The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1888-03-10
SATURDAY March 10. 1888.
Briefs.

Briefs.
ONE of the latest arrivals at the q. P.
Hospital is said to be Fred Baird, who
is supposed to be suffering from measles.
MISERY seems depicted on the faces of
our real estate men just now; the de-
plorable state OF the streets being the
cause there of.
THE weather is glorious just now-an
overcoat one day, thin coat the
| second, porus plaster the third, and
doctors bill the fourth.
A MAN who has tried to make living
| writing poetry adYertises for situation
as plain cook. Good; we breathe again;
another chance is given US!
NINE cables connect Europe and
America. Altogether there are now in
use 113 900 nautical miles of cable. And
still Utah is generally behind with her
Geographic dispatches.
4 PRIZE offe: ed by a medical journal
for the discovery of the true cause of
badness ought to come to our office
boy. He says the true cause of bald
ness is the loss OF hair, you bet."
THE eldest son of an English bishop
has become an actor. 1t is said he is
paid $50 per week. A bishops son
| ought to be worth more than that-if it
was only for the prestige he brings.
1 s. FL. STUDwICK and Charles Stancir,
both of Ogden, have gone duck
| shooting. May they succeed, and
! not make duck and a-drake and a
| nickel-white-cake" of their ammunition
Tor nothing.
SOME of tie hotels in Maine keep their
bars in the upper story, so that the
smell of liquor may not offend the pro-
hlbitionist or tempt the deputy mar
shals to become drunk. Drinking up
there must be very dramatic!
CAN anyone who knows explain why
there is so much more coughing in a
Westinghouse during divine service
than in the Opera House when
burnt cork" company is performing?
AN answer to this query would be
interesting.
A THEATRICAL performances came off
at Hooper last night under the auspices
and Tor the benefit of the Hoop er Brass
Band. When this parcel was dispatched
we had not learned whether the. audi
ence was numerous one or not, but
guess it was.
MRS. REID, the widow Of Capt Mayne
Reid, is busy writing the life Of her
husband. This will De good rews to
those who, now of middle age, in their
more youthful days fairly revelled in
the descriptive productions of the
famous writer of prairie and backwoods
life and adventures.
Poor human humanity is not the only |
physical life that suffers in this world. |
no foh
Street, Mr.. Peterson has uader his !
from an accident (as supposedly, has |
leg that will; require all the talent, and |
that is of no small degree, of Mr.. |
Petersen to put into useful shape again. |
THE following poetical GU effusion
was received by one OF our city
merchants yesterday. 1t was on !
common postal card, and had travelled |
from old England:
MONDAY, FEBRUARY 20.
Toiucrease and multiply
Is q blessing surely
For still another, sweet and tender
A change this time, feminine gender.
WE are now located in our new
quarters, and believe our friends will
congratulate us on the change. We can
see what is going on on the streets
INFLOW. That is one Improvement
We have put down al new Brussels
carpet, and have not yet asked for our
subscribers to pay for it. Our editorial
chair, too, is immense; but the dollars
wherewith TO purchase the same did
not come out of any public subscrip-
ton. We don't Hem" that way.
THE Athens (Ohio) Journal begins an
editorial thus: 1.-The editor of this
paper is afflicted with stiff neck. The
doctor has gravely pronounced it mus
cular rheumatism. 1t must be very
muscular-possibly of the John l.. Sui
ivan specieS-as it has the editor down.
and so far as there are any inferences to
be drawn from the stormy weather. it
to keep him down until the soft
zephyrs of gentle spring release the
ripping rills from their icy letters and
onions come young again."
G. A. ROLAND, who has been spend
ing the last day or two in Ogden
City. talking up an advertising scheme
for the town, and who represents the
Colorado Graphic, of Denver, Col, gave
US pleasant call yesterday, and, from
his conversation we learned that his
paper makes special feature of writ
ing up" cities which have enterprise
enough 10 engage IT'S services ana to
make bold strides for permanent pros
perity. Mr.. Boland's concern mas done
a vast deal towards bringing about the
present prosperity to Denver, and the
gentleman is in Utah now with the
object of inducing our cities to hire the
Colorado Graphic to write up Utah as an
advertising scheme. On account of
full quorum of directors of our Chamber
of Commerce not hpinp nreSnnt On |
Thursday, when he presented the claims
Of his paper to recognition at the hands !
Of Ogden's enterprising citizens, there
was no definite action taken, but it is
understood that the proposal we men
toned yesterday is favorably considered
BY some of the directors, individually,
and Mr.. Boland has every reason to
believe that the directors, collectively,
will endorse the scheme.