The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1901-01-19
PRINCE OF LIARS.
s5 English astronomer very sorry that

/ bs I--ii5Llsh astronomer very sorry that
During the summer Of 1883 NIulhattar
YIN l4e AID of a mythical Professor M
/ NJ ~. n blrdWhistle, Of the equally myth
81 l-aWreuCeburg Academy OF Science
discovered an invisible moon. the buIIl Of
nticn was about two and half times
5LSdleI imam that of the visible moon
about 5000 miles 'i9
It's influence on our tides wrote 1ruI-
ndtletl- 'on our atmosphere. our f.r0DS
ana the great storms must be very c-rs.lr
auu VIII IN a measure account for fHs
SSvtpues, IornadOes and hot and cold
waves THAT sweep over the earth m
IItdhes Its orbit in a path diagonaIly he
tween the earth and sun i'm such a Dosi-
tloh- caused by the SUMS powerful at
[ ~ Lctioh' as TO he invisible except the
t-pAsci euge- as IL occasionally skirts our
JtoIl1on during the moElns OF July and
Then the romancer went on to saw thar
PROFESSOR BirdwhisJle had teIegraphed the
-iisCoNerF TO Professor Swift OF the ROCh-
ggster observatory and Professor John NJ
Klein. the noted astronomer of Kentucky
ana mad received reply from the latter
/ stating that he had brought his instru-
mems {" bear upon the western horizon
q tue indicated point, and that he too
Adu edZed upon the invisible moon: TINS
/ cofrooorsting Professor Birdwhistle in
/ every particular. The invisible moon
I cdTeeTed visibly through the newspapers
Tor many days.
Some Of Mulhattan's MisceIlanies.
Mr. Mujbattan now turned his atten-
/ N-1tA az tA.li--E terrestrial and brought
F-..lN At-i'r an accent pyramid near
!t-tWfencehurg, Ky. lie said iJ was found
"a one OF the huge mounds there abound
ing ana was full of golden urus and other
WONDERFUL relics of an extinct race. Later
I on ne goJ up another mound sensation i'm
I winch he told how golden calf had been
/ discovered. and tables of stones with i'm
ssSSl-l'ioLr ON them Il was thought that
these We're copies of the original ten com
Hldlumhni~. He also wrote OF great oil
"eliS ulSrul cred In Out-Uf-Jhe-way places
ana the oil men of PENNSYLVANIA became
halt crazy with excitement. Prosecutors
We're sent out to the new oil fields with
instructions to- lease land and put up der
FGkS without an Instant delay
me Famous story of the monkeys. told
! ON j. t. Ftrkes of Kingston. Ky, was an
1.lit,L 'N tiil-liL on Ile toltOn-teutlUE geese
It was said that Mr.. Parkes had secured
seven immense monkeys from his brother
iL-istW in South Africa. and had trained
them t1 break hemp The MONKEYS re-
l CURED little care in their keeping and re-
CelNed mo- paw and did their work So wen
mat the farmer discharged an his labor
( eTS, naHc arrangements TO import thou
Sstnu more monkeys and looked forward
VIII Joy anu confidence 10 the time when,
o"lh5 To me low cost OF his labor, he
should obtain "a practical monopoly Of the
business uL growing hemp, and become
one of lne richest men In the south. Then
the story went on to say that the knights
or Labor OF kentucky had become greatly
excited over the affair, that they had de
nounCed the Importation of monkey labor
I from Africa. as being infinitely worse
/ tndn the importation of pauper labor from
Europe and that a strike Of all the farm.
handS or kentucky would certainly oC-.
cur ana there might be riots and blood
shed and llCendiariSm, unless she legisla-
ture put stop 10 Mr. Parkes project by
prohibiting monkeys. This story was sent
out BY q press association IL attFsI-ted
the attention OF one Of the Intelligent
leader writer's OF the London Telegraph
VINO wrote an editorial column long
labor problem
Next came the remarkable story OF the
lake or EdlT dive that published
the summer of 1883 in the Virginia City
Enterprise Mulhattau discovered that
Mono Lake contains one of the gFeat TEST
natural deposits of hair dye in the known
world All who battle in the waters Of
that like become blondes, and IF the
D8JnlnS Is persisted IN Tor any length of
time they get red-headed. A man last
spring rented the LeVingiug ranch On the
north side Of the lake. He had three
strapping daughters. As soon as the
water became warm enough the girls daily
went bathing in the lake, taking for their
mermaid gamDols a time when the men
folks were all out on the ranch at work
When they began taking their dips in the
lake the girls were brOWu-haired but they
soon found themselves becoming blondes
Next the hair OF the girls became fiery
red The old man and mis- wife tried the
baths. and now the whole family are
Titan blondes
Arbor Diaboli, the Bird Eating Tree.
Mr.. Nulhattau is credited also with
preparing the dispatch from Chihuahua
Mexico dated April - 1889 that was pub
lIshed in the ST. Louis GlObe-DemOCrat-
This was a story of a tree that de
VOured birds. To begin with there was a.
detailed description of how the narrator
studied botany and used to make long
trips into the mountains, hunting for
specimens. Finally the tree in question
was discovered. II was something like
the weeping willow. but the long, droop-
ing, whip-like limbs are of "a dark and
apparently Shiny appearance. and seem
possessed of horrible life power of
coiling and uucoHng." on, aay the Oh
HEE-a rr| -#.r Efa Cd lee
tree THE branches Immediately began
10 awaken and curl upward They tWlueU
and twisted like snakes about the biTo,
which began to scream and drew it down
I'm their fearful embrace until I lost sight
of it The next day the explorer got
hdlI dozen chickens and threw them
into the tree 'Ihe moment I JSSed ia
the fowls" he saws. ''a violent agitation
shook its branches. which swayed TO and
devOuring the fowls these branches fully
SOrged. cropped to their former position
and the tree. giving no sign OF animation
7 dared approach rt and take the lImDS Ia
nv hand They were covered with suck
ers- resembling the IentaCleS of an qctO-
nus The blood Of the fowls had been
absorbed by the suckers, leaving crimson
stains on the dark surface
The dispatch concluded with an account
Of how the explorer wrote OF the dlScoE-
cry to Professor Wordenhdupi or inc
University of HeldetburE- VINO Tepieu
that the tree was the ArDOr DlabOI- only
two specimens of which had been known
TTfmaIavas and The other on the island of
SUmatra-
MuIhattau always prided himself upon
mis- tall stories and was never so happy
as lust after uprperratiug particularly
atrociouS hoax upon some newspaper As
he was constantly going ABOUT ihe colt-
FRY as a commercial traveller 1t was Diff
cult for the uuWary editors To Keep tFaca
of him. At one time the conlnlettleil
trsz-aIers Of the country talked of nom
mating him for president. This was Just
before his retirement TO the mountains,
and the suppOsitipu IS tnat the uueNpetLtu
honor was TOO much for his modest ma
fTTe-