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The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-10-17

hounds until age and increasing infir1n-
ity forced him to deSist. AT first he
rode without any protection, relying
simply on the grip of his leg stumps;
but q nasty fall, which broke his nose,
induced him TO invent for his own use q
box side saddle. in which ne was
strapped. n short skirt covered the
continuance and gave Kavanagh a very
singular appearance
SHOT BIG GAME.
His shooting was done by means of
guns from which the trigger guards
had been removed The gun to be fred
was laid along his left shoulder, and
with his right hook he pulled the trig-
ger His aim was deadly. as the tigers.
deer and other big game of which tro-
phies are preserved in Boris house are
ample proof. While in Persia, at the
court of the Viceroy Mira Malicious
lin 1S49}. he defeated % picked sharp
shooters in a contest OF Workmanship.
Kavanagh's parliamentary record
was an excellent one. The rules of the
house of commons had. of course to be
altered in his behalf and he was per
mitted to speak from his own seat,
without rising. His speeches We're in
frequent and brief but always pithy
and full of brllliancy. Whenever he
addressed the house he was eagerly
listened to- and his opinions on Irish
matters carried much weight His
ringing attack it was which, in 1863,
decided the fate of the poor law
amendment bill. Twice he was offered
a peerage by Disraeli-in 1868 and in
1880, but on both occasions he declined
Il am too proud of being the heir Of
the kings of Leinster." he was accus-
toned to say. ito think of accepting
any mere barony or viscounty-" A
knighthood he also refused, with the
satiricaI remark that "he was so con-
sttuted as to render it impossible for
him to kneel down for the knightly
aeeolade."
HIS PUBLIC RECORD.
Arthur Mac Murrogh Kavanagh was
responsible for other suspensions of
immemorial custom in the house of
commons. 1t is, in that august as
sembIy, the rule that all members shall
vote or leave the house during divi-
sion, and that strangers are not al
lowed on the floor of the house. Now,
Kayanagh's valet was allowed to carry
him to and fro. between his seat and
the lobby-being the only non-mernber
allowed access to the chamber During
a division, however, the faithful at
tendant could not well be admitted,
and so Mr.. Speaker was accustomed to
avert his eyes and pretend ignorance
of the fact that the honorable member
for Carlow county still sat in his
bench without voting.
KaVanagh was an excellent landlord
and greatly improved the condition of
his estates. His children are all we'll
formed and exceptionally robust spec
linens of humanity. the eldest son and
heir, Walter McMurrogh Kavanagh
having contested the county Kilkenny
at the last election.
So far no dissentient voice has been
raised to mar the general chorus ap-
proving the project of an adequate
monument to Arthur Mac Murrogh
Kavanagh, surely one of the century's
most notable Celts
GERALD Brennan.
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Clothes Made by Mrs. Andrew Jack
SON.

