Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1900-11-02
GREAT SALT LAKE.
No Living Thing io It and No Danger
 or Belngs Drowned.
No Livlni

The water of the Great Sait lake. Utah, is clear and transparent, with bottom of fine white sand and q mar gin of incrqste1 salt. It is one of the purest and most concentrated primes ln the whole world. It's waters give sus. tenanee to no living thing: there i5 not the smallest insect or worm ts ffighten the most timid Bathef5 and tae bathing is the most perfect sea sathfng in the whole of North Ameri. e or in Europe. No human body car siak in it. One may actually walk the water. nc matter how deep it is. Your body ain persisitently rise ID, tha shoulders above the surface, ee yoa may even sit down in it. It's wonder fal baoYaney must be experienced to ha realized. Fo knowledge of swim mi&g is necessary one may enter the lake without the slightest fear, all you have to do is to lie down and float. But 10 swim in it, that is an Other .thingt When your hands are put under the water to take stroke, your feet, like Banquos ghost, will not go down. It is impossible to keep more than one end of your body under water at time You cannot swim, but if you are a man you can float on your back, with your arms crossed under yo1r head, and smoke your pipa or cigar with as much ease as if in Your own room. The water is so salt lat it cannot be swallowed without great danger of strangulation; a small drop in the eye, too, gives much pain But, in spite of all the dangers, bath ing in the Great Salt lake is refreshing 9nd invigorating, notwithstanding that the body must be rebathed in fresh water afterward to remove the inn mense quantity of salt which adheres to the skin. 1t is hard work to make any headway, even against the smallest waves. Nearly half million people bathe in the Great Salt lake every year; they come from all over the world, and tourists are beginning to realize that Salt Lake City and the magnificent surroundings present the greatest scope of novelty, and is des. tined to be a leading watering p.ase.
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 oA' " AIlS " dSuDFuS0, WHO was recent conner, had been finding fault with the rainy weather we have had of late, when he was upbraidad by MT. Shine M. Upp in this fashion; Tilt doant beeoms you, MT. Wash brush. who had so recently ado, ted this as you futuh abidin place, to be maxim slightin' marks bout de ever welcome rain we have been habiu' You see, de faek is. we who has been residin long in de natcn'ral gas re- zion knows how fully to 'preciate de blessed influences ob all dis beautiful rain; for if hit want foh de rain we would hab no natch'ral gas to bun as you see we now hab. Hits dis way. de rain falls in flowin' quantities, an soaks down fru de groun', an fru de limestone an de birthstone an ona thing anuder; whereumby' comin' in contact wid de Aforementioned ingree, jients, dereby generatin' de gas, which Is afterward lodged in de large natch'- ral resumyor underlyin' all dis kentry round about. An nen all we has to do is to insert our hollow gas pipes ar. de preshus stuff comes ffoatin to us in de ready-made condishan in which we now find it. Yes. sah, de rain acts on de natch'ral earthly ingredients de same as de watah does on de car bide in yo' bicycle lamp. p."-Indianap aiis News