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Show I -- i. THE MORNING EXAMINER OGDEN. UTAH. ' Imwwi Mftcaaa Hf.tovr. baa well said that but for Uia "Eomaa History" Mommsen would be a peat nan "taken ou falib." That oman ia probably true, but we bare the retuoet the perbnpa History. literature German of markable piece written lu the nsMilIe ef the century. It ia a wonderful to the power of. humanity over bnuiautty that the must human work which Mommsen wrote should be the nioat popular. The Roman History" waa the expression of die whole man, and If ever It should ceuse to hare value aa Roman history It will never cease to be of value aa a spiritual document, aa a picture of the hopes and By a Ideals of Theodor Mommsen. waa book the when chance happy in It world the into appeared brought the naked almplicity of ita narrative without the swaddling clothe of footnote and sources. The clear cut style showed forth to its best advantage. The world at large took Its statement aa faith. Scholars were at liberty to test them in other books of Mommsen himself or of other men. rrofeaaor Jesse B. Carter In Atlantic. gome aa J uine-taeo- I 1 y f t $ Itl , V t. i !s : t I ib , i i t SialtsHn sf Amt Cities, Insects are scrupulously clean la their personal toilet and often brash, comb and wash themselves, a service for which they are admirably provided with natural implements. Tbta habit la transferred to communal affair. The streets within tlie city bounds and the gates and external plan and "country roads leading Into the foraging heMa. as with agricultural am, are kept free from 01th and obmruotioua that might gather filth. The euustant washings and ws"bm of baby ants by the nurse would satisfy the must fastidious maOue may not say that ternal tost t. sanitation la an exact emmetonlan but It certainly la aa art thoroughly practiced in every department 'ef the formlceiy and brought to as far as natural conditions will permit. Every insect citizen takes part in this service. AU ants unite to keep their dvlq precincts clean. H. CL hi Harper's Msgs sine. act-en- per-ftoth- Me-Oo- o v A Boautlfal Art. THtboat disparagement of any of the ether arts, to attain proficiency in which people make aurh loos and valiant struggles, it may be truly aald that the one art of lulling warms more beerto than all others together. Most children 4n fact. aU happy children hava an unconscious mastery of this beautiful art; but unfortunately they often loee it es they grow older. Children are the beat Judges ef smiles in the world. "Her Ups smlle said a child, speaking of a hard faced woman, "but abe doesn't" A widening of the mouth in n vain endeavor to look pleasant la not n smfla. It deceive nobody. A smile, to be worthy of the name, must come from the heart. It hi the rosnlt of an bonset willingness and readiness to be pleased with little aa well as great things. Antwerp Wife Woman. There la no more picturesque figure In quaint old Antwerp than the milk women. For many yearn the milk ef the city has been nerved to the house by these women, wboae customs and f i even costumes have remained unchanged. The milk women wear a simple dress, almost completely covered with a volumlnons white apron. A quaint white headdress completes the uniform. Score of these picturesque figures are to be sera throughout Antwerp in the morning bourn. TOe milk is either ranted In two large buckets, hong from a yoke running acroso the shoulders, or In little carta drawn by dogs. Kotlaer at night. Every living bird and brnst strives Its utmost to cram ttaetf with food before retiring for tbs nigbt, and this food ia digested as the night progresses. The eventug fted Is tbs toed of the day with the brute creation, and yet doo-- ' ton toll us to refrain from eating heartily at nigbt and even advise us to retire to rest with a more or less empty stomach. Are we following nature when following this advice? Country Gentleman. J j I r aw Ik tttoa Beat TUae.year A Chinese child la considered a j i- ? I r I i - eld at Its birth, and its age te reckoned not from it birthdays, but from Its Kew Tear's day. If it la fortunate notgb te be bora on Feb- - X the day before the Chlnoee Kew Ye tie deg. It te aald to be two yearn old when K is two days old. It la one year old when bora, and another year la added on lta first Kew Tear's day. The Xinm were. In Korea the asoiae ef a wife or mother are the sanctuary of any man who breaks the law. Unless for treason