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The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1889-07-27
Minute Penmanshin.

Pliny, the elder, who wrote during the First
century of the Christian era, mentions the
fact that there existed, even at that early
date, a copy of Homer's "Iliad" small enough
to be completely hidden in the shell of hens
egg. Professor Schrieber, Il German inventor
Of 4 stereographic process, in order to offset
the wonder vouched for by Pliny, translated
both the "Iliadn and the Odyssey in so
small a compass that the volume containing
both books complete could be with ease hidden
in the shell of an English walnut. In the
year 1881 The Chicago Inter Ocean made
mention Of q gentleman who had written the
entire first chapter Of the gospel of st. John
ON the back side of postal card. That little
notice, Innocent as it was, caused the editor
several sleepless nights.
Within the next three days postal cards
and slips Of paper with minute specimens of
penmanship began to pour in from all direc-
lions Among the hundreds of samples sub
mitted for inspection the editor acknowledged
that the greatest curiosity was Il postal card
from John j. Taylor, OF Streator, Ills, upon
which was written 400 words in legible
characters, the whole embracing the first,
second and third chapters of st. John and
nineteen verses of the fourth chapter of the
same and also the sixth and seventh chapters
Of St Matthew, besides having nine words in
which mistakes occurred crossed out. All of
this wonderful production, which the editor
acknowledges would make three columns Of
his paper set in minion type, could be plainly
read with the naked eye.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1889-07-27
Ahout Ourselves.

The average weight of male adults is $50
pounds; of women, about ITO pounds The
average height of American recruits is about
feet inches; the average height Of we'll
built men is 8 feet 9 inches; of women, feet
inches. One inch of height should add two
pounds of weight The specific gravity of
the body ranges from 0.950 to L030 The
heart weighs 260 grammeS in women and $50
grammes Q0h ounces in men; the average
weight is 292 grammes. The period of its
maximum weight is between 50 and so. The
amount OF blood in the body is one-thirteenth
the weight of the body, or or quarts, or II
or 10 pounds A man dies when he has lost
IL fifth of his blood The heart with each
contraction elects ounces of blood from
each ventricle, at a pressure in the left ven
lricle of one-fourth of an atmosphere. The
heart sends all the blood around the body
twice every minute, or in about thirty-five
cOntlactions
4 deadly poison injected into a vein kills in
fifteen seconds, on the average; injected
under the skin, in four minutes. A cubic
miilimetre of blood contains 5000, 900 blood
cells in men, 4,5OO,OOO in women. There are
500 red cells to every one white blood cell.
The red cells have an average diameter Of
1920 inch the white cells of 1-25OO0 inch.
The specific gravity Of the blood is LOSS.
The frequency of the pulse in the new born is
$50; in infants of year, 10; at ITO IA years,
S.; in adult man, ~: woman, so. Therespi-
rarions are one-fourth as rapid as the pulse.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1889-07-27
COsmicaI Water.

We know that water exists in three forms
upon our earth; that the solid and liquid
water covers nearly three-fourths of its sur
face, and that the air above contains water
in the gaseous state. But the law of gaseous
diffusion of water is not so generally under
stood, though very simple. Wherever water
exists exposed to free space, or to space &C.
cupied by other gases than its own vapor, it
evaporates into that space until the space is
filed with gaseous water, having tension
or density proportionate to the temperature
Of the space.
Thus the water of our ocean being exposed
TO solar heat, and equally capable of evapora-
ton into the dense air Immediately above it,
or the lighter air above the clouds, or into all
the boundless space beyond, be that space a
vacuum or plenum, must thus evaporate, or
have evaporated until all that space be satur-
ated according TO its temperature, if not
saturated already. Therefore, the fact that
our ocean is not dried up indicates the exis-
tence of water, water everywhere. The spec
troScope ratifies this conclusion; water, or its
chief constituent (set free when water is raised
to a certain temperature, is found to envelop
every star, as well as our sun and its planets
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1889-07-27

The largest locomotive engine ever con
structed, prior to 1880, was that made at the
Baldwin locomotive works during the early
part of 1879. 1t was turned out ready for Use
April 10 of that year and named Uncle
Dick" Uncle Die; weighed l30,OO pounds
was % feet from headlight to the rear end of
the tender He is now at work on the Atchi-
son, Topeka and Santa Fe road.
As before stated Uncle Dick was the mos;
powerful locomotive in the world prior &C
1880 During the year 1855 the same works
that constructed Uncle Dick turned out sew.
eral locomotives for the Northern Pacific
railroad, each weighing 10000 pounds
During the same year, as if to overshadow
the Baldwin works, the Central Pacific com
pany caused TO be built at their shops in Sac.
ramento, Cal, what are really the largest
locomotives in the world They have eight
drive wheels each, the cylinders arc nineteen
inches in diameter and the stroke three feet
These engines weigh, exclusive Of tender
$4,000 pounds, and with the tender, as Uncle
Dicks weight was given, they weigh almost
10000 pounds, said to &c about twenty-threG
tons above Baldwin's best efforts.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1889-07-27
THE sEvEN P[GEoNs.

