Show miscellaneous CRIME AND VICE AT CHICAGO the chi iago cago tribune give an alarming ft picture of the ire lre prevalence valence of vice in that city it says bays not a train arrives in chicago that ia Is not riot freighted with he the prostitutes of other cities a antU n d t heir a attendant cavaliers cavaliere cava liers boughs roughs pimps and killians vil vui lians llana of every degree the painted harlot aika alks alks alka our streets unblushingly and elbows her way ay into the railway cars sitting upon the same bame seat and talking familiarly with those who it they knew kni w her character would regard speech and touch as moral or physical contamination citizens visit their thy Ehy physical houses because they know they run no r sk of detection young men and boys are sowing the seeds of moral and physical diseases which will one day ripen in a rich harvest of crime and death ii innocent girls are seduced the sanctify of the family circle invaded houses of ill nhi repute and houses of assign tion spring up tip all over the city and the men swo duty is to kuppr suppress ess ace an immorality have taken wicked men and women into their confidence fid fi enee enre and in the abundance of their heir evil designs have accorded to 0 o clime the same bame protection they extend to virtue the m dern condition of morals in washington is such euch that many persons think its character would be at ab ut p par a r in that blis bils blissful a abode of virtue chica chico chicago go but we might L take so ne exception to euch such an opinion daily dally aily constitution union washington city 1 C feb 17 1864 we presume the foregoing is the elate of of morals that some parties would be pleased to introduce in utah ED A WORD ABOUT NOSES the nose is a characteristic feature of the toe human face and ia is generally regarded as a fal fat ahful index cf of character every one is to a certain extent whether be he admits it or not a believer in the science which assumes to indicate from the ibe appearance of the human features the character and disposition dla dia position of another because every person forms an opinion of his fellow and this opinion is based not upon a knowledge of his character but upon some prominent facial expression expressions which strongly impresses him at the toe moment the first attempt to elevate physiognomy to the rank of a eci science ence was made by lavater la vater rater and subsequently by spurzheim and cross no feature of the human face Is more closely regarded in an estimate of character than the nose the grecian nose models of which are preserved in ancient statuary is considered the highest type of nasal b auty the roman nose is another type which ia is indicative of firmness hira firm neba nesa and good sense then there are pug noses and noses in the air ou supercilious percill ous noses nobes and earnest noses noses out of jOlt joint and noses thrust where they do not belong pug noses are not handsome noses in t tte air tell that their possessors are on the to look ok out for the main chance they indicate that they are of an inquiring state of mind and scent a bargain as the horse does the battle from afar supercilious noses are the becu culiar callar property of 0 those who amell acutely fine joae i are frequently the owners of thia this fortunate feature these thebe an arn the ladies who who expect to monopolize the best seats in he the street cars and anti look took superciliously and turn up their supercilious noses ic it any unusual jam causes the exquisite symmetry of thelic their b belongings e to be infringed upon they accept the seat of a weary man without the in most 0 t distant recognition of the courtesy they smell a mechanic a block removed patronize the opera and when they can afford it ride in a carriage there are men with supercilious noses nases but contact with the world usually takes the quality they represent out of them earnest noses belong to earnest men and women v who ho despise the frivolities of life and make existence a serious matter they are intelligent and active and in whatever they engage business politics or reli rell religion elon Flon they work with their whole soul soui the rhe great yorkers workers are earnest men and rejoice in earnest nose most women and some gome men are so distinguished A slight nose pose it bisno is no unpleasant feature but it large it amounts to a deformity A turn up nose in n a woman indicates good nature aa as a thin straight lit nose indicates the vixen illen those who thrust thrust their noses into matters which do not concern them c institute a very iery great portion of what is called society nosed class or profession is exempt fr in these are the persons who ho peep peer beh nd muslin curtains to see if mrs blank ia is not receiving visits in the absence of her husband they wonder where dr brown will get gel a new wife I 1 and pity y poor healt mr airs A because of rhe neglect of her husband u alband they make and unmake marriages and dri drive ve neighbors 10 f 0 distraction and ana husbands hus bands banda an and