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Show Issued evorr nierning, (Mondays excepted), by the JVWCTlOfc PiTNTIMO AsCIATIOK J (Incorporated.) Mnd Jlmrlh Strttti, Of etrmr Aitrm all ocamnicaUoa oa ala to mIbcm kUaag!", tkoaa iaUn f oth.Mitar Satuiuut Moaimie. Fsb. tko pmblicatioa 21, 1880. OUR HIGH SCHOOL. - English education. If the Ward schools are carried on with the reduced attendance, only for one year, the scholars 'entering upon the Third Header would be a le to stand a better show Id erithmetio, writing, spelling, elementary grammar and so on, than under the act ual circumstances the Fourth Head ers do. "Beys and girls of fourteen to eighteen rears, struggling! with the ' intricacies" of compound num I ors, "realizing "difficulty "at 'writing their own names, ignorant of the rudimentary principles of language, pofcoed of nothing but at most, a Very superficial smattering cf geeg runny, present a sad sight, 'whose continuance should be avoided by all efforts. Scholars te enter the ''high school" ought to be well grounded in the four species; (addition fc) and handle the compoand numbers with facility. They ought to read cur OEXERJ.L T&EZCHJlJi'DlSE. TflE GBEAT 50ITIWMT. SCIENTIFIC MISCELLAJY' the higher branches of a common It is stated that a new photographies process has just been discovered F:--- :. YaHrt FKli 'kaas lire. in Japan. One of the substances employed in the manufacture of Japanese lacqaer has the property of becoming almost as hard as stone under the action of light. A slab covered with this material and duly exposed behind a photographic negative tor some twelve hours, was scraped, and rubbed with a spatula and brush, leaving the hardened portions raised in low relief, and capable of being used as a block for printing. One of the novelties of Breslau is a paper chimney, about fifty feet high, f rendered by chemical 0ea St tmbfMt iUaf Km the N o section of the Union at present! offers greater inducements to the mining prospector, farmer, stock raiser, capitalist or laborer than the vast region north of Oeden penetra ted by the Utah k Northern Rail way, new over 300 miles long. This line traverses the most extensive and fertile valleys ef Northern Utah, it crosses the ereat Snake River cold fields and the beat graxing lands of taano, is rendered easy of access ine treatment. Salmon River, Yankee Fork and The uniforaa green color of the Cariboo mining region and has en vegetable world is due te chloro- tered the Territory of Montana. phyll. This substance, however, exrsuae Tinnon. ists only in minute quantities in conThe Utah tree k Northern railway, as plants, the leaves of a large taining perhaps not more than one noted above, crosses Eastern Idaho, hundred erains. It appears to bee every mile of which is valuable either direct product of the action of the for its pasturage, its ; agricultural, sunlight upon vegetation, as it does timber or mineral lands. Idaho is not exit in plants kept in darkness. called the "Gem of the Mountains,'? The changes in the color of leaves in on account of its great diversity of autumn are supposed to be lue to resources, its mild and healthful clithe oxidation of their chlorophyll. mate, its wonderful mineral springs Four-fifth- s of the atmosphere is and its fine scenery. It is 400 miles nitrogen; and it has been asserted by long by 300 wide, contains some 20,an agricultural chemist that the man 000 inhabitants, and its mines have who first makes the nitrogen of the yielded $65,000,000. Wide areas of air available as a fertilizer at a small grazing lands sustain cattle, horses cost will be the greatest material and sheep winter and summer, while benefactor the world ever produced. the valleys produce all cereals and The Glasgow artificial diamonds. vegetable ot the temperate sons, belately announced, have been exam sides apples, pears, grapes, peaches, ined by a scientifio expert and pro plums, apricots and other fruits. nounced a probable combination oi Good roads lead to different parts of Idaho Irom stations on the Utah silicia certainly not diamonds. r or several years the attention ot Northern Railway. physiciana and scientists has been directed to learning the nature of SI1I1 MTU COLD HUM. the poison producing those remitis It now demonstrated beyond a tent and intermittent diseases vari ously known as marsh fever, malarial doubt that hundreds of miles of grav fever and fever and ague, lne pioh- - el bars along Snake River, Eattern lem is at last solved. After exposing Jdano sosueet wnicu.are directly on in thr the line of the Utah A .Northern ihmlro fnr thv& district, the Roman hauway are ncn m aeposits or nne Several companies operating Csrapsr