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The Washington critic., 1886-05-31

E1RST-CLASS Table Board, $50 Per
IL month; meals served out. 1923 o st w.
LNIRST-CLASs Table Board for $3 per
II week. 4l0 l4th st II W. Mrs. Esselman.
Salt Lake evening Democrat. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1885-1887, 1886-11-22
THE GOOsE-BONE PROPHET.

There are various modes Of forecasting
the weather, and different localities have
their favorite and varying whims in the
matter. An old-iashoned custom at the
East and South, is to consult the breast
bone OF an autumn-slaughtered goose.
In very many farm houses in the locali-
ties named, the breast-bone OF a goose
will be found hanging by the kitchen
tireside, in company with an array of
"wish bones" for the young people to
break in connection with the recognition
OF their secret wishes.
The Louisville Times, while congratu-
lating itself upon the correctness Of its
forecastings OF the weather last winter by
the aid OF its editorial goose.bone, this
year pledges itself with renewed assur-
ance to the correctness OF its predictions
for the coming winter, in connection, we
presume, for the localities east OF the
Rocky Mountains, but more especially
Kentucky.
In brief, very cold weather is to be
expected previous TO and during January.
December will open clear and bright /;
rain and snow will be the rule until
Christmas, when it will be swapping cold
Salt Lake evening Democrat. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1885-1887, 1886-11-22
CALAMITY WOODRUFF.

Apostle Wilford Woodruff is little old
man from the nutmeg State. His mis-
sion in the Smith fraternity is to cry
Wolf wolf He ran with Orson Hyde
on the calamity line. Orson, when liv-
ing, worked the heavy machinery OF the
establishment, he dealt in earthquakes
and hurled empires against each other.
His was the voice Of Boaneges, and it
was not until slight shock OF an earth
quake Jared his adobe residence in San
pete valley that he drew in his horns
and kept quiet on the earthquake racket.
He is dead, and his rumbling predictions
have ceased.
But Wilford is alive somewhere under
ground and every now and then relieves
himself by subterranean eruption which
finds vent in the evening organ of the
Church. This Saturday, so that the
Saints can breakfast, dine and sup on
horrors all day Sunday.
His calamity effusions are measured
by the yardstick and to read, mark and
inwardly digest one OF his doses, takes
twenty-four hours at least. He lifted up
his sepulchral voice last Saturday through
the aforesaid organ, and among other
things he informs the Saints that
The Lord said. fifty-seven years ago, that
the field was white for the harvest, and Ht
had set His hand to prune the vineyard onct
more and for the last time. The elders wert
commanded at that day to thrust in thel
sickle and reap while it was called to-day
for soon night would come, when no mar
could reap. Brethren, it is much nearer
night now than it was tifty-seven years ago
The Saviour said at that day that the angel
were crying day and night for the privilege
to go forth and reap down the earth. H'
informed them that they must wait littl,
season until the harvest was fully ripe.
This generation has been warned for thu
last fifty years by inspired and righteou
men, and after their testimony will come thu
testimony of laundering, of lightning, o
floods, of earthquakes, and of pestilenc'
and famine and war, and the flames of de
vouring fire.
Now that old man Wilford, in the ex
uberance of his second childhood, has
consoled himself and his chatterinl
cronies in their underground retreat b.
Singing damnation round the land,
the Saints will have a rest until Congress
shall take the government OF this Terri
tory into the Nations hands, when VIII
ford's angels will again cry day ant
night, "for the privilege to go forth ant
reap down the earth"-in other words
to trip up the pesky Gentiles.
Salt Lake evening Democrat. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1885-1887, 1886-11-22

THE Current, in running parallels be-
tween horses and men, says: "We have
seen horses good for ALL work, starting
out with splendid record, and hauling
a beer wagon in the end. Carl Schurz
could name one OF these" We are glad
to know that Carl Schurz was ever, in
the estimation of poor judges even, good
for any work. 1t seemed that he must
be rated as a broken-down donkey, tried
in many ways, but good at none. As he
is in the bier business, he must be on his
last legs. Let the dead bury the dead,
Salt Lake evening Democrat. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1885-1887, 1886-11-22
KNIGHTS OF PYTHIAs.

