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Spiders That jump.


Never heard Of jumping spiders before?
Perhaps you doubt me-, then, when ! say that
there are such q specIesf" observed a well-krown
merchant, as he sat watching a spider weaving
its silken web on the outer surface Of the win
dow pane. "Oh. yes" ne continued, 'thsy are
queer little fellows, and some OF them are DIS
euisec. as il for tho purpose Of self-proteciion.
Nature has bestowed upon these insects a Pc
culisr costume. and they are often found re-
sembling an ant. These insects produce
o very small quantity of silk,
and are usually tn be found hidden In the
cracks Of the walls or in assures Of bark in the
shadow OF the foliage. and their homes are gen.
orally made out OF q smooth and glossy tissue.
When the season Of the year At which they lay
their eggs comes round the jumper shuts itself
mp in its shell The eggs are always deposited
in a flmy sack. Not having the faculty OF
building webs. the Jumpers are naturally hunt
ers, and if the weather is Indictment they are
obliged TO fast. If a fy hovers in sight the spi-
der poupces upon IL with lightning rspidity. 1t
has q faculty OF measuring distances so well
that it rarely ever misses its mark. But should
It miss the fly no harm ensuss. by reason of the
fact that il has fixed Q thread TO its starting
point. which. unroiliuc as 1t leaps. prevents it's
striking the ground and affords a clew to It's rem
devious. which is rapidly sought in the event Of
q miscalculation.D
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Paris Dispatch in London Daily Telegraph.
There was a lively sensation at the Pslais de
Justice at berry q day or two ago. The
public prosecutor had received q letter from a
lady setting forth that as she could not obtain
fair play she n.ended TO rake the life of n mag
~istrate. Not content, however, with i~ndicting
this terrible ~epistle. the lady, a few hours after
ward, made her appearance IN the courtyard of
the Palais de Justice, braDdishing a large knife
which had just been chsrpened to q nicely. The
heroine OF this adventure was a Mile. Marcsilins
Louise Ruel, who lives with her sister, Mile
Marie Louise RueL The Two spipsters, who are
10 comfortaole circumstances, had had painful
experience of the glorious uncertainty of the
law. They had engaged 10 several soits, and
had lost them all Instead, however, of sup
porting their ill-luck with equanimity they had
developed q prodieious erudee. not only against
the gentlemen OF the long robe. but against
business men at large. By way OF svenGiog
themselves for the unfairness with which-as
they imagined in their dissppointment-they
had been treated, they had for some time past
caused the walls of the town to blossom at in
tervals with posters denouncing the iniquities OF
1.-THE Devils Own but in her excitement Mile.
Msreelline determined on having recourse to
more stringent measures. so she sailed forth,
knife In hand. TO slsy the frstlawyer who might
cross her path. She was, however. promptly ar
rested. ss well as her sister, who is regarded as
an accomplice.
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portions; q whols sheep is brought up on
one dish. on another two dozen fowls, sur
rounded by smaller birds. and the size Of each
dish does not preclude q great variety. The
visnds in themselves are not bad. but they are
dressed in a peculiar way. according to national
culinary receipts, il which cinnamon predomi-
mates. At every visit which the minister pays
20 the pashss and high functionaries, coffee is
served. The beverage. Ia every instsnce, Is
prepared by . black in o cur. out OF which
il lie drunk. and he makes no mystery
of tasting it repeatedly to be sure
that it is compounded perfectly. Eth
quette requires that three cups should be
taken; the 6rst is sweetened TO the consistency
Of syrup. tie second is favored with pepper
mint, the last with verbena. At no meal is wine
served; the natives, OF whatever rank, never sit
at table with the Christians, but squat on the
floor, tearing the meat with their fingers, as the
Koran forbids the use OF knife anc fork. They
are possessed OF extraordinary dexterity In their
manipulation. DESIGNATING huge carcAsses aud
boning fowls with the greatest ease. The Sultan
is, or affects to be, . great observer Of the Mus
religious laws. does not wear . single order or
decoration.
The women Of MeQuinsz are allowed to walk
out Of tho precincts of the harem on one day of
the week, Friday. Their favorite resort 10 the
top OF the walls surrounding the gardens.
which are so wide that several carriages could
move abreast. From that point of vantage
they do not scruple to cast fascinating and elo-
oucut kiauCes Oh tue OuEi8tiaQ QOgo WnOm
curiosity has attracted, and who are not remiss
IN conveying to them their mute and forbidden
admiration.
The Sultan Is not rich in so Tar that be has
neither civil List nor private fortune; but this is
absolutely immsssrial, as he is privileged to ap-
p%ropriate whatever he chooses-money, houses,
land, cattle. horses, jewels, weapons and wom-
en-. As soon as any Of these find favor in his
eyes he merely sends a message TO the owner to
the effect that hsnceforth they are his, and no
one ever disputes bis sovereign right to do 50.
He il neither cruel Ior voluptuous, and seems
unconscious or the cupidity, rapac-
ity aud unscrupulousness of his fol-
lowers, while he sincerely wishes to have GER
tain improvements introduced into his domiu-
ions. He is. for instance, anxious to establish
railways and 1t 10 q matter of moment and
rivalry 70 European nations to obtain the con-
tract for them. Belgium has sent him ~ q pres
ent a complete train. engine. tender and two car
riages, with the necessary rails for q track Of Q
few miles: The necessary engineers, stokers
and drivers accompany the train and work il.
Muley Hassan 10 delighted with tho gift and
never weary Of the short journey.
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A Sample Chinese Newspaper Lie.

