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Show " ' - THE SALT LAKE TIMES, FRIDAY. JANUARY 1, 1891, ' j ' F ifl Fail to See ' This BEAUTIFUL ADDITION! Before Deciding Upon Your Location for a Home. Remember, in Selecting A Place of Residence for Yourself and Family, The surroundings and character of neighborhood should be carefully considered. You will make no mistake if you decide to locate in IF YOU ARE PAYING RENT, sec us and let us build you a house. Under our plan it is Cheaper to Live in Your Own House Than to Pay Rent f Call at the office and see photographs and plans of houses we have built in Denver. Our additions in Denver are admired by everyone. We shall build even better in Salt Lake. No expense will be spared to make our addition the pride of your city. Take the Ninth Avenue Electric and go out and see what we are doing, then come to the office and wc will give your terms. G. L. CHAMBERLAIN & CO.. Office, 23 "West Second Soxxtlx Street, Cloak salE! KELLY & CO. Printers, Stationers, Biank Book-Maker- s. No. 46 W. Saaond Sooth SU Salt Lake City, - - Utah. Our facilities for doing s Job Print-ing are of tha newwt and hear. Hooks ruled, !r.nted and bound to ordnr. Samples of Hall-rna- Mining. Bank and Mercantile work always on liand. Complete line of Office Sup- - emhraciiiR the most approved Labor-avln- u and Economical inventions. I Prices Low ! Call on u John Green, Sanitary Contractor and Scavenger Eicavationi for Sewer Connections a Specialty. Special term for monthly work to hotels and families. 8ft3 Main Street. Telephone MS. Postofnce Box Ml). Utah Optical Co. ' 167 S. Main, Salt Lake, THE ONLY RELIABLE! If you have defective vision, remember that fa make a specialty of mwicur.ng all Imper-fections of the eye, and fitting the same with genuine Alaska Crystal &. Brazilian The only place In the city where Rlasses are tilted to each Individual eye, and ground if nec 'ssary. Also a large assortment of Field and Opera Glares. John Weiser & Co. 2 M Sii Mb r COHNBROS. P Every Plush Garment in our stock at J J 33 Per cent ess an frmer f prices. ' IVa Braided Cloth Wraps 25 per cent, below ' cost. II Every variety of Cloth Jackets at actual manufacturers' cost. All Misses' and Childrens' Garments k 2 marked down to seventy-fiv- e cents Vl on the dollar. -- Ladies' Tea Gowns Below Cost. tjtit We have just four Real Alaska Seal J A Kj Jackets left. They cost before the v rise in seal $80, $85, ioo and $120. are to-da- y worth 90 per cent. OThey but can be bought at tha iZ prices during this sale. V"" v I 3--4 COHN BROS. 0 k 2 iir H Mjr Cloak salE Rudolph Alff, Importer of CHINA, CROCKERY, j GLASSWARE, Plated iS are, Cutler;, Lamps, Yases, and .... Statuary .... AO Main St. SALT LAKE CITY DE, HODGES, DENTIST I 31 W. 1st Sonth, - Slt Lake City. TEETH EXTRACTED WITHOUT PAIN I i By the Use of Vitalized Air. ALL WOEK WAERANTED ! 39 Main St, Salt Lake City. . . ... ana oy ana oy w rises tip again. The apothecary pat bis chin in the palm of his hand and meditated a while. "Look here!" he said gravely. "You haven't gone and swallowed an elevator, have your Exchange. Ill Symptoms. People who go to apothecaries to have their diseases prescribed for occasionally get very strange diagnoses. In one case a man, wearing a long countenance, is aid to have entered aa apothecary's shop and remarked: "I seem to have something queer in my stomach, and I want yon to give ma something for it" "What ane-you-r symptoms?" the spoth-acar- y asked. "Every little while something seems , to ria n. sad-tha- n eettles back again, Blister Beetles la Abudsas. A green insect called the "Spanish fly" has achieved a reputation in medicine. Reduced to a powder it is applied most effectively as a blister, inflaming the skin through the operation of an active principle which the powder contains called "cantharidin." Precious few peo-ple are aware, however, that ordinary potato bugs dried and powdered have an equal virtue of the same description. Furthermore, .there are ever so many other insects which supply this canthari-din. For example, there are fifteen known species of "blister beetles" in this country which serve the same purpose. Washington Star. THE CAPTAIN'S DREAMT' He looked somewhat craced, Ui OaptaiX, , With his singular, rapt faoo; and his eyes had a strange luster, Which waa the result of Grace. E. was very safe for plory. But ha didn't seem to oars, Eaid ha wouldn't be contented U tha whole world wasn't there. For his watchword was Salvation, And he seemed to And a spar Of a soul In every shiner, Though they strove to keep It dark. Till one day. Death's band upon him. His fierce ardor sought to break-L- aid him low In the poor attio He had lived In for our sake. Came a night when we stood watchinft Two or three about him there Suddenly be bid us bear bun , Just to breaths the cool night aln Bo we took the dying Captain To the window, moving slow; Far we feared his bean would fail hint At the evil sight below. For twas drawing oa to midnight; The New Cut was at its worst, Just a maze of drunken oiainor, j God forsaken aid accursed. , And tha yellow lamps were flaring , Ilifth, ttimujrh that strange market placa But there fell another