or for one other crime he cannot be forced to leave those rooms, and so long aa he remains under the protection of his wife's apartments he te secure we eecmed (3 mate Uobe in toe nop to lartuu... vi lov Si That lnprasaioiis mt.de on one ef the suit him I should be obliged If he would bring it around for me to look senses may produce similar Impresa fact whose at. lie did. tTell. air. It waa a meat sions aa another sense 1 ax. I would no soon think of shaving a man with a carving knife. But I shaved him with It, and he never peep-edNew York Proas. . ul Br the few." "fer aai Mr Johnson's definition of "by and by." now generally written by and bye." la in a short time," corresponding to 1'heure. and Bbake-sMr- e the French tout uses It to express the immediate as distinguished from the more remote fyture: Now a sensible mas, by and fey a fool and prasently a bousl.-OtblIf we knew bow by came to be Indicative of the present the second "by" might he assumed to signify beyond. By tiie bysf was la Juhnaoo'a time used In a different, almost opposite, sense to that In whlch'we now employ it as an equivalent to the French a pro-po- t, not aa expressive of something apposite, but on the contrary, a a, accord-lu- g to Johnson, "something not the direct and Immediate object of regard." In neither case la tlie employment of "by" In these two familiar express tons accounted for. Notes and Queries. lo. Tbs shasawsdaa Day. Jaifant SI. lisa this to otMerviKioa hna come within the aakahaal. Among the old herbalists aconite, or monkshood (Acnnltum napeilnai, was held In wholesome terror on account of Its poisonous qualities, which see greatly renpected eren in the present. It la a valued medicineof the pharmacopoeia. Great prejudice formerly existed against its use aa a medicine Internally, Broerck The Koran, sura say concerning the general "Judgment day," which nearly all religious teach lu common: When the sun shall be folded np, end when the stars shall folk and alien the mountain almll be made to pass away, and when the wild beast aball be gathered together, and first prescribed It for rheumatism, and when the seas shall boll, and when It la now known to be sedative to the eonla aball again lie Joined to their heart and respiratory Bryan and to rebodies, and when the girl who hath duce temperature. It la a grant medibeen buried alive shall aak for what cine for fevers. crime site waa put to death, ami when Monkshood la a well known garden the bonks shall bo laid open, and when perennial, showy and eon sequential on the heavens shall be removed, and account of its rank growth. It grown when hdl shall burn fiercely, and when about four feet high, each stalk haring paradise shall he brought nenr. then a long Inflorescence. The flowers are shall every soul know wbat It hath dark blue, the colored sepals generally mistaken for the petals The upper one wrought" la vanlted, and from tbta the plant gets raiMtratlaz flaivk Bella. lta common name, tbe sepal hooding the The custom of consecrating church flower like a monk's cowl. In cultivabells was ones common to nearly nil tion there are many varieties of color. denomination a, but It is now confined principally to the Homan Catholics. A Starr ef Carlyle's lalaant. The oM form was to wash the licll wltb Among tbe many good stories told holy water, anoint It with oil and mark Carlyle this la not tha least It with the slim of the crew. and to enneerulng took a friend and a good: Carlyle oorae extent tbta form ia still naed. At much younger man nut walking with tlie time of the reformation In England him. and In hla usual way Indulged the prejudice agalnet Roman Catholic In a monologue, In which, nevertheless, ceremonies waa an strong, that instead hla companion waa much Interested. of bring blessed new brlla were Once or twice, however, the friend venfilled turned up and with tured to put In n word or two of obpunch, whk-f-a then vat drank by tbe jection In regard to something aald by participants In the aoraaion. London Carlyle. This annoyed Carlyle IntenseChronicle. ly, and when they reached home ho turned upon hla companion and adThe SiaHraMa Mcktoa, to him the following warning: dressed To esk of any one aa an AdmiraYoung man, I'd have ye to know that ble Crichton Is to credit him with bethe capacity for being the greating very learned and accomplished, ye've est in Encore.' The poor man had bora since euch a person lived In the sixteenth century. Hla name