Nashville Banner: Mr.. Edward Daw-
son Of Cincinnati has rare relic, which
ne values very highly. 1t is a suit of
clcilniHg, 'homespun, made by Mrs.
Andrew Jackson for his grandfather,
the Hon. Moses Dawson, a stanch De-
mocrat. and warm friend of Gener3l
jackson Nr- Dawson frequently
visited the hermitage. On one of his
visits 10 General Jackson Mr.. Dawson
admired a SUR of clothing of himespun
cloth that General Jackson wore
They are the result of home indus
try, remarked General Jackson. land
Mrs. Jackson made than. l have no
doubt she wifi make you suit
Mrs J2olcsun made the suit while
Mr.. Dawson was theig' guest On his
return Nh. Dawson spent several days
in Nashville. where ne contracted q
cold. After he returned nome he, de-
sirous of exhibiting his SUIT, ATTENDED
several Democratic meetings. and wore
the clothing. He neglected his cold,
and it grew worse, and developed into
pneumonia, and ne died shortly after
ward.
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ever made, that the methods far sur
passed those of London.
SOUTHERN CITIES.
The health of southern cities, despite
their epidemics. stands high in the
scale. though in nearly all of them
the mortality among negroes is large,
owing to the filthy negro quarters. The
southern cities are now commencing
a general cleaning up" however. Out
side of the south. except in New York
and Boston, there are no slums worth
considering as danger spots, nor are
foreigners. however dirty, a menace.
1t is only the two cities mentioned that
get the worst of them And both of
Sums and the civilization of the for
eign element, Boston having just
started in New York has nearly
solved this problem by her small
parks dug out of the worst of the
tenement districts. and the influence of
the pure air is commencing to be felt.
In certain diseases the Improvement
throughout the country is marked. Chi
cago shows ii in her decrease of deaths
of infants. The New York figures,
made up in fun detail, can be taken in
evidence of this decrease everywhere,
though it must be admitted that New
| York makes a better showing in this
{ regard than most other cities Since
1892 she has reduced her diarrhea1
death rate from I'll to 1.49, and last
year showed nearly 800 less actual
deaths from this disease. During the
past summer the record of three weeks
I in August showed only one-seventh Of
( the total number of deaths due to the
I disease. against one-fifth, the proper
/ ton in the adjoining city of Brooklyn
J for the same time.
AntitiXin has now come into fairly
/ general use. Boston. st. Louis, Chicago.
/ San Francisco Washington. New Or
/ leans and Newark have adopted it,
and Philadelphia in q measure. Gin
| cinnati and Minneapolis are now con-
! sidering the Introduction of plants The
use of this remedy has extended so
! widely that New York is enabled to
/ pay large proportion of the expenses
| connected with the manufacture of her
/ antitoxin by selling it to other cities,
! using the money for research in con-
nection With infectious diseases. The
( supervision OF tuberculosis is being
slowly taken up all over the Union,
! and in many cities it has been Off
/ cially declared q communicable disease
4 Disinfected plants built on new lines
( are being rapidly established, especial
( lY in the south and west. and even the
/ smallest cities of the country are be-
! ginning to take a keen interest in them
GROIN WE'LL CHILDE.
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'ENEs AND INCIDENTS IN THE LIFE OF WORLDS MOST

with the pen fitted into his stump or
by means of a long quill held in his
teeth) was quite legible. Dictauon he
abhored.
Kavanagh was usually carried from
place 20 place on the back Of his valet,
a muscular fellow. whose figure was as
familiar in the purlieus of the house of
commons as WAS that of his master.
When at home, or in his London house,
Kavanagh wheeled himself from room
to room by means of sort of tricycle.
chair. From youth upward, however,
the mode of progression which he loved
best was riding on horseback. He was
always a bold rider and followed the
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-10-17

been a puzzle to antiquarians for 400
years The pleasure crafts lie in one
hundred feet of water, and are partly
submerged in the bottom of the lake.
They have been there for nearly nine
teen hundred years. but divers who
have explored them say that they are
in good condition
Right here it should be stated that
the chief cause of the Orsinfs financial
difficulties is the immense sums of
money he has Intellectually spent to
bring these mammoths. and their
wealth of furnishings to the surface
Two years ago his funds we're all gone,
but the work was continued by the
Italian government with scarcely any
better results. except that the divers
have been able to give a very clear idea
OF the character of the construction of
one of the pleasure craft. These de-
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When in need of repose and quiet.
Vittelius also spent his leisure hours
here, as did also many of the ancients.
But it was Tiberius, the second en-
reror Of Rome, one Of the greatest all
around scoundrels in history. and
superlatiVe voluptuary, who gives the
Nemi estate its greatest interest. IN
the Nenni lake are sunk the two ia
nous pleasure triremes of the en-
peror. each of them as big as a modern
battle-ship and from the meagre inves-
legations made it is believed that they
hold riches that would pay off the debt
of the Prince Orsine one hundred times
over.
But how to get at these riches has
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-10-17

Nemi estate, located some Is miles
from Rome
There are many things which make
this property the most interesting and
historically valuable estate the world
Dver, and if any American millionaire
Is anxious to possess himself of a verit-
able mine of antiquities the present
opportunity is one that does not occur
Dnee in a score OF Hfetimes.
Here is a chance for an Astor or a
Vanderbilt to become the proprietor of
the woods which in ancient times
We're given up to the worship of Diana.
Here also is the fountain secret to
Egeria and the crevtce in the rock
where Numa is said to have consulted
that lovely nymph. Right here. too.
are the ruins of magnificent villa
which julius Caesar started to build
with the intention of inhabiting it
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-10-17

