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The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1892-02-21
SUN SIGHTS AND SOUNDS.

The present is al interesting period for
the astronomers, and at all the great OBJ
servstorles the men of science are busy
examining the heavenly bodies. And it is
not only sights but sounds, also, that they
are interested in. Who ever dreamed Of
being able to hear sounds in the sun 95, COO
600 miles away? That there are sounds,
and loud sounds, too, breaking upon the
philosophers and atmosphere of that mighty
orb. many reasons there are for believing.
The solar mass is scene of energies which
our feeble minds and limited experience
can take little account of-explosions, de-
donations, shocks and commissions that
never cease, and that must be accompanied
with enormous clamor, if we could only
hear il.
Astronomers tell US that vast
| swarms of meteorites aud planetoi3s
drawn from space are continually falling
into the sun, and it is this that keeps
up the tumult, faint traces of which
reach the distant earth and are actually
registered so that we may read them. An
unusual number OF spots such as are visible
at this time upon the SUMS disk is always
|
| logical conditions, and it is half suspected
that those terrestrial phenomena, hurri-
canes, cyclones, water spouts and earth
quakes have their beginning in tho central
luminary of our system, and are the pro-
ducts of the precipitation of outside bodies
upon the mass.
This is such an age of marvels, in which
man almost forgets the achievements of
yesterday in his daring ambition to make
new ones tomorrow, that it seems waste
of time to stop and wonder at whathas
been done IN the realm of invention. Yet
some Of the projects proposed for widening
the area of human knowledge are so ap-
parently superhuman that they almost
take our breath away. Thus the
electrician and inventor EDISON has con-
ceived the idea that it is possible to make
this solar tumult audible to human ears,
and be is said TO be busy with an apparatus
to subject it TO practical test. A hill in
New Jersey, known to contain large guam
titles OF magnetic iron ore, is conveniently
located to assist in the enterprise of fur
nishing the requisite electrical currents.
The inventor has set up a number of wires
in circuits around this hill, and expects to
connect them with a colossal photograph.
He reasons that if the great agitations in
the suns mass perceptibly affect telegraph
wires at times, they must produce delicate
vibrations that would influence phono-
graph also, and enable US to hear the
sounds that accompany them. The con-
ception would seem to be logical and directly
in line with the successful experiments
with electricity and sound OF the last
twenty years. Who knows but that after
awhile we may be able to hear sun sounds,
as well as see sun spots?
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1892-02-21
TIE BORROWING POWER

In the Council, on Saturday, Mr. BAsK1N
read from the act of Congress of July 80,
1856, the following section:
That no law OF any territorial legislature shall
authorize any debt to be contracted by or in
behalf of such territory, except in the following,
cases: To meet casual deficit in the revenues,
to pay the interest upon the territorial debt, to
suppress Instructions, or TO provide for the
public defense, except that in addition TO any
indebtedness created for such purposes. the leg
islature may authorize loan for the erection
OF penal, charitable or educational institutions
for such territory. if the total Indebtedness OF
the territory il not thereby made to exceed /
per centum upon the assessed value of the tax
able property in such territory, as shown by the
last general assessment for taxation.
! Whether or not the legislature can Gre
ate illegal debt, it will thus be seen, depends
UP the meaning of the phrase "a casual
deficit in the revenues" There is no de-
msnd, or at least no such demand as would
call for the mourning OF public debt
''for the erection Of penal, charitable or
educational institutions" II a casual de-
felt means that the revenue has been less
| than the expenditure, then the legislature
can proceed with the bonding bill, for in
addition TO the appropriations of two
years ago, money has been borrowed to
keep up the public institutions hereto
fore established. The question raised BY
the section quoted is one demanding very
careful consideration by our law-makers
No matter how pressing ara the needs OF
the territory, it will never do to issue an
invalid loan. Our obligations must be "a.
good as gold" and without suspicion as tc
their legality. 1t is bad enough 10 have
cities plunged into debt to such an exten,
that eminent lawyers must be employed tc
corporations for the bonds sold.
Another thing which the legislature
should do is to put stop tt
the practice of officials borrowing
money and pledging the succeeding
legislature to pay. OF course, these loans
are not binding upon the territory. except
in a moral sense, az the officials who Gre
ate the obligations have no legal authority
TO borrow for the territory. At the sans
time, the debts are paid, together with ex
travagant interest on the money.
We would not be understood as intimat
ing that any money has been improperly
borrowed, or that any has been borrowed
in excess OF the requirements; but tn,
practice is exceedingly bad and dangerous
1t should be at once discontinued, other
wise one Of these days the territory ma,
find itself under moral obligations to pay
some heavy debts thus illegally contracted
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1892-02-21
WASTE FORCES OF NATURE.

