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The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1895-01-21
QUAINT AND CURIOUS.

In one year there are 1851, 200 people
! born.
London has 100000 more people than
Ireland.
| In Paris postage stamps are sold at the
| cigar shops.
| Windsor castle has been used as a royal
residence for 7S4 years.
Dubosey's electric lamp was shown at
the Paris exposition in 1886.
Some tribes of the Sioux Indians believe
| IN the transmigration of souls.
The expenses of the queens household
are estimated at f172,000 a year.
There are at present no fewer than TO-
| tuo camels at work in Australia.
Siemens machines were ordered for
| lighthouse service on the Lizards in 1878
| Last year six men were killed in pugil-
istic contests in the United States.
The queen never allows a horse that has
! once been in her service to be shot.
| A German chemist has found a means
| of preserving the colorS of dried flowers.
| The total stock and bonds issued by tie
railways of the United States is $1O650,.
325, 514.
| Eadges worn in the buttonhole have
taken the place of Communication tickets in
Belgium.
The. name of a steamship hailins from
! Honolulu is Lihelike-pronounced 'leal1y
leakey."
The muller was originally called the
nuzzler, because it went over the muzzle
or mouth.
The origin of the use of the term "ster-
| ling applied to English money, is lost
in obscurity.
| Lake Acubo, Chill. has an area of forty
| five square miles and is 1850 feet above
sea level.
James Willis, of Mount Sterling, KY,
has been struck by lightning four differ
| ent times and still lives.
Eleven hundred head of horses were
bought in Oregon recently at an average
price of $3.50.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1895-01-21
SEIZE wHAT CAa DE poNE.


There IS a strong opinion In labor
advisable for the city to take hnld of
the sewer work, give employment to
home laborers and finish up the job
in good style.
The contractors have met with
many unforeseen difficulties, have
been held very closely to the letter of
their CONTRACT, and we believe are
out of pocket as we'll as out of hrmor.
Why not close with them, settle up on
fair principles and let the old con-
tract go?
OF course they may offer some OBJ
jections, but we presume they would
not be very formidable and could no
doubt be readily overcome If we were
in their place we would be glad to
get rid of the whole business and es-
cape further difficulty and blame.
There are many men needing en-
ploymeat The sewer seems to offer
the only present avenue for their pur-
suits. If the contract was set aside
by mutual agreement, the reserve
fund now idle could be set at liberty
and be used on the work now required
to be done.
We once more direct the attention of
the city authorities to this matter,
with the hope that it will receive their
immediate, yet careful attention. We
believe that the change We suggest
would meet the approval of the large
body of taxpayers and would inure to
the public benefit Think it over, gen
tlemen, and see what can be done!
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1895-01-21

; In that case perhaps there will be no
need for the city to go into the bust
ness.
But what may be done, even in a
small city, by cooperation of effort
and a strong public spirit, has been
evidenced in the experience of the lit
tie town of Stamford in the CatslkiH
mountains. The people organized a
society for local Improvement, through
which they have secured good systems
Of water supply, sewers, and electric
lighting. They have recently estab-
lished a telephone exchange which will
Illustrate what they have accomplish
ed in the other directions.
With capital of $1,000, contributed
each, it was possible says the Phila-
delphia Record, to erect poles, string
| wires. purchase a switchboard and pro-
vide each subscriber with a phone of
approved pattern, emitting only some
tri1fng attachments which are still
covered by patents. The village store
keeper, in consideration of a salary of
800, was induced to accept the posi-
ton of Central and work the switch
board. An assessment Of S. a year
upon each of the patrons had been
| found sufficient to pay all the expenses
of operation, including ordinary re-
pairs; and So additional from each sub
scriber would pay 6 per cent interest
upon the small. amount Of capital re-
To 4 40 To IN q
house of every resident within the
radius of a mile from the center of the
village.
Thus for S. each per annum the peo-
pie of Stamford have telephone sys-
tenn which answers every necessary
purpose of that kind of connmunica-
ton. This ELECTS the comment that
there is scarcely a village or town in
this country containing between 1000
and 10000 inhabitants in which the
methods adopted at Stamford to secure
these various public conveniences
could not be introduced to the great
comfort and profit of its people.
power nature has provided a village or
town With the means OF producing
electricity for lighting and motive
power at rates far below Shose ordi-
narily charged by private corpora
'tions; and it is only necessary that the
spirit of cooperation shall be sufli-
cfently aroused among the townspeople
to induce them to help themselves.
There is enough in this experience to
arouse reflection among people in
other places, and we are not so
sure that unless better rates can be
obtained by which this city can be
supplied with these conveniences, it
would not be greatly to the public adj
vantage, if the city owned and operat-
ed its own system of electric lighting
and telephone communication, all of
course for purely public purposes.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1895-01-21
Or. Prices Cream Baking Powder
Awarded Gold Medal Midwinter Fair. San Francisco.
A HALF BACK FROM wAYBAoz.

