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Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1897-03-26
PATENTS AND PENSIONS.

WTANTED - INVENTORS TO KNOW
w that Fitz-GerAld 4 Co. the old. respon'
sIble Patent Lawyers OF Washington, u, O..
have opened branch onloe In SAT- Lake
faionth procured for inventors; no advance
Zee required Book on patents free. Tell
you how TO make n fortune. Trade marks GO
cured. Pensions for soldiers and heirs. Cal
or write fitZ'Gertld and Co, Attorneys
O'Meara block salt Lake.
Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1897-03-26
TO THE CITIZENS OF SALT LAKE.

HAVE NEVER PRESENTED sALTAIR
l. Cottage CITY to outsiders. II you could
only zee this proposition as experienced tray
elers do there would mot be a lot in sAltAlr
cottage CITY for sale at $40. W. K. LADD,
Progress Block
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1897-01-29
DoINGs ABROAD.

The personal property left by the
ate Archbishop Benson, of Canterbury,
is valued at $175,OOO.
A thousand men in West HartlepooI
(England) shipyard recently went on
strike because policeman had been sta
toned on the premises.
Eighty-five hundred dollars, the
whole profit for last season of the house
OF commons kitchen, has been invested
by the committee in claret.
Domenico Comparetti, the italian
philologist, who has tried to do for the
folk lore of Italy what the brother
Grimm did for that of Germany, has
Just been elected foreign associate of
the Paris Academy of Inscriptions in
place of the late Ernst Curtuis.
A young woman has received the un-
usual honor of the freedom of London
guild. She is a daughter of Lord Am
herst of Hackney, and having written a
History of Gardening in England"
mas just been thus honored by the Wor-
ihipful Company of Gardeners.
In the st. Sepulchre church in London
there was found in an old chest recently
the bell which in Stuart times used to be
sung by the crier outside the cell of a
condemned felon on the night before
execution. The bell will be hung up in
a conspicuous place in the church.
Street cars are beginning to make way
against omnibuses in England. Petit
tions for 20 lines in Birmingham alone
are now before parliament, while Leeds,
Manchester, Sheffield, Bradford, Hall
fax and Understood all apply for pow
er to construct new tramways.
Gross vandalism has destroyed some
interesting Druidical remains on Dart
moor. The "stone avenue" at Bel Tor
corner, on Sherberton common, and
many shut circles" and ''menhirs" have
disappeared, the stones having been
broken up by contractors to fill up the
holes in the roads about.
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1897-01-29
THE FARM AND FARMER.

Subsoiled land washes less than I'M
SUBSIDIZED, as it holds water better.
Potatoes boiled, mashed and Nmixed
with wheat bran make excellent feed
for ducks.
The North Carolina station advises
treating stored grain with bisulphite Of
carbon to kill weevil, rats, mice, etc.
Keeping the boys on the farm is i'm
portant, as the farm often offers more
opportunities than the cities, but the
farm should be made attractive for the
girls also. Every little girl should be
given flower garden and taught how
to grow flowers of all kinds.
Great Britain has more than 30,O0O,-
600 sheep on territory not greatly in
excess of Minnesota and Iowa France
has 20,000,0OO ON much smaller area.
With their high-priced land they seem
able to make profit out of their sheep.
This country has room for q much
greater number.
Rotation enables the farmer to get
larger crops. At the experiment sta
tions 1t has been shown that ON land
upon which corn, roots and oats were
grown the yield of wheat per acre was
five bushels more than on land upon
which wheat had been grown several
wears successively
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1897-01-29
THE GIANT TRICYCLE..

same size, the gear would have been
1872, whereas it has been geared down to
"a. The left hand chain and sprookets
can be clearly seen in the engraving.
The total length of the machine is II
feet.
The tires are pneumatic tires, made
exactly in the same way as the ordinary
Vim roadster tire, and they are, there
fore, single tubes. This Jumbo"
RAong cycles has been put to practical
test ON the roads, having been ridden
from Boston to Brockton, Mass, dis
lance of IS miles, and from there to
Concord, N. H., 1875 miles distant. We
can realize that it has found it's proper
field of work when we are informed
that 1t has done duty in many torch
light parades, political and otherwise.
1t should be mentioned that the front
tire is II and the rear tire 1S inches in
diameter, the latter being about halt
an inch thick ON the tread. The large
wheels have spokes half an inch in
diameter, and the small wheel spolCes
are one-quarter inch diameter.-Scien-
tific American.
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1897-01-29
HOW A HAT GETS AWAY.
One OF the Aggravating Experiences Of
Men Generally In "A CITY,