was James hardly spoken a doasa words, but since three had been critical they had made Crichton, and he lived in Scotland from him seem to Carlyle a potential bon of 1M0 to lflfifi. At tbe age of seventeen colossal proportion. years bo was the reputed master of twelva languagre and had been given Bra Wka Bail Moats. the degree of master of arts when but In buabmen of Australia we find tba fourteen because of hla great learning. In addition to his accomplishments aa perhaps the lowest order ef men that a scholar ho waa poet, mnslrlan, sculp- la known. They are so primitive that tor, artist, actor, raconteur, a good they do not know enough to build even the simplest forms of huts for shelter. horseman and an expert fencer. The nearest they can approach to It la to gather a lot of twlga and grass and, A Ititomaai fearer Amfeltlan. The grant Lord Gray had an ambi- taking them into a thicket or jungle, tion far above politics. He bad passed build a neat for a home. Tha nest ia the reform bill, but that did not satis- usually built large enough for tbe family, and If the latter be very numerous fy bln aonL There was talk ef Tagllo-nand Grey aald quite earnestly, then the neats are of a very large size. "What would I give to dance aa well aa Sometimes the foliage above will form Tbe statesman who had been a natural covering, bnt there la never she! prime minister and had left an Indeli- any attempt at constructing a protecble mark ou the history of hla country tion from the rain and storms. waa envious ef an opera daecer I Lonaw Japan Harvest Wheat. don Chronicle. The Japaneee hare a queer way of . A aa fesrrlaae. harvesting their wheat Instead of " "Of course a bachelor knows more rutblosidy cutting It down with n about marriage than a married man, scythe or reaper they poll up much ef nays Malthugartalua, the mediaeval ft by hand and clip off the roots with cynic. The best proof of this proposishears, for they wish to keep tbe beaution ia that tba bachelor did not mar- tiful long, golden straws from getting ry." bruised or broken. With tbe Japs, who do everything neatly and allow nothThe Other Eatress. to go to waste, the straws are alParke Poer niter! Ills wife la a ing most as valuable aa the grain. They there Is spendthrift. anything worse, I wonder, than a wife thats too ex- first flatten the Straws,areand then, after woven, either being softened, travagant? Tame Oh, yea; one that's whole or split, they Into watting, baskets, too economical! Brooklyn Life. hats and nmnr nCc article. orca-aloaall- L .... ttai I Xukl .htu lhot aa f the Japanese a cgn ef equality" the politeness of thta hierarchical cast, a In surprihing coutraat with tbe ag- reeslre rufenrai of oar democratic oraiuunitiea. Gentleness and cordiality ore the Japanese rale;ao scenes of .ioteuee. The readiness with which Europeans fly into a passion stupefies the Japanese, appears to them to be a sign if Innate coarseness. In bis rouaidera-.lo- n for others a Japanese habitually refrain from making any show of his persons! sorrows. Only her vanity haa led Europe te fancy that the Japanese regard western drUlaatlen aa superior to their own and that therefore they are "luropcuislnp" the rn selves purposely. Tht western diplomatist who described modem Japan aa a "bod tnaalntleu" ef Europe merely shared tha delusion and conceit of foreigners generally. F. t'hallaye In Revue do Malleable Stewart Range Paris "Tha Dofe WIH Have His Dir." In Hamlat," art 4, scene L we read: Get Our Prices Before Buyindl ClsewHere Let Heseulas himself do what h may. The eat wil mew, the dug aril hava hla day. The latter line baa become n popular derives lta name from Its peculiar habits, which are known te but few who have net attuned the plant from n scientific standpoint. The plant haa saying, but wa are uetu rally Inclined leaves of two sties, oaa ef which acta to efilt What ft mean. Why should a in the capacity of a minute band, dog have a day all to himself any more which keeps moving until 4 o'clock in than aa? ether four footed creature? the afternoon, and the ether keeps go- Is not tbe passage a piece of alUy slang, ing until mwalug. The larger leaves and oegfat ft not to be suppressed, like act aa the hour hand. Starting in a any other coat phstse that la bom In position when all tbe leaves lie close the streets? To harmonise the verse to the atom, with tha points hanging with sense and Shakespeare a friend down, they rise gradually until they