a Boston inventor, who has been at
work on the problem of gathering and
storing the tidal forces of the ocean, is said
to have succeeded ct last in devising a
float which, by being held firm and fast in
the water while the tide rises round it. will
receive the force impaired to it and direct
it TO useful work.
We build steam engines at great expense
to utilize the expansive power of steam.
And yet the Mississippi river has a force
greater than all the steam engines Of Great
Britain, which represents the strength of
fifteen hundred millions Of men-aud a
proportionate power Turks in every flowing
stream IN the land. If one could harness
funnel shaped cyclone ne could obtain
power enough to grind all the wheat in
Minnesota into -four. A coiled spring in a
clock possesses the force te run its machin-
cry eight days without stopping.
The force of a steam engine can
by friction be stored up in q bat
terry so as TO propel street car.
Science urged by human ingenuity has
been at work for ages on the problem of
turning to practical uses the tremendous
ready made energies of the wind, the water
currents and the cataracus. A few wind
mills and water-wheels here and there are
all we have TO show in the way OF apparatus
for making use of the abundant forces of
nature. Yet the ocean continues to heave
with the strength Of billions of tons along
the coast every hour. Niagara continues
to thunder away its irresistible power upon
the insensate rocks below; and thousand
rivers roll unvexed to the sea without halt
| ing to work for man.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1892-02-21
SUNDAY SAYINGS

layman may be person Of good standing
all the same.-Boston Courier
1t wont do any good to look as solemn as an
owl IN church il you are IN the habit Of skinning
people in business. -Rdnl's Horn.
Sleeping capacities in your church goods"
GLORIOUS broad seats, high backs, long SER
mons. "-Neoo York Herald.
Rev. Mr.. Wilgus-'Have you made any seri-
Gus preparations for the future?" Watts-"O,
Yes. have stocked an ice-house Of my own"
Indianapolis Journal.
Briggs-"I thought the minister lived next
door to the church" Griggs-"He did. But
the bell woke him up SO early in the morning
he had TO move."-LJe.
Visitor-'T hear your new preacher is man
OF indomtable will and wonderful energy"
Hostess-Indeed he is. He has started IN to
convert the choir.-NeaO York HeetRy.
a New York Chinaman is to tell the public in
lecture why he remains heather. 1t would
embarrass some men who attend church regu-
larry to do The same.-Ph,Iadstphi Record.
There will be lots of unmended holes in the
garments OF the poor to confront those women
in the next world who spent their time in en-
| broidering altar cloths.-AtchiSon Globe.
/ Jinks-Does DR.. Fourthly practice what he
breaches? Filkins-If you were his poor wife
and had to have his sermons rehearsed to you
guess you'd think so.--NeU YORK Herald.
Sunday school Teacher-Who made the sur
and the moon stand still? First Boy-Adam
S. S. tho. Second Boy-Moses. S. S. t.
| No; what's the matter with Joshua? Glass Or
unison)-He's all right.-Brooklyn Citizen.
Mother-I don't see why you and your hus
band should have SO much trouble You dom
belong to different churches, do you? Daughte
mo, mother. Mother-Then there is no ex
cuse for fighting like cats and dogs--Goo,
NeCs.
I'VE should like an article from your pen
reverend sir, as you are the pastor Of our mos
fashionable church, Upon what subjectg
Anything that has come under your observa
ton.' 'Good will write you an essay upo
bonnets. Epoch.
Doesn't it annoy you, Mr.. Prooftext, to hav
people sleep under your preachingg Eyes
was the reply, lit is rather humiliating; bu
then there is this advantage: can preach tn
same sermon several Sundays in successio
without the fact being recognized by my cor
gation.-BoStoa Transcript.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1892-02-21
THE RECORD spEAKS.

