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The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1895-04-05
UTAH FLOUR ron CHINA.
Another shipment VIII be Made
This Morning.

Another shipment of Utah flour is to
be made to China. making the third which
has gone across the Pacific within the
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Discovery know its value, and those
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tunity to try it free. Call on the ad-
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Get your Summer Underwear and
Hosiery" at the gents furnishing
Semi-weekly independent. (Plymouth, Marshall County, Ind.) 1895-1897, 1895-12-14
FISH FIGHT WITH ELECTRICITY.
Nature Has Provided Some Species
with Il Storage Battery.

Perhaps one of the most interesting,
as we'll as the most ineXplicable. means
Of protection with which nature has
provided any animal is that of cleo
tricity. My attention was called 10
this some few years ago in England
on the occasion of L visit to the aqua
rum at Brighton. An electric fish
was on exhibition. In the same room
was a family of young alligators. The
tanks were side by side. and some
miScreant. unobserved. managed tc
drop an alligator into the tank of tbs
fish. The consequence WAS the utter
prostratiOn of the reptile
There are three genera Of fishes which
possess the power of delivering an cleo
tric shock-the torpedo the electric cat
fish or electric sheath fish and the cleo
trio eel. The torredoes are rays and
are distributed over the Atlantic and
Indian oceans. 1t is said that individ-
uals reach the weight of eighty and
even Il hundred pounds. The electric
cat fish or sheath fish belongs TO the
Siluridae. as also does the eat fish of
American streams. IS native of tropi-
cal Africa, and attains length of four
feet.
The electric eel. or. to call ii by a less
misleading name. the gymnatus. is a
native of the marshes OF Brazil and
Guiana. The electric apparatus ex-
tends down each side of the lower part
of the tail, and the shock delivered by
one of the largest fish, five or six feet
in length, is capable Of killing the most
powerful animal. Humboldt has graph
ically described his experience with
these strange creatures. and reports
that certain roads were abandoned be-
cause of the number of horses destroy
ed by the fish in the pools on the route.
The Indians secure them for food by
driving horses into the water. and on
these the fish exhaust their power,
often killing the horses by their shocks.
When the faculty of delivering an cleo
trio shock is exhausted the gymnotus
draws near to the bank TO avoid the
plunging quadrupeds. and falls an easy
victim 10 the Indians harpoon.-New
FORK Evening Post.
Semi-weekly independent. (Plymouth, Marshall County, Ind.) 1895-1897, 1895-12-14
ORIGIN OF PNEUMATIC TlRESl
An Irish Doctor Invented Them to
Preserve His Sons Health.

Very few of the h;SndredS Of thou.
sands of cyclists who NOW enjoy the
pastime on an up-to-date safety shod
with pneumatic tires haze an idea
from what Il crude cOntrivance those
same air-cushions on wheels have been
evolved. Pneumatic tires We're invent
ed in 1889 by j. Il. Dunlop. 4 aorse
doctor. of Belfast. Ireland. He had q
son who rode a tricycle. and who in his
indulgence had developed Il nervous
trouble. The veterinary concluded thar
the boys disorder was Cue solely 10 the
jOlting OF the wheels. ANA. planning
10 do away with the objections. 50 that
the lad might continue his exercise. he
hit upon the idea OF putting air cush-
ions on the wheels.
With only such material rs lie had
at hand for use in doctoring equine in
validS. he set 10 work. sing a broom
stick Is Il mandrel, he wrapped it spir-
ally with linen bandageS. Next he took
some rubber sheets and solutiOned
them around the linen. The ends also
he fastened with rubber solution. He
inserted a valve little better than a
plug, and. putting it on the wheels,
started his son away on the first pneu-
matte tires
1t was quickly found that the rough-
and-ready style of fabric would nos
hold air, and So IN inner sheath of pure
rubber WAS tried. The valve was vul-
canized to this inner tube in such q
way that in the event of any trouble
with the valve an entirely new air
sheath was the only remedy. Flat rims
were in Use At the time, and the tires
were fastened 10 the rim by strip Of
muslin which came out with the free
edges from the under side Of the tires.
These ends were wrapped around the
rim and vulcaniZed to it. The linen
completely covered the rim. effectually
concealing its material Tires such as
these were used for a couple Of years.
They weighed from twelve To fifteen
pounds pair, and a puncture in one
Of them was about as serious a matter
as broken frame is at the present
time-New York Times.
Semi-weekly independent. (Plymouth, Marshall County, Ind.) 1895-1897, 1895-12-14
kangarOOs.

