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Show OGDEN DAILY COMMERCIAL; SI 'SPAY. AUGUST 30, 1891. A.1 am ito Sea. Exmj indvaboa of good fellowship, every incident that draws closer England ami America I be great to-get-ir ought to be English sptakms made tSe Moat of. English is the laa- of the future, became already qm it than any . Beak It are the coming race. Troobtow time are in store for the monarchic in Ed ia a kingdom in littto name, her governme: t bein? nearly as frt a our own. In I e that is cure to come among m and empires, it will be well i r the free Euglifch speaking peoples to stand together. They can role the DO YOU NEED JOB PRINTING OF ANY KIND? - world. Significant signs show that the feeling of brotherhood between Great Britain and the United States is increasing. It will grow still more rapidly when Ireland's wrongs are redressed. Pleasant it is to read of the special services held in Westminster bbey in memory of our dead poet, Lowell. Archdeacon Farrar himself conducted the beautiful and impressive service, and said of Lowell: "He was one of the sacred unions binding Rngland and America more closely together. Ha was loved and his memory will be revered by the two mightiest nations of the earth." Pleasant it to to read, too, that a special committee of English ladies has taken up the work of furthering the interests of oar Columbian fair. At the head of the committee is no less a person than the queen's own daughter, Princess Christian, which shows the feeling of the British royal family toward America at least We can recall with satisfaction, too, that this interest among the women of England in our World's fair to due to the efforts of the accomplished and patriotic president of the American women's commission for the exposition, Mrs. Potter Palmer. If You are engaged in any kind of Business, be it Large or Small, you will need something in our line. COMMERCIAL, RAILROAD, BANK, LEGAL AND COUNTY A Day In the Wheat Pit. The following from late Chicago dispatches rather tends to excite a mild wonder whether the lunatics are mostly confined in asylums. And after reading the dispatch, taking in the lightning change business of grain and pork and how the longs became short and the shorts became long and everything left off not far from where it started, there is still further temptation to inquire mildly, What is the good of it all? When the bell sounded this morning to Inform the waiting brokers that the ball was open, a shoot went up which almost lifted the roof. Everybody wanted to buy wheat, and there was little or none for tale, before the eehues of the opening bell had died away December wheat bad sold at l.l and $1.11. In a minute or to It went to 1 1.134, back to ( li ... and then on another splurge touched $1.14 all this hi the ft nit twenty minutea. The business was not of large volume, for few were bold enough to support tbe market The soiling was mostly done by the longs, who had a good profit and wanted to secure it. At 11 o'clock it was reported that New York and foreign houses had turned sellers, aud If there was frenzytnthe previous buying there was litt'e. "rtiwnrtty in rrm einrtir erase which f iowea. SMSSSBSW m uc.il started to tumblo as soon as the foreign selling became known, and the drop from $1.14 to $1.05 was quick and easy. But a reaction of a cent or two followed. The excitement in wheat extended to other markets. Corn sold up to 684 cents for September, oats to 804 cents, and pork to $10.66. Hut all went off sharply on the break in w heat live was also on the rampage. September sold up to $1.10, and held there for a long time. A week ago today the same option in rye closed at 7614 cents. Old operators say they have never Known such wild excitement and such wide and rapid fluctuations. Soma Individual losses must have been appalling. After the noon hour the longs showed much of the panlo which tbe shorts had exhibited in the forenoon. Early buyers turned sellers and tho bears put out short linos. December went o!T rapidly to $1.03, but rallied some later. Everything else followed In the wake of wheat on tbe down turn as on tbe excited advance. September corn broke to 63 cents; September rye, after touchiun gum. fell to SUU. and September pork from $10.65, during the excuemeui, to Stf.su. It is some yenrs since man began to improve on nature's work by making artificial stone, and it is announced that one has at last been ilevised which is better for architectural purposes than anything ever yet found ready made. It is a compound of iron, sulphur and silicon, the three being united by partly chemical, partly mechanical action. This stone is of remarkable strength, and is produced in any color desired. It can be molded into any architectural form. Besides this it may bo cast into sewer pipes, and is valued for bridge foundations and culverts because its surface can be polished to perfect smoothness. PRINTING AND BINDING Whatever you may need, be it much or little, come and see yls. We want to figure with you. We'll figure with you right. We'll Wkt you square. The especial attention of attorneys is called to our unequalled facilities for turning out pamphlet work, in the way of briefs and abstracts. SATISFACTION GUARANTEED Among the anecdotes revived by the death of George Jones, of The New York Times, is one thut can hardly be repeated too often. It is the story of how Connolly, of the Tweed ring, offered to Mr. Jones $5,000,000 in cold cash if he would refrain from attacking the ring and would suppress the proofs he held of its rotten dealiugs. Mr. Jones refused and the fortune of The Times was made. But, honestly, how many men, not