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Show ; THE SALT LAKE TIMES, THURSDAY, MAY" 29, I8(t)0. g . Prope lle r J. L. Davis r H'v" REAL ESTATE "m ' """ .... rj.l, 3LaOts, Blocks and Acreage. CENTEB STEEET T comprising mJ80 Resldmce Lois m SUB - DIVISION ! RANGING IN PRICE FROM $150 TO $300. Those Choice Residence Lots are on the Main Business street o Provo, and are Now on the Market. Call on or --A.ca.ca.ress, PROPELLER J. L DAVIS. PROVO, UTAH.S .When You Can Buy 4 Lots in ' i Davis, Sharp & Stringer'1 .ca.ca.itio.,,? CORNER OF SECOND WEST AISD" TENTH SOUTH, On small Cash Payment, and within 30 days after Electric Car Line, already commenced, on Second West, is completed, sell 3 Lots for Profit sufficient to build nn remaining Lot. ... ' If you prefer to move into your own home today, ' we have Six New Modern Style Houses just com- - pleted, six Large Rooms, Fine Closets, Three " Verandas, City Water, Elegrant Location, close in, I., splendid view, near electric car line, ONLY $3800 , EACH, and Five Years to pay out at only 6 per " - cent interest. - Don't Fail to see Watkins' Addition LiToertsr Iax3s: on tlie Solatia- - DAVIS STRINGER, tc(S?enH!?f ' . , 23 West Second South- - Tile snake was tlually dislodged Dy counter mining and killed with a charge of buckshot. When measured it was found to be twenty-on- e feet in length and about two feet in Birth.- - MINING FOR A PYTHON. A Snake That Refused to Be Drawn Prom His Hole by a Hope and an Elephant. DESTROYED THE FAMILY BIBLE. Servant Girls in Montana A Queer Fog Horn Stood Up for Her Sex. Chamber's Journal. . It was during the cold weather, when .snakes are partially or wholly torpid, that this adventure happened; had it been iq the hot weather, when snakes are lively, the story might have had a differ-ent ending. C4en. Maointyre and his party went one day to examine a hole or crevice under a rock where it was supected a python lay hidden, and sure enough it was there, for they could see a bit of the tail end protruding from the hole. They let it alone at first, thinking that, when the sun shone, it might come forth to bask In its warmth. In this, however, they were disappointed, for on the following day the snake was not to be seen; but, nn closer examination, the tail was found sticking out as before. Various efforts were made to dislodge it. A fire was lit in front and the smoke fanned inward, but this had no effect. t The earth was even scraped away and the hole widened, when they could see the coils of the monster as thick as a man's thigh; but except that their oierations were occasionally interrupt-ed by the startling presence of the creature's head, which it occasion- - ally poked toward the entrance, darting out its little forked tongue, it gave small signs of animation. They had even determined to try to draw it. Wo all three, therefore, proceeded somewhat nervously, I must own to lay hold of its tail. To this familiarity it showed its objection by a decided inuli-ratio- n to wag its caudal extremity, which had such an electrical effect on our nerves that we dropped it like a hot po-tato, and what shall I call it? retired. A shot would iu all probability have in-duced the snake to quit its refuge, but then the shot must have torn and dis-figured its beautiful skin, which the gen-eral wished to secure uninjuredasaspec-iraen- . In the meantime more efficient tools for digging had been sent for, and these now arrived borne upon an elephant. A bright idea now struck the party they might draw the snake out with the elephant Sufficient rope for the purpose was loosened from the elephant's pad, and this rope, about the thickness of a man's thumb, was hitched around the py-thon's tail, its remaining length brought up again to the pad and fastened there, thus doubling its strength. Now came the tug of war! A sudden jerk might have torn the skin; the mahout was therefore warned to put on the strain gradually. Little did we know what a tough and obstinate customer we had to deal with. Tighter and tighter grew the ropes, when "crack" went one of them. Still the strain was increased, when "crack" the other had snapped also, leaving the snake in statu quo. Bis Like and Dislikes. He said he liked her face no (wret, Her eyes with brows that almost meet, He liked her forehead white and square. Ho liked her long and waving hair, He liked her cheeks with tints of rose. But he heartily disliked her noes. Washington Pott Treatment of Writer's Cramp. Dr. Vigouroux describes a method of treating writer's cramp practiced with much success by Herr Wolff, a of Frankfort The essentials of the method are gymnastics and massage of the affected muscles. The patient has to execute thrice a day a long series of abrupt movements of the arms and hands. The muscles are then extended and even put on the stretch by the operator or the patient himself, till fatigue overcomes the tendency to spasm. Massage, friction and slapping are also persistently used, and writing movements practiced so soon as the diminished cramp allows. It should be added that the treatment is painless. Herald of