has suggested that the last word ought turn toward tba top. and then they to be changed to bay. Wa should then drop to their former position. It taken read, "Tbe cat will mew, the dog will the smaller leaves shout one minute to have bin bay." 1 have no doubt that go through thla performance and the Shakespeare wrote it so and that tbe word day la a misprint and nonsense. longer leaves just about an hour. The analogy between the rats mewing A Chapel la a Coal Mia. and dog's haying is self evident and inOne of the mast remarkable places of telligible. Kan si City Independent worship In the world la the miners' chapel in Myndd Menlgdd colliery, Inaarek'a Woadorfnl Beta. Swansea, Wales, when for mors than No one ever came Into the presence of fifty year the workers hava each morn- the chancellor without a deep souse of ing assembled for worship. This sanc- tbe mind power reflected from those tuary la situated chaw to the bottom of large gray bine orbs. Tbefr flashing the abaft. The only fight la that ob- brilliancy and the piercing penetration tained from a solitary Davy safety of the glftuces shot from them wen lamp hung over the pulpit from tlh never to be forgotten. They seemed ceiling, and tha oldest miner in the colIncapable of expressing affection, and liery la generally ehoaen to officiate. their atrol-llk- e hardness only Inspired It is the custom in some other places awe for the towering Intellect, the Irrefor coal miners to gather together sistible will, tbe defiant courage, the mealtimes for prayer meeting and the fiery energy of their owner. To watch Ilka; bnt It te aald that this Is tbo only the lightning changes of expression mirInstance where a special apartment te rored la them, reflecting the strong ina coal mine ns n chapel. emotions evoked by humbled pride; wounded ambition and thwarted self" Was Writ tea. ishness, and, How "Abide With above all, by the loss of At the age of fifty-foLyt found hla absolute away,' waa Indeed an enhimself doomed to die of consumption, viable privilege. Henry TUIard in Cenand la sorrow at having to leave hla tury. task unfinished he prayed that at the least It might be granted to him to The Jilt la llilyi write something which would live to In some couutriee a betrothal Is cono? God when he was dead. sidered the glory only a degree less sacred than Then on the Inst er tiling he ever spent a and therefore a breach of marriage at Brixbam, after preaching fate fare- promise, especially en the girl's aide, is well sermon, be took pen and as the This ia regarded aa very shocking. aua was setting ever the ships that lay very much the rase in where a Italy, In the harbor "Abkle With Me" was girl who after betrothal has written. Next morning be started for her mind ia known for fife aa achanged clvetta the Riviera and there died a month (owlet) and bus another chance rarely later. London Telegraph. if matrimony. The term owlet conveys no Idea of reproach hoe; but In Tartars Is CsliaUi. Italy it la significant because owlets It is a common thing for n Colombian are there used for lnouarlng other birds. boy of twelve te foccn to be thrashed to death wWh rowi- - .a whips for "deseats That ABvet fereathlafe. serting" from the army that te te say, Tbe perfumes of certain flowers affect running back home' after be bad been or or cause forcibly enlisted. It Is generally com- tbe digestioneven breathing and fainting fits. Vanilla mon for a mere child to be bong up by the thumbs until he dies because be la troublesome to many, ao ia the while will not or cannot say where bis fa- flower of the Liguatrum japonlcum and ther la hidden. Women have been cru- the pltoeperain. Tbe tuberose; Jasmine cified because they have refused to be- and lllae are objectionable to some. Tbe tray their husbands, and others have Datura arborescens makes people drowbesu treated infinitely worse. Worlds sy.' Thla action of Howe rs ia due to the cent and la distinct from the Influence Work. of pollen, which produces hay fever. Didnt Know Bow to Charley, dear, aalfi yauug Mrs. Joy and Sorrow. Tomkins, 1 hava done yen n great InJoy, they say, la a Munition similar , to Borrow. It merely butte along lints justice. "In what way?" that we enjoy. We go to tbe theater, "I inspected wfilfcaqt reason. I weep ever a tear play and are delightasked several of yquff Montis that you fully and. Some people's greatest Joy go out with at srojnngs whsther you Ilea In being and. knew for to piay feafcer, and every What a remarkably Interesting study one at than thmjgbts Minute sad aald must humanity be to the scientists of tbe lower kingdom! flan Francisco yon EASY TERMS CONSOLIDATED WAGONMACI1INE r wJ carded. Has a large mica front door COMPANY. UTAH. 