over rich, would have refused $5,000,000 for simply keeping their mouths shut? We are fully equipped with the latest patternlmachinery and new material to do you justice on prices as well as a high class of work. It was an English paper that said it about the money appropriated by the British government for the Colombian fair: "The money is squandered on feasting, traveling and other expenses for the personal comfort and glorification of the commissioners." But of course American commissioners to Europe do not spend money in that way. It is a satisfaction to know that the Mississippi river has Iwen hunted to its source at last. This is now declared to be, not Lake Itaska, but "a great ultimate reservoir nine miles above Lake Itaska." This makes the total length of the Mississippi 2,555 miles. PreaDos Moif jrd was a shy, quirt. ve man of aeniM. He was otr of lew York y he became interested in the puiiuso- phy he afterward pot before the world of the White Cm to the iililiislii this time, alth-.uc- 'j Mi ably We task, unol fats ml- worn mmmm Ma Ai I withdrew into himself more and a:. J c've np to it. Wort of all he loved to be MM with nature under the trees or upon the ' He was a Spiritualist, held communication with departed But he was in no sense whatever a crank He was a or a long haired prophet neatly dressed, quiet gentleman, with at all extraordinary in his sp-He himself would have been the last man to claim hat he could work miracles or that he had as yet attained any weird occult power that would enable him to kill by a flash of will, like the child in Bulwer s "Coming Race. Such was Prentice Mulford, aa his best friends knew him. But bo sooner waa he oat of the body than most extravagant fairy tales began to clnster about his memory. Stories that would strain to the cracking point the credulity of the most gullible began to be told. We hear how he would be walking along the street and suddenly turn into somebody else a withered up old man, a child with a piping voice and of course a big Injun who said "ugh," in bloodcurdling tones. Most tremendous of all, long documents are poured into the newspapers purporting to be dictated by the disembodied spirit of Mr. Mulford. That these documents, however able, have not a trace of Mulford's style or methods of thought are nothing at all to the point That the crazy thin;, such as losing himself and turning i o somebody else on the pnblic street id asking his way over pavements his feet trod daily, were never witnessed by those who saw him familiarly and often during the last years of his life is nothing to the point either. Still less is it to the point to ask, If these extraordinary stories are true, why did not the persons who knew them tell them during his lifetime, instead of waiting till after he was dead? All the same, the stories grow like a soft snowball rolling down hilL In a little while the sensitive, gifted man, with not a speck of humbug or claptrap about him, will stand before the world as a Blavatsky, a Paracelsus or perhaps one of those old hermits who could raise a thunderstorm or cure r case of measles at wilL Very good. Go on. Prentice Mulford will make as good a miracle worker as any of them. -- The imperial government of China is in a dilemma of a kind that would not make anybody want to be emperor of a celestial kingdom. If the imperial government redresses the wrongs of the foreigners who suffered at the hands of a Chinese mob, then its subjects threaten to rise in revolution. On the other hand, if China does not give satisfaction for these injuries, then European and Amer ican loom up on the horizon, ready to batter down all the Chinese cities along the coast and only too glad of the pretext to make a raid inland. Thus China has a first class object lesson on the old saying about being between the devil and the deep sea. men-of-w- It has been found that epidemics follow one another in waves around the globe from east to west. This is notably true of cholera and the grip. First appearing in Asia, they move successively to Europe and thence to America, A weather observer declares the same is true of wet and dry seasons. The droughts in the northwestern part of the United States have passed off over the Pacific ocean and are reappearing again in Asia. The same authority says there are apt to be in succession three dry seasons and three wet ones. It has been observed that during the prevalence of epidemics the atmosphere is in a negative electric condition. "We don't want to fight," but if it must come to that it is a satisfaction to know that the young men of our National Guard are ready to become magnificent soldiers. On general principles, if there is no fighting to be done in America ever again the military drill of the National Guard, faithfully kept up, will tend to make our young men erect and graceful in bearing. The English sparrow becomes more and more a pest throughout the country. Flocks of these birds have seriously interfered with the profits of grain fields in some cases. The Illinois sparrow law, wmch fixes a bounty of two cents a head on all these birds killed in December, January and February, is commended to the attention of legisla tors generally. The various big engines that are to exhibit their force and beauty at the Columbian fair will also furnish the power to run the machinery of the exThus they will at the same position. time be serving the country and showing themselves off. ! m he Conimerc ial Pilishiii COHf It used to be the speculators that held the wheat back for hiirh nrirtRR Thin year u win oe tne" tanners. firoflWl ww waubifso mill Will luvntl UCglli epout liko a natural gas fissure. LU |