Records are sometimes very good
things TO have, and then again, they are
sometimes very annoying. HERALD read
ers will recall that the other day, in Wash
ington, when Senator FAULKNER asked
Judge Powers civil question concerning
his coming to Utah, the boss diverged
somewhat from the trend of his anti-Home
Rule harangue, and went into personal
explanation. He didn't explain every
thing, 1t is true, but he did
say that he had been appointed
to iusgsship in Utah By President CLEvE-
LAND, but opposition to his confirmation
having arisen in the Senate, he asked the
President to withdraw his name, which
was done. And now for the record. A
few, at least, will remember that after his
overthrow in 1856, Judge POWERS pub
lished over his own signature an intermin-
able screed in which he undertook
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1892-02-21

and the legislature will have to repudiate
the obligations or pay them by wrongful
appropriation of the peoples money.
We know what will be said against for
bidding the practice. II will be urged
that the appropriation having been ex-
hausted the public institution cannot be
closed, but must be maintained by borrow
ing money; but there must come time
when the expenditures OF public institu-
tons are kept within the appropriation,
and the sooner that time approaches the
better. 1t will not do 10 give boards the
power to incur unlimited Indebtedness, I'M
less we want to court disaster.
The matter is one demanding the consid-
Grafton of the legislature at this session.
We understand that enormous interest
bills for borrowed money have been pre-
scented and will have to be allowed. and q
considerable portion of the territorial rev.
enue for the next two years has been mort
gagged to pay the expenses of public insti
buttons Of the past two years.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1892-02-21

A NEW theory has been sprung upon US
of the impending destruction of the earth.
A scientific estimate of the weight Of our
little planet has been made aud also of the
weight of the human bodies that have been
born and have lived on it from the begin
ming of creation. 1t is found that these two
are about equal, 80 that all the material of
the world is composed Of the remains of
human bodies. From this it is argued that
the purpose of creation has been fulfilled,
and when the resurrection takes place-an
event not far off-the earth will vanish,
since the raised bodies will carry off all its
substance, and leave behind them vacant
place where the planet now is.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1892-02-21
OUR QUERY BOX.
A.-Flower's plurality was 1856.

G. A.-Flower's plurality was As, $780,
Stude'H.-Harvard college was founded in 1886.
Reb.-Wilkes Booth was killed on farm in
Virginia in the latter part of April, 1865.
Rum-Maine passed the first prohibition law
in the United States in 1916.
Marietta - There are more Catholics than
Professionals in the world.
4. w. K-Nine of the Presidents have been
Eplscopslians. The two Adamses were Con-
gregationalists.
tSu5Scra6er-General Grant was secretary of
war ad interim from Augu5t1 IL, 1867, to January
IA, 1863
C. r. r. - England and her colonies take
nearly two-thirds Of all the exports from the
United States.
Driuer-A street car line in the Argentine re-
public is 200 miles long, and connects Buenos
Ayres with surrounding towns.
VariouS-There are four coinage minis in the
United Stated located at Philadelphia, San
Francisco, Carson City and New Orleans.
Schooigiri-The first piece of American money
was coined in Massachusetts, presumably by
John Hull, who was the first mint master ap
pointed by the colony.
Reader-The governor Of the state Of New
York receives $40, 600 year and the use of the
Executive mansion at Albany. The mayor o
New York city gets $40, 000 year.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1892-02-21
NO SIDE ISSUES.

