The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1885-12-27

Salt Lake City, Utah.
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RTnAT DEcEMBER q. tSo'
TWELVE PAGES.
EVENTS AND COMMENTS
rHE&vEs4oE cost Of session of Con
gress is So 100000.
WITH A population Of about 100000
600. China has not single insane asy
lum.
The UsTrED States ought to whip tn
Apache Indians before they build
navy
II M E.mlllionaires don't divide. wei
divide 1.-THE millionaires. = California
Dynauitsrs. ~. q
TEoUeH THE situation in Eastern Ro
melia IS precarious, the Sultan is keep
ing up his piano lessons.
THE Ncir Mea IN publishes the pic
ture ola clown in a Mexican circus and
palms it of as a likeness OF Montezuma.
LEAvEywoRTH, Kansas, street car drivT
ers are very accommodating, They will
SOP their car while a passenger goes
after a dr,nk-for the driver.
CRAUNoEY NJ. DEPEw is said to have
remarked to a friend with whom he was
dining the other day that H. Van
derbIt LETT nearly 100000. 900. INSTEAD
of $500, coo 900, as generally supposed .
TIE ONO chump who touched off a
seg of powder to see if it was dry,
vas not killed. He is waiting to
get gun. so that he can blow into it
and ascertain whether or not it is
loaded.
BAINE AND Logan being both in the
subscription book business, it may be
expected that John Sherman will follow
suit in seIf-defense. A book by him
entitled allow 1 Became Millionaire
on Five Thousand Dollars Yearly Sal
ary, would command many readers.
THEY DON'T wait for leap year in
Japan, but if a young woman is In want
of a husband, she places an empty
flower pot on the roo Of the front -por-
aico, as a prenuptial emblem. al some
Of our Salt Lake young womenxlived in
Papan. the way they'd sling out the
pottery would be a caution to all be-
holders.
LYDIA THOMPSON, on the occasion Of
her nineteenth temperance in thus
country, will appear in the spectacular
drama OF Robinson Crusoe." Mr.. Cru
soc was a gentleman who. it viii be re-
membered, owing to a paucity of dry
goods and clothing stores in the section
of the country he inhabited, was fTe-
quently very much in that condition,
himself
Many distinguished men have passed
away during 1885. Among others Vic
tor Hugo, the greatest literary man, o.
S. Grant the greatest general, w. II.
the richest man, Robert
Toombs, the most uncompromising
FL Mahdi, the greatest
prophet, Gen. Gordon, one of the great
est ApIorers and Thomas A. Hendricks,
one of the purest statesmen of the age.
TIL ADVANTAGES of advertising are
strikingly illustrated in the order Just
received by Mr.. s. r. Niles, the Boston
advertising agent, for one insertion OF
an advertisement in one publication for
1900. This is probably the largest
order ever given for one insertion of an
and shows the extent to
which advertising is done by those who
its benefits.
JUSTIN MCCARTHY says that Ireland
would be content with the legislative
powers. such as are granted an Ameri-
can State. This certainly seems but a
small boon foHthe English government
to grant and the Irish to ask for. Prob
ably the only reason that such power is
not given them is because the home
government is afraid they may next
want the legislative power of the United
States. ssf 7aia
The MEETING of the International
Range, Cattle and Horse Growers, asso-
citation to be held IN Denver on January
q, 1885. will be represented by delegates
on basis of one delegate for each So
200 head of cattle and horses belonging
to the association from which the dele
gate is accredited. This idea for govern :
ng the representation is good one, as
It will be the means of securing COM
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