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great engineering achievement. 1t has
been called into being by the curious
natural conditions that surround that
part of the country From tine lmme-
mortal the herring have started out IN
great schools from the Orkney Islands
and Hibrides to the north OF Scotland,
and from about the LIST of June every
year until well into August they have
migrated along the coast southwark very
much as the shad start from flor-da on
their annual migration nortnWard aIonS
the Atlantic coas. of the United States:
For many years ii has been the principal
business OF the hardy inhabitants-not
only men, but women and children-to
follow up these great schools Oh nsn with
boats and nets landing them at the va
rious towns and there preparing ana
shipping them to market. The men or the
families do the sea work and the women
and girls follow down the coast OF the
mainland meeting tine boats mere ana
there, and preparing and shipping the
fish. while the men move southwark, Ioi-
lowing closely upon the migrating her-
ring.
WAVES THIRTY FEET HIGH.
The business is of such Importance not
only to the hardy fishermen but TO the
whole country, tnat the general govern
ment decided 20 make harpor or refuge
at Peterhead for this great fleet OF nsh-
ing boats. The coast lane IS mere !ndenteo
like deep bowl. and across the entrance
of it the government is throwing out TWO
narrow entrance Once inside of them
val vessels will be perfectly protected
from the seas which strike with trenen-
dous force on the coast, causing waves IN
great storms nearly 30 feet nigh.
A MODERN TITAN.
Il is in this great work, some of which
is TO be in water. 80 feet deep at high TIDE,
thai the modern Titan has been called
into play. Tie length of its arms reach
ing. our from the centraa point OF support
is exactly 1UO feet. and il can set oo-ton
block in the sea 100 1eet deep ana y feet
from the outer edge of the masonry wall.
This long arm IS balanced oy a shorter
weighed arm that carries the engtnehouse
with the machinery for moving the Titan
forward or backward on railroad set
into the finished masonry, and 10 run out
or in on the long arm q travelling car
from which are suspended the four
sheaved books through which IS received
the cable mat n1ts the great pieces of
stone The Titan Itself weighs 100 tons,
and is built of steel. The long arm swings
about on a turntable, just as a bridge
swings over a river. The wall which II
builds and then travels over as il slowly /
advances into the sea is nearly % feet |
wide.
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dated July %. says:
Last Friday afternoon Professor
Lftoy of Princeton, n. j.. succeeded in
doing what no one has ever done be-
fore, in scaling the famous Mesa En-
cantada, which is located near the In
dian village of Acoma, in this territory.
By means of two and one-half inch
bore brass cannon, steel cylinder with
soft iron shank and ring, in the end
OF which a cord is attached, was finally
shot over the Mesa after several in
effectual efforts. BY means of this shot
cord the ropes required in making the
ascent were pulled up. Fifteen hundred
feet of rope were required to reach from
one side to the other, and when it was
all in readiness travelling block" was
attached to the pulley, which had pre-
viously been soliced to the main rope
and pulled up to the edge. of the over
hanging ledge. Ancman's weight of
rock was then placed in the chair rig
ged TO the travelling. block and an ex-
detrimental trip was made which proved
successful. Professor Libby then took
his place in the chair and was raised to
the top of the mesa. Gordon Pearce,
a newspaper man of this city, was the
only other person to make the danger
Gus ascent.
All that was found on the top of the
Mesa which indicated that it might
have once been inhabited was a mon
ument of rocks, which looked as if it
were done by man.. With this excep-
ton there was absolutely no indication
that it had ever been inhabited by
race of men, and Professor Libby is
convinced that the romantic legends
which are connected with it are nothing
more than fairy tales.
The top of the rock is about 16 acres
in extent and about 500 feet higher
than the immediate surrounding coun-
try, and fully 700 feet higher than the
valley just south of it.
. Professor Libby was in no way disap
pointed, as he believed no old ruins
would be found. He simply wished to
ascend the rock, which had hitherto
been considered inaccessible.
II is possible that new specimens of
fora have been found. but later ex-
animation will have to be made to
determine this.
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election to membership as he who has
both his neither limbs. A suite of ele-
gantly furnished rooms is the clubs
habitat, and twice a year a banquet is
given by the members to their friends,
when the rare spectacle of grave
looking men in evening dress rising on
a single leg tC respond to toasts like
our absent limbs is presented to
those who are fortunate enough to be
invited.
SOCIETY WOMEN AND CATS.
The Cat club of Chicago stands alone
in clugdom. 1t is an association of we'll
known society women of the windy city
and their favorite cats. Club quarters
have been regularly engaged, and cush-
ions of the softest down. are provided
for the comfort of the fair members
pets AT the weekly meetings of the
Cat club the relative merits. and be-
havior Of each tabby and grimalkin are
descanted upon While tea is served to
the ladies and milk is set out for the
cats. Invitations 10 call from one cat
(presented of course by its mistress) TO
another are exchanged, and as much
formality is observed in introducing a
new feline to the assembled cats and
clubwomen as at an important social
function Small fortunes in the way
fumed baths and the like are expended
upon the restless, caterwauling COM
pany. and the fee of admission TO club
membership has ben placed at pro-
hibitive figure TO prevent those who are
not in the high social swim from par
in the clubs unique pleasures.
YACHT CLUB OWNS NO BOATS.
Another aristocratic eccentric club is
Of Natr- aor.f
There are 40 members of this unique
Every member is an Of
ficer While the ostensible purpose of
the club is the furtherance of the royal
sport of yachting, very few of the
members know anything about boats
and things nautical The numerous
officers of the Kat Bote Klub are, for
the most part, representative members
of New York's social 400" Among
the more prominent Kat Boters are
Royal Phelps Carroll, Theodore A.
Herman Oelrichs, Win
throp Chanler, Prescott Lawrence,
Louis Lorillard, Oliver. Belmont, John
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BURNED IN MlDAIR.
Shocking Death of DR.. Wolfert, the
German Aaronaur

