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Diseases Drunkenness Opium Tkmk privately Ladta treated li m publicity so tickaeai their ewa keiaoi South Temple Street Salt Lake City AND WOMEN to Learn Barber Trade Only 8 weeks required Tuition Including Instruction guaranlet of toolR Barbers in demand Write Moler Barbar teed Commercial Street Balt Lake City College MEN TAHtBUSWESSmi 1 ' UoKton HuiMing Malt Aake Uy School all year In YVost by Full Biiftineftfl ami Short hand Courses Write for inform ition to E C Davis Prin “Bet Tet” ST LAKE CITY UTAH BITS OF INFORMATION shadow fifty miles long is thrown on the ocean by the peak of Tenerlffe Laurie island in Scotia bay is the southermost inhabited In the world of Of all the world’s production 3747 tons of quicksilver last year the United States produced but 773 A tons An Sister Son Daughter Others attachment for ordinary elevato raise fire floor of a build- tors has' been patented hose ing quickly to any whloh sound a Automatic valves whistle when an automobile motor becomes overheated are a New Yorker’s invention To lessen the labors of a window man has incleaner a Massachusetts vented a long handled brush with a for soap on its back magazine two household convenCombining iences in one a Washington inventor has made an ironing board serve as the back support of a stepladder A combined silencer and bayonet for rifles has been invented to save a soldier carrying both Implements and having to change one for the other To a Pennsylvanianhas been granted a patent on a nail puller the Jaws of which have a graduated series of serrations to engage nails of different ' size An Iowa inventor has patented a bedstead that holds a mattress on rollers and pivots so that it can be turned around or over with a minimum effort As a rival to the usual type of motorists goggles 'an Oregon man has patented a face shield that may be attached to a cap and with a large for the eyes instead of two opening small ones ran for the A man in Pennsylvania if office of mayor on the promise elected to compel all women to wear harem skirts held up by suspenders and fine all women wearing a dress that has a train By official record the men serving In the union army and navy during the civil war numbered A raffle where one has a chance to win a live baby Is certainly something The unusual and yet strange as It may sound one occurred recently In Paris of a foundling hospital with the consent of the authorities management to raffle all the babies whose parents could not be traced up The come of this raffle waa divided among different charity Institutions PYRAMID ON A SKYSCRAPER An Established Reputation was refor employment Application business cently made to a Louisville mail by a young chap from the mountain region of the state The Louisville man was favorably Impressed by the stranger but as no references to hold he determined were offered the application In abeyance until he could personally look Into the young man’s antecedents which he could do when next he visited that part of the state whence the applicant hailed It was not long berore the opporThe Louisville tunity was afforded man sought out the sheriff of the young man’s home county and asked: “Do you know BUI Sparks?" “Shore I know him"'- “What kind of a young man Is he?" All She Asked “The late Justice Harlan" said a Washington lawyer “was an advocate of temperance In eating In drinkIn all ing in the use of tobacco things temperHarlan praising “Justice ance at a lawyers’ banquet once told a story about a young wife who said to her husband: “Jack dear I do wish you’d stop drinking! Every time you! go to one of these banquets of yours you get up the next morning pale and tired “Pretty fair” you won’t eat anything you Just gulp 'Is he honest?" down nine or ten glasses of water "Honest? Shore Why he’s been won’t you dear? I Do stop drinking three times for stealin’ and arrested know it’s bad for you" Green been acquitted each time!” — The “ ‘But all great have men ‘Look Bag drinking men’ Jack grumbled look at Poe Look at at Webster Embarrassing' Pat thinking to enliven the party “‘Well’ Interrupted his wife ’you dear that you'll quit stated with watch In hand: “I’ll Just promise a box of candy to the loldy that drinking till you’re great and I’ll be makes the homliest face within the Star satisfied’ ’’—Burlington next three minutes" Do It The time expiring Pat announced: Let George Mrs McGuire you get the Wilson of New “Ah Governor Woodrow strenuousprize” Jersey while campaigning “But” protested Mrs McGuire “go Democratic ly In the Interests of the I wid wasn’t playin’ at all” ye! came to a email hostelry ’way candidates —Ladles’ Home Journal In Sussex county In the northern secthe state of tion Innocent The waiter handed the presidential Rastus — What yo’ tlnk Is de matthe menu card but the possibility tired from the day 8 cam- zah wlf me doctah? governor Doctor— Oh nothing but the chickpaigning pushed it away and said: want to en pox I guess I don’t “Now George (getting nervous) — I ’clare bother with that Take It away and onRastua mah honah doctor I ain’t been Get go out and get me a good dinner nowhar I could ketch dat! — Medical me the best you have That’s all ' Times The waiter brought In the dinner which the governor ate ASi’he was The Natural Thing the dining room the waiter leaving “What should be done In a case yj SAd: “Mistah Wilson If any o’ yo’ asked the timid man who drowning?" what Princeton at down from friends was learning to swim ealn’t read neither comes up this way the'- Instructor “I "Well” replied auf 1 you Jest send ’em to George should think the natural thing would take care o’ ’em all right’’— National be to have a funeral” — Puck Monthly SQUIRREL’S WONDERFUL LEAP r said that every species of tree squirrel seems capable of a sort of rudimentary flying or at least of makItself eo as to Into ing parachute break a fall One naturalist tells of an occaslop when his dog treed a red squirrel In a tall hickory that stood on the side of a steep hllL To coservo what the squirrel might do when closely pressed the investigator climbed the tree The little fellow took refuge In the topmost branches and then as the naturalist approached boldly leaped Into the air spread himself upon it and with a quick tremulous motion of his tall and legs descended quite slowly and landed upon the ground thirty feet below apparently none the worse 'for the leap for he ran with great speed and escaped up another Is 2213265 There are now on the pension rolls The deaths t29884 of this number 35243 among them last year were at The average age of the survivors the present Is seventy years ENDS GREAT CAREER Dead at Indianapolis Woman Risen From Peasant to Eminent Scientist $ ' VwVt The stone roof of the Bankers Trust at the northwest Company building corner of Nassau and Wall streets New York City shown In the picture to be nearing completion Is said by the architects to be something ot an in design and construcexperiment tion There is no other of the kind in existence contains The pyramid steps each 3 feet 9V6 Inches high by 1 foot 4 Inches wide 94 feet 6 Total height of pyramid Inches The dimensions of its base are 70 by 69 feet The restorations of the Mausoleum of Halicarnassus generally show this type of superstruc- ture USE SALT ON ROADS As a general rule vthe roads In and around French towns are tarred at the commencement of the summer in order to abate the dust nuisance It has however been found that tar In the excellent case of although macadamized roads Is of little or no value where car lines exist and pared street crossings Intersect the roads as tarring cannot In every direction be carried out on stones The authorities basing their action on the hygrometrlcal properties of common salt have made a test of its value in laying the dust of have been roadway yards Twenty sprinkled liberally with salt and then If the results are watered freely satisfactory salt will he used throughout the town of Havre it being possible to tar the majority ot the streets as they are paved with rough stone blocks MADE THE MOUSE Ind — The mysterious' Indianapolis crime which brought to an untimely close the brilliant and promising carat Indianeer of Dr Helen Knabe tered rather than fell into the abyss below Ills legs began to work like apolis has brought into general promthose of a swimming poodle dog but inence a rare example of uncommon faster and faster while hta tail slight- ability wisely guided In a ' congenial direction and perseverlngly nurtured ly elevated spread out likj a feather in the face of the obstacles which & fan He landed on a ledge of limestone great many people of naturally'strong where he could be seen squatting on Intellect would find Insurmountable This unfortunate lady had a wonhis hind kgs and smoothing his ruffled fur after which he made for the derful career now closed so abruptly a German Originally creek with a flourish ot tils tall took a and tragically drink and scampered peasant she nearly starved herself to away save her passage money to America and on landing here could not speak CAT’S LONG TRIP The story of a notable Journey of a cat from Kingston Surrey England In to Its former home at Glastonbury Somersetshire a distance of about 133 la now told In April last a miles as cat mottled gray and described half Persian In breed was sent from where it had been rearGastonbury ed to the matron of the Kingston It waa aent In a packNursing home with air holes and obdrilled case ing viously the animal had no opportunity of marking the points of Its Journey Soon after arrival at Kingston the cat waa lost and despite the most diligent no trace of it could be searching found The matron ot the nursing home a letter from Glastonbaa received bury stating that the cat has found Its It arway back to its old Jiome and footsore and apemaciated rived parently had walked the whole of the The letter describes the 133 milescat on Its arrival as "a mere shadow a word of English She did general of Its former self" and expresses the housework In the family of an Inbelief that although terribly weak dianapolis doctor denying herself Its wanderings It can be everything but bare necessities to save through nursed back to a healthy condition She dismoney for a college course tinguished herself at the Indiana Medical college becoming instructor In PAINT MADE FROM CACTUS and pathology even bebacteriology which took place fore her When traveling through the ruraf there In graduation 1904 when she had reached districts of Uruguay one’s attention is the age of only A t attracted to the fine white color of marvelous achievement for the truly Gereven during the the farm buildings To obtain this neat ef- man peasant girl fighting her way wet season and only a few years beis used which Is fect a whitewash even of the