The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1885-12-13
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THE INVENTORS EXHIBITION
A Brief Pen Picture Of the City of
100000 Inhabitants = It's
Light and Shade.
THE INVENTORS EXHIBITION
LONDON, November Il, 1885.

1t is said that prophet is not with
out honor save in his own country. The
statement could be applied with equal
truth, to many other things, notably to
interesting or important sights of ma
ture calculated to improve. In world
like London 1t has forever some con-
spicuous attraction. and while all al,
more or less patrOnized. it is surprising
to note the indifference of many very
intelligent people of this wonderful city.
The Inventions Exhibition which closed
last Monday, is an instance in point.
London has a population in the neigh
borhood of 5,OOOOOO souls. Less than
1000, 600 have visited the exhibition
place since it was opened, about year
ago. That looks ike very fair figure
-four ffths of the population; but
when considered, The showing is not so
good. London has tremendous float
ing population; and this floating popu-
lation is such as will undoubtedly have
the disposition and ossess the pecuni-
ary resources to visit all important
sights. Of the number of visitors to
the exhibition, one-haf. or one-third, at
the lowest estimate, were non-residents
of London. Excursion after excursion
has been taking thousands to London
from nearly all parts of England to see
the exhibition. Two aud three of these
excursions go over each line weekly;
and the aggregate number carried would
be something enormous if computed.
Clancy riding over 400 miles for $3.50
less than halt a cent a mile; as was the
fare often between Liverpool and Lon
don-and then talk of the ''extraordin
airy cheap" rates that are sometimes adj
Vertised in Utah.) Besides this how
ever, those who do allow such an exhi-
bition can never think of being satisfied
by one visit. To obtain anything like
a satisfactory view. one would require
the entire day, and then only cErsOry
examination could be secured. Very
few people either care or can afford to
spend twelve hours at time in such
place, and the result is they go again |
and again. One young friend of mine
said he had been FIVE times already and |
was not yet satisfied. The probabilities
are, were all things duly considered. ii
would be found that less than l 900. 900 |
Londoners, out of the 5000, 900 popula-
ton, had visited this one exhibition.
1t is not therefore surprising that one
can find many really intelligent per-
sons who have meyer been to this won
derful accumulation of the inven ions
of man, Nor is the indifference sur
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language of a Yankee, ''any other city
in the world would hardly be a patch
on the breaches of London" What any
other city has once or twice Units his
tory, London has almost every day in
the year. An exposition that would set
the United States in Whfrl of excite
ment is of very common occurrence in |
this place, and a ma ority~Of the people |
who are always stimulated more by bare |
curiosity than by desire for prof able |
information, become surfeited-glutted. |
and grow indifferent even to the most |
praiseWorthy enterprises which have for |
their object, in addition to the hope for |
grain Undoubtedly the foundation of
all these schemes), the dissemination of
knowledge, the broadening of our views
of mans usefulness and the charging
of the sympathies of mankind. These
exhibitions, showing as they do the
wonderful resources of mankind and
nature, and the remarkable facility dis |
played by humanity in adapting and
utilizing things to the requirements OF |
circumstances and Of the age in which |
we live, should I'LL the universal bosom |
with a lasting admiration for the I'M |
limited power, the unbounded genius of |
our common race; and cause regret |
that so much of valuable time is neces- |
sarily employed in combating and en-
deavoring to counteract the pernicious |
influences with which powerful but evil |
disposed intellectS are flooding this |
grand old world.
Things much desired have their value !
largely measured or estimated by their /
rarity.
.'The lovely toy, SO fercely sought.
Hath lost its chain By being caught"
And as distance "lends enchantment to |
the view" and sheds halo of glory |
around things afar off and difficult of |
access, so immediate proximity and |
familiarity robs them of their sanctity |
and clothes them in very common /
place attire after all, such as does not !
excite enthusiasm to the degree antici- |
pated; and causes one to turn in other
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satisfaction which is never to be OBJ
tanned by contact, but which distance
and anticipation holds temptingIy out
and in which mankind delusively
imagines he will yet realize the fruition
of long cherished hopes. Man never
is, but always TO be blessed;" and "a
prophet is not without honor save in
his own country" nor is anything else
in its own day.
London is magnet. 1t is the Mecca
of the fufl-pnrsed ignoramus, the senti-
mental and romantic maiden, the as
piring youth, of the artist and the
artistic, of the musician, of the scholar,
the literary novice ard star, the curious
traveller and the sail on life's main"
of every hue, disposition and aspira-
ton. 1t is an ocean into which 10000
streams are forever pouring their treas
ures and their filth-the joyous. the
M. SCRABBLE; those in whose bosoms the
the pulse of hope beats with feVerish
vigor: those in whose hearts that pulse
gives but faint and uncertain response
such as betokens early extinction; the
good and the pure, the vile and the
wicked, the rich and the proud, the poor