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Show j A LOCAL MUSEUM. i ' New York City haa an Amirirarj museum of ostural history. Heretofore there have been pay days end free days to visit the museum. The Times says it has an unhroken record of prop-ess and use-fwInesjrTfortrTTrTouddartoB, use-fwInesjrTfortrTTrTouddartoB, forty yranrarfo down to the present time, and now the trustees, after much debate, have decided that every day shall be a free day. because it is an educational institution and, too, it is a recreation to the poor man and tired nian, and in the meantime relics are being eatlfcred which will he of an inestimable value in yea;-? f; hence. . . j' We think with a little effort tin; money to buy 1 the land and erect a like museum building for Salt L Lake City could be obtained. Salt Lake City has j about a hundred thousand inhabitants. New York t City about fifty times thnt many, hence the museum j . hero would have to be smaller than in New York; . but it should be elnbliNhed with the idea that "s the years come and gu it will he enlarged and improved, im-proved, and if such a structure could be erected ad-i ad-i - j ining the Packard library, for instance, one more '. attendant and ont' more janitor would be all that would be nceoed. and it would be a source of vjry s much interest to the people; it would supply part of the education for the' young, and would at the I name time secure and make safe a great many :f ' the rare objects of interest with which this Mate ; . abounds. We are sure that the people would take j , a preal interest in it, and would supply it with ! thousands of rare objects of interest. An exploring , . expedition down to the cliff dwellers region would ntf cost much, and a multitude of trophies could be j , gathered ther.-.. Everything rare found in the j . mines would gravitate, to It, the desert would give j: 1 up ita rarities, it would not interfere in the least l 1 . uith the mineral display which ia already on exhibition, ex-hibition, but would supplement it and would draw , to it what Ihe present display does not; Ihe .children .chil-dren of the city. It would not eont much to have . : a man in charge who could explain the nature of everything it might contain; it would add another ,, feature to the interesting things which this city already has to exhibit, and would be at tho same time a mean.i ol giving the young, in n practical way, instruction which they runnot obtain any-. any-. where else. ; , New York in much larger than ialt Lake, but the ratio of people that would be interested in such au institution ia iiite as great in Salt Lake as it I. is in New York City. It would not be much for : trre. er four of our rich men to buy the land and build the structure and with it done it would he j sct.rce of satisfaction to them every time they $ passed it. ttry time the;- saw a child going in to 4 ex-mine its wonders. A little public spirit, moved I ' by some, public spirited man or woman, would ae-I ae-I ' care it, and surely there are lo be found such men o- such womct. within the limits of the citv. i . ! i . ... . ' |