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Show ' EVENING, "AFKIL 14, 1890. , ; TUB SALT LAKE TIMES, MONDAY a lSI8':l FOR THE ONE WEEK, Ml Commencing MondayJpril 14 ndending Saturdayjpnlh We will make a Special Sale to Home Builders of 123 LOTS FOR ONLY $18.75 APIECE!! TERMS CASH Conditions in full elsewhere in this Pape HEADQUARTERS 0R GOOD- CHEAP LOTS ! 274 MAIN STREET, SALT LAKE CITY, UTAI r ... Address i'i H. N. GREENE, Agent ". 1 f ,. Startling ANNOUNCEMENT Having Bought out the Entire Business of Messrs. Bartlett Bros, known as the VMtTHalTRargain HousF 2STC. 5 W. 2d SOUTH ST., AtaGREATLY REDUCED PRICE 5 s 5 n 3 s 3 Assignee's Salt , Japanese good! SACRIFICED FOR THE NEXT. EIGHT DA .i ': THE MIKADO STOR Will sell their Entire Stock of Japanese Goods, includ-ing all Silks, such as ? Gowns, Panels, Screens (ft , Piece Goods, Porcelain Bronzes, Potteri Etc., ' Regardless of Cos rnr HARRY SYMONS, Assignee From Factory Cost, I propose to close it out at COST n order to convert the Business into a First-clas- s ' ' FURNITURE HOUSE Which Las beeDniy line for the past fifteen years. My object in making this announcement is to call the attention of the people of Salt Lake and the country at large, to where they can BUY GOODS, either in SMALL or LARGE LOTS, AT THE MANUFACTURERS' COST The Stock comprises in part: Silverware,1 Eardwaie, , Wood arxd Tinware, and General laiouselioia. vunisladrLs, Lamp3, Albums, SPietuxes, Ptaraes, a largre line Of Bird. Cagres, Dolls, Toys, Ctatlery, etc., etc., and in fact such Goods as is generally kept iu a FIRST-CLAS- S BAZAR. THE GOODS MUST BE SOLD! REMEMBER THE PLACE: No. 54 West Second South Street. J. M. PEARLMAN, iFrcprietor. produces water, whne the aines of the wood form earth; therefore wood is at the bottom of all creation. A growing tree was used to show that water was the prime element by pouring on water every day untilthe tree had increased In size and weight and weighing the earth with which the roots were surrounded. This, said the old chemist, proved that water had given the tree, or the wood, its increase. Aristotle made up a sched-ule of constructions and juggled with it to the mystification of all his followers. He said that the four elements fire, air, water and earth are not single and defi-nite substances, but derive their exist-tenc- e from other more primal elements. Tims, fire was composed of heat and dry-ness, air of heat and moisture, water of cold and moisture and earth of dryness and cold. On the basis of this table he constructed some very plausible questions and led the way to the idea of the discov-ery of the one prime element with which one could transform any substance into anything else. THE LOST ARTS. In ancient times the workers in metals and othor substances handed their secret down from generation to generation, and in time some of them were. lost. " These are the "lost arts", so often mentioned, which are Bimply lost' family secrets. From the Fifth to the Sixteenth century was the age of ' fabulous 'pretensions in alchemy,, when evory discovery was kept a profound secret, thus making the time one of almost total ignorance, . The, old alchemists sometimes used good logic in their arguments as to the existence of the philosophers' stone, and all alchemy was not the fraud that mod-ern people would think. 'There' were some good, honest workers iu the ranks, searohers after the truth, at well as the knaves that are to be found iu every trade and every branch of life. There was one monk living in the Mid-dle Ages who made a specialty of anti-mony. Thinking it to bo the great cure all he first tried some of it on his bogs and the beasts fattened so that he thought that it must be good for human beings. So he gave it to his brethren with fatal results. This is supposed to be the reason why the metal is called "antimony," from its bad effect on monks. There are alchemists of t'jday just as dishonest as those of old, men who swin-dle and cheat others with tricks that are almost as primitive as those used by their predecessors in the crooked art. They have only changed their forms of delu-sion and have struck for higher wages. Washington Star. FACTS ABOUT. ALCHEMY. SUCCINCT ACCOUNT OF THE MUCH ABUSED SCIENCE. yUdiejny Led to the Illwsowy of Many Important Problem! in the SeientlAa World It Also Hindered tin Study of Chemiitry l.OOO Yearn. Professor Fristoe, of the faculty of the Columbian university, delivered an in-teresting lecture in the hall of that insti-tution on the subject of "Alchemy, the Infancy of Chemistry." He stated that fciodorn physical toience dates from the litcoveries of Copernicus, the first real astronomer; Torricelli and Pasquelle, who discovered to the world the matter of the weight of the atmosphere, and Priestly, the discoverer of oxygen, thus giving three distinct eras. Alchemy first started in fornvfnost of the problems which science is still engaged in solving, sod it was the infant efforts of chemistry hat drew to the study many men whose donations to science have been beyond value. The search for gold was the crisis of these efforts, accompanied by a wild striving for the philosopher's stone and the elixir of life. The Bible contains many allusions to . the science, but the first record is to be found in an ancient Chinese work dating back into ages almost beyond computa-tion, in which the elements are stated to be earth, fire, water, metal and wood. Moses was evidently an adept in the sci-ence, from several references in the Bible to his works. Rome carried the study to a great extent, and reached such a de-gree of proflcionoy that Dioclesian, upon the eve of a reported invasion by the Egyptians, ordered all