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Daily Yellowstone journal., 1891-05-20

Only two out of the eight stories Of
the tower of Babel are left standing,
but they rise TO such an elevation as TO
be distinctly visible within a radius of
fifty miles. The base of the tower oc-
cupies a space of 2,1OO square feet
The bricks used in its erection are cov-
cred with cuneiform characters i'm
printed on the soft clay.
The pitch. or bitumen, which was
used in the place of cement, was OBJ
tanned from a spring, still TO be seen in
the neighborhood of the tower. A mis-
sionary of the Order Of the Carmelites
has recently erected on the summit of
this ancient structure a statue of the
"Virgo Victrix" Victorious Virgin,
which had been blessed by the late
Pope Plus TX. The ceremony of I'M
yelling was performed with due sol
emnnity, a large number Of MOham-
medans being present. -L'Orient
Daily Yellowstone journal., 1891-05-20
The HsroI.m Of Chndhoed.

There is something very pathetic
about the heroism of childhood, where
we mean by heroam something of real
ly independent daring and presence Of
mind, something beyond mere steadfast
~trustfulneSs which is a sense natural to
childhood. The inquest held before
DIR. Macdonald, NJ. p, for
northeast London, on Henry James
BristOw, aged eight years, illustrates
precisely what we mean. Mrs. Bristow,
who lives at Walthamstow, had left
this little boy alone in the with a
younger sister of only three years of
age in order to go on an GRAND. She
returned before 6 O'Clock TO find that
the little girl had climbed on a chair to
reach a small paraffine lamp, and had
upset it over her clothes, which of
course caught fire at once.
The boy Immediately tore them of
her, and laid her upon the bed, but in
lifting her on the bed his own clothes
caught fire, and it took the child along
time to tear them off. At last he sue
ceeded. but not till he was so seriously
hurt that, though taken at once 10 a
hospital, he died within a week from
the result Of the injuries. His little sis
ter's life lac had succeeded in saving;
at least she wa said to be doing well at
the time Of the inquest on her brother.
The coroner very justly spoke Of the
boy as quite a little hero, and he was
a hero in precisely the sense in which it
seems to Us that the word, as applied
to a child of eight, carries a profound
pathos with it, because it implies a
presence of mind, a promptitude of pur-
pose. a self command and fOrtitude and
steadfastness which are usually quite
beyond a child's Imagination, much less
its practical achievement London
Spectator.
Daily Yellowstone journal., 1891-05-20

When jefferson returned from his
triumphal engagement in London a
number Of New York swells determined
TO honor the actor who had made so
great a stir - England. Accordingly a
splendid dinner was given 70 jefferson,
and all the conspicuous representatives
Of Gotham swelldom were there. 1t
befell that on the very morning Of the
day when this great banquet was served
JeffersOn's son Tom married a very
pretty and estimable girl who had been
a member of one of the spectacular bal
lets. So, during the banquet one Of
the guests IA very swell pensonageD re
ferred TO a newspaper item in which
Toms prospective wedding was men
toned.
Eyes, it is true, " said Mr.. jefferson.
Tom vas married today"
But it is not true, | suppose, that he
married a ballet girlf' inquired the arts
tocratic person.
Eyes, it is true, " answered Mr.. Jeffer
son, la%conically.
"Ah, I did not suppose you would
allow your son 10 marry q ballet girl, F"
said the other.
"And why notf' asked Mr.. jefferson
His mother was a ballet girl"
The a~ristocratic party lapsed into a
vociferous silence at Once.-Eugene
Field in Chicago News.
Daily Yellowstone journal., 1891-05-20
The DEEPEST BORING.