luster On the Captain' wasted face. Ay, and from the garret window As he looked Into the town. Be beheld another City, Where the stream of lit. ran down. And he murmured, looking downward? "In fine linen, clean and white, Multitudes which none can number, And the Lord God is their light." Andrew Lang ta Longman s Mngarina physically speaking, as if he were made of glass, so that it was possible to see just how tilings went on in his insides. From observation of this extraordi-nary freak it was discovered that cer-tain channels ran to each part and ex-tremity of a human being, and tbirt by these channels it was possible to convey any remedy thf.t might be necessary to any organ or member requiring treat-ment internally. Ever since then celes-tial doctors have been able to tell just what sort of pills or decoctions were in-tended for the cure of this or that dis-order. The glass man doubtless suffered from the experiments tried upon him by science, but medical knowledge was benefited inexpressibly. Probably the Chinese pharmacopeia is more elaborate than that possessed by any other people. Physicians in the Flowery Kingdom mix up together such extraordinary things for remedial pur-poses as we should never dream of. One of their cures for liver complaint is ob-tained by administering the fossil teeth of various animals, which are known to them as "dragons' teeth." Antelopes' horns, powdered, they believe to be ex-cellent for rheumatism, and glue from the hides of asses is supposed to be an admirable tonio and diuretic. The shell of a certain fresh water turtle mado into jelly is a sure thing for "misery in the joints." A decoction from the hedge-hog's hide is excellent for skin diseases, and tigers' bones mixed with hartshorn and terrapin's shell in the Bhape of a jelly is a first rate tonio in cases of dis-eases of the bones and of ague. Wash ington Star. Curious Chinese Medicines. The medicines of Caucasian civiliza-tion are derived from many a curious origin, but if you want to find funny things utilized as remedies for disease you will discover them in the Chinese pharmacopoeia. Medical science in that country has been somewhat impeded by the respect which the Chinese pay to a dead body. Worshiping their ancestors as they do, their physicians would never think of cutting up a corpse. Consequently they know nothing of anatomy. Such knowl-edge on the subject as they pretend to possess is derived, according to their own account, from a man born some centuries ago, who had the misfortune to be of a transparent consisted'"' ...fit. Chinese Money. One of the most troublesome questions to contend with in traveling in China is that of money. As is well known the Chinese have no other currency than the copper cash, about fifteen hundred of which are worth at Peking a Chinese ounce of pure silver, called by foreigners a "tael of sycee." Silver is naturally used in commercial transactions, but as bullion only, and by weight, so every one has to have a set of small scales. The inconvenience that this weighing entails would be comparatively small were all the scales throughout the em-pire uniform; but such is not the case. They differ considerably from one town to another, and even in the same local-ity. Thus at Peking there is a govern-ment standard, a maritime customs standard and a commercial standard. The same diversity is found over all the empire, and the consequent compli-cations and even serious loss in exchange are a continual vexation. Nor is it pos-sible to escape this loss by carrying cop-per cash with one, for, putting aside their excessive weight, there is not even a standard cash in China. Those used at T'ien-tsi- n are not used at Peking; those at Peking are not current, except nt a discount, at T'ai-yua- Here I bought a very debased kind of cash, giv-ing one "large cash" for four of them. A hundred miles farther south these small cash were at par, and even, in a few cases, at a slight premium over the intrinsically more valuable large one. The Mongols, Thibetans and Tnrke-stanes- e have never consented to use the Chinese copper cash, although it is the standard money of the realm. The first named people use silver ingots or brick tea; the others have a silver currency Df their own. Cor. Century, Habits t m Man of Ninety Yrare. The great Von Moltke at 90 rises at 5 o'clock, makes his own cup of coffee over a spirit lamp, and busies himself with garden and farm till 10, when he takes a bowl of soup or biscuit, with a glass of wine, for his second breakfast, after which he attends to his correspondence and other business till 1. From 1 to 3 he lies down. At 2 he dines sparingly, and works again till friends drop in, with whom he talks or walks until his 8 o'clock tea, and at 10 he is in bed. Ha attributes his clear head and good health to his regular and abstemious habits. Harper's Bazar. Penalty tor No Living Near Church. The general court decreed in 1635 that no dwelling should be placed more than half a mile away from the meeting house in any new plantation, and again, in 1661, an Ipswich inhabitant absenting himself, with his wife, from public wor-ship, the court empowered the seven men to sell his farm, so that he