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The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1889-12-25
John Bull On the Continent
By MAX 0'RELL, Author of Jonathan
and His Continent" etc
IA RESIDENT ABROAD"

The EngIishman Who Lives on the Con-
tinent Is to Be Pitied More Than to Be
Despised.
On the maps published in Great Britain
you may notice large slices of the earths
surface marked in red.
These represent the British possessions.
> But there are good many other Brit
ish possessions which are not marked in
red. Some of them are in France, where
numbers of the most delightful and
picturesque towns-such as Avranches,
In Normandy; Oman, Dinard and St.
Servan, in Brittany; Pau, in the Pyre-
nees, etc., are inhabited by a regular
English colony.
On entering these places the signs of
English colonization will strike you: the
English church, the lawn tennis ground,
and the cricket field. will announce to
you that John Bull has taken up his
abode there. The Union Jack does not
float over the town hall, it is true; but
you are pretty sure, before you have gone
very far, to see it flying from the sum-
init of a house inhabited by some titled
member of the community. You will
not have been many days in the town be-
fore you are presented with evangelical
tracts, either handed to you in the street
or quietly slipped under your front door.
These British colonies are chiefly re-
cruited from the upper middle class of
their mother country; Irish landlords
whose rent rolls have shrunk, officers on
half pay, unlucky spectators, and vic
tins of the turf or ecarte.
They are all people who cannot keep
their wonted position in a society where
they are judged by the length of their
purse, and where poverty is a crime
\ ''To dig they are ashamed" all kinds of
work are derogatory in their eyes, and
the only thing to be done is to make the
most of what is left to them. So, quietly
they slip across the British channel, and
pitch their tents in our fair land, where,
thanks be, it is still possible to live well
and cheaply.
To any inquisitive friends it is easy
enough to explain why they are in
France "Our English climate is afro
cious, you know; my lungs were getting
affected. Here am reviving. Besides,
/ want the children to speak French;
and the only way to get the accent at all
is to come and live over here"
That is not all Life in London is
awfully wearing, you know. Here l
shall enjoy complete rest. Everybody
has his hobby. Well, mine is to rusti-
cate philosophically, la Rousseau. Ahl
my dear fellow, Jean Jacques was right
the simple pleasures of life, that kind
of thing, don't you knowY John Bull
will tell you, as he enlarges on the sub
iect of country life and diet of dairy
produce and vegetables: 81 haven't felt
a touch of dyspepsia since we came
over"
1t would be wonder if he had.
"And the shooting and fishing are
really capital, to say nothing of the
primitive habits of the Breton, who Is
quite an interesting subject of study"
The good man tells the story SO often,
that in the process of humbugging his
friends he finishes by humbugging him
self. and by and by believes it is all true.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1889-12-25
ing you details until we meet in private
All l can say now is that thank God
was born an Englishman."
THE END


An anecdote that shows by one Incl
dent what the man was, is related Of the
recently deceased Gardiner millionaire
One Christmas morning, a few years
ago, as Mr. Peter G. Bradstreet was
walking down Water street, he saw APP
preaching a man whom he had often
hired to do odd jobs of work for him
He folded five dollar bill in his right
hand, and in shaking hands with the
workman the bill dropped to the side
walk. AS Mr.. Bradstreet was about to
move on, the man caught sight of the
bill, and speaking excitedly told him he
had lost something, at the same time
picking up the money. But the gentle
man would not acknowledge the money
as his property and insisted that the
workman keep it. The latter did not
fail to appreciate the delicacy of the
millionaire's good deed.-Lewiston Jour
nal
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1889-12-25
A PROSPEROUS YEAR,
Great TwelvemOnth Showing for P. W.
Madsen,

The several shrewd and lucky deals in
property and real estate which Mr.. P. w.
Madsen has been interested in during the
1889, have been mentioned in The HERALD
from time to time; the same shrewdness
and the same luck have followed him in his
regular business and his furniture es-
adjustment ends up the twelve months of
this year with by far the heaviest showing
1t has ever known. Mr.. Madsen's fine
store near the theater has sufficed for the
needs of his business up till the year, bv
dint of crowding in from the basement to
the top store, but the boom has necessitated
changes all around, and one of his changes
has been to make connection with the adj
joining Kullak building, which he now
owns, and to use the upper portions of that
store in which to make a commodious car
pet and wall paper room; this alteration
has been completed and Mr.. Madsen,s
heavy and beautiful stock of carpets is
now displayed separated from the furni-
ture rooms. All who wish to Law in a sun
ply in Mr.. Madsen's line should call tn ere
before purchasing.
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EmbrOideries,
Every
Kid Gloves,

