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Such was the simple [|tah (racker Factory, northern ocean. ‘This story at once and strikingly recalls the use made of birds by the first sea captain of whom we read—Noah; but such expedients evidently could not be supposed to have inspired the old northern navigators with the courage and confidence that enabled He ; uh NINE Flok, the east mode of steering their course, practiced by those bold navigators of the stormy an ZamSSN OS SZ, {UMTS guide, fell in with WESTERN = F i them, as thereis reason to believe, to discover America before Columbus. eee em re INSTRUCTION AND AMUSEMENT FOR OUR ee hee Manufacturers of the Celebrated™ pie". iver Brand of Fine <- BOYS AND GIRLS. | SF AN ARISTOC'A"TC DOG. But these envious dogs do not stop to consider that their four footed friends who wear plush coats and silk bows cannot roll in the show orswimin the pond. ‘My little curly dog Wigwag,” writes a small boy in Babyland, ‘‘is happier than is P. P. P.” ——_——— Come, let us make a swinging chair— _ And this is how it is: Ihold myself my own left wrist And brother he holds his: ; We grasp each other's right wrists now And make an even square— And here we have the rockaway, The little swinging chair. THE TOAD'S MONOPOLY. ——— The air was heavy with clover, And filled with the song of the birds; The robin, the linnet and plover, The caroling echo disturbs. e no - oe nd November and December. November, you’re aimost too dull, And cold, and damp and drear; The turkeys say Thanksgiving day They dread through all the year o Oh! Submarine Had told him, “Beware of the gout.” Not heeding the choristers sweet, For hoptoads are sadly like mortals, ~~ ae ee looking for something to eat. “Here now, you bonny Baby. Bell, Come here and take a seat; We'll carry you across the stones That hurt your little feet. Just put one arm around my neck And one around our brother— Oh, don’t we have such jolly times A-playing with each other!” The crickets and fleas and mosquitoes, Whenever this way he would come, Would catch up their babies and breakfasts, And to the tall grass quickly run. Their mother said, when they came up— Their three heads in a row— “Why, that’s a play I used to play Some twenty years ago!” “Some twenty years azo!"* they cried, “Oan you remember plays That happened twenty years ago— That many thousand days?” ee But before the gold sun in the heaven Had sunk ’mid the tree-tops to rest, This lively and greedy old hoptoad Had folded his arms o’er his breast. ture, the pas- % He had ventured too near to a cow, him, Saying, “Tyrants I cannot allow.” The fleas and the beetles and crickets, When they saw that the monster was dead, Gave the cow a big clover pension, And peacefully trundled to bed. WAVERLY. NAVIGATION BEFORE THE COMPASS. Before the invention of the mariner’s compass, the Phcenician, the Greek, and the early Italian navigators were compelled to creep from headland to headland, without venturing to quit the shore—except when an island,so near as to be distinctly seen from the continent, offered them an equally secure re- They also compete --Wide Awake. . Who prompt put her big foot upcn 168 Four ‘Hundred Years Divers. Ago. In one of the ancient libraries of Paris, tells Youth’s Companion, there is a copy of a child’s reader printed at Dijon, in Burgundy, 388 yearsago. It shows that the notion of making the acquisition of knowledge agreeable to children is not of recent origin. The book bears on the title page the name of the book, which is simply Roast Pig, and contains also a picture of a pretty little pig on a spit roasting before'a fire. At the top of every page in this reader isa picture of something good to eat, such as an apple, a pear, a tart, a leg of mutton, a sausage, and under the picture the name of the object is printed in large and in small type. Then follows a few lines of reading about it, sometimes in rhyme, sometimés in plain prose. Thus, under a pleasing picture, which would be very interesting to a boy before dinner, we read in French: Good venison pie Is not for boys that lie. The picture of a hare suggests the remark: ‘*Hare pie is nice; ask any one who has tried government for different feats of diving, the contests taking place each year. * In the Italian, German and Chilian service regular divers are employed on all the vessels, those engaged by the first two powers being instructed in diving schools established at various ports within their domains. No organized body of divers is connected with the naval service of the United States, dependence being placed entirely upon outside parties who make a specialty of such werk. The Duke Store the ocean. It may be supposed that a patient observation of natural phenom‘ena, attention to the flight of migratory birds and to the direction of currents, and some few simple devices