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Show 2 THE SALT LAKE TIMES. WEDNESDAY. AUGUST 20. - - , ' THE PENH. MUTUAL LIFE INS, 03. fF PHILADELPHIA. PA.. BTOV atod mi. conducted fo" members by members, anl havini? security and greatest dividnd paying atlllty. ray'"' Stephens, general agents, 400 and 401 Progress building, LIQUORS AND CIGARS. BEARD'S CIGAR STORE. TMPORTF.D AND DOMESTIC CIOAKS. 1 SoleagentsfortheSuc-erScClga- r. 17 west laid couth st. THE TWO PHILLIPS PLACE. BRANDS Of IMPORTED CHOICEST and Clears. Kchustrb Phei.ph. proprietors, 08 E. Third South street, Salt Lake City. P. T, HYSTRQM. SALOON - FAMILIES COMMERCIAL First South and Commer-cial streets. STENOGRAPHY, fTeTmogijrein, STENOGRAPHER: ALL KIND3 OFFICIAL and Typeivritln. Dler In Remington Typewriter and suppbei; ProjrrejJ uildiug. . W. A.TAYL0B, TAILOR. NEW SPRINO MERCHANT arrived. 43 aud 45 east Second South street, Salt Lake City. TRUNKS. HULBEET BROS,, r OF FINE TRUNKS. MANUFACTURERS sample trunks and cases to order; repairing a specialty; 21 west First South stret, WATCHMAKKRSAND JEWELERS. Am?"HAERBA0HTB'NS, TJRACTICAL WATCHMAKERS. WATCH--1 s, clocks and Jewelry repaired and clenned. A lull line of Waterbury watches. No. 16, L. First South street. BUSINESS DIRECTORY. ADVERTISERS OF f'IRSTCLASS CITY. The Times commends to it3 patrons the Business and Pro fessional men whose cards ap-pear below. 0 1 JZZL WpfvSALT LAKEcf PPM I pi iRT THE COTTAGE, CHOICE WINE3. CI'JARS AND LIQUORS, opposite the Utah & Nevada depot, J. Sullivan, proprietor. BOUDOIR SALOON, NO. 39 MAIN STREET. SALT LAKE CITY, Utah. Hillsteud & Co., dealers In Wine. Liquors and Clears. Salt Lake City Hrewlni Co s celebrated beer on draught. KOSHER, PL00D k CO.,' MIRROR SALOON. City. 135 MAIN STREET, THE PHCCNIX SALOON, TE. PEACOCK, PROPRIETOR, 238 STATE Ice cold Beer on draught; choice Wines, Liquors and Cigars. MACHINERY. T. M. SURBAUGH, AMERICAN WATCHES, CLOCKS, FINE watch repairing a specialty; prices reasonable : 75 west First South street Salt Lake City. Utah. MUCK LL A.NEOLS. MINNEAPOLIS OFFICE AND SCHOOL BURNISHING CO. FURNISH EVERY-thin- g I necessary for schools. W. P. Dodds, general agent, 58 east First South street. JOHN GREEN, WITH GREEN & CO., SANITARY CON-- f 7 tractors and scavengers. P. O, box 8.W Wit MORRIS, EMYR EYN0N. C ALT LAKE STEAM CARPET CLEANING k7 Works, corner Mh West and Hazel streets, telephone 4Vi. First class work guaranteed. Orders taken at J. O'Connor's drus store, 858 Main street. P. O. box 510. Geo. M.Scott, Jas. Glendenjunh fl. s. Rcmfie. President nt Secretw, GEO. M. SCOTT & CO,, (INCORPORATED.) --DEALEKS IN-- Hardware and Meta Stoves, Tinware, Mill Findings, Etc, AGENTS FOR the Dodge Wood Pulley, Koebling's Steele Wire J Vacuum Cylinder and Engine Oils, Hercule3 Powder, Atlas Engines and I ers, Mack Injectors, Buffalo Scales, Jefferson Horse Wuim, Blake Miners' and Blacksmiths' Tools, Etc. 168 MAIN STREET, Salt Lake City, - - Ufa NOW IS THE TIME! Yes ! Time to See CKT11 l GLSEHl Who Have From $500 and Upwards to Loan on Cood Security or First Mortgage. Will give 1 to 1 i per cent interest, Guar-antee strict business. C h ristiansan & Olsen. 29 Commercial St. - Salt Lake City ACCOUNTANTS. HARRY R. BROWNE, EXPERT AND ACCOUNTANT, m south Main it The very best of city reference given. ARCHITEC TS. 0. H. LaBELLE, ARCHITECT. 