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The Somerset reporter., 1893-12-11
December Magazines.

The multiplicity and excellence of
other magazines, far from lessenng the
usefulness of the Review of Reviews,
makes this unique periodical more and
more necessity. Its indexes, con
densations of leading articles, classified
lists of new books, and general survey
of things written things said, and things
done during the month preceding, its
issue, would suffice to keep the busy
reader in touch with the current of life
and thought, even II he were able to
read nothing else. The December num-
Der is as full of variety and freshness as
its predecessors have regularly been !;
and to those who know the Review OF
Reviews this is sufficient commenda-
ton.
The December humber of the North
American Review contains articles on
"rhe Hawaiian Situation" by Ex-Min-
lister John l.. Stevens, by Congressman
Springer and by Eugene Tyler Chamber
lain; "What Dreams are Made Of by
DR.. Louis Robinson; "PoliticBl Causes
for the Business Depression" by Govern
or Russell of Massachusetts,, Capt. w.
Il. Sampson, U. S. NJ, Chief of the Blu
reau of Ordnance, has prepared an arti-
Gle on "rhe Battleship of the Future; )"
"Railroad Accidents in the United
States and England" forms the subject
of an article by H. G. Prout, Editor OF
the Railroad Gazette. Among the
short articles that appear are New
York's Tenements," by Edward Mar
shall 'rhe Right to Die" by Gertrude
b. Rolfe: and "Amateur Glasses in
Nursing" by c. II. Crandall'
The Somerset reporter., 1893-12-11
The rsing Sin of Our Land

Rev. i VI leary, of Minneapolis. Tor
mcrly laa-il,nt of the Catholic Iotai
Nb-tnnn = Inion of America. at the re-
ucnt Catcolic Lay Congress, held in chi
cago, read an able paper upon the sub
Get of temperance. in which he char
Acterized incompetence rs the crying sin
of our land: urged Catholics to enlist
more generally aud more earnestly IN
the temperance crusade made II strong
plea for total abstinence , aud also said ;
The drink curse shields itself behind
false theories of science, and many have
been deudcd by the false notion that
alcohol is beneficial to health. Thirty
six States of this Union have by law
made the teaching of true principles of
temperance compulsory in our common
schools. Too much Importance cannot
be attached to the practice of iuculcat-
ing habits of total abstinence among
children and our boys and girls during
the dangerous and trying period of
youth.
If our prelates, priests, and people
Join hands together to work ID harmony
and strength for the realization of tie
admonitions of our plenary councils the
awful curse of intcmperance can DE al
most entirely eradicated from among US.
We must encourage, then, our total an
stinence societies by every means at our
command. We priests, mindful OF rope
Leo's words, must "shine AS models Of
total abstinence" and by eXhorlation
and preaching avert the many calhmlties
with which The vice threatens Church
and State.
In those sanctuaries of affection and
virtue, the Christian homes of our peo-
pie, let the sophistries of the advocates
of alcohol be exposed by sound reason
ing, the temptations and dangers of the
saloon be carefully explained, and let
fathers and mothers merit for them
selves the reward and consolation OF
sober sons and daughters by showing
4 noble example of self-control ana
sobrcty.
Let there be general and generous
distribution of temperance literature,
tracts, lectures. statistits. and good
reading among our people. And thus
work of agitation in favor of sobriety
and temperance must be constant and
active. The allurements of drink are
ever thrusting themselves in the patti
way of men. Near to the house OF
PRAYER the workingman finds the drink
ing-saloop, cheerful, entcing, and hos
pitable, as he goes to worship God on
Sunday morning Close to the gates OF
the factory or mill the agents of alcohol
ply their trade and tempt the weary toll
er to spend for moments qualification
his hard-earned money that is much
needed in his humble home. Surrounded
thus by attractive temptations, men need
constant warnings, repeated admon'-
tions, and such wholesome influence as
will strengthen and safeguard them
against the overpowering spell of drink
The Somerset reporter., 1893-12-11
GHOSTS AT HAMPTON COURT.
the ASPIRATIONS still Startle the Inhabi-
tants OF the Place.

