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Show THE DESERET EAGLE. SIGN LANGUAGE OF THE INDIANS. your ringers across your mouth; for a white man, rub your hand across your forehead to s ao w how white our fore A 'Simple Method of Expressing heads are ; for a Pdgm, rub one cheek. Jtluiiy Ideas Wit hunt the Tae sign for water is to make a scoop Use or Words.. of your hand and put it to your mcu'h Make a letter A with your banc's and as you would if you wre drinkia at the ends of your Angers, that is a tepee or tent. Keep your bauds in thai ast'am. T ) tell of a lake mike that sign and spread out your hands to position and bend thein down so that cover a To tell of a river spa cj. your fingers point away irom you; make thebigwater sign and then trace the that's a house, and a very good one teo, course of a river with your because it shows how the logs are meanderirg whisky is interlocked at the orders of Che soit of finger. Bat the sign for made by doubling up one 11 t and drinkhouses one sees on the frontier. If ing out of the top of its as if it were a you want to say you saw homething, bottle. If you do thatand mike believe point to your eyes. To say you heard to stir up brai is with one tiog jr, something, point to your ears. To ay or reel a your little, you, will describe a you slept or are sleepy, put up one man. Nearly all signs in the lanhand, with the palm side toward your tipsy are made with the rlgnt hand head and bead your head as if you were guage Julian Kilph in llarpei's Young going to lay it on that hand. To say that you saw some one who reople. was beautiful, put your fase between A MUTE CASE the thumb and finders of one hand and draw your hand softy down from your A faints i irk Two Dear and Dumb Ifoys in Kliea forehead to your chin, or smile made at the same time greatly County Uvt iiito Court, helps the t go. If the beamy you tell about was a woman, make believe take Will and Charles Pryor, of Diytoc, hold of a miss of hair on the right sidv Riea County, are deaf and dumb, but of your head and follow it down past they have caused a hubbub in legal the shoulder with vourhand, as you circles. Some time ago they were hunting on sec women do when they dress their hair. These signs for seeing, hearing, the farm of a Mr. S evens, who ordered sleep, beauty, and women are exactly them to leave his farm by making the same as tuose used by. George L. signs to tht m, but instead of obeying Fox, the famous clown, when he one of tnem shot him three times with played "Ilumpty Dumpty." I have a Winchester sootgun. The loads were no doubt that Grimaldi, the great small and Stevens escaped serious English clown, also used them,forthey irjury. are the natural motions for expressing The boys were arrested, and when the day for thei" trial came on they those terms. Did you ever notice how the paws of appeared in court and the fun begat . The boys do not know how to talk small animals are curled in when they are dead? That is the sign forVdied'' on their fingers and neither can they Hold one band out with write, and bow to get their part of the or "dead." the fingers bent toward the thumb to evidence is where the trouble comes. But if you would say Their mother was called to gtt their make the sign. some one was killed, hold out a fist story, but she could do nothiug, and with the knuckles away from you, and after wasting several days with the move the wrist slowly so as to force case it was continued till the July the ktiuckles down as if the person was term Knoxville Tribune. struck down. To tell about a child .hold Several years age, the parents of the your hand as far from the ground as Pryor boys refused Mr. Moses request its head would reach . Pat a finger up to have them sent to this school. This to either side of the head to say cow;" may be a warning to parents of ueaf to say "deer" put up all your fingers and dumb children, who allow them to like branching horns. Bat ano her stay at home and grow up in ignorance way to tell about a deer is to imitate and vice. Silent Observer. his loping with one of your hands. Frantic Mother "Come quick, To tell of a snake, wiggle one finger in the air as a snake would move on doctor! Baby has swallowed my silver the ground. That sign is the name for thimble!" I) actor "What was the The sign for a thimble worth?" F. M. "Fifty cents." two tribes ot Indians. Sioux is to mike believe cut your Doctor "Well, you don't want to pay throat with one finger; for a Biackfoor, two dollars and a half just to get a point to your foot; for Blood, wipe fifty cent thimble, do you?"-E- x. . A NEW INDUSTRY- - THE COMMON S1GEBKUSEI CAN BE MADE INTO PAPER lXperiiiients Show Satisfactory Itestills at a I.ou Cost. The time is rapidly approaching wnen the saye brush that grows upon the plains will be utilized and tbat heretofore wortales th uo converted A resioeut of Idaho, into paper. 11 bert Laiug. has discovered that hagu brush will make xcellent grades of By UMug the lime heavy paper. process and trtasig the bush to a p otracted boiling h secured a puip hat more than satisfied hisexpectat-tion- . It was equal to the best wood pulp, and the presence of a long and strong filer wis planly demonstrated. Mr. L ilug claims that he can man ufacture sage brush paper at a small cost, and that he can realize a profit by selling it at four cents a pound. If the sage brush districts of the west can be converted into valuable manufacturing material, and it is stroDgly clMin d it can be, there is an opening here for a valuable and profitable business. A big paper mi.l would be quite the proper thing. Brighton Record. j. X12AT FOR and AUTISTIC liooKiuxmxu. tiO TO V. .. 3. JNCOlirOliATEI). 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