Description.
Groesbeck & Houghton are up to the
times, and their phenomenal growth shows
that their enterprise is appreciated.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1889-12-25
CHOICE ACREAGE For SALE

will receive propositions for the pur-
chase of one piece of thirty acres and one
piece of twenty-four acres. Choice loca-
ton, close to the city, on Jordan river
banxs. One comprises the old and we'll
known James farm. Anyone desiring a
piece with three corners lying on the Ter
ritorial road, should consult with me at
once l. A. BENTON,
Union ticket office, Salt Lake city
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1889-12-25
why They Didn't Follow Him.

The Partisan joker has caught on to
the American sell. They were talking
Of famished wolves and Tartarin ex-
claimed: 81 had an experience myself
with wolves. l came face to face with
three. was unarmed. coolly turned
upon my heel and walked away" Ibid
they follow your" "They couldn't; they
were in cage at the Jardin des Plantes.'
Montreal Star
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1889-12-25

with as little ceremony as the rocks. and
those of them who pay must pay for
those who do not.
"Que voulez-vous? On the whole, it is
not such bad life" says John to him
self, land the children are picking up
the accent wonderfully"
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1889-12-25
Too Accommodating.

Lady Ito stranger one seat ahead of her
in passenger car)-Beg pardon, sir, won't
you help me put my window up?
Stranger-With pleasure, only you
can't get half the draught from your
window. I'll put mine up, and then
you'll get the full benefit of the outer air
Therel-New York Weekly.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1889-12-25
THE LACE HOUSE.
New Name, but Not an Unfamiliar One to
the Citizens of Salt Lake.

i'; "nU NoI an UnIamlllar Une to
the Citizens of Salt Lake.
1t is only three months since the firm O.
IfoesDeck " Houghton opened out on MAR,
street ana the name of THE Lace House,
was hrst announced to the public, but in
those three months the place has acquired
reputation particularly among the ladies'
OF SaItLake, which many another institu-
tlonhas been years in buildingup. The sole
reason for this is found in the fact that the
proprietors of the Lace House understand
every detail of their business. In the first
place, their establishment always looks like
a larry palace, and no female was ever
known to pass its windows without Iinger-
ing to look at its treasures. In the second
place, its stock is almost exhaustless. and
no lady who ever ventured inside ever made
her exit without finding what she wanted
1t would take up too great part of THE
CHRISTMAS HERALD to detail Just what lines
the Lace House makes speciality of, but
the following are among the more notable.
Lace
Embroideries,
Kid Gloves,
Hosiery,
Underwear,
Corsets,
Ribbons,
Kensington
Art
Materials,
Fancy Goods,
and
Notions OF
Every
Description
Groesbeck & HOughton are up to the
times, and their phenomenal growth shows
that their enterprise is appreciated.
The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1889-05-04
CONDENSED SCIENCE.

RED pepper is obtained from sort Of cap
sicum, and sometimes called chilli, the
seed of which is the most pungent, and is
ground up fine with the skins. 1t comes
from Cayenne, Zanzibar and other parts of
Africa. The plant can be grown about the
same as our peppers, and is sometimes
grown with them.
WHILE commenting on q memoir present
ed to the Academy Of Sciences, NJ. Cornu
gave 1t as his opinion that the light emitted
by shooting stars is not due to confagration
or TO the heat of impact In those high
regions our atmosphere is too unsubstantial
10 render the explanation acceptable. 1t is
much more likely the phenomenon is one OF
static electricity developed by simple fric-
tion, and it is well known that rarefed
gases can be made TO glow intensely with
but very little electric fluid.
PRoF. JAMES BARR calls the muscles ''the
great furnaces Of the body in them oxygena-
tlon largely takes place, and the effete ma
terials are burned or" If the muscles are
run down and there is no spare nerve
energy TO make them work, then you must
supply the place of the nerve current by
massage and electricity. Massage is most
powerful agent for effecting nutritional
changes, and with the increased combustion
and greater supply of food, not merely the
muscles. but also the heart and every organ
OF the body are nourished and nerve energy
Is stored up for future use.
The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1889-05-04
FOUND HER LOVER.
Romantic Incident in the History of a
Swedish Heiress Who Shipped on the
Danmarl,

