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Show U tttt of accumulated mighty column sheets. It now contains its appoint ed number, and our ,000,0X),lH.K),000 sheets of the Timrx, superimposed Uton each other and pnssed into a 1880. Monday Evening, Mar. 22, has reached an alticompact tude of 47,348 miles. Those who have taken the trouble Some Big Figures. to follow me thus far will. I think, From the London Timet. agree with me that 1,000,000,000,000 It would be ' curious to know how isafearlul thing,realand that lewA can for value. it many of your readers have brought appreciate and trillions, are quadrillions they fully home to their inner conscious simply words, mere words, wholly ness the real significance of that incapable of adequately impros-in- g little word "billion," which we have themselves on the huimn intellect, seen of late so glibly used in our columns. There are, no doubt, many Tmu And Pun. thousands who can not appreciate its true worth even when reduced to Chean Swell (doing the gland) Haw, waitsh, bottle of champagne. fragments for more easy assimilation Waiter Yes sir. Dry, sir? Cheap Its arithmetical symbol is siajpleand Swell Wiiat's that to you wheiher without much protention; there are I m ' or wh ther I aint? Bring no large figures just a modest 1, the wine. followed by a dozen ciphers, and that "Cannot something be done to ia all. prevent young ladies being inputted Let us briefly take a glance at it on the streets at night?"' inquires an as a measnre of time, distance and exchange. Why. yes. Hsvetheold sunmeasure of time, I lady tuck them wat'ely in bed at weight. As down and fasten the dour. would take one second as the unit, ''If we are to liv afier death, why and carry myself in thought through have some certain knowldon't back first to the of ages day the year edge of it?" sai a skeptic to a clergy1 ol our era, remembering that in all man. "Why don't you have some those years we have 365 days, and in knowledge of this world before you every day just 86,400 seconds of time. came into it? was the caustic reply Hence, in returning in thought buck A riruemet sent his Irish porter in again to this year of grace 1880. .ne to a darkened cellar: soon after, hear- might nave supposed that a billion me a noie. he went to the ovemaz of seconds had long since elup ed. and called it, "Patrick, keep your but this is not so. We have hoi evs skinned!" "Uch, devil an eye, of that number in all roared passed "but it's my nose that's Pat, those long eventful yearn, for it takes skint entirely." just 31,687 years, 17 days, 22 hours. 45 minutes and 5 seconds to consli tute & billion of seconds of time. It is no easy matter to bring under She was the Wrong Womn. the cognizance of t be human eye a An absent-mindeman, traveling billion objects of any kind. Let u.i try in imagination to arrange this with his wife in a railroad car, left number for inspection, and for this her side to get a drink. When be purpose I would select a sovereign as returned, he dropped into a seit a ftmiliar object. Let us put one on the ground and pile upon it as many immediately in front of his better as will reach twenty feet in height; half, beside an' unprotected female, numbers of similar over whose head the snows of about then let us columns in close contact, forming a thirty-eighwinters had glode. His straight Viae, and making a 6ort of wife was looking ou t ot t he car window wall twenty teet nigh, showing only at the scenery, and didn't notice his the thin edges of the coin. Imagine awful blunder. Presently, without two such walls running parallel to turning his bead, he impatiently reeaeh other and forming, as it were, a marked: long street. We must the- - keep on "Jane, how often have I told you extending these walls for mile nay, not to starch my shirts so infernally hundreds of miles, and still we shall stifly be tar short of the required number The ancient female, whose forward And it is not until we have extended name happened to be Jane,scn-ameour imaginary street to a distance of "Monster!" and fainted on the spot, man looked 2,386 J mile that we shaii have pres- and the absent-mindeented for inspection our one billion uncomfortably warm as he changed ot coins. seats. For a measure of height let s take a much smaller unit as our measure im rod. The t in sheet of paper on Tough Man. which these lines are printed, it laid out flat and firmly pressed A remark able casejof survival of seri togeiheras in a well bound book, ous injuries is reported from Cincin would represent a measure of about a man named 1.333 of an inch in t lckness. Lei nati. Two years ago five times on the was struck Schmidt