The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1904-03-31
A+tA Observation-Disclosures
BREAKFAST FOOD
The Man About CrazY.

CT KOOsharem. is in the city and has
recently undertaken some Interesting
experiments with the water of Great
Salt lake In a talk with me the other
day. or perhaps. it was The day before
that, the distinguished Utah saVant
shook loose some important informa-
ton, the result Of his exhaustive re-
searches amid the waters of the lake.
=
That free milling radium IN quantl-
ties so stupendous as TO stagger belief
I exists in the waters Of the Great salt
{ lake, I have abundantly demonstrat-
I ed said the doctor to me. 4 have
/ long suspected there was something
/ besides hydrogen and oxygen in that
water. Lately 1 applied the radium
| test and was rewarded by discovering
that the wonderful substance is there,
and there strong. Many people have
been puzzled 20 account for the wild
which follow bath In the lake, but
my latest discovery makes IL all plain.
i II is radium that imDarts the exhtla-
/ ration. It is the radiUm that imparts
the thirst. a few drops Of liquidized
radium viii produce more thirst IN ten
minutes than would thirty-day trip
| across the desert
But, 20 resume. SO strong is the
| radio-activity of the water that the
/ translucent shrimp OF the lake, when
/ taken into dark room. emits rays not
/ unlike the sparks Of electricity. That
/ this popularity Of the salt lake shrimp
was not discovered before is due mere
| " 20 the fact that nobody ever took
one into a dark room until 1 performed
that feat.
'These rays set me to thinking, and
called in my assistant 10 ask IL he
could see the rays He could. Then l
knew they were really there. What
} produces these rays was the question.
1t is not fire. for the shrimp was quite
cold. Tt was not electricity. because
we could see the light. II was not coal
, oil nor gas, or we would have smelled
it. Having established that it was no
form of light Of which we knew any
thing It naturally followed that il WAC
radium, and the greatest discovery Of
recent times was an actually.
The best way to extract the radium
from the water is by means of the
, shrimp. We have proved that by ac-
tual tests We now get all the radium
we need for laboratory purposes out
of one shrimp each day. We place the
shrimp in a cupel and squeeze the ra-
dunn cut of him with an ordinary pes
tie. The same shrimp can be used seT-
eral times 1t Only takes hiTa couple
of hours to ill his radium magazine
from the lake water. We always Keep
an extra shrimp on hand in case the
regular shrimp should meet with some
mishap.'
I do not see how the Importance Of
this discovery by DR.. kedalf can De
overestirnated. The doctor tells me the
commercial possibilities of 1t are great,
and I readily agree with him. Already
the doctor is experimenting with
shrimps for table use. He hopes oy
means of radium. TO cause frogs legs
TO grow on the shrimp, thus combining
two table delicacies in one. This one
application alone. the doctor Is con-
WINGED. will make him so rich that ne
can continue his studies of radiUm mere
in town without returning TO the farm
for supplies each week.
7 have received from a man signing
himself Critic" the following note; i
noticed in your story about the old pl-
oneer the other morning that you say
Utah wds admitted to statehood IN
1895. This is the only error IN your
whole story. / admit that the OLD PFC
neer. might have told you that put ne
was wrong. Otherwise you correctly
quoted him. Utah was admitted to
statehood in 1896.
Not that it is worthy of much no
tice. but merely to expose the desplc-
able. underhand methods of the craWl 4
ing liar and sneaking hypoerite VINO
wrote this note l will state that
have received many unsolicited testi-
! monials from people who were pres
ent at the time of the admission, and
they an agree in fixing the date as
lime %. 1895. 1 merely repeat this
date for the purpose OF showing tc
what depths creatures Of the stamp
of this anonymous writer viii descend
in an effort 10 impeach my dates.
1t is not difficult to understand thai
the author of the sporting news in the
, Atlantic Monthly has cinders on his
platform. He needs feather buster
Increased taxation for city improve
: ments is generally favored by all VINO
, own improperly.
Many who were unable 10 secure
church influence for themselves viii
it is believed. not try to evade service
Of a subpoena.
Gentle Spring.
Z The bloomin' earth upon the roads
) Has just got dried mp when
/, The blOomin' rain comes down once mo
And makes il mud again.
The intimation that Marshal Hey
wood viii be around with bunch 81
subpoenas about conference time is eX-
pected TO have an effect on the attend
ance.
That Chicago lawyer who seeks e
enjoin the canal has succeeded in get
ting his name in the papers, and tina
will be about all for him.
, Having permitted Jai Alai TO exist in
Cuba. there appears 10 be no reas0T
why President Palma should turr
down the Northern Securities CON
Dany.
n Young Corbett can now see where N
made a mistake by not being born il
California.
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