The Heat Of Deep Mines Due to the
Molten Core of the Earth.
Tho workmen i'm the deepest mines
of Europe swelter in almost intolerable
heat, and yet they have eve pene
tratnd over one seven-thousandth pare
of the distance from the surface 10 the
center Of the earth. In the lower
levels of the Comstock mines the meJ
fought scalding water, and could labor
only three or four hours at a time until
the Sutro tunnel pierced the mines and
drew of some Of the terrible heat,
which had stood at l2O degs.
The deepest boring ever made, that
at Sperenberg, near Berlin, penetrates
only 4.172 feet, about !. 200 feet deeper
than the famous artesian well at st.
Louis. While borings and mines re-
veal to us only a few secrets relating
solely TO the temperature and cUnstitu-
ton of the earth for a few thousand
feet below the surface, we are able, by
means Of volcanoes, TO form some no
ton of what is going on at greater
depths.
There have been many theories about
the causes of volcanoes, but it IS now
generally held that though tr are
produced by the intense heat the in
terror of the earth. they are not directly
connected with the molten mass that
lies many miles below the immediate
sources Of volcanic energy.
Everybody knows that many rocks
are formed on the floor Of the ocean,
and it has been found that a twentieth
to a seventh Of their weight is made up
of imprisoned water. Now, these rocH
are buried in time under everything
strata, which serve as blanket 10 keep
in the enormous heat of the interior.
This heat turns the water into super
heated steam, which melts the hardest
rocks, and when the steam finds a ifs
sur in the strata above il breaks
through 70 the surface with terrific
energy, and we have a volcano.
We find that these outPourings that
have lain for countless ages many thou
sands Of feet below the surface are
wen adapted TO serve the purposes of
man Many a vineyard dourshes on
the volcanic ashes from Vesuvius. and
volcanic mud has clothed the hills OF
New Zealand with fine forests and its
plains with luxurious verdure. The
most wonderful display of the results
Of volcanic energy is e in the north
western corner of our own land, a re-
gion of lofty forests and Of great fertil-
ity.-Goldthwaite's Geographical Mag
azine.
Daily Yellowstone journal., 1891-05-20
HE ESCAPED 1rE DEATH PENALTY.

a Confederate Sentenced to BE Shot
Evades His Onion Captors.
Il have one man under sentence Of
death for smuggling arms across the
lines, and hope Mr.. Lincoln will ap-
prove it," This sentence was contained
In the letter from General Sherman to
his brother. John Sherman, written
from Memphis. Tenn. under date of
Aug. IS. 1868, and published since the
generals death.
The man whose death sentence was
referred to by General Sherman is NJ.
A. Miller. an e~X-captain Of engineers in
the Confederate army. who lives on a
farm in Ilenrico county, near this city.
Captain Miller has narrated the story
of his wonderful escape from the doom
that awaited him. Says the captain:
ut was such a sudden thing the way
In which ] was first made aware of the
seriousness Of Iy position. 1t vas m
afternoon late in July, 1862, while !
was in a Federal prison in Memphis.
Tenn, that a friend of mine, a Miss Glib
son, who had been to call on me.
whispered. Lieutenant, you are under
sentence of death and are 70 be shot at
an early day. Take my advice and get
away from here before they put the
bracelets on your wrists and shackles
on your ankles. for then you will be
totally disabled and can do nothing
"Hr. Lincoln did approve the sen
tence of death, but / am still here while
he and General Sherman have gone to
Join Lee and Jackson and other good
soldiers. When Sherman first took
possession Of Memphis he issued an
order declaring gold, medicines and
salt contrabands, and as such prohibit
ed their sale to the people. But his
orders were practically ignored and we
got anything we wanted.
For a month l was steadily supply
ing our soldiers with arms, and met
with no serious difficulty. But one
afternoon in July my good luck de-
serted Inc. l was carrying rel two
boxes of oafcers' swords, and was in
the middle of the river when a picket
boat ran up TO me. l at once knew
that danger was ahead and jumping
on the gunwales of the boat l tried to
sink it. But the skif was too heavy
and would not dip. The officer in charge
of the picket boat arrested me and the
skill man also, and took us with the
two boxes to a gunboat nea by.
"There the boxes were opened and
as soon as the nature of their contents
was disclosed | was al once carried to
the military prison in the Irving block,
In the center Of the city"
Miller describes his trial by court
martial, conviction and sentence TO be
shot the Friday following the Monday
Of his conviction. OF his escape the
captain says that he induced his guard,
who was not aware of the gravity Of
his sentence, TO let him go home TO see
his sick child. While in the house he
went upstairs, jumped out Of a window
and fed through the lines.--Atlanta
Constitution
Daily Yellowstone journal., 1891-05-20
Taking an Oath.