1 EAST FIRST SOUTH Lake City. 1 am prepared to furnish all manner of plans In the most Im-proved style of architecture, such as churches, opera houses, hotels, banking houses, private residences and business blocks of any descrip-tion. Best of references given as to my stand-ing. J. HANSEN, (LATE Or CHKUOO.l RCHITKCT AND SUPERINTENDENT, has removed his offices to East Second South, room UH. FRED A. HALE, ftATK Or DENVER.) ARCHITECT OF COMMERCIAL BLOCK, M), Wasatch building. WHITE 4 ULMER, ARCHITECTS AND SUPERINTENDENTS. and 411, Progress Block, Salt Lake Cltv. attorneys! WniSSrOTNON! ROOMS FIRST FLOOR LAWYER, First South, between Main and Commercial streets. S. A. MERRITT, ATTORNEY, ROOMS 610 511. CITY building. John M. Breeze, James A. Williams BREEZE k WILLIAMS, ATTORNEYBATLAW, ROOMS 814 315, 0. W. POWERS, ATTOPNEY-AT-LAW- , OPPOSITE Second South street. CUMMIHG k 0RIT0HL0W, W, ROOMS 4 AND 5, ATTORNEYS-AT-L- 1H8 Main street. M. E. McENANY, ATTORNEY-AT-LA- floor. PROGRESS SILVER BROS., Iron works,' machine shop and steam engines, mining and mill Ins work. No. 14U west North Temple street; (Telephone No. 456. MILLINERY AND DRESSMAKING. A. H. C0HN, THE ONLY LADIES' TAILOR IN THE Ladies desiring the latent styles and fashions will do well to call on him. No. OS East Second South, rooms 3 and 4. MONEY TO LOAN. L WATTERS BROKER, SI E FIRST SOUTH STREET, Deseret National Bank, Salt Lalce City. Makes loans on Watches, Diamonds and Jewelry; rents collected; railroad tickets bought and sold: business confidential. Es-tablished ISM. AH unredeemed pledges sold at vy low rates. Tmuskj mTgnusTlson! TEACHER OF VIOLIN. GUITAR AND Olson's orchostra and brass band. Residence, 85 M street, 81st ward. Leave orders at any of the music stores, or at Sharp & Youuger's Palace drug store. opticians! gTrbYrqer JUST OPENED A FIRST-CLAS- HAVE house. They make a specialty of making to order and repairing spectacles. No. 11 west South Temple. A.L.WILLIAMS, Second Door North of Postofflce, SOLE -.C- S-S-n1 FOE R, G. PLEASANT VALLEY, CASTLE GA1 Anthracite, Charcoal, Blacksmith and Pigiron. Yards Cor. Fifth. West and Second South. Telephone No. 1 70, DR. ENDRIS, DISEASES of WOMEN and CIHLDffl. Eoyal University. Julius-Maximilia- Wukzburg, Bavaria. We hereby certify that Dr. Wm. R. Endris, of St. Louis. Mo.. IJ. S. A., has been late as-sistant in t he University Hospital, in the wards for Midwifery aud for Diseases of Women and Children. (Signed) Soanboni von LlonTENFF.i,s, Professor of Midwifery and diseases of Women Pnoc Rindfi.kish. Pathology, Histology and Medical ghemlstry. To make this certificate' valid, we attach the seal of the Royal University. (Signed) Dr. Hei.de, Rector. Db. KoebeIj, Sect. Wurzburg, April 84, 1888. Vienna. Austria, June 39, 1W3. Witness that Dh, Wm. R. Enoris of St. Louis, U. S. A., was assistant in the Hospital for Diseases of the Genlto-Urinar- organs of the male and female. Syphilis, etc., and is skilled In the various operations and treat-ment and In the microscopical and encmical diaimosis of the urine. (Signed i , dr. Robert Uitzm an, Prof, of Diseases of Urinarv Organs. Dk. H. Rimer von Hkbra, Prof, of SyphiUs and Skin Diseases. We hereby certify that Dn, Wm. R, Endris, of St. Louis, was our assistant in the General Hospital, Vienna, in the department for the Heajt and Lungs, Throat and Nose (Catarrh and has much experience In the diagnosis and , Incoporated, April 10, 1890. Iota House Building Conpj, J. T. Lynch, F. P. Mogenson, B. R. Hickok, President. Treasurer. ' General Manaj Salt Lake, Uta.Ii. This company is purely a home institution, organized to stay, and most spectfully invites the attention of those desiring cottages, either for homes or sale, to the neat, tasty and attractive appearance presented by this class of t tages when completed. We claim that they are stronger and warmer than ordinary rustic building, the sections all being made and put together bv r chmery thereby making the work perfectly tight. We are now prepared to f nisn estimates, take contract and complete buildings on short time. The p ronage of the public is most respectfully solicited. Office and yard No. 259 W A orth Temple street. Examine Our Plans and Trices Before You Build. I'AINTKRtt AND DECORATORS. PETEBS0N & BROWN, SIONS, fa WEST FIRST SOUTH STREET, Lake City. " ' plumbing A. J. BOUEDETTE & 00., 11LUMBERS, STEAM AND GAS FITTERS Jobbers. Ifleast Second South street, Salt Lake City. Telephone No. 431. JAMES