He was a young Yale graduate
And he HE'D him to the west,
Oblivious of fear or fate
And fashionably dressed.
He LANDED out at Santa F'e
And captured the town by storm,
Though naught he said or didn't say,
But chiefly because of his form
One night in Dutchy's restaurant
Assembled a famous crowd;
Shanks, Deep Gulch Mike and Sandy
Grant;
Red Thompson and Aleck Dowd;
A lawyer chap they called the judge,
And Billings of Navajo.
Each pledged the other Dutchy's bulge
That the tenderfoot must go.
Right here the subject of their scorn
Walked into the restaurant,
He ordered "beefsteak rare with corn
In manner nonchalant.
Then up and spake big Aleck Dowd;
''You'n first take a drink with Mfke?"
Nay, nay, Pauline" in no way cowed,
Said the Yale youth, careless like.
Then DoWd, advancing, pulled his gun
And remarked in sneering tones:
! You II take q drink, or there II be fun,
Likewise some blood and groans!
AS sudden as the lightnings flash
Our youth worked the elbow charm;
The pistol flew through d nirrOA crash
And DoWd had u broken arm.
Now the other toughs on cur athlete
closed,
When Shanks got touchdown thud;
Next clever knee was interposed,
And Billings threw up blood.
Deep Gulch Mike had his unl1empt head
Cross-spht on a stone spittoon;
While Sandy Grant was put TO bed
Center-rushed to a deadly swoon.
Red Thompson, with a wild, scared look,
Made tracks for a passing car;
And the lawyer chap our hero took
And threw him over the bar!
How'd We do it?" asked Barkeep' Pete,
And his eyes wore a watery gleam:
Said the student, They were easy meat,
I've played in our football team"
George Moss in New York Sun.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1895-01-21

Ipearance they are easy of approach.
land do not become wild until shot at
Icontinuaa.y by small boys with flip
pers, and then their flight is not far,
until they aligflt in another tree.
They appear anywhere from the
middle of January until the first, or
a little later, of February, and remain
about a week. Parents should be
careful to teach their children to re-
frain from killing them. not only be
cause it is against the law to destroy
our native birds, but because when
they kill one of these birds they do
wrong and destroy one of most beau
tiful creatures that God has placed in
this world.
Let all bid our bohemian visitors
welcoma and do every thing in ou1
power to protect them and save them
from annoyance.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1895-01-21

The san Francisco Call came out
with a spanking bran new dress on
Tuesday and presents a splendid APP
pearance. Under the new proprietor
ship it seems to have sprung into Wig
orous new life and gives evidence that
its promise TO become second to none
in the country may be fulfilled. The
fact that the entire typographical ma
terial is the product of Pacific
coast manufacture and skill makes
the attractiveness of the new Call the
more commendaible. Its coast contem-
noraries viii have to bestir themselves
10 keep pace with Shortridge's enter
prise.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1895-01-21

That gold should exist in the ocean
as an induction that DR.. Henry Wurtz
claims 10 have presented in 1866, and
in 1872 the discovery was announced by
e. Sonstait. A careful computation
with the best data. obtaina;hle, on the
basis of 0.9 grain of gold per ton of
sea water, about the proportion as
signed by Sonstadt. shows that the
great ocean should contain gold to the
amount of over $4,000. 900, COZ, 900, 900.
The getting Of some Of this by electro
Iysis, Dr.. Wurtz now predicts. will be
one Of the problems OF the future. but
he is Inclined to believe It will be solved
81 some way.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1895-01-21

