The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1884-11-02
EVENTS AND COMMENTS.

EVEN = ANU GUM MEN ..
SPEAKING OF the superstitions of a
great many people as against common
cling anything on Friday, and of that
being an unlucky day, genial German
tourist on the D. & R. G., the
other day, thus expressed himself:
"WeH, mine friend, that ish all bosh!
Led me tell you something. Three
years ago I commenced business in
Kansas City with $40, and started on
Friday. In one year, made over
$4,000, and 1 gave reception to my
friends on a Friday, in honor of the
event In another year, was worth
$4,000 and I sold out and went to San
Francisco on a Friday; 1 arrived there
on a Friday, and after spending some
time in the State, I started back on a
Friday. I spent some time on the road,
arriving in Salt Lake on the same day of
the week. I left Salt Lake on Friday,
and will arrive home on a Friday; just
one week from that time 1 shall again
go into business, and if am not worth
100000 in a year from that time, it viii
not be because did notstart on the right
day. I tell you there is nothing in it.
The idea is all bosh.'' And as he COM
placently patted his well-developed
purse, his audience were forced to be-
lieved that Friday was not so bad day
after all.
THE Rev. o. a. KINGsBURY, is a
minister, but all the same he shows that
he has an interest in his fellow man be-
yond the matter of dollars and dimes.
He claims, that too often our churches
are little less than religious clubs; that
in their exclusiveness they are very far
from coming up to the ideal of that
church, which Is to disciple the nations.
Most churches, of course, claim that the
poor are always welcome, and so they
are-to back seats in the gallery. Every
thing about the fashionable church
tends to exclusiveness, and the congre-
cation know it, acquiesce in it-even
advocate it. That IS why plain" peo-
pie are conspicuous by their absence
while an outward effort is made to APP
pear otherwise.
INGERsOLL, in q recent lecture, said
% When weremember the races that now
are dust, and the languages which have
persisted in air, we should possess the
mOdesty of mortality Yet millions
imagine they know all about, not only
this world, but the next. This is a
world of perpetual change; the old fights
the new, but the new conquers; in time
the new in turn becomes old, and goes
the way of its predecessors. Every
thing that man produces bears with it /
the seeds of decay" Bob ought to
know better than to talk in this manner
of his own party and people.
THE MANAGER of a Brooklyn Lecture
Bureau recently wrote to General Sher-
man, asking his rates for delivering
lecture. The Generals reply is worthy
OF preservation for the perusal of future
generations. 1t was:
Dear Sir-My regular charge for
'lecturing' is million of dollars for out
siders; for my soldier comrades, once a !
year, nothing For the former never
has this fee been accepted; for the latter
my book of engagements is full for the
natural period of my life"
Boston Post: A clergyman was once
forced to say to a congregation that per-
sisted in despositing buttons in the con-
tribution box: Brethren who wish to |
contribute buttons will please not ham
mer down the eyes, for while that pro-
cess does not increase their value as coin, !
it does impair their usefulness as but
TONS
AN EXCHANGE devotes a column in
reference to Smart Men Who Write
Letters all of which is worse than
wasted. Smart men never write letters
that viii some time turn up to haunt
their sleeping hours and disturb their
digestion. See Blaine.
a Nh. VALENTINE is said to be suing
an eastern paper for 5000 damages.
He might as well ask for $4,000 900. 1t
does not do to be too modest. BUTT
has been mildly suggested that Valen-
tine is little premature He should
show up about the 18th of February.
The KING of Portugal gets $4,000 a
year, nearly three times as much as is !
paid to Chester. Under very favorable
and with strict economy
or a few weeks, it is thought he might
,e able to indulge in ticket for Patti.
AN EXCHANGE publishes a column Of =
What to Write in an Album This o
I'LL be a great help to ambitious young c
zen who use up two weeks to scribble a d
Nv lines Of poetry" and claim that D
ley dashed it off in an idle moment" s