Show what is there to hinder the people of bountiful from having c a series of lectures on different subjects prepared and delivered on suitable nights A series of lectures of this kind is being n given riven in the salt lake theatre sunday evenings and in dieber city the same thing 0 is being done we could surely find efficient alent in our town to under take such a thing sunday bunday evenings I 1 could coul be well spent by COD coming together to 0 olether in the tabernacle or some other public building and listening to a carefully pr prepared pared lecture historical geographical scientific a and D d other subjects could be talked upon as well as person personal al experience related all of which would be intensely interesting interesting and instructive the following letter came to hand band nay wilian we can only y parti partially all y an anscer syer it reads as fol lows editor CLIPPER I 1 would like to know for my personal benefit how it is that other people get their paper on thursday and we ne can not get ours lin until til friday noon all papers going north do not leave here until saturday morning hoping to get a reply by mail I 1 remain yours respectfully E DUERDEN assist jw M 1 in reply to your we will say sa y that th at the last lait were mailed thursday evening and the week previous they were mailed be t cn 5 anda and 6 thursday morning but before that for a few numbers they were not dot mailed till early saturday morning As to how long it takes uncle sam to cary the mail from one Post postoffice office tice to another when they are arc situated a mile apart we will not attempt to say uncle alex crockett a composite r ot of this thia city has recently passed the sixtieth milepost mile ml to post of his life as a printer says the nevada democrat mr corckett has spent the greater art of hia it ta at the case and this Is what he has accomplished at an average of three columns per day ho he has set up 66 56 1 GO CO columns this type put la III a newspaper of eight columns to the page would fill ill pages at five minutes per column it would take one year three months and thir thirteen teea days to read this amount ef at matter if measured by the 11 em it would aggregate at thirty five cents per 1000 ems this amount of labor would be worth 10 this much type would weigh pounds it would contain letters it if these letters were laid end to end they would cover a distance ot of miles i r ft vill ai ati I 1 i it II 2 COO lines tie ne could have set the unabridged edition ot of websters dictionary thirteen times or the bible orty forty flye times it if p d in one long column it 11 would reach twenty two milos it tile the metal were molded inta anto ballets it would furnish ammunition to fight the war of 1812 and then have enough left to set bet five copies of 0 poor RIc richards bardS almanac three of 0 balmages Tal mages sermons and patent medicine testimonials to uncle alex aiex la Is at As we go press his hl case whistling comrades and pulling out for a phat take bodkin had started at the elge ega of 0 16 averaged 1000 per year from the start and saved eared ono one half bait and put it at 10 he be would now be b per percent cent in Int tenet erst worth or it if he had kept ono loll 1011 of his earnings during the first brat halt of 0 hla his working period and put it at interest he would now have more than ihan he has earned altogether the congregational church prof had cliffs and in fact salt lake city are areta to be congratulated on the magnificent pipe organ which has been erected recently in that church and which will be ba formally or mally opened by a grand organ recital and concert tuesday afternoon and evening dec 13 A brief description of this magnificent instrument may not be devoid of interest to the herald readers the organ is built on the tabular pneumatic principle a comparatively new system in this thia country A noteworthy fact la Is that the touch of the great organ as that of a the draw stop action Is the same there are five different departments depar ments of the organ viz great swell choir echo aud pedal three banks of keys aud and one ol oi peals thelow the lowest bank is made to do service for the choice and echo thereby away with a fourth bank of keys there are not over halt half a dozen organs in the country that have the echo organ feature which is certainly a very one some of the tones are so soft in III this department that you have to strain your ear to catch the sound another another very novel and now new feature Is the crescendo and diminuendo pedal it t is the invention of mr of tho the tamand organ 0 builders 0 01 f this organ it consists of a A tina ban ho 1 A nr dinoro pressed by the too toe not only a gradual inere increase age of tone from the softest to th loudest and back F maln when pressed by the heel but with each increase of tone eight fixed combinations on each of the three manuals 1 adal and couplers and at the same time can be used as a full organ pedal bringing out nut instantly every speaking stop of the entire organ and reducing it again as speedily and able is obtained without entering int ering the existing combination of stop knobs which the organist was using all together at the time eight combinations are brought into play by this means and an indicator numbered I 1 toa shows which em combination om Is brought into play there are also eight adjustable combination pedals the organ has the some compass as this great organic organ in the auditorium in chicago five octaves from C to toc C sixty one notes two octaves and a halt of pedals C to F thirty notes there are forty two speaking nine coupling and two temu lut stops c seven even ivory pistons or push knobs 2 gal pipes the smallest oro one only seven eighths of an inch long and the largest of which standing in front of metal and decorated Is twenty feet high all the decorated pipes in front sound except tb three roe the organ is blown by an electric motor moter tha conol consola la or ley I 1 dA daiches ichel from thi hi orgal an nul la 6 placed S si i va t e 0 biais giais gi ais ci i ste a t tili u n aidlin the decorato dec deco oratio t i of the is exceedingly tasteful and beautiful la ia this respect it is said the organ builders have never turned out oat a better instrument the tao quality of tone to ie worthy ot of special mention those who have heard some of tho the finest organ in this and other countries pronounce this instrument unexcelled in this respect the cage la Is finished in ia antique oak there are ornamented and upholstered seats beats in front atta attached chad to the organ for tie choir the selection of stops and combinations la Is very fine still and reflects credit on the able organist prot prof Ride liffe who was tho the originator of the scheme for this organ herald foun one watch and clain can be had by calling on john parkins and describing the same lost oae swall white about four months old J C SESSIONS at an agricultural fair held at northampton mass blass lately a baby show was made a feature and tho the infant industry drew five times more of a crowd and about ten times t more money than the agricultural agri cultura I 1 exhibit A Ab hansom abandons ansons cab warranted to last a lifetime broke down in england after a mont months lis use tho the purchaser sued for bicaci of contract aud and was waa sw awarded ded thirty pounds |