Reciprocity with Canada has been
established. Police Magistrate Planta,
of British Columbia, has been emIbez-
cling public funds, and has left the
cold Of the north for the more genial
CLINE of California. American enbez-
Elers find theseold of Canada more con-
genial
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1895-01-21

Prominent st. Louis people are said
to be interested in a large estate left
by Sir James Holmes, who died more
than a century and a half ago. Just
such things as this show how Chicago
30 far outstripped St. Louis.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1895-01-21

extraordinary prestige and prom
inence was given NJ. Casimir-Perier by
being elevated TO the presidency of the
French republic on the tragic death
Of President Carnot, but his resigna>
ton has changed 1t all into an igno-
minious failure. In the list Of French
presidents he will be known, to use
the miners phrase when the vein
breaks, as a fault"
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1895-01-21

Ex-Governor Waite has abandoned
his contemplated lecture tour. And yet
there are people who say that this
world is not ruled over by a Divine
Providence. a
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1895-01-21

Davy Crocketts motto was: BE
sure you are right. then go ahead"
The motto Of some people seems to be:
IF you are not sure you are right,
then go ahead and then come back"
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1895-01-21

The Washington correspondent of
The Chicago Herald says that Mr.. Tom
Reed does not think any necessity ex-
lists for calling q. special session of
Congress. and he is opposed to such
session as being likely to disturb the
business interests of the country and
retard a return of prosperity. In this
ne is right. An acute cause of the re-
cent panic was too much Republican
Congress
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1895-01-21

If the Brooklyn authorities would
stri3'e terror to the souls of the rioters
they should make such a charge as the
Pullman Sleeping Car company does
for a berth.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1895-01-21

The decisions of some courts are
like q switch engine-easily reversed,
going in any direction with equal
facility. and having a COW catcher at
both ends.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1895-01-21

In the Dixon-Griffo fight the Aus
tralian's body became very red from
numerous blows planted upon it, While
IS was remarked that Dixon's body
was very black.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1895-01-21
HERALD Calendar for January.
shoup is convinced that Sweets are
the uses of adversely.

There is little or no danger Of dis
ease germs in milk if dairymen are
particular to use pure water and we
have competent cattle inspectors.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1895-01-21
WITH THE WITS.

therep' whispered the young rector, as
he bent over the pain-drawn face on the
pillow.
A spasm of anguish passed over the
''Choirs!' he gasped-"Choirs over
there? Away, ana let me ole unrepent-
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1895-01-21

The typewriter boarder was in the parlo1
doing. her best to sing ''Au Revoir, but
Somehow said the Cheerful Idiot,
that reminds me of a canyon L saw out
sDon't see it,'' remarked the good
ratured boarder.
1T is such a rocky holler," said the
Cheerful Idiot.-Cincinnau Tribune.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1895-01-21

New Jersey does not appear to be a
promising field for newspaper ven
lures. In the valedictory of the New
ark Times, which suspended last
week, the editor observed that all he
has to show for his investment of
500, 900 are copies Of the first and last
issues. which he will preserve as me-
mentOeS.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1895-01-21

EEbridge T. Gerry, president Of a
society for the prevention Of cruelty,
is in favor of restoring the whipping
post. Gerry belongs to New York 5
Smart" set and it appears from his
proposition TO set up the whipping
post again that he wants to make
everybody who is not in his set smart.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1895-01-21

Be-I wonder when you will be able
to set as good a table as my mother does?
Shelby the time you are able to provide
as good a table as your father does, my
dear.-Burlington Qowa) Gazette.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1895-01-21

Cawker-Cumso, did you get that letter
sent you couple of weeks ago?
Cumso--A counple of weeks ago? l re-
ceived it yesterday.
That comes OF giving it to my wife tc
mail.-Detroit Free Press.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1895-01-21

Father said the boy, what is insol-
vent?"
a long word to describe a short condition.
Washington Star.
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1895-08-21
MORE EGG PREMIUMS.

