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Show THE SALT LAKE TIMES. 'MONDAY. DECEMliKlt 1 , Ib'JO "k T T 1 A W j A Good Invnstmont f C"H c U c I v 9 1 : L--: : : L:-J..- ..- .Uij.jj.l. LJi ' !' ! ' '" To the laborer and the capitalist! I i mJ fl Fj ft p i fl alike this ia the important question: ta A. t M fl j ia 1 S j; II TT "Where can I buy to realize the great- - P J? V i If lJ B " est profit from my investment?" ' " " " --rf L : 5- - f i A Good Invostmont a 11 ,. H j; Li ' . o . i f First Its location, lying along State Street, which nlnF"fP E" HI I 0 A I D A 0 1 IiiTfinPN SecondThe Growth of the City will be necessarily in a short time will be the most thickly populated street in ' f I 4 i j l-- j ' Un South, thus giving it the best prospective value of any Ad- - fl Salt Lake City. vLlii 1111 I 1 1 1 B I dltion to Salt Lake. g S 4r--i- r i. SS-l- i -- Jrrrir" vjectt .smg CENTRAL PARK, situtaed on the corner of Thirteenth South and the State Road, is on the direct line of traTic from the south and southeast. CENTRAL PARK is on the Electric Rapid Transit Road. It has the finest natural location in and, around Salt Lake City. There is a constant flow of the finest artesian water and artisian wells can be obtained by sinking 50 to So feet. And Inst, but not least, lots are sold cheaper in CENTRAL PARK tnaa any property within a radius of three miles of Salt Lake City PostolHce. We could add many other reasons why this addition is destined to become a leading portion of Salt Lake City, and we will be pleased to show lots to visitors and intending purchasers. Prices $225 to $450; $25 Cash; Balance $10 Per Month. G. F. PENHALE, W. H. M'CLURE & CO. 239 South Main Street. General Agents, 23 W. Second South Street. I T (ITS ! IV "- -Z I OTSf' O..T 2"OTT3 O'W-.- T T-E2S-We offer our remaining lots on Sixth and Seventh West, between Fifth and Sixth North, at $200, S2i)0 and $300 each, on the installment plan. THESE LOTS ARE IN THE CITY Surrounded by houses nicely located, and only one block from the Electric Car Line, ; i ALSO 7 LOTS 27 FEET WIDE in center o block, between Main and West Temple, and between Sixth and Seventh South, good right of way, continuation of Lambert Court; $050 each. This is a chance to buy a lot three and a half blocks from Postoflice, and the lowest price offered for tho same distance. ' Six Blocks North op Temple, We have a few lots at a remarkable low rate. Call and see us. We have our own horse and are pleased to show above property. We can give you best prices and terms. "'saltlake"1 LYNCH & GLASSMAN. images curved out of ft bur J, darlf wood, but these images ara hideous and differ altogether from the dignified statues of tho platforms. The present inhabitants are simply tatUoed savages, who are mora than suspected to have a taste for cannibal-ism. They live in long, low houses, in shape like an upturned canoo, with only a single opening about two feet square, H.ESEKVEP IN STO.NE ONE OF THE PROFOUND MYSTERIES OF THE SOUTH SEAS. Recoril), of a rrehlatoric I'eopln Colossal I'lRitrea, Mimsivo Riilna and Palate Tilth IViinffil Walls The AVcmilen, oi Kastr Inland. wholly unlike tho massive stone villages wo have described. There may have boon wood on tho island at one time, for tho natives are well provided with '"bibs and spears, and they also use a double headed paddle which has not been ob-served elsewhere in tho Pacific. But, on the otber hand, they may have brought these implements with them, for they have a tradition that their emigrated from the island of Itapaiti, about 2,000 miles away, and just south of tho Austral group. Bo this as it may, they call their present abode Kapabui, or Great Kapa, to dis-tinguish it from what they call their former home. Cassell's Magazine. Tho Carolino islands, which are now recognized us belonging to Spain, though tho Germans tried to annex them a few years ago, form one of the largest archi-pelagos of tho Pacific, covering a fieaarea of more than 3,0K) miles, and comprising over 500 separate fragments of land. Some of these islets are mero rocks, many are uninhabited and a few nro very populous. Excepting those at tho eastern end of the chain, and the largo island of Yap at tho western end, they have been rarely, some of them never, visited by white men, unless in the dubi-ous form of "beach combers." Knsaio, sometimes called Strong isl-and, is about fifty miles in circumfer-ence, is of basaltic formation, has