Show with the closing down of the mercur mines and mill that famous mining ro inina tamp camp will he a city ot of the past but that has been anticipated by the people themselves as well as by the milt and mine owners for a year or more and the action now being taken by the various fraternal societies shows that they arcilie first to arrange for a re moval boval the lodges there have taken action to consolidate with the thoele tooele lodges here the knights of the pythian sisters the odd fellows and re Rebe kehs will consolidate with the toode lodges and the masonic lodge will trans fare their charter charier to the thoele tooele lodge the tran trans stares fares are expected to be completed by the first of next month the cruiser salem his has beet been for some weeks cruising bruising in the atlantic and keeping up communication with the new government wireless station at arlington opposite washington these tests were made in order to prove that the apparatus would oo ao all that was claimed for it before its acceptance by the government it is said that recently a wireless station in egyet has been picking up signals from america over a distance of miles this being the biggest record yet the exploration ot of the inside of 0 the sphinx his has had interesting results according to advices advises from egypt prof succeeded in removing ren oving the accumulated sand of 60 centuries froth from the interior of the head and gained entrance through the neck to a temple that runs the whole length of the gigantic body measuring feet in the temple is a pyramid forming the tomb of menes I 1 king of it is supposed to contain his mummified body copin sloping g passa passages T ft roin na the tema pie lead to 0 other 7 tc chamberg bera ye agn vel t plo elored red id and also sit at is is believed to a subterranean city A device in the way of 0 a telephone for deaf mutes has lately been produced by a family who are themselves deaf mutes the messak message e is spelled out on a typewriter the keys are connected by wire with wah a signal board at the distant end on which there are 36 tiny electric lamps corresponding letters of the alphabet and the figures As each character i is s struck on the typewriter the lamp corresponding to that character is lighted up and the message is thus easily read As communicating cw can thus be done in absolute silence the anven invention tion m may also be used for other purposes as for in instance secret signaling et etc C the simplified sp spelling elling board has just issued its fourth list of words to appear in new fashioned orthography about laoo words are shortened or changed in spelling the board bo ard says in announcing the riv ilist do not be to too n much influenced by the odd ap perance of bf the word any change ma roust t look odd at first consider rather whether the change will bring a real gan I 1 it the public should accept it some same ot 0 the changes are Drop dropping the silent it in such words as 03 chaos and champlion cha char nelion dropping final k in words like hammock chan changing glug heart and hearth hart and harts haith dropping the silent e la money and similar words substituting nee for knee and for nici nic knack nack changing pranced to branst and other words ending with need and ast the word touch is spelled tuch serious is changed to derius blow is spelled blo below is changed to bello forced to forst phantom to fan fantom torn handsom to handsom haada hand nm sam boss bass to bos glue to and wretch to retch fach etch of these instances typifies a rife rule an and als is followed by along a long list lilt of words it applies andrews andrew carnegie theodore roosevelt and a score of other noted meri men are included in in the list of the boards members |