PENWI0K, PRACTICALPLUMBER, STEAM ANDGAS 61 East Third South street, Salt Lake City, Utah. P. J. M0EAN, STEAM HEATING ENGINEER, 95B MAIN Salt Lake City. plating! GOLD, SILVER AND NICKEL PLATING the Dynamo Process. All kinds of repairing done with neatness and dispatoh. Kmudson Hhos, 61 E 3d South. PHYSICIANS DB. Q. J. FIELD. tPl7-- WASATCH BUILDING, LATE OF ST Louts DB. J. S. BLA0KBUBN 4 00,, HERNIA SPECIALISTS ; RUPTURE cured without surgical opera- tion. 08 E. First South St., opp. ths Theater. DBS. PBEEMAN k BUEB0WS, EYE, EAR, NOSE, THROAT. accurately fitted. Rooms 17 and 18. h buildinir. BOOT AND SHOE MAKING. THE PABAG0N IS THE BEST AND CHEAPEST PLACE for Shoe Repairing. 11 west South Temple street. ciViiTengineering. ' hIJilanddenby, C1IVIL ENGINEERS AND SURVEYORS. laid out and platted. Rooms AH and 616 Progress building; P. O. box ttJ7, Salt Lake City, Utah. CONTRACTOB9 AND BUILDER. 6iaXnEi) CONTRACTOR - BUILDING MOVER, and general engineer. Brick, urtobe or wooden houses, raised, moved or repaired. All work guaranteed against cracking or other damages. The only practi-cal building mover west of Chicago. Oflice and shops 740 to 7M State road. J. 0. D0WLING, CARPENTER, CONTRACTOR ft BUILDER, executed ; fitting up stores aud counter making a specialty, aid W. First South street. GE0EGE B0GGS k 00., CONTRACTING AND BUILDING, FITTING a specialty. Arhitecct-ura- l wood carving. 1B7 State road, between First and Second South street, DENTISTRY. d11isohoi DENTIST, 1UK SOUTH MAIN STREET, and 9. Teeth extracted without pain. Teeth extracted plain 8ii cents, with cocaine M) cents. Durable fillings fto, 7ft cents and upward. Uest set of teeth 10. All treatment or these diseases. (Signed) . . Dk. Jor. von Drozda, Prof, of Internal Medicine. Professor SchnitzxjER, Vienna, June 1, 1884. Office, 2 West nd South, opp. Cullcn. SALT LAKE VALLEY Loan and Trust Company, Salt Lake City, Ttah. CAPITAL .... .. . $300,000. Money to loan on real estate and otlier good securities, on short and long time. a J. directors: Sali,burV, Pru. F. H. Duer, W.S, McCornuik, . GtmrgeM.bowney, K Bamberger John A. Uroetbeck kmanuel Kuan, M. R. Evans, d. M. dimming, Uteretary. .H. Field,. Jr. . . Treamrer. Real Estate Mortgages, guaranteed by the company, for sale. Office Daft building, Np, 128 Main st lESFlipll Franklin Fine Insurance Co Of Philadelphia. Organized 1829. . Charter Perpetua Assets, - - $3,174,357.04 Insurance Reserve, 1,765,294.71 Continental Insurance Company, Of ITe'w Tcic Cash Capital, - m $1,000,000.00 Insurance Reserve, - ; 2,470,343.24 Assets, - - - .5,217,773.91 When you purchase a policy that you expect to I worth $2000 in case of fire, you should investigate the con pany with the same care ' that you would use in lending tfc sum. .... No States in the Union have as good insurance la as New York and Pennsylvania. Call at our office for La copy of the Safety Fund lhis law prevents the failure of a conflj company by great grations.,. Under this law none of the surplus funds can b divided among stockholders. Both have to be held for 4 security of policy holders as long as a policy remains in forfl DAVIS & STRINGER, 23 West Second South st Two doors east of Cullen Hotel. AgfCIltS. work guaranteed. Open from 8 a. in. to I) p. in. ; 8 a. m. to 1 p, in. Cut this out. ENOBAV1NG. J, JEPPEES0N, PRACTICAL SCULPTOR AND CARVER, North Temple street. J. W. WHITE0AK, DESIGNER AND building. ENGRAVER ON WOOD, FCRNITUUK. SAHDBERG FUENITUEE 00., MANUFACTURERS AND DEALERS IN 8chool DeSks, Screen doors and Windows. Johbing and re-pairing promptly attended to. 108 and lid W. Souih Templeetreet. " GROCERIES). B0GEES k COMPANY, THE LEADING street. GROCERS, 46 EAST FIRST FEED 6. LYNGBEEG, CTAPLE AND FANCY GROCERIES, PRO-- visions, Fruit, Vegetables, Poultry, Fish Game. etc. 63 east First South street. Tele-phone 0.3. john Mcdonald & eons, FINE TEAS AND COFFEES A Main street. J.W. Farrell & Co .. ' Plu-le-rs, Gas 4 Steaia Fitters Dealers in all Kinds of Lift and Force Pumps Orders taken for Drive and Dug Welh KS Mam Strert, opv. Auerbach Bros. TeUphoru m. JKKALJKSTATE AND LOANSi THE SYNDICATE INVESTMENT CO., REAL LEaSkTeA. TEIn, vReOstOmMen1t,sOVER BANK OF for non residents A BpOCluitijrt MONEY WANTED. TF YOU DESIRE A GOOD LOAN PLACED Mal0srtere1et?Bt''te' Cli" U S" F" m ALFRED DUNSHEE, DEAL ESTATE, LOANS, INVESTMENTS. keCltyMUUh!tr,Mit JoneBa Sail J. G. JACOBS & 00. REAIi E.STATE DEALERS. 