GALANTHE LODGE NO. 8, X. OF Freq.
- ulaT conventions every Monday, at Castle
Hall, walker Opera House, at 7'3O d, m,
Visiting knights madewelcome.
F. l., TRIPP, C. c.
Salt Lake evening Democrat. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1885-1887, 1886-11-22

The Portland Oregoaiaa, a mossback
journal, without political influence even
in its own State, champions Senator
John Sherman as Republican candi-
date for the Presidency. This pre-Adam-
ite paper says: without ornament,
without passion, free from all political
tricks or mere literary phosphorescence,
Sherman wins attention by his sound
business sense and strong logic"
1t is sufficient to say that this passion
less, monumental, Opaque candidate
shows his business sense" by advocat-
ing the coinage OF silver dollar on an
elastic basis, expanding or contracting in
size and weight to meet the rise and fall
Of the price for silver, by the gold stand
ard.
Salt Lake evening Democrat. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1885-1887, 1886-11-22
ODD FELLOWS LODGES.


Utah LODGE NO. l, l. o. o. F. MEETS
~ every Thursday, at 800 p m, in Odd Eel
lows Hall, Union Block, Salt Lake City. odd
Fellows in good standing are invited to attend.
PARKER NORTON, n. &.
j. j, THOMAS, Secretary.
GAIT LAKE LODGE NO. 2. l, o. o. F.
y Meets every Friday, at 7:3O p. m, in odd
Fellows Hall, Union Block. odd Fellows I'm
good standing are invited to attend.
J, NJ. DARLING, Secretary "
JORDAN LODGE NO. 3, /. 0. 0. F-MEETs
~ every Monday, at 800 p. m, In odd Eel.
lows Hall, Union Block. odd Fellows in good
standing are invited to attend.
b. W. E. JENNENs, Secretary, ''' '' VI
PIDGELY LODGE NO. 9, 100 F-MEETs
~ every Wednesday, at 7 80 p. M, in odd Eel.
lows Hall, Union Block. Visiting brothers
made welcome. f. +, HOUGHT0N, n. @.
w. NJ. CLARK, Secretary
UNITY ENCAMPMENT No. 2, O.o.F-
- Meets the second and fourth Tuesday of
each month at 500 p. m, in Odd Fellows Hall
Union Block. All Patriarchs in good standing
are Invited to attend s. EWING q p
j. j. THOMAS, Scribe.
Salt Lake evening Democrat. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1885-1887, 1886-11-22

But it is for January that the gooseologist
reserves his fearful prediction. The new
year will come in with clustering storms.
"About the middle OF the month red
spots on the bone grow more brilliant,
and the dark, greasy tracings spread out
over the whole bone, thus indicating very
severe weather." A great storm may be
expected about the 10th OF the month,
followed by the most severe cold weather
ever experienced in the Middle States.
"rhe first days OF February will be
cold, and ii the little ground hog comes
out on the I'd he will be in danger OF
freezing"
With immense drifts OF snow in the
mountains, the ground frozen too hard to
absorb the early rains, it is probable that
the spring floods will beat all past records
and that great damage may result.
Between the double-goose teams oi
Virgins and the Times gander, the
Babylonians are likely to have hard
Salt Lake evening Democrat. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1885-1887, 1886-11-22

Ir is expected that the Secretary of the
Navy will give lift toward reducing the
expenses OF the next fiscal year by ask
ing no money for new vessels OF war
This will doubtless bring his estimates
much below the appropriations for the
current, even should allowance be made
for continuing work on the vessels already
authorized. The largest single item OF
this character will perhaps be one OF
81 800, 900 for the batteries of these YES
sells.
Salt Lake evening Democrat. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1885-1887, 1886-11-22

