The Juvenile Instructor Volume 31 (Paperback)

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1896 Excerpt: ...miles long, and 60 miles wide at the mouth. Below this we show the breaking up of the ice on the Yenesi in the spring, when ships and embank ments are often crushed to splinters, and the noise of the grinding ice is alarming. We also give a sketch of a Siberian railway train, and a view of a merchant river steamer on the Yenesi. Notice next a picture of a mammoth. In ancient times these desolate northern wastes were inhabited by great hairy elephants of a different species from those living today in Africa and Asia. They existed in such numbers that mines of their ivory tusks are dug up, and this ivory brings a great price today in Europe. We show below a Siberian baini, or nobleman. On the right is a governor's office, where all public business is done. The great frame on the table is the symbol of the Czar. When that is uncovered the emperor is supposed to be present, and all matters are transacted in his name. All who visit Siberia agree that its peoples will one day be a very rich and i great nation. If the Siberians have some grave defects, they also have noble virtues. ' There are companies of truly religious men, who refuse all strong drink and live pure and pious lives. These men and their families are the backbone of the empire. May they grow in numbers and influence What a heaven on earth this world might be, and will be, when the love of righteousness has spread through all classes, and duty to everyone is the pole star of life. P. E. C. That learning which thou gettest by thy own observation and experience is far beyond that which thou gettest by precept; as the knowledge of a traveler exceeds that which is got by reading. Unless a man works he cannot find out what he is able to do. BEWARE OF DECEPTION. HE Latter-day Saints are required Vl) kv ...