The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1888-07-08
CONFIDENTIAL CHAT.

THIS rs the season for tall stories con.
corning the industrious girl, the Big
strawberry, and the number of fish
caught. The following is something
new, however; While tearing down an
old building in McKeesport, Pa, work
men found in the chimney, built in with
the bricks, G pint Gask of whiskey,
labeled as having been distilled in 1928.
The house was bRilt in 1888 by the late
Orlando Greer, and in a tin box found
near the Eiask was a written statement
that he had placed the whisky in the
chimney. The most singular part of
the discovery was a written prophecy
in which the following extraordinary
language appears: Thirty years
from 1888 slavery will not exist in this
land, although it will have cost thou
sands to MAKE the change. Men will
converse from beach TO bach of ocean
easier thar indite a letter. The demons
fashion and drink will snthrau the
masses. Efforts Will be made to over
throw the fend, rum. The tallow
candle OF to-day will net even be used
to greesa boots. Men will touch the
water, and light will dispel the dark
ness. Prohibition wEl be battle cry,
with temperance q formidable enemy.
The first will fall, the latter prevail for
time, wax weak, and men will again
court the CUP. The flask of-soirits
which l place herewith will rise in the
midst of CONFLICT which will claim 1T
as one of the principals"
THERE Is mi MISTER in Washington
who is either becoming weary in we'll
doing and desires a long vacation, or
else has resolved to tell the truth to his
congregation and abide the result. 1t
is hot nov in Washington, but the
Reverend Edwecd Lezseven raised the
temperature several degrees the other
evening, when he said: There are
100000 people in Washington, three
fourths working for hell and one
fourth for heayep." He then pictured,
limo mild manner, the life led Dy many
of the residents, and closed what the
local papers called fearful dlstrlbe"
SIS follows: What are the houses OF
prostitution doing for heaven? They
are situated en- every street in the city,
and are LEADING to destruction not only
Young men hut fathers and husbands.
The scarlet women are Numerous.
They may be educated, they may be
able to sing we'll. they may dress in
Partisan garments of the cosuiest price
and richest hIa, but they are instru-
ments of bell and eternal destruction.
The wickedr ess OF Washington has
never been uncovered, and Gean not be
in a single night. 1t may possess more
culture, but it is worse than Seldom and
Gomorrah ever was" 1t is, perhaps,
needless for me to say that thereVerend
has stirred up a hornets nest, and he
must not be ct all surprised if the IN
suited" members of his congregation
quest his removal to q better and
purer place. The reverend must be
new hand 2t6he bellows; else he would
have con6ned himself to informing his
hearers of the wlckedness in Utah.
THERE Is at least one element in
Chicago thai will not support the Har
rison-Morton lticket: desc conven-
tons amt nc good to Us boys" dis
consolately said a colored maa at the
Grand Pacific. "Ebber sense de dele
gates cum ksGh wese been workin'
night en- day. kerryin' liquor en- cigars
en- water en- keyards en- messages TO
dere rooms en- deTe amt one of US heZ
got nickel fun one of 'em yit Dere
all de time teIkin' about politics en-
candidates en- combinations en- smiling
en- shakin' hands, but dere all too nusy
to remember dc pore niggah OATS
aWGitin' on 'em. Dey's talkin' about
de Fights OBJ de niggahs in de SoUf, but
l can tell 'em dere's some niggahs in dis
~ In iOh Ill -,
dime showed into deere hand once in a
whiLe, en- dey'd d0lbetter work for 'em,
too. Dat amt der way, dough. Dey
want to mex de big speeches, aa' de
niggeIs kin git out 'en hustle fer der
nickelE, en- OATS watts de mattah."
BosEGN Transcript: Judge Ito snall
boy or witness-stand-"Llttle boy, do
you knew where you'll go to if you
swear to .What is not true?"
Small boy-'Yes, sir; III go to the
legislature; that's what my pa did,"
"SEvEN' BEING the average size of q
mans head as measured by his hat"
says an exchange, sit appears that out
of fourteen distinguished personages,
&wo Uord Chelmsford and Dean Stan
iey) were below, while other Two (Lo1d
B saconsfeld and the Prince Of Wales)
were exactly up to the average. OF The
others, Dickens. Selborne and Bright
required 10, Eel Russell X, Lord
Maeaulav, Gladstone, and Thaekeray
TX, Louis Philippe ~, and tie Arch
b;snep of York full OF twenty three
dis liz uished men whose actual brain
weights are known. four, including the
late Professor Hughes Bennett and
Hermann, the philologiSt, were distinc-
lively below the average, showing that
a welI-coEstituted brain of small dimen.
sions may be capable of doing much
bet err work than many larger organ
whose internal constitution is, from one
cause IT other detective"
"YEs," sAID friend of mine who has
an economical turn of mind, 81 have
~-,oktv,, 10 tho Diva m v,so