The topic of kissing the Bible upon
the taking of an oath was the subject
of a discussion by the Cogburn club
the other evening. Nobody seemed TO
know just why the discussion was start
ed, but several members who have not
been heard from lately had pronounced
views upon the subject.
One of the members declared that
the kissing habit was a relic of an idol
atrous age, when men kissed the
mouths of idols 10 SIGH an extent that
they wore them away, and it was be-
lieved that he who kissed the mouth of
an idol and then told a lie would i'm
mediately die. Said he: 1.-THE practice
of kissing the Bible in courts Of justice
is more than ten centuries old. In
every court or upon the table of every
justice you will find a soiled book, upon
which you are sworn-a book not sOiled
by reverent hands in turning its pages,
but made unclean and unhealthy by
the constant handling of unclean wit
nesses and the contact of impure lips
and mouths. "-Utica Observer.
Daily Yellowstone journal., 1891-05-20

An invoice received by the caterer Of
an English regiment stationed in India
coItained this bewildering item. lone
case of tOmcats."
No one had asked the caterer TO or
der any dainties Of that kind, and the
mystery remained unsolved until the
package arrived.
Then it appeared that the hrocer's
assistant had a fancy for abbreviation,
and that ''tomcats' was only his way
Of writing the name Of that useful con-
diment, tomato catsup.-Youth's Com
panion.
Daily Yellowstone journal., 1891-05-20

Aman who was well acquainted with
General Sherman the other day said
'The things that General Sherman
seemed to have eXcelled in in later life
were those in which he was the most
deficient while at West Point. Dur
ing the time he was a cadet he never
was selected as a cadet officer or even
a non-commissioned officer, as he was
never deemed soldierly enough.
"As 70 the generals standing in his
class when he graduated he was seventh
IN engineering, seventh in ethics, fourth
In m~ineroloy and geology, twelfth in
infantry tactics, eighth in artillery tao
6es and in department he ranked 216
Out Of a class Of 23 Now the idea
that a good scholar win not make a
Daily Yellowstone journal., 1891-05-20
where Flowers Look Best.

There Is no place where flowers show
to such advantage as in the home. The
flowers and plants should be placed in
their proper shading so as to produce
the best effect Never overcrowd in
floral decorations. This is very impor-
tant. The most popular way of deco
rating the home consists in placing
beautiful foliage plants in different
shades of green in corners on small
stands and etageres. Flowers are used
with long stems and their own foliage,
put in cases. A very neat thing is a
small number Of miniature vases and
cut class bowls, placed on little tables
and filed with different colored carna-
tons, lilies of the valley, mignonette or
other seasonable flowers. Each speci-
men should be set by itself This pro-
duces an exceedingly pretty effect.
The tireplaces should be well filed
with potted plants. such as ferns and
variegated foliage plants. Over pict-
ures and doors a neat effect is obtained
by draping long trailing ferns and pas
sion vines in bloom. To keep flowers
fresh as long Is possible be sure 70 cut
a little of the stem each day. A hard
crust forms on the end Of the stem
which prevents the water from ascend
ing, and this should be u away each
day. 4 little charcoal in the water in
which the flowers stand will sweeten
them and keep them fresh longer.-C.
+. Klunder in Ladies' Home Journal
Daily Yellowstone journal., 1891-05-20
THO BIRDS

In the blithe aad budding weather
OF an April time Of yorc,
Two wild birds sa' together
In the peach trcl u ms door.
And each was gayly furnished.
And ia beauty all complete,
From the topknot brightly Furnished
To the rosy little feet.
Now under shadows winging.
And o hopping forth 20 view,
To the other each was singing:
Thus the prouder Of the two
Thus only pretty Pretty"
In a low, ~caressing strain,
While. in answer: "Sweetyi Sweetyl"
softly sounded back again.
The buds 10 flowers were starting
And the young leaves came in sight
While they staid together counting
In the peach tree. but one night
They vanished. Swift with duties
Ran the time into the past,
Till l found my truAnt beauties
As knew / should. at last.
Making tender, twittering bushes.
That were sweet as any words.
Flying In and out the bushes
With a fox Of little birds.
The snow s aid all unmelted.
And the Winds OF winter beat
On the boz CHS that lately tilted
Under = isy little feetf
When I ard a bird thus crying
From IA cold and frozen ground.
To the mate above him flying
Halt ~istracted. round and round:
MY vIngs are stiff and sleety,
an dying in my bod
J am lying, darling" ''Sweety."
TbIt was everything she said.
New FORK Lodges.
Daily Yellowstone journal., 1891-05-20

Senior Partner-Keep a sharp eye on
Holdfast I'm afraid he robbing the
firm.
Junior Partner-Eh7 Is he living
extravagantlyi
Senior Partner-Well, / passed him
on the street yesterday and he was
smoking a cigar that didn't smell bad
ct ell York Weekly.
Daily Yellowstone journal., 1891-05-20

good commanding officer is disproved
in this case. Had it not been for the
generals low average in conduct he
would have in all probability been a
star scholar; that is, he vould have
had a star affixed TO hi name. as the
first five men are given this honor. The
generals low grade vas not due to bad
conduct, but to his u~nsoldierly appear
ance. philadelphia Press.
Daily Yellowstone journal., 1891-05-20
Correct for Once.

