Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1909-06-19
NOTES

A,r L,ovd Osbourne, Soll-h Sea Is
ssder automobilist, author of 'Infatu-
ssicn ctc, ETC.. calmly confessed that
k3 once killed a man. Be it noted that
M murder was done in this cara"!ty
South SEA Islander ana not in his
sanati,y as automobilist or author.
having lived 10 Years in The
ePacifc he would naturally feel ashamed
mi to have had a. single notch on his
! I'm, Only Mr. Osbourne killed hisman
Fwith soup, and here's the story:
kssi1t was far up in the westward in enc
FIJI the Marshall Islands, and the steam
EsF had gone in at dusk. Mr.. Osbourne
Epas taking u little walk to have aFlcok
mi the island, when he came across
Ean unfortunate white man, lying on a.
Esf,at under a tree, and evidently. in the
,ast stages of tropical anemia. f1e vas
ts8sbcach comber, and told the author,
man thet the natives had been very
Eshd to him, and were doing everything,
%iHey could but that he would give
seterything for q chicken. When the
ssnoko was reported and he knew that
sas steamer was heading in, the first
Ahing he said to himself was: eOh,
sSy God, ! hope they have chickens
sahoard" He must have had some far
gapny remembrance of a sick room at
sh6nle with a neat nurse giving chicken
:bfoth to an invalid. Unfortunately
tier we're 10 chickens on the boat, but
Ml. Osbourne had d dim memory CT Il
sease OF canned chicken soup that was
::9mewherc lost in the hold He went
back like d eager young philanthropist
lh was in those days, and turned the
shin upside down till the case was
Sound. He sent a dozen cans ashore TO
ahe sick man that night, and in the
Morning he went ashore himself, in a
Glow of self approval. to receive the
roor fellows gratitude. But the lover
mat and the natives said he had gorged
ehlcken soup till he died.
sssSir Oliver Lodge in preface to his
pew volume THE Ether of Space, just
Issued by the Harpers, says that invcs-
asation of the nature and properties Of
BE- ether Of space has long been FOR
PIN the most fascinating branch of
physics, The learned scientist is care
n TO make the point in his argument
thst the editor Is not an hypothesis
adopted for the convenience of science,
# the man on the street sometimes
|hnks, but is just as real an entity as
and or water.
among all the great figures of eigh-
fehth century literature there are few
pore Interesting than that of Laurence
s'efle, yet hitherto no adequate life of
He famous hImorist has been availa-
er. This gap in literary biography,
EtotesSor Wilbur l.. Cross has fled
slth THE Life and Times of Laurence
sterpe published by The Macmillan
company this week tMay 19.) Having
w access to many letters and docu-
penis whose existence was unknown to
previous historians, Professor. Cross
9as been able to uncover many al,tobo-
graphical details in Tristan Shany'
aana Sentimental Journey" and the
psnt mat is thus thrown on Sternes
slsai works will be welcomed by all
Interested in eighteenth century litc,a-
4, Il probable however, that 1.-THE Life
~. ~, ZINES of Lawrence Sterne" will be
.s1..ed fully as much for the picture
'ssnrety mat it represents as for its
n.icS literary uses. Up to the very
,s sH' nterhe was n devoted lover OF
n s ana thanks to the revolution IN
Ky, which turned the obscure York
t.Fs parson into a socitI celebrity, as
\ lol'GW Sternc's career through Pro-
, ~ erosss RACES we are able to see
nv, Mnole of eighteenth century Eng
~, ~, unfold before us. The quarelsope
~ ! t5 taiher unpopular parson, tho friend
i /, "a Stevenson and an associate of
, nj aneinonicas. the pet OF the great
gus Oh London and Paris, the hero