na, tfignor fomais, .f Rome, i Hold18T9. took out from 30U $46 per and Prof. Kleb. o2 Praeue. have dis- Abeir large and covered the source of malaria to be a , to an microscopic fungus. The next step regular shipments ei rncisco nave created great excite-som- e for the benefit of mankind is to find means of destrovin these fun, Fent " n?"ug circles, and Western journals already pronounce these the ci. cr rendering them inocuous extensive placer silver diggings frof. Procter tnus sums up tea ef n:ou fects of climate upon mortality iu the world as "good prospects" of are ionnd all along the river for persons than usual die a'ter gold a distance of 400 miles. Outfitting such a because a bitter winter, not winter is favorable to life, but be- can be&done at Eagle Rock, on the Northern Railway, and with cause it kills off many of the weaker Utah lives during its progress, and more in an hour's walk of some of these than usual die after a mild winter, ?;reat bars. Now is tho time to strike in this vast new region, not bucause such a winter is unfavor able to life, but because it leaves which will soon be overrun by miners i alive many who would have died from every State and Territory. during its progress had it been ef the SiLMOX BITI1 Bills, average sort." A fact probably but little known Fully 150lmiles distant from Eagle t Rock, by Gilmer k Salisbury stage is that the U. S. nickel piece furnishes a key to metric route, or the Yankee Fork mines, measures and weights. This coin is 175 miles from Black Foot, by tho two centimetres in diameter and its Terminus and Chalis stage line, are weight is five grammes. Five of them also attracting great attention for placed in a row will give the length the unexampled richnees of their of the decimetre, and two of them gold and silver quarts. The region As a kil- covers an area of 10,000 square miles, will weigh a decagramme. olitre is a cubic metre, the key to and although only partially explorthe measure of length is also the key ed, already promises to rival the best mining region in the world. Mining oi the measures of capacity. A curious belief a men? the natives experts unite in pronouncing the of Burmah is that fire flies are em- Yankee Fork lodes the richest yet ployed as lamps by the weaver birds, discovered west of the Rockies. Hunthe insects being caught by the birds dreds of tons of ore, worth from (500 and glued to their nests by pieces of to fz.WU per ton, have been packed soft mud. Mr. X. L. Lsyard finds on mules and shipped to the Salt this belief a superstition, fie says, Lake Smelting Works. Salmon City, however, the bits of mudjare alwsys Chalis, Bonanza City, are leading to be found in neyta of the weaver towns. Distance from Eagle Rock birds, being probably used to cleanse to Salmon City, 150 miles; faro $27. the birds' bills.. During the cleaning Distance from Black Foot.te Chalis, is oc- 175 miles: faro $25. Fare from Omaprocess it is probable a fire-flha to either Chalis or Salmon City, a from bird's removed casionally $100; seoend-claa- . a$7i. mouth and stuek in the maS, being first-clas- s, Tho route from the East to the only thus unintentionally made to serve Snake and Salmon res, as a lamp instead of a a breakfast, .me . River -mining I. is via ' Several cases are union jraome ana which in gione reported scarlet fever, measles and other in- Utah k orthsrn Railroads, fectious diseases have been spread by cats and dogs. Montana's gold and silver mines, now aimosi in signtor the Utah k " Call at the Commercial House bar xxortnem Kailway, have yielded for yonr morning cocktail. $150,000,000, and the annual yield since isw nas averaged $8,500,000, Over 20,000 lodes and 2,000 placer Jnst Observe! mines have been recorded. Alder For your nice Limburger, Hol in which Virginia City is loGulch, land Herring, Anchovies, Pigs' Feet, has alone poured out $40,000,-00Lambs' Tongues, Santielles, Caviare, cated, in glittering dust. Iron, lead, Oysters in every style, together with coal, copper and oinnabar are also all the Knick Snacks, dainty edibles and toothsome luxuries of the plentiiful.40,000,000 awes of pastoral Nearly season and out of season, call on acres and The monumental pride '6f the Junction City, the imposing struc lure of the neir central school is rapidly nearing completion, WhiU we watch the progress of the skilled artisans we may well indulge in few reflections on the institution to be located in the building after it leaves the charge of the architect... Ever since our citisens took the rently,, and understanding!?, the wise and well advised step to con first chapters of the Third 'Header; glomerate the previous three school they should be able