=, said the carrier pigeon, ''once carried
a letter which was pinned under my wing by
little girl. 1 carried it one hundred and
httY miles in an hour. But the little girl
bsthed my feet in vinegar before started,
50 tiev would keep cool"
'lFrom Russia [ came,n said the fourth
pigeon while there looked in an open win
dow. There sat a man named Krilof, writing
fables. lie scattered over his beautiful car
pets some oats, so / went in and began to eat
1hem- My pigeon friends went in, too but
the door opened and frightened us so that we
started to hurry away, and broke some vases
and window glass Ae twilight we all flew
20 ths church,
-t3ust SEQ what can do" said pigeon tum-
btss, and he few around in the air, turned a
zs1,aerSault and after tUmbling over came
sisan again. But the Fan tail pigeon did not
say word. He only spread out his tail like
ssR and stood with it behind his head.
a can eat grain" said a common pigeon.
aud then from a pocket in my crop can
get milk TO mix with it and feed it to my
zwo little babies in the pigeon cote. Little
Men and Women.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1889-07-27

Never hold book near a fire.
Never drop book upon the floor.
Never turn leaves with the thumb.
Never lean or rest upon an open book.
Never turn down the corners of leaves.
Never touch book with damp or soiled
hauds.
Always keep your place with thin booE;
mark
Always turn leaves from the top with the
zniddIo or fore finger
Never open a book farther than to bring
both sides of the cover into the same plane.
Always open o large book from the middle,
aud never from the ends or cover.
Never cut the leaves of a book or magazine
with q sharp knife, as the edge is sure to run
iEio the print, nor with the finger, but with
81 paper cutter or ordinary table knife.
Never hold small book with the thumb
pressed into tho binding at the lower back,
bat hold it with the thumb and little finger
upon the leaves and three fingers upon the
hack
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1889-07-27
nettins Tho Cat Out Of the Bag.

There are a great many expressions in
egery day use of which we have lost the
original meaning. Letting the cat out of
the bag" is one we all use easily enough now
80 denote the mtimely revelation of a secret:
but who stops to inquire who let the first cat
out Of the bag, and why the cat ever came
sherel
Yet surely enough, in the long ago Of a
village market place. some crafty yet IN
handy rustic stuffed the house cat instead of
tbs sucking pig into the sack he carried in
his hand, selling it hastily to some ursus.
Ticious and not too wise purchaser, and then
parpOsing to decamp to his native fields be-
fore the sack could be examined.
But a careless knit, weak place in the
sacking, and forth peers a frightened whis
Ioered face, and, amid the jeers of the by,
ISLANDERS, Puss wriggles into daylight, and
zi4e FIRST cat is let out of the bag.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1889-07-27
He came. I could not breathe.

He came. could not breathe.
For his eye was upon me;
He spoke-his words were cold,
And his smile was unaltered;
knew how much he felt,
For his deep toned voice faltered;
wore my bridal robe,
And l rivaled its whiteneSSi
Bright gems were in my hair,
And hated their brightneSsi
He called me by my name
AS the bride of another
Obi thou hast been the cause of this an
gtIish, my mother!
And once again we met
And fair girl was near him;
He smiled and whispered low,
As once used to hear him;
She leant upon his arm
Once twas mine, and mine only
wept, for deserved
To feel wretched and lonely;
And she will be his bridei
At the altar be will give her
The love that was too pure
For heartless deceiyer;
The world may think me gay.
For my feelings smother
OhI thou hast been the cause OF this an
glIish, my motherl
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1889-07-27
Error and Mistake.

1t is generally supposed that ''error" and
mistake" mean the same thing; but that is
3 mistake The difference is important, nnd
is illustrated thus in Golden Days: If you
have Z thermometer which is faulty, and il
reads so degs when it should read As degs.,
and you put it down at 50 dogs, that is al
error; but if the instrument is correct, and
YOU put it down 50 degs. when it reads Il
dey-s., that is a mistake An inanimate OBJ
scot may be in error, but it cannot make a
mistake; n sentient being may make mis-.
take. but cannot be in error.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1889-07-27
OUR YOUNG FOLKS.
A Half Hours Amusement for
Youthful Readers.
4 BRIEF CHAPTER ON PIGEONS
The Potter, the Passenger, the Carrier, the
Russian, the Tumbler and the Common
PigeOn-New Use for Eggs.

