The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1880-01-07
CHIPS.
Lead still holds its own at sos.

40 AC0u SILL uOlus lts On1 al FOOs
The old maids laugh-he, be, he
Leap year balls have commenced
Verify, the January thaw hath Sc
in.
:. Unseen happiness kiss in tn,
! dark.
= The stufing has been knocked on
- of sleighing
The bullion shipments are decreas
! ing somewhat
The mining boom is lowering with
}, suspended breath.
Blondes are out of fashion in Paris,
and dark brunettes are the rage.
Silver is quoted in New York al
/ 1.133, and in Salt Laks at ] .103.
Some beautiful slabs of ice are
) being taken out of the ice ponds.
The police cour! is like the deserted
banquet hall of which Moore speaks.
The atmosphere has been remark
ably clear for three or four days past.
The possessors of lead are unwilling
to dispose of it at 500 per ton, the
amount bid.
| The wires between here and Park
City were down last night, but were
soon set up again.
Pascoe and his lime kiln are ready
for folks requiring lime or limestone.
SO be says in his adv.
Trade seems to have slackened con-
siderably since the holidays, judging
by the appearance of the streets.
Passenger traffic on the roads has
decreased materially; and the hotels
are not as OVERLOOKING as formerly.
The weather keeps within delightful
bounds. The maximum thermome-
ter. yesterday, was 430 ; minimum,
800.
The number of clips and falls
yesterday was great; and resulted in
some painful, though not severe mig
haps.
Ths young man arrested for I'M
properly using a harness, did not |
have hearing yesterday, as antici-
pated.
A busted sleigh loaded with coal on |
the crossings of Main and First South |
streets was one of the remarkable |
sights yesterday.
In the Third District Court, about |
one new suit a week, is commenced |
on an average. This is excellent
showing in these times.
The Junction and gentleman Rudd, |
who claims to be able to make gold i
out of grindstonee, and what not, are
having journalistic bout.
Chas. W. Stayner, ESQ, lectures in
the Third Ward schoolhouse this
evening on the Pyramids of Power,
commencing at z O'Clock.
Mccormick & Co., on Tuesday, re-
ceived three car iiG. y.,1c- q bullion from
the Chicago Smelter, and ten bars OF
bullion from the Marsac Mil.
The quails in this neighborhood are
rOT so tame that they are content 10
put themselves on terms OF familiarity
with the common barnyard fowl.
A learned young lady said she
liked to see the trees emitting in tae
early spring. She is the same who
rebuked her little brother for corrod-
ing so fast at dinner.
The battery shaft of the Ontario
Mil, which broke few days ago and
necessitated o short suspension of
work, has been repaired, and work
was resumed on Monday morning.
Quite a scene was created on the
street yesterday by an emscisted
span Of horses endeavoring to pull
load of wood on runners across the
street Car track. Too little snow and
too much wood.
The committee OF the City Council
appointed to devise means by which
funds coul1 be raised 10 pay for the
building of the canal, asked, last night,
and were allowed another week in
which to report.
A fellow has been discovered who
lost a dog, and who yesterday stated
that he had had five children die, bat
never felt as bad as he did over los
ing his canine chum. "a fellow feel
ing makes Us 9ondrous kind"
If the bullion product OF this terri
tory is only trifle over $1,000, 900
this year, thst amount is considerable
when distributed among the sgriCul-
tursl people, and would create quite
marked difference were it taken
away.
It is stated that on one of the two
cold nights before Christmas, the
Jordan was frozen over, the ice re-
manning quite thick until Monday.
During Monday night the ice as sud
denly disappeared as it had come,
that river being free yesterday morn
ing.
The friends and patrons of the
Masonic Library will be pleased TO
learn that hereafter the reading room
will be open from 10 O'Clock in the
morning till 9 o'clock in the evening
during week dsye. Sundays it will
be closed. An excellent chance ia
thus afforded for young men to spend !
their evenings proitably.
They locked me in
An uppah room,
And took a-wshay the key,
Because / would
Not wed a man
Who ne-hever -huited me.
They could not stop
With bolts and bars
4 maid Of seventeen,
[P. S.-The fair singer IVES at least
twenty-eight.
And while they thought
was secure
was going, going, gone!
PERSONAL.
Mr.. James Dunn, superintendent |
OF the Provo factory, leaves for the |
east this morning, on business for the