to write fluently districts within the city limits into legibly, and correctly after dictation one municipal school district, our from the Second Reader; they ought local school "affairs have been im- to know the physical and 'political proving. That measure wan the chief features of Utah and the United foundation to the organic ana har- States; they ought to have some kind monious establishment of a more of a conception of subject and pre uniform system of common educa-- j dicate, noun and verb, etc. , tion for the youth of our town. The Such scholars, and no others, will new central achool is to be its crown- furnish tee. material tor a nleLer course of instruction, which would ing point. Tho concentration of all public; lead them to the intelligent,' sympaschool interests of our community thetic, appreciative reading of a into one focus has had the invalue- ctassic. through all ot "practical W e advantage of enabling the school arithmetic," up to the elements of authorities and officers to devise and algebra and descriptive geometry; introduce a more uniform and con- through a comprehensive study of cordant method in the different de- tiie universal geography; through wk partments. It stands to reason that structure and construction of sen whatever principles of instruction tonces. and composition ' of plain, and school discipline are found anJ but lucid little exercises, and through proved to be efficient in one ward, the history et the United States, must necessarily be desirable fot all To this might, in the course of time, be added popular, intelligible, plain the others. ' The chief aim and end of our pub courses in those natural sciences jic schools must f?e to render the ex- which have a direct, continual bearistence and support of all other ing on the health of man, on his schools superfluous. Kotthatweare pursuit in the arts and mentifae. ; in the lead inclined to deny the ap- turrs. But we are trying to write an edi plicability of the sacred principle of free competition in the field of edu- torial-ne- t a pamphlet; hence we cation But it is a fact, only teo well will cut these few remarks short. known, that if our publio schools The subject deserves deep investi had always answered the demands gation; it requires all the light, "the and supplied the wants of parents best education, and practical experi and guardians, no other educational ence can shed upon it. It is a theme' institutions would have been able to not easily exhausted at least not gain a foothold, let alone the large ia the columns of a daily paper.1!, We and constantly growing support they know that our best men are. giving it careful consideration, ana we are receiving at the present day. The very first thing our schools re- hope that the general public will quire, in order to be up to the re take interest in it. It is a' question quirements of this progressive and concerning everyone, for on its sucrapidly progressing age, is a thon cessful and enlightened solution de ough, sweeping system of grading. pends the intellectual prosperity' The old habit of crowding infants of and progress of our city. ; . live and six years, stammering over their ABC into the tame locality, Tas Miacn Atlantit bar sjTery ap under the same teaoher's care, with list of contents." Hr. How petizing the same youths and ell's serial, "The Undiscovered Counmaidens of twice and three times try," grows in interest every- aeuth, that age, who ought to be wending and bids fair- te surpass in power their way through the meandering "The Lady ei the Iroostbok." Cbas. of parting and syntax, is an unmitiDudley Warner contributes a degated nuisance, avital, or rather fatal lightful biographical and critical esdefect of the old regime. on Washington Irving, which It has, once, been stated in public, say will make readers love both Irving that eur present arrangements of and Warner better. There are two publio schools compel a teacher to excellent short stories, "Accidentally hear from ten to twenty different Overheard," by Hersee S. Scudder, classes a day, all grades of reading and "Hannah Dawston's Child," by and spelling, from Primer to Fifth Lucy Lee Pleasants. The second in Reader, from "twice two are four" to stallment ' ef "Reminiscences of cube root and permutation, etc. Washington" includes much personNow, aside from the intense mental al and social as well as political ,an strain that the control of so many ecdote concerning the four years of varied branches must impose upon John Quincy Adams' administration. that Francis H. Underwood has an' en the teacher, it is within the daily six hours there can under the gaging account ef not b sufficient time found to