The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1883-09-16
ODDS AND ENDS.

To be certain of getting a bite
when you go fishing, take it along
with you.
A girl has been arrested while
disguised as an old woman. The
old woman disguised as a girl is
still at large.
The wooden toothpick business
has grown into large proportions
The little town of Sebago, on Sebago
Lake, Maine, has a factory which
turns out over 1000 cords of birch
and poplar wood annually into
toothpicks.
Mrs. Homespun, who has a ter
rible time every morning to get her
young brood out Of their beds, says
she cannot understand why children
are called the rising generation.
The widow of Lord Frederick
Cavendish, who was murdered in
Phoenix park, Dublin, will be mar
ried again before the termination of
the present year. The second mar
riage, it is stated, has the approval
of her late husbands relatives
The story goes in London that
PATHS voice is giving Way She
has not sung on several occasions
when announced, and an apology
had to be made for her non-appear-
ance at the last Queens concert, at
Buckingham Palace, for which she
was engaged.
"Why are toais so plentiful after
a thunder shoWer?" asks an "anx-
ious Inquirer" in an exchange.
When the editor gives a satisfactory
answer to this problem it is hoped
he will solve the problem: Why
are fish so scarce before a thunder
storm? Also, afterward?
"Who held the pass of Thermo-
pyla against the Persian host?" de-
manded the teacher. And the
editors boy at the foot of the class
spoke up ard said "Fatner, /
reckon; he holds an annual on
every road in the country that runs
a passenger train.
"What's that, John; is that the
stage coming? y asked the summer
hotel proprietor of the porter. Eyes
sir, / guess it is" "rhen hurry UP
and put some ether under the bulb
of that thermometer on the porch
they'll be here pretty quick, and we
must have it down to IS at least"
Did it ever occur to you, when
you were cropping around your room
| in the dark and struck your nose SO
violently against a half opened
door that it Jared the whole house
did it ever occur to you at such q
| moment that the heat of the sun is
sufficient to reduce the Pacific ocean
to steam in twenty minutes ?
Francis Clark, who takes John
Browns place in the royal house
hold, is to accompany Queen Vic
toria in her walks, rides and drives
and will be in constant attendance
to take her orders; but he will not
occupy the position held by John
Brown, whose proper official desig-
nation was sPeTsonal Attendant
and page" The Queens personal
Attendant" is Rudolph Lohlein,
formerly valet to Prince Albert
who is employed to look after &
variety of routine affairs, and who
acts in minor domestic matters as g
sort of private secretary.
| A farmer named James Moore
died in Caldwell, O.. on June 18th
| leaving eleven children and tract
of land valued at $4,000. To his
son Robert he Lad decided forty
acres and given a lease for thirty
two years of all the rest, so that the
other children had hopeless tim5
to wait for any share in the prop
erty. Their lawyers advised then
not to enter upon legal contest, ant
suggested conference with the
lucky brother. To the astonishmen'
of lawyer and clients, Robert, after
little conversation, tore up the
lease, and said that the land should
be equally divided among the 9th
ers, he himself taking the forty
| acres decided to him years ago. HI
explained this unexpected action by
saying that he was Christian, anc
! could not conscientiously leave hi
brothers and sisters out in the cold