Western Boy-The weather predic
ton was right today.
Father-Was itl
Boy-Yes, sir. Itsaid slight changes
IN temperature.
Father-Humph! The Thermometer
has fallen a good deal, hasn't itl
Boy-No; only about six inches
Good News.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1891-01-07
Counting on a Street Car.

A trim looking young woman got aboard
an up town surface car night or two ago.
The car was by no means filed, but she
didn't try to get seat and she didn't even
enter the door, but stood on the rear plat
form and leaned against the rail- 1t was
chilly night, and she and the conductor
had the platform to themselves The other
passengers looked out in some surprise at
the sight, and beheld the pair enter into
conversation. That it was not their first
meeting by any means was as evident as
anything well could be. They talked long
and earnestly, and as block after block was
travelled they got closer and closer to one
another. There is always more or less Jolt
ing about a street cars movements, and
pretty soon the young woman was bracing
herself against the brake handle. Then
in minute or two the conductor was seen
to turn the handle so that it would give
her better support.
His arm moved with the iron, and to the
most near sighted man in the car it was
very quickly apparent that the arm was
doing avast deal more in the way of sup
port than fell to the lot of the brake han
die. The car meanwhile was rapidly ap-
preaching the street at which one of the
passengers desired to alight. He hadn't it
in his heart to disturb the pair, and SO he
started to leave the car by the front door.
The driver looked at him with wink and
then spoke, as if to the world in general
and nobody in particular: Jacks in
luck he said. Pretty girl he's got, and
a good one. 1t looks queer to see her out
there with him, but it's about her only
chance to see him with the hours we have
and they've been married only month"
New York Times.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1891-01-07
Mulcted bv n Newsbov.

Two men jumped upon the front plat
form of Broadway car the other night
AT the same moment an agile little
newsboy sprang upon the rear end Quietly
he wormed his way through the maze of
passengers, drew back the slide in the
front door, tapped upon the glass and re-
ceived two nickels in his outstretched
palm.
The passengers who had been mulcted.
as is usual with patrons of the front plat
form, never looked behind them to see
who was receiving their money.
The newsboy turned around, sold pa
per or two, went out the front door ard
swung himself off the car just as the con-
ductor came up and viciously jerked back
the change slide. Nobody paid any atten-
tion to him.
Fares, please" he shouted as he opened
the door,
Nobody moved except to stare blankly at
the conductor, and then gaze blankly at
each other.
"Jim." said the fare collector to the
driver, didn't you signal me that there
were two fares heres'
Yes; there they arer'
The men protested that they had paid.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1891-01-07
Unique AdyartisiDp.

Bishop Talbot told a story in Boston the
other day showing that at least one Har-
ward man didn't leave his wits behind him
when he left college The bishop, it seems
arrived one day in small mining town in
his diocese-Wyoming where he had
promised to hold service. Walking up
the street he noticed some green handbills
flying about, took one up and read as fol-
lows: Bishop Talbot breaches tonight at
=. Let him have a big crowd. Please
leave your guns with the usher.''
The bishop was not easily scared, but
thought the last sentence little odd. On
inquiry he learned that one OF the young
men in town, Harvard man, by the way,
who knew the bishop, and wanted to raise
a good crowd to greet him, had issued the
handbills, knowing that many who would
not come to hear bishop preach would
come at hint of disturbance of any kind
New York World.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1891-01-07
The War Substitutes.

