave Lake Point at
$50 H., Garfield at 6.55 and Black Rock 81
I .O5, arrivin z al Salt Lake City ct 7.55 pm.
Tickets for Round Trip, 5Oe.
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GEO. " THAIOBER 4,'
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ON SUNDAYS

Trains will leave Salt Lake City Tor Black Rock,
Garfield aud Lake Point at an. and $50 pm :,
returning, will arrive st Salt Lake City at Z'SV
pm. and 50 N.
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CHICAGO, ROCK IsLAND & PACIF1C R'Y


Sleeping CGrSfor sleeping purposes, and Palace
Dt!.iilg Cars f0i catir purposes only. one other
srvai feat'reOf our Palace Cars is . SaOKiNe
StIsHtN here yCr can ENJOY your havana"
Magnificent Ire. Bridges span the " issiSsippi
ami Missouri rivers at ali points crossed by tl1S
line and II. nSfeTs are avoided ~ Council blutH
Kansas City. LeaFenWOrth ard AfchISOn, COZ
The principal Z. r connect ions az
this great Through Line are - sOLlOWss
st CHlCAGO w!Ih ali diyerGiAg s.acs Tor TIM
AT ENGLEwoop. with The LIS. q n $, andP.
Fl ". & q. Z. RtS-
L. K. r.
AT PEORIA wiz z. P. & -; p. ID. 4 z, :. B.
W: III. Mid: and T. P & W Rds.
At Rock ISLAM. with milwaukee 4 nj FtOcE
Island Short Line" ana Rock IsFd * i,eo- RdS
AtDAvENPoRT With tie Davenport Division
{. ". & ST. 7. r. p
AtWEsT LIBERTY. with the B. c. r. ( N.R.R.
At GRISNELL, with Central iowa r. r. =
ct DEs MONIES, with d. y. s +. y. 3 Z
AtCcCNCTL BIT FFS, with tGi0n l"tifc z. Z
At OMAHA. W.sil j. a. 10. Z. z L. til.Nehss
At COLUN7US j-NCTiClJ. W. il =. (. Z 8 N-E-hs
AT OTTUMwA with Central Iowa = z; W
AtKEOKUK. with Toll, PeO. & War; y ah.,SL-
Louis Il Pac.. and St l., KeO. & y W. L. RdS-
st CAMERON, with Il. 81. j. Z. +.
AtATCH4SOE, with Atch., Topeka santa FeS
Atch & Ncb. and Gen. Br. U. p. r. RGS.
st LEAvENwOKTH, With U nlOn Fac. anc kan
At KANSAS CITY, with all lines for the YeT
and Southwest -
Gibson. aud LEAVENWORT6-
Great Rock Island Route" are sold d
nd Canada
,ur home office. address,
Z. ST. JOHN.
General Ticket and Passenger -
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". ". RITTER, Sup.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1881-12-22

Apropos of dreams, is it not a strange
thing if writer's of fiction never dream
of their own creations, r~ecollecting, I
suppose, even in their dreams, that they
have no real existence? Inever dreamed
of any of my own characters, and I feel
it so impossible that I would wager
Scott never did of his, real as they are.
I had q good peace of absurdity in my
head a night or two ago. I dreamed
that somebody was dead. don't know
who, but it's not to the purpose. It
was a private gentlemen, and a particu-
lar friend, and I was greatly overcome
when the news was broken to me Every
~delicately) by a gentleman in a cooked
hat, top boots and a sheet. Nothing else.
GOOD God" I said, els he dead ?"
"He is dead, sir" rejoined the gentle
man, Gas a door-nail. But we must all
die, Mr.. Dickens, sooner o. later, my
dear sir" "Ah," I said. eyes, to be
sure. Very true. But what did he die
Off" The gentlemen burst into a food
of tears, and said, in a voice broken by
emotion: HE christened his youngest
child, sir, with toasting fork" I never
in my life was so affected as at his hav-
ing fallen a victim to this complaint. 1t
carried a conviction to my mind that he
could have recovered. 1 knew that it
was the most interesting and fatal NAL
ady In the world, and I wrung the gen.
tleman's hand in a convulsion of respect
full admiration, for I felt that that ex-
PLANTATION did equal honor to his head
and heart.-Letters of Charles Dickens.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1881-12-22
How to Shake land

