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The Isle Of Shoals.

The shoals were long a bone of
contention between New Hampshire
and Maine, being on the State line, but
now, they have been divided up. They
number seven from our cross-trees;
namely, Duck, where in the dim past a
duck was seen. The most dangerous
of the group, Hog Island, now known
as Appledore, Smutty Nose or Haley's.
These, with Cedar Island, belong to
Maine; while the others, Star, White,
Londoners, belong to New Hampshire.
On former visit the writer's yacht was
anchored and swung so that we caught
fish for ard in the State of Maine and
ate them in the cabin in New Hamp-
shire.
Although the shoals look extremely
small from a distance, they take up
quite a little space. Star Island, ac-
cording to q measurement taken re-
Gently, is nearly mile long and half q
mile wide. White Island is three
fourths of a mile long, Haley's is a
mile long; the entire group comprises
about six hundred acres. In rambles
about the rocks many interesting points
are to be seen. On Star Island is an
old burying ground that would provide
material for volume in itself. The
inscription on one of the stones reads:
sUnderneath are the remains of the
Rev. John Tucke, A. M. He graduated
at Harvard College A. D. 1928, was or
dained here July 26, 1882, and died
August II, 1873, act Y. He was affable
and polite in his manner, amiable in
his disposition, of great piety and in
tegrity, given to hospitality, diligent
and faithful in his pastoral Office, well
learned in history and geography, as
well as general science, and careful
physician both to the bodies and the
souls of his people. Erected 1909. In
memory to the just.
Here is also monument to the mem
ory of Captain John Smith, an angular
marble shaft about twelve feet in
height. 1t was erected in 1861 Cor,
PHILADELPHIA Times.
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PawnbrOkers' Signs.

The pawnbrokers' insignia is under
stood to have its foundation in the arms
of the Medici family, a representative
of which went from Lombardy to Lon
donin the Middle Ages, and, being very
rich, set up business as banker or
money lender. The arms OF his family
consisted of three gilded pills, which
had direct allusion to their profession
of medicine. Beside being 'sdoetors''
they were the richestmerchants in Flor
ence and the greatest money lenders.
The branch of the family which settled
in London commenced businessin Lom-
bard Street. Whether the family arms
were used as a sign to attract has not
been stated, but there seems to be no
question that this was the origin of the
three golden balls now used to indicate
the presence of pawn-broking estab-
lishments. 1t is observed that the busi-
ness of lending money on pawns was
carried on in England by Italian mer-
chants or bankers as early, at least, as
the reign of Richard /. By the II Ed
ward l., q messuage was confirmed to
these traders, where Lombard Street
now stands, but the trade was first rec
ognized in law by James I. The name
Lombard, according to Stow, is con-
traction of Longobards. The Lombard
bankers exercised a monopoly of pawn
broking till the reign of Queen Eliza
beth. Another Interpretation of the
three balls signs is that it indicates that
the pawn-broker exacts two-thirds col
lateral as security for the one-third
which he lends to the borrower. 1t has
been otherwise dubbed ''the two to one"
hnSi I2rnokIlt1a EnnIe
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y Church bells are going out OF use
IN every considerable American city
N. Y Herald. teb -
According to the returns for 1888,
recently issued, there were in Ireland
at the close of that year 1852 schools
under the Jurisdiction of the National
Educational Commission.
--Sixty-nine years ago o missionary
bore for the first time the standard of
Presbyterianism Beyond the borders of
Indiana into the wilds of Missouri.
Now the Presbyterians report in the
region then opened. ten synods, LOO
ministers, 1000 churches, and 10000
communicates. Troy Times s2aaESg
/ The Bishop of Liverpool is helping
to solve the question: How to reach
the Masses He breaches in the open
air; in the great ship-building yards at
the noon intermission, and among the
$4,000 carriers, with their wives, chill
dren and babies, and to the men of the
great goods stations, oftentimes from
1000 to 5000 in one assembly. -tsiu $50
There is an association in London,
just year old, organized to place texts
of Scripture in the street cars and ON
nibuses. The street car routes alono
number more than 400, and it is esti-
mated that the passenger traffic, which
is steadily increasing is 75,000sO00 an
nually. Texts have been placed in
fifty of the cars, at acost of two dollars
and a half each for the year, and some
good results are claimed.
Just think of it. During the past
year the young ladies or Vassar College
ate "a, 158 pounds of meat, which cost
S15, $50. 50, and used Sc, ,591 quarts Of
milk, worth S4,644.05. They also made
away with SO, 600pOunds of flour, 1867
pounds of butter, 1888 pounds of cof-
fee, 1900 bushels of potatoes, $4,000
eggs, SO, 200 CLANS, 209 bottles of
pickles, and vast. quantities Of other
food supplies. Pancakes are a very
favorite dish. and griddle ten feet
long by three feet wide is used 10 bake
the 2,400 pancakes that are consumed
at a single breakfast. The milk used
at the college comes from dairy or
from 40 to so grade cows, which are
kept on the college propertY.-M Z.
Sun. ~ sa5 sZia ssiEE sss1c.
Rev, Mr.. Beecher's recent informal
address before the Storrs Agricultural
School at Mansfield, Conn, contained
this pleasant reference to the, Storrs
| family: II had learned something about
Mansfield through my friends the
Storrses. Old DIR. Storrs, of Braintree.
4 was one of my earliest memories, and
his genuine eloqnence was the first that
| really reused and held me- His SON is
| my neighbor, DR.. Storrs, of Brooklyn.
Charles Storrs is my neighbor andsaa
great friend of mine. And last. Au-
gustus Storrs, here, is the treasurer of
my church. All my revenue is in his
hands. When he asked me to come to
4 this place I knew too much of human
nature to refuse. Our income is from
$40, 900 to $50, ,090-ital passes through
his hands, and chat stupid man never
stole cent of it.9fH
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The Clerk Saw the Point.