d wives to destruction schoolmasters AS ali THEY wt W t dr 15 drew diw in recently addressing the stuat selta senta niti at the kildare street dublin training dinst tu tion said it is only a few years since sev eral gentlemen were employed by the government to ascertain the state of schools and teachers tia chers cherb of an humble bumble description in a lane they found a large atten lanee lance of boys at a school while the gentlemen were putting various interrogatories to the schoolmasters two men began to fight in the street the master suddenly left bis his visitors rushed to the door and shouted to his delig delighted 11 ted scholars 1 boys come corns along heres a fichtl in a moment the scholars and their teacher had bad disappeared arid the visitors astonished and confound d found themselves the solitary oc of the deserted acad academy emyl JOCKS PRATER PRAYER ANSWERED once u upon on a airn time there resided in Peeble shire scotland t ind a hair half written sort ot of a man who had a notion that he was rather religious aid who was in the habit babit of saying his prayers in a field behind a tutt tuff dyke one day this individual was followed fol owed to his retirement by some evil dle die disposed pos ed persons who screening themselves on the 0 opposite side prepare 1 to listen to what abat he tie shoud phoud say jock commenced his bis devotions and among other things expressed his hla conviction that he was a very great sinner and that even were the turf dyke at that moment to fall upon him it would be no more than he deserved no sooner had bad be said um thlin when the persons persona on the opposite side pushed the dyke over upon him scrambling out from among the debris jock wab was heard saying hech bire sire itys ita its an world a body canna say a thing in joke blit but wa its taen in earlest ear lest Leat 11 WEIGHT CF LIP RAYS BRAIN it is reported that three surgeons mr air rays intimate friends made a postmortem post mortem examination am of his body tody on the day of bh bli ex death e a t b tuey had the curiosity and the coolness to dissect his bead head and w wish ich bis his brain etwas it wab was found to be of the enormous weight of fifty eight and a hair half ounces far very far above the average of ordinary men SLEEPING WITH THE MOUTH OPEN orex opener mr george in his quaintly got u up p monograph the breath ot at life ja attributes very many human bodily ills to the extraordinary habit SQ an common be says among the P people eople of sleeping with be mouth open in this condition breathing being injuriously performed through the mouth i of the safe and natural process through the nostrils WHAT NEXT permission to work a french patent t for fot fo the manufacture of brandy from coal cas pas bab baa recently been purchased for a large sam by an english company and the work of manufacture is on the point of being started in london THE LARGEST locomotive in the united i states if not n at in the world has just been built for tor the philadelphia ana reading railroad it las twelve driving wheels and we weighs highs more than one bundred bundled thousand pounds WHITE reflectors have been placed placed on the street lamps in paris the light is thus thrown downward upon the pavement instead of being spread around and but half halt illuminating a large space above where it is of no possible benefit to pedestrians LIGHTNING lately produced a curious effect upon the chur church ch of st t aphrodite in the tow town n of begiers Be in the south of france it struck the roof and went through it no great damage was done to the roof but it lighted all the wax candles placed in the choir and at the altar and when the attendant at the church opened it in the morning he found all the candles at the altar lighted as they are when grand rand mass is celebrated GREEK greem FIRE is thus described it is a sort of paste and is placed in metallic cases about four inches in lengh leng ieng h and one in diameter this box IB is covered with cartridge 0 paper and primed at one end these case or cylinders are deposited jn in a shell the shell is then filled with bowd r and when it bursts these cases ily fly in all directions and burn with intense heat beat for one minute and ana a balt halt aia ala many ny things were tried before this was invented but it was found that upon their suddenly coining into the open a r they hey were extinguished greek fire is not only not affected by sudden contact with the air but it is impossible to tx extinguish it you may throw water upon it or anything else but BO so long as yon do not exclude the air it will burn until the material is entirely consumed IMPUDENT QUESTIONS to ask an unmarried lady how old she is to ask aak a lawyer it if he ever told a lie to ask a doctor how many persons he has killed to ask a minister whether be b ever did anything very wrong to ask a merchant whether be has baa ever cheated a customer to ak ask a young lady whether abeth r she would like a beau to ask an editor the name of any of his correspondents to ask a subscriber if he has paid the printer |