Daily Evening Bulletin, 1881-12-24

The New York Independent contained the following poem by JG Whittler A drear and desolate shore Where no tree unfolds its leaves And never tho spring wind waves Green grass lor the huntersliead A land forexaken and dead Where the ghostly Icebergs iro And come with the ebb and How Of the wateis of Bradore A wanderer from a land By summer breezes fanned Looked around him awed subdued By the dreadful solitude Hearing alone the cry Of seabirds clanging by The crash and grind of the floe Wall of wind and wash of tide Oh wretched land he cried Land of all lands the worst God forsaken and curst Thy gates of rocks should show The words of theTuescan Seer Read in the realm of woe Hope entereth not here Lo At his feet there stood A block of smooth larch wood Beside a rock closed cave By nature tashloned lor grave Sato from the ravening bear And lloreefowl of the air Wherein to rest was laid A twenty Sum mers maid Whoso blood had equal share Of the lands of vines and snow Half French half Eskimo In letters unefTaced Upon the block were traced The grief and hope of man And thus the legend ran We loved Words can not tell hoxu well We loved hei God loved her und called her home to peace and rest We love her The stranger paused and read O Winter Land he said Thy right to be I own God loves thee not alone And if the tierce winds blow Over thy waste of rock and snow And at thy iron gates Thy ghostly iceberg waits Thy homes and hearts are dear Gods love and mans are here7 Thy sorrow oer the sacred dust Is sanctified by hope and trust Still wluresoeer it goes Love makes lis atmospheie Its flowers ot Paradise Takes root in the eternal Ice And bloom through polar snows

ty three feet and will contain one hun hundred - dred hundred and thirty two stone steps sixteeii feet in width The back of the terrace will be filled with rich soil to the top of the stone work and trees and shrubbery planted and the tops of the terraces are to be ornamented by neatly dressed and cut stone and statues will be placed a1 various and ap appropriate - propriate appropriate places The water to supply the temple will be brought in wooden pipes from a spring situated about a mile and a quarter cast of the temple back in the mountains and has a fall of seventy nine feet to the reservoir and one hundred feet from the reservoir to the lower terrace The whole side of the mountain is to be planted with trees and flowers and the crystal stream poured forth by the little spring as it winds its way down the side of the mountain will travel from root to root quenching their thirst thus R the trees to produce their foilagein spring the lowers to bloom and the grass to grow Tho building of the temple was first commenced five years ngo and has been worked on ever since and it is expected that it will take fully five years to com complete - plete complete the building The building will be fifty fo3t in heiyht and the eycavation at the east end for the basement is about forty six feet in depth Mr Folsom is the architect and as to his skill and ability as an architecturalist the Manti Temple will speak for years after ho has passed from the face of the earth It was Presi President - dent President Youngs intention when he ordered the erection of the temple that it should bj the grandest and most imposing struc

tured on the American continent and all indications point to such being the case Disease in Cigars If Trask the great anti tobacco apostle were alive now he would find a splendid text in the announcement of the preval encb of small pox in the tenement houses where the majority of cheap cigars are manufactured Vile as these imitations of cigars are they are made doubly repul repulsive - sive repulsive by the knowledge of the fact that I hey pass through the hams and mouths of people afflicted with the most dan erous of all contagious diseases If the people who make the three centers or scenters that are so exten extensively - sively extensively sold were to seo the filthy dens in which they are manufactured it is pro probable - bable probable that the business of many of the cheap cigar dealers would be closed Not only are these cigars rolled in dirty and perhaps diseased hands but the tips are fastened with dirty paste and rolled in mouths reeking with garlic and other vile abominations Now small pox comes as an addition lo tho other delectable con concomitants - comitants concomitants of the fragrant weed Bet Better - ter Better smoke a pipe neighbor N Y Truth

Piccho Record The construction of the Grand Temple of Worship now being erected by the Mormon church at Manti Utah is being pushed ahead with as large a force of workmen as convenience will permit and the walls of the building are beginning to loom up and are covered with scuHolding and derricks We learn lrom Mr J Wil kon who has just returned from a trip out in the Manti country that the temple is being constructed out of white limestone The building is situated on the top of a mountain a spur of Wasatch range that extends out into the town of Manti and is called by the people of Utah the Moun Mountain - tain Mountain of the Lord The foundation of the temple is sixty three feet above the level of the road and is set in solid rock the top of the mountain having been excavated and removed making it level is ninety five feet in width and one hundred and seventy two in length From the ground to the square will be eighty two feet in height There

tinued and removing the other shoe took out another twenty dollar gold piece 14 Dis beats any town I ebber seed A man cant walkroun without gettin his shoes full ob gold Hit reminds me ob de New Jerusalem Italy has formaly protesed against tho action of France in reference to Tunis and France is seriously considering tho project of withdrawing from Tunis Supplies for the Indians are through the fault of tho contractors frozen up m rivers of the Northwest and will not retfoh their destination before spring Thre vill bo buffering iri consequence Agencies are making loud calls for raccino matter

ner will bo ten feet lower or one him lred and sixty nine feet in height They are thirty feet square at the bac Tle are four terrace walls around the moun mountain - tain mountain in front of the temple which will av average - erage average about seventeen feet in height and are about nine hundred feet in length and in all contain two thousand four hundred cords of rockay lit pres6ri buil and fifty live thousand yards of dUbrisJiaa been ex excavated - cavated excavated and hauled away Theqiairwuy from the road to the upper terraeo is six

Tvrentv Dollar Gold Pieces in His Shoes Aikansas Gazette An old colored man who had just sold his cotton limped along a Little Rock street and overtaking several colored women who had refused to marry him walking with several buck niggers the old man ex exclaimed - claimed exclaimed Suthins been ur hurtin my feet all day and removing one of his shoes he took out a twenty dollar gold pitce Sutn in hao been hurtin dis foot too he con

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