On one of the excursion steamers
running out of Detroit the other day
the clerk found passenger who had
neither ticket or money. He began to
berate the man for dead-beat, telling
him he ought to be ashamed of himself,
ETC., but the strapped passenger held
up his finger and said:
sHave | been among the passengers
and thrown out hints that the boilers
Of this boat were rather old and liable
to explodep"
''Not that know of"
''HaVe I been around predicting a
storm, and thus detracting from the
pleasure OF the trip?"
Haven't heard OF your doing so. y
''HaYe l slipped up to this one and
that one to slur your boat for being
slow, and have [ said that you were
carrying at least ninety people more
than your license allows? Twice thus
far this boat has neglected to answer
the signals of vessels coming down.
Have said / would make complaint
under the law? Have / counted your
life preservers and found the complies
ment short? Have ! oEerhauled your
small boats and found that none Of them
could be launched 2
20, / see! An old steamboat man
shaker stammered the clerk. Excuse
me for not identifying yon- Just make
yourself at home and ride as far as yor
please. If you happen downstairs come
to the office and try some Of my cigars
Detroit Free Press.
I
The best backing young man cal
nave Is q good backbone of his own,
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PUNGENT PARAGRAPHS.


"A hotel for dogs has been estab-
lished at Mount Washington, near Pitts
burgh. Pittsburgh Post.
-KeeIy, the motor man, has now
guarded his 'ssecret" nine years, and
the stockholders are getting tired. m
Z Times.
seTrust men and they win truss
you," said Ralph Waldo Emerson.
''Trust men and they will bust you,'
says an ordinary, everyday business
man. s
-Dio Lewis says consumption is
found in every cline, but he ID wrong.
The very best preventive of consump-
ton sfound Id mountain climb
Detroit Post. az IS
"A man arrived in New York q few
days ago with $3.50 tiddles. And yet
England makes a great fuss IL little
dynamite happens to go off on the
island.-N 7. Mail.
Alcohol is said TO be an antidote
for snake bite poison only when the pa
tient is not addicted to drink and his
system already saturated with alcohol.
Chicago HerGld.gou
-ssMamma, is paps bull or bearP"
tHe's af-- Odear, Willie, don't ask so
many questions! 60 and ride your ye-
locipede!' ''Well, l just wanted to
know whether was cub or g calf,
'cause--."-OI city Derrick.
Smart boy (to Sam, the mail car
rier): "Heighol you've got only ono
spur. How do you expect to get the
mule along with q spur on but one
side?" 'sWell, honey, yon see, ef l.
gifts that side of the mule along, ain't
the other side a-goin to keep ups
Golden DGyS. t9ITss5 DE 2w
-"You are very late sending your
evening male out, said the editor to
his daughter when ne came home at
two in the morning and met n timid,
shrinking young man between the front
door and the gate, ssNot at all.
answered the thoughtful girl. ''Charles
Henry is now morning edition.
cit seems to me, said Vermont
Judge to his daughter, ''that your
Young man calls good many times d
week. NV court doesn'tsit anywhere
near as often as yeurs does. " ''0s
well, papa" was the blushing reply,
'sI am engaged to him, you know, and
| that entities us to-a court Of special ses-
sions. Burlington Free Press.
"A woman will calmly leave tho
cover, of a. jar containing ground coffee
open when she knows the air will take
the strength out Of it. But she win
never leave, the stopper out Of oottle