German ASronaut.
recent dispatch from Berlin gave
in brief the news of the untimely death
of DR.. Wolfert, the distinguished aero
maui. At the moment when the doctor
seemed about TO realize the dream of
his life, death overlook him, ana in a
few seconds he and his priced balloon
were burned To cinders.
DR.. Wolfert got into the balloon a
few minutes before Z o'clock in the
evening, being accompanied by Robert
knabe, young mechanic. The crowd,
among which were several army off,
GERS, wished them good luck and then
silently watched the cigar shaped ship
as it slowly mounted skyward Ex-
cellently it seemed to move. and even
those who were not experts saw that
the screw was working splendidly and
that the craft was heading for the
northwest.
For five minutes the watchers looked
up admiringly, and then their admira-
ton was suddenly changed to horror.
Forth from the car of the balloon
flashed a yellow flame: then a second
later was heard crash like a cannon
shot, and at the same moment the en-
tire balloon was erveloped in a mass
of fire.
Down the blazing machine fell with
amazing swiftness, reaching at last
the Ringbahn-s.rasse. A horrible
sight it was, and, as the hundreds of
OnlOOkers rushed toward it, they found
it still smoking and practically de-
stroyed. In the ruins lay the bodies of
WOlfert and Knabe. They were burned
so badly that it was impossible to
recognize them.
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OUR QUOTA OF FREAKS.
ORGANIZATIONS WHICH HAVE
TO DO WITH CATS, coFFINs,
Mouth Organs, Bloomers and One
Legged Men Eccentrics Defy
Public Opinion, Superstition and
Death-A Yacht Club That Owns
No Boats.

There are 5000 clubs in the United
States. Nearly 100 of these are of the
eccentric order. and they represent the
strangest, oldest fantasies that the hu-
man mind could possibly conjure UP for
it's social entertainment. The eccentric
club illustrates a phase of social life
which springs chiefly from the desire
of certain classes of men to show their
utter disregard for conventionality,
and who find genuine recreation in
what is bizarre and unusual in the way
of social gatherings. The result is a
One-legged club. a Cat club, Kat Bote
club, a Harmonica club, a Kite Flyers
club, a Coffin club, Undertaker's club,
Japanese club, a Fat Mans club,
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MoLDINu BLOCKS OF STONE.