There are only two or three people
now living who can successfully shake
hands. There is q good deal of hand
shaking done through the country, es-
p~ecially at this season of the year, but
only a very small per cent. of the shakers
and shakes know how to do it so as to
get the entire amount of exhileration out
Of it. Some grab the hand of an adver-
sary in a quick, nervous manner that
Scares the victim nearly to death, while
others slide the cold and clammy paw at
you SO that you feel the same as when
you drop a cold raw oyster, with vinegar
on it, down your back.
If you are shaking hands with a lady,
incline the head forward with a soft and
graceful, yet half timid, movement, like
q boy climbing q barbed-wire fence with
a fifty-pound watermelon. Look gently
in her eyes with a kind of a pleading
smile, beam on her features a bright and
winsome beam, say somthing that you
have heard some one else say on similar
occasions, and in the meantime shake
her hand in a subdued yet vigorous way,
not as though you was trying to make a
mash by pulverizing her fingers, nor yet
in too conservative a manner, allowing
her band to fall with a sickening thud
when you let go. Care should be taken
also not to hang on to the hand more than
half an hour in public, as bystanders
might make remarks. This is now con-
sidered quite outre and naandamus.-
Bill Nue..
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1881-12-22
Brother Gardners,s Philosophy.

"Doan' seek to make angels of yer
selves" quietly began Brother Gardner
as the meeting opened. "In de fust
place dis am no sort O kentry fur angels,
an in de next place you would be
mighty lonesome. De man or woman
who becomes SO sweet an soft an good
dat dey expect cherry mint to rise up an
fly doan' take SO much comfort as folks
who feel dat it will be a clus shave to
git inter heaven. A leetle wickedness
pickles a man an makes him keep all de
better. When I trade mules wild a man
I prefer dat he should suspect me wild
an intenshun to make an chen $25 by de
operashun. When I deal wild a butcher
like to feel dat he will work in fo' ounces
of bone fur cherry eight ounce of meat
If I doan' watch him. I like to have de
bootmaker tell me dat American cowskin
am French calf, an I am pleased when
wash like sheet-iron. De man who am
not q leetle wicked has no chance to feel
sorry /; no use for prayer; no need OF
churches. He cannot say to a fellow
man Il wronged you-Pm sorry
shake
ode man who neber sins makes q
POOR mex doah ne1ghbur. de woman
who keeps feelin' of her shoulders to see
if wings have started makes a poor
mother an a wuss housewife. If you
have neber, injured a man an gone to
him an axed his pardon an made up
you doan' know what real happiness
am. If your conscience has neber drib.
en- you to prayer you can't feel de good.
ness of de Lawd. My advice to you am
to be o leetle wicked-not 'nnff to make
men fear or hate you, but just huff to
keep you convinced dat you must help
to support churches an pay clus atten.
shun to what de preachers say OF you'll
be left benin when de purceshnn starts
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1881-12-22
The City and the Country.

The Rev. Robert Collyer made the re-
mark on n occasion that during his
twenty years residence in Chicago he
had not known of a single man who had
come prominently to the front in any
pursuit who was born,and bred in q large
city. All the leading men in every call
ing-judges, lawyers, clergymen, editors,
merchants and so on, had been reared
in the country, away from the follies,
the vices and the ~enervating influences
that are known to exist in all large towns.
The New York Times takes up the same
subject and says:
Fashion reduces all young men and
women to the same dull and uninterest-
ing level. New York is now an old city.
It has produced generations OF men.
How few of them AVE ever made their
mark, here or elsewhere ! It cannot be
said that they go into other parts of the
country and there develop the higher
forms of manhood. They are never
heard of except in the aggregated, con-
crete form Of Sour fellow-citizens. p"
How much of a man is due to qualities
born in him, and how much to his early
environment, no philosopher has been
able to tell us but it is impossible to
conceive of a sagacious intellect like
That of Lincoln, or a glorious mind like
Webster's, emerging from the false gilt
ter and noisy commotion of the city. We
think of Washington, the patrician sage,
pacing among the stately oaks of old
Virginia, of Jefferson in his country seat,
and of John Adams tilling his farm in
Massachusetts. These men, it is true,
dourished in a time when there were no
big cities in the United States. But
later on we see Lincoln, Grant and Gar
field reaching the topmost round OF
James ladder from the obscurity OF
country homes. Not one American
President from first to last was born in
n city.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1881-12-22

