Show 16 TJfE PEEP 0’ DAY— A LITERARY MAGAZINE brain It first becomes a brain rethen it sembling that of or fish grows into the form of that of a MISCELLANEA S ' Thomas Jefferson — As Jefferson was an avowed Freethinker and a faithful friend of Paine it may not he amiss in this place to give the following from a paper by Captain Bacon who lived with him as his steward for many years Jefferson had a large estate of about ten thousand acres on which lie had his own mill Captain Bacon says : reptile then into that of a bird then into that of a mammarifferous quadruped and finally it assumes the form of a human brain “ thus comprising in its foetal progress an epitome of geological history as if man were in himself a compendium of all animated nature and of kin to every cieature that lives Disinheriting ‘‘lie enjoyed the best of health — was never really sick in his life until his last sickness Ilia skin was pure he had blue eyes and kindness always marked liis countenance which bore a serenely mild expression He was never disturbed On one occasion eleven thousand bushels of oats were in the mill The j'ain fell in torrents when the water was already high I got up during an entire night early and wsent to the dam it soon began to break and I saw the whole swept away I never felt worse in my life I went to see Mr Jefferson about it He had just come from breakfast On seeing me he inquired if I had heard from the dam I replied that I had just come from "there and that the dam was all swept away He replied as calmly as though noththat we ing had happened must build a temporary one for the season and the next summer we would make a dam that could not ” die washed burnt them One Way away Love —History with touching stories of a mother’s love When the llothsay Castle steamer was wrecked a woman was on board with her babe A Mothers While the waves were washing over the deck she took off her shawl and wrapped it round her babe and carefully bound the little As wave after one to her breast wave dashed over lier drenching her with its waters she clung the faster to her Hold and the faster to her babe At last a 'heavier swell broke over the wreck and mother and babe were washed into the Still even when drowning deep in the troubled waters she was seen to raise her babe above the billows and with her last breath 'heard to cry “ My child my child ” Curious Fact —In the Fish the average proportion of the brain to the spinal cord is only 2 to 1 In to 1 fIn the lleptile the ratio is the Bird it is 3 to 1 In the it is 1 t$ 1 and in Man it is 23 to 1 No less remarkable is' tho fcctal progress of the human ! ! Ma-inal- ia r a Son— Society in Vienna has been recently start-elc- d by the following strange act by accomplished on his death-be- d a Baron Siberstein He had threatened to disinherit his son in consequence of a family dispute and on feeling his end approaching he carried out his threat He converted his fortune amounting to 170000 florins into bank notes and then ' to Make Money — An old codger on a New York ferry boat a sliest time ago told a friend that he had made seven hundred dollars very easy “Howl” “ Why you see it costs a thousand a year to support my son William so I paid three hundred dollars for a Lieutenancy for him and if tho war lasts a year I shall save just seven hundred dollars !” s A tipler who had his load on “fetched up” against the side of a house which had been newly-painte- d Shoving himself clear by a vigorous effort lie took a glimpse at his shoulder another at the house a third at his hand but exclaimed “ Well that are a darn’d careless trick in whoever painted that house to leave it standing out all night for people to run against” I “ Young man do you know what relations you sustain in this world?” Aaid a parson to a young member of the church “Why yes sir” replied the hopeful convert “I should thing so two cousins and a grandmother but I don’t intend to sustain them much longer” “ Donald” said a Scotch dame looking up from the chatechism to A her son “what’s a slander slander gude mitlier ?” qqothyoung Donald twisting the corner of his plaid “ aweel 1 hardly ken unless it ' be mayhap an ower true tale which one gude woman tells of au- - itlicr” Thera is a man in Hampshire so mean fiat he was lately caught stealing acorns from a blind hog Something to be Thankful For — The liat was passed around In a certain congregation for tlic purpose After it' of taking up a collection had made the circuit of the church it was handed to the minister who had' exchanged pulpita with the regular preacher and ho found not a penny in it He inverted the hat over the pulpit cushion and shook it that its emptiness might be known then raising his eyes toward the ceiling he exclaimed with great fervor “I thank God that I got hack my hat from this congregation” L tell you wat Julius I had a monstrous ’spute wid massa dis morning down in dc cotton patch” “Yon don’t sea so Caesar wat you 8pute wid massa?” “ Yes I tell you for one hour we ’spute down in de cotton patch” “Wa wa wat you 'spute about?” “Why you see Julius massa come down da whar I wos hoeinS and massa lie say squash grow beat on sandy ground an’ I say so too and dar we ’spute about it for mor’tt hour !” Beau Brummel was reading tho paper one day at Long’s — a gentleone standing hear him sneezed three times after the third spasm MrfBrummel called out “Waiter bring me an unbrclla I can bear this no longer” man SEES FSHP O’ ©AST EDITED BY MESSRS HARRISON & TULLIDOE GREAT SALT LAKE CITY Since tho publication of $125 as the price of this paper per quarter as all are aware great changes have occurred in prices generally also since that announcement was made we have concluded by cutting out all advertisements to give our readers tico more whole pages of reading matter weekly and at tho same time present them with a much nicer book to bind To meet the extra price and the loss of revenue from advertisements the price of Tiie Teep O’ Day has been raised to $2 per quarter $7 per year 25 cents per single copy Any person however who may have given their names with the understanding of the price being $125 per quarter can still have tho paper at- that amount according to promise We leavo it with tthem to pay the extra or not as they ' may see fit NOTICE Many' persons sympathizing with out enterprise and the expense of starting a ' paper of this kind in a new country havto assist by donaing expressed a wish tions they are informed that any such help will be thankfully received by ourselves or through our agent Mr J I) Boss who will forward our ackuowledjf mentis for the same |