| Show editorials EDITORIAL AN extraordinary CASE A PAMPHLET recently published by the celebrated dr H D noyes of new york give gives a st full account of an extraordinary v cabe case in the treatment ment of which one of our balt bait lake practitioners assisted the patients name was louls louis everett avery avory 19 years of age by occupation a farmer while shooting snipe early one morning his hla gun exploded the lock lode was waa blown off and aiso alas the breech pin and he wab waa knocked senseless to the ground remaining unconscious for four days the physician who dressed the wound baid said his hla right eye wan waa dest debt destroyed roved and there was something in the injury which he odid did not understand three weeks after the accident he was taken to the new york ear and eye infirmary he was treated for general inflammation and had a very large scar from the mid dle die of the nose nore to the eyebrow with a fistulous opening which on bein being 9 probed robed disclosed the presence of a rard eard hard body two small pieces of wood were wera extracted and after a free discharge the wound commenced to heal up and the patient in three weeks returned home in pretty good health about three months afterwards he went again to the infirmary to undergo an operation his face and nose being greatly deformed and dr noyes on taking charge or of the case discovered the presence of a foreign body of large extent the patient was etherized etheri zed and wit without hout giving the elaborate particulars detailed by the operator we will state that a piece of iron was extracted 4 7 16 inches in length halo hsio half an inch wide and weighing 2 oune ounces nive five drachma and twenty five gr grams the patient had buffered suffered neither pain nor inconvenience from the presen presence cc cf ef this large foreign n body except a discharge fron the nostril and the opening before mentioned and only went to the hospital for treatment of the deformity after the operation he was carefully tended and all the means known to science were restored to for his hla recovery but inflammation of ehe tho brain bat sat in and thirty nine nina dwy day a alter the operation he died the daffy dally treatment and symptom ia are carefully recorded and cre credit ditIs is given to dr romania B pratt of sait halh lake city for vigilant care and skillful dressing of the wound froni from the seventeenth day after the operation till his decease drs john P gray B R F weir weirs T T babine sabine and E G 6 loring were all called into the case the linal final cause of death was inflammation along the base of the brain the question is 13 discussed as to the propriety of the removal of the obstruction st the vigorous health and quiet temperament of tho the subject vere vero extraordinary considering the size and position alon of the iron frag ment of the tho a gun but the penetration of the brain was in the frontal lobe which is more tolerant of injuries than other parts and a cyst had formed like a thimble around the end of the iron in the brain and it is possible that the patient might have lived for a long time oven even with this extraordinary obstruction in his head yet many cases of penetration ot the brain through the orbit are cited in which 80 per cent were fatal and the necessity of removing the obstruction is strongly urged by the writer of the pamphlet pam that the young man should have carried in his head so large and weighty an obstruction without general derangement of health for BO sio long a time is certainly very re and it 15 is is 15 a matter of regret that the operation was determined upon aa as it is possible that he might have lived for many years even with a heavy piece of a gunlock sticking into his brain the endurance of the human system like its construction and constitution is wonderful to contemplate MURDEROUS missionaries THE london telegraph tells a story of barbarism and cruelty scarcely credible seeing that the accused persons are white meli mell men and christians and when it is understood that they belonged to the english church society and were engaged in the work of converting the heathen the story appears all the more startling and shameful I 1 two men and their wives who b had bad ad been in the tha foreign gervice service of the society were charged with wilful murder committed five yeara years ago in west africa the evidence showed that two girls in their service had run ran away on account of brutal treatment but bui had been cap aured and delivered up to their tor mentors who thereupon tied the unfortunate creatures back to back and flogged them until one died in ago ny the other just juat surviving that the sum suf meringa feringa of the victims were increased by their being left all day in the broiling sun and having pepper popper applied to their wounds is a detail hallwhich which the court that tried the prisoners does not seem to have considered at all an aggravation of the ott of feuce fence ence euce since the ruffians were only found guilty of manslaughter and condemned to penal servitude to fo twenty years eighteen years and a half and two years yeara respectively the last being the sentence upon the least culpable of the wives although justice has been tardy it is gratifying to know that it has to some extent been vindicated and