u H.
Some genius-we suspect him to be-
long to the jovial order of humanity
has said: "The day to drone and dream,
the night to learn and ramble." We do
not propose to dispute this worthy's view
OF the matter, but present herewith the
experience of a Philadelphia journalist.
MIR. William g.. Cunnington, 1712 North
Twentieth Street, one of whose noctur-
nal rambles he thus refers to, beginning
his narration rather peculiarly, however !:
81 am not a rheumatic, and have been
troubled very little with bodily pains.
Last Tuesday morning I experienced a
very annoying stiffness of the neck,
which grew worse as the day wore on.
Toward evening it became very severe,
and I could scarcely turn my head in any
direction. Arriving home at tea time, it
was with difficulty that I could eat my
meal. My wife wanted to rub my neck
with st. Jacobs Oil, but I refused, saying
I thought the affection would soon pass
away. Tea over, against the remon-
strances of my family, I left home to
ramble toward the new Chestnut Street
Opera House, about two and a-half miles
from my residence. I started in the
midst OF a heavy snow storm, and re-
NAMED at the theatre until the close of
the performance, although I could feel
my neck getting worse and becoming
very painful. Leaving the play the
trouble came to reach home. The storm
continued; the car in which I was be-
came blocked In nearly every square, a
cold current of air swept through the
car, and I did not reach home until to-
ward 2 q. M, by which time nv neck
had become absolutely rigid. Then I
consented to the use of st. Jacobs Oil,
which my wife applied two or three times
before l arose. I continued its use that
day and by evening I was free from pain,
and the next morning I amused myself
by twisting my neck in any direction that
suited me, and not a vestige of stiffness
remained."-Boston Herald.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1881-12-22
Little Danger From Electric Currents.

There have been some cases IT death
within the last few years, but th,se have
all been caused by alternating current
machines, which are extremely danger
GUS when of high electro-motive force.
The continuous current machines, how
ever, do not give such severe shocks, and
in the opinion of many scientific men,
are not dangerous, though capable of in
hicting considerable pain. However, it
will be the duty of every electric engin-
eer to take care so to place his leads as
to make it almost impossible for ny n
to touch both at the same time, severe
shocks being thus entirely prevented.
On the whole, were every house lighted
by electricity and every factory to re-
ceive its "power" in that form, the
dangers would be much less than those
which exist o. from gas and boilers.
For no bad workmanship or carelessness
can by any possibility cause an explo-
sion to be produced by an electric cur
rent and, in the event of a fire taking
place, conducting wires would only heat,
and perhaps fuse, instead of feeding the
flames with combustible and explosive
matter as gas pipes do when fused by
the heat of a burning building,-Satur-
day RevieaU.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1881-12-22
Lazy Yenehans.

The saddest thing in Venice is the
absence of newspapers. I have never
vet seen n in the hands of anybody
but a traveller. The red-faced Venetian
sits lazily under the half-drawn curtain
that takes the place of door to his shop,
waiting for customers, knowing nothing
of the world without; the women, bare
footed or in toe slippers shuttle and
gossip about, but no one has q newspa-
per or a book; the somber gondolier
quarrels for an extra centesimi from his
passenger, but he never heard of Amer
lea, or of England, and has never read a
word ever OF his own language. All are
proud of Venice, even though she is
but the dowerless bride of the Adriatic
proud that she was once conquered by
Napoleon; proud of the church and
square of st. Marks; proud of the COM
merce she once had; proud Of the palace
of the Doges, with its quaint Moorish
| Gothic architecture; proud, for aught j
know, of the Bridge of Signs, ga prison
and a palace ON each hand" and of the
horrible machinery of persecution un-
derneath, running down a hundred steps
into the gloomy earth, where the early
Venice developed all that was devilish
in man. But Venice is a bankrupt city,
only half fed, a pauper of glass gewgawE
and flagree, slowly returning, through
gloomy grandeur, to the quagmire from
which it sprung.-W a. Cro6ut.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1881-12-22
POPULAR SCIENCE.
ORDINARY combustible substancesm may
be set on fire by nitric acid.

