The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1888-02-01
Briefs.
IRREPRoACHABLE WEATHER.
BUSINESS QUIET though firm.

| IRREPROACHABLE WEATHER.
BUSINESS QUIET though firm.
THE PRODUCE merchants report ship
| ping interest fair.
A spRINKL1YG of country people we're
around town yesterday. Their cash
purchases, however. were notextenslvf.
| VALENTINES, SIMPLE, comical, senti-
mental, and ornamental, are on exhibi-
ton in the windows OF the various
| bookstores. a.r a'tt
BUSINESS SEEMS to be gravitating
toward Ogden more and more. This IS
as it ought to be-. for no town is stu
ated and qualified better to meet all
business exigencies.
That BRAVE little bird. the sparrow, is
beginning once more to show himself,
and before the summer is half over he
| and his ilk will become so numerous as
10 justify open war.
THE PERMANENT character of Ogden's
commercial and manufacturing pros
perity is universally recognized at
home. This being so, outsiders will
soon imbibe the fever.
| LOVERS OF music will be glad to learn
| that the instrumental and vocal con-
IT to be given in the near future
under Professors Navoni and Edwards,
in the Union Opera House, will be
huge affair.
On TUESDAY evening next, in tie
Free Reading Room, the ladies of the
w. Q. T. U. have arranged for musical
sociable. A programme which cannot
fail to interest will be gone through and
refreshments served.
ANOTHER REAL estate agency is about
to be esta blished IN this city. Well
known gentlemen will be the proprie-
tors, hence the agency must become
successful. They anticipate big boom
THE 1NDULGERs in surprise parties
land VINO does notO ought to take
warning, fer an epidemic has set in,
said to be caused by such indulgence
namely, all the fine, robust young fell
lows are being picked up by the pretty
girls who dare brave the prerogative OF
leap year.
Ice, IcIER, iciest is the state of the
sidewalk leading up the Fourth Street
bench. A bursted water pipe is gener-
ally supposed to be the cause of the
truly dangerous condition of the sale
sidewalk. Who, ought to see to it
Perhaps nothing short of an action fol
damages will elUcidate this query.
A REPORT comes to hand, through the
source of the U. P. Hospital, that 6
man named Fishburn had both his legs
accidentally cut off on the railway al
Silver Bow, Montana, on the line OF the
Utah 81 Northern, 1t is said that ms
injuries are so severe and painful tbs
it will not be possible to bring him t
this point for treatment.
GREAT GRUMBLINGs are floating abou
to the effect that the leaders of tn
various ward choirs are not supported
by their members as they should be, thu
attendance having, of late, considerabl..
| fallen off. How is this? Is it on &C
jcount of the cold nights, or are tn
members Especially the fair sex) becom
ing luke-warm on musical matters LIE
US hope not. lt-A
In CONVERSATION with prominen
ea> tern gentleman yesterday, 8 HERAL
representative learned that capitalist
are looking to Ogden as the coming cit
of the west. This gentlemen espresso
every confidence lin our city's futur
greatness, and was of the opinion ths
only year or two's time was necessar
for Ogden's permanent population t
double at least.
WILL BROWNING, the chicken ''crank
of Ogden, is determined not to be benin
the times. He has just shipped froI
the east butf-coiored, or cinnamof
Cochin China rooster, which has win
ming record of flour frsts.'' The lat
poultry show has given an impetus t
the breeding of chickens hereabout
that is bound to lead to an improve
ment in the useful domestic fiat pull
let" 81 30
WE HAD very pleasant call yester
dav fYom Elder Heber J. Sears, who re
turned on Saturday last from missio
10 New Zealand, where he has been en-
| gagged over two years in disseminatin
the principles of the gospel to tn
| aborigines in. particular, and any on
] who would listen in general He en-
| loved his mission, and. in giving 1t meI
| ;al review, can see wherein he, per
| sonaliy, has been benefited by tn
! | varied experiences of the missionary
life, whether he has been able to &C
compllsh anything for his fellows o
not. He is, IL common with all VIII
| leave their homes in the valleys, glad t.
get oacs, after having been honorabl
released by the proper authority to re
| turn home. We accord to our friend
hearty welcome home, where we hay
no doubt ae will be as indefatigable
the spreading of true principles as b
was in foreign chimes.
y ! Pinc&t nicfriof Naurf