that the missionary society hat haa not attempted to screen the culprits the sentence sen is light considering the enormity of the of fence eriz eniz but if f the murderous missionaries had belonged to some of the tho chrls christian societies of this country in all probability whito whitewash wash enough would havo have been found to cover up I 1 the crime and make the criminals and the mcleay society which employed them all sight right and ami eighthly in the eyes of the public one ono great glory of english jurisprudence is the certainty of punishment to the criminal if evidence is sufficient to establish his guilt no matter what may be his name or station in society TITULAR extravagance THE people of the uni tod states are fonder perhaps of titles than any people on earth considering that they are BO so strongly republican in principle this is rather extraordinary they are not only grealy attracted by foreign title sand ready to pay homage to the possessors thereof 3 but they use buch each as are available in this country tob ton to a ludicrous jadi ladi crous extent the name urle 1116 ot of almost every position to which men may bo appointed or elected Is tacked on to their ordinary cognomen and propriety is frequently stretched beyond all zen zea reasonable limits in the common anxiety to put a handle to a mans name the moat most ordinary pedagogue or music instructor instructors aye even a hair dresser dreas cr is dubbed dabbed professor a simple attorney t is called 64 jude Judge 11 and the captains and majors and colonels one Is areas are as numerous as wooden toothpicks there are two titles frequently bestowed as of right 3 for which it appears there is no warrant in law they are honorable and his excellency every member of any local legislature whether of a state or territory is dubbed an honorable while the governor of the smallest dependency of the united states is saluted sainted as 11 his excellency tho the springfield republican publican Ee cites the constitution of massachi sets bets as authority for the bestowal of the tho title titie of his gl excellency upon the governor and of hib his honor 1 1 upon the lieutenant governor of that state but outside of that commonwealth there is no authority U in law for the use of sit sis such sueh eh titles A little moderation in scattering these high sounding marks of distinction would in our opinion be more consistent with republican simplicity and also with good common sense AK AN OLD EXTREME revived ex senator paddock lr ot of Ne braskas nebraska says divest the mormons cormons of political power and down goes polygamy chis this Is the tha th plan we belle balle ref ewas was proposed yeara years ago azo by mr sargent Sar san gent geat now minister to Ger gen germany mally mariy N r Y Hiram nou nov 4 1881 1681 editor deseret news being ignorant of legal lore and unfamiliar with the political policy of the tha present government permit me to inquire through your columns what id Is to be understood bytho bythe by tho the enunciation ot of ex senator paddock divest the cormons mormons of political power I 1 do this in behalf of my friends I 1 mean my mormon friends not only those located in utah but the many thousands in the surrounding states and territories and indeed throughout the whole united states and canada as I 1 EO 0 o sweeping a declaration will certainly almly interest them all alj the hon E ex x senator being a member of the commission bent cent to put into opera tion the edmunds bill it would be quite natural to suppose that he had discovered that tho the bill in question was not quite equal to the task that la Is to down goes polygamy so assiduously sought af arter after ter ten by the anti mormon party if this is tho the view of the ex senator it certainly is not very complimentary to the erudite nind and high minded statesmen that framed the tho bill sinco sinca its incubation has been going on fur upwards of twenty years it is certain ily lly ly unfortunate if at its birth it proves to be a malformation and not capable of taking care of itself yet it 16 Is somewhat surprising that the hon gentlemen should go eo so far beyond the intent and purpose of that bill as to propose the disfranchisement of nil all the so called mormons cormons Mor mons for that we understand the gentleman to mean by divest the mormons cormons of political power we can scarcely accord a high degree moral to any one who may urge upon government to deprive many thousands of his own countrymen of all the cherished right rights of freemen and place them in th the position of the former negro slaves of the south sooth merely for a difference in religious reil rell gous faith if this thia kite is flow nto allure popularity in a political sense we can only conclude the fi flyer y cr has not reflected with due consideration upon the fate of all those thome in the past who have invested their last dollar in this kind of anti antl mormon staple but it is historically true that every aspiring poll poli politician bician that has at attempt e t ed to dabble in Anti ant I 1 Mormonism or onis from the great ex speaker ex vice lee fee president down to the last little lit e pompous pompons pettifog pettifogging ing lawyer have inevitably fallen into insignificance and oblivion the generous american public have long