the Aspirations Still Startle the Inhabi-
tants OF the Place.
The ghosts at Hampton Court palace
still are said to frighten the inhabitants
and officials of the place, and even visit
yrs, it is declared, are not exempt, sew
sral of them having terminated their
visits abruptly owing to the noises they
have heard. A resident in the palace
sends to the London Graphic an account
of an apparition seen by an attendant in
the gardens who was sitting on bench
waiting for the Inspector to pass on his
rounds at night, when suddenly he felt
hand laid upon his face and looking
up saw tall, pale lady dressed in gray.
He sprang up at once. but she vanished
before his eyes. and the shock caused by
the apparition was SO great that he had
to resign his post. He became SO nerv-
Gus that he was absolutely afraid to re-
main in the gardens at night.
Nor are the ghosts confined to the gar
dens, for few nights ago two of the
maid servants fancying they smelled
something burning, went down one Of
the staircases in the middle of the night
and met a tall, pale lady with "a reflect
ed light on her face and dressed in black.
She. too, vanished through one of the
queens gates, though the door itself was
shut and no footsteps could be heard.
Other servants in the palace have been
visited by these royal ghosts. One serv-
ant declares that she felt something
come and touch her face in the dark
when she was asleep in bed, and another
maid sleeping in the next room called
out to her to leave off walking about
her ROOM" as she heard footsteps NOV
ing about. Several visitors to the pal
ace have noticed extraordinary noises in
particular room, and only few
months ago two ladies' We're standing
talking near this room at about / 80 one
night when they heard a loud crash and
saw brilliant light flash through the
room, sight which they. could not &C.
count for in any way. The Graphic's
informant is positive that no practical
joker is the author of the Disturbances,
as has been suggested in some quarters
The Somerset reporter., 1893-12-11
The "Second Samson.'

Richard joy. who died May IS, 1742,
at the age of 81 and is buried in the st.
Peters churchyard, isle of Thanet,
Kent, England, was known throughout
Europe as the Kentish Hercules, Oh
tho Second Samson When but q
youth of II years, he was invited te
London by the king to give an exhibi
tion in remarkable teats of strength
Among the feats of his more mature
years was that of breaking, with his
hands and feet, rope with tensile
strength of 35 hundredweight and the
lifting of 2,20O pounds. The following
Is copy of his epitaph:
Herculean herol famed for strength
At last liss here-his breadth and length
See how the mighty man is fallen!
To death the strong and weak are all one.
The same Judgment doth befall
Goliath great and David small.
st. Louis Republic.
The Somerset reporter., 1893-12-11
liGH THING CALCULATION.
Howthe Cube Root of my Number May BE
Given Inst antiy.

Given Inst antiy.
One third memory, one-third practice
and one-third trick-that is the secret Of
most of the rapid calculators who figure
before the public. There are very few
calculations of which there is not short
way to the solution. but perhaps none of
them is SO easy and at the same time so
surprising to the ordinary mind as the
instantaneous extraction of the cube root.
This is feat which has gained great
applause for its performers from the
days of Hutchins. 1.-THE lightning calcu-
lator," till now. The extreme rapidity
with which it is worked and the Difficult
ty of the solution by the ordinary meth
DDS render it one of the most taking of
feats.
Before explaining the method of per-
forming this extraction of the cube root
it may be we'll for the benefit of those
readers who have forgotten some of their
early school knowledge to explain what
cube root is. Multiply number by
itself and the product by the original
number, and the result is cube Thus:
9x9-- 81 (the square of 81; 81 0 - 729
1the cube of o. Then 8 is the cube root
of 729
Now for the method. First you OBJ
tain from one of the audience an exact
cube of not more than six places of fig
ures, though with moderate practice the
latter condition need not be insisted on
Say the cube given is 140, COS, of which
the root is 90. You know the cubes of
the units by heart, thus;
The Somerset reporter., 1893-12-11

There is certain physiological diff
erence between the poisonous.and harm
less snakes which exists very plainly in
their manner of dentition. All snakes
are objects of aversion and dread to
mankind, SO much SO that to be bitten
by a snake has at times been SO fearful
to the victim as to have produced death,
although the snake was harmless. Such
is the instructive dread with which these
reptiles are thought of that it may be
desirable to have some easy mode of
distinguishing the one kind from the
other. This distinguishing characters
tic is afforded by the teeth. In all pois
onous snakes there are only two rows of
teeth. the fang or fangs being ar
ranged either within the two rows or
outside of them. The harmless snakes
have four distinct rows CT teeth. and
when the bite shows this kind of wound
and not any single deeper or larger
puncture there need be 10 apprehen
sion. New York Times.
The Somerset reporter., 1893-12-11
Temperance Progress.