147 PROGRESS have for sale residence In all parts of the city; also choice bargains in bUBiuessand farm property. THE MIDLAND INVESTMENT 00. BARGAINS IN REAL ESTATE, LOANS No. 177 Mala street. . BURTON, GROESBEOK k CO., TEAL ESTATE, NO. 'J89 MAIN STREET Teephoe&ke at". Not e RESTAlTRANTsT : TIV0LI EESTAUEANT, REOPENED. W. GEBHARDT & CO Walker ?u hours-- li45 Main street, op' posite House. FOUNTAIN LUNCH STAND, JFwl?X.r-SHIMOISAKA- . PROPRIETOR, meaisatall Sh'"h Min street 81,ort orT Commutation Tickets g. 0. M. HANSEN, DEALER IN CHOICE FANCY GROCERIES Grain, Coal and Kindling Wood corner Third South aud State street. mTtobias k SON, DEALER IN FANCY GROCERIES, Poultry, Fruit and Vegetables. All goods delivered to any part of the city. No. SIS south First East street ELI L. PEI0E, CGROCERIES AND PROVISIONS, 4 MAIN T street. ' INSURANCE. . LOUIS HYAMS k CO. FIRE. LIFE AND ACCIDENT. MUTUAL ot New York 614 and 615 Progress Block. SPEGIAL- S-Our Addition corner of Second West I and Tenth South, with fine trees on all streets and alleys, is the choice subdivi-- . , sion adioining the city. --Ties are now distributed and cars will be running on Second West and Tenth South vvithin sixty days. Lots at original price until August istonly. - Davis & Stringer. Lombard Investment Go, OF Kansas City, Mo, and BostonMiss. Branch offlce for Utah and southern Idaho, Corner First South and Main Streets Salt Lake City, Utah. ' W. H. DALE, . n.nayer Makes Loans on Farm and City Property at Eat, Rates. SALT LAKE WAFFLE k CHOP HOUSE Tl TEALS AT ALL HOURS FROM 15 CENTS ill iSSJtolSJ Seoond 8tr,wt JO!,BS ss- - GLOBE CAFE, S Fi?A,Hl - MEALS AT ALL HOURS street. Salt Lake City. SECOND-HAN- CLOTH 1NC. ' M. LEVEY, DEhHR, I?, CAST OFF AND SECOND 2'iKh,nR; highest cash for KS.'t,a,itlot,rifnghydmonale1. Promwp. tFlyirsattteSnoduethd sttor;iaal.l t ft little religions effect on the audiences gathered. It results invariably in a round of applause and hilarious laugh-ter. The degree of good done by the hymns may be measured with a thim-ble, if the deportment of the crowd is indicative. The church people do not take particularly kindly to them for they say they don't do religion a bit of good. In the daytime the women go about selling the paper "War Cry" while the moil saunter about clad in their flaming garment of tho cross and lonting about tho restful places in the land of the devil. A few nights since in exasperation the police ran in a lot of thorn for fright-ening a horse and causing a runaway which came near resulting fatally. The army, seeing the horse's move-ments, beat only the harder. When ar-rested they considered themselves mar-tyrs and sang and prayed all night, while the other prisoners swore in wild, fierce tones, and begged the juilor to turn the hose on the soldiery, so as to make sleep a possibility. ! . 