The advent Of civilized man to a new
country usually leads to the diminu-
ton. and ultimately to the extinction.
Of any large wild animals that exist
in vast numbers, and either possess q
pelt that is of no value to the hunter
or eat up the food which man intends
for his own domesticated cattle. Thus
the buffalo has become practically ex-
tinct in the United States and the reck-
less, indiscriminate slaughter of the
fur-bearing seals OF Alaska has led
10 a serious reduction in the number
Of those valuable creatures But In
Australia everything is so topsy-turvy
and so contrary TO experience that it
was only To be expected that the wild
animals of that country should increase
in numbers after the arrival OF the
white man. And SO, indeed, it was In
the early days Of the settlement Of the
continent. Owing to the gradual ex-
termination of the "black fellow" or
Australian aboriginal and of the dim
20, or wild dog, his two principal enc
mics, the kangaroo multiplied exceed
ingly and threatened to eat up the
grass wanted for the support of tho
sheep. How rapidly this increase took
place is shown by the fact that n large
sheep run in Queensland was bought
with forty thousand sheep upon it. and
in Il few years, more than forty thOus-
and marsupials Of various species were
killed there.
Semi-weekly independent. (Plymouth, Marshall County, Ind.) 1895-1897, 1895-12-14
A WOOdpecker's Instinct.

In California the woodpeckers stores
acOrns away, though he never eats
them. He bores several holes. differing
slightly in SIZE ct the fall of the year,
in pine tree. Then he finds an ACORN
which he adjusts to one of the holes
prepared for it, but he does not eat the
nut. for as 4 rule he is no vegetarian.
His object in storing away the acorn
exhibits foresight and knowledge OF
results more akin to reason than in
stinct. The following winter the acorn
remains intact, but incoming saturated
is predispOsed to decay, when it is at
tackled by tiny worms. that seem TO de-
light in this kind of diet. 1t is then
that the woodpecker reaps the harvest
his wisdom has provided, at time
when, the ground being covered with
snow. he would find it hard to get food.
1t is n subject of speculation why the
redwood cedar or the sugar pine is in
variably selected 1t Is not probable
that the insect the woodpecker is SO
fond of Is found only OH the outside
of two trees: but true 1t is that in Gala
veraS. MaripOSa, and other districts
of California, trees of this kind may be-
frequently seen covered all over their
trunks with acorns. yet there may not
be an oak tree within seven miles.
Semi-weekly independent. (Plymouth, Marshall County, Ind.) 1895-1897, 1895-12-14
Simple Method.

The best means of making children
gentle and polite is to treat them gen.
tly and politely. 1t is especially true
in manners that nothing teaches like
example. Educational News prints 4
dialogue which bears happily upon this
point:
A mother noticed remarkable
change in the department of her 6-year-
old. From being rough, noisy and dis
courteous, he had suddenly become one
of the gentlest and most considerate
little fellows in the world. He was at
tending the kindergarten, and his moth
err naturally inferred that the change
was somehow due to his teachers in
struction
Miss Smith teaches you to be po-
lite?" she remarked, in a tone or inter-
rogation.
NO." said the boy, "she never says
a word about it,
The mother was puzzled, and all the
more when further questioning brought
only more emphatic denials that the
teacher had ever given her pupils les
sons in good breeding.
well, then" the mother asked,
finally, IF Miss Smith doesn't say any
thing, what does she do?"
she doesn't do anything" persisted
the boy. ''She just walks around, and
we feel polite. We feel just as polite
as-as anything"
That was all he could tell about it.
and his mother began to see through
the mystery.
Semi-weekly independent. (Plymouth, Marshall County, Ind.) 1895-1897, 1895-12-14
Near Enough.

