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The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1886-10-24
Sir Charles Dukes Views

To a correspondent who visited Sir
Charles Dixie at his winter cottage in
the Surrey Hills, near Woking, the ex-
statesman said at seems to me that
Lord Randolph Churchill has decided to
follow the non-interVention policy, and
so far as he is concerned Russia may
seize COnstantinople whenever she
chooses. Ny opinion is that she will do
so sooner or later. I don't see how
the Radicals could oppose such a policy.
Churchill is certainly acting in concert
with Mr.. Chamberlain's views, and the
latter's foreign creed, conceived strictly
on the lines OF the Birmingham school,
has for years been implacable in its
opposition to jingoism in any form.
Austria alone is likely to prevent
Russia s occupation of StambouI, butt
fact, Austria would not make q move
we're it not for the pressure of some of
her RUssia-hating people.
Altogether l think Lord Churchill's
policy is unwise. Mr.. Gladstone and
the bulk of the Liberal party have over
and over again advocated non-interven-
ton abroad and three acres and q cow
at home. Lord Randolph. Churchill in
his speech at hartford last Saturday,
Endorsed both of these principles.
Churchill's next move will probably BE-
to pass free education bill
1.-The Conservatives will have no diff
Guilty." continued Sir Charles, in
remaining in power for at least five
years, and if nothing extraordinary
happens their control will probably last
ten years. do not see where or how
the Liberal party is unitabIe. and the
situation will not be improved whIn
Gladstone dies or retire.. Nobody
would follow Sir William Harcourt, and
many of the strongest men in the party
object to John Morley. Mr.. Cham ber-
lain is out of the question, and that
leaves Lord Roseberry as the only
possible leader, unless some new star
arises"
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1886-10-24
at Deep Creek

This old time district, now nearly for
gotten, was visited by Mr.. J, s.
Barnes during the past three
weeks, the trip across the desert
having been made in a buggy, with
a keg of water carried along for man
and beast. Mr.. Barnes says a man and
a boy comprise the mining population
of Clifton, and the once roseate
so much as quoted. There is undoubted
merit in the properties out that way,
but they are sleeping a deep sleep, from
which only an srchangel's trump in the
shape of q railroad loot will awaken
them.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1886-10-24
The Lead Kline

Mr.. Hanauer's property in Bingham
has been. brought into renewed promi-
hence of late, by fine strike of heavy
ore body, going about % ounces silver.
and holding the old percentage In
lead. The strike is regarded as one of
the most important events known in
Bingham mining for years past. The
Lead Mine now employees sixty men.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1886-10-24
The Mi1kmaId.

ga. L. Williams American Fork prop
erty, which began to make itself heard
few months back by sending down
some sixty ounce and fifty per cent.
ore, has gone out of the list of pro
ducers. The workmen were flooded
out by seepage, supposed to be from the
adjacent lakes, and for the present the
Milkmaid has been abandoned.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1886-10-24
rhs First From the Bannock.

Mr.. John a. Groesbeck arrived home
last evening from the Bannock, bring
ing with him the first silver brick run
put Of the new mill. He was met at
Pennington by Mr.. David James, and
was accompanied TO Salt Lake by Mr..
Owens, the builder of the mill. The
prick weighs nearly 1, 100 ounces, is
BIS fine, and as it contains some gold
t is valued at sbont $1,l00. Mr.. Groes-
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1886-10-24

4 declare, exclaimed Brown, Il be-
lieve have forgotten all 1 ever knew"
Sorry to hear It," remarked Fog.
However, you can take an hour some
day and learn it all over again.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1886-10-24

eek says the mill is running ia excel
ent style, and everybody interested IN
increases in quantity and quality.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1886-10-24

"Yaas," said young Smythe, al sup
pose everything created has some use !;
but. pom me hoDah, it is deuced hard
TO believe sometimes, don t cher know ?'
Yes" she replied, looking him over
critically, lit is, indeed"
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1886-10-24

He slipped quietly in st the door, but
catching sight of an inquiring face over
the stair-rail said: "SOrry so late, nv
dear; couldn't get a car before" 80
the cars were full, too" said the wife
and further remarks were unnecessary.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1886-10-24