In large garden were seven pigeons, but
they were unlike each other The largest bird
said, "See what 1 can do!n and he took a
long breath and his crop pulled out so large
that the other pigeons had TO play ''peell-a-
boo" TO see his head behind it. This was the
pouter pigeon.
4" said the passenger pigeon, "came from
she south, where l have millions of pigeon
friends. Sometimes we would all fly at once,
then we looked like big black storm. When
we all sang GOO together it sounded as if the
clouds were singing. 1 flew once from the
Carolina rice fields to New York in six hours. u
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1889-07-27

The famous Corliss engine, the largest ever
constructe,., and the one used TO drive the
machinery in the great hall at the Centennial
Of 1876, is now in the, shops of the Pullman
Car company at Kensington, near Chicago.
Ills.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1889-07-27

Think about yourself, about what you
vv;snt, what you like, what respect people
OUGHT TO pay You, what people think of you,
ard then 10 you nothing will be pure. Yor
v-ill spol everything you touch; You will
make sd and ;nisyry sor yourself out Of eV-
erything which God 's+nds you, and you will
b.. re wreJched as you choose On earth
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1889-07-27
The CURIOSITY SHOP.

= Song That Was Very Popular Half a
Century Ago.
The song ''We Met, Twas in Crowd, "
WAS written by Thomas Haynes Bayly. He
also composed the music to which it is sung.
The words are as follows:
We net-'twas In q crowd,
And thought he would shUn me;
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1889-07-27
NIT COAL 81 PER TON

The Union Pacific agency now sells the
celebrated Rock Springs nut coal. Price,
s. per ton at yard; $3.50 per ton delivered.
Special rates for large orders
c. f. WANTLAND, Agent
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1889-07-27

Are you weak and weary, overworked
and tired! Hoods sarsaparilIa is just the
medicine to purify your blood and give you
strength. Is
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1889-07-27

Worl1ingmen's pants, best quality, good
wearing, S125. Painters and plasterers'
suits, carpenters aprons, engineers
jackets and overalls.
GoLDsNITH & Co,
Uptown clothiers.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1889-07-27

IF you want fine Lemonade, call at
Ross Pharmacy.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1889-07-27
Garfield Tea

;snow the only true vegetable remedy
against all ills arising from torpid liver
and kidneys. 1t is specific for constipa-
ton ana dyspepsia. Fifty cents and 81
boxes at druggists.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1889-07-27
ITCHING AGONIES.
Every Night Scratched Until
the Skin was Raw.

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The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1889-07-27
Cutieura Remedies.

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itching burning, scaly and pimply diseases Of
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The Butte daily miner., 1889-01-01

and their limit is only restricted by the limits Of the
territory itself.
By its treaty with the Blackfcc Indians last year
congress opened to settlement 17,6l664O acres OF c
yrazing mining and agricultural lands, which, it is $
estimated will the tcrrorys of arabic
lands :OOOOWO of acres, susceptible of producing
immense crops of all the cereals and vegetables of the
"Eyvpt of America The farmers of Montana WILL I
for all time come, advantage not enjoyed by
the farmers Of amy other portion of the United States
The mining and reduction of the precious and base
metals with which it aboms will always give employ {
to greater population than is engaged in $
agriculturc the will, therefore, naturally
always be i'll the ority and ready market is assured
to the producer. BY kind lispcnsation of providence
nature, the mining and agricultural lands are SO
located be contiguous to each other, thus assuring
convenient source of supply for the one and market
for the productions of the other. Prices for farm pro-
ducts will also always he higher here than i'll the cast
or extreme west, and tho profits accruing to the
h,sban,lnan will be proportionatcly larger The soil
Of the territory wonderfully productive, the average
yield Of wheat and other cereals, well as root crops,
greater than that of amy other territory state and
in instances being double that of some of the
greatest farming states cast of the mississippi The
in all of the valleys insure constant supply of
for irrigation and other purposes, and failure of
crops account of drought something known.
Millions of acres await the coming of the farmer, and
lc entered in the usual ways provided by the
government. The schools of the territory good
he found anywhcrc; climate unsurpasscd fuel
in abundance excellent WATER socable and law abiding
people, churches and social organizations and thrifty
towns; nowhere in the world can be found the place
which offers superior inducements to the farmer in
quest of happy, comfortable home where he will be
free from eplcmics and other that produce
ecprcssons and make the life of the farmer of
,rudgcry and ill paid labor in other localities. To the
d,iryman the field is equally inviting, the grazing in
the mountains is uncqualed, while springs of crystal
burst from the foot of almost every mountain,
insrng excellent facilities for the maintenance of
and the preservation of milk and butter.
In word Montana to-day, and for all time to come,
is, and will be, the queen among queens, the land where
is known and where honest toll and industry
rewarded to their fullest need, and where there is
still room for
The Butte daily miner., 1889-01-01
SILVER BOW WATER COMPANY

