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The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-12-27
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The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-12-27

well as TO bring Santa Claus to an
abnormally large family of children,
sharp bargaining must be done.
Pushcarts line the street from Broad
way 10 the North River, and almost
anything from heavy clothing. house.
hold furniture, kitchen utensils. to tiny
glmcrack toys can be bought Ten
cents is the prevailing price for the
average run of things, and at squeeze
this can be brought down to 8 or even
s cents.
Grant street is the center of the
great east side. The Bowery boy buys
the Bowery girl 99-cent diamond ring
there. and she reciprocates by purchas-
ing 1-karat, I9-cent diamond stud
Women with seven or eight children
toddling along in open-mouthed Won
der manage to get through the alarm
ing crush with their trance-like
charges in some remarkable way. 4
man with hobby horse on one shoul-
der. velocipede in his hand. CHRISTI
mas tree under his arm, big dolls stick
ing out of every pocket, dozen pack
ages held in some miraculous manner
in the other hand, stops and buys
hve-pound box of candy for 40 cents,
slows il away somehow and goes on
as happy as the millionaire riding
through the park in his fine victoria.
THE TOUGH GIRL BUYER.
Tough girls not above sneaking a
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-12-27

often several times day, and yet even
this does not seem TO interrupt their
other work. Careful experiments were
made as to the creatures sentitiveneSs
to light and sound, but with no re-
sponse- No one can watch a Vortieelia
for an hour under a glass without Won
der at its exceedingly delicate sense of
touch. The slightest jar of the in
strument is answered by an instant
contraction of the stalk, and particles
hardly visible even with the highest
magnifying tense are sorted with the
greatest apparent precision. But it
seems insensible TO all other stimuli.
Musical sounds of all pitch and volume
were tried, but the Vorticella never
turned hair''-as it would have done
had it received any sensation. Bright
sunlight was dashed upon il from COM
plete darkness and ii did not so much
as wink-with its ella all colors Of
glasses were put in the path of light,
but the animal refused TO be enthused-
In short, so far as can be ascertained,
the universe for the primal type of
life must consist Of a series of touches,
possibly also of tastes and smells. 1t
does not see, nor hear. yet it is con-
Scious, ant so far as. its physical or
ganization viii permit, it displays all
the processes OF pScychic activity
known to the higher animals. The rise
in the scale, all the way up to and
including man himself represents no
more than a widening range of sensa-
tons and a more complex physical or
ganization. Man himself, as celebrated
psychologist once put it, is nothing
more than an enormous aggregation of
these single-celled PROTOCOL. Why then
is the protocol able to work without
rest or sleep. and eat without safety,
while man and the higher animals are
not? Before Psychologists answer that
question, they will first find out a
working theory OF the nature of sleep.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-12-27
Russia and the Black Sea.

London Daily Mail: 1t is singular
how English people will perpetually
attribute to Russia ambitions and de-
sires which she in no way possesses.
All through the Armenian troubles it
has been assumed by the advocates of
Russian intervention, in the first place
that England had Constantinople to
offer. and in the second that, if Russia
received such an offer. she would be
only too glad to abolish the Turkish
empire and do away forever with
Armenian massacres. And yet it is al
most certain that, at any rate, for the
present. the ambition of Russia is not
directed toward Constantinople and
that great many people in Russia are
or opinion that the possession of Con-
stantinople would in a very short time
lead to the disruption and ruin of the
Russian empire.
Another assumption almost univers-
ally made is that Russia is still smart
ing severely from the effects of the
Crimean war and the peace of Paris,
and that she would Immediately be-
come our good friend if we supported
her right to a free egress for her war
ships from the Black sea. We were,
however, informed distinctly from st.
Petersburg the other day that Russia,
so far from kicking against existing
treaties relating to the Black sea, is
positively determined to maintain
them. More than 20 years ago she
freed herself from the really en-
barrassing and intolerable provision of
the peace of Paris, that she should not
be permitted to keep a fleet in the
Black sea. Her claims to such a navy
were recognized as far back as 1871,
in a conference at London. The pro-
vision, however, which shuts the OAR
danelles to foreign warships still re-
mains in force, so that the Black sea
is, to all intents and purposes, a
Russian lake, in which she is able I'M
interruptedly to develop her naval
strength and, what is still more i'm
portant, to complete the defenses Of
Sebastopol and her other depots in
that sea. Whether Russia is looking
forward to an ultimate admission of
her fleet to the Mediterranean when
her ships and defenses are ready is, of
course, another question. At present
she desires nothing better than that
her embryo navy should be cooped up
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-12-27
, HOW NEW YORK SHOPS.
$50 100000 PASS CLAUS
THINGS-MAEIY AVENUE
BUYER MAKES $4,000 GIFTS,
STREET PURCHASES.