a large extent of high ground, and boasts of two excellent harbors. Tho people are reputedly industrious and peaceable for South Sea islanders and they havo a king of their own. They belong, to all appearance, to the Polynesian race, but travelers have declared that they Beem capablo of a higher civilization than tho average Polynesian. It is re- -' i 1 ' markablo that the chiefs communicate ' by signs and speech not understood by j the common people. y LITTLE EASTER ISLAND. If wo traverse somo few thousand miles of ocean to tho very eastern out-skirts of Polynesia we shall find tho lit-tle island called Easter island, which is barely ten miles Jong by four miles broad, which has no trees, no running water, and very little about it to attract settlers. It is of volcanic origin,, and one of the extinct craters is over 1,000 feet high. Yet this physically uninteresting isl-and, peopled by Polynesians of the fair type, such as are found in tho Society islands, is the greatest mystery of the Pa-cific. It is covered with remains of somo prehistoric people of whom every record but that preserved in stone seems to have Tanished. '; j At the southwest end of this little isl-and there aro to bo found tho ruins of nearly a hundred stone houses, built in regular lines and facing the sea, The walls of these houses are five feet thick and over five feet high, built of layers of flat stones and lined inside with flat slabs. Internally the houses measure about forty feet long by thirteen feet wide, and they are roofed over with slabs overlapping like tiles. The inside walls are painted in three colors red, black and white with figures of birds and mystic beasts and faces and geometrical figures. In ono of these houses was found a curious stone statuo eight feet high and weighing about four tons, which is now in tho British museum. - .The sea cliffs near tlii ancient settle-ment are carved into grotesque shapes not unlike tho paintings on tho walls, and the coast is marked with hundreds of these strange sculptures. Again, on each headland of tho island there is an enormous stone platform, built of hewn blocks of great size, fitted together without cement. They ara built on sloping ground, presenting on the sea-ward side a wall face twenty or thirty feet high and two or threo hundred feet long, and on tho landward" side a wall of about three feet in height rising from a level terrace. EVIDENCES OF WORSHIP. These platforms havo evidently had to. do with tho religious practices of the early settlers, whoever they wens; for upon all of them are largo stone pedes-tals which havo supported images, and on some of them broken images are still to be seen. On one platform fifteen images were found, in size ranging from three to thirty-iiv- o feet in height. They are of human shape, representing the tipper part of tho body only, with arms and hands close to the sides. The heads are cut flat to allow of crowns being placed on them, which crowns seem to have been made, not of tho same mate- - riid as tho statues, but of red tufa. This ban been traced to an extinct crater within a few miles of the houses, and on tho brink of. this crater a largo number of crowns wero found, finished and ready for removal before soma strange , fa to d.'peopled the island of these an-cient worshipers. Tho images themselves aro made of pray lava, which is only found at quite another crater at tho other end of the island. At this crater, called Otonli, thero aro several finished and partly finished images, just as they wero left by the workmen. It is remarkable that tho nrescnt natives have small wooden NATIONAL DIKECTORY. THE WONDERFUL SCHEME OF A ST. LOUIS INVENTOR. He l'ropose. to Kerp TrarU of Kvery l'cihon in the 1'iiltrd Stutrn lai-fii- l In Hunting: Wrongdoer. A Miirliino for Measuring Ilvttdn. forwards the letler." "Free?" "Oh, no; it will cost about ten cents." "How will tho directory know he's gone to California?" "Why, he'll tell 'em of course. You see itV only honest citizens that will bo oxpeeted to seud in their names, and if any of 'em commit a crime we will havo their record, thus making tho directory a kind of detective butiiness too." "Suppose he don't tell tho directory where lie's Roue?" "Then that's his fault, and be don't get bis letters. Hut we're liablo to find out where he is, just tho same. There's an identification goes along with the di-rectory that practically prevents a man from losiug