books on the sub-ject to bs burned, lest they fall into the hands of the enemy and thus give them so much knowledge that they should be bis to make gold enough to enable them to own the earth. ABISTOTLK'S INFLUENCE. ': Aristotle forms quite a prominent fig-ure in the history of the science, he being the first man to advance the theory of a universal element binding all the others together, corresponding to what we should call "quintessence." Aristotle was faithfully believed by many students of alchemy up to a comparatively late day, and it is probably due to him that philos-ophy and chemistry did not make greater strides forward. They would have been a thousand years earlier had it not been for his influence. There were some funny theories held by those old philosophers as to the essences and elements of matter. One who lived about 600 years before Christ contended that water was the source of all things, another that air was the primary element, and each had a line of argument and analogy to prove his idea. A man who breathed about 430 B. C. took the ground that fire was the prime feature of tho combination aud that the human soul was a fiery vapor. SOME EARLY REASONINGS. One of the early lights was named Lucippus, who came near the truth when he said that the earth was made by the falling together of small particles. This is probably the first appearance of the atomic theory. This is a sample of the reasoning by which some of the ancients arrived at their conclusions as to the elements of matter: When wood is burned it produces fire, which gives off air. which, in turn, when condensed. n it urn uui inspire. ' instead, nowever, of answering him the pretty girl covered her face with her hands and fled precip-itately into the villa. Of course this astounded the young lover; he could not understand it at all; should he interpret the maiden's conduct as a rejection? If so, it were better for him to leave Posillipo at once. But no, his Scotch instincts came to his rescue; he had done tho proper tiding properly he would bide his time. NoVt morning after breakfast, at which his idol did not appear, he sought the garden and mean-dered gloomily therein, wondering what tactics he ought to pursue. Suddenly lie heard Miss Maud call to him, and turning he beheld that young girl advancing. She put both her hands in his and said, with charming frankness; "I would not an-swer you last night fearing you were un-der the influence of the insidious summer evening and of the poetical and almost magical sceue, and that it was not your heart that spoke; so I would hear in the daytime if you love me, and, if this is so, I will tell you that I am willing to give you my life and my love." Now, isn't this bit of truth quite as pretty as anything that could be culled from fiction? Eugene Field's Ixmdon Letter in Chicago Nows. The daily rations of a pair of ostriches on a farm in San Diego county, Cal., are forty pounds of beets for breakfast and a half peck to a peck of grain for dinner. Better Than Romance. The story of the wooing of Mr. Henry Gladstone, son of the and Miss Maud Rendel, has just transpired. It seems that the two met in the summer of 1889 at Posillipo, tba young lady's father having at that picturesque little hamlet on the gulf of Naples a lovely villa. One beautiful evening the two were in the garden overlooking the water upon which the moonlight hung like a misty gauze; the scene was one of poetic loveliness young Gladstone felt that there never could be a fairer spot or a better moment for the confession of his love, so he declared himself to his inam-orata with a fervor which the pictur-ceauene- ss of the surroundings enhanced. Book Teaching of Science. I once visited a large high school, one of the best in the country, with a science teacher whoso studies have won him the respect of his follow workers. But for some reason, on that day at least, he failed to bring his own knowledge into the class room. I heard him quizzing a class of boys and girls on animals not on the animals of tho woods and fields, not on the animals, before them, for there were none, but on the edentates of South Amer-ica. An especial point was to find out whether it is the nine banded armadillo (novemoinctus) or the three banded ar-madillo (tricinctus) which does not dig a hole in the ground for its nest. The book, written by a man who did not know an armadillo from a mud turtle, gives this piece of information. It was in the les-son, and the students must get it. And on this and like subjects these boys and girls were wasting their precious time precious because, if they do not learn to observe in their youth, they will never learn, and tho horizon of their lives will be always narrower aud darker than it should have been. Already the work of that day is a blank. They have forgotten the nine banded armadillo and the three banded, and so has their teacher, and so have I. All that remains with them is a mild hatred of the armadillo and of the edentates in general, and a feeling of relief nt being no longer uuder their baleful influence. But with this usually goes the determina-tion never to study zoology again. Aud when these students later come to tho college, they know no more of science and its methods than they did when at the age of 1 year they first cried for the moon. David Starr Jordan in Popular Science Monthly. Love's Youiig Dreams. ' Toung Man (gazing dreamily at the candy case in fancy grocery store) I I wish to get something real nice for a a young lady, but I hardly know what to select. Grocer (briskly) Very young? Young Man 'Bout 17 still going to boarding school. Grocer Yes, sir. John! show this gentleman to the pickle counter C" |