Health. A Bride at 8& When a woman of the age of 03 years marries it must be because she wants to marry, and that is just what happened in the history of "Aunt Katy" Currie, who died at Warwick, Orange county, at the extraordinary age of 107 years and 8 months. Her maiden name was Catha-rine Woodruff, and she was born in the adjoining town of Monroe. When she was 83 years of age she married Joseph Currie, a prominent and well to do farmer of Warwick, with whom she lived until his death, in 1872. "Aunt Katy" is entitled to the singular distinc-tion of having gone to the altar as a bride after she had entered upon her 92d year. The bridegroom, James Nelson, was 68 years old, and the marriage took place two years after the death of her first husband. Before contracting this second marriage "Aunt Katy" tore the record of her age from the family Bible, and al-ways declined afterward to tell her age, It is known positively, however, that she was born in 1783. Toronto Empire. Norwegian Longevity. Vital statistics of Norway, recently published, show an expectation of life in that country that can hardly be paral-leled in any othor country. ' The mean duration of life is 48.38 years for males and 6 1 . 80 years for females. In England the mean duration of life is 41.85 years for males and 44.63 years for females, Inther words, a Norwegian at his birth may reasonably expect to live seven years longer than an Englishman. Servant Girls in Montana. The most thoroughly disgusted people at the lack of women in Montana are those who employ domestio help in the cities. Hundreds of girls come to Helena and Butte each month looking for work, which they secure without difficulty at wages ranging from $30 to $40 a month. After spending a month in the city, they learn that they can get better wages and have a much better chance of securing a husband and a home of their own by go-ing out to some one of the numerous mining camps, which they immediately proceed to do, and the housewife is forced again, perhaps for the thousandth time, to initiate another pilgrim domes-tic. San Francisco Chronicle. Women and Bank Cheeks. Women never appreciate the value of a check until It is cashed. It doesn't seem like money to them, and I feel cer-tain that if the average woman were offered her choice between five hundred dollars in notes and. a thousand in a check, and both were before her and she had no time to think it out much, she would choose the five hundred, and con-clude she had the best of the bargain. Toledo Blade. Victor Hugo's Grandchildren. George Hugo, who was pointed out to me, is a fat little "dude" with an eye-glass, pale and dissipated looking, and bearing no more resemblance physically to his illustrious grandfather than he does mentally. His sister Jeanne, who made her debut in society during the winter, was with him. She is pretty and fair haired, a very pleasing speci-men of a young French society girl. J'aris Letter. A Mills at a Fog Horn. Jupiter can boast of the most intelli-gent mule on record. The mule is 21 years old. Every night he proceeds to the life saving station. It is customary for the man on watch to discharge his coston signal (a red light) when vessels come too near the beach. The mule has "eaaght on" to what this rignal means. So every night at 8 o'clock the sailor's four legged friend proceeds to walk the beach, and if a vessel comes too near the shore he sends forth a neigh that makes night hideous. Port or starboard your helm is the order on the ship, and away sail the jolly tars in safety and with a gratoful heart to the four legged patrol-man. Savannah News. Daring Criminals. A burglar named Heine, while being taken from Louisville to Eddyville, Ky., to work o a prison contract, escaped from the train in a daring manner. He walked forward in the car to get a drink of water. When near the door he seized the guard, choked him to insensibility, And, with another convict who was help-ing him, jumped off the train and dis-appeared in the darkness. Philadelphia Ledger. Smoking Oat an Army. An ingenious American officer pro-poses to settle the business of smokeless powder by immediately, on the com-mend ment of operations, firing bombs into or near the ranks of the opponent; the bomb will continue for a few hours to emit thick clouds of smoke. Perhaps the bombs might be lit iu the ranks of the opponent of the smokeless powder. New York Journal. I.nck of Symmetry In the Eyes. When the average man or woman comes to be fitted with the first pair of glasses some curious discoveries are made. Seven out of ten have stronger aight in one eye than the other. In two cases out of five one eye is out of line. Nearly one-ha- lf the people are color blind to some extent, and only one pair of eyes out of every fifteen are sound in every respect. New York Commercial Adver-tiser. . ', i Tue construction of the pillars and foundations of the great Forth bridge consumed 21,000 tons of cement and 707,-00- 0 cubic feet of granite. The total amount of resulting masonry is 117,000 cubic yards. The weight of the steel in the bridge proper is 61,000 tons. |