1 HOEING IBM The Salvation Army May Well be Designated as of That Make and Build. SCARE HORSES AND BLOCK STREETS Ballington Booth's Soldiers Have a Pe-culiar and Harrowing Cam-paign Plan. The Wasatch building is counted the center of town by day. The postofflce is there and the courts and offices of the government officials. It is a busy re-gion in the daylight, and when night conies on it is no less busy. The people who gather In the evening are loungers mostly, who occupy the sidewalk to the discomfort and annoyance of pedes-trians, and the circumstances which combine to call them out are on a par , with the intelligence of the men who stand about and jostle persons who do not use the sidewalk as a loitering place. That combination of circum-stances Is found along about 8 o'clock in the distant strains of something n a kazoo and the vociferations of a man with a load of hay on. It starts from away off in some uni-dentified place and moving on down the street as the promulgators of the sound come Into view, it risos up into the dis-cordant ebullition which is called Salvation array music. In a moment there is a sensation on the street. Valiantly around a corner, which has to some extent deadened the sound and lessened tho horror thereof, the band bursts into view. There is a large man beating a drum which has an abnor-mally developed abdomen; next him comes a small, woh formed woman who seems filled with musclo, enthusiasm, . and other ingredients, and who turns every few steps and walks backward, facing the horde, and waving a e to beat time. The reason for beating time is hidden from public view. Most of the members of the army at her heels, or hor toes, as the case may be, are from that walk of life which recognizes "time" In a different sense. Anon this young woman turns again and walks toward her face, and then she, too, falls in to beat the devil out of a tamborine. Beside her walks another girl, dressed like ber, in an ornamentlcss blue gown and wearing on ber bead a hideous scoop-shov- of a bonnet. These two are cadets or ma-jors or lieutenants, or some such truck as that In the great army of which Bal-lington Booth is general. ff Following the female officers comes an array of rag-ta- g and bobtail, bearing all manner of unmusical instruments, which they blow with great vigor, strong purpose and stronger lungs. Some of them wear red jerseys aud blue caps, others the ordinary garb of the more ordinary citizon. Ail have low brows and all have lungs that they could rent out and still have voice room. A couple of flaming flags finp the breeze above the army and shriek In fat lotters "Blood and Fire," and such choice sentiments as that. And the army as it moves, not content to frighten lately married wemen into particular paroxysms by the weird noise which is called music, loosens its col-lective voice at the instigation of the blue gowned lieutenant and bellows, bawls, howls, shrieks, roars, moans a collection of hymnal statements con-cerning its avocation. "Follow i follow i i we win follow on Anywhere, everywhere, we will follow on" This Is one of the most popular sonti-ment- s of the members of the crew. It matters not that teams are frightened at every corner, that drivers lose their souls by hurling eight cornered swear words at the army as it passes; that body is used to creating consternation. It Is used to having a horde of small boys chnse after. It is used to going on In its own sweet way scaring horses and spreading con- - stcruation una Hysteria tliroiiKhout the region it Invades. It is, of course, use-los- s to taunt the nrrny with tho fact that its musicians ought to be taken off in a cool, dry place where tliev might prac-tice at one another for a few centuries. They are really doing the best thoy can. By and by, having disturbo'd the peace to a sufficient length the army weeps down Maiu stroet anil with a graceful curve turns into the curb at the front of tho Wasatch building. As tho groves wore God's first tcmplos tho streets are the meet-ing houses lit Halt Lake of the army. Aud as the roof of the heavens is far nbovo them thoir oxhorters try by lift-ing their voices as high us possible to reach them. Their savior seems to be a deaf savior, and an Incredible amount of noise is necessary to attract His at-tention. As they roar in agony of spirit the street begins filling. The sidewalk is soon filled and the time is but short when the street Itself is packod. There is an