From the bu Pao.
West of Kaming City, KwantunE province, 10
. wild. mountainous locality, lies the little viii
lage of Tak'ang Ts'un. Outside the village is q
little old tenn pie of Va Il, and the man IN charge,
who is rot a shaver priest, carefully locks him
self in at night: but TWO holes drilled in the
floor afford a means OF looking out and q guar
autee against suffocation. One night a tiger
came and crouched just outside the door for q
long time, as if he knew there was q man inside.
he then first put q paw in through one OF the
holes and clswed around. and next inserted his
tail TO feel for his prey with his sensitive MEM
Der. The temple guardian, maddened with fear,
got a chopper and waited for the animal to re-
new the experiment.. and then dealt n violent
blow and cut the tail through. The tiger gave
q roar thst shook the tiles on the roof of the
joss-house, and then charged at the door repest-
eddy. finally knocking il of lis hinges and on to
the man who had been trying to prop it up on
the other side. The tiger charged in over the
PROSTATE door, and not seeing the man who was
hidden by il, seized one of tho josses which
stood ON each side of the door in its jaws and
galloped away. while the man bolted of 10 the
village. The next day some erass-cptters on
the mountain found the joss lying on a wild,
lonely hillside, where 1t had been abandoned
by the tiger. and. recognizing the sacred image,
brought 1t back to the village, and there heard
the extraordinary story of it's removal"
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New Fire-EindIer.

boston transcript.
The servant girl who pours kerossus oil on the
fire seems to have disappeared pretty complete
ly. Perhaps she has been to o copsiders ole ex-
tent exterminated. At any rate. we don't often
read OF cases of explosion and coufaerstion,
though the ~vigilant housskesper, IL she happens
toto the kitchen. may still detect an odor which
tells her THAI the girl must have poured oil on
the klndling either before or after il was ignited.
But the Listener has a case which may explain
why kerosene accidents are not SO frequent
The servant girl has discovered 9 new FIRE quick
ensr.
1t was in Boston, and not long ago, that the
mistress of q house. not much given TO coins into
tho kitchen, entered one day, unexpectedly, Just
Ia time to catch her kitchen maid In the act OF
emptying q scoopfyl Of Rrsnulsted white sugar
into the FIRE. Sugar is exceedingly inhsmma-
bic, and it's application made the FIRE fash up in
exceilent shape. The head o. the house had no
ticed thas he was called upon to pay tor a great
many barrels of sugar, and his wife had won
der.d at the familyis enormous CONSUMPTION OF
that article; but she did not wonder any more.
especially as the girl. under pressure, confessed
that she had regularly been using the sugar to
quicken the FIRE. ''Sure. mum" said she, 1--WE
must have the fire. an thu coal burns that slow
that me heart Is broke wa,,in' upon iup
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Correspondence San Francisco Oh ronicle.
The kiwi IL the sole remnant Of the wonder
full race of wineless birds which once roamed all
over New Zealand, the gigantic skeletons of
some of which have been found In such num-
bers that almost every museum 10 the world
possesses one or more of them. The kiwi is
about the size of a partridge. has a rather long
neck and . curious bill about four inches in
length. It's wings Gre quite undeveloped and its
feathers have a sort of unfinished character,
which may be supposed to represent natures
early efforts in that direction, before tha close,
rich plnmage OF the modern bird was evolved
Wanting the means OF flight. the kiwi has been
only too rapidly exterminated. and with 1T also
have gone. or nearly gone. all the other feath-
cred denizens of the woods. The invasion of
thei. haunts by the white man is not the sole
cause Of this. Equally potent, perhaps more so,
has been the Introduction of English birds. The
linnet. the sparrow, the chafineh and the
thrush have driven away the more timid and
delicate native birds. This is the case more or
lees throughout New Zealand wherever the
white population has found It's way.
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NJ. Pe!ivier, In Lie Figaro,
The Bismarck now before me was very differ
ent from the Bismarck ] used to see in Berlin
six or seven years ago, before DR.. Schweninger
took him in hand. The Bismarck Of to-day is
thin and bony, and the Doctor has. it is we'll
known, d~isencumbered him of his unhealthy fat
merely by preventing him drinking with his
meals. He is looking remarkably well; his gait
IL swift and automatic; but denotes real vigor;
his complexion is clear and almost pink. no
doubt the result Of the health-laden breezes
from the German ocean and the Baltic.
1 remark also that the features are
softened down; you scan them in
vain TO discover that h~arshness, not to
say ferocity. which are so apparent In his photo
graphs. 1t may, however. be due to the fact
Of his being In civilian garb. His soft felt hat,
very much the worse for wear. his long gray
coat and heavy stick, give him the aspect OF a
plain country gentleman come to the station to
meet a friend. When ne dons his uniform he is
another man, and looks the surly trooper all
over. The country folk have repeatedly noticed
this difference. The Chancellors healthy sp-
peArancs is not deceptive. All the people in
whose midst he lives tell me that bis health is
better than it has bssn for years past; and a
proof of this is that this year it has not been
found necessary to send him to Kissingen.
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RAILWAY

