The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1903-02-08
THE PRESS GANG
GAVE A DINNER
One of the Events of Winter in
Washington.
PATRIOTS GRAVE NEGLECTED
YOUNG INDIAN WHO IS A
CLEVER ARTIST.
Especial to The HeraId.)


Washington, Feb. THE Gridiron
club gave the second and last of its
dinners for the season last week. Dur
ing the long. sessions of congress the
club gives four dinners. but only two
during the short session. The brillian-
ey of the event quite contradicted the
statement that has recently been made
to the effect that the wit of the clubs
I manage meRt is becoming stale and
moth eaten 1t has been bruited about
/ that the younger members would be
( glad to see a few of the inner ten who
arrange the programmes and the
menus retired The young ones want
chance themselves. 1t is said too.
that half the men in the club are not
bona fide telegraphic correspondents.
that some are not even correspondents
at all. While this may be true to a GER
tain extent. inasmuch as many of the
members who came in as correspond
ents have since been chosen for govern
nent offices. still each holds his mem
bership by right of his previous service
on the press
The most interesting feature of the
evening was the initiation of two new
members to the club. These were
/ Drought in by a party masquerading as
cowboys and rough riders who led in
2 u.
This feature was gotten up for the edi-
hcation of President Roosevelt who
( however, failed to come because of a
previous engagement TO dine with the
secretary of the navy. The dinner Civ
en- by Mr.. Moody to the president and
cabinet was made strlkingly brilliant
by the long lines of marines in and
about the New Willard. where the sec
rotary has his menage this season.
A Neglected Grave.
The grave of John Paul Jones, the
founder of the American navy. lies in
weed-grown and neglected graveyard
IN the midst of one of the poorest and
most wretehed tenement quarters Of
Paris. Yet we do not consider ourselves
an ungrateful nation. Jones died in
1892 and was buried in a little Protest
ant cemetery near the Rue de la
Grange. then in the suburbs of Paris.
The cemetery was closed the following
year and the exact location of the grave
was lost Several years ago, however.
It's identity was positively esta b1ished.
but the government has done nothing
toward having the body brought to this
country
With his thirst for the latest in sci
ence, art or letters, Uncle Sam has dis
covered physician by whose aid he
intends TO clean out the prisons of the
country. Special Director Arthur Mac
Donald of the board Of education is ex-
perimenting with various delicate in
struments which measure all sorts Oh
Intangible. ungraspabIe things about
minds and morals that no one really
cares TO have discovered in connection
with himself. but which we are all very
glad to have exposed in our neighbor
Criminal Contagion.
Six hundred million dollars is the
approximate sum annually expended by
the government in detecting, capturing,
diagnosing and attempting to cure the
SOC, OG0 moral invalids in the various
prison hospitals supported by the
United States. BY means of the new
inventions for the study of the condi-
tons which foster crime. it is believed
that criminal contagious viii soon be
a thing of the past.
One of the most interesting of Direc-
tor MacDonaId's recent experiments
has been made 10 determine the speed
and duration of thought The subject
sits with his hand on an electric switch
connected with an electric clock which
measures the smallest fraction of a sec
ond. Opposite the subject is an up
right tube, inside of which runs a slen-
der rod of steel Opposite the eyes Of
the subject is the opening in the tube.
AS the rod slides down the interior of
the tube. a white disc appears at the
orifice. The exact second this appears,
the rod touches a spring at the bottom
of the tube, and the clock is set in
motion. The subject is instructed to
stop the clock as soon as the white disc
appears This he does for thirty times.
The length of time required for him to
do this is noted, and an average struck.
This average is called his physiological
time. By means of another dainty in
strument, the erograph, mental fatigue
is measured. Yet another apparatus de-
termines the activity of the sense of
touch. A new form of Planchette is
used for reading the Involuntary move
sufferers. and any druggist will tell you
that Stuart's Catarrh Tablets is a rem
edy that has come TO stay.
ments of the hand. A person places his
hand on this instrument and some
mental task is given. ass~for instance,
multiplying ass by 8. The average per-
son makes a variety of involuntary
movements in this process, while the
practiced hand of the mathematician
moves almost imperceptibly-
Mechanical Hypnotism.
The most interesting of the various
devices is what is called the fascinator
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