The exterior faces are made of granite
masonry. the interior portion IS made of
concrete composed of Portland cement
and small broken stone with other stones
OF about TWO cubic feet embodied in the
soft concrete before it becomes hard The
big blocks are generally about 13ihx6lbx6I5
feet an dimensions. The concrete blocks
are built in a yard on shore. They are
made in plank molds or boxes and re-
quire about three weeks for construction.
Holes are left in the concrete blocks in
which hooks can be inserted and the
great Titan lifts the block, swings it
around 10 the sea. lowers ii into the
water and places it exactly where the
diver down below wishes it placed to fit
into the location designed for it. In this
way ..monolith" is built on which the
terrible force of old ocean is spent in vain.
The blocks. of course, are placed rigidly
in position. for the force Of the waves at
this point is SO great that a loose block
weighing 30 tons and resting on level
concrete base 40 feet below the surface of
the water was actually moved off It's
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foundation and thrown into the deeper
sea alongside.
CoNvICTs DO TIVE WORK.

1t has been ascertained. by experience
in building breakwaters. that a vertical
wall OF masonry greatly increased the
force OF the striking wave and sends its
eHect nearly twice as deep as otherw Use,
and that wave striking a work of this
KIND at an angle, or oDiiqueay, becomes
concentru ted, as Il were, and rises higher,
sinks deeper and moves raster along the
face OF the wall. Waves OF this kind
actually undermined the Tynemouth
breakW alter, sweeping away the protec-
lection OF stone over 40 Iee- DelOw the
surface of the water, letting down dou-
bic row OF Acton concrete Dlockss expos
ing the toe or base of the main wall and
undermining this and oreacn1ng the wall
entirely through 10 the harbor inside.
There is now great gaping noie leaving
tAe Sea -enu. on Wnicn the lighthouse
stands. entirely isolated
The work al Peterhead, excepting where
skilled labor is concerned, Is being done
oy -oU convicus, VINO live in the prison
immediately adjoining the works. The
quarry from which the granite is brought
10 the derrick is near at hand and is con-
nected with the sea wall by a railroad
track. When this great work is COM
pleted it will result in one of the best and
most fully protected harbors on the coast
OF Great Britain.
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: WAS VERY SIMPLE.
Theories of Huxley and Darwin Ex-
ploded by an Amateur Scientist.