himself." Here the professor produced a nickel plated instrument of his own invention for taking head measurements. Tho production of this device caused Pro-fessor Bradley to branch off somewhat into phrenology. He explained that the human head was a globe like tho earth, but not so large, of which tho meridian lino ran around tho head through the ears and eyes. While looking for a furnished room in a tenement and oflii'e building near tho comer of Fourth and Market streets last night a reporter from the Globe-Democr- at stumbled upon a genius who was burning the midnight oil in a back dingy room up two flights of stairs. To reach this obsenr retreat the reporter had groped his way through devious halls and passages where darkness was as palpable as the rats which scampered over his feet. Knocking at a door through which .hone a dim gleam of light, the intruder was invited to enter a scantily furnished room, where tho marks of hard times and induftry vainly tried to obliterate each other. The oc- - cupant of tho room was a tall, slim, gcri- - ous man, somewhat in need of a shave, and attired in garments little less rusty than the room itself. There was no carpet on tho floor of this apartment; on the whitewashed walls hung a saw; in one corner stood a table strewn with books and scraps of paper; the bed was covered with a red calico spread, and the appearance here and there of pie. es of crockery among the odds and ends of old clothing gave evidence of the carelessly concealed cu-linary of a bachelor's hall. It matters not how the talk between the reporter and tho serious man drifted into the dis-cussion of the latter's affairs, but so it did, and soon the outline of a gigantic enterprise was being poured into an at-tentive ear. D. B. Bradley is the name of the man who unfolded a scheme for a national directory. t'RlVATE M'MIIKHS. "In addition to tho public number ' above given," continued Professor Brad-ley, "every man will have a private number, which ho can change at will. His public number and name is never changed, except by law. You know uien sometimes have their names changed by statute. The advantage of being able to change the private number is easily shown. Kay Moore's private number is 13, and he gives it away. Some other fellow attempts to personate him by using his name and number from somo other town. As soon as the mat ter passes through the directory office two postal cards are sent one to Moore at his regular address, ami the other to his changed address. If there has been any monkeying it is detected right there, the number is changed and further fraud prevented." "How long have you been working on this scheme'" asked the reporter. "About eighteen years, but I've only been pushing it strong for tho bust four years. I went to Washington in 18S7 and got eight congressmen, four sena-tors and President Cleveland interested in it for a time, but they ain't done notion' to amount to anything. I reckon I'll have to start the thing with private capital. I think I can get some help to start a weekly or monthly paper to ad-vertise it. It won't take much money; the thing will pay its way from the start." Besides the headometer end tho di-rectory Professor Bradley has invented a buggy wheel, an attachment for a piano to play any piece of written mu-sic mechanically; has written a book en-titled "The Science of Mathematics," copyrighted two calendars and written the "Age of Reason" in several thou-sand stanzas of verse. St. Louis Globe-Democra- t. THE SCHEME EXPLAINED. No confidence is violated in publishing tho details of the enterprise, as the plans have been copyrighted, and all that is required to place them in practical operation are tho energy of capital and the establishment of a newspaper to ac-quaint the public with their advantages. "You see," said Mr. Bradley, "it is ' like this: I will have an agent in every town and county of tho United States to get names and furnish them to the cen- - tral office. It will cost them that has their names in the directory fifty cents apiece for enrollment, and a stamp to identify theirselves by. Everyman will j bo registered in this way: say, for in-- I stance, Q. A. Moore, No. 8, book M, vol. 2, Nineteenth century," Now sup- - poso Mooro lives in St. Louis and goes to California. His friends doesn't know where he's gone, and want to write to him; what do they do? Why, they just write to this directory, and the directory by the addition of larger diamonds in tho place of small one.