us see how high a dense pile formed a hatchet, three ot the by h billion of these thin paper leaves head with wound- - penetrating the brain. One would reach. We must, in imag them vertically upward, by day recently the man died, and when degrees reaching to th hight of our a post mortem examination was made, tallest spires; and passing these, the tbe physicians were surprised to find consumppile must still go higher, topping the that tbe man had died ofholes were Alps and the Andes and the highest tion. Although three entirely through peak of the Himalayas, and shooting found, extendingwere no indications there up from thence through the fleecy the skull,disease. of brain of confines the clouds, pass beyond our attenuated atmosphere and leap up into the blue ether with which the universe is filled, standing proudEntirely Recovered. ly up far beyond the reach of all Nbw York Cut, Jcnb 16 1879. terrestrial things, still pile on yo ir n. H. Warnbb&Co. Gentlemen: thovsands and mi lioans of thin I hereby certify that my wife has leaves, for we are only begining to rear the mighty mass. Add mil- been using Warner's Safe Kidney lions of sheets and thousands aud Liver Cure for Bright's Disease, of miles on these, and still the num- and she is now entirely recovered. ber will lack ita due amount. Let When all physicians' remedies failed, us pause to look at the neat plowed she was induced te try your remedy, edges of the book before us. See aud received beneficial results from After taking four how closely lie the thin flakes of pa- the first bottle. was entire y cured. mere in the she how are bottles, there many per, width of a span, and then turn our Yours truly, Robert V. Fitzgerald, eyes in imagination upward to our m!6 2w IIARKNESS&C0. vat " I'lOXFF.K UIVG OF FT AO. BANKERS, 0 Vtah Ogden City, t tJf,!lwflo-UMlt,Prep- 8 " a JcoBKEeoiiD)!T: Oeo. r Opdrkc a lawaoo ftonn-- l afber A NiwYuk ... Co., ........ .. ... rrHr" ..Ban First Naf'unal Hark maia Ntiknl Ha Ptint N .tlon.l Hunk Omrt I. M. KaOunal Run Omaha . k .......... ..... r.8a!t Co.....,... Ivvtrr 'u I r. T 00 B Wanj'iCrow T St 4 01 Ball T S3 16 1 W 4 SS EtiHa I II OB t Vel, Ac. FRESH GAME! U 1 00 40 m. . 40 6 a. t t 10 Paratngtrta It T N I Oantratlllo 11 Croat H II ett 1 00 II H I N 11 U I H I H 11 40 B SO I 00 Paanag Placat. MIXED TRAINS WILL BUN EXCEPTED, LaaTiajrSalt Laka Oftr at t.40 a. a.; arrlrlni is Ogdoa at 11.50 a.m.; lotting Bait Laka at S.06 p ., arrirrng in Ogdan at S 20 p.m.; tatting at t.to a.m., arriting in Bait Laka City at 0lan 10 a.Bi.; lotting Ogdoa at i.30 f.m arriting la alt Laka City at S.io oa. for all Information oonoaminf Freight or Pari apply to tag,JAMBS 8HABP, on'l Ticket an4 Pralght Agank JOHN SHARP. i CALL. SEPnRINTBNDBNT. Hi III & Nmlib. d7ir t 111 10 11 Of Itory iMcrlption, aJwa.i o haod. 31VK US 00 Enynttllo DAILY, (SUNDAYS Perk, 74 I ffHllWSI, gathar with s Arriia at Ball Lakt Offden, TI B BB8T CI'TS Lam Wood' - ., SO No. 1 Ho. 4 Past. PaM. V SMITH. & eta . 1 I 1 00 ArrttaatOgden t 40 entratlllo Ogdaa Meat Market! Fourth i " THE CHAMPION GKILL Uka at. fatninrloa Train IS THAT tarn a. a. Train CoHn. !bIP..... Bank, Ou Itin i No. 1 No. I Pan. Paaa. Kama of STATION. J .. (Vw, A Co. MHVmtrfc J. W Ootr-rta-. Tti Allium; and after Nov. 4, 1878, attention. 6 d n. .v. x Xj h. o jsl xt J. W. Gutkrit A Co.) to (Succtttort CENTRAL UrAH 1U JiTNA INSURANCE COMPANY, t Amc., over OF HAJtTFORD, CONN, - EHTADLIHED ISIO. $7,000,000 The Largest American Co. PIKENIX INSURANCE COMPANY, Atets, over OF LONDON. . . . RSTABLIfHED $5,000,000 Ask for policies in the original Phoenix. J. K. DOOIY A Co., Agent. art d 1m OGDEW, ITT A II Bain Wagons ! THE BAIN WAGON Is now enjoying the Largest Bale of any wagon In tk West, and it is baoansc ther are Hooeat. Reliahla and Very Durable. Call and ee tbem now as Improted. Prions redaeed t suit. SULKY PLOWS vs. GANG PLOWS. Mk Inquiry from as of lb advantages f Sulky Plows and then examine The Cassaday (OliTer Chilled) sail Sulky Plow. Ton oan set tbs Monld Board U Has advantages tbat no otber plow bag any kind of soil, can plow deep and pulierixe your soil so that by using THE TRIUMPH CHAIN DRILL Ton will get full crops, as the grain staads the winter and iroath well. . The Improred Barb Steel Fence Wire Has tbe Barbs fast on both wires, ean neither torn or ills. It Is the best now in use. We keeu a general tint of Agricultural Implements at our Depot in Ogdea. eorner Main and Fifth Streets. Bain Wagon, Moline and Oliver Chilled Plow, ITarvowt, Nails, bcraptrr, fc. Tire Iron, Ilorxe blwea, Jtardwood, Wagon Material, die. FERRIS SEBREE, ldaao. Ternjiam V. Keltoa, lUfc. I J & HOLT, Ogden, Utah. |