Theories of Huxley and Darwin Elk
ploded by an Amateur Scientist.
Chicago Post: The amateur scientist
had it all figured out to his saeisfac-
ton. He had devoted several hours to
the subject and felt he knew whereof
he spoke.
Really" ne said, its very simple. -
What is?" asked all his admirinS
friends.
Why, the question of the origin of
the human race" answered the anna
teur scientist. If Huxley and Darwin
and the rest of those wise guys had
only given it a little serious thought
l don't see how they could have missed
it,"
His admiring friends were just a lit
tie taken aback. They had great con-
fidence in his abilities, but the lay
man VINO had considered Huxley and
Darwin more or less well posted on
matters that they discussed is rather
shocked when some new man in the
field rudely pushes them aside and un-
dertakes to demonstrate that he alone
knows it all.
"You-you don't think we are de-
seconded from monkeys them" they in.
quired doubtingly.
Not at ALL
And you don't believe in the ortho-
dox idea of our origin, .either?'
"Oh, dear no. And the amateur
scientist laughed scornfully.
Its a pretty serious matter TO dis
pute all tne various teachings" they
suggested.
Not when you have conclusive EVIL
dence that you are r1gnt, returneu the
young man calmly.
And you have that evidence?
Gentlemen said the amateur in his
superior way, Il have that evidence.
| may NOS be able to carry you back TO
the creation of this world, but l can
at least show from wlaF the sfviliza-
ton of today has sprung; [ can SHOW
you from whence have come the really
progressive nations of the earth
They gathered round him and be-
seeched him to speak
Explorers report" he said, that in
the Inferior of Africa there is little
uncivilized tribe of natives that are
actually made sick by wearing clothes.
On the ground of health they are COM
PEELED TO lay them aside. II is from
that little nation that we all have de-
scended."
But your proof" they demanded.
The amateur scientist looked at them
scornfully.
Come with me 70 a fashionable sea-
shore resort" he said
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pital. a third dropped dead of apoplexy,
and the others were called without
warning to the great beyond. The three
surviving members still meet and con-
duct with great formality such bust
ness as is before them. Alfred Trumble,
the we'll known art critic, and the last
of the eight, was found dead in his bed
a few weeks ago. The Undertakers'
club and the Grave Diggers' league are
repellant only in name The members
invariably cast aside their professional
melancholy once over the threshold of
their respective rooms
FAT MEN, REFORMED DRUNK
ARDS AND SPORTS.
In any list of queer clubs mentioned
must be made of the Suicide club of
Bridgeport, Conn. Seven of this clubs
members have died by their own hands
Mems club of Milwaukee has "a MEM
bers, with an average weight of 20
pounds per member, making a total
human weight of 5000 pounds when the
club is in full session. The Kelley Cure
club is a product of Philadelphia.
Every member is an ex-drunkard At
a regular monthly dinner given by the
club the beverages served at table are
strictly of a medicinal nature
Everyone has heard of the million
aires club. which in reality is named
the Metropolitan club of New York,
every member of which can draw his
check for a cool million of dollars and
not go broke" after such an unusual
act. A bare mention can be made of
the Matrimony club, an associa-
ton of pretty young women who are
persuaded that they never. neved will
marry; of the Firemans bicycle club
with rooms on Lexington avenue, New
York; of the Coffin club of San Fran
cisco. similar TO the Tony club, above
described; of the Eccentric Sports club
of New Orleans, founded in 1884 by
some of the toughest gamblers in Lou
isiana, but whose existence is really
due TO the efforts of a number of kind
hearted Christian women, who thought :
that bladders were less harmful than
hard gloves in boxing bouts; of the
Bloomer club of the Kempin club, COM
posed of women lawyers living in
Brooklyn; the Japanese club; the New
Woman's club, the first
housed club" in this country, and the
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Summing club. a Lanthorn club, a
MOuntebank club. a Bloomer club. and
so on through a long list. Some of these
organizations have very entertaining
features.
ONE LEGGED MEMS CLUB.
OF all the queer associations of the
country the One-Legged club of ST.
Louis is the most strikingly unique.
There are % members of this organiza-
ton. Each individual boasts the loss
of one of his neither limbs. A physically
whole man can never hope TO have his
not matter how the members legs We're
lost, whether in battle for their coun-
try or under the wheels of a railroad
train, it is enough that they can show
but a single natural prop upon which to
stand. Curiously enough a man with
no legs at all has as little chance of
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DIR. Kings New Discovery For Con-
sumptiOn.

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Asthma, Hay Fever. Pneumonia, Bron
chitis, La Grippe. Cold in the Head ana
for Consumption. 1t is safe for all ages
pleasant to take. and. above all,
sure cure. II is always well to take
DR.. Kings New Life Pills in connec-
ton with Dr. Kings New Discovery. as
they regulate and tone the stomacn
and bowels We guarantee perfect sat
isfaction or return money. Free trial
bottles at q. c. NJ I. drug dept. Regu-
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Electrical club. where everything that
has TO do with electricity can be seen,
heard and fele
There are other eccentric clubs like
the Gridiron of Washington, the Lam
thorn, Trolley, Summing and Uncut
Leaves clubs of New York and the
Mountebanks' club of Baltimore
America is truly a land of clubs and
the numerous grotesque and exagger-
ated organizations such as have been
here enumerated add not a little TO the
picturesque features of our social struc-
ture. PERRITON MAXWELL.
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LIFTS A HUNDRED TONS.
BIGGEST TRAVELLING CRANE IN
THE WORLD.
Now Building Sea Wall With Fifty
ton Blocks to Protect the Herring
Fisheries at Peterhead-Could
Pick Up Locomotive and Drop
It Into the Ocean.

