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Show Bt siNKss houses should all sus-1 pend business today on account of: its being Memorial Day. In summing up the relative merits and resources of the different differ-ent states, statistieans say Iowa ranks first in average intelligence of population and first in the number num-ber of swine. From this we would naturally infer that Iowa boasts of great droves of educated hogs. ' There is talk of building a railway rail-way across the Atlantic Ocean, connecting con-necting New York with Liverpool. An eminent French engineer says, at a depth of 4300 feet the water in the ocean is of such density that it would easily sustain at that depth a continuous line of iron tubes j .large enough to admit of a double j track. Such an invention, undoubtedly undoubt-edly possible, would reduce the trans- Atlo-ntic time to only three days. . The V. S. postal regulations are plain and explicit, we admit, concerning con-cerning matter being addressed only to their pet post office names. ''Box Elder" is the name of the Brigham City post office. But the question is, is Uncle Sam such a picayunish and bull-headed old cuss as to send matter, plainly di- rected ;tD Brigham City, to the Dead Letter Office, simply because has not bis favorite name "Box Elder" thereon? . AVc don't think so.. Our fantisttcand gray-bearded Vpcle wouldn't thus tyrannize over or.pppress his people simply because lie has the power, or to Stit a childish whim wham. He's altogether too big hearted for that. |