| Show WAR TIAR implements while it Is an undeniable fact that liere here in utah where irrigation is the rule ando and rains a valuable adjunct when they come we have larger aud and finer crops of some staples than they have in places where here rain is tolerably frequent and artificial watering waterlog comparatively ively unknown still we would not object to a condition of things in nature by means of which the toil trouble uncertainty aud and litigation consequent upon irrigation would be dispensed with utah is of couise not the only place where water conduits are indispensable attachments to every farm and even every garden 0 of I 1 considerable eize size their condition being shared shred to a greater or lesi extent by all the country west of the missouri river and south of the parallel of latitude but nowhere is it more nearly universal than here and es as previously suggested we are more than willin willing to let it go will let it go as a system in fact whenever nature ecea fit to make it unnecessary la in kansas kaness the plan of cannon fir in ing in order to produce an accumulation of rain clouds ia in contemplation soma some portions of that state are practically uncultivable because there is no water and showers are too infrequent q bent mr air edward powers a civil engineer of dzavan Dla vaa wisconsin has recently issue issued J a work on this subject entitled war and the weather in it sufficient evidence is accumulated to show that falls of rain were a common if not invariable re result au I 1 t of the heavy cannonading canno in the blex mexican ican war the war of the rebellion and other wars and be he thinks that the great stock of antiquated and useless cannon 0 owned ned by the U united states government could bo be transported to ono one of the dry areas tor for the purpose of making definite experiments in the matter the cost of such ex pari menk reckoning siege guns would be about for the farsi first an and d half as much for each of those following great conflagrations also ca cause use rain but the author thinks that fires would be more costly than can no two experiments would serve if 11 they should bo be successful cannon could be kept at convenient places and good rain storms could be brought on at a regular cost of about each the number of stations needed for tho the entire country would probably y probably be very few the author believes aleo also that the cannons could bo be empl employed to break up cyclone weather there were no tornadoes during tha the civil war ha he nys because the cannonading canno shook up the air currents and kept the air forces in equilibrium three artificial rain storms a month would ba be about the need of each station though we think that if ff the fall tall wag was sufficiently voluminous um inous two a month would bo be amplo ample certainly it 11 would be in most parta parts of utah the government has shown considerable and interest in thia this important subject and as the suzg asted could be matte at a trifling cost compared with the results hoped to ba achieved there bould should be no delay in get getting log at it in a thorough h manner irrigating with artillery has a burlesque opera arnad but no matter abut that if it it works it wilt will ba very welcome and certainly artillery wag was never pat put to a more useful purpose A reform is cried out from the wilderness wilder nees of canada whence a wealthy citizen comes traveling about the country with a mission to aavo elioe shoe leather to tho the world he ile insists that it everybody would cover three indies inches more at every step stop the saving in boots and shoes in america alone would be per year if three inches per step can save aburn a sum BO so stated in figur figures ea there ought to be somo some way of finding out how much longer a mans matts steps would need to bo be in order to avoid wearing out shoes oboes at all N THE its nw years tribunes write U bogde a very fair presentation 0 f ase by the way it is dated stated that an river has a fall of six h hundred d ed beet I 1 in n na many a m miles D daw the mean that there e J is ss nn n average i of 0 foot ot per mile during the river rivers wadi ho six of x hundred miles or that there is all of fix six hundred feet darine every ilo of that dia dis tanco tance WITHOUT what the f future may havo have in store but judging merely from the past wa we are bold to my that americans who go 90 to the ItI javiera viera to spend the winter could save time and money and gain comfort and health by visiting the famous winter resort known to mankind as ogden WE AEB in receipt of tho new years tribune a mammoth publication consisting of thirty two pages of the size of the ther eular regular edition printed in new and smaller Bin aller type the matter is well arranged and with few exceptions is 13 of good quality the cuts from sketches ek etches by mr caughey formerly and tiow n ob agahi with are ro excellently engraved and printed and the mechanism entire lafirst ia cret clasa class asa aa a holiday publication presenting a vast amount ot of useful and carefully compiled information it Is immeasurably eu superior perlor to anything of the kind yet issued in the capital city A NT death in brussels recalls an incident of that famous ball seventy five years ago on the eve of the battle which crushed the corsican among the he fair women and brave men who danced together to music eoon soon punctuated with the cannons deafening roar were a young daughter of sir thomas IIi ili slop and a young officer james lord hay ilay the latter went forth to die at enate brao bras the girl died only the other day as sirs mrs van baerle the widow of an english officer aged ninety one years her grave is near that of he be youth who died seventy five years before it is thought that lady do ro ross another is fit now the sola role feminine femi niDO survivor of ok that historic d duncing 1 n C I 1 in g party da DR CHAUNCEY M 31 DEPEW makes a prediction which is of interest to the nation generally generall yand and to ita its bald heads in particular he ile is willing to ri risk I 1 ir his eminent reputation that thero there w will I 1 I 1 not bs an investor or cra a business man in this country by june 1 1892 who will not have every hair on his head if ho he has any standing on end and it if behas bo has none tho the roots will begin to sprout on account of tho the vagaries gt of the next democratic congress TUB THE SALT LAKE time times indulging in a review of the leading events of 1890 in the capital other things observes crime has flourished the number of murders have been unusually large suicide seems to be rampant and thieves thugs holdups and tin horns have grown apace space the candor of the confession scarcely arcely ec removes the bitterness EUGENE FIELD asserts that col charles A djina dana whose sun shines for all is getting quite handsome as ho he grows in years what would be of greater interest to the public would ba to hear bear that the groat great journalist couri alist had got old enough to keep b brutal personalities out of his newspaper |
