Show for the deseret news WELL DOCTOR the renowned burke of england said every man has his bis price which causes the kings jester to exclaim every even year yields yi Us ils wonders or as sam patch said some things can be done clone as well as others so 80 then if solomon left us the tr truth nth on record and nothing is now new under the sun we of 1853 must have been over the sun as much as hav half the time according to the annual list of wonders chronicled in in the newspapers for instance capt mcclure of the british navy has discovered the long sought for northwest passage from davis to bearings Beh rings straits that wonder for which sir john Fr franklin auldia and crew perished and now the passage is found of what use is it just as much as the false teats of barrow or for a cow to have five calves and but four teats the fifth calf could stand and look on while the other four sucked the northwest passage now found whenever dog daye thaws it open may stand open while the rail road cars passes from the atlantis atlantic to the pacific states by way of great salt lake and panama or a squadron of clippers and steamers by cape horn or good hope flit round the oceans like meteors bringing the commerce of two hemispheres together tog aher in warm weather without wait ing for the polar seas to thaw open one wonder vonder I 1 passes and another comes the now new york f capitalists have constructed a rail road from the hudson river bank and with their lightning speed and penny a mile convenience have run down and off the hudson river steamers the distance of miles for 1 50 is run ran in one and three fourth hours bours eighty miles per hour tile the second wonder glitters while the third wonder proposes to pump in a cast iron tube by extracting the air the mail from one city to another er so doctor solomon must have lacked the spirit of looking into quick machinery or elso eleft we are own the sun half the time the fourth wonder announced the wise men of utah have calculated to abolish the square rule rale of old say so which was adopted in the dark ages by heathens heathers he athens tyrants kings despots priests law lawyers and others as a strait jacket for judges and hereafter walk and live by the light of the nineteenth century K X J |