| Show EDITORIAL NOTES lent dent it about time that we should hear of another attempt on anthe the tho life of the czar czan or one of his chief officers the nihilists nihilisms lists must be growing in inactive some sonie idea of the work benore before 0 e C congress 0 gress rm may i a j y be ve gathered arg front froni t the h e fact that thab there are 1019 olg bills r reported f s and awaiting action and at least more in the hands of committees ready to report I 1 I 1 k every now and then cases eases of rapid petrifaction bation of human bodies wies aro are are aro recorded by the press with datlof date dato of burial and time of the discovery of petrifaction yet professors of several colleges declare that no human body was ever petrified neither indeed can be which is wrong the theory or leg e d fact during the first quarter of the present year sear raw awsiuk silk slik was received at the ports ol 01 of new york and san francisco to the value of 3 ON and during the single mata month of march manufactured silk was imported in at new yorio morio valued at sa 9 mio MIC silk interest of t the j country has haa plenty of room for growth and s silk blik I 1 lk culture has hag abend ant promise of remunerative reward utah silk growers and manufacturers persevere and you will yet achieve the success which you have in view new rew mexico has a salt lake late from which arizona is supplied with most of them ther salt which it uses the tho lake is just over the line lin e of apache county is half a mile long and yards yard wide is situated in ir L a heavily timbered region and the saline waters arise from a number of s springs at the bottom of the jake A seas season sori of great heat thi this s year is predicted by certain astronomers in consequence of the appearance reappearance re of large spots on the face of the sun utah is crying out for a little solar warm warmth th j just us 6 now being ti tired red of the sight of snow in the valleys by and b by the snow on the mountain tops may prove a grateful offset to the burning rays raya of the blazing spotted luminary we ve do not justify the murder 0 de do young by kalloch the younger neither do we apologize for the deed but we say it was measure for measured de young tried to kill hill kalloch senior he fie shot him in the cowardly manner of the brutal as assin in return he has been shot 2 to death in a similar style and spirit we have no sympathy sym pathy with the Kal lochs or the de ve youns youngs or any of their tribe but wo we join in the general verdict against the tilo slain journalist served him ri right ht 11 we shall also aiso join in app applauding laudin the justice tice tico that shall be meted out to his murderer number twelve of the standard series published by JK J K funk co dey street new york is the first volume of knights popular history of england the original ki price re r e of which complete was wag from 18 s to 25 it will be finished in eight volumes at thirty cents per number considering the elegant manner in which this work is printed the price is astonishing if such books as the Stati standard dard series were placed in the hands of young people instead of the rubbishy sensational literature of the day costing more in proportion than these excellent works what immense benefit would result frog from the change that was an interesting biot which a body reformed ofEe of formed presbyterians rians got up the other day in pittsburg pa over the settlement of the rev bev nevid novin woodside late of brooklyn N Y the bette better r to prepare themselves they opened the fight with prayer and then proceeded roc ceded in regular disorder to break break chairs and tables over each others heads to blacken one ano others an theys thees eyes and to do many maby other things which are deemed unbecoming as well as unnecessary ina lna in a religious gathering the tile mayor and police finally drove the mill tan t on the sidewalk if those fellows are reformed what sort of presbyterians rians must the unreformed be the fades Ead esplan plan pian for a ship ship railroad across the isthmus of bf panama described in this paper a short time ag ago is ridiculed by many practical engineers an experiment was made recently with a vessel loaded with pig iron A which ran ashore at sand sandy y hook etwas it was found impossible to raise her after affer getting her into dock and ship masters declare that if possible it could not fall fail outly ito strain a ship and throw her oufa of line and they ask if the attempt to lift a loaded ship out of the water supported as she would be ocher on her dock without horizontally moving her plane piane of support meets with condemnation 1 at the hands bands of shipmasters ship masters and mn mon capable of judging from experience what must be that tbt of the proposed I project of captain eades not only of lifting out of water waler but of transporting these large vessels steamers or others 1 loaded tda with their cargoes across amoss the isthmus |