Romantic Incident in the History of q
Swedish Heiress Who Shipped on the
Danmark.
ST. PAUL, MIMI, April 26.-One of the
trains from Chicago arriving yesterday
morning brought Miss Franklin Bjornson,
young lady who was one of the passen-
gers of the lost steamer Danmark. She
informed the authorities that she ex-
pected a gentleman to meet her at the
Union Depot here, but no one came. The
young woman was much worried, being
city. She finally determined to wait at an
uptown hotel, whittier she was directed,
Soon afterward the train from Aberdeen,
d. T., arrived, bringing young man
who at once inquired for young
lady answering the description of Miss
Franklin Bjornson In little while that
lady appeared to renew her inquiries for
the man she wanted to see and the two
met. The scene was affecting in the ex-
treme. 1t was learned that Miss Biornson,
a Swedish heiress, had come to this coun-
try to meet her lover, Hans p. Nelson, a
prosperous young physician of Aberdeen,
After years of separation, after she had
passed through all the dangers of ship
wreck upon the ocean, and he had laid tho
of home in the West, they
at last found each other and were happy.
Miss Bjornson is handsome and highly
educated. The couple were married last
evening, and to-day left for their future
home at Aberdeen.
The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1889-05-04
YEARS OF ABSENCE.
A Romance of the Early Days Of
California
A LonR-Forgottcn wife Returns In Old
Age to Claim Her Husband-Hc
Says the Separation Was
IepaI.

BIRMINGHAM, ALA, April 2I.-There ar.
rived here yesterday an aged woman Civ
ing the name of Mrs. Eli Mullins, of Cali
fornia, She was accompanied by a grown
daughter and grandchild. She was on the
hunt for one Ell Mullins, who, she had
been informed, lived with another woman
as his wife. She said that Mullins had
deserted her many years ago in California
and eloped with her niece, Fannie Woods,
the woman with whom he was now living.
1t took but little time to locate Mullins
place. When wife No. reached the house
she boldly entered and asked FOR Null
Inns. She was told he was not at home
She then quietly remarked to wife No. .
that she was his first and lawful wife and
had come to take possession of him. Very
shortly old Mullins returned, and pro-
claimed the old woman crazy. She told
straight story, however, and Mullins could
show no documentary evidence to CONTRA
dict her, and the daughter corroborated all
she said. They also produced photographs
and locks of hair to confirm their story.
A reporter investigated the affair and
found that Mullins is eighty -one years old.
He has had three wives. The first one
died in California soon after they were
married. The second is the one that ar
rived yesterday morning. He lived with her
sixteen years and had eight children, all
Of whom died except son and daughter
The daughter is here with the old lady,
the son is living in California, and doing
well. The old man left his second wife in
1853 Mullins claims he got a divorce from
her, but she says he did not. He has been
living with his present wife eighteen years,
and has seven children. The wife that |
arrived yesterday is eighty years old, and |
the other one about forty five. Mullins |
alleges there is something
wrong about the whole matter. He states
that before leaving California he got di-
vorce from his first wife and came to Ala
bama with Miss Woods and married her
in Cullman County in 1872. When asked
to produce papers Of his divorce he failed
TO do So but said he had them filed away
somewhere. The courts will have to settle
he affair, -
The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1889-05-04
PASTEUR ON MADSTONES.
Their Effect on the Dreaded Hy-
drophobia.
He Has Little Faith In Their Healing Pow
ers, Believing Reports Arc Simply
Coin cidenccs.