YOU'VE wife: II am determined to
learn at just what hour my husband
comes home at night, yet, do what l
will, l cahnot keep awake, and he is
always careful not to make a particle
OF noise. Is there any drug which pro-
duces Wakefulness ?" Old wife: ''No
need to buy drugs. Sprinkle the floor
with tacks."
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1886-10-24

An American millionaire, who was
looking at level tract of land which
he had just bought at an extravagant
price, said to the agent who had sold it
ia him, Il do admire rich green fat. ="
80 do l." significantly replied the
agent.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1886-10-24

Friend: What on earth are YOU
photographing the umbrella for, dear
boy?" Amateur photographer: You
said you wanted to borrow it to go
home with, and L m getting something
ID remember it by, that's all"
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1886-10-24

AN anxious inquirer asks: Where
would you advise me to go to learn how
to play the cornet?" ITO the woods.
dear s'r; to the deep, dark, damp, dan
gerous WOODS"
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1886-10-24

"WHY are old maids so devoted to
their cats?" asked a young coxcomb
of an elderly lady. Because, having
no husbands, they take TO the most
treacherOus animals" was the reply.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1886-10-24
Lead

Lead is booming steadily downward,
and our mine owners lengthen their
countenances with each successive
notch recorded. Eastern papers seem
10 look for no immediate Improvement
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1886-10-24
Now York Market.

Neither Alice, Moulton nor Stormont
was recorded during the week. Ontario
was quoted at $40.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1886-10-24

WORTH is said to have made this re-
mark to a LADY, who was dowdily
dressed: Madame, I cannot risk my
reputation on you"
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1886-10-24
Ore and Bullion.

The ore and bullion receipts at the
various banks in this city for the week
ending Saturday, October %, 1886,
amounted to $84 1857 against $l26, 295 Sc
for the week previous. They were re-
ported as follows:
St. Landry democrat., 1886-01-23
"Why, my dear, it's a cheap enter.

"Why, my dear, it's a cheap enter.
tainment. You remember Jonas Chuz-
zlewit, who used to visit the outsides of
theaters and the insides of churches be-
cause they cost nothing. Well, the same
principle is involved in this aimless shop
ping business OF course it is an out
rageous thing to do, but you know there
are lots of people who will do outrageous
things, and think nothing of it. Itusual-
ly takes a couple of months before
cave customer can be satisfactorily
distinguished, this city being so large
that she can divide her Improbable pat
ronage among many stores. These la
dies generally carry sachels, and have
all the appearance OF the most inveterate
shoppers. They make minute inquiries
as to the goods they are inspecting, and
always turn away with the words, sor-
rowfully uttered: This is not exactly
what l want. How extremely annoy
ing And continued the strong mind
ed lady angrily, as she paid the waiter
for her chocolate, and in her deep alb
straction forgot to "tip' him, ''you read
of the poor wretches who are taken to
the police station because they are said
to be disorderly in causing annoyances
in the public streets? l have seen a
poor little banana-seller captured by a
policeman, and numerous others who
are endeavoring to make livelihood,
because they have foeg gotten the red
tape which must be employed in the
act. But think of these women-@hese
Instructions to honest purchasers! They
may flourish and they may do as they
like
"Well, how could any one prevent it?"
asked the girl, impatiently.
Il don't say they could, my dear-I
don't say they could. l am simply
speaking of the injustice of things
how everything favors the rich and
nothing the poor. The inveterate
shopper is, in my opinion, a positive
nuisance. She can't explain her busi-
ness satisfactorily. It was all very we'll
for Longfellow to make his namby-
pamby Precissa exclaim: I can not
reason; l can only feel We want
reasoning, logical women nowadays.
None of your milk-and-water nonenti-
ties for goodness sake. Look at
them! Look at themr'. continued the
strong-minded lady, staring irately at
the unconscious shoppers. "Oh, my
sex, that you should have come to
this! Come, my dear, let us cross the
road, and pursue :. the side streets,
where Our eyes will not be offended at
every step we take ~. r San.
St. Landry democrat., 1886-01-23
PiTH AND POINT.

