Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1892-07-08

tude, at least Of something approach.
ing barbafism. Just ~ the attendants
Ia the best regulated places OF public
resort today ore required 10 wear clean
shaven faces 80 the slaves In the daya
Of Scipio were commanded T. wear
boards aud 1t had within short time
become 10 that extent mark Of degr2.
dttion.
TnE FIRST MAN no MAKE SHOT
was named wgt,s, though mere Is no
evidence that he was Ia any why r..
lated to the inventor OF the steam en-
CINE. The curious part OF the story OF
the discovery Of the method now In
use of making perfectly giobular mis-.
slles OF lead Is that one evening, after
having spent several hours mt s1cisl
gathering where his COMPANIONS 1t
least, drank too much wine. he man
aged /, find his way home 70 bed AM
Immediately fell into n deep sleep, ~
the C0urse Of which he dreamed that
he was again out Ia the street with
his latn c1mIadCs ami that II 1ns rain
ing, not rain drops. but spbures Of
molten lead. In the morning he began
10 wonder what shape molten lead
would take II dropped through the att
and liz iuslly climted n the top oi the
s,oopla Of the church Of ~. MARY at
Rcdcliir, LONDON, melted u lHdlciul
OF lead and threw II 20 the mon, be
low. When bo ran down nnd gathered
the pariiulea from the bottom OF the
moat which was quite shallow, he
found that his dream hnd come true.
And hence the sloi.tower.
ruE ruisr AcroR 10 nE ESiGBrrD.
Tho first professional actor to receive
what Ia generally styled the honor 0f
kuighthOod was Augustus Hairs, not
only an actor, hut the mpnager NJ the
Dfury Lane theatre in London ant
often SPOKEN OF M "AuSustus Dfuri1.
ianus." Queen Victoria conferred his
| title upon MIN Ia the sumner or 1891.
The frat pca captain to tako a whale
| back steamer across the ocean rom
Duluth through tic lahes 10 Liver.
I pool was named Saunders ami his
vessel was the Charles w. Wutmore.
| Capt. Saunders made his first voyage
ia 1891 nnd soon alterwnrd died on his
ship in Liverpool from heart diseafc,
supposed 10 have been aggravated by
| hls hcruic rescue OF castaway the day
before.
The first English owner OF race
horsus TO make entries for American
races aud NO directly TO participate Ia
what il the most widely patronizei
spor ri la thl. country is Col. North, the
"nitrnte king" OF England. He has
entered some Of his most famous
ihoroushbreds for the American derby,
the Queen IsRbeilA and the Sheridan
stakes In Chicago In 1893.
THE FIRsT PAwsBRlKgR
was a doctor Of medicine In Tuscany,
who put three golden pills about HI
| door Tor q coat " arms. THIS wns
something over 800 ysaes ago. His de.
scendeuts called themselves Medici
which means the descendants Of the
| doctor.
The irst discoverers Of America are
supposed TO have been Buddhist monks
from China, who landed on the west
ern coast in tho summer NJ i8l Nd.
LioutcnRn Melgs, u. >. A., son Of
General Meiss, IL declared TO have
first used tho armorcd railway car In
warfare, In 1868 on the u. a D. rail
road.
Walter Abbott Wood, OF Hoosick
Falls, n. ", made In 1852 tho first
wire nnd string self-bindiug harvest
INK mRchiue.
William Ramsey invented the side
wheel boat. a "slde-wheel row boat"
built by him attracted great deal OF
attention ut Fort Pitt (pittsburg) In
1901. Their. wnrc tresdela for the feet.
In 1855 Mennoniies In PennHyl
made the hEst protect against negro
slavery.
Col. Edmund Dick Taylor, u cousin
OF Zachary Taylor, WINS spoken OF by
Abraham Lincoln NJ the "Father OF
the Gfopnback."
James Lowrie, n Scotchman, set up
the first brussels carpet leom Ia the
United States.