Show LOCAL NEWS I 1 the keystone garage haye have put in a athi athe it is now oie of the best equipped shops in county mrs T A hansen of salt lake lak e city is visiting for a few days in too ele the guest of mrs K X A Blut harsch owing to the fact that two members of the board of county commissioners will be absent from the county on monday october ath 1915 the regular cr of the said board will not be held until thursday october ath the following marriage licenses were issued this week by bv county clerk whitehouse to the following couples earl C atchison and miss ethel childers Chil ners both of salt lake city utah M ben pedersen and miss erna howell howe both of tooele thoele excursion to denver demier pueblo and colorado springs account dry farmin ing K congress tickets on sale via salt lake route september 26 october 2nd and and 3rd ard at greatly reduced rates return limit october for particulars particular a apply to any salt lako lak route agent the brigham young UnIv university eTsIty at provo utah will begin its fortieth academic year september 23 1915 registration days thursday and friday september 23 and 24 class work begins monday september 27 write for or catalogue ml inquiries will wil i receive prompt attention before printing came into use all boots books and reading I 1 ng matter were written by hand the work of 0 transcribing books was entrusted almost wholly to the monks of 0 the middle ages and it is to them that we owe the preservation ot of the bible and the ancient classics had they not made copies of these working laboriously and untiringly with great skill and artistic finish we should not today be in possession pos eslon ot of the bible or the iliad or th odyssey ot or any one of 0 a g gibat eat many ol of the ancient greek and roman contributions to literature no original manus manuscript ot of tiny any classical author and no original manuscript ol 01 any purl t ot of the bible old testament ment or new is in ex exl stance istance nothing Is known ot of any ot of these books except through the medium 01 0 copies and in some cases very many copies intervene between us and the original according to the latest news newspaper piper guesses on what the fighting nations ate are mending each day in the present Eti european repe marsit wars it certainly looks very much as it 11 some of the nations will so soan have to stop jor or want ot of supplies 5 england is so ending 9 15 a day france a minute germany a day and the other smaller mailer states slates less in proportion one ot of germanys germanas Germ anys own financiers puts the total cost ot of the first year of the war at it a sum more than 50 per cent greater thin than the gold production of the world dur ing the last lait years A yacht which was built at no ne ponset bonset mass a low few months ago has been sent to the scrap pile because owing to the tha use of monel metal in conjunction with steel in the vessels construction tho the proportion of the former being about five times that of the latter she is virtually an electric battery producing currents that threaten speedy destruction by electrolysis this metal has been used with steel in other vessels without producing any such effects but in fit all alf previous cases tho the two have been used in about equal proportions A german chemist is working on a process which is expected to make wood pulp available as a substitute for cotton jn the ilia manu facture of high power explosives the pulp is prepared and made into sheets much the same as in the manufacture of paper the only difficulties yet remaining arise from tho the tact fact that the material contains impurities which ahi il make the explosive uncertain and highly dangerous to handle A writer in the scientific american reports having observed an electric spark at tho the end of a whip when it gave out a parti loud snap anti and suggests that the snap was not made by the lash at all but that it was the result of the flie instant concussion of the air the cle ciric spark being produced by tho the friction of the currents of air tho the same as in a thunder storm |