The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1889-12-22

I why, got up this morning and put on 6
' heavy coat and an overcoat, then tried 6
light coat and heavy overcoat, and
finally put on a medium coat, and that's the
coat I've got on now. Amt it awful?''
Senator George said it was, and the CON
u versation drifted from the weather to the
discussion of Chief Justice F'uller's Grafton
on Washington, and from that as tc
whether it was better for bishop to be an
eloquent speaker and polished man in
society or to be less eloquent ard less pol
, ished and to be a very good man. This
! subject was under discussion when my
friend left the herdic.
Speaking of the weather reminds me of a
: remark Senator Edmunds lately made in
regard to the weather bureau. He said
II understand how to read General Gree
ley's signs. When his flags say fair
weather 1 always carry my umbrella"
ONE OF THE LEADING LADIES
of Washington society came across from
, Europe with Patti, and during the voyage
became quite intimate with her. She says
that Patti will never sing until she is as
sured of her money beforehand, and that in
most cases Nicolini goes out before the cur
tain is rung up and brings in the certified
check for $1,000, or the cash. During one
OF her engagements in America, Nicolini
came to the dressing room with check in
his hand, and told Patti that the manager
had been unable to raise only 81, 500, but
that he would give her this amount and
would assureher that the remainder would
be paid as soon as the performance was
over. Madame Patti was sitting in her
dressing room and she had gotten down to
the putting on of her slippers She
Strengthened up as Nicolini spoke and said
coolly:
THAT will not do. Take the check back
to the manager and tell him that Madame
| Oh
has one slipper on. She will not put on the
other until she receives the full amount of
S5,OOO, and If there is 10 money there will
be no song" The audience was waiting, it
was time for the curtain to rise, and it is
needless to say that Patti got her money.
understand that
SECRETARY ALLEN, OF THE KOREAN LEGATION,
is one of the leading applicants for the
position of American minister to Korea.
Thls mission is now held by Mr.. Hugh A.
Dlnsmore,a bright young lawyer of Arkan-
sas, VINO was appointed at the instance of
ex-Attorney General Garland He is
close friend of the king, and is an able man.
The Korean minister's salary is $500 a
| year, and our minister to Korea has a
house furnished him by the government.
This country is one of the few where we
own our own quarters, and the establish
ment consists of a number of one story
houses, beautifully finished and fully as
comfortable as any house in America.
Ihere IS very pleasant foreign colony |
Inc climate is good, and the ministry to |
Korea is as pleasant as any of the eastern
missions. Admiral Shufeldt, who nego-
tlated the first treaty with Korea and who
has lived in the country, tells me that he |
would rather be minister to Korea than |
minister to China, and the Korean minister |
is certainly better treated by the king and |
nobility.
l hear that
CONSIDERABLE TROUBLE EXISTS IN JAPAN |
in regard to the revision of the treaties, |
and that guards have been stationed about |
our legation there. The empire of japan |
has been run entirely by the advanced |
thinkers of the country. These have been
In favor OF foreign innovation, and from
them 1t has been supposed that the whole |
Japanese people were in favor of foreign
ers. 1t seems, however, that new move
ment has sprung up, and that an anti-for-
elgn feeling has developed, which was ex-
pressed in some degree with troubles with
Count Okuma. 1t is by no means certain
that the Japanese people wish foreigners
to reside and do business in the interior CT
their country, and though the fact has
never gotten into the newspapers, it is an
open secret in Toxic that our munster, Mr..
Bingham, who was a great friend of the
Japanese, had negotiated a treaty by which
the japanese were given everything that
they asked for in this regard, and the
treaty was ready to be sent out from the
state department at Washington when the
Japanese minister here requested that it be
held back Minister Hubbard was ready
to do the same thing, and he had treaty
ready for acceptance. Now Russia and
some of the other European powers are
wiling TO DO the same, and Japan herself
OBJECTS. The Japanese are very excitable
people. They issue something like sixty
million copies of newspapers every wear.
and in case this anti-foreign feeling should
develop, it might become decidedly danger
GUS for Americans in Japan.
BEN BUTLER
has not yet sold his big house opposite the
capitol to the government, but he gets a
nice rent out of Uncle Sam all the same. {
and his mansion contains some of the most
comfortable committee rooms of the lower !
House. The building is assessed at 1921 900,
and 1t must cost him somewhere in the ,
neighborhood of two thousand dollars a
year taxes. 1t had for long time a mort
gage of 100000 on it, and this was given bv
Butler to raise money for his Presidential
campaign, and it was said that his guber-
Material campaigns cost him 500, 900 apiece.
He can afford, however, to spend money In
politics, for he makes, it is said, 500 600 a
year at the law, and takes away hatful
every time ne comes here to practice before
the supreme court. l saw him in one of
the departments the other day. He is
looking fat and healthy, and he had a bou-
quet IN his button hole as usual. He wore
a big sombrero on his bald head, and the
rim of this almost hid his cooked eye as he
passed me. Ben Butler is very eccentric
as to his clothes. He comes out in an en-
tirely new style of costume every time he
comes to Washington, and a winter or two
ago he appeared here clad entirely in furs
A fur overcoat with the hair on the out
side covered his fat frame from neck to
feet, and he had great fur cap on his head
He looked more like an Esquimaux grand
mother than great constitutional lawyer,
and he was for day the curiosity of the
capital. Ben Butler is a good dresser.
His clothes fit him, and notwithstanding
the peculiarities of his frame, they are
built in the best of shape. He is now q
seventy-one years old, but he looks as
though he might last twenty years yet, :
and he is as strong, physically and men
tally, as he was during the war He works I
because he likes it, and he will probably
keep up his practice until he dies.
L sat today
IN THE PRESS GALLERY
If the United States Senate, and watched
big headed, dark-faced, brown haired
nan, who sat in the middle of the Demo
cratic side of the chamber and pulled
string to and fro between his fingers, while
series Of expressions passed over his face
A number of newspaper clippings lay be-
fore him on the desk. He had been read
ng these, and as he laid them down and
took up his string l could see that they
related to the funeral of Jefferson Davis.
He seemed much affected by them He
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