might be compelled to live nearer the sanctuary. Imagine the churchwardens or trustees of a modern New York church coolly undertaking to seize and sell the estate of a member nowadays. Boston Globe, Queer People of Chincotoague. There is a little islaad about 150 miles Iown the Potomao called Chincc-teagu- e. This island is inhabited by a strange race of people and a race of the greatest ponies in the world, The people of the island fish and grow oysters and are a hardy, primitive race who fear God and attend strictly to their business. Hundreds of these won-derful ponies roam the island, living in the summer on the rank coarse grass. In the winter they subsist on sea weed, and in the Spring are mere frames in consequence of the diet. These ponies are unlike any ponies in the world. They are about 13 to 18 hands high, nearly all sorrels or bays, and are fine bodied and neatly limbed. They have the head and eyes of tha Arabian, and the supposition is that orig-- 1 inally the stock came from some thor-oughbreds that swam ashore from some wrecked vessel What is most remark-able about them is that they trot and pace fast, and are possessed of remark-able endurance. In the spring you can purchase a good pony for $35 and up-ward. The colts are not gelded and stallions predominate. When the weather is bad and the waves inundate the island scores of the little fellows are swept into the water and are lost Washington Letter. They Grow la Pittsburg-- . The Manufacturer These are all very fine, but I have a plant that I could get a hundred thousand for any day. The Collector Good heavens! Is it an orchid, or a blue rose, er what? The Manufacturer Neither. It is a steel plant Pittsburg Bulletin. Killed at Last. S. C. Bowen, of Nashville, Tenn., says: The true Btory of the death of Gen. Ewell is known only to a few. As a young man he was quite a dandy, mid continued to pay a great deal of atten-tion to his dress until August, lfcWJ, when he lost a leg at the battle of Grove-to- He recovered in u few months and led his troops until tho close of the war, but with the loss of his leg he also seemed to lose all interest in his personal ap-pearance, and after he went back to his farm in Tennessee was in the habit of i wearing the most dreadful old garments imaginable, saying that it made no dif-- 1 ference how a d man looked. A year or two after the close of the war there was a sale of quartermaster's stores, and Gen. Ewell bought a quan-- ; tity of military trousers for which there was no longer any use. He issued them to his workmen, and at last took up the habit of wearing a pair about his farm. They were shoddy goods, very thin and flimsy, and on a damp day in the winter Ewell took a cold, which developed into pneumonia, and from which he never recovered. A day or two before his death, when he knew there was no hope, he said to a friend: "The enemy has killed me at last. I was in many battles, was severe-ly hit more than once, and on more than one occasion thought I was as good as dead. When the war closed it seemed to me that I had nothing more to fear, but I was mistaken, for here I am at last dying of a pair of Yankee breeches." St. Louis Globe-Democr- A single hair can support a weight of two ounces, and is so elastic that it may be stretched to one-thir- d of its entire length, and then refain its former size iL&ii condition Where tha Ass Atnnseft m Crowd. The common people of Cairo resort to the exhibitions of mountebunks who teach camels, asses and dogs to dance. The dancing of the ass is diverting enough. After he has frisked and capered sufficiently his master tells him that the sultan means to build a great palace, and will have to employ all the asses in ear-- ; rying mortar, stones and other materials. Upon this the ass falls down with hi feet upward, closing his eyes and extend-ing his chest as if he were dead. The owner loudly bewails his loss, and appeals to the bystanders for alms to make it good. Then, having collected as much as possible, he announces that the ass is not really dead, but being sen-sible of his master's necessity has played a trick to secure provonder. He commands the ass to rise, but the brute remains motionless in spite of all the blows he can give him. At last he proclaims that by virtue of an edict of the sultan all the handsome ladies are bound to ride out the next day upon the comeliest asses they can find in order to see a triumphal show, and that the ladies are to entertain their beasts with oats and Nile water. These words are no sooner pronounced than the ass rises up, prances and leaps far joy. The master then declares that the ass has been pitched upon by the warden of his street to carry his deformed and ugly wife, upon which the ass lowers his ears and limps with one leg as if lame. The showman, after remarking that his donkey is a great admirer of hand-some women, commands him to single out the prettiest one in the company, and the well trained beast completes the show by going about among the people, and finally touching one of the prettiest of the women with his head, to the great amusement of the crowd. Youth's Com-panion. ' Brown' a Marble Works hate remored to No. 35 V. Third South. |