Rt. Hon Arthur Mac Murrogh' Kav-
anagh was born a mere section of hui
manity In place of arms and legs,
fate had assigned to him four stumps,
the most extended of which did not
exceed one foot in length His keen
intellect and strong Will were, however,
superior 10 this cruel lack of hands
and feet, and before his untimely de-
mise, Mr.. Kavanagh had been a men,
Der of the British parliament, a privy
councillor and lord lieutenant of his
native county in Ireland, beside. on no
leSa than two occasions refusing the
honor of peerage- He was long re-
nowned as a fearless "cross-corntry"
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scriptions have enabled the famous
draughtsman, Rainero Arcaini. to con-
struct 4 picture of the floating NAM
moth as it probably looked in the time
of Tiberius, The accompanying draw
ing IS a reproduction of this picture.
and from it some idea of the elaborate
Very little has been recovered from
either of the sunl1en palaces. Several
moorlng rings we're brought up TWO
years ago, and later two life size figures
Of a lion and a wolf. both exquisitely
modelled in bronze. and from their ap-
peardnce it seems that the mooring
rings had been set in the mouths of
these images.
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For numberless years archaeologists
and scientists have been deeply inter
ury-loving character of Tiberius it is
believed that they TEEN with thousands
of treasures which. if recovered, will
show the manner of living of the pow
erful ancients more clearly than any
thing yet discovered, not excepting
the wonders unearthed in Pompeii.
There is some doubt about the exact
year that Tiberius Claudius Nero Cae-
sar took up his residence in Nemi. He
was born in AZ B. C. and was adopted
by the Emperor Augustus in 46 B. G.
He assembled the throne in IA A. D. and
resigned Is years later to make his
home on the island of Capri. near Ma
pies, where for eight years he gave full
swing to his ferocious appetite, dying
in 81 A. D. at the age of 70, after living
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IRENE voluptuaries, he could delve into
the vilest sinks of iniquity without in
reference. 1t was while inhabiting
these lake palaces that human blood
became an essential concomitant of his
pleasures.
But the debaucheries practiced on
the trirenes were merely primary to
those INDUCED in when he changed his
abode to Capri. Here his favorite
amusement was the torture of the
young, and his daily pleasure was to
stand at the bottom of a high cliff and
watch the dying agonies of youths and
naidens whom hired assassins threw
down from the summit of the cliff
That the submerged palaces will re-
veal many strange things when mod
ern submarine appliances are employed
to bring them to the surface is patent
to those who have studied the terrible
character of Tiberius
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-10-17
SCIENCE AND THE DEATH RATE
EH1RTY-FIVE THOUSAND LIVES
SAVED EACH YEAR.
How It Is Accomplished by the Var
ious Health Boards = Nineteen
Leading Cities and the Precau-
tons They Have Taken to Pre-
vent Disease.