1OARTICULARLY favored is Butte in the way of
abundant supply of good, wholesome and pure
water. The supplied by the Silver Bow Water
company, incorporated May ~, 1881. The original
source of supply a small named Bulls Run,
tributary of Browns gulch, situated eight miles from
Butte in northwcstcry direction, and still forms
portion of the present supply The water is conducted
through covered ditch and deposited in reservoirs
located one near the Clear Grit mine Upper Main
street, and the other Upper Montana street.
Owing the altitude of the reservoirs, the pressure
obtained is sufficient carry the into the topmos
stories of every building in the city and also furnish
streams strong enough for fire purposes In 1887,
owing the great growth of the city, it was found
necessary I" increase the supply Of water and also extend
the system. The company accordingly sank we'll in
Silver Bow valley, and an elaborate pumping system
introduced by which the is forced through
into the thus ns,,ring the pressure
as was posscssc. by the original works. The well is
twenty feet deep the first twelve feet being through
II of clay and the remainder in gravel, natural
fcrcr. The pumps used arc the Knowles Improved
Duplex Pot Valve Plungcr pump.
During the year just ended 1SSS-t was found
necessary increase the supply again. and the company
purchased the right to Is miners inches of from
the Basin Flumc company and began the construction of
covered umc nine miles long, terminating its pump
ing station. The humc has just been completed and,
together with the price paid the Flume company for tho
water, costs, in round numbers, $3oOtN. This latest
addition nsurcs ample supply of Butte for
long time to
The company, during 1888, extended its service by
the addition of 5000 feet of service mains, and has
hand 1000 feet of 1Onch pipe and 5000 feet of
5-inch pipe, which will be laid carly possible in the
| spring. The value of the plant, as it now exists is
| estimated at $l5O,OOO.
| The officers of the company w. A. Clark,
Presidents John Noycs, Vice President; ]. r. Wharton,
Secretary and Treasurer O. p Blaine Superintendent.
! At present the company has about 5000 customers,
and has nine fire hydrants i'll Butte and five in South
Butte. This number however, will be largely increased
in the spring.
Montana offers attractions to the tourist and
peasreseeker than any other state territory in the
| Union Its scenery is among the granlest and most
sublime in the world and affords -ccasing source
! of wonder the beholter.
The Butte daily miner., 1889-01-01

Montana offers attractions to the tourist and
peasureseeker than any other state territory in the
Union. Its scenery is among the grantlcst and
sublime in the world and affords ncver-ceasing source
of wonder to the beholter.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1889-11-16
Quick Work.

The cut of his coat always betrays an
American who has just returned from
Europe. No matter what else he may
or may not buy while he is in England,
our fellow-countryman always makes
it point to lay in supply of clothes
when he reaches London. They al
ways seem to be so very much cheaper
there. You go about among the shops
pricing" things, and you find an En-
glish tailor charging $25 for suit of
clothes for which a New York tailor
would charge $50, using the same ma
terial. The same difference is observed
in the price of nearly every article of
clothing s,overcoats, gloves, shirts,
flannels, etc.-and the temptation to
buy is too strong to be resisted. One
thing which always astonishes the
American who orders clothes in Lon
don is the tremendous rapidity with
which they are made. You have your
measure taken in the morning, and a
pair of trousers is delivered at your
hotel before dinner time. Two or three
suits can be made in twenty-four hours,
and an overcoat in a day and half. It
would almost seem as if the various
parts of the garments flew together,
and in some tailoring establishments
they actually advertise to make clothes
"while you wait"
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1889-11-16

and annual sun-dance could be per-
formed, and here we find them camped
near the mouth of the Little Big Horn
River, where the Inflated Custer over
took them. The chiefs and head war
riors were now in daily council and con-
sultation, the willy Sitting Bull and his
able assistant, Rain in the-Face, coun-
selling prudence and strategy, the impetu-
Gus Crazy Horse (the Custer of the Sioux
advising charge and riding down of
the enemy by sheer force of numbers, q
part which he fulfilled to the letter later on
The column under Gen. Alfred Terry
was advancing steadily along the Yellow
stone River. The Sioux were kept in
formed of his movements by spies and
couriers, and his presence gave no I'M
easiness. They were accustomed to the
white mans mode of warfare, and little
thought that Long Hair (the Sioux name
for CUSTER would leave the infantry to
toll on as they might, while he with his
cavalry and few Indian allies, moving
by forced and heavy marches, would meet
and dare them on ground of their own
choosing.
The spot selected by the Sioux for their
camp was we'll calculated for defense.
Thanked by deep ravines, and deep and
almost impenetrable underbrush in the
rear, it was wild place in nature chosen
by the Indians for their preservation.
The first notice of the near approach of
troops was given by few squaws who
have been out some distance from camp,