Show TS ERB is hardly a month passes battha but tha reports como from actions of tho country of outbreaks among or encounters with indians A received yesterday from winnipeg says that advises advices from wood mountain report a fight between indians who crossed tho line united states troops in which nine killed and two chiefs and tareo americans wounded 11 ll ta has settled down in his quiet haunts and h seldom heard of ho has to go from homo it seems to create a sensation and this ho does every now and then be causo his system craves sensation and ins soul thirsts for notoriety intakes a judge sometimes two or to undo tha mischief that boreman perpetrates in half an hour but he gets his cheap fame notwithstanding r was never better than now in most of the eastern cities while in utah abo profession languishes it takes tho strongest kind of an attraction to get tho people out and the expense at such entertainments often swallows exceeds the receipts there is hardly any demand for the legitimate drama pinafore rc mains a good card and minstrels invariably do well iho fact that neither siewart L woodford nor mrs chisholm was shot at insulted or par noticed in anyway in mis sissie pi the republicans chances for carrying ohio aro not so good as they were A first class outrage upon either of choso persons would have added immensely to tho foster column in the buckeye state if it for tho outrage mill would soon join T I uttered nobler sentiments or more eloquent lan guage alian is contained in the following extract from one of his speeches I have a dream that the world is growing better and better every day and every year that there is more charity more justice and more love every day I have a dream eliat prisons will not always curso the earth that shadows of tho gallows will not always fall on tho land that withered hand of want wilt not always be stretched out for charity that finally wisdom will sit in the legislatures justice in ahe courts carrity will occupy tha pulpits an d that finally the world will bo controlled by and charity r ra A or the lato franco prussian war continue to turn up in the fielda in and arom id paris in tha shape of bomb shells and persons finding them being possessed of more curiosity than caution on investigating their construction too closely are suddenly started on an d excursion sending nothing lock but a few buttons to tell tha story at st ft charcoal daalder an old man of as who had earned como celebrity in the neighborhood by his collection of german shells waa trying to empty another when it exploded and blew him and his shop to pieces tho remnants of bis body were fouad scattered in all directions A similar accident ia also reported from tha arsenal of belford where one artilleryman was killed and five wounded THOSE ano read tho biblo we do continually are sometime loth over the terms they find for which webster and worcester furnish no enlightenment for tho benefit of such ire would state from en authentic sources that a daya journey was miles A sabbath days journey was about one english mile ezekiel reed was 11 feet ji early A cubit is 22 indies nearly A fingers breadth is equal to one inch A shekel of silver was about 59 cents A shekel of gold was A talent of silver was A talent of gold was 23 lv eror a penny was 13 cents A was cents A gerah was cents A mite was A homer contained 70 gallons and pints an or alia ib acon tarried gallons nn d igind a pints A firkin was pints an boier was C pints A cab pints A log was ono balf pint jl S aga hint for utah farmers mw tells with L how a mr lynch of boilow county recently told it t that in the tpring when hid corn first carnous jahe ed bent on its when ono waa killed ik looked as if a dozen camo to S it nd though the report of ajun often drove them away they t returned with its echo at length t being weary of throwing grass lie I resolved to throw stones so ho sont to tho druggist for a Rallon of alco a few quarta ot corn and scattered jt hi field th crows catino and partook with reliah they acro f pretty well corned and such a cawing and cackling strutting and alio scone beyond their staggering gait gaad courm through tho air att at length they gamed the end of tho wood and joined by it new recruit who happened to bo bober they united at tho top of their in hawing and th outing either the or of alcohol it WM lif to tell which but aba corn wa that occasion ocoa sion ay if aba crow after from their anink didat bankar the corn moro vv ih Anever they aro lauy unlike human betels iu that paitA CUlar r NOW comos nn old new york engineer who says that of tho stories about running a mile a on railway anro the merest bosh verifying fisli assertion by showing that the number of lations five wheel would have to make to accomplish that feat would be so great that the stroke would not be seen at all eliat a person not faco the air going at that speed for five minutes and live that tho sp bcd would be BO poles bould not counted that most engines would get ahead of themselves as the contrivance which regulates tho in steam into the cylinder would bo apt to got behind in its work and thus impede instead of advance tho motion acid finally that a person traveling at tho rate of forty miles an hour which is very fast is apt lo 10 think it a milo a minute and it does so until a stopwatch JAbro into requisition this engineer says hw never touched that speed but once in all his thirty years experience an d that was on a straight track down grade and only then tor a short distance wo have been in of a locomotive when by actual count twenty rono telegraph poles were passed in a m the watch tho stroke of the piston was more rapid than any notion that could bo imparted to any thing by direct hand power much faster than a person could move his fiand alone through tho samo space there are about poles to the mile and aab would make the speed a little over fifty miles an hour the locomotive oco motive groaned at avery joint quivered like an aspen and rocked iko a cradle it wound jiava made a B arvous person fai n t tji is wo con sidar tho top of an locomotives |