L TIME-rABLES.
DENNSYLvANIA LYNEs-THED DIRECT AND
i PoPuLAR PAssESGER ROUTES.
Trains Lave and arrive at Indianapolis a. followG
PANHANDLE RoUrE-EAsr.
Leave for Ptstrg q y. Y .....< :30am 2:55pn 5:lopu
" +" Richmond and Columbus. s:00am lo0p0
Arrive from Ny. & Pitsbg ll:4Oam 7:5Opm l00p3
-Columb's, Richm'd, etc. s:<0am s50pI
slsspsrs to Pittsbura and New York without chanas.
scHIcAao DIVISION.
Leave for Chicago ana Northwest -. .lI:I5sa ,i:oopu
Arrive from Chicago and Northwest. I00aa 35opH
J.. ". D 7. y. R.-gourH.
Leave for Louisville
and the South. 3:30am e:0Oam <:0opm 6o0uM
Arrive from Louisville
and the outh-.-l0.s5am ll:l0am s:t5pm lo-50pn
T. a v. h. r. SOUTHWEST.
0atfo Express. Leave ..-....... 7.loam
Vtncennes Leave, .--....- <1Opm
vincennes accommodate Arrive .-.....-- To- Siam
CAIRO Express, 5.0Opm
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Thoroughbred Hunter.

Crescent CITY ICaI Record.
Nate Moore, sixteen years OF age, while cut
ting brush in Chetco valley, about two weeks
ago, came upon a nest of partners. His dogs
freed the old mother and the boy grabbed the
three little kittens that were in the nest and
started for his home. some three miles distant,
which he reached with his prize in safety, while
the dogs good watrh over the mother. The
kittens wers Bnpposed to have been about TWEEN
ty days old. Tney were brought 90 Crescent
City and were sold at Smith River for $50. The
boy had no gut or other weapon except a brush
hook at the time, aud 1t required more courage
than most men would have had TO take the baby
panthsrs from the wstchful eye Of their mother.
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Condition of Mpthodism in Ire land.

JhlcagO IrIDu1e.
The Rev. j. w. Jones. Of Wesley College,
Dublin. Ireland, is at the Palmer. This institu-
ton Is the frst of the kind in connection with
America for the purpose Of laying the condition
OF the college before the American Methodists.
The institution cost sl02. y75, the original debt
On IL having been reduced 20 $50, 900. Speaking
OF The Msthodist Church in ireland Mr.. Jones
said to Tribune reporter that its members and
sdhsrents all told numbered only so, COO. They
raised every year for church work and ssso-
caAte6 bensvolencs s250, 600. During the last
seven years they lost by emigration to America
k5Q0 member, and Jet they are ], 900 stronger now
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than they were then. They have expended on
their college at Belfast during the last t~onty-
five years fS6 600. and on Wesley College, Dub
lin, in the last ten years EGO, 900, or CLOG. 600
for intermediate and higher education. The
Methodist Church, according 10 the last census,
was the only church IN Ireland that increased is
membership during the last decade. The no
man Catholic had decreased, owing to the great
drain of emigration.
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BEGINS TUESDAY MORNING.