Pharaohs." Riohard Grant White to each class the attention, drill, writes of "English in England," cit exercise, and rehearsing requisite to ing numerous examples of words 0OOMT, attain any noteworthy result. uced incorrectly or q ueerly by; the Fifth Street, dtf There ia, moreover, the evil influ English, and asking curiously inence of the association of children of artiele. There are poems different ages, on the morals of the teresting B. T: Aldrich, Miss RaraL, O. Jew by jounger. th author not actress, but ett, All these disadvantages must be of "Deepheven," Celia Tnaxter, c obviated, if our schools are to answer car Laightou, and Louise Chandler the purpose f,r which the taxpayers Moulton. Several noteworthy new contribute their dimes and dollars. books are reviewed, and a diversified The bast way to remedy the evil, Contributors' CTub completes a iry U to attack it at its very root, by XI good number of this sterling magav grading the whole school system of sine, i.ur city so as to leave to the four ward schools the instruction of the ITUWt Prsirtp FJwr air HtssM tower grades of scholars only, say, up Taken before retiring will insure a to Second Itsader, in classes. The good night's rest, with an awakening Primer, First and in the rosy morn to health, courage ftecond Readers of each ward are nn and vigor. For coated tongue, bad ill all Mumi ef Threat mi Last. sick headache, or any dis breath, ;erou enough to five each Uaeher turbance arising, from dyspepsia or LAWRENCE sic MARTIN, 111 Madlaon 81 Lis hands and h"ad full. The prac- torpid liver, it is without s peer. Its tice of penning from eighty to a hun- action on disease is entirely diflsrsnt Sole Agents U. S. and Canada, !int ever introduced, porters Wines.Llquars, and begars. dred and more children of all ages from any medicine almost instantly, n The for salt ftf pains quieting sratfitt tmi peeUm rrjwhrf. into one room for six hours daily, hue and cry raised against it by patent ' medicine men, w he have foreseen ought, before this, to have been and deprecated in it true in its advent the destruction of their NO PATENT NO PAY nefarious business, and the thousands , ligM a horrible abomination. of unsolicited testimonials flawing in With our ward schools being at- from all parts of the ajesr World, is s tended enly by the grades indicated, sure indication of its great merits. Obtained attbelc&.l dsviets, med the teachers are better enabled to do Trial size at all Drugstores. , Half leal t er other eompounds oroamsata! bottles, 75 cents. Crablbs 4etikas-- , trademarks sad labels Ctvettt justice to their task and to the schol- pound Lsmolit k Co., Wholesale Drug, AssiganiBts, Interferences. Iafringe ars and the latter will advance twice gists, Sole Agent. tf eats, sad all matters rtUliaf to I'aU as fasf and "twice ai thoroughly for sats prenptljf atttaded to. Weaisks it. The children will be more of preilsiiaar) eiassiaadoas and furnisb Do Ten BelUre It! as te pateatabi'iiy, free of homogeneous! age And be protected "That in this town there are scores epiaioasand all who are iatsrestid ia Irom the blighting Iniuenoe of those of persons passing our store every ehurje nee iaventwos aad Patents areiavited evil habits, coarse epeech, and vul- day whose lives are made miserable to stnd for a copy ef oar "Guide for b Indirection. Dvsnensia. slour and Patents, "T vbjh s at frs gar manner, hicb,' nnfortunately, d ii tressed Stomach, Liver Complaint, obtaining te soy addrsss aad contains eoapltte disgrace to many- larger youngsters Constipation, etc, when, for 74 cts., iastrBOtioss'how to obtain Patents, and we will sell them Shiloh's Vitalizer, ether valuable matter" Durisg the past nowadays. to euro them. Sold by Ive ytars we havs obtained atarly three Kut where Tare the larger scholars Suaranteed k Co., Wholesale and tbousead Patents for American aad going? Now herei seotnea in our Retail Druggists, and O. C. Orrasby, fereiga investors, eaa givs satisfaotery refereaees in eldest every county ia ths oct21-ly- r 'high school.'