-)- . There are soma fine cmeralda in the family, but no mem-ber seems to care much about disilay, and except on rure occasions, these jew-els are not worn. One of Inspector Cymes' detectives., who stood in full eveuing dress in a brilliant ball room on the of Mur-ray hill one night, where Mrs. Astor and all tho wealth of Now York wero pres-ent, said: "There is nearly live million' dollars' worth of jewelry and precious stones in this room." Valuable gems flit-tered and glistened in the gas light like rain drops in the sun. Foster Coates in Ladies' Home Journal. Jewels of tlio Astorft. Tho Astor family possess some won-derful jewels, particularly diamonds. The lute Mrs. John Jacob Astor used to wear a tiara that few of tho crowned heads of Europe could match. Mrs. William Astor wears a beautiful riviere of diamonds, three rows graduated. She also possesses a famous diamond neck-lac- o of six strings, set in such a manner that no gold is visible, and having the appearance of being strung together. Sir. Astor is constantly having it altered, and increasing its brilliancy and valua onco a long way from home)- .- Ma story runs that the queen possessed a strong desire to own the little volume in which tho names of these two (freat contemporary masters of fiction were thus associated; that an unlimited com-mission was Riven for its purchase, and that it eventually became her majesty's property for tho sum of 25 10s., and was immediately transferred toiler keep iug. Tho original authority for tho state-ment appears to have been tho late Mr. Ilotten, tho publisher; but it is mora important to noto that Dickens' biog- - rapher, Mr. John Forster, has given it additional currency. The Htrange part of tho matter, however, is that tho royal . librarian knows nothing about it, except that no such book is included in the col-- ! leLtion under his care. London Kuwti. - -... AN ARAB IVORY RAID- - A Cruel Attack of Oim Trlbo Tpon An-other In tlio M ild, of Afrli:. Soon after Tippo Tib's occupation of Stanley Falls in 1879 rumors reached Yabuli and tho neighboring1 villages of oppression and persecution by the Many-ema- . Chiefs met together to impure of each other tho reason of this invasion. Lo?s than three years after Stanley's fiht with tho Basoko at the mouth of tho Aruwimi, the Manyema mercenaries of tl Arabj attached and destroyed sev-eral villaj,'eB hiRher up the same river, having traveled overland from the Congo through the dense forests below Stanley Fa-I-s; and descending tle Aruwimi river in canoes they laid waste all the villages by tho way, capturing men and women, ' and imposing fines of ivory for their ro-- : demption upon those of the natives who were fortunuto enough to escape to the woods. Although every precaution was taken by tho peot loof Yabuli to guard against mrprise, they instinctively felt impend-ing evil and a gloom settled over tho village affecting young and old alike. They all appeared to realize their iso-lated position, escape being impossible as their neighbors were at enmity with j them and with each other, and the poor wretches lived in a condition of fear i bordering upon panic, j At last the evil day arrived. Early one morning, just before daybreak, they were suddenly startled by the loud re-ports of the Manyema guns. The forest around thevillngo appeared alive with armed men, who rushed among their dwellings from all sides, firing reckless-ly, sometimes in tho air, into the doors of tho hut;!, and at tho panic stricken savages, who rushed toward tho woods for shelter. A few of the braver natives stood their ground and hurled spears and knives at their assailants, but one by one they dropped, shot by their bru-tal enemy. Alter bring their muzzle loading mus- - kefs many of the Manyema rushed upon the natives and clubbed thorn with the butt end of their guns. Tho women en-cumbered with their children, whom they were bravely trying to carry off to the shelter of the woods, were soon over-taken by tho Manyema, who roughly threw them to tho ground and bound their arms and legs. Nearly two-third- s of the women anil children were capt-ured, including tho favorite wife of Ioko; but many of tho men and a few women managed to escape to the woods. Herbert Ward in Scribner's. A New Vte for Coal Go. A leading English technicul journal points out that now that the electrio light is so rapidly supplanting gas in-- i ventors