Boss Powers seems to think, and others
have fallen into the same error, that the
propriety of granting Home Rule to Utah
hinges upon the conduct of the gentlemen
sent here by the federal government to
occupy the Offices and execute the laws.
The larger portion of the boss harangues
before the Congressional committees on
territories last week, was made up of de-
Tense and praise of the federal officials.
We submit that the character and the con-
duct Of the officials have nothing whatever
to do with the question involved II the
very best men in the Union were placed in
the local federal offices 1t would deprive
the plea Of the people of none of its merit or
force. 1t would not dstract from the
petition if the appointees were all citizens
of the territory and were among our most
respected and worthy people. Nor would
it be different in this respect il the gentle
men selected for the Offices under Home
Rule were strikingly inferior to the pres
ent federal appointees or others who may
come.
There is a principle involved, aud it is
that for which we are striving. Here are
quarter Of a million people, rs bright in
tellectually, as moral, as American as any
community within the boundaries of the
republic; they are patriotic, and love the
! flag as dearly as do the people of Massachu
sets, or Illinois, or any other state; they
are progressive and enterprising, anG
they possess their proportionate share o.
the wealth of the nation; they, as {
community, have outgrown the condition
when they require the financial assistance
Of the nation to pay the expenses of thell
| local government, and having reached
period in their history when they are ablt
to take care of themselves, like the DO,
who has reached his majority, they ar,
grateful to the parent, but want to "go i
alone" managing for themselves withou
a boss and paying for what they have. Il
short, the people Of Utah want Home Rule
which is enjoyed by the people of all tn
states. They want TO choose their Owl
officers, and not be ruled by men sent t
them from distant parts Of the republic
they want those officers made re
sponsible to them instead Of to
Congressman from Illinois, or Michigan
J
cabinet; they want to make their own law
and enforce them; they want in fact, to. b
citizens of the republic in which they wer
born, whcre they have lived and wher
they expect to die and be buried. 1t cut
very little figure with them that some @
the men sent here TO rule are good and som
are bad, that some sympathize with tn
people and some Cypress them: that som
are respected and others despised Thes
are only incidents, affecting individuals an
not the main question.
1t is Home Rule, as Americans, that W
are appealing for, aud we are not BASIN
the appeal on the circumstance that cereai
federal officials have been incompetent c
corrupt. nor is it proposed that Home Rul
shall be denied on the ground that th
President has sent us some good men 6
| officials
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1892-02-21

AT dinner given the other night by
Mrs. Secretary NOBLE, President HARRI-
SON was assigned to the head of the table,
and Washington society is stirred from
center to circumference in consequence.
From time immemorial this place has al
ways been occupied by the host, and the
startling innovation has for the time being
put aside discussion of the Behring sea
controversy, the late Gillian troubles and
even that ever-present topic, the tariff.
The new rule for seating the President, 1t
is said, came in response to an inquiry
made to the British court. There the host
abdicates when the sovereign Is present.
But the republican sense of the proprieties
does not suoecribe to this etiquette, be-
cause in America the people are sovereign.
Secs To put the President in the hosts
chair is absurdly initiative of the sover-
eighty of the crown, don't you know? And
besides, in this arrangement, the Presi-
dents wife could not have corresponding
honor, you observe But as the fashion is
to have grave questions settled by arbitra-
ton, we leave the subject in the hands Of
the readers of The HERALD.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1892-02-21

If ALL gall is divided into three parts, at
least third ought to be set apart for the
Yellowstone park company, which proposes
to fence in the big spectacles there and ten
acres surrounding each Of them forever for
the benefit of the incorporates, paying for
each the stupendous sum of $50 per year in
lieu Of taxes. A bill is before the Senate
for that purpose and Secretary NOBLE has
done right TO jump on it with both his big
Conestoga boots.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1892-02-21

ONE-MAJoRITY ALLEN says he has per-
feet faith in the religious sincerity of the
Mormons, but not in their political SINGER
ity. POWERS said the Mormons have no
politics and it was because they were sin
cere he could not trust them. 1t is enough
to give one pain IN the hair to undertake
to comprehend the meaning of these fell
lows They have meaning. but they are
ashamed, as civilized Americans, to tel
right out what 1t is.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1892-02-21

AN INTERNATIONAL question may arise
from the fact that the family Of the chan
color Of the German legation at Washing
ton persist in drying their clothes and
household linen in their front yard, where
Tapping unmentionables ebstruot the aris-
tocratio vision of their neighbors. These
neighbors have fled complaints with the
district authorities. and diplomatic circles
are fearing a modus ufuendt, or ultimatum
or something.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1892-02-21