One OF the Aggravating Experiences Of
Men Generally In a City.
A perfect gale was blowing. IL
roared through the square and plunged
into the avenue beyond, like the mar
rowed current of stream pouring from
a whirlpool into a mountain gorge.
Men were cautiously hanging to their
hats, and women fran tically struggling
with their skirts. Storms of grit beat
against the windows, and pedestrians
bent forward and held their breath
as they met the singing, dust-laden
gusts.
Suddenly something white whirled up
against the soldiers monument. High
er and higher it rose-ten, twenty, thir-
ty feet. Then it lowered for moment
like bird, and made swift, slanting
fight into the avenue. 1t was a brand
new straw hat-one of those that ripen
suddenly at the close of the season and
fall on the bargain counter.
People on both sides of the street
stopped to watch its glimmering flight.
1t struck in the center of the electric
of so feet or more, and then settled into
a scorching gait down the avenue. A
man nearly block away saw it coming
and ran into the street to intercept it.
With feet outspread, knees Rugged to-
gether and extended arms, he stood
waiting. The flying hat struck him
midway between ankles and knees,
bounded breast high and flashed over
his shoulder before he had time to
formulate n single eXpletive.
By this time he had turned sheep
ishly around to see what had become
of the fugitive. 1t was already a bob
bling speck in the distance. Then q
transverse current of air caught it, and
it swerved to the sidewalk. Three or
four ladies lodged it, with little fem
mime shrieks. Then another man es-
sayed to stop it, but just as he was
bending forward and about TO lay tri.
umphant hands upon it the evasive hat
lodged with lightning rapidity and
went bowling down the gutter.
In the dim distance bareheaded cit
izen labored in pursuit. His breath and
strength were well-nigh spent, but still
he kept desperately on, shouting and
gesticulating. The mania of the hat
chaser possessed him. He could not
stop, though nature and reason urged
him to. So long as he could keep his
flying property in view, so long that
| galvanic action of legs, arms and lungs
must continue.
At last two men planted themselves
abreast in the path of the whirling hat.
Surely thus far, and no farther, it
might comel The hat chaser paused,
with all his anxious soul shining in his
beaded face. Like an arrow the hat
darted upon the two obstructionists.
There was a moments wavering on
their part, slight change of position
and between them it flashed. But the
wirier of the two men was not to be
thus baked. With the speed of n
Splinter he pursued, and, finally, maxi
ing tremendous squirt, got abreast of
the hat, and stepped on it.
Five minutes later the perspiring
owner arrived. He took his hat, now
a crushed and shapeless mass, from the
hand of it's captor and gazed darkly
upon 1t. For a minute exhausted ma
ture forbade speech.
Then the man Kissed, with sibilant
rage and disgust:
"Confound you! If you were a goat
! I'd make you eat it!"-Detroit Free
Press.
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1897-01-29
THE CHURCH o. TIE NATIVITY.
The Venerable Bn ~ =, That Marks the
Birthplace of Christ.

The Venerable Bn 'Gi,r That Marks the
Birthplace of Christ.
We return in i'Tnr To see the process
sion of bishops priests ard people that
is forming in the square in front of the
church Each is dressed in his most
gorgeous robes Turkish soldiers line
both sides of the street to keep the way
open for the procession to pass. The
Latin patriarch of Jerusalem has just
arrived. The procession of priests, car
rying banners and immense candles,
meets him, then turns, and all go into
the Latin chapc! through the main
entrance. Following, we are surprised
to find the main entrance so small. 1t
can admit but one at time, and that
one must stoop to enter. From the ma
sonry it can be seen that the entrance
was once much larger. The reason for
the change was that the Mohamme-
dams at one time did all In their power
to injure and annoy the Christians, and
even used to ride on horseback into the
very church. The door therefore was
made small to protect tho church from
this sacrilege.
Once inside, we see we are in very
ancient structure. Part of the masonry
dates from the time Of Constantine,
who built magnificent basilica on
this site, about the year $50 of our era.
All we can see of the oldest work, how
ever, probably dates from not later
than Justinian's time, about $50 A. d.
In any case, the church Is venerable
building, and it has witnessed some
stirring scenes. In 1t Baldwin the
Crusader was crowned king Of Jerusa-
lem. It has been repaired a number Of
times; and once, when 1t needed a new
roof, King Edward w. Of England gave
the lead to make one. This was about
the year 1882. The lead roof did good
service for about 200 years, and might
have lasted much longer had not the
Mohammedans melted II up to make
bullets. However, another roof was
soon provided.
Inside, the building consists Of a
nave and double aisles. The aisles are
separated by two rows of columns
made of red limestone. These columns
have plain bases, and are surmounted
by Corinthian capitals. They are 10
feet high, and at the top Of each cross
is engraved. The church is now owned
by the Latin, Greek and Armenian
Christians.-Edwin S. Wallace, in st.
Nicholas.
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1897-01-29
SCHOOL AND CHURCH.