ORDINARY combustible substancesm may
be set on fire by nitric acid.
Our earth is moving through space
with a velocity of nine miles a second.
TIE temperature of the blood depends
on the fapidity with which it Is oxldlzed,
CALCULATION serves in nature the
purpose of stopping wounds. Salt pre-
vents it.
TIE edible swallows nest is made
from q secretion from the glands OF a
kind of swift.
DEFECTIVE color vision is chiefly man
Tested in the inability to see b differ
ence between blue and green.
GLUCOSE is used for manufacturing
table candies, food for bees, arti-
fetal honey and in brewing.
WHEN warm air is forced through a
hot mixture of turpentine and water a.
d~isinfecting substance is produced.
In CASES of arsenic poisoning the
phosphorus which exists as phosphor1c
acid in the brain is replaced by arsenic.
A of smelling salts in water,
with a slight proportion OF other saline
matters. contains all the elementary
bodies which enter into the composition
of protoplasm.
THIN disks of very different sub
stances emit sounds when exposed to the
action of a rapidly interrupted beam OF
sunlight, proving sonorousness to DC a
property Of matter.
! GERMAN scientists are making a study
| of the relative distribution of blondes
| and brunettes, in aid of their investiga-
tions of the origin of the German people.
THE antennfs of insects, besides being
organs of touch, seem to be organs OF
smell. Flies, deprived of their antenno
cease to display interest in tainted meat.
The arguments of Nautilus in regard
to the relation between food supply
and increase of population are said to
apply to fish. They increase more
rapidly than their food.
AMMONIA is to be found everywhere.
By ~suspending a piece of glass, and
after q while washing its outer surface
by means of q spray bottle, the pressure
of ammonia may be ascertained.
A good climber can ascend only 5000
feet in nine hours /; that is, raise his
own weight 1000 feet an hour. The
work done by the heart is equivalent to
raising its W weight Is, $3.50 feet in the
same time.
TIE archeopteryx, the famous fossil
reptile-like bird, was about the size of &
pigeon, and had a tail as long as it
body, supported by numerous vertebra
a pair of feathers corresponding to eacf
vertebr@.
TIE following is useful in removing
ink stains or bleaching wood: Oxali
acid dissolved in warm water, and ap
piled to the parts stained, will remov
stain, or bleech wood that Is too dark t
match any other part.
Two of the old-world reptiles have re
Gently been discovered at Stuttgart
Simosaurus is the name given them, an
they form an important link in the chat
of evolution, being land animals in pro
cess of adaptation to the water.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1881-12-22
Texas Pecan CrOp.

Heretofore the pecan crop, as a source
of revenue, has attracted but little at
tention. No care whatever has been
taken with the trees; in fact, in many
localities trees fifty to 100 years old have
been cut down solely to obtain the nuts.
Before the civil war the export from the
port of Indianola alone was reported OF
800, 900; now it is estimated that the
amount actually gathered exceeds g.
600, 900 in value. With proper care of
the trees and systematic gathering of the
crop it is believed that $40, OOO, 900 could
be realized annually. Millions of bush
els are lost every year by falling on the
ground and rotting or devoured by hogs,
squirrels, turkeys and other animals and
birds. Except in inclosed pastures no
claim is made by the of the land
to the fruitage of the trees. Mexicans
and negroes are the pecan ~gatherers, and
in some districts white children .-IerGs
Land and Railway Journal.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1881-12-22
A Romantic Town in the sierras.

The most romantic town on the coast
is Meadow Lake. It is close up to the
summit of the Sierras, near a beautiful
lake. 1t grew up in one summer to be a
great town. Thousands of people put
thousands Of dollars there. There was
plenty of gold, rich gold ore there, but
the gold had a terrible liking for the
rock and nobody could get it out. A
few stayed the first winter. The snow
fell twenty or thirty feet Deep. The
people made tunnels from one house to
the other, and contrived to get through
the winter. The only way in and out
was on snow shoes. The next spring
everybody ran away and the town col
apsed andfell down. Adventurous par
ties have every year tried to work the
ore, with very little success. The last
news is that a new process has been tried
which bids fair to be a success.-Irucker
(NeU.) Republican.