The excitement of lion shooting may
be appreciated from bit of experience
reported to me by Captain Melliss. He
was in SOmaliland. Two liOneSseS had
been found, and the captain had fired
at one of them, but she had started
away. leaving him uncertain whether
he had hit her. He hurried in pursuit,
and just when he was thoroughly out
of breath, he came upon her sitting up
on her launches and looking very an
CRY.
I walked slowly toward her. trying
to recover my wind. and when within
about fifty yards l fired. Without ap-
pearing to feel the shot, she charged
at once across the open ground that lay
between us.
/ stood up and waited for her, keer,
ing the muzzles pointed below her
mouth as we'll rs 1 could. 1 had time
to notice that she seemed somewhat
disabled in the hind quarters: also that
my second gun was nowhere near.
l let her come within dozen yards,
and then fired The smoke hid every
thing for moment. Has she got me-"
was the thought that flashed through
me as l stepped aside.
No. There she was, staggering back
on her launches, with jaws wide open,
not many PAGES away.
Stepping back l reloaded, and an
other bullet knocked her over dead.
Semi-weekly independent. (Plymouth, Marshall County, Ind.) 1895-1897, 1895-12-14
Humming Birds and Frosty weather.

Probably the most wonderful exam
pie of avian Indifference to frost. or
rather the want of effect of the cold
est water on birds legs. is eXemplilied
in the habits of the humming birds OF
America. The diminutive size of these
creatures and the delicacy of their
bones and whole nervous system are
notorious.
The broad-tailed species (TrochyluS
platycercuS), is no larger than one OF
our common bumblebeeS. Some years
ago, when Doctor Merriam. chief Of
the archaeological section of the Ameri-
can Agricultural Department. was on
n scientific expedition in the mountain
regions of San Francisco, he encounter
ed flOcks of hundreds of these beauti-
full little creatures, ana he described
their habits in Il bulletin which he is
sued in 1890.
They wake up very early in the morn
ing. says Doctor Merriam. and so to
water at daylight. no matter how cold
the weather is During the month of
August, when the mornings were Of
ten frosty, hundreds of them came TO
the spring to drink and to battle at
break Of day. They would drop down
to their water dip their feet and bel
lies, and rise and shoot away as if pro-
PEELED by an unseen power.
And yet these pigmy birds are essen
tally creatures of flower and sunshine.
Truly, the mysteries of bird life are.
in many respects, mysterious, and, APP
parently, past finding out.
Semi-weekly independent. (Plymouth, Marshall County, Ind.) 1895-1897, 1895-12-14

up these branche. do so because they
hope that by mastering them they will
be enabled TO obtain clerical situations.
In ell the night school classes there are
many whose energy is misdirected.
Competent mechanics who Will not be
able TO become good bookkcepers or
clerks and for whom. indeed. there are
no places in the business world, are
plodding away night after night in the
hope of getting out of the shop and into
some Office OF store. but they are DOOM
ed TO disappointment.
Semi-weekly independent. (Plymouth, Marshall County, Ind.) 1895-1897, 1895-12-14
Neatly Turned.

1t was the custom in Scotch parishes
for the minister TO bow to the laird'S
pew before beginning his discourse.
bevy of ladies, and the minister, feel.
ing a delicacy in the circumstances.
omitted the usual salaam. When they
next met. the laird's daughter. widely
famed for her beauty, rallied the minis
ter for not bowling to her from the pull
pit. Your ladyship forgets," replied
the minister, that the worship of an
gels is not allowed by the Scotch
Church."
Semi-weekly independent. (Plymouth, Marshall County, Ind.) 1895-1897, 1895-12-14
ment rs freight handler for sc5 4

ment rs freight handler for S25 4
month but this was insufficient for the
support of the family. and his wife by
disposing of some of her iewelry raised
money sufficient TO take them TO Ne.
braSka. lie settled at Ashland. where
he became freight hand at the rail
road station and in which his son had
secured the position of ticket agent.
Once more CLEAN of his old luck came
into his life In some way the dircc
tors of that Philadelphia bank in which
he had made his informal deposit so
years before learned of the condition
of tho Steele family away out in Ne
braSka, Of the total reformation Of
Coal Oil Johnny's habits and the manly
struggle he was making TO atone for
the past. Having assured themselves
of the identification of their erratic de-
positor, they made up his account and
forwarded 10 him the sum left in their
charge, with interest from the date of
its deposit. How much it was is knOwE
only 10 those concerned, but it is be-
lieved to have been somewhere about
$4,000. probably more rather than
less. With that money 700 acres of
choice farming land near Ashland were
purchased and good house erected,
with barns. OuthouSeS. excellent fences,
etc. Mrs. Steele is in charge of af
fairs; but her husband needs no guar
dian. for Coal Oil Johnny has lived
down the temptations of the past and
is today Il model man.
Semi-weekly independent. (Plymouth, Marshall County, Ind.) 1895-1897, 1895-12-14
PaDer Sails.