Women comprise two-thirds of the
church members of the United States.
but only one-thirtieth of the criminals,
j. M. Barrie visited South college
recently with George w. Cable. whose
guest he was. He made little speech,
In which he said that he had never be-
fore been called upon to speak to 900
girls all at once. and he found it little
hard.
Some efforts in a fresh direction to
popularize the pulpit are being made
In Australia. After the sermon the con-
gregation in one of the Victorian
churches are invited to give their views
upon it and argue doubtful points with
the preacher.
-"Robbing Peter to pay Paul" is said
to have originated in an act of the
church government of England in 1850.
AT that time the Cathedral of St. Paul.
In London, being out of repair, and no
funds available, portion of the in
rome of Westminster, which was con-
secrated to st. Peter, was diverted to
the repair of st. Paul's.
The percentage of illiteracy among
the whites of Colorado is 4.S; Idaho,
BIS; Kansas, 80; Montana, Al; Nebras-
ka, rs; Nevada, AZ; Utah, 81; Washing
ton, 81; Wyoming, 3. On the other
hand. the percentage of illiteracy in the
white population of Connecticut is 81;
Delaware, IA; Maine. 5.4; Maryland, Z;
New Hampshire. 6.s; New Jersey, 81;
New York, 81; Pennsylvania, Ga;
Rhode Island. 90; Vermont, 81; West
Virginia. Is.
Rev. Father Koran, of Rumford
Falls. Me-. secured the necessary funds
10 complete his new church by an
nouncing that il would be opened on
a certain Sunday. which turned out to
be bitterly cold day. and then preach
ing a sermon SO long that it's close was
accompan cd by the ciattcring of teeth
all over the house rs if suddenly re-
minded that 'ns chilly. he remarked
that it was cod. indeed. and expressing
his belief that TIC congregation would
eheerfully contrihni" muney enough to
plaster The walls ard put in furnace,
passed the plate and got what he
wanted.
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1897-01-29
ITALIAN ANTIQUITIES.
An Underground Trade In Them In Spi
of IeraI Intardlctiona.

An Underground Trade In Them In Spite
of Legal Interdictions.
Some days ago a well-known dealer
in antiquities offered for sale to the
Louvre museum in Paris splendid col
lection of ancient vases from Italy or
Greek or Italian workmanship, says the
London News. The museum was una
BILE to pay the price asked 6 10000
and declined the bargain. The Italian
minister of education, having learned of
this, has taken proceedings under the
Pacca law against Sig. di Frisco, the
owner of these antiquities. The latter is
a large land owner at Bosco Reale. He
secretly made excavations on his estate
and found 2S silver vases of remote an
tiquity.
Notwithstanding the italian law pro.
hibiting owners of antiquities from
sending them out of the country with
out leave, or. rather, on account of this
law, which prevents old works of art
from commanding anything like their
natural price in the impoverished coun-
try, Sig. di Frisco struggled his find out
of Italy and offered it to Paris dealer
for 6 5000. Continuing meanwhile his
search, he found other silver vases,
which duly joined their fellows in Paris,
and the whole lot was offered to the
Louvre. The Italian minister of educa-
ton throws interesting light on the
facilities which underpaid officials are
supposed to afford illicit exporters of
antiquities. He issues a notification
that, should any officials be found to
have connived at this latest evasion of
the Pacca law, they will be criminally
prosecuted
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1897-01-29
PHRYeIAN CAP AND THE kNouT
Means Taken by France to Keep Out
Russian Exiles.