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Persona are warned not to interfere ia any wise vrith to results It to ante, to the public If unmolested, bnt eerlouacaused throus ty and yoaetble fatal results to persona can be Bmbe ofirai or wtrae, ef of the Insulators, throwing breaking owxne Similar obstruction ever the wine of company's . - - f MSP UTAH LIGHT CO. POWER By n. S. Campbell. line oi Buggies, Spring Wagons, Farm Machinery and Implements of all kinds is complete and we are glad to show Our them. The Sidney Stevens Implement Company, r J. L HERRICK, State Mgr SUCKS A Stow Photographer. Irate Female Look here! Do you mean to tell me (bat I have got seek an ugly looking nose as that! Photographer But my apparatus cannot He.j madam. Irate Female Then, for goodness sake, go and gvt ooa that can. The feasor Creek. Lo.V- - A Yeuetahle Cloak. ef the most curious plants knows te the clock plant, which la a native of Borneo, and even in that country life aald to he rare. The plant One Japan. 1 ratio. bo country is William Morris' golden rale, Have nothing about you Mit wbat yon knew to be useful and jeliere to be beautiful," so scrupulously follow sd a in Japan. Tbe politeness In YOU KNOW, An anthor who had been Jailed for debt wrote to hla wife: "Do me the favor to send me my Bhakeepenrc,' my nightgown and slippers, my pipe and all letters s siting for autographs and containing stamps. 1 want to be comfortable nod at peace with the world." Atlanta ConaUtolton. Xu "luta aa "feta. "Kith and kin" has become a phrase vaguely applied to express relationship, hut kith" haa nothing to do with kinKith" means kent folk." It ship. cornea from ken. which Is the same know. When aa our word can"-- to ona can do a thing, one knows how to do It. Evidently our ancestors believed that knowledge la power. The old word fur knod a waa kylb " aa the old word for unknown was nnkyth." or uncouth. Uncouth strange, unfamiliar, nausiml, unknown Las preserved much of Its early meaning In Scotland. Burns uses "uncus In the seuse of news. The "unco guld" are the strangeKith." then, ly, marvelously good. meant kent folk," people with whom one was familiar Tbe kent folk are the folk we love, and lave and familiarity developed out of tbe word kith the curious vocable kythible, which In course of time underwent considerable phonetic and orthographic changes, but which te still recognisable la the word "cuddle." Good Words. DECEMBER 10, 1801. Stoves That Have Satisfied For 57 Years from the officers of the law. "A man may be quite rations! and reasonable In all ordinary affairs and yet be quite daffy on tbo subject of mors, said the barber. "I have one customer, for instance, who keeps lx razors here one for every day in the week that n man ia supposed to get shaved aud pay me tv bone them every week. Some mornings I have to try them aH on him before he stops gVJmbNnf and even then may.havn to nne one of my own razors. At other times he will order me to use the nine razor for a week or two. I can't fool him by changing it either. "Another customer who oomes hi only-for aq occasional shave talked to me for six months about the fine razor expe-rieuc- e vf many. An extraordinary instance la described in tbe Revue Pbilosophlque. Tbe subject was youth of tweuty-slx-, born of n neuropathic family. He developed epilepsy in his thirteenth year, mid the attack seriously Impaired hia mental faculties, although hla color seiioe, which had been remarkable since birth, remained uncome monly acute. The human rok-- bad always, It appears, represented colors to him colors ef a prism-Uk- e delicacy. Even tbe cries of animals were colored. In tbe cate of the hnman voice the most inten color hnpeeoatona resulted from the sound of the spoken vowels "A," fur example, gave the impression of light green, and other sense were affected as well. The Impression succeeded and were merged Into each other. Other vowel sounds produced these peculiar aaoclatra V was yellow, u" dark green, "y" white, "i" black. The printed vowels produced the same Impreaaiona, varying ia vividness. Harper's Weekly, SATURDAY MORNING, If You Want to Buy or Sell.... Utah ind Idaho. fkAy.1 Patronize (he Want Golan |