A good friend OF the REPRESENTA-
TIVE, who furnished the premiums
previously awarded, not being weary
in well doing. but moved by an earnest
desire to extend it's circulation, makes
another offer. viz:
To send Is choice Barred Plymouth
Rock eggs to any person who RENTS
SO cents for them to the REPRESENT
ALIVE. All money sent to the REP
REsENTATIvE for eggs, will be used to
pay for papers. by the man, furnish
ing the eggs, he only, giving Names to
whom, he desires the REPRESENTA-
TIVE sent.
Send in your orders, for the Plym-
outh Rock eggs. In regard to quality
he says: II guarantee that the eggs will
be securely and carefully packed, and
that they are from as fine barred
Plymouth Rocks as there are in the
state, care not who claims to have
better. have bred these birds care
fully for 10 years, and have been to
considerable expense to secure high
standard male birds to breed from. Las t
spring l secured two high scoring
birds from Mr.. Hurst of Waterloo, la.
He took first prize at Iowa State Poul-
try show and sold number of birds at
$40 EACH"
You can send in orders now for eggs
for August Matching. The Plymouth
Rocks are a quick maturing breed and
therefore will be fully grown before
cold weather sets in, and will begin
laying egg early in the spring.
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1895-08-21
CHAMBERS ENCYCLOPEDIA.

We print upon another page of this
Encyclopedia When the matter was
first brought to our attention it seemed
to us so impossible that thirty volumes
of an Encyclopedia, as famous as Cham
bers' great work, containing over twelve
thousand pages, could be sold for $3.50
that we ordered a set sent to us at Hast
ings, expecting to find some sort of
fake" like the man who advertised a
tom for SLIGO, and when the dollar came,
sent a postage stamp! We have three
encyclopedias in our library; one of them
cost us 1920 and another something
more; and thirty volumes of Chambers
work at $3.50 seemed so improbable as
to be absurd. But to our great astonish-
ment along came the books, a great pile
of them. We opened the package and
of an ordinary novel, bound in paper,
the type small but clear and the articles
covering the whole field of human
knowledge, and exhaustive in character
Such work at such price is one of
the triumphs of modern civilization; and
we feel we are serving our friends by
introducing it into their houses. 1t
would not have been possible 100 years
ago to have published such work for
less than $4,000 per set; instead of $3.50;
but many new inventions have been used
to achieve such surprising result. No
royalty is paid; the copy is, we believe,
transferred to plates by some photo
graphic process; and this once made the
only cost then is the press-work, (made
by great steam presses, running day and
night, and the paper. And yet it would
seem as if the mere paper in these 80
volumes would cost more than $3.50.
Send in your orders. The work is a
library in itself, and wherever you have
family growing up they should have
the advantage of access to it. The man
who could read those thirty volumes
through and remember it all, would be
the most learned man in the United
States.
See our advertisement as to terms and
conditions, in another column. Old sub
scribers can get them as we'll as new
Ed Rep.
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1895-08-21

both in currency and In gold, the price as
made from New York City, both in cur
rency and gold; the report of the Journal
of Political Economy; the report Of the
British Wheat Report and the Chicago
Board OF Trade report. The prices from
these various sources in 1854 for example
per bushel were $1.32; 1888, 1874. the lat
ter in gold 96 cents; 81 the latter in gold
95 cents and $1.25 per bushel on the
Board of Trade in Chicago. In 1890 the
statistical abstract showed the price of
wheat to be SO cents, while the price in
Chicago was IS cents. The same au-
thority in 1894 gave the price at 81 cents,
while it sold on the Board of Trade in
Chicago at so.
This ended the debate for Saturday and
after the questions and answers submit
ted to both debaters. adjournment was
taken for the final contest Monday, which
began at one o'clock and closed at six.
CONTINUED NEXT WEEK.
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1895-08-21
MORE PREMIUMS.