language made with the sliced leaves of the fore ignorant Doctor Knabe was in charge of the macerated In water common cactus the year fol- for 24 hours producing a solution of college laboratory during to this lime Is lowing her graduation and then becreamy consistence came assistant pathologist In the labWhen applied added and well mixed oratory of hygiene for the state hoard be It of wood brick to any surface the a beautiful of health where she Instituted iron or other material work done there first bacteriological Is produced pearly white appearance 1908 to set up which will endure through storms and She left In November in private practice but the experifrosts for many years ment apparently resulted in financial loss and a good deal of worry over WORK OF NATURE FANTASTIC debts Doctor Knabe had a deep Interest in other branches of her profession acting as assistant In physical diagnosis in the Medical college of Indiana In 1906 and at the Bebbs free dispensary since 1907 She held the chair of and hematology at the Inparasitology diana Veterinary college where she had been elected a member of the faculty in January 1909 tree A traveler In Mexico relates a still It would not be easy to guess corstriking Instance of the power rectly what the object Is that Is here In reality It Is a piece of the pictured squlrre's partly to neutralize effect of the force of gravity when the root of a holly tree and was found growing In a granite quarry In Virleaping through the air It appears that some boys had ginia As photographed it is quite uncaught a black squirrel nearly as changed by man’s hand large as a cat It had escaped from them once by leaping sixty feet from BOY AND EAGLE IN BATTLE the top of a pine tree and this had led some of the lads to declare that fifteen years old Elmer Peterson the creature was bewitched To test living four miles west of Little Falls the matter the toys wanted to throw Minn had a hard battle with an eagle the Bqulrrel down a precipice several and was saved from serious injury hundred feet deep only by the arrival of a brother The to obtain The traveler Intervened boy bad shot the bird which was In fair play for the squirrel The pris- a tree The eagle fell to the ground oner was conveyed In a pillow case and Immediately went at the boy with to the edge of the cliff and then let Its talons The bird’s claws became out that he flight take the choice be- fastened In the boy’s clothing and the tween captivity and the terrible leap lad was unable to free himself ElThe squirrel looked down the abyss mer was badly frightened and his and then backward and sideways his strength was giving 9ut when his eyes glistening his form crouching brother arrived and killed the eagle Seeing no escape except in front he with a club The bird measured five took a flying leap Into space and Hut- - feet across the wings more of Calcutta’s Big Water Tank WORK The average mouse runs 16000 meters a day and certain energetic subjects have been known to run 29000 meters In a period of 24 hours With a view to the utilization of the power constructed a of mice an Inventor wire drum revolving on an axla The power rendered by the mice ran a litmachine The flax spinning tle of linen thread was four pounds for five days of mouse labor The Inventor of the machine died before perfecting hie invention Had Not long ago the authorities of Calcutta decided that the clty’e supply of of a great resdrinking water wae insufficient ao they ordered the construction ervoir at Tallah a suburb This has been computed In the form of a tank In slxe Is 321 feet of eteol and task wood with a capacity of 2000000 gallons square 16 feet deep and la elevated 110 feet above the ground HORSESHOE BROUGHT LUCK New York Farmer Attributes Hla Miraculous Escape From- Death to Fortunate Find York— A York state farmer up a horseshoe In the road and moment he was struck by an which tossed him to one automobile side While shaking his first at the chauffeur' another car came ' along and threw him ten feet In the air He alighted on the soft side of a ditch and was unhurt When within 300 feet of his home he was struck for the third time by another automobile and thrown Into a field where he lay un- - New picked the next Hung on to the Shoe conscious for an hour No bones were Not once did he let go of the broken horseshoe and he attributes to the horseshoe the great luck which this talisman brought him and has nailed' It over the parlor door Rooster As a Rat Killer York Pa — A large game rooster owned by William Reachard of North Is attracting atCodorus township tention all through the neighborhood by Its proficiency aq an exterminator of rats and mice The lanky fowl stalks for hours through the corn fields watchlhg for the rodents to run from beneath shocks of fodder their favorite haunts Once In the open the chase has only one termination In all cases the rooster easily overtaking: and killing his prey by shaking It like a terrier S Death of Very Large Woman Md — Her great burden Baltimore of flesh gradually wearing down her strength Mrs Lena M Richards who weighed 500 pounds Is dead at her home here She was years old and six feet tall A special casket was constructed for her burial and as It was Impossible to get the casket Into the house the funeral services were held on the lawn Mrs Richards has been confined to the house for the last three years and had In Increased weight steadily |