ampitheater of people iu tho center of which the sol-dier is busily engaged in bombarding tho stMfighohl ot Professor Amos R. Satan, They are voireful enough, but it is a work which makes them sweat in vain. The crowd which gathers is a curious crowd; it comes to see what tho show is and goes when it has amused itself to a sulliciont degree. Tho captaiu prays and then bogins the work of exhortation. The soldiers t pne and all are called on in turn and each lets go all holds and declares in short, jerky, excitable tones that ho has found salvation. Then comes on the singing. Nowadays tho army, pro-gressive body that it is. sings songs in keeping with tho march of progress. One which is given in Salt Lake every little occasional runs to the tune of "McGiuty." It is sung something like this: Sunday afternoon at throe The Godless man iu merrv Rlee Goes out to see a wicked name of ball, AU In company with his friends, Never tliinkiwr where it onrts. Nor the awful pit In which he'll sometime fall. Or Instead of Sunday school Goes boatliiK on the'watercool, Never guessing that his rowboat mav capsize; Hut in comes a towering wave And he Ilnds a watery grave. For he falls dowu to the bottom and he dies. And then the chorus goes: Down o. 3 the bad man to the bottom nit of bell. And though he calls for water He dlscorers that he'd ought to Thought of such like comforts when he was and, well-- Off to the brimstone fire he goes. ' Another hymn is cast in the samo mold as "Little Anuie Kooney." The chorus is sung thus; "He's my Jesus, He's my Lord; He'smy Savior, He's my Uod; Soon I'll see him. never to part, Jesus Christ, my Savior, is near to my heart." The singing of such songs as this has Will Iastltut Proceedings. St. Louis, Aug. 20. Special. The health department will institute pro-ceedings against several groceryinen and peddlers for selling milk adulter-ated with a powder called "Porsova-line,- " composed, it is alleged by chem-ist-of deleterious substances, such as boracio and salycylic acids and soda, It is said that more soda and similar stuff has been used this summer than ever before, the lack of ice tempting the farmers and dealers alike to resort to questionable methods to keep milk sweet. Gone to That Cottage. Washington, Aug. 20. The presi-dent loft Washington for a week's visit to Capo May Point. He was accom-panied by Sowell of New Jersey. THE CURIOSITY 8HOP. Trees Compared to Human Belngc and Kenogulted by Their Yoleas. - The hunters and trappers in the Appa-lachian mountains speak of trees precisely as they do of human beings; "this one lis good natured and friendly;" "that can-tankerous and surly." The black balsam, they aver, "knows a dark secret and grows only on bare and solitary peaks, as if it had a murder to think of;" while the pecan tree Is fond of young people and will not thrive near a house in which there Is no child. B. W. Fumts tells in Inter Ocean how blindfolded or in the darkest night these mountaineers can recognize the dif-ferent kinds of trees by their "voices," as they call the rustling of their leaves. They have a store of singular facts to prove the unaccountable loves and hatreds between different trees, the world old antipathy known to all woodsmen between the oak and pine, for example, or that between the ash and hickory. Besides the giant trees of California there are certain famous patriarchs in the forests of the south which are regarded with universal reverence and affection. Two cedars in the Nautchela mountains are estimated to be more than ft thousand years old, and a live oak tree on the gulf coast is believed by some persons to ante-date the Christian era. It is probable that the most magnificent trees on the oontinent are the group of gigantic magnolias In the Attakaps, Louisiana. Origin of the Term Esthetics. Esthetics is a term invented about the middle of the last century by Baumgarten, a professor of