Show A MIGHTY OAK FROM AN ACORN on sunday last the great adams express company celebrated celebrate a its fiftieth birthday half a century ago it began business with a wheelbarrow today to day it uses 2000 wagons in slay 1840 alvin adams opened hia his first express office in boston the system now a so extensive then con consisted Fisted of two men a boy and the wheelbarrow at present the company employs 20 men horses and covers miles of railroad one of the earliest branch establishments was in baltimore the sun of that city in noting the enormous development of the business gives an interesting sketch of the founder adams was an orphan and at an early age be he left his native home in the mountains of vermont and wf w nt ut to boston to seek hta life fortune bogn n ning nin hia his career in that city as a clerk in the lafayette hotel which was mag at that time the headquarters and tt starting arting place of tire moat important stage lines leavick the city he be acquired some knowledge 0 of I 1 the transportation busine business s as it was then conducted fifty years ago the transportation methods and facilities bore but a slight resemblance ce to the modes and facilities of the present day then the mississippi ippi raier river was the boundary of civilization and tho vast territory lying beyond it which is now dotted with large and growing cities was then almost as unknown as the interior of africa is today to day beginning in the most humble way literally in a carpet bag the business waa of slow growth and adams with his strong mental powers saud aad business experience was tor for a while nothing more than an eirand errand man between two cities but he had strong faith in himself and in the business lie ile soon called to his aid capable men in new york philadelphia baltimore Bait imore then chosen lieu lieutenants tenants were sent further south and further west est tact accommodation business busi nees shrewdness and untiring industry could not fail to bring prosperity particularly since the war bag has the company enjoyed triumphant success its history is interesting as sh showing wing the growth of a great business from the most humble beginnings begin ninga lesson often told yet ever new THE MEXICAN mountain has bas recently been successfully ascended by a couple of scientific phila philadel lel phiang it waa found to have an absolute elevation of feet and a glacier two miles long descending the western slope of the mountain is lie the first glacier recorded as existing in I 1 mexico sl exico butterflies were found embedded in ice fee at an elevation of feet these incidents will make the public more anxious than ever to know what the mountains name really is now THAT the salt lake public have been wen informed through the move for an opposition pageant on july ath that the ogden carnival draws rapidly near a commendable generosity in proffers pro flers of house houm room and board from the vacant waste dovi down ra below ia is making itself visible it the wont comes to the worst wo we may have to accept the offer suburban trains running from and to this city every lour boar will alone atone as far as may be tor for the inconvenience vengence veni ence no MAKY MARY DEAR the ingalls who expected to extinguish ogden with a word ia is not the senator the kansas 0 statesman ta is admitted by hi his Is enemies to ba be a emart smart man the salt like baselon blower is concededly conceded concede dby by bis his friends to be a dough head bead ORN thinks the telephone ia is the greatest nuisance of modern times the reason is probably that the sweet girls can talk to the old veteran at long range the generals kissing reputation is worldwide world wide THE SALT LAKE correspondent of a denver paper telegraphs comparatively little business will be done in real estate this month true oh kingl BISMARCK THINKS a woman may have political interests 0 outside the nursery when her husband la Is content to rock the cradle |