are eagerly searching for new fields of usefulness for the older illumi-nating medium. As a heating agent it is almost perfect, and the have been utilized to an astonishing ex-tent. It is strango that inventors have overlooked tho utility of the asphyxiat-ing properties of the monoxide of carbon contained in coal gas. Workmen in gas works cro frequently poisoned by fumes which render them insensible, and have to be brought to by the liberal exhibition of alcohol. It is suggested that this treatment omitting the alco-- hoi might lead to a solution of th problem of the humane execution of criminals. The Tar!. Hull King. , Tho arena of tho Ruo Pergoleso, Paris, whore bull fights take place every Sun-day and Wednesday, was several days ago the scene of nn accident which will probably prove fatal. It was recently thought that greater interest would be i given to tho spectacle by the addition of negroes stimulating the bull with point j ed cudgels during the fight. One of these men was so seriously gored by an infuriated bull that ho was carried out of tho arena and conveyed to his lodg-ings. Pall Mall Gazette. I Jumbo's stomach contained many En-glish cuius, gold as well as silver and bronze. Hie elephant's skin was one and a half inches thick, Tho tkeleton weighs 2,40) poundfl, and the total weight A the body was over six tons. Mine, Artoud, of Paris, died recently, and as not a Rtiver of her money could be found in the hands of her agents her heirs began a search for it in the furni-ture of her home. After ripping up everything they examined a plaster bust of the Venus of Milo, and there was the treasure, amounting to a considerable fortune. The base of the statue was covered over underneath with oilcloth, and when the covering was removed out tumbled a choice collection of bank notes, bonds, securities and obligations. Going to Ja.ll In Ireland. s She is an Irish woman, bright, witty, entertaining, as an educated Irish wom-an cannot help being. She was telling me of a gathering in a certain hotel par-lor in tho Green Islo soon after one of tho periodical uprisings among tho Irish people against landlordism. In men-tioning certain facts regarding the per-sons present at this meeting she spoke of the imprisonment of this one or that one as a matter of course. 1 remarked that it was a strange condition of affairs that in which the prison had lost its taint. "Taint!" she cried. "Not to have been in jail was a disgrace!" Twenti-ftt- h Century. A Solnuin Fraternity. The gentlemen who provido humanity with its last lodging require no cards to designate their calling, or to indicate what they uro ready to undertake for their defunct follow beings. It is ten on their faces, in their deportment, on their habiliments all over them. They are their own cards. If one were to meet an undertaker under the shadow of the pyramids or at Spitsbergen there could bo no difficulty in recognizing him as a member of the funereal profession. Undertakers as a rule are moral, estima-ble men, but they certainly do differ in aspect and manners from tha mass of :.iaukind. Tsere w ;n indescribable air UDOiii them, which for lack of a better word we must cull posthumous. Constant intercourse with the bereaved makes their voices mournful; for your undertaker ever assimilates his tones to those of his afflicted customers, and ho thereby acquires a habit of talking a. if ho had lost all his friends. In like man-ner the '"havior of his visage" becomes woe begone past all remedy. His very smiles are only deadly-livel- Then . there is a severe plainness about the cut of his black suit which, to ay nothing of its melancholy hue, is a rebuke to worldly vanity and a solemn hint that fashion and frivolity aro of small ac-count when his duties are to be per-formed. Nevertheless, the craft is a highly respectable craft, and we have not a word to say against it. Now York Ledger. Emperor Napoleon during the three years before Waterloo offered large re-wards for the recovery of a pocketbook he had lost at the crossing of Beresina. After the lapse of more than three-quarte-of a century it has been discovered in tho possession of a Russian lady, who received it as a souvenir from Count Fe-lix Ledochovsky. i Early Anierlcnn Mirrors. Strange to say, the ' ancient Mexicans or Aztecs had mirrors of utztli, the ob-sidian of tho Romans, a mineral abun-dant in their hills, ami term ! by the Spaniards gallinazo. Other mirrors of America