INDIANAPOLIS, IND, April 25.-The tre.
mendous scare throughout the State due to
the occasional cases Of hydrophobia, which
are scattered over wide spread of coun-
try, has attra acted great atten ton to mad :
stones,"a they are called, and there is o
lady at Terre Haute who claims possession
of stone of marvellous power which has
been in the family for eighty years, and Of
which it is said that 1t has nevor failed in
hundreds of cases. OF recent
months it has been in almost continu-
GUS use. Recently q gentleman of this
city wrote to Pasteur, of the Institute of
France, originator of the treatment by
incubation, asking his opinion of these
stones of alleged marvellous powers, and a
reply has been received from the great
savant, written by him In person, in
which he says: "There is no country in
the world which has not one or more pre-
tended remedies against the madness.
One could count them by the hundreds
and by the thousand. You tell me that
the State that you inhabit, of which
indianapolis is the capital, possesses
a stone called the mad stone, which
applied to the wound in case of madness,
causes the healing, and you ask me what
think of it am convinced that in all
cases where one could believe in the effi-
cacy of this curative or preventive remedy
one has badly judged. One has taken for
proofs simply Fortunate coin-
cidences l do not have time to establish
these assertions. You only ask my opin-
ion. Have entire confidence in it." Tho
letter is in French, of which the above is
free translation.
The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1889-05-04
INTERESTING TO LADIES.
The Greatest Catch of Seals Ever Recorded,
271,OOO Having Been Taken.

271,OOO Having Been Taken.
ST. JOHNS, N. F., April 25-More than
$1,000, 600 worth of seals have been cap
tured by the seal hunters from this port
within the past six weeks. The catch has
been unprecedented, and has led to tho
fitting out of many other vessels for that
industry. The steamer Wolf was the first
to return with fuli cargo. She left port
on March 0 and struck the seals OH
the 18th, midway between Quirpon
and Gross Island. On the 18th her
crew killed 10000 seals, and on the
18th to the 18th they took 1S,O06
moro Oh board and then started for home,
arriving here on the Goth. The total weight
of her seals was 451 tons gross. Seals are
worth $3.50 each. The value of the VOLTS
cargo is $40, 900. Since the VOLTS arrival
the Ranger has come in with the fin
est cargo of the season. She had
on board $4,000, seals, valued at over
100000 She was out nineteen days.
The Walrus arrived next with 1900
seals, her full capacity. Then came the
Neptune with 80, 600, the Hector with
l5,OOo the Esquimaux with 32, 900 and the
Terra Nova with 1000, the Falcon with
y, OOQ the Van Guard with 49, 900, the Kite
with 10000 and the Panther with 16, OO0
The latter vessel lost g. 900 from her decks
in heavy swell. In the Gulf there are at
least dozen vessels, nearly all of which
have been heard from, reporting heavy
catches. 1t is thought that the catch this
year by vessels will exceed 450, 000 and TO
this is to be added The shore catch, which
will probably amount in New Poundland
to between so, 900 and 10000. When it is
une .rstood that this was all done inside Of
six weeks it is a remarkable showing.
The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1889-05-04

back riders, and after several miles of the
| Territory was traversed II was seen that
| the best riders were winning the best prizes
1t was 1920 when the first section of the
| train reached the line, aud its progress from
that point on to Guthrie was not rapid
enough for the rapid men who
wanted to get there in hurry be-
fore all the cream was skinned off the
milk. Nevertheless 1t lacked but few
minutes to o'clock when the train stopped
in front of the Guthrie depot
Before the train came to stop it was
seen that somebody was already therein
fact the town was already well populated.
Tents were numerous on the eastern slope
and stakes were sticking up out of the
ground like poles in a bean patch. Men
could be seen racing in the direction of
the valuable holdings, and the scene was
busy and animated. The profanity
among the Arkansas City and Wichita men,
as well as of those from other points, was
both loud and deep. II their had been
prospect of shooting at any time 1t was
whom those mon found themselves baffied
ut the game of freeze-out but tney were
compelled to swallow their wrath, for, ac-
cording to all the techn calities in law, the
men in possession were the rightful own
erS
There was nothing to do but to take
what was left, and 1t was in the scramble to
get these that the most ludicrous scene of
the day was presented. Falling over
each other in the effort to get out
of the cars, every variety of man along
the frontier made an army which charged
the land office at the top of the knoll,
not in body, but in detachments The
land office was not the point of their desti-
nation, though it stands at the corner of the
section and is therefore the present center
of the town. 1t was to secure the lots
nearest to it that the rush was made, but
there was little left near it. Stakes had
already been driven almost to the limit of
the half section of 800 acres allowed for q
town site. AS the law now stands there
was but small margin, but this
was being rapidly wiped out by
The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1889-05-04
Sugarmakinq in Kansas.