philosophy in the University of Frankfort-on-the-Ode- r, to denote the science of the beautiful, particularly of art, as the most perfect manifestation of the beautiful. Notwitluitanding the fact that the beautiful was a favorite subject of contemplation among the anoients, Baumgarten is held to be the first who considered the subject from the true scien-tific point of view, and therefore entitled to be called the founder of the philosophy of art. All sensuous apprehension, not in one form of manifestation only, but In every possible form or manifestation, was in-cluded in his view of the subject, and this conception he expressed by the word sthetios, from the Greek alsthanomat, I feel indicating not absolute or subjective knowledge of things, but such as 1b condi-tioned subjectively by the play of our sensi-bilities. Uuauty was, with Baumgarten, tho result of the highest aud purest (esthetic perception, to the realization of which the finer portion of our nature as-pires, and to trace which, through the whole sphere of art, was the work of ae-sthetic philosophy. The A3ollan Harp. The &olian harp was the invention, it is believed, of Athanasius Kircher. who lived iu the Seventeenth century, and it is so called from iKolus, the god or ruler of the winds. It is a simple musical instrument, the sounds of which are produced by the vibrations of string moved by wind. It may be composed of a rectangular box made of thin boards, 0 or 0 inches deep and about the same width, and of a length suf-ficient to extend across the window It Is to be set at, so that the breeze coming In can sweep over it. At the top of each end of the box a strip of wood is glued, about a half Inch in height; the strings are then stretched lengthwise across the top of the box, and may be tuned in unison by means of pegs constructed to control their ten-sion, as in the case of a violin. The sounds produced by the rising aud falling wind in passing over the striugs are of a drowsy and lulling character, and have been beau-tifully described by the poet Thomson as supplying the most suitable klud of music for the Castle of Indolence. Th Edible Banana. The edible banana, It Is said, is known to seed only in one small spot on earth, t he Andaman Islands. However this may be, It Is universally grown from suckers. Its cultivation in tho West Indies has vastly increased during lbs past fifteen years, owing to the demands of tho United States for its oheap, wholesome and luscious fruit. - About 400 or AUO trees are planted to the acre, and the plantations are callod "banana walks." The tree fruits the first year, explains Garden and Forest, and the expense of cultivation is so small that a bunch ot bananas delivered at the sea coast need have cost its owner no more than four or five cents, while it may be sold in the winter months for from twelve to eighteen cents, aud in the spring months for four times as much. There are risks attending banana cultivation, however, for the thievish negroos often seriously de-crease the value of a orop, and It may be entirely swept away in a single hour by a hurricane. The Work Performed by Watch. Horticultural Keview tells how u skill-ful watchmaker oue day thus reasoned with a customer. "You complain," he said, "that your watch gains a minute a month. Well, then, you will congratulate yourself after you have beard me. You are aware that in your watch the balance, which rs the regulator, makes five oscilla-tions every second, which is 433,000 a day, so that your watch, exposed to all the vicis-situdes which heat and cold occasion it, the varying weight of the air and the shak-ing to which it is subjected, has not varied more than one minute in a month, or two seconds a day. It has only acquired with each vibration of the balance a variation of the 218,0O0th part of one second. Judge, then, what must be the extreme perfection of the mechanism of this watch." |