Means Taken by France to Keep Out
Russian Exiles.
The French republic, thanks to the
new alliance between the Phrygian cap
and the knout, has done it's best to make
it's soil insecure for those who fled from
the tyranny of carbon, says the North
American Review. Among Russian tx-
lies living at Zurich, Geneva and Lau-
same spies have latterly been intro
duced, even in the guise of alleged lady
students of the same nationality. In
England alone prescribed Russians are
free, and in England, partly in conse-
quence of their contact with the quiet
operation of parliamentary institutions.
partly on account of q change of feel
ing among the cultured classes of their
own country. men like Stepniak, the au-
thor of Underground Russia" and
kindred works, who once had hand in
the fierce active fight against autocracy
by all available means of irregular war.
fare, have gradually ceased to be con.
nected with the organization of So
called terroristic attempts. Their Lon
don monthly organ, Free Russia, shows
how much they have moderated their
demands.
If the young emperor would only con-
sent to the introduction of some kind
of representative assembly, such as ell
European nations have, and as even the
sultan had adopted shortly before
Turkey was beaten down by the armies
of Alexander H., the reigning czar
would rally around him many who are
at present his adversaries in what is be.
Loved 10 l. the camp CT the most c,s.
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1897-01-29
IN@HIDBDon.
COLOSSAL TRICYCLE..
Wonderful Machine Turned Out by q New
England Concern.


Wonderful Machine Turned Out by New
England Concern.
In this age of 'Sig" things one is al
ways prepared for the construction of
mammoth engines, ships, buildings and
public works, and the rage for the
Buperlative seems to be universal. Ii
has invaded the bicycle world, where
At least one would think size and weight
were at "a discount, and, moved by it's
inspiration, a New England firm has
produced the colossal-no other word
justly describes it-tricycle shown In
the accompanying engraving.
1t is driven by eight men, which is,
1t is true, only two more than are
mounted on sextuplette; but whereas
the latter weighs approximately as
much per man as an ordinary single
machine, the tricycle. weighs about 800
pounds to the rider the total weight
with the men mounted, being about a
ton and a half. The front wheel is six
feet, and the rear wheels are II feet in
diameter. The frame consists of two
parallel trusses which are arranged
side by side and finish at the front in
a cross truss to which the steering head
Is attached. The steering is done by
one man. Each side wheel is driven
by the four riders which are nearest
to it, and curious feature in the ma
chine is that it is geared down instead
of up. This was rendered necessary by
the great dead weight which had to be
moved. Even if the crank sprockets
and the wheel sprockets had been the
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1897-01-29
ABOUT WON EN-.

Miss Louise Gaudelet, of Boston, who
was at ore time private secretary to
Oliver Wendell Holmes, is to be married
this month to Mr.. William Amory, for
merly of New York.
Not long ago at Stuttgart the queen
of Wurtemburg was driving and the
horses ran away, pitching the footman
and coachman from the seat. The in
trepid lady climbed to the box Of the
barouche, reached for the reins and,
unai1ed, stopped the horses.
The first woman in England toreceive
the honorary degree of Ii. D. was Miss
Jane Harrison. She has now had an
additional honor conferred on her in
being elected member of the Berlin
Archaeological society. The distinc-
ton is all the greater for the reason
that they don't particularly like the
bluestocking in the German capital.
Helen Keller, the famous deaf and
blind girl, is to enter q preparatory
school in the autumn and will later en-
ter college, where her teacher, Miss
Sullivan, will accompany her through
out the course. Miss Keller is now 1G
and is far advanced in ner studies. She
has q wide acquaintance with English
literature and some knowledge of
French and German.
Bees Need Lots o: Room
The secrets of large honey crops ar,
strong colonies and abundance of stor
age room, together with good honey
flow. Don't be so foolish as to neglecI
to give your bees place to store honey
This is done very frequently by placing
on small surplus capacity. and theI
complain at the end of the season tha
the bees did not store you 200 pounds 0
honey In ten-pound box. Bees worl
for rothin- Grh board themselves. St
give them ,sieatv ~ room.
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1897-01-29
The Mud Dict Of Londoner..