Notwithstanding the Importance OF the attraction
there win b no advance in the regular prices Of the
house.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1888-07-13
The Turf.

LONDON, July 12.-This was the first
dav of the Hamilton Park summer
meetins. Galore won the Park stakes.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1888-07-13
THE EASTERN FLOOD.
DesOlatiOn and Ruin Left in
Its Path.
THE EX-EMPRESS VICTORIA.
A Government Victory-An Insurrec-
tion-Russian Harvest-1he
Michigan Fire-Etc.
THE EX-EMPRESS VICTORIA
The Flood.

P.TTsBURG, July 12-To day the
waters that have been sweeping the val
ley of the Monongahela and the valleys
of its tributaries for the last sixty hours,
are again falling into their natural
channels. They leave in their track
scenes of desolation and ruin that
never had their counterpart in the
same localities. From P.ttsburg to the
mountain Businesses of Randolph
County, West Virginia, towns have
been ravaged, manufactures inun-
dated. boats sunk, houses and lumber
hoated off, ielos with their wheat in
shock and growing crops devastated,
families driven to the hills for shelter,
and in many instances the accumula-
tions Of years of toll and self
denial have been lost IN an hour.
The losses entalled by the flood will
rot, it is ascertained To-day, be short
of So 100000, a large proportion OF
which falls with crushing effect upon
the people of the thriving counties of
Monongahela, Marion, Taylor. Har-
rison, Lewis, Barbour, Upshur and
Randolph. in West Virginia. In Penn
sylvania the losses are in the counties
of Allegheny, Washington, Westmore-
land, Fayette and Greene, the heaviest
being in Allegheny, Washington and
Fayette. These losses fall most heavily
upon the owners of coal property, rail-
road companies and farmers. NOtWith-
standing the suddenness of the coming
of the water and the area of destruc-
ton, the losses of fats, barges and small
river craft have been comparatively
small, and nearly all boat
owners are congratulating themselves
on their good fortune. In Pittsburg
proper, much of the loss has fallen
upon owners of shanty boats and boat
houses, but these are for the most part
insignificant. The owners of mill pro-
perty will loose largely, and have 10
undergo no end of inconvenience on
account of the invasion of mills by the
water, putting out Of fires and rusting
and almost running the valuable
machinery. Little lun Der OR other
movable property has been carried
away from this city, but from points
above millions OF feet of valuable tim
Der and lumber have come down, and
been carried off into the Ohio, a total
loss to the owners.
There was no rain in any part of the
flooded district yesterday, and by this
evening traces of the flood Will have
been generally removed. At 10 o'clock
there was seVente en- feet of water IN the
river and falling. The C1itt had all
passed out and the river had lost its
turbulence. Coal men were busily pre-
pairing tn ir coal fleets for shipment
and by tomorrow all crafts will have
departed fer western and southern
points. The shipment will aggregate
10 600 600 tons.
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AN OPEN LETTER.
SALT LAKE CITY, June 21st, 1SS

SALT LAKE CITY, June 21st, 1888.
l was born IN the pretty little village
of Underwood, Devonshire, Eng
land, in the year 1922. 1 re-
NAMED at home and worked on
the farm until l was 10 years old.
The recollection of those early days are
very pleasant to me as life creeps on.
After leaving the farm l spent fourteen
years. in the English navy. In 1872 l
came to America, and six years ago l
came to Salt Lake. The only blight TO
my life, especially my boyhood days,
when life should have been the bright
est, was a Disagreement that was born
with, namely. cross eyes. never will
know just how much difference it has
made IN my lite, but know it made a
great deal in my esrly days. I've been
cross-eyed 66 years. On Monday of
this week DR.. Prentice Strengthened my
eyes in half a minute, without causing
me any pain. Even at my age am
proud to have straight eyes for the bal.
ance of my days. l call at DIR. Prem
tees Office at the Continental Hotel
Salt Lake City, nearly every day, and
have seen him do operations without
pain that are almost miraculous. 1t is
with pleasure add my testim ony.
HENRY HONEY,
746 First South Street, East.
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Unnatural Son,

LONDON, July 12.-The Pail Nall Ga.
zstte publishes some sensational CORES
pondence from Berlin, under date OF
July 10, which is in effect as follows
Friedrickskron Palace, at Potsdam,
where Empress Victoria is living, is il
all but name a prison, and the ex-
Empress IS virtually under arrest. In
any case she is receiving scant consld
Grafton from the man who Is now En-
peror. The presumed object is to
bring influence to bear on Her Majesty
which will induce her to surrender her
husbands papers.
1t Is semi officially stated that the
Berlin correspondence regarding the
treatment of ex-Empress Victoria,
which the Pail Mall Gazette published
to-day, is entirely without foundation.
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SHE NEVER SAW A MARDI-GRAs.