Yachting circles are talking of sails
made of compressed paper, the sheets
being cemented and riveted together in
such Il way as to form smooth and
strong seam. The first process of man.
ufacturing consists in preparing the
pulp in the regular way, adding to it
Il certain proportion of glue, alum, sol
uble glass and tallOw. Next the pulp
it made into sheets by regular paper
making machinery, and two sheets are
pressed together with a glutinOuS COM
pound between, so as to retain tho
pieces firmly. y specially built ma
chine of great power is used in COM
pressing the paper from a thick, sticky
sheet TO very thin, tough one. The
now solid sheet is run through a bath
of Sulphuric acid, to which 10 per cent.
Of distilled water has been added, from
which it energies TO pass between glass
rollers, then through bath of ammon-
IA. then clear water, and finally through
felt rollers. after which it is dried,and
polished between heated metal cylin-
derS. The paper resulting from this
process is in sheets OF ordinary width
and thickness of cotton duck; it is elias
tic, alright, durable. light. and pos
sessed of other needed qualifications
to make il availa BILE for light Sailmak-
ing. The mode OF putting the sheets
together is by having split or the
edges of the sheet. or cloth, so as to
admit the edge of the other sheet.
When the split is closed. cemented
or sewed, it closes completely and
Semi-weekly independent. (Plymouth, Marshall County, Ind.) 1895-1897, 1895-12-14
New HOrk's Night Schools.


The number of pupils attending the
night schools of New York City this
year is estimated at $4,000. The schOl-
ars are made up of members OF both
sexes, ami their ages range from 10 to
%. Deprived of the advantages of even
a fair education through neglect or
through being one Of the mainstays of
large family. these pupils. now realiz-
ing the benefits of education, go into
their work with heart and soul and
there are no more earnest scholars in
New York.
The night schools Of the METROPOLIS
are divided into two general classes
high schools, of which there are four.
and ward schools, numbering twenty
eight. Eighteen Of the ward schools
are for juniors, while seniors attend
the other ten. There seems to be little
desire among the young women who
are obliged to work during the day for
instruction in the higher branches.
The course of studies Is comprehensive.
1t includes Latin, French, Spanish,
German, arithmetic, algebra, geometry.
and trigonOmetry. bookkeeping, higher
English grammar, rhetoric and COM
position. political science and natural
history, reading and defamation, ad-
vanced penmanship. shorthand, chem
istry. anatomy and physiology and
architectural, mechanical and free-hand
drawing.
No student can take up more than
NV Of Crrh Arif HIM of 10 nd
bookkeeping are the most popular, fol-
lowed by penmanship. shorthand and
German. Nearly all Of those who take
Semi-weekly independent. (Plymouth, Marshall County, Ind.) 1895-1897, 1895-12-14
How to Make Good Servants.

Some women, in fact q whole lot of
women, have great heads. Here's how
4 lady who has to manage good many
servants coaches them, the story COM
ing from her own lips: whenever a
society play comes to town | engage
ten seats in the balcony and send my
entire staff of servants to witness the
performance. | do this because | find
that the servants in these productions
have far better manners than any Of
the other actors in the production, and
l have found that my servants learn
more by witnessing one of these Per
formances than l could teach them by
moral suasiOn in the course of a month.
When The Butterflies was produced
| had just engaged new butler. He
was a country lad, but clever used
to send him to every matinee perform
ance, with instructions to watch every
detail of the performance of Frank
Lamb. Within month had an ideal
butler" If the stage can solve the
servant girl problem it will be appre-
ciated more than ever.-PittSburg Dis
patch
Semi-weekly independent. (Plymouth, Marshall County, Ind.) 1895-1897, 1895-12-14
A SevenfOld Misfortune.

The adage that ''misfortuneS never
come singly" seems to be illustrated In
n dialogue which we find in the Texas
Strings:
You don't tell me that Professor A.
has been struck dumb 2"
"He has"
"And wasn't he master of seven lam
guages?"
"He was"
And is it possible that he was struck
dumb In all seven? How extraordin-
ary-'
Semi-weekly independent. (Plymouth, Marshall County, Ind.) 1895-1897, 1895-12-14
prOud Sister.

