Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1890-03-17

racy 1t should be done meekly anC
humbly and with hat in hand. TIL,
tide has turned, and n more humbl,
looking parsonage than the real es
tate dealer cannot be met with here
today. On the strength Of this pro,
jected fair all the land between here
and St. Louis on the one side, and
Milwaukee on the other, has been
pOrtiOned out into city lots, and the
sharks were afraid they could not
ask enough OF buyers. HOtel-keepers.
hashery merchants al.d gin-mill en-
gineers are also dow II in the mouth
over this fair. They expected to
reap harvest that would suffice for
a lifetime.
1t appears that Chicago assured
Congress that provided the fair
would be held on the shores OF Lake
Michigan, a site and $4,000, 600
would be furnished by this city, and
no aid whatever asked from the Fed.
eral government. Now, il is charged
that Chicago, instead Of being able
to furnish the $4,000, 900, has not
the capital necessary to undertake
the preliminary work, and wants
Congress 10 furnish ii. A delega-
ton Of Chicago citizens is on the
way to Washington to combat these
charges, and to demonstrate that
Chicago has ample funds to do her
part of the work.
Chicago's triumph in the House a
few weeks ago had such an effet one
the wind-bag editors Of Illinois, that
they made asses Of themselves about
their superior ability and strategy.
Now the reaction sets in, and the
probability is that Congress will
show that Chicago is not the
United States, hut a part thereof.
The intellect and inventive
genius Of the century is being can
vassed for suggestions as to what
would be interesting and novel fea-
lures TO Introduce as part Of the fair.
Among the many such promulgated
perhaps that Of p. T. Barnum, the
famous Snowman, is the most novel.
Here is what he says:
What novel feature -ret, d nro
pose? Now i will present the fair
committee with one Of my ideaS-an
idea that might bring me in 81 600 900
In the museum at BOolak, in Egypt
lies the mummified corpse Of Rame-l
ses 1.-the Pharaoh Of the Exodus,wi |
That OF his daughter, the savior Of |
Moses, and other less distinguished OF |
The royal Egyptian family Of tina, era. |
had authorized an agent to offer the |
Egyptian government as much a. 1
SlOD.t o TO allow me TO exhibit those 1
remains IN Europe and the United |
states. i VIII relinquish my right Of |
priority OF claim in the idea 10 the fair
committee. Let them obtain the
loan OF these mortuary relies from the
Egyptian government and allow the
khedive TO send his own soldiers TO
guard the collins. Think Of the SIN
pendousness Of the incongruity! II.
exhibit TO the people Of the nineteenth
century, IN country not discovered
until 700 or $3.50 yeas after his dea n
khe corpse OF the king Of whom we,
lave ne earliest record! Consider, too
that that corpse Is so perfectly pre-
served after thousands Of years in The
Tomb that its features are almost per
fect; so perfect that every man, wo-
man, and child who looks upon the
mummy may know the countenance
of the despot who exerted so great an
influence upon the history Of the
world. And 1t might be a useful
thought TO this generation, proud Of
Us sclentlhc and mechanical triuInphs.
% bear in mind that the art thar en-
Ialmed the body Of Rameses so per.
ecly is lost, with a great many others
hat were known TO remote antIoni-
v"
Who would think that BarBum {
lad so much poetry, sentiment aud
olemnity in his moneynlaking c
oul? This is certainly the crandest I
cheme ever promulgated by any l
american. The orthodox Mormon l
ughtto receive it with thanksgiv-
ngs The Mormon, also, of all the REQ
ie on this continent AT the present
Ime Is the only one who can claim 0
inship with the distant and misty c
asst. His Book Of Mormon origin e
lly written in Egyptian, and possI- {
" In the very dialect which
'ameses spoke, for at this time the p
nguage Of Egypt underwent sew v
al organic changes, and became u
hat We call reformed, or revised,
gyptian, gives him (the hiormonl l.
historic interest in the ancient Ii
ummy. This book was written also &C
representatives of that race which NJ
Is made the story Of the Pharaohs a.
Interesting to US. This volume OF
20 interviewer with the Christ IN
ID former-day Christians held in a 70
ormOn's hands at the side of N
laraoh's mummy in an Amer ioi
n city, makes that Nor
IN the legitimate heir
all the accumulated knowledge OF
E ancient and modern world. AMI fro
the Mormon Illiad should be- i'm
1tten Rameses and Moses. Nero sn
d Christ, Van Buren, and Josepb n,
nth must become the PRINCIPAL str
aracters. IA
Speaking of MormoHism, here f. an,
editoral from the EUeniag Ne,cs 10
This city, issued March s, 1880. Fe
ich Salt Lake citizens will 90 dnr
II to peruse closely. los
SALT LAKES RISING '.BooN.~
alt Lake City is beginning the
ON" that was promised by the r.,
ors in the recent election. II has NJ
n charged that the liberal party mig
far more animated by a speculai- RS
fever than by the fires Of patriot IN
during the remarkable CAMPAIGN she
oh ended in the overthrow Of the the
us IN their own city. and subse- car.
nj events lend color tn the Mormon Rio
v OF the case. Il has been the Gu.
cy OF the latter rather 10 encourage a.,
stated as n sac, iba ru "a pa. ana ligfl
t picked m in f,e sinms ~ P" The
and set down in the land OF tho SUR
eybee soon becomes an independ- the,
well-to-do citizen, with a good shei
e TO live in. and with large bless thre
in basket and store 1t has even mer
affirmed that there is not pauper wer
M"rmondom; but that, perhaps,
n exaggeration, although recent
ors 10 Salt Lake City declare that
iy every Saint in that place is the d
or OF his own home. II this te
now, Il will not remain true yerv mas
after The ''boom" gets to running crim
nod shape. wen
mas been said that when chickens retul
ligh priced the people who raise Her
Iens do not eat them And so. revo
/ spectators run a "boomi in whis
ssia.e, the people who use real hrea,
oe ~ 70 r -o.. o~n Il. Iney md II Plea
South Water stres, conmiSSion a
are nnding, that the premium ihu
must pay IN this form for an op- mist
nity 10 live and do business tends conti
ny upward to the point OF absorb tvics