ALASKA, whose area is larger than the
States of New York, Pennsylvania, Ohio,
Illinois, Iowa, Michigan, Wisconsin and
Missouri together, cost us between seven
and eight million of dollars. Its mines
OF precious and useful minerals are un-
doubtedly OF vast extent, and its forests
of timber are well nigh inexhaustible.
Its volcanoes, mountains, rivers and
glaciers are on the grandest scale. It's
principal trade is in fish and furs, the
last having yielded in rent and tax,
nearly the amount originally paid as pur-
chase money for the entire Territory.
Salt Lake evening Democrat. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1885-1887, 1886-11-22
DR.. c. w. HIGGINS,
Microscopic and Analytic Physician,

microscopic ana Analytlc PnySlclan,
Has practiced in Salt Lake City fourteen years,
and the wonderful and well-established cures
he has effected in that time prove the scientific
principles on which his remedies are COM
pounded. The mode of forming diagnosis BY
the aid of the microscope enables him to detect
the primary cause of disease and effect a radi-
cal cure. The doctor has cured thousands of
cases of Nervous Debility, Mental and Physical
Weakness, Loss of Manhood and Nervous Pros
tration, the results of early indiscretions and
excesses, and stands ready to forfeit Five Hun
dred Dollars for any case taken under his treat
ment which he fails to cure.
syphilis, GOnorrhRa, Gleet, Structure and all
old, lingering diseases which vitiate the blood
and impair the system, thoroughly and perma-
nently cured
My treatment is sure, certain and specific.
ELECTRICAL INDICATED BATHS,
Napor Baths, Chemical Baths and Herbical
Baths can be had at any hour of the day at DR..
9. W. Higgins Eclectic Medical Dispensary,
No. 30 W. Third South street
/ would say, as there are many who do not
understand the method of my bath treatment,
that those diseases which are most likely to
yield to this treatment are Loss of Voice, Bron-
chitis, Asthma, Lung Diseases, Catarrh Nervous
Weakness, Neuralgia, Palsy Diseases of the
Skin, and Stiff Joints.
Office hours from a. m. to p. m. and from
z to 9 p. m.
Call at or address, DIR. c. W. HIGGINS, 80 w
Third South street, Salt Lake City Utah Terri
tory.
Residence, 649 North First West street, Salt
Lake City, Utah Territory.
Salt Lake evening Democrat. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1885-1887, 1886-11-22

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Advertising rates furnished at office.
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Salt Lake evening Democrat. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1885-1887, 1886-11-22
PRODUCTION AND DISTRIBUTION.

From the New York independent we
clip the following:
IIr. Mulhall, the British statistician, pre-
sents the following figures, rs showing the
relative annual growth of the wealth-pro-
ducing capacity of the leading countries of
the world:
United States $S25 900, 900
France ........... ..... 375 600
Great Britain Observation-Disclosures. 1876 900, 900
Germany 200 900 900
Other Countries .................... 725 900, 900
Mr.. Charles Il. Endicott, of Brookline,
Massachusetts, in letter to the Boston
advertiser, brings forward these fgnres,
and remarks in regard to them that "the
people of this country" constituting "only
~ per cent of the population of the globe,
produce more than one-third of the entire
accumulated wealth of the whole world"
The United States comes first, and France
next, both of which are protective coun-
tries. The former produces annually $780,
600 900 more, and France $50 100000 more
than Great Britain, which is free trade
country.
Now, il the enormous production Of
wealth in this country could first be fairly
distributed, and second, be reasonably
expended, how many vexed questions
would be settled, how many destitute
homes made comfortable and happy.
Deduct the hundreds OF millions that are
annually expended in this country for in
dulgences, hurtful and ruinous, and allow
generous margin for absolute luxuries,
and what nation OF good livers we
might be. The prodigal son, after having
wasted his patrimony in rotous living,
might as well have whined over the con-
fiict between capital and labor, and
charged his husk diet upon the hog
monopoly, as for the able-bodied laborers
OF this country to follow his example and
rend the air with their lamentations over
wasted opportunities and harmful ex-
penditures.
Salt Lake evening Democrat. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1885-1887, 1886-11-22
MEDICAL.
AM ECIECTIC
Medical Dispensary.
MEDICAL

- Specialist, has opened an Eclectic Medical
Dispensary in his elegant parlors at No. 80 West
Third South street. Denhalter Block
Salt Lake evening Democrat. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1885-1887, 1886-11-22
LAND AGENTS AND ATTORNEYS