roll of ribbon under their wraps, were
it not for the hordes of detectives
which fill the stores of Grand street,
buy to the limit of their purses, but
buy sharply.
Il am going to buy bennie for Jim
mie.' says one to her friend.
Say, mister Ito the fioorwalker)
'where do 1 buy der bennie?"
'-Hey?''
Der bennie. What floor is youse
selling them on?"
THE bennie?"
Yes. yer hungry-looking guy. der
Bonnie. Don't yer spose Use got de
price. I want to buy a bennie like
dis" Here she caught hold of a man
wearing a blue overcoat, and held the
coat for the others inspection.
"Ohl a coat-on the fifth floor. front"
What dye t'ink of dat. De guy
didn't know what a bennie was. He
must be new in Grand street." Then
they take the elevator and she tells
the man to let her off where dere
sellin' de pennies"
Fourteenth street and Fifth avenue
is where the biggest part of the city, q
goodly section of Brooklyn, a large
part of Jersey and big portion of all
the suburban towns within 80 miles of
New York do their shopping.
Twelty-third street and Broadway Is
where the people who can spend $50 or
$500 select their gifts, while the for
tunate whose Christmas funds run into
the thousands patronize the quiet shops
on Fifth avenue.
But the buyer in Wesley street is
happier for the moment than the swell
in Fifth avenue: the turbulent spirits
of Grand street have more rollicking
fun than the sedate loungers on Broad
way and the people on Fourteenth
street and on Sixth avenue, who's are
moderate in wealth. desires and all
things, enjoy the most solid pleasure
of all
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Foreign Items.

An epidemic of scarletina. attended
with great mortality. is raging through
out southern Russia
Penny shares are the attraction Of
fered by a London stock company.
There are $4,000 of them, the full capt.
tai being e2,500.
For the first time in over 100 wears
the heading "Universite de Paris APP
pears over the list of lectures at the
Sorboune this winter.
Sir John Lubbock told some London
school children recently that one of his
nieces described air as consisting of
oxygen and Cambridgegen.
George Frederick Watts. r. A, is
building church near Guildford, in
which he will paint frescoes himself,
while his wife will design the terra
Gotta decoration.
A stamp collection containing nearly
1000 unused specimens was sold for
$3.50 recently in London, this being
the largest price ever paid for a col
lection at auction.
While Paris policemen arrest 267
murGerers or would-be murderers a
year on the average to 10 caught by the
London constables. they have only 979
burglaries to deal with annually in
London'S 2,625.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-12-27
QUEER RHODE ISLAND TWINS.
An Oyster and a Quahaug Joined At
ter the Manner of Chang and Eng.

ter the Manner of Chang and Eng.
Providence Journal: Oysters have
well-known habit of attaching them
selves to any object they may come in
contact with in the water. An old shoe
or boot, bottle, another oyster. or a
small quahaug are familiar examples,
but in almost every instance where an
oyster and a quahaug are found grown
to each other, one is much smaller
than the other. Exceptions to this rule
are so uncommon that when an oyster
man of Pawtuxet found an oyster
and quahaug attached to each other
and of the same size, the oldest clam
mers and oystermen in Pawtuxet %aid
they had never seen the like before.
The oyster was a large one, at least
6 or years old, and the quahaug, to
which it was attached at the hinge of
the shell, was within year of the
same age, and had also attained its
full growth. Both bivalves were hand
some specimens and both were alive.
The two, united, yet separate. were
placed on exhibition in the window of
Green's fish market, where a large part
of the male population of the village
assembled at some time during the
day or evening. There they were viewed
by men of experience in the handling
of Quahaugs and oysters, who all said
they had never seen another instance
where a full-grown oyster and quahaug
had united.
Now, alas, only the shells remain to
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-12-27
Good For the Jacksonians.

Butte Miner: The report of the action
OF the Jacksonian club of Omaha in ex-
ceiling from its membership the men
who supported the gold standard is well
come news TO every friend of silver and
Democracy in the land
The club. representing its party and
hcnoring the memory of the great Demo-
cr2t whose name 1t bears, refuses longer
10 recognize as Democrats the Mortons
ard the John P Irishes, who have used
tic name of Democracy as cloak I'M
der which to serve the Republican party.
The Jacksonian club of Omaha has
demonstrated its ability to act promptly
end effectually. It has led the way to a
purer and prouder Democracy 1t na,
set an example which should be emulated
whereever traitors assume the right to
lead the hosts which they have betrayed.
The Jacksonian club of Omaha is Dem
ocratic. 1t is true TO its principles 1t
has done precisely what Jackson would
have recommended had he been on earth.
It has performed a genuine service to
tho Democratic party.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-12-27
The Brave Antonio's Death to Be
Avenged.