Hon. Neal Dow, one of recent sym
postum in the n. Y. Independent, in
answer to the question, ''Is the World
Growing better?" replying from the
temperance standpoint, writes:
My knowledge of the drinking habits
Of the people goes back beyond fifty
years. | very well remember when this
habit was almost universal among all
classes of society. 1t may be said to
have been quite universal among
mechanics and other workingmen. |
remember when the town bell which
rang at seven in the morning. at noon,
and at nine o'clock at night, was also
rung at eleven in the forenoon and at
four in the afternoon to call working
men to their ''grog," when there were
fifteen minutes allowed them to absorb
their allowance of rum, which was then
spoken of as Support" and was held,
even among the intelligent and educated,
to be ut cessity to working people, wo-
men rs well as men, to enable them to
endure the draft upon their physical
strengt
At the same time the drink custom
was universal among the upper classes
of society. Always when calling at the
house of such people, whether socially,
tremendously, or on business. the first
thing after the greeting was an invita-
ton to the sideboard 'to take some
thing which meant drink Of wine,
brandy, gin, or any other of the many
kinds of alcoholics there displayed in a
long army of cut-glass decanters, each
having IL silver label about its neck to
indicate the Kind of fuddle it contained.
Whether the Interview continued for ten
minutes or more, the same ceremony
was repeated--the formal Invitation and
the drink. Whether the caller were the
pastor, the doctor, the stranger, or the
neighbor, the invitation and the drink
were never omitted. 1t was thought
rude in those days, sometimes offensive,
to decline that sort Aof hospitality.
These civilties were extended alike to
ladies as to gentlemen.
In those days of liquors ut public as
well rs at social gatherings and at pub
lie as well rs social feastings, alcoholics
were always presenty with boisterous-
ness, coarseness, even vulgarities (the
ladies having retired); and even excess
was not considered reproach to any
gentleman. | have seen such persons
leap upon the table at such feasts, and
dance a Jig" there, making all the bot
ties, decanters, and glasses join in the
fun. have seen six gentlemen doing
this at one time, M long table, few
ladies' and many gentlemen being pres
ent. All these habits and customs are
gone now; they were dismissed many
years ago from all circles of which |
have any knowledge.
The Somerset reporter., 1893-12-11
The Atlantic
for 1894

viii contain, among other attractions
Pb,lip and his wife. n serial story, b,
Margaret Deland
This is undoubtedly the most important " 'rb
of the author OF, 'John Ward, Preacher, 90
xolyinR some of the leading problems n m"n
rrn social life, studied very thoroughly ANA
treated with admirable skill ana grace
short Stories,
Ry Miss Jewe,t. Mrs Catherwood, joel Chand
Ter Harris, Mrs. wggin and others.
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Literary History and Criticism
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The Somerset reporter., 1893-12-11

Now, as the thousands in the cube
given exceed 125 and are less than 216,
the tens in the reply must be 8. For the
second figure or units. a curious trick
comes in. The cubes of l, a, 5, 6 and 8
end in the same figures; the cube of is
s; the cube of 3 ends in Z, and reversely
the cube of 8 ends in 2 and the cube of
7 in 3.
So when the questioner says 140, 900
(here you say to yourself 50) COS, you say
out loud on the instant, so.
Take another, 80, 3O4. The thousands
exceed 81; therefore the root is thirty
something. The last figure is 4; there
fore the root is 34.-London Tit-Bits.
The Somerset reporter., 1893-12-11

Formerly it was general custom to
erect crosses at the junction of four
crossroads on place self consecrated ac-
cording to the piety Of the age. Suicides
and VIGOROUSLY bad characters were
frequently buried near to these, not
with the notion Of indignlty, but in a
spirit of charity that, being excluded
from holy rites, they by being buried at
crossroads might be in places noSt in
sanctity to ground actually consecrated.
Westminster Gazette.
The Somerset reporter., 1893-12-11

Is the letter u" like the letter "E, "
SO indispensable that it is as difficult to
find list of names without the former
appearing in it as it is to find complete
sentence in which the latter does not oc-
cur? Is the above the cause of its fire.
quent appearance in the namesof Amer
ica's great men, or is it really mascot
letter? Beginning with our presidents,
l find it as the first initial in the names
of eight The only president of the
Confederacy also began his name with
the "little mascot" In the list of
the vice presidents l find it six times,
divided equally between the Christian
and the surnames. Among the names
Of the presidents pro TEN. Of the SEN
speakers Of the house IA times. Thir-
teen of the secretaries of state COM
menced their first names with ~" and
one used it as the initial of his surname.
In the realm of justice the record is equal
ly if not more startling, 81 out of total
of 55 chief justices and justices begin
ming either their first or last name with it.
Besides the above we find it in the
names of nearly all the Inultimillionaires
of the country-viz, John ID. Rockefeller,
J. j. Aston, Jay Gould, j. M. Sears, j. s.
Morgan, J. B. Haggin. j. W. Garrett,
John Wanamaker j. G.. Fair, John W.
Mackay j. G. Flood, John Arbuckle, j.
B. Stetson, John Claflin, Joseph Pulitzer
and dozens of others. Louis Republic.
The Somerset reporter., 1893-12-11
StaRnatiOn Is Death.