WIZ promote claims in contested and sus.
pended cases in the Land OfIice nj sait I sIa aLa
CITY, Utah, aud General Land Onice at Washing.
ION, ID. g., obtain Patents on Homestead, Pre.
,ehpuoE, Desert and Timber Culture Entries
aud upon coal aud mineral lands. 'N''
General information relating To lands r,r.
hlSShel, win maps, plates and diagrams.
Salt Lake evening Democrat. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1885-1887, 1886-11-22

Or the thirty-fye Democrats who voted
against the consideration of the Morrison
tariff bill, eighteen failed OF being re-nom-
mated. OF the seventeen who re-entered
the field four have been defeated, leav-
ing only thirteen to renew in the next
Congress, if they care to, the experiment
tried in the present one.
Salt Lake evening Democrat. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1885-1887, 1886-11-22

JOSEPH r. WALKER, b. q. RAYBOULD,
President. Cashier.
Salt Lake evening Democrat. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1885-1887, 1886-11-22

TuIc DhDEO may DO found on ilo at Geo T.
Vito rHfEn Rowell & Cos Newspaper Al.
fertRing Bureau 40 Spruce ST., where advertising
contracts Inay be made fOFit IN NEW %IDRA-
Morning journal and courier., 1886-12-24

qualifications of voters except that of six months of continuous residence.
Morning journal and courier., 1886-12-24

in weight Dr. William relates case of an
 abstainer living seventy-two days without
 nourishment, on which day he died exhaust
 ed. He lived only on water favored with
 orange juice. Henry Welby in 1887 flor forty
 years, though of great wealth, never tasted either fish. flesh, ,or fowl. He died at the ripe old age of eighty-four. During the whole of his retirement his chief food was oatmeal gruel and salad of cool herbs
 The longest time recorded in the annals of physic in which man existed without food was sixty-one days, the case being that of a young man driven mad from overwork. Alexander Benedictus mentions a case at Venice where lived forty-six days without food. The history of France states that Louis the pious, Emperor of France, who died in $40, existed forty days without foed or drink. Albertus Magnus gives us the record of a woman of Cologne, who lived for seven weeks only on water. It is sad that Democritus lived to the age of 109 years, and that in the latter part of his life, for forty days, he lived on smelling honey and hot bread. Raulin relates another case where ffty-two days of fasting took place on water alone. The Medical Gazette for July, 1883, contains two remarkable instances; one. of these, patient, is stated to have lived six years without swallowing any food, the mouth being occasionally moistened with water, tea, or whey, which was not swal- lowed but spat out. In the other case, which was originally recorded by Prof. Ricei of Turin, an inability to take food existed for three>y years. There are many traditions in all histories relating to the means emplo' ed by various individuals to support life during danger and privation. The Indians of Asia and America, when they are bound for long journey where there is possibility of such state of affairs existing, prepare themselves for emergencies follows: They mix the juice of tobacco with powdered shells in the form of small balls, which they retain in their mouths. The gradual solution serves to counteract the uneasy craving for food, it having been proved by experiment that clay introduced into the stomach relieves hunger. In TITO woman living at Yarmouth creat- ed considerable excitement and amazement for seven years and half without tasting food, her lips only moistened with water.
 The manuscript department at the Britain fasting of Jane Hodges( Sloan MS, 4,S1D. She lived in the year 1669 She suffered from hysterical aphonia and neither ate nor drank for nine weeks, so it is reported. She was under delusion, and stated that she lasted for the sins of the people, and that the was the saviour of the nations" She ultimately recovered and took food. In 1870 we read of the Lancashire fasting girl." Ellen Sudworth, aged eleven This is, how ever, not one of clear abstaining from solid food, as she lived on liquids and soups. We now come to Dr. Tanner, the American phy sician, who in 1880 commenced his fast of forty days duration. He apparently com pleted this, and was stated to have benefited to the extent of e25, 900 by it as conner cial speculation.
Morning journal and courier., 1886-12-24