which being no longer necessary, are now for- gotten,served as substitutes for the more valuable guides of modern navigation. Of one of the devices here enumerated, itis related tha when from Shetland for Iceland, then called Gardarsholm, he took on board some crows, “because the mariner’s com- pass was not yet in use.” When he thought he had made a considerable part of his way, he threw up one of his crows, which, seeing land astern, flew to it; for whence Flok, concluding that he was nearer to Shetland (or perhaps Faroe) than any other land, kept on his: course for some time, and then sent out another crow, which, seeing no land ‘at all, returned to the vessel. At last, having run the greater part of his way, another crow was sent out by him, which, seeing miles, to Old the Sayings Utah. Field Ice Skates, Glasses, Tents, Fire Arms, Fishing Tackle, Cutlery, Bicycles, Playing Cards, Steel Traps and everything else in the Shooting, Camping, Fishing or Sporting Goods Line. The Largest Stock in the West at the Lowest Prices. First Class Gun and Pistol Repairing in all its branches. SPLENDID. SUCCESS! LPI DDI II NL SALLI NI NI DLAI NI VLDL IVLVLOVLVLOL ———eSerS of Wellington’s Parrot. An old lady, soon after the battleof Waterloo, determined to show her grateful admiration of the Duke of Wellington by the gift of a parrot, which she took with her into the duke’s presence. His grace declined the gift with polite thanks, The old lady begged him to hear the bird speak once. She took the baize off the cage and said, ‘‘Polly, this is the Duke of Wellington.” ‘‘See the conquering hero comes!” cried the parrot, flapping his wings. This was too much for the duke, who heard the pet sing the national. anthem and accepted the gift. Ue afterwards kept the bird in his own room, and it won quite a reputation among its new friends. WEEKLY is the only THE WESTERN Fireside It has months only the public before been and in Utah. ever published Organ its one paper circulation is only four second to in the Territory. THE WESTERN WEEKLY is Contributed to by Some of the Best Writers in the Territory. Houses. steep dry sides of in Our LITERARY, | a mountain which in winter is covered with the hollow stalks of the last year’s azave flowers. Beginning at the bottom, they bore, with their skillful beaks, little holes in these dead stalks. The holes are then filled with acorns, and by and by, when food grows scarce, our .birds come back to their mountain side store houses, take out an acorn ata time and fly with it toa neighboring yucca tree, in the bark of which they bore an opening large enough to hold the acorn firmly; then tiey can insert the nut, break it open and eat it in comfort. Flok, a famous Norwegian navigator, was about to set out times St., Ogden, Send for Illustrated Catalogue. it. ” Birds’ Main for prizes offered by tke treat from the violence of accidental Some of my bird friends who spend their winters in ‘Mexico, says a writer in St. tempests. Yet, the bolder Norwegians, though exposed to far greater perils, _Nicholas, have told me how the birds there “manage to store and eat the acorns, of which from the habitual inclemency of high they are as fond asrobins are of strawberries. northern latitudes,and from the frequent In order to save the desired morsel, the cloudiness of their atmosphere, were in birds carry the acorns in their bills, somethe habit of attempting, and often with success, a voyage of some length upon ea hurry on, Submarine divers, explains Golden Days, command high wages for their services, and are considered most valuable adjuncts toa nation’s regular navy and its mercantile marine. In the Engiish navy divers are trained on board ships designated for the purpose, and when qualified receive extra pay for the time they are under water, in addition to that received for the ship’s rating they hold. These are known as seamen divers, and another class called mechanical divers, selected from the carpenter’s and engineer’s crews, are paid at a higher rate than the former when working under water. In France divers are instructed on the receiving ships at each of the naval ports, and are compelled to keep themselves in constant. practice, and be examined as to their efficiency at stated intervals. So he ambled about for a long time, a fly through eee aa DN LIN Gr. ee dee Moire appears in curious waterings, as stripes andl portions of patterns, but as a leading feature ithas disappeared. Japanese designs have their share in the season’s show. Although the cricket physician. in chasing 27 H. Third South St., Salt Lake City Oh, please—oh, please, come quick; But in spite of all the dampness, An ugly old toad ventured out, For {18 Main Street, Ogden, Utah, | CRACKERS. Bring snow so white, Bring fires so bright, And bring us good St. Nick! 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