IN speech delivered at Sunderland,
England, lately, MIR. Tom MANN stated
that there are eight millions adult male
workers in Great Britain, but that only
one quarter of these are enrolled in trades
unions For example, the Amalgamated
Engineers do not possess more than $4,000
of the 100000 employed in the engineering
trades of the United Kingdom
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1892-02-21

ONE HUNDRED and tfty-nine deaths were
snnounced in one day in the London Times
in January. The average age of the whole
number, whore the age is given, comes up
to seventy years and four months, probably
the most remarkable longevity that has
ever been recorded in newspaper of SO
large number of beings.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1892-02-21

A SOLDIER in France was suspected of
stealing money, but there was no actual
evidence against him. Soon afterwards he
was taken ill and died, and postmortem
examination revealed the fact that he had
swallowed no fewer than twenty one 20
franc pieces
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1892-02-21

TWENTY THOUSAND hymns by over 5000
authors. in nearly 200 languages, are
noticed in the mon umental "Dctionary of
Hymnology," just published, edited by
Rev. JOHN JULIAN, vicar of Wincobank,
Sheffield. MIR. JULIAN has devoted twenty
one years of study to the work, and in the
course Of his labors has, with his assist
ants, visited most Of the great libraries of
Europe and consulted some 10000 manu-
acn.irnts
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1892-02-21

ALL THE Liberals want to do with this
territory is to just hold 1t till they can
make 1t reliably Republican. "ToMMY,"
asked the lady who was calling on his
mother, "have you any sisters or broth
ersp NO" said TOMMY, s'I'm all the
children we want around this house"
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1892-02-21

THE NEW archbishop Of Moscow has just
been selected. The decree appointing him
lays stress on the necessity of his taking
energetic steps against the Stundists, a
Protestantizing sect, who are making in
creasing inroads upon the ranks of the
Russian church. Persecution has already
commenced
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1892-02-21

WARD McALLIsTER has left Dr. DEpEw
OF his revised New York society list be-
cause he talks too much when he eats. But
would he pu: him on the list il there were
nothing in him?
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1892-02-21

TIE SEATS in the national Republican
convention hall at Minneapolis are to be
constructed on the s'isacoustic curve" sys-
TEN, arranged to give the most effective
combination of sight and sound. But the
Democrats will get on to the curves of the
Republicans when they go to the bat at
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1892-02-21

TIE FLAT peach of China Is u great curl
csity. In appearance it looks like ring OF
flesh with stone in the middle. AT first
sight it appears TO have been fiattened by
preesure
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1892-02-21

Born BRANCHES of the Mississippi legis-
lature have passed an act making it unlaw-
full to sell or give cigarettes 10 children
under eighteen. The house wan ted to add
prohibition against smoking these poison
Gus articles by any one anywhere except
in private houses.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1892-02-21

a GIRL of eighteen hes just won a money
prize offered by the New York Sorosis
society for the best essay on "How to Man
age Husband" Boiled down, the best
way to manage q husband according to
this inexperienced and young, but wise,
authority is to Just love him.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1892-02-21

IT is said that large quantities OF musk
were mixed with the mortar when the
church of St. SOPHIA in Constan tinople
was being built. The perfume clings to
the stone after ] 600 years
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1892-02-21

to defend himself and in which
he succeeded in abusing pretty
nearly everybody who didn't think
he was a proper person to occupy the
judicial bench. In that explanation and de-
tense, over the gentleman's name, bear in
mind, were the following words:
Finally, influence was brought to bear
which turned the tide against me in ths
judiciary committee, and at the instance of
friends, On the 18th of April, 1856, the
President withdrew my name from the
Senate"
1t is hardly worth while to say more.
The ''record" does all the talking that is
necessary.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1892-02-21

IT IS great Indictment the Pennsylva-
mia Republican association has got out
against Quar-, but it is well they found
other things against him than using his In
fiuence to prevent the passage Of the
southern elections, or force bill.