Captain Taylor of the United States navy makes an interesting suggestion. Express companies have long had practice of ship ping goods in sealed trucks when the route is in part by cars and in part by steamboat. The truck is loaded and locked when in the car, and on reaching the steamer dock is un- loaded and drawn on the steamer. Captain Taylor's plan is merely an extension of this system. He would have specially construct ed steamers with their decks traversed by light rails. Upon these would rest light but strongly constructed cars. At New York they could be loaded with San Francisco freight, and the steamer set off on the voy- age to her port on the isthmus. Across the isthmus from ocean to ocean the plan pro- vides for narrow gauge railroad, built only heavy enough to support these light cars and the locomotive and, therefore, comparatively inexpensive. At the seaport the cars would be drawn from the steamers hold to the railroad track, made up into trains, hauled across and put aboard another steamer fitted, as was the first one, to receive them.
Morning journal and courier., 1886-12-24
NO. BOA

noted. If person is sick iron tools such as axes or knives cannot be used in the house.
 Upon mans grave his sled is placed, but broken to pieces, and his kyack meets simi- lar usage. Furs, spears and rifles are also deposited, while if the individual has killed many whales, the long jaw bones of the ba- laena are placed in an upright position to mark the spot. These people bury their dead upon the ground, 1aising number of pieces of driftwood in the shape of tent over the remains. Owing to this insecure mode of burial the wood soon falls down and affords entrance to foxes and dogs, who make havoc with the body. But little re- these Mutes are very much ineensed when ever attempts are made to take away any skulls or bones from the graveyards. They also make long detour in passing the rest ing place of the dead, and will on no account touch anything once deposited at burial.
Morning journal and courier., 1886-12-24
Friday, December 24, 1886.
SUPERVISOR sEE,s scHEME-

Supervisor Joseph B. See of Westchester county, New York, has achieved fame very suddenly. MT. See is the author of reso- lution which provides for the erection of a building on the county farm Ito be so con- strueted that it can be flooded with water to the depth of six feet, and so arranged with apartments that persons committed as tramps can be placed therein and when the water is turned on be compelled to bail or be submerged thereby" This resolution was adopted by the board of supervisors, of which MT. See is member, by vote of IA to 8.
 MT. See has been severely criticised for this move. The Central Labor union of New York, which recognizes in the tramp ''the victim of our present economical sys- tenn" is hot against MT. See, and he has been otherwise assailed. So much has been said that he has thought it best to make an explanation. He claims to be kind hearted man, and declares that he doesn't want to drown any tramps. He thinks that if the plan goes into operation there won't be any tramps in that neighborhood to drown. He further asserts that he is working in the in- terest of the honest laboring men. Years ago farmers in Westchester county were al most universally willing to give employ ment to a poor man who came along and asked for work. Since the times of the brutal, thieving tramps it is almost impossi- bic for man to get work in the county nn- less the farmer knows all about him.
 Before Supervisor Sees plan to keep tramps away from Westchester county can go into operation it will have to be sanc- tioned by the legislature, and it is not at all probable that it will be. It is a strange scheme for these times, and the most that can be accomplished with it is to make him self more or less ridiculous. Tramps are, to be sure. dreadful nuisances, and those who know most about them do not hesitate to assert that there are very few deserving" ones. But putting them in tank and fore ing them to bail for their lives is not hu- mane or sensible way of treating them. It is evident that some change is needed in their treatment in Westchester county. Su- pervisor See says: Whenever one of these chaps is arrested he says that he lives in the county, naming distant town, and so he goes to the county Jail. He has nothing to do there but eat and play cards all winter. We have tried to stop the nuisance, but in vain. It costs more to make tramp work than his work is worth. Every effort that we make to stop it meets the determined re- sistence of the sheriff's office, of the justices of the peace and of the constables. The sheriff gets $3 8 week for ths board of each tramp, and his profit must be large. The fees of the other officials are, of course, in- creased by the arrest and. committal of a latge number of tramps each year.
 Connecticut's tramp law has, on the whole, worked we'll. We commend it to the at- tention of the suffering people whom Super visor See is trying to protect.