The sun would be consumed by it's
own ardor If it did not shine. Nature
knows nothing of boarding. The sun
gives away its gold without ostenta-
tion. The ocean gives its vapors to the
clouds, the clouds return them to the
earth, the rivers to the sea. There is a
constant exchange between lungs and
leaves. Stagnation is death. Give to
ret get to give. Horn.
The Somerset reporter., 1893-12-11
Rebuked.

A Texas clergyman who ran as the
Democratic congressional candidate in
that state two years ago was once in
terrupted in the midst of public pray
or by man who shouted, "Louderr'
He stopped short, looked at the inter
supter and said coolly: ~ wasn't ad-
dressing you, sir. 1 was addressing
the Almighty" Then he went on with
his prayer. Siftings.
The Somerset reporter., 1893-12-11

Froken Louisa Hommarstrom, a
Swedish lady. has commenced business
ct Kopparburg, the center Of the min
ing industry, as an analytical chemist.
She has studied under celebrated pro-
fessor at Stockholm and has for several
years held . responsible position a.
chemist in large iron works.-Kansas
City Times.
The Somerset reporter., 1893-12-11

The firemen of Walla Walla, WASH,
have elected as honorary members" the
6remen who persisted in the cold storage
fire in Chicago
The Somerset reporter., 1893-12-11

There are two boons to make life worth
living-love Of art and art OF love.-Ed-
mond Harancourt.
The Somerset reporter., 1893-12-11
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The Somerset reporter., 1893-12-11

American pumps are known in China
and Japan, Is well - in all parts Of
Europe.
The Somerset reporter., 1893-12-11
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Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1893-02-25
EEDERATEn TRADES.


Al the meeting OF tie Federated
Irades last night considerable business
was uausa.tel. Resolutions were
adopted, which embodied iho following
ilen..
That ii had become u notorious fact
HAT the work on pullIc bulliiues in
lhis city, particularly upon the school
houses crested un1Cr tue direction Of
tue Hgh0ol board, was not iu accord.
anre with the epirl ID. tho cOutfacts
with the vnt.Ola contractors, the
workmanship being bad; that tue piin.
cilal ctute iJf thiH condition OF aiialrs
was suhluulug. which uf0ugh. down
thu wages VI tnc wUrkmuu ~ such an
extent that they hal 10 Hlight their
work IN order " live upon what they
coull earn that this method
was detrimental 20 the best ~.
trfcsls Of tho taxpayurs, ntcossl.
luiiig large expenditures Tor repnirs;
iurthcr, that the work went 10 oitsiiu
parties who simply cams 10 salt Lake
10 Wintet AMI ina, the motto VI "Salt
Lake wulB iUf Salt Lake workmonO 10
often displayed seemed u boo lost sight
o. that the city should insist that the
board OF public works ana the school
board dgmaHd cJmpiigucs with the
splut VI MI such contracts cutlfrd
iut0; als1 tuHt the officials having
charge OF public Improvement. en-.
plJy competent superintendent lor
encn building being contributed 10 in.
sure proper workmanship.
In tae matter Of tile proposed gravity
sewer tbs following was adopted:
Whereas, Tho city Of salt Lake con-
templates inc building " "a gravity sewer,
which calls for rho expenditure ui JjOJ..
OIl, which SUM Wl.l loo expended iu uur
midst iithU samu should 10 through, aud
a. this sewer as contemplated will be a
brick sower uf i've feet iu diameter aud
siN miles in length. which Will tnko about
l'uJO,OOU brick, all OF which will be made
iu Salt Lake city aud vicinity, thereby
giving work to tho briCkmukefs Of our
city; aud, further, ns tho conslruc-
ton OF this same sewer will glyo
,mpluymunt TO over one thousand OF our
mechanics and labOr.ng mon, ~ the
greater portion OF the whole amount OK
pended is distributed to labor aud,
further, II pumping plant should b0
substituted Tor tai, CAVITY sowor, 10
would bB temporary affair, and all the
money 40 expended, amounting TO 5000
or $1,000 would be distributed % fJrcigl
wOgllueu iu Pigtsburg and O.her shops,
now, therefore. be it
Resolved, That we, tho Utah Federated
Tradosand Labor council, va regular so.-
sion, respectfully ask tho honorable
Mayor and CITY Council ~ Salt Lake
city to use their bo-t Oulsayors to for
ward will all possible dispatch thi, great
public improvements, which " also
public Necessity, and gives work TO a
large number OF our mechanics and Ia.
boring men; aud bo 10
ltos1lyod, That We ask the honorable
Mayor aud Clly Council that this work DO
done under The supervision Of tho city,
thereby doing away with the prosentoylls
resulting from contracts to tho laborug
clnssc.,
After iisposiug Of matters OF miuor
importance tue meeting adjourned.