containing perfume she bought in Paris
last summer. Any one sending as 8
correct solution of the Whyforeness q
the thusly viii receive. by return mail
the cornat used by Washington to blow
bis 4ire at YalleE Forge. -Fi.eF.
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Rye.

8 One acre of fall sown rye will keep
cne COW and calf in winter pasture where
the winters are open enough to permit
pasturing the greater part of that sea-
son, and will also carry the stock along
until the grass is well advanced in the
spring. As the fall and winter will
supply enough moisture to keep the
herbage in growth. this crop may be
sown over large portion of the South
and West with much advantage, and
in many places the remains of it, after
it has been fed down, will afford val
liable quantity of fertilizing matter,
which may be plowed in for corn to
follow it. 1t will also be useful in many
places where the winter is close sea-
son for its supply oflate fall and early
spring pasture, but for this purpose it
must be sown in August and twice the
usual quantity Of seed used, M T
Times, aes
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IS Working the Press.o

ssWhat sort OF season did you
haye?" asked the old oyster Of the little
strawberry.
"Pretty fair, thank you, sir" po-
litely replied the strawberry.
s'Did you get many press noticesP''
80, yes, sir; any number of them. !"
s'Not as many as ice cream, though.
That fellow hogs the whole press.
Why, he is disgusting the people with
his putfs that I don't suppose I'll be
able to get a single line in for my Sum
day-school festival stews next season
without paying for it, y growled the old
oyster.
.'Yes, sir; I perfectly agree with
you, responded the little strawberry
s'The way some of them work the press
is perfectly disgusting. There is the
little green apple g - =
30, don't mention himp' cried the
old oyster. ssHe's too low, I never
saw notice Of him in a better
role than q small bows stomachn'-,
Philadelphia 0hr0aicle. Telegraph.
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COcoa-Nut Culture In Florida.

An enthusiastic New Jersey capital
ist has started an extensive plantation
of cocoa-nut trees in Dade County,
along the southern coast of Florida.
The seed nuts were brought from
South Carolina. They were germi-
mated. and about 100000 plants have
been set out, at a cost of nearly $40,-
600. Next winter the number win be
largely increased. Itrequires six years
for the trees to begin to yield returns,
but it is estimated that the grove will
pay ten per cent on valuation of
S2.000,000. A full-grown tree will pro-
duce sixty nuts yearly.--N, I. CQula
meTciM Advertiser.
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EPTGR4MS.

EPIGR5MS.
- TE A..#
rHE LAWYER TO HIS CLIENT, MIR. MORSE.
/ hope shall not fall from grace
If decline to plead your case.
No lawyer should pursue course
Which he must docket In Re Morse.
oN,As SLOW WAITER,
They call you'"waiter," but WOW
That no mistake is greater; 3
So sluggishly you move about, 3
'Tis who am the tediter. - IL
VISITOR. .z+E Hr
A terrible rapping | heard at my door,
And trembIhd for fear of Il dun or bore:
But found that had been mistaken for romeo,
II wasn't dun, it was only-,d Ounce.
oSA FASHIONABLE WIFE.
thought her beautiful creature,
And dearly bought her with gold:
But there's one disagreeable feature
Twas I and not she that was sold
ben Hood DUets. in HE Continent,
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SCHOOL AND CnuRCH.