II have lived in New Orleans all my
life, and never have seen a Mardi-Gras.
From early childhood | have been
troubled with bad sight, and always de-
pended on my companions to inform
me of the subject, etc.. and tell me
what was passing by. had always to use
the strongest kind of opera glasses in
in addition to my eye glasses, procured
from the leading opticians, and yet
never saw procession of any kind to
my satisfaction, or near as we'll as other
people could, until the Menus process
sion of last week. | could then, for the
first time in my life, read all the signs
and posters, saw all the figures on the
flats and the minutest DIT tail distinctly.
II could never see the music score
when seated at the piano, and could
not sing from a sheet of music when
any one else held it. l have passed
friends and acquaintance on the street,
never being able to distinguish
them. l have sat in a street car
and handed my fare to my husband
and did not know him. L could have
ridden all the way home with him. not
knowing who he was if he did not
speak. In fact, 1 could hardly men
ton the many instances of annoyance
my bad sight has caused. l
have tried leading occuiists, and
got glasses from the first opti-
tions of the country. l have I'M.
derWent constitutional treatment, took
ever SO many drugs, all to no purpose.
I finally resigned myself to my sad fate,
and thought Id make the best of it.
But at last l found perfect relief in
skillful treatment and application of
glasses by DR.. Prentice, and shall
never know how to express my graft
tude for all ne has done for me. He
has most certainly given me pair of
new eyes. MRS. j. q. MILLER,
1872 st. Claude Street, N. o.. La.
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Advice to Living Skeletons.

Nothing thins a man down like a
heavy cold or severe cough. 1t feeds
on flesh, on muscle; it impoverishes
the blood; it converts all the curves of
the figure into angles. Get rid CT it,
sufferer, as you prize comeliness of
person, health. life. Hale's Honey of
Horehound and Tar, is the only
remedy needed. 1t acts like blessed
balsam on the membranes of the throat
and lungs, and charms away by its
soothing action, every inhammatory
symptom. All druggists are supplied
with it. Prices 80 cents and 81, or six
bottles, small size, So so, and six bottles
large size SIS. Pixies Toothache Drops
cure in one minute.
MIRRORS TELL THE STORY of complex
ions beautiied by the aid of GLENN's
SULPHUR SOAP.
HILL's HAIR AND WHIsKER DYE,
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SATISFIED AT LAST.

George a. Smith, of Salt Lake City
is a young man well and favorably
known throughout Utah. He has been
troubled with bad case of cross-eyes
all his life. Several years ago he had
an operatlon PERFORMED by an oculst
but 1t was not succ. ssful and did no
good, consequ' ntly his faith was very
much shaken about its ever b. ing made
straight. But at the Continental Hotel
on Monday of this week, DR.. Prentice
made it straight in less than half a
minute. Mr.. Smith is delighted with
the result and his many friends
astonishei. Mr.. Smith said it caused
him practically no pain.
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HE CAN'T GET AWAY,
DIR. PRENTICE.
Recently from London, Eng,
TIL JULY 18th.
EYE, EAR AND CATARRH.
At the Continental Hotel, Salt
Lake City.
EYE, EAR AND CATARRH

haze been afflicted with Hemor-
rhoids ('r Bleeding Piles) for the past
twenty i've years. For several weeks
past the pain has been so intense that ]
was forced to quit work. 1 found no
relief eith~r day or night. and was fire.
quenrly compelled to walk the floor all
night long. as it was impossible for me
to sleep. In this condltion l called on
Dr.. Prentice at the continental Hotel
who. atter painless operation IF less
than one minute, relieve me from sll
pain, and l have been able to sleep and
rest we'll ever since.
consider myself perfectly cured, and
unsolicited offer this testimonial for the
benefit of those who may be similarly
afflicted. HENRY GREGORY,
149 N. West Temple Street.
SALT LAKE CITY, July Sd, 1888.