AAfew weeks ago l noted the literary en-
terprise'of state of Maine man who pur-
poses to write the history of the dissenting
or copperhead element III war time. Such
work in its entirety has never been pub
lished. But the substitutes and the sub
stitute system have also been neglected by
the writers. If somebody would undertake
the history of this phase of the struggle it
would read like story of human slavery.
know personally at least dozen men
who made fortunes by buying and selling
humanity ION margins" l remember that
toward the close of the war the quotations
of recruits were from $500 to 81, POO apiece.
and recall casesewhere they brought even
81 500 or g, 0G0
1t was the custom of these substitute
brokers TO get some poor fellow, give him
500 or $500 to enlist and pocket the bal
alce. In one case l knew of q county
sheriff who emptied his Jail for the good
of his country and $500 head, giving the
offenders a chance to so to war if they pre-.
ferred it to penal confinement. That sheriff
went into the Office rs poor as church
mouse, and after four years Of service re-
tired with about 500, 800 in cold cash. It
was paying business.-Boston Globe.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1891-01-07
a Mexican Centaur.

According to an Arkansas journal DR..
Collins, Of Little River county, that state.
killed most remarkable quadruped near
his place in the spring of 1877. From the
time OF the war up until the year named
several persons claimed to have frequently
seen an animal in the form of large red
deer, with the head and neck of a man
On the day that the animal was killed DR..
Collins wife and a negro girl were going
along an unused path when they saw the
queer creature peering at them through the
underbrush. They made haste and in
formed the doctor what had occurred. He
took his gun and started in search of the
beast, which he soon overlook and shot.
Closer inspection showed that the head.
instead OF being that of man, more near
~ resembled that of a balloon. It's ewes
were large and very prominently set to the
sides of its head. A long fringe of brown
beard covered the chin and neck DR.. Col
Inns says that when he came I'D with the
creature and leveled his gun at it. il
seemed to be aware of its great danger. the
large eyes melting into tears as it saw the
utter hopelessness of the case.
When shot it uttered a heart rendino
scream and leaped high in the air. expiring
with awful groans which closely resem-
bled those OF a man in distress 1t is gen
orally believed that the creature was sne.
cles of the Mexican centaur, a semi-legend-
airy creature OF the post conquest era.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1891-01-07

EXPECT TO SEE THE LIKE o. THAT?
While ] waited in the commons lobby
one day for an answer TO note had sent
TO a member / was accosted by gentle
man whose card announced that he was a
member Of the Bombay Civil Service"
He invited me to tie refreshment room to
share bottle of wine, and at the end of
two Eon:s' talk he said with more than
western efusiveness:
Nov you really must come down t. nv
place IL Surrey, and spend day with me.
] can Cow you many places of interest.
DO you shootf"
/ didn't "shoot"-never killed q game
bird in my life, and must further confess
that this unusual invitation made me sus-
picious. So was mean enough TO 60 to
tie AtheneGm club (towhich he had given
me his card, with an invitation to meet
him f1ere) and quietly make some in
quiries, and there ] learned that "Mr. Gill
bert Elliott, Bombay Civil Service, re-
tired.p was all that he had represented
himself and much more. Ihad sighted
most desirable invitation, and perhaps
shown a spice of i'll manners through eX-
cessive caut;ln; but hop2 to learn more
as | grow older.
On another occasion visited curious
old book store to look at rare copy of the
Septuagint which is kept there, and the
pleasant freedom with which two scholarly
visitors addressed me, their cordial invsN.a-
ton TO take a chop and a glass" with
them, and the two hours we spent together
at their favorite grill room made the day
white one in memory. But the strangest
experience was with ship owner at Liver
pool, Welsh gentleman from Llanelly.
He ended our two days pleasant inter
course by giving me introductory notes to
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1891-01-07
TO Protect the Feet.

A man compelled to stand or walk all
day on hard floor or pavement is almost
certain to have tender feet and sore ankles.
The trouble is not SO much with the hard
ness OF the floor as with the sudden jar ex-
per1enced by the foot every time it is set
down on the hard surface If he will take
flat sheet of rubber and cut out two
pieces just large enough to fit on the in
side of his shoe soles he will find Immediate
relief, for the rubber will break the lar
when the heel strikes the floor and save
foot and ankle from the strain to which
both are subjected from Il floor or hard
pavement.-Interview in st. Louis Globe.
Democrat
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1891-01-07

The Importance of proper gun protection
has not been always recognized For a
time France built ships in which the heavy
guns and their crews were protected with
thin shields only, while the water line was
heavily armored. Now, many French writ
ers are in favor of removing the water line
armor entirely. France was not alone in
following the form of construction men
toned, but she is the most striking exam
pie. Ali nations have at times constructed
vessels with weakly armored batteries.
The life of the ship must be preserved, ="
has been the watchword, but of what use
vessel can be whose chief means of Of
tense is destroyed is not very APPARENT
New York Herald.