] Church bells are going out OF use:
"a every considerable American city
~ Y. Herald. tf&eS -
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The best backing young man can
nave Is q good backbone ofhis own,
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1884-06-19
a sgARTlINa Discovery.

Physicians are often startled By
-narkable discoveries. The fact
nat DR.. Kings New Discovery for
assumption and all Throat and
Lung diseases 10 daily curing patients
that they have given up to die, is
startling them to realize their sense
Of duty, and examine into the mer-
It's Of this wonderful discovery, re-
sulting In hundreds Of our best
Physicians using 1t In their practice.
Trial Bottles free ut z. O. n. / Drug
Stors. Ragulas site sl.00. 4
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FOR SALF-

A House of two rooms and summer
kitchen; lot 3x811, near U. o. depot;
fine piece of property; city water and
gas near By: street car passes the door;
good rock cellar and warehouse; fne
we'll and pump. a BARGAIN. Apply
st This Office. T
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NOTICE TO CREDITORS
Estate Of James B. Johnson, De-
ceased.

u-susnt 70 an order Of the Probate Court Of
Salt Lake County, Utah.
NOTICE Is HEREBY GIVEN BP Ia
IN undersigned administrator Of the ettAte
Of Jas. B. Johnson. deceased, to the cIeolttrs
of and all persons having claims against tie
said deceased, to exhibit them, with lie
necessary vouchers, within ten months at te1
the first publication Of this notice, to TIE aic
administrator at ths banking house of Wells.
Fargo & Co., in Salt Lake City. Utah, the
same beirg the place for the transaction of
the business of said estste.
HARRY T. DUKE,
Administ ator Of James 5. johnson, de-
ceased,
In the County o. Salt Lake, dated May 9th,
1884 m27
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Can be consulted daily from o'cloc k
to II O'Clock am, and from 2 10 6
O'Clock pm. Sundays from 10 am. to
pm. He nas had twenty-five years ex-
perience in the special treatment Of all
Venereal, Sexual and Chronic Diseases,
and guarantees TO cure all urinary
Disease, Syphilitic or Mereurial AZ
fections OF the Throat, Skin
or Bones, NERVOUS DEBILITY
Ip1potency and Lost Manhood. exhausted
Itslity, Seminal Weakness, Spermator.
| rhos, Paralysis, and ell the terrible effects
| of Self Abuse, youthful follies and ex
| eeeses in Dsturer ysars, Nocturnal Ennis
sion, tne effects Of which are various,
maddening snd destructive to both body
and mind. and unless cured will; er-
inmate fstsily. The presence Of the
! disease cauaes a continual consciousness
Of slow and gradual decay of sll the
| power OF body and mind with loss of
| manly power and 7igor, defective mem
| ory, heart affections, loss OF sight, noises
| in the head and ears. confusion OF ideas,
aversion 70 society, excessive prostration,
trembling OF the hands and limba, con-
sumption, rnarssmus and ultimate de-
rangeInent of the mind. The will poWer
becomes so weak that the person seems
| to lose control of himself and cannot
look cne square in the face. It also causes
Dyspepsia and Indigestion with Heart
and Kidney Disease.
TapewOrm Expelled In "a
Hours.
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FOR RENT.

A brick house of seven rooms, bsy
window in parlor, city water. Location
good, only one block from Main Street.
Rent reduced to suit the times. En-
0uire 336 s. West Temple Street.
F. D. Gift.
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DENJAMIN h. BULLOCK AND ISAAC
D Bullock, the executors Of the last VIII
and testament Of Domi -icus Garter, deeeaEed,
having fled their petition herein praying for
an order OF sale of part Of ths real estate
Of said decedent, for the purposes therein set
forth:
lis therefore ordered by the said Court
that all persons interested In the es-
tate OF said deceased appesr before the said
Probate Court on Saturday, The 14th day Of
June, 1884, at 10 o'clock IN the forenoon Of
said day. at the court room of said Probate
Court, at the Court House in Provo City,
County of Utah, to show cause why an order
should not be granted to the said executors
to sell so much of the real estate OF the
said deceased as shall be necessary for the
purposes named in said petition. And that
a copy Of this order be published at least
once day for ton successive days, in the
SALT LAKE DAILY HERALD, a Newspaper
printed and published in Salt Lake City,
County of Salt Lskc, Territory of Utah.
WARREN N. DUSENBERRY,
Probate Judge,
Lated May 90. 1884.
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ACCIDENT.
DENTIST.