A GENEROUS OFFER FROM A KIND
FRIEND-L. c. LONG STANDS SPON-
SOR.
Being the lucky winer of the Plym-
outh Rock eggs offered as a premium
for subscriptions to "The Representa-
tive" and in obedience to the request of
the donor that I acknowledge receipt
through "The Representative" I hereby
do the same.
Awake, ye>children Of the mighty he
roes of 1920; Danish prejudice from your
! mind, boom 1.-THE Representative, and
the Peoples Party, and thereby help to
establish liberty once more in the land
of our fathers.
in turn have presented the eggs re-
ceived to a widow lady, who makes a
speciality of raising pure bred poultry.
She now has a pen Of each Of the follow
ing kinds of pure bred chickens: Hou-
dams, r. c. B. Leghorns, Single Comb
Leghorns, Silver Laced Wyandottes,
Golden Wyandotts, and will probably
now have start in the Barred Plymouth
Rocks Her poultry cannot be beat in
the state. Being true blue Populist
without vote), she offers as premium
the one sending in the largest list of
subscriptions to "The Representative"
by October first, two pullets and one
cockerel of any of the breeds mentioned
above To the one sending the second
highest number of subscriptions she will
send Fl eggs of any breed. I guarantee
that she will do as she agrees, or will
pay $3.50 cash in place of the fowls and
81 instead of the eggs and as may have
some advantage over most Alliance men
in the way of getting subscriptions,
further agree not to compete for the
prize. l.. c. LONG.
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1895-08-21
ANOTHER PREMIUM.
Who Will Try For It-Send In
Names Marked "FOr the

VINO Will Try For lt-Send In
Names Marked "For the
Chicken Premium"
II will also give to the one sending
in the largest number of paid up sub
scriptions to the REPRESENTATIVE
by October 1st, 1895. A pen of birds
consisting of four pullets and one
cockerel, as fine birds as my expert
ence and Judgment can select.
do this simply to if possible stimu-
late effort to secure subscribers to the
best of all reform papers-THE REP
REsENTATIvE. / sold a cockerel the
other day for 81, have no trouble in
disposing of my birds or eggs, but do
have trouble. to be able to do all l
would like to do for the paper. 1 am
thoroughly convinced our success in
'96 in this state will depend as much
upon large subscription to the REP
REsENTATIvE as any other one thing,
and as long as | have these convic-
tiOns, am anxious to do all I can to
extend it's circulation, and what I do
must be done in line with my convic-
tions as to the most effective FORM"
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1895-08-21

In writing to advertisers In this
paper our patrons Will confer a favor
by saying that they saw the adver-
tisement in the Representative.
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1895-08-21
Complete in Thirty Handy Volumes,

UvEn 1&1UUU PAGES.
Being reprint of the Edinburgh and Lon
don edition of Chambers Encyclopedia, a
Library of Universal knowledge for the Peo-
ple' with very large additions upon topics of
special interest to American readers and CIV
ing American Statistics Of population down
to and including the census of 1890.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1895-04-12
The Easter Number of the New York
Ledger.

The Easter number of the New
York Ledger surpasses in beauty
and interest any previous issue of
that famous periodical. The con-
tents of this number of the Ledger
are in keeping with the beautiful
cover. 1t has a charming story,
entitled Gan Easter Lily" by
Elizabeth Olmis; an Easter poem
by Adelaide Proctor; an Easter
sketch, entitled "The Commanders
Easter" by Rhodes Campbell; a
breezy bicycle story, entitled "On
Wheels" by Virginia Niles Leeds,
author of "Ihe Summer Man, a
humorous poem on ga Plate OF
Buckwheat Cakes,' by William r.
Barber. The first chapters of a
new serial, entitled "Little Kit, "
by Effie Adelaide Rowlands, author
of cat a Great COST" the continue,
ton of slack Robbins of America, "
by Seward w. Hopkins, author OF
"In the China Sea-" In addition
to these it is replete with delight
full editorial matter, appropriate
miscellany, poetry, children's
stories, correspondence, science, and
the always interesting department
for wives and mothers, entitled
''The Woman's World" The
Easter number of the New York
Ledger contains twenty-eigh pages,
beautifully illustrated, and is sold
for only 5 cents.