in the days gone by were of the so called Inc. is' stie, a compact pyrites or marcasite, brittle, opaque and rather bluish, and susceptible of a fine polish; and if we are to believe Do la Vega the Indians had mirrors of silver, copper and brass. Woman's Journal. Veteran seamen agree that the iceberg crop of tho pant summer exceeded thai of any previous year during the lattei half of tho Nineteenth century. Their theory is that the whole mountain chains of Arctic ice must have been sett adrifli by tho unprecedented mildness of tba last winter. Wan Once the Queen- -. Missing a literary treasure supposed to have been once in tb3 possession of her majesty the queen! Tho precious relic referred to is a copy of tho original edi-tion of "A Christmas Carol." presented by Dickens to tho author of "Vanity Fair," with tho interesting nrrtograph inscrip-tion, "W. M. TliKckorr.y, from Charles Dickens (whom he made very happv A cap with a telephone attachmend has been supplied to the Italian garrison, artillery in order to enable the com-manders of gun detachments to com-municate with the officers commanding1 the battery or fort. ' A Corner In fuinpklns. "Just look at that, will you?" said the keeper of ono of tho largo produeo sta-nd-in Center market to a reporter as a party of a dozen boys trooped off each with a big pumpkin under his arm. "That is the way it has been for ten days past. Bet I have sold a carload to boys. They want big ones, too. The common, ordi-nary size doesn't seem to meet their no-tion." "What do they do with them?" "Count the seeds. There is a porfect craze over it. Nearly every lady who cornea along hero doing her day's mar-keting says, 'Send me up a pumpkin, a largo one; my littlo boy wants to count the seeds.' "I thought at first it was they wanted them for, such as we used to make when I was a boy, but it seems that there is a guessing contest for a pony going on. The child guess-ing the nearest to the correct number of seeds in a giant pumpkin exhibited ia one of their windows gets the pony, and these boys are hunting a few facts on the seed question. 'Tisn't a bad idea, but it keeps us produce men hustling for big pumpkins." Washington Post, j Musical Gamins. The musical taste of tho New York street boy is omnivorous. It furnishes also a quite substantial prop to a favor-ite theory of mino that it is not so much tho masses as tho classes that need to be educated np to a decent standard of esthetic appreciation. The average gamin in his whistling moments by no means confines himself to airs of tho Mc-Gin- ty variety. His repertoire has a much wider scope, j and includes scraps from tho sympho-nies and even Wagnerian leitmotivs. Tho model newsboy drifts quite grace- - fully and naturally from "Littlo Annie Rooney" to tho G unt her theme, and from the "Anvil Chorus" to "Shall WeGath- - i or at the River?" Several times I have been startled at tho sound of a Nibelung motive quiver-ing on the night air in the neighborhood of Park Row, to find upon investigation that it emanated from the puckered lips of a dirty faced street Arab, It is not probable that these whistlers bavo ever absorbed tho music of the Trilogy from a box at tho Metropoli-tan opera Louse, or even from a remote quarter of the topmost gallery, but in some mysterious manner they have "caught fn" to the music, and with a ready tact sifted out from the agglomera-tion of involved harmonies the tuneful-ness that many of tho aristocratic occu-pants of tho seats have been quite powerless to detect. New York Herald. X'liMUfonf,. The chrysanthemum is in the ascend-ant, and very soon every house, flat or room will bo illumined by its splendid bloom. This is one of the effects of tak-ing Japanese art into our bosom. We havo learned tho decorative lesson and profited, for it would seem a flowerless autumn wero we to be deprived now of this perfect bit of natural decoration. And another floral idea has also arrived from Japan, one which bids fair to rival tho more fragile creations of the green-house. Dwarfed trees, strange, Etunted, gnomo like plants, set in tho artistic porcelain pots of that land of art and invention, will be used for dinner table and house decoration. Already they aro employing them in London houses, and no doubt in time they will appear here, superseding the familiar rubber plants and palm, and giving that one note of vernal oddity so prized by tho tasteful owner of a well coiCEOstd room. |