During the past five years, publicly
unrecorded and lost sight of in the ex-
citement over discoveries of new rem
edies and new methods of treatment
the health of the cities of America has
been constantly improving and the
death rates dwindliug This has been
strangely marked Told in figures. this
general lowering of the death rate
means the saving of 49, 600 lives yearly.
To explain more fully. had the science
of sanitation and the art of public or
preventive medicine (by which is
meant the guarding against maIadies
before they Gomez, not been carried to
their present high levels. and had the
death rates of American cities been
allowed to remain where they were
FIVE years ago, $1,000 more persons in
these cities alone would have been
swept out of existence this year.
Quietly, yet surely, in nearly every
municipality from the Atlantic to the
Pacific the health boards have been
cleaning up. investigating, examining
foods, buildings and their eity's waste,
and keeping an eye officially on COM
municabie diseases. DiDhtheria ty-
phoid and tuberculosis Consumption
have been watched as they never were
before, and not only are precautions
taken against the spread ever so
slight of these diseases, but mea SlIres
are constantly adopted TO reduce the
number Of cases in ordinary times
Thus in New York City alone / 900 lives
are being saved yearly from the raw
ages of diphtheria (this by the use Of
antitoHin), and during the past three
years the number of deaths from con-
sumption has been gradually scaled
down until it is now annually 500 less
than it used to be.
DEATH RATE OF CHILDREN.
In the other cities of America, while
perhaps not so far-reaching the i'm
proyement is no less evident. There
is hardly .. disease in which a decrease
in the death rate is not TO be noticed
The great death danger and what
chiefly brings up the death percentage
In any city is the mortality of chill
dren under 5. In London. the healthi-
est great city in the world the death
rate Of infants (under - is GO in 1000
U<ondon'S total death rate being a
trifie less than 1S). With the death rate
between the ages of and % only Az.
and between % and 10 avera sing less
than y. Thus an immense amount of
attention is now being patd to the
guarding of young children's lives. by
better sanitary regulations, cleaner
streets and the thorough inspection OF
milk. Exactly what has heen the de-
crease in infant mortality throughout
the cities OF the country cannot be told,
for ne figures have been made up. but
authorities give IL as something like
% per cent.
WHAT LEADING CITIES ARE DO
ING.
Nineteen of the most prominent
American cities. taken so as to include
every section of the country. show. in
every case save one. a decrease. In
this o..e case the death rate has not
varied for 20 years except slightly, from
year to year That city Is Providence.
r. I. Minneapolis shows the largest de-
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life that ought to have killed him
at 80.
But he was giant in physical
strength. One of mis- amusements was
to crack the skull of a boy or young
man by merely swapping his forefnge7'
on the victims Uranium. If this is
true, ne had more strength in one finger
than the average athlete has in his
whole arm and hand.
It was probably in the first years of
his reign when he departed from the
ordinary vices to plunge into the most
violent excuses that he conceived the
scheme of building the floating palaces
on Lake Nemi, where, with Pomponius
Flaceus. Lueius Piso and other ex-
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-10-17
O|ANA'S PLAYGROUND To Be KNOCKED DOWN At AUCTION.

Rome. Italy.-Diana's playground is
to be put up at auction and knocked
down to the highest bidder with the
same commercial vulgarity that char
acterizes the sale of a secondhand
kitchen stove
This sounds like fiction, but it is mer-
eiless. cold truth FIippo. Prince Of
orsini. head of that ancient family. one
of the hereditary grand charges of the
vatican and an assistant at the papal
throne. is a bankrupt. and his creditors
have forced him to agree to the public
sale of his principal property, the
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-10-17
MOST REMARKABLE CRIPPLE
ARTHUR MAC MURRoGH KAV-
ANAUGH HAD NEITHER ARMS
NOR LEGS.
He Rode Horseback, Shot Tigers,
Chased Foxes, and Was a Member
of arliament-Refused a Barony
Several Times.

Irishmen all the world over. and. in
deed, all admirers of indomitable cour-
age in the face of great difficulties,
will be interested in the forthcoming
erection of 3, national monument to
Arthur Mac Murrough Kavanagh.
Rarely has a task of such delicacy
been placed in the sculptor's hands as
the making of the memorial in ques-
ton
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-10-17
Reminiscent.

Cleveland Leader: What was the
first thought that came to you when
you saw Niagara"
mark Antony"
MARK Antony2"
Yes. Oh, waterfall was there, my
CONFINEMENT"
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PERFORMED MANY FEATs.

Kavanagh never used artificial limbs
of any sort His arm stumps were
fitted with screw plates. into which
hooks or (for use at table, forks and
spoons could be fixed. Through patient
striving he acquired wonderful dexter
ity, and the writer has seen him toss
off a glass Of wine without help by
pressing the glass stem betweene his
right stump and his breast, and lift
ing the brtm quickly to his lips. He
could also pour out wine for himself,
and his handwriting Che wrote either
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-10-17

Pick e-Up: She-Yuu DON'T seem to
be enjoying 1T, George
Helm sorry for Wagner. IF it IS
this 80 listen TO, what must it have
been to compose it?
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Knew Where He Lived.