1t is always pleasant to see a sister
adiantly happy over her brothers sue
cess. An exchange reports an instances
May-Just think. Bob is playing ON
the Yale football team!
Clara-That's jolly. What Is he
half-back or quarterback?
May-Neither. He's a drawback.
Charley Pruyenne says he's the great,
est drawback the team ever had.
Semi-weekly independent. (Plymouth, Marshall County, Ind.) 1895-1897, 1895-12-14

When you are busy, and a drunken
man comes around to tell how smart
he Is, no patent medicine can cure you
Of that tired feeling. -...>j
Semi-weekly independent. (Plymouth, Marshall County, Ind.) 1895-1897, 1895-12-14

After a girls steady moves away,
she begins to take less interest In pin
ming up pressed leaves, and otherwise
decorating the parlOr.
Semi-weekly independent. (Plymouth, Marshall County, Ind.) 1895-1897, 1895-12-14
NOTES ON EDUCATION.
MATTERS OF INTEREST TO PU-
Pill AND TEACHER.

Th;rty-fve thousand TOi1crs Attend
the New York Night Schools-Things
Handy to Have in Standardization
and Sentinic entail Tcachcrs-NOtcs.
Semi-weekly independent. (Plymouth, Marshall County, Ind.) 1895-1897, 1895-12-14

Marriage has one good effect on a
man; 1t causes him to quit chewing to-
bacco ct least three weeks
Semi-weekly independent. (Plymouth, Marshall County, Ind.) 1895-1897, 1895-12-14

To descant on those topics financial Of
old
The merchant grows daily more 10th;
Nor tries to distinguish twixt silver and
gold,
But joyfully hustles for both.
Washington Star.
Semi-weekly independent. (Plymouth, Marshall County, Ind.) 1895-1897, 1895-12-14
A Deep Mine.

The deepest gold mine in the world
y at Eureka, Cal; depth, 1920 feet
Semi-weekly independent. (Plymouth, Marshall County, Ind.) 1895-1897, 1895-12-14
The School Luncheon.

In addition to the generally evident
ham, tongue or chicken sandwich, let
tuce leaves pulled into small pieces
and dipped in mayonnaise or thinly
sliced cucumbcrs make q delicious one,
then, too, anchovy paste or caviare
spread between the slices of bread are
very appetizing. If finely chopped
meat is to be used do not spread the
butter on the bread, but melt it and
mix with meat and season all with
Worcestershire sause, onion juice, cat
sup or any flavor preferred. The most
important things in a cold lunch are
the seasOnings, and the fact that plenty
of oiled paper to keep the things thor
Oughly separated, so that the flavor Of
the meat cannot reach the cake, and
so on. The same meat may be used two
two days in succession and yet seem
very different indeed, If the seasoning
Is entirely changed. Cheese or hard
boiled eggs, thinly sliced or mashed
with or without mustard, are a nice
change. or to mix an egg with some
pOtted ham or turkey Is excellent. Sar-
dine sandwiches, too, are greatly In
favor, while fig or peanut are among
the new fancy ones. The figs are pulled
to pieces and the peanuts are pounded
to fine paste or powder.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1895-01-11

Indifference to Mary, at some new
thought sprnging out OF her heart,
dewy in freshness as new'y'pIuck'
ed rose. And John and Mary each
grows to mourn the fact chat the
best of the other sheds It's fragrance
elsewhere. There are hundred
other barriers-the dwelling on
material cares. the wanton dlsre-
gard of social amenities, the sem
sitiveness to personal peculiarities.
"Her voice worries me; | cant
listen" says some one OF another
who is speaking pearls of wisdom.
Then there are all the butts and its
of every dav life. with which we rake
together all our past experience and
present condition, making OF them
bulworks no remedy can plerce-"lI
YOU only knew" IT were only
sure" But you can never under
stand" But you do not know how
peculiar my condition is If | were
only situated as you are, perhaps"
We hear these almost every time we
proffer help or hold out a promise TO
the weak, the suffering and the
troubled: and unless we are strong
in purpose, poised above discourage
ment, we are apt to flee away dis
mayed. For no one wants to fight
an individual with one hand in order
to bestow gift with the other
[ Harper's Bazaar.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1895-01-11

There are 45 survivors of the war
of 1912 on the roll of the pension
office, of whom Is are one hundred
or more years old. There are 10
pensioners of the Revolutionary War,
but they are all widows.
The architect of the Woman 5
Building of the Cotton States Expo
sition, to be held at Atlanta, Ca,
next year, is to be Miss Elise Mercur
Oi Pittsburg.