! The (Central school druggist, Logan. faiea. estimain own humble our iSeuse Adress LOUI3 BAQGIB k CO., f Sale all to the For tion ought" gather up IsUeiierssf Psteots aad A Morse; at advanced scholars fro La the Third 150 tons baled hay. Apply to J. Ua Le Broil laSldisg. waikiagfsa. janaitr Iteaier md carry them on through' E Fmk. Winter Fall and Ctofe s3Lxrivlii.fi: -- 3D ally at j i RiL J 0 0 CONSISTING OF fire-proo- Staple and Fancy Dry Goods, DRHSS GOODS, IH HtS? IJV FlBIIHS STYLES XEAB1WO OK "i'MK TsKAtiOa. Embroideries, Edgingi, flowers, and a Fall Lino of Choice Kibboiis. MISSES' AND CHILDREN'S LADIItV, HOSIERY! : - i ' fever-stricke- 1 g - - A Large Stsefc of K1W AJID .SEASONABLE , aw ae-co- rd 1 HaU, Caps, Shirt, Underwear, Ties, Handkerch iefs, and Hosiery, BOOTS Xails, Iron, Steel, j i in i ii ri CrTsf -- w . COl'aUOLDOOPT!0, dfelT-l- y . PATENTS fr d-o- S ' ii ii ii ii 1 i.. ii 1 i Mm LI (Shoes. IH '15 Lbi Lr-Uisri- ildiJOI! PAINTS, OILS :AND,VARNISHES, TULL'LINBOF'63-- stoves! stovi:sj;; j poeirxxiJia. t I " - AI WAYS ON-HAND- . nTOYESf' .J;i,; ! . ''i A; .3 V; " i", Onlersby tu,i.H; , Ptiy filled Bain i Wagons 1 o3 esk ; STOVES BOTTOM IRICIES iin BWB and ti T , enjoying f AflON is new Honest. B Urgepi sole of any wignn ia ili Call SB'S HMe and ; Very Uurab a j WBrsvea. ,i.rrtfles rednces te suiu tli o ie beeanee r"f"T ike-a- re sltlky;plows ; . ! f LCATHCR, HAnNC 00 AND SHOE FIND NCS,' one-sixt- or sheep busainess have always averaged from two to three per cent, per month on all capital invested. Losses of cattle, sheep or horses on the ranee, from all causes, rarelv reach. ' and never exceed two per cent, per annum. Wheat, oats, rye, barley, ana an narar vegeteoiee are produced in great abundance and of quality unexcelled. Apples, pears, plums, grapes, Siberian crabs, and nearly all small fruits are produced in different localities. Yellow- - and white pine, spruce, cedar, marble, sranite. Iiw stone and sandstone are abundant. Montana boasts a dozen rivers as large and beautiful as the Mohawk, or Juniata three of which ar navigable and being heeutlfully watered by hundreds of ice cold streams and crystal lakes; water power is therefore illimitable. All streams are full of trout and other fish, and elk, deer, antelope, moose, bear,, mountain sheep and many kinds of small game abound. Numerous hot miner sDrinrs and a mild, invismn&tlna at- raQspttero ate among the attractions for heal tli seekers. Wages In Montana are double those paid in Illinois. Churches, schools, libraries and good daily and weekly newspapers are more numerous than in sections of similar populations East. Tnere is daily mail and express and the telegraph to all important points. The shortest, quickest, best and ' i Horse and Male ! Jti , FarmlnsJTools, 0 , , Complete Stock of Staple and Fancy Groceiies l vv vi Hartwarf, CutUrr, . of agricultural 16,000,000 lands are found in .this grand doof which, is main, not claimed or occupied. The native bunch grass is a winter and stammer feed equal to oaU. Cattle, .horses and sheep keep fat the year round in the open air. Profits in the cattle Gloves S SI O E S I AND MM'S, LADI1M', MISSK' AND CHILDREN'S IN ALL STYLES. aomi. i t f FOR MSN, YOUTHS AND BOYS. y t, : n five-cen- ; Hotions in Ixnmense Variety sks (aqnijry .froia ns .gang:plows. ei the advjntagws of, -- n- Sulky Plows oad Ihen examine ' jTajisaday :(pliverCIiilIed)(rlkiiIiy Plow; as. The' Bas that as other slew ln la I aaefertaree ef tree (it m4: fntlu, advaalsges h.s. Yon can get 'lhe Mould Bord if sail Say king. of soil, can plow deep and 'pulieriie your soil so that by using cf Iree m4. Irea ftrn aeS Skat-to- r. IreafttelfSveae all kleS. ef Ir Were . araL Xnctorv eMtlMtKinttl CTfaToWMMS on van m wm wiw mm. Halt Ukc.Cltr. - cal. kAM ; CM AO, V7. OTAYfeCR, aeeeouiaTAxo oocisilot-av-law- . Tsn will get fall crops, as the grala staavds th winter and irouth well. . Tie Biirb ;Steel Pence Wire IjnpTOTfk Bas tke Barbs fact e both wires, can neither tarn n ilin tt u ih nnw ia use. j We keep a general lice tt Agrioult iral Implements at eur Depot ia Oedst, ana iuii otreeu., v: Praetiees in the District "and Su- Bain Wagons, , Sloline and;. Olivet ChtUed Plow, ITar: wa. preme Courts and before the U. S die. Tire Borse tcraperr, Shoes, Kails, Office. tend Makes land entries, Hardwood, Wagwn Materia I, dte. and final proofs, conducts oases and appeals, and does a geaerai law business in all its branches, TimhM r. A I. L L. leUkev l Ofleoneer the JfoetyMein Street, Osden, lUtah." - lrm, - SEBREE;;F,ERB1S &HOLTt sJtLkotitfUUn. I -- jsiaeassnossayeMasj mmmwmmmKAmmmmmnmmmmmmmm GEO: P. BO WELL &CO. -- Ke wipajrer Adyf rtUhsj Birrau For Ten Cent J Urn 1 : One k and red paje -- v- Pamphlet witk LnU of New, ntpcrs ans) Advertising Rates enly reliable summer and winter route to Montana is that via the For Tea Dollars: Four linen inUnion Pacific and Utah and North serted week ia Three Hun-dre- d ern Railways. aid Fifty Newspapers. taixabli twrotiineff Further detailed and reliable, information in relation to different districts of Montana or Idaho, the routes thereto, rates, etc., will be . ' A ..nu rarnisae mu arpiicaoen Tnus, JhbM. aed (Meet L. BUM 1 ALL, nn. Three Standard TaMes, including 11 eCELEBllATED XOXABC2 10 1 - (. emVfaktt,s&. it BPBUCE ST UoT Wines, Liquors, B e er, Cigars, ; : |