-''Do you wish to be my wife, Ma
bel?" said little boy. ''Yes," incau-
tiously answered Mabel. Then pull of
my boots. ''-PaU Mall Gazette.
1--we eaten next to nothing lisped
Smithers, who was dining with his girl.
''Oh. I always do that when sit by
you,' responded the young lady, pleas
antly.-iSam.
Stephen Bennett, of Montpelier.
Vt, has a greenback stained with blood
that was in his sons pocket when he
was killed in battle twenty-one years
ago.-Rut1a,ad Herald.
-ssGive us the ballot-box," is the cry
of but very few of the fair sex, while the
rest of our feminine population is con-
tent with being allowed to frequently
stuff the handbook. Philadelphia Her.
aid.
1t is said that IAN Ohio man
planted the first American flag in Cali
fornia soil in 1883. - Whether it grew
or not is not stated but we suppose of
course it did They have glorious
climate out there e-LoDeN Citizen.
"A man in Northampton County
went to sleep in an engine house, u.s.
ing box of dynamite for pillow
When he awoke he found his head
blown off 1t must have been pain
full surprise to him.-No7ristoaon Her.
ald
Mr. Middlemas met three tramps
this morning; to the first he gave five
cents, to the second ten cents, and to
the third ten cents-what time was it?
All give it up? Want me to tell you?
Why, it is easy to see what time it was
"a quarter to three ~ Y. Iedepe,sd-
ent.
Nothing makes man feel the
value of an economical wife so much as
when he finds that the hundred dollars
he had given her to buy Christmas
presents with has been invested in pay
ing her dressmaker's bill and buying
him a corn-cob pipe.--Fon River
Herald.
-Wife-"Aren't you going to eat
your pudding, dear?' Husband Pok-
ing it disparagingly with his spoon)-'
ut would Kill me to eat that mess of in
digestible stuff" Wife-s'I know it's
not very nice, but you had better eat it
dear. | hate to see it wasted. CHI
cago Ma'l
She should have darned 'em-
The beautiful maiden Isl shopping to day,
Quite busy, and to her surprise,
While through the thronged street she Is
taking her way,
Her beau in the street she espies.
Good gracious tits awful! He's coming, no
doubt
And swift to her heart strikes pain;
The eyes of affection will single her ont,
He'll see her and speak, that is plain,
She halts, bushes redly, then crosses the
street,
Avoiding the youth that she loves;
The maid 1t would mortify much should they
meet
There are holes in the tips Of her gloves! !!
Boston Courier.
St. Landry democrat., 1886-01-23
a GREEN ONE.
He Buys Prairie-Dog Town for Mink
Colony.

Colony.
There are some mighty green men
in this world said the passenger from
the West, land l struck one of 'em a
week or two ago. Ii | hadn't l
wouldn't be here now. Last spring I
went out in Western Nebraska and
homesteaded quarter section. [ hadn't
seen the land, but took it supposin' it
was all right. But when | got there
| found it already inhabited. About
one hundred and fifty acres of the
one hundred and sixty were covered
with a prairie-dog town. Well, | con-
cluded to settle down and see what |
could do, and I'm mighty glad now
that I did. About two weeks ago
was up to the railroad station trying to
get trusted for some bacon and flour
and terbacker, an feelin' right smart
discouraged. was out of money and
grub, and the winter was comm on
fast an couldn't see anyway out OF it
but to eat prairie dogs, and they, IRE
mighty hard to catch. But that day
was the turning point in my luck.
While I was at the station an English
man got off the cars, an said as how
he was out West lookin' for place to
make an investment Said he'd heard
O. the fur business, an wanted to
know if he was out in the fur country
yet.
".Furs, says |, there hahn no t.
an Just then an idea struck me, an |
changed my tune. .Furs,' says l, there
amt no better fur country than this on
'arth. just come out to my place till l
show you-my fur farm
''And he went out with me, an
showed him the prairie-dog town, an =,
as luck would have it, it was bright,
sunny day, an the dogs were out scoot-
in around by the hundreds.
" .Talkin' about furs,' says |. what
dye think of that? I've been six years
CROWN those mink, an hain't sold a
hide. It's all natural grease. Guess
they's bout seven thousand of 'em now,
an they double every year. How many
will there be in ten years?'
"You oughter seen that Englishman' s
eyes open as he took out his pencil an
figured it up. He made it 7,16S,OOO
mink.
's.Well, says l, call it 5000, 900 to be
on the safe side. 1t won't cost a dollar
to keep 'em, either, an if they're worth
cent they're worth dollar apiece.
There's millions in it..
Then we got right down to business,
an in less than an hour [ had sold out
for seven thousand dollars cash, an the
next day l paid three hundred and fifty
dollars for the homestead at the Land
Office, got my patent and transferred il
to him and took the first train for the
East Step into the buffer with me,
partner, an take Il drink. " Chicago
Herald .
St. Landry democrat., 1886-01-23
MISSING.