TOPEKA, Kas., April 26.-E. B. Cowgirl,
the State sugar inspector, says that there
will be number of new sugar factories
started in Kansas this year and that the
sugar product of the State will be many
times greater than it was last year. In ad-
dition to the Ness City institution fac
tory is now being built at Medicine Lodge
at cost of $4,000. The Cowley Springs
factory is being rebuilt at an additional
cost of $4,000, so that its capacity will be
doubled. The Kansas City sugar company
is now erecting sugar works at Attica, to
cost $T5, 900. Bonds for sugar works have
been voted at Liberal and Shirley, and
Meade Center is making preparations to
establish a factory.
The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1889-05-04
THE NEXT CENSUS.
Plans of Superintendent Portcr-t'xper
enced Assistants to He Preferred.

Plans of Superintendent Portcr-Experf
enced Assistants to he Preferred.
WASHINGTON, April 2G--Robert p. Por.
ter, the Superintendent of the Census, has
recommended to the Secretary Of the In.
terror the appointment of J. G. Stoddsrd
as disbursing officer of the census. Mr..
Stoddard Is at present the disbursing office,
of the Department of Labor. Mr. Porter
has also recommended the appointment
of w. c. Hunt as statistical expert. Mr.
Hunt was formerly Chief of the Division
of Results of the Massachusetts, Census
1t is understood that both of these recon.
mendations will be approved by Secretary
Noble. Mr.. Porter states that no clerical
appointments will be made until next
year. He will however, appoint n num-
ber of statistical exports, and, far as
practical, men who were engaged in the
work OF the last census. These men, under
his direction, will map out the work and
prepare for the disposition of the statis-
tical reports which will be made after the
active operations of the bureau are begun.
Work on mortality and vital statistics have
already been begun and blanks are being
prepared The registers for the use OF
physicians will be ready for distribution
in a short time and one copy will be
placed in the hands of every physician in
the country, so that the records of births
and deaths can be begun June next for the
census year ending June 1, 1890. These
registers will be used to supplement the
work of the enumerators who are unable
to secure accurate returns on these two i'm.
portant subjects. As has already been
stated, DIR. John S. Billings, in charge of
the National Medical Library, will have
the direction of this branch of the work.
The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1889-05-04
okLAaoMA,s GATES.

They Arc Swung Open and an Endless
Stream of Humanity Pours Through the
Portals of the Modern Canaan Thirty
Thousand People Enter on Monday
Guthrie, from Way Station on tho
Santa Fe Road. Springs Into n City of
1900 MISUNDERSTANDING Scenes Dur
ing the Race Over tho Bortlcr-Threo
Men Reported Killed by Claim Jumpers.
GUTHRIE, Ind. T., April 23.-The object of
ten years of agitation is attained, and Okla
homa is occupied. Guthrie, which was q
name on the map, a little red station-house
by the railway track, is now booming city
of 15, 600 inhabitants. Its structures are can
vas and its population almost exclusively
male, but there is an interest and excite
here that is wanting in many more sub
stantial city.
GUTHRIE, Ind r., April 23.-At noon yester-
day Oklahoma Territory was thrown open
To oottion,ont IN accordance WITH Uiio Dfil
passed by Congress Mt its last session and
the order of the President. Resistless tor
rents of Immunity began to pour over its
soil From the Cherokee strip came the
great fleet of prairie schooners across the
Canadian; from the Chickasaw Nation came
troop after troop of sturdy ponies, each
one carrying boomer; from the Arapahoe
and Cheynne reservations on the west
came q yelling mob of horsemen, who
fred volley after volley to celebrate their
final victory. The Kiawa of the southwest
and the Cherokee and Creek Nations on the
east also furnished their contingent of
boomers At the starting signal
they moved all together, great
waves of cheering breaking upon
the air. The wagons continued ON over the
level green plain until they were about half
way across the northern tier of claims, and
then upward of 100 of them were brought
to standstill The others rolled on
to the lower tiers Men, women
and children poured from the station
ary schooners, and in an incredibly
short time the foundations for the pioneer
homes of Oklahoma had been laid by will