Chicago News: Customer see you
advertise a special sale of infants
slippers.
Proprietor-Yes, sir; here they are
We are closing them out at half price
Customer-You may wrap me up half
a dozen pairs. assorted sizes.
Proprietor-Very well, sir How are
things on the west side?
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Household Words: A poor man applied
70 the wealthy Baron RaDeneau in such
moving terms that the Baron, quite over
come, cried out to his valet: Jean,
turn this poor fellow out; he IS break
ing my heart
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-10-17

Nineteen of the most prominent
American cities. taken so as TO include
every section of the country, show, in
every case save one. a decrease. In
this one case the death rate has not
varied for 20 years except slightly, from
year to year That city Is Providence.
r. /. Minneapolis shows the largest de-
The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1897-01-27

Seattle has had deaths by the pistol
route. morphine route gas and other
routes. bat * remains for a Chinese cock
IN the employ % Or. James shannon 70
furnish the first victim % so BY the coal
gas route This Chiaansn was known by
the euphonious name OF Coon You He
was found dead in his bed yesterday
morning. having passed 10 another world
from asphyxiation, caused oy ooal gas.
The discovery was made by DR.. Shannon,
who, upon noticing that the breakfast hour
had passed, investigated the cause. Open
Ing the door leading 20 the sleeping room OF
the ChiHsman, which was IN the rear OF
the kitchen, the doctor found the place
fun Of smoke Lying in the bed was the
body OF the cook but life was extinct.
From the presence Of the smoke and po-
sition OF the body. It was evident that
Coon You had arisen during the night and
placed shovelful OF coal on the live Goals
in the stove falling 10 tarn the damper
so that the draught would operate. This.
no doubt. caused the coal 10 smoke, the
seductive fumes soon causing the sleepy
occupant Of the room to lapse into insen-
sibility and from that state 10 death.
Cornor Yandell was notified and he had
the body removed TO an undertaking estab-
hshment. where IL was visited during the
day BY many OF the dead mans friends ami
cousins.
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TWO ooAsTING ACCIDENTS.
Albert BoegIi Falls on a sled To the
Ground. "A Distance of Is Feet

Albert Boegii, q young man about =
years Old. was thrown OF a sled while
coasting. down Hill on Dearborn street
between. Tenth and Eleventh avenues
south. last evening about o'clock and Sc
yere.y injured internally. II is thought.
As near as could be learned from brother
of the young man, Boegl and young
lady we're cosstiug down hill and when
near the center OF the block Boegi, who
was behind and steering. fell OF the sled
onto the sidewalk. and from there 10 the
ground. about fifteen feet below. The pa
tro. wagon vas summoned, but when Il ar
rived on the scene the young man had
been carried 70 his home. which IS about
two blocks from the scene OF the accident.
JaiIer Peer went - the house. which is
nothing more than shack. occupied by
the senior Boegli and his two sons, ana
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the lans 1sost suitable for barracks. quar-
fers. parade grounds. rife range etc
None Of tire sfxty-tnree acres would be
required for this purpose.
"a Al tne time the commission made
SIS report & was expected that the en-
trance 10 ire Lake Washington ship ca
nal would ne through a lock az SalEShols
Ray, 50 that part % the additional land
asked for would BE- just inside Of the lock
and dezlrab bic ss a landing place fer boats
containing supplies. etc. for the post en-
tsring the canal through the lock The
plan. a. since approved by the secretary
OF war, con templates the construction OF
4 dam closing fhe entrance from Sflil-
snole bay into Salmon bay. and placing
the entrance Of TIE canal Al Smiths cove,
more than two miles distant The tract
fn question would therefore. De much less
deslra bic as a landing place than under
The former plan. Moreover, the Great
Northern railway runs along the north
shore Of Salmon bay. II the entrance 10
the bay were cfose5 the railway company
would undoubtedly be glad 10 run a spur
track across the Inlet 70 the army post
site thus furnishing a perfect means Of
access
1T should also bs mentioned that the
60 acres rendered include "a sufficient
space for a landing on Salmon bay
IA II II he decided that the additional
sixty-three acres are Indispensable. * IS
respectfully suggested that fl may be
possible 10 secure the same through the