a sailors yarn you'd like to have me sp,na
Sit down, shipmate; here, off Nantucket
] was the Captain OF the Abel Gwynn
That stormy year the Mary Lee was lost.
Her Captains name was William Henry
Court,
A gallant and careful skipper, too;
saw the ship weigh anchor and clear
port,
And bear away along the heaving blue.
Far out at sea she stood, the Mary Lee,
A whaler rigged and from this harbor
bound,
With all sail spread from the cold northern
sea;
A good ship-aye, and timbers staunch and
sound.
And old Nantucket town will never see,
The topmast OF the good ship Mary Lee.
Aye' aye that little woman waiting there?
The shippers wife-how fast she's getting
gray,
Brown as an autumn oak leaf was her hair
The morning that the Mary sailed away.
She comes here ey'ry morning with that
glass,
tshe's not in her right mind, 'twixt you and
And while the ships come in, the poor old
Stands Watching for the bonny Mary Lee.
--TnL1r. Ocean
St. Landry democrat., 1886-01-23
SUBMARINE VESSELS.
The Nordenfelt Steam Craft and Goubet
Electric Boat.

The Nordenfelt Steam Craft and Goubet's
Electric Boat.
A successful submarine craft for use
in naval warfare has been the study
of inventors for generations. The
well-known Swedish engineer, Norden-
felt, has recently perfected boat or
vessel of this description, the merits
of which have been made the subject
of elaborate discussion in engineer
ing journals. It was recently tried in
the harbor of Landskrona, under the
supervision of Swedish officials, and in
the presence of representatives from
the principal naval powers of Europe,
and its performances agreed to con-
siderable extent, if not completely.
with the claims made by its inventor in
its behalf.
Nordenfelt's craft is cigar shaped,
like most of the experimental crafts Of
similar description. Its motive power
is steam, produced on the surface, and
stored in hot reservoirs for use when
the boat is under water. The same
power puts and keeps in motion the
devices for lowering the boat to the
depths where it is to be navigated. Its
balance is kept, and it is prevented by
simple mechanical appliances from sink
ing deeper or rising nearer to the sur
face than the proper level where its
movements will be most effective. No
provision is made for renewing the air
or purifying it where the crew are IN
closed, but four men have occupied it
while below the surface for several hours
and gave no indications of exhaustion
or even weakness when they emerged.
The boat is made of half-inch steel
plate, with strong iron frame, and
low glass cupola on top from which it is
conned and it's operations directed. 1t
is quite a vessel, being sixty-four feet
long and twelve feet beam. The ex-
periments made were very successful.
and it approached unseen near enough
to many vessels in the harbor to have
launched against them torpedo with
fatal effect.
A French inventor named Goubet has
recently made some experiments with
submarine boat operated by an electric
motor. He had previously contrived a
similar craft of which three hundred
were ordered by the Russian Govern
ment. He regards his present boat. as
far superior to the one that he first pro-
duced. Chicago Journal.
St. Landry democrat., 1886-01-23
SNOW-SHOEiNG.
The Fashionable and Prime Canadian
Winter Amusement.

