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Show I OBITUARY. Dr. and Mrs. S. H.' Plnkerton left on Monday for Los Angeles in response to a telegram announcing that Mrs. N. A. Kissick, mother of Mrs. Plnkerton, died suddenly in that city on Sunday. Mr3. Kissick was well known in Salt Lake City, having resided here for a number of years. She went to California' for her health last fall. A telegram was received from Miss Lizzie C. Rogers stating that her brother. broth-er. J. J. Rogers, died last Sunday in Victoria, B. C, and the funeral took place Wednesday. Mr. Rogers was formerly for-merly a prominent attorney In this city, and went to Alaska, where he resided for about twelve years. Recently he went to Victoria to have a serious operation oper-ation performed, from which he never recovered. He is survived by a daughter, daugh-ter, aged 17, and a son, 14, and a sister living in the state of New York, besides Miss Lizzie Rogers of this city. The death of Mrs. Louise McCarthy, aged 49 years, widow of the late S. H. McCarthy, occurred at the residence of her daughter, Mrs. J. F. Kelley, 1422 Major avenue, early Wednesday morning morn-ing after a lingering illness. The funeral funer-al will take place at St. Mary's cathedral cathe-dral next Saturday at 10 o'clock. High mass will be said. The remains may be viewed on Friday at O'Donnell's undertaking under-taking parlors. Mrs. McCarthy was a very early settler set-tler in Utah, comina: here as a child in an ox team thirty-eight years ago. She was well known in the real estate and rooming house business, having been engaged in that line here for many years. She was a sister-in-law of Justice W. M. McCarthy, and leaves a daughter, Mrs. Ella Kelley, wife of J. F. Kelley, and a son. Homer McCarthy. Friends are respectfully invited to attend at-tend the funeral. Interment will be in the Catholic cemetery. Are you interested in California, Arizona Ari-zona and Old Mexico? If so, it would be wise to write for full information about the shortest line and the best service from your point to these sections, sec-tions, via the SALT LAKE ROUTE, Utah's most popular road. Star Study as a Pastime. Probably every reader has often admired ad-mired the beauty of a starlight night. A little careful observation on such a night will show that the brighter stars may be divided into groups or "contel-lations," "contel-lations," as the astronomers call them, most of which are known by the names of animals or legendary persons, such, for" example, as "The Great Bear," "The Swan," Hercules," "Andromeda," etc. The easiest method of learning these "constellations" is from some one already al-ready acquainted with them; but if the beginner is not fortunate enough to know any such person, the majority can be learned from any cheap star maps such as sometimes contained in almanacs. alma-nacs. Now, if the budding astronomer will notice the position of any of these groups or constellations, and then look a few hours afterward, he will see that j during- the Interval tho etom titViv. or, peared low down in the east have risen to the south in a somewhat sumilar manner to the apparent motion of the sun and moon, while closed attention on several evenings will shaw a circular or rotary movement around the north pole of the heavens, the motion being the opposite way to the hands of a clock. Near the north pole Is a bright star called the "Pole Star." This star is easily found when the observer has once noted the seven bright stars of the "Great Bear;" the two outer stars of the four forming the "square" known as the "pointers" point almost directly to the Pole star. This majestic ma-jestic movement of the stars around the pole of the heavens is a most sublime aid wonderful sight. The Country Side. |