Springfield Union: But whatever We
do officially. there is one thing certain
the cowardly assassination of Maceo
will fan the flame Of Cuban sympathy
now burning in this country. and every
drop of the dead leaders blood will be
the lode that will draw an American
volunteer to Cuba's shores. Hereafter
there will be no lack of sympathy. and
material aid forthcoming from the
United States, and Americans without
number win enroll under the lone star
of this brave people as much to secure
independence as to avenge the death of
the leader SO ANONYMOUSLY betrayed.
The cause of Cuba libre is not dead
with Maceo; it will never die. and while
his death viii have depressing effect
for awhile, there will soon be a reaction
and a rallying around his successor,
General Juan Ruis Rivera, and the
brave Antonio's death viii be avenged.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-12-27
THE FOOLS PRAYER.

The royal feast was done; the king
Sought some new sport to Danish care
And to his jester cried, ''Sir fool,
Kneel now for us and make a prayer"
The jester doffed his cap and bells
An stood the hooking court before,
They could not see the bitter smile
Behind the painted grin he wore
He bowed his head and bent his knee
Upon the monarchs s:lken stool.
His pleading voice arose-"O Lord,
Be merciful to me, fool.
"'Tis not by guilt and onward sweep
OF truth and right, Lord, we stay;
IT'S by our follies that so long
We hold the earth from heaven away.
''These clumsy feet. still in the mire,
Go crushing blossoms without end:
These. hard, well meaning hands We
thrust
Among the heart strings of friend.
9Th ill-timed truth we might have kept
Who knows how sharp it pierced and
stung?
The word we have not sense to say
Who knows how grandly it had rung?
"our faults no tenderness should ask:
The Christening stripes must cleanse
them all:
But for our blunders-oh, in shame
Before the eyes of heaven we fall.
Earth bears no balsam for mistakes:
Men crown the knave and scourge the
fool
That did their will; but thou. o Lord,
Be merciful to me. fool"
The room was hushed. In silence rose
The king and sought his gardens cool,
And walked apart and mu-mured low.
BE merciful to me, a fool.
Edward Rowland Sill.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-12-27

Spain has set the pace and from now
on the war will be one of extermina-
ton with the odds in favor of the Gu
fans, because of their thorough knowl-
edge of the country and their. agility
to subsist more easily than their foes
1t viii be case of the survival of the
fittest, and God grant that when the
end comes the Spanish will be driven
from the island and their rule be COM
pletelY oVerthroWn
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-12-27

New York, Dec. 1S-Some person with
q love for large figures has said that
in Christmas week $4,000, 600 are
handed over the counters of this city
as tribute to Santa Claus. That
sum may sound suspiciously great. and
the statistician might be charged with
the evil of exaggeration, but when it
is remein bered that gifts for 5000, 900
of people are purchased here $1,000, 900
do not seem too large for the total An
average of trifle over Sc per. person is
large, or small, according to the finan-
cial rank of the reader. and in New
York it is particularly difficult to strike
a fair average because of the extremes
OF poverty and wealth.
The Fifth avenue millionaire gives
his wife $4,000 diamond necklace,
While the father of the east side brings
joy to the heart of the child of the
tenements with a gaudily painted 10
cent toy. One Christmas, a half dozen
years ago, William K. Vanderbilt gave
his wife, now Mrs. Belmont, pearl
necklace that cost him 81, 500,0 600 to
gather the Is feet Of stringed pearls
together. That same Christmas more
than one child found delight in a nickel
toy. Three Christmastides back John
D. Rockefeller sent a check for $1,000
to the Forty-seventh street Baptist
church as a holiday offering, and the
same day the organ grinder of Null
berry Bend dropped a couple of cop
pers in the plate of the Italian church
in Roosevelt street.
So much for the extremes of Christ
mas giving in New York.
THE CHRISTMAS EVE CROWD
Fully one-half of the Christmas shop
ping is done the day and the night be-
fore Christmas; not one-half finan-
cially, but numerically. The moder-
ately poor, the poor and the very poor
must wait until the last minute to get
their small funds together for the great
event The money gift of the en-
ployer to the breadwinner of the FAM
lily is made the day before Christmas.
and often times the extent of that
gift determines the scope of the Christ
mas shopping for the family. Again.
if Christmas comes near the end of the
week, as it does this year, many will
get their weeks pay on Thursday
night.
Another potent reason for delaying
the shopping to the last minute is that
things are cheaper on Christmas eve
than earlier in the week. Toys and
games and clothing have suffered from
the rough handling; there are rips and
tears winch, however, can De easily
sewed up; paint has been scraped off,
parts of games lost and numerous
other mishaps have occurred. all of
which induces the shop owner to make
q material reduction in his prices.
Again, he does not want to carry sin
gle piece of his Christmas stock over
for a year, as he loses the use of the
money. SO he is eager to mark things
down to the real cost, or trifie below,
he 70. x..J e
WHERE POVERTY SHOPS.
People who have to watch the pen
MES are quick TO recognize these ad-
vantages. So Christmas eve is the
great shopping time for the lower part
of town and the east side. Vessey
street is the Christmas eve stamping
ground of the old First and Fourth
warders. The people for the most part
in this district esteem themselves lucky
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-12-27