The Fashionable and Prime Canadian
Winter Amusement.
Snow-shoeing is one of the prime win
ter amusements in Canada; it is as fash
ionable as lawn tennis, and even more
exhilarating. To be deft on the snow
shoes is regarded in Montreal society as
quite as much of an accomplishment as
to be nimble on ones toes in the ball
room. Fashionable young gentlemen
and fashionable young ladies, who would
regard it almost as a social solecism to
90 ON foot in the pursuit of other amuse-
ments, skim over the chrystallized sur
face of snow-covered hills and wales with
no other aid to locomotion than that af-
forded by their own strong limbs, and
seem to enjoy the sport
The Canadian snow-shoe differs as
materially from the snow-shoe in use in
the Rocky Mountains as cat-boat diff
fers from a catamaran. The Canadian
snow-shoe is more like gigantic tennis
bat or old-fashioned battledoor than
ANYTHING else 1t is never fastened Sc
curely to the foot, but contains simply a
oe-piece by which the wearer pushes it
along over the crusted snow, his heels
being entirely free. 1t is turned up at
the forward end to prevent it's burrow-
ing in the snow. and the art of the snow
shoer consists in being able to half lift
and half push the contrivance rapidly
and evenly.
The snow-shoes in use throughout the
mountainous regions of Colorado con-
sist of long, narrow boards turned up at
one end, which are laced to the feet, and
which, having smooth under sides, are
used like sleds in descending the noun
tains. There is legend extant in Col
orado of famous snow-shoe race, in
which the competitors, while descend
ing steep hill, inadvertently turned
their toes outward at too great an angle,
and were all as neatly split open from
the crotch to the top of the head as was
ever Christmas pig by butcher s
cleaver. No such dire disaster as this is
possible in the use of Canadian snow
Shoes. The Rocky Mountain snow
shoes, it must be borne in mind, are fre-
quently more than twenty-five feet in
length, and act like independent steel
runners on the CLASSY surface of the
frozen snow.
The costume of the Canadian snow
shoer is decidedly picturesque, and the
inspiriting scene presented by a we'll
equipped club in full swing over the
frozen fields, the leaders, horn awaken
ing distant melodious echoes, and the
cheeks of the travellers rosy with the ex-
ertion of the sport, is one calculated to
arouse the enthusiasm of the beholder.
A snow-shoeing jaunt in Canada is
usually followed by hot supper. Small
wonder that the pastime is POPULAR
Harper's Weekly.
St. Landry democrat., 1886-01-23
ENDLESS TIME.
A Faint Idea OF the Antiquity of the
Earth.

A Faint Idea OF the Antiquity OF the
Earth.
Geological discoveries give us faint
idea of the antiquity of this earth OF
ours. Mr.. Laing takes the coal meas
ures as giving the best idea of the enor-
nous intervals of time required for geo.
logical changes. These are made up OF
seams of coal resting as a rule ON
bed of clay known as the under-clay,
and covered by bed of sandstone or
shale From eighty to one hundred of
these alternating layers have been found
in South Wales and Nova Scotia. The
total thickness of the coal measures is in
some cases as much as $4,000 feet. Each
seam means forest growth. gradual SUBJ
sidence covering with deposits, and this
is traceable over and over again. TAX
ing an actual measure-thickness of 12,-
900 feet, Prof. Huxley calculates that
the time represented by the coal forma-
ton alone would be 100000 of years.
Mr.. Laing says: "But this takes no ac-
count of the long periods during which
no accumulation takes place at
the localities in question, and of
the long phases which must have ensued
between each movement of elevation
and submergence, and especially be-
tween the disappearance of an old and
appearance of an almost entirely new
epoch, with different forms of animal
and vegetable life We may be certain
also that we are far from knowing the
total thickness of strata which will be
disclosed when the whole surface of the
earth comes to be explored. All we can
say is that we have fragmentary pages
left in the geological record for, at the
very least. 100, 100000 of years, and that
probably the lost pages are quite as nu-
merous as those of which we have an
imperfect knowledge. Sir Charles Lyell,
the highest authority on the subject, is
inclined to estimate the minimum of ge-
illogical time at 20O,000,00O of years,
and few geologists will say that his esti-
mate appears excessive" But he points
out that: Long as is the record of ge-
illogical time, it is only that of one short
chapter In the volume of the history of
the universe. .''--Demorest's Monthly.
St. Landry democrat., 1886-01-23

"A man who is willing to hold the
baby part of the time and grease the
griddfe in the morning is, in woman 8
exc, the only substitute for cash.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1886-01-07
sron County Aegl5ter
IMPORTANT.

When you visit or leave New York City
save Baggage Expressage and Carriage Hire,
and stop at the Grand Union Hotel, opposite
Grand Central Depot.
Elegant rooms fitted up at a cost of one
million dollars, reduced to 81 90 and upwards
per day. European plan. Elevator. Res
taurant supplied with the best. Horse cars.
stages and elevated railroad to all depots
Families can live better for less money at the
Grand Union Hotel than at any other .irst-
class hotel in the city.