There Is nothing like dealing with
large figures, and no doubt the state
ment by scientific person that Lon
doners drink in the course of year
1000 tons of mud will appear to many
to disclose a terrible and most dam
gerous state of things Nothing could
be further from the truth. A thou
sand tons of mud would mean, perhaps,
about half a pound of mud to each per-
son. 1t will be certainly not too much
to assume that each haf-pound of mud
does not contain more than two ounces
Of solid matter, probably much less.
Now, II Is certain that in the course of
three or four windy days in March each
person in the air AN day will draw in
fully an ounce of dust, as much as he
will swallow in water during six
months. A railway traveller who takes
few hours journey in dry weather has
but to look at the state of his coat and
of the carriage seat to form an idea of
the amount of dust that must have en-
tered his mouth, the majority of which
ON touching che palate and tongue is
converted into mud and swallowed.
Thus, then, it will be seen at once how
many infinitesimally small and how
absolutely innocuous is the daily por-
ton of this 1000 tons of mud swallowed
by Londoners, and how little cause
there is for alarm in the array Of figures
piled up by the scientific investigator,
who may brighten weak-minded people,
but they do not in the slightest degree
affect the ordinary man, or excite in
him any feeling whatever, save indif-
erence.-London Standard.
AAatiCEMENTc nE KINGS
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1897-01-29
Breeding Stock in Winter.

The winter care of breeding stock
= likely to be neglected. Regular and
moderate work is the best means OF
exercise for either stations or mares.
II frequently happens, however, that
The farmer or breeder has more horses
than he has work for during the winter.
In this case other means must be pro-
vlded. Some regular system should be
adopted. The brood mares will fare
better on good blue grass pasture, with
access to roomy. open shed for little
fodder and a light grain ration. than
they will with high feeding in warm
close stables. They can be wintered in
this manner mich cheaper. and with
vastly better results. than by the more
expensive methods of close stabling.
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1897-01-29
MILITARY FoRTIFIcATIoNs.

The Notifications of Vicksburg, At
lanta and other points in the south
were of earthworks, hastily construct
ed, though the positions chosen were
generally of great natural strength.
The principal fortresses of Austro-
Hungary are Cracow, Przemysl, Karls-
burg, Arad, Temesvar, Komorn, Pc
terwardein, Buda-Pesth, Pola and Tri-
este, the last two naval harbors as we'll.
The parapet projects over the top
of the wall, and, pierced with holes to
enable the besieged to attack an enemy
close to the foot of the wall, was almost
contemporaneous with the wall.
The first system of modern forti-
fication, that is, after the invention of
artillery, was that of the bastion or
italian system, bastion being a mill
tary work consisting of two faces and
two tanks.
Little Belgium has several first
class fortresses: Antwerp, and the
fortified towns Oh Dendermonde and
Diest. on the Mense, Liege, Huy and
Namur, and on the French frontier,
Mons, Tourney and Ypres.
France has, on the German from
tier, three first-class fortresses-Bel-
fort, Verdun and Briancon; on the Bel
gian frontier, Lille, Dunkirk, Arras and
Donay; on the italian, Lyon, Grenoble
and Besancon, and on the Atlantic coast
Rochefort, Lorient and Brest.
The southern entrance Of the Red
sea is commanded by the fortress OF
Alden and the fort on the little island
OF Perrin, in the strait of Babel-Man-
deb; the guns of the latter completely
covering the narrow channel, and the
fortress dominating the entrance to
the con
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1897-01-29

body, and was placed on the throne
chair in which she would soon have
taken her seat as ruler of her people if
It had not been for the accusation of
treason, and how he secured possession
Of the head.
Regardless of this story the specta-
tors knows he is looking on nothing but
clever illusion. The chair is uphol-
stored in red plush and is placed
close to the curtain at the back
Of the recess. At the back of the
chair is an opening just below the level
of the tops of the chair arms. This
opening is not seen from the front, as
IL is concealed by a mirror that is placed
between the arms of the chair at an
angle of IS degrees. The ends of the
mirror rest in folds of the fan-shaped
npholstering on the inside of the chair
arms. The lower edge of the mirror is
resting on the bottom of the chair and
the upper edge is concealed by laying
pne of the swords on it, as may be seen
In the other illustration. At the proper
angle the bottom of the chair is reflect
cd in the mirror, leaving the impression
that one is looking at the back. The
folds in the upholstering of the inside Of
the arms effectually conceal the ends of
she mirror. There is hole in the cur