Fred Remington, a clerk in the market
opened both bivalves last week, and
extracted the meat without breaking
the hinges or separating the shells
With the edges of each shell slightly
apart, showing the interior, the two
are more of curiosity than before.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-12-27

Hewlett Bros Three Crown spices
are put up in quarter, half, one and
six pound cans, also ten pound box
es. Refuse all others, these are
home ground and retain their fail
strengtA.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-12-27
SPENDS IT'S MILLIONS FOR HOLIDAY GIFTS

in its inland sea, so long as that sea
is secured from the trespassing of
foreign war vessels. Meantime there
is no reason why we also should not be
quite satisfied with the existing state
of things.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-12-27

BE loyal and use high grade Three
Crown baking Powder. No purer or
better made.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-12-27
WHERE POVERTY SHOPS.

People who have to watch the pen
MES are quick to recognize these adj
vantages. So Christmas eve is the
great shopping time for the lower part
street is the Christmas eve stamping
ground of the old First and Fourth
warders. The people for the most part
in this district esteem themselves lucky
if they can spend 50, and as this sum
has to supply the Christmas dinner, as
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1896-10-29
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LOCAL Personal.

Mr.. w. J. Craig of Augusta is at the De
Soto.
Mr.. ]. Monroe ogden of Macon is at the
Scrcven,
Mr.. Marion L. Case of Atlanta is at
the De Soto.
Mr.. w. F. Cummings of Hampton. S.
c.. is at the Pulaski.
Mr.. Charles f. Hart of Greenville, S.
c., is at the Pulaski.
Mr.. Henry r. Daniel of swainsboro is
registered at the Screven.
DR.. ]. D. Martin left for Charleston yes
terday by the Plant system.
Mr.. and Mrs. c. C. Champion and Mrs.
S. Ford left yesterday by the Plant sys-
tenn for Charleston.
Judge Hampton L. Ferrill left the city
last night for Washington, d. c., by the
Florida Central and Peninsular.
Judge Robert Falligant. who has been
suffering from an attack of catarrhal fever
was reported much better yesterday,
though still unable to leave his room. 1t is
thought, however, he may be able to get
out in time for the work on the circuit.
Bryan county court meets Monday, and if
he is sufficiently recovered then, both he
and Solicitor General w. w. Fraser will be
there.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1896-10-29
ALpANY's NEW OPERA HOUSE.
The Pretty Playhouse Dedicated by
the Rhea Company.

Albany, Ca, Oct. 2s.-Albany's beautiful
new opera house was christened tonight
by Nine. Rhea and her company In the
beautiful play, Josephine, Empress of
the French" The largest audience ever
seen at a play in this city witnessed the
performance.
The new opera house is an institution
that has been needed here for several
years, and it was left TO two enterprising
young business men, Walter Davis and T.
D. Sale. composing the Davis Drug Com
pany, of this city and Dawson, to supply
the need, which none of the capitalists
here even had the courage to undertake
to supply. The building, in its exterior
and interior, is a credit to the owners anu
this city.
The Albany Guards will probably par
ticipate in the inaugural ceremonies at
Atlanta Saturday.
j. c. McRae and Miss Ida McNeal of
Dawson came to this city to-day and were
Joined in wedlock by Ordinary Smith. 1t
was a Gretna Green affair.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1896-10-29

panles which go on the bonds Of state and
county officers, and recommends that none
of these companies be accepted on bonds
until they have first deposited $4,000 with
the state treasurer as a guarantee fund.
The military is complimented thus; I'm
the past the state has made meager pro-
vision for the equipment and encourage
ment of the militia. l sincerely hope that
this branch of the state government viii
receive the proper consideration and more
liberal encouragement that has
heretofore been extended TO 1t
by our general assemblies NO
civilized government has existed or
can long exist which does not sustain
military force adequate for its own pro-
lection and for the enforcement of the law.
During my administration we have fire.
quently called upon the military to sup
port the civil authorities, and in every in
stance the state troops have conducted
themselves admirably and proven that
they were worthy your aid and encour-
agement"