since become disgusted with all those to whose name the reputation of antl anti chlor mor monsa mons adheres N H F a ese TSE GREAT MICHIGAN flee FIRE THE A phenomenal PHENOMENA CONDI TION OF E atmosphere the great fire in the state of by immense amounts of lite life and property were destroyed was a bubeck of gret great interest to many people in this community who believe we are living in the latter litter times a special period of the exhibition of wonderful phenomena A correspondent of the foremans firemans Fi remans Jb journal who has lately gone over the territory devastated va by the great fire in the forests of michigan last fall says his observations are conclusive that phenomena aside from ordinary conditions of were developed ve loped in the fles lies place the fire created at least two veritable storm centres bentres which had the ement essential ial lal features of storms and especially the spiral winds the evidences are confirmatory of the belief that this storm centre after it became fully developed consisted of a heated b body ody or gas in a state of combustion which was constantly fed by the smoke and vapor driven to the center by the whirling winds and the tha gases generated in la the combustion of the pines and other resinous woods this body of air ain ainor or burning gas if it may bo be eo so clied cI called led by its heat beat acquired an sive force but by the rapid forward motion of the tha tire fire was sucked forward and devoured actually preceding the fire proper it is evident that this body was of intense heat possibly as great as fahr at which point oxygen and carbon unite that such a body of luminous vapor existed detached from the tilo fire is asserted by many who saw it from a cl distance tance and by those who were wore under it but who escaped from the fact that it passed above their places the idea Is further sustained b by y the tha fact that the nna fla jumped whole patches of inflammable slash ings and alighted beyond lifting and falling in its ita forward motion like a balloon touching the he earth fences in the center of broad nielda fielda burst into a blaze as if by explosion and others nearer the fire escaped A man in fighting the fire took ofa oil his brows ers fearing they would catch fire and burn him up and left them in a furrow in the middle of a field remote from any combustible material when he went to get them he found them burned and six ter tor dollars that WM were in the pocket melted together A set get of spoons were served the ramo camo way at adoth er place mrs lock and five children wore were burned to ashes nothing but their bones remaining in the middle of the road ono ona hundred feet from any heavy timber green timber was dried and burned and perhaps the most conclusive ovi evidence dence was vas the appearance of fire in stumps stamps and fences when no sparks were falling these blazes appeared of white light and ind indicated a chemical union of carbon and oxygen another general feature is the fact that the tire fire appeared to move forward in parallel lines of varying width and that in these lines everything was burned and frequently to asheh at the edge edie of the tho track a fence would be burned square off lust just as though it had been cut or barly a housa would be taken and the barn laft a wagon and a fanning fan far nin g mill were within five feet of each other and the wagon was burned to ashes and the tanning fanning mill not charred it would be impossible under ordinary circumstances to burn a wagon without piling bombus combustible bus tible material over it but of this nothing but the iron was left loft finally the tho storm and fire disappeared simultaneously that is to 10 say eay tho the fire was dependent upon the stormer stor mor storm storms or secondary to it that ic it was prevented from lingering in the track or burning sideways in from two to three hours the alro was practically out where it had passed indicating that the prime cause of ane rapid combustion was in the storm which ach had passed and which passing perhaps carrial in its wake a condition of atmosphere opposed ed to combustion this hypothesis explains pretty much all the phenomena nhen dhen omena except the balls of nire fire which exactly correspond with what is known aa ball lightning s but which is a form of electricity y wholly disputed by bome come but recognized by professor loomis Io omis the statements of ballentino ballentine and are confirmatory of this ball 11 lightning idea and contradictory of the idea idla that these lights arose from the intense heat or they themselves could not have survived it other statements aro are to the efreb L that this ball of fire fell on the ground and exploded running in all direction this is explained by some who were not present who eny eay that it was but the resinous conea cocea ol 01 the pines pinea ignited carried by the wind vind failings scattered the bunning burning pitch about them but it raould be TC ye that those people who saw baw thib this phenomenon ar aro arc men who have lived amid forest fires all their lives and have seen all the ordinary phenomena and are not of a class exactly visionary or imaginative it is fair to assume the possibility of electrical phenomena incidental to this 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