Show ANOTHER WORTHY PIONEER OF COUNTY PASSES PASS ES AWAY jodeh joseph Jo ieh griffith passed away at his home at lake point tooele thoele county last monday february 15 at 4 p m he was one of the early day settlers ot of utah having crossed the plains in 1859 1850 and has always been an energetic church worker he was born in liverpool england aug 19 1830 he is survived by the following children mrs B davis and form folin griffith of lake point jand and nellie and margaret griffith of salt lake city he also leaves 34 grandchildren and 15 great grand children funeral services were held wednesday at the lake point meetinghouse nineveh was fourteen miles long eight miles wide and forty six miles round with a wall one hundred feet high and thick enough for three chariots abreast the least learned are aware that there are many languages in in the world but the actual number is is probably beyond the dreams of ordinary people the geographer balbi enumerated eight hundred and sixty which tire are entitled to be considered as distinct languages and five thousand which my may be regarded as dialects Adul guns another modem writer oa 01 this subject reckons up three thousand and sixty lour four languages and dialects existing and which have existed even after we have allowed either ol of these as the number of 0 languages we must acknowledge the e existence xi I 1 stence of almost infinite minor diversities versi ties for almost every province has a tongue more or less peculiar and this we may well believe to be the e c the world at large it is said there are little islands lying close together in the south sea the inhabitants of which do not understand each other of the eight hundred and sixty distinct languages enumerated by B balbi albi fifty three belong to europe one hundred and fourteen to africa one hundred and twenty three to asia four hundred and seventeen to Ameri america cao one hundred and seventeen to Oc eanica by which term he distinguishes the vast number of islands stretching between hindostan hindustan Hind and south america the copper mines mines of fahlan in in Dale caria sweden are of picturesque a appearance ppe arance and remarkable in many respects the following is told about the preserving qualities of the vitti vitriolic olic water which trickles through the walls ln in 1719 the body of a young man was found bound in an abandoned part of one of these mines the corpse was in a a perfect state of preservation is as if the death was of recent occurrence the people from far and near flocked to see the body but none recognized it until at lengst an old woman mole than eighty years of age tottered on her cane to the place and casting one glance at the body fainted away she recognized in the corp ie her affianced lover who sixty years before had disappeared in a mysterious manner he probably had fallen through a crevice crevice in the mine thus the old woman wo nan was permitted to look upon the face of her youthful lover and to attend his funeral A story similar to this is told about a young mau man who lost his life by bj I 1 jailing f ailing through a crevice in an alpine glacier the ice preserved the body and the lady to whom he was engaged was was present at his funeral she being very old and infirm in order to avoid a wheat shortage in in the united states and at the same time to develop an increased market for american corn in europe i the cou council acil of grain exchanges in a meeting at chicago has suggested that kmer american ican cools cooks be sent lent to europe to introduce to the peasantry peasant rv corn bread corn cakes mush and other foods made from corn if your roof leaks ask parker warner lumber co about crescent roof cement |