Z. c. Nichols, Dentist. Office opposite
Walker BouEe, over Sesbury s. John
sons drug store Anesthetics Given.
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The WasatGl Patent Roller Mills
Best Grades of ROLLER
PROCESS FLOUR.

DRANDS: HIGH PATENT& STRAIGHT
ID Grade, all warranted as good as any made
in Utah.
rs The Highest Cash Price paid for Good
Wheat.
Telephone to the Mills, No. Jos. Office
Id dsho Bakery, No. 20 Second South Street
g. HUSIIER, Prop.
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Traar'1ea coua,y Gs gF4G} 5F Utah. }ss.
I,V. L. Halliday, Clerk rof the Probate
Court Of Utah County, Territory of Utah,
hereby certify that the foregoing IL a full,
true and correct copy Of the original ''order
to show cnuss why order Of sale of Real Es.
tate should not be made" and now on file in
my Office.
Witness my hand snd the seal of
said Court, at Provo City, this
TsEALl 29th day OF May, AID. 1854.
". L. HALLIDAY,
mS1 Probate Clerk.
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WANTED.

A first, class Sawyer and Engineer,
vith References; wanted Immediately.
address, E. R. Young, Wsnship, Sum
NIT County, Utah.
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Piles

Treated and Cured successfully 3
Consultation at the Office is FREE and
invited. Thorough examination and ad-
vice, including analysis Of urine, So.
Come st once--dc <ot put it IF. Ali
correspondence strictly confidential.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1884-11-08
EXPERT DIVERS.

There are doubtless many of my
Young readers who consider themselves
expert swimmers and divers. but | Won
der ii any of them can equal the men
and women that surround the steamers
in many Oriental ports. in the hope of
earning little money by the display of
their skill and activity
NV first experience with these divers
was in the harbor of Singapore. They
were all about the steamer to the num-
Der of hundred or more, some in little
boets hewn from logs and Just large
enough tc hold one person, while 9TH
ers were in boats containing all the way
from two to q Dozen The smallest of
the boats was not more than foot wide,
and the occupant was crouched on the
bottom OF it i'll very uncomfortable po-
sition; the slightest leaning to one side
or the other was sure to upset him, and
he took advantage of this fact when it
came his turn to dive. If q coin were
thrown so that it fell near him, he in
stantly doubled and leaned over the
side; the boat turned and dropped him
out, and away he went into the water
and out of sight. The divers from the
larger boats sprang over the side and
went down with the rapidity of fishes;
some of tt EN- Mid not return to their
boats after their first dive, but remained
swimming or floating about until ready
to go under again.
The water was about thirty feet deep,
and so transparent that the bottom
col@d be seen with ease. Nine times
out of ten the coins were caught before
they had gone dozen feet below the
surface; the only way we could manage
to have the divers 60 deeply was to pre-
tend to clrow the money in one direc-
ton and then toss it the other way,
thus giving it good start. Even then
they would generally se.ze the prize
while it was on its way, and, having
done so, would come to the surface al
most as rapidly as they went down.
Most of them had assistants to whom
they deliveyed the money, but those
who were working entirely by them
selves carried the money in their mouths
until they could fling them into the
boats.
One of the officers of the steamship
said that the rivalry of the divers was
all pretense to make the most they
could out of the strangers, as they were
really associated in q guild or company
and whatever the result of the days
work might be it would be equally
divided at the end. They were GER
tainly well paid, according to the ORR
entail notions as most OF the passengers
emptied their pockets of small coins in
order to encourage the sport. Six
pences and smaller silver co ms were in
great demand, and some of the passen-
gers threw Out an occasional shilling.