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Show tuuns out tlmt the "nation's drink j b'H" l'.-r lat year reached the j enormous turn vi $1,079,430,172. Then figuring on 70,UUO,OUO people! in the L'nited Sritcp, that amounts equal to $15.-1- worth o" liiiuoi con-smiu-d yearly ly every man, woman, and ha! ie in our country ;or over$l.'2o : pL in by ouch litiior every month. uhLr:u'ling the millions of baben, children, women and teetotalers who never touch liquor, what vast sums thousands of individuals must sink in the wine cup yearly! lint the greater proportion of this t'abuluus sum comes from the lean pockets of the laborers, who starve and scantily clothe their families that they may satisfy a devilish thirst for liquor. No wonder hard j times are upon us, that the masses ! arc impoverisbed and thatCrime has liroken Ins shackles and with bloodstained blood-stained finders, is stalking uncheek-I uncheek-I ed throughout our fair country. So it is Joe and Frankie again. Frankie is a pretty, keen, clever c i.ip; Joe is a stern, hard-hitter. This marshal will commence on Mouday impounding all calves found at large in the streets of the city. Springvillc Independent. How indignant the pretty girls of that burg whose taste runs in the line of abbreviated skirts must be at SUch-a IxW-ol-ntTtpyw.irniTig. The new L'tate constitution that 13 to be formed next March should he so perfect, broad, liberal and non-partisan that not a single vote will be cast against it in the November No-vember election of 1S95. It should favor no person, no class, no section, sec-tion, but be for all tho state and all the people. Any man (or an' newspaper) who objects to such a foundation for the superstructure of the State of Utah is a dishonest trickster with an ax to grind and is unworthy the confidence of tite people. For the past seven years a party of American scientists have been exploring the grounds r.e ir Babylon. Baby-lon. They have 200 Arabs constantly con-stantly at work in the excavations. The religion, government, habits of life and to a great extent the customs of men who lived 4000 B. C. arc revealed by the inscriptions which arc now being translated and arranged. Thus far 20,000 inscribed tablets of clay and stone have been discovered, bearing in-criptions in-criptions which include promises to pay debts, deeds, contracts and records of important public and private events. Barring the slight depression during the strike tie-up, the market this year for Brigham City fruits and produce will compare f a vo ral ) ly with that of proba I d y any other year. Our shippers cannot begin to fill their orders. There was a buyer in town recently re-cently who wanted a carload of pears, and was willing to pay a good price fur them. Another 1 would Iiavo taken half a dozen carloads of mixed fruits they could not be had. But in a very few years now, all such orders can be lilled here. Scores of orchards of considerable dimensions, planted on a scientific liasi, arc rapidly growing up on all sides and when these thousands f trees reach maturity they wiil vastly increase Brigham City's fruic supply. |