Absolutely the greatest mechanical
giant in the world is now lifting stone on
a new sea wall on the north coast of
Scotland. Not even the monster cranes
used for lifting the governmental great
guns can compare with this Titan, as it
is called. 1t is capable of lifting 100 TONS
and il could pick up a modern locomotive
and. 50 10 speak. dangle it in midair with
as much ease as the same locomotive
draws train of cars. 1t could lift the
cubic contents of 100 carloads and strew
them over a wide section of the land
scape. Its daily work is the placing in
position Seton blocks of granite. of which
the new sea wall at Peterhead IS being
built.
ENGINEERING ACHIEVEMENT
The sea wall at Peterhead wiH be
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Lagoon-Free Excursion.

The wives and children of the IN
employed are respectfully invited to
spend Monday, Aug. 2, 1897. at Lagoon.
Please call at Salt Lake & Ogden rail-
way depot, corner Brigham and Third
West streets, between the hours of 9
and II a. M, Saturday, July 81. and
Sunday, Aug. l. and receive trans
portation free. S. BAMBERGER.
F. B. SHELLY, Gen. Mgr.
Excursion Agt
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case men of Authority will be the ex-
positors. Indeed, there win be at the
meeting men of universal fame from
all over the world. merely to see and
hear whom, regardless of the topic. will
be worth a long Journey 10 Toronto.
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LAGOON! LAGOON! LAGOON.

Grand Concert, Sunday Afternoon,
Aug l, 1897. Mrs Viola Gillette
Miss Elsie Barrows and Mr.. Frank
Foster viii sing at and D. m.
Trains every hour. starting at lao p.
M. Round trip, including admission.
% cents.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-08-01

Light, lighter, lightest, is the pas
try made from Hewlett's Three
Crown Baking Powder
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Buy the best for they are cheapest.
Use Hewlett Bros. Three Crown Trip
lie fiavoring extracts, made direct
from the fruit.
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w. B. Johnson. Newark. O., says:
Zone Minute Cough Cure saved my only
child from dying by Group" 1t has
saved thousands of others suffering
from Group, pneumonia, bronchitis and
other serious throat and lung troubles.
A. C. Smith & C. D. Swift, 142 Main.
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the degree of D. c. L. dpon four Of the
NEST distinguished members David
Brewster. Robert Brown, John Dalton
snd Michael Faraday. 1t is recorded in
unofficial annals that Dalton. the most
sedate of men, failed TO perceive that
the gown in which he received his de-
gree was scarlet in color. and so wore
it about the streets for a day or two.
When his friends joked him for ap-
bearing ii a garb so little becoming q
Quaker, he removed it IN dismay, say
ing, Why, it looks gray to me, and
thought it most appropriate" Il need
hardly be added that the great chemist
was color blind. he was. in fact. the
first person 10 recognize and study this
condition, which, in consequence, is Of
ten called Dauonism.
A SCIENTIFIC TRIUMPH.
Since that Oxford meeting in 1882. the
record of the British association has
been d record of unbrolsen progress and
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Call for Tulu Lulu, the new Pepsin
Chewing Gum, for sale everywhere.
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SCALED HE MESA.

What Professor Libby Found in the
Rock Of Acoma.
dispatch from Albuquerque, N. NJ,
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every direction. but could find no limit
TO the extent of the water. There has
been at times much travel over that
part of the ranch in which the lake is
located. and it seems strange that it
should not have been discovered before
this time-Los Angeles Times.
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The sea wall at Peterhead win be
The Meeker herald., 1897-05-01
A CIV IsO.OOO year. old.

At Cherokee, in Butte county, CAL,
during the mining operations in deep
canyon there have been found several
mortars, evidently used in pounding
grain One had the pestle actually
standing in it. These were discovered
from 12 to 40 feet below the surface,
in fine quartz gravel mixed with sand.
Eminent geologists have proved this to
be the bed of an old inland sea, which
existed long before the last ice period.
The canyon is 5000 feet deep, and, cal
culating that it has been eaten out by
water at the rate of 2H feet a century,
we have 1900 centuries. Add to this
the time required for the formation OF
strata over the mortars-600 centuries
and we are forced to the conclusion
that man sufficiently civilized to grow
grain and make bread existed on this
earth 10000 years ago.