The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1890-09-07

There are some, however, who shudder as |
they put them on, but the goddess of, fash |
ion overrides fear, as she does everything |
else, and they wear them all the same. The |
popularity of the opal comes largely from
Queen Victoria, who has been making !
number of presents of them, and who likes
them, l doubt not because they are cheap.
English people tell me old Queen gets
closer and closer every day, and though
her fortune amounts to millions of pounds,
she is as careful of the pennies as ever.
While at Mt. McGregor visited
THE GRANT COTTAGE.
It is in the same condition now as it was
when Grant died. The same furniture
stands in the same places, and the tallow
candle half burned down to the socket
stands on the table beside the two great
arm chairs in which he breathed away his
last hours. Pieces of his last writing. con-
slstlng of slips from his pad, are shown,
and there is a tall, ine-looAing soldier in
uniform, WHO sleeps in the cottage and
takes care of the relics. There are, on the
average, about twenty-fOur thousand visit
ors year now, and many pathetic Incl
dents occur. Nearly everyone that comes
wants to take away some momenJo of the
place, and many pick up the gravel of the
walk around the house, supposing that they
are carrying off stones trodden by the foot
of Grant. The truth is that this gravel
has to be renewed every month
on account of these relic hunters,
and the stones they carry awap have never
seen Grant. Mr.. Arkee, who owns the
maintain, tells me he was offered $35, 900
for the cottalle the other day, and that the
men who offered this were western men,
who said they wanted to cut up the cottage
and sell it for relics. The probability is,
that they would have taken it to pieces,
have carried it off to Chicago and shown it
there at the exposition in the same way
| that Libby prison is to be shown.
SPEAKING OF MOUNT M'GREGoR
recalls some curious incidents of the
funeral, which have not, | think, gotten
into the papers, One was as to Mrs
Grants ring, which the general always
wore, and which was taken off from his
tirger few days before he died. 1t was
put on again when he was in the coffin, and
q lock of Mrs. Grants hair and note of
farewell from her was slipped into the in
side pocket of his coat The Bev. DR.. New
man, who was present at the funeral, told
me of this circumstance, and it was one of
other curious things which took place at
| the time.
THE REVEREND DIR. NEWMAN
is now i'll Japan. He has become bishop
since he presided at Grants funeral, and
he was especially anxious to be present in
the room when Grant died. He is, you
know, tall, hnelooking man with a great
head. and d great frame. His blood is full
of iron, and he can outsleep any of the
npted preachers OF the country. He likes
good living, is fond Of Turkish bath, and
appreciates the good things of this life to
their full extent. Here at Mt McGregor
he stayed up night after night, waiting Tor
Grant to die, and the watching wore upon
him. 1t was said at the time that he had q
contract with some publisher to write up
the death-bed scene for 500, but l doubt
whether this was true. He was, know,
very anxious to be present at tho time of
Grant's death, and the night that Grant
did die, inasmuch as the General appeared
to be better than usual, DR.. Newman con-
Guided to go to the hotel and get a little
sleep. He left instructions that he was to
be called if the General got worse, but
in the excitement OF tho time,
he was forgotten. He made,
however, fine funeral Grafton over Grant,
and had here good chance to display some
Of that ability which he really possesses
This much by way of prelimary. Well, a
few days after this, General John A. Logan
died at Washington, ana Newman was
present at his deathbed.s Just after the
breath had left his body, the Rev. Dr.,
with gestures that would have fitted better
to the stage than to death chamber, moved
his hands from Logan's body upward, and
in grandeloquent words stated that he
waited the great general soul into the arms
of its Maker. 1t struck me at the time that
it was greatly out of place, and doubtnct
but that Parson Newman had this scheme
cooked up for Grant and got it off on Logan.
1t was not out of character with the man,
who in eulogizing yeung Stanford, the mill
ionaire's son, compared him with our Saw
Tor. 1t is slid tnat DR.. Newman received
$4,000 for that sermon, as present from
Leland Stanford. | don't believe this is
true, for | asked the reverend doctor as to
the TACT, when he was here at Mount Nc
Gregor, and he told me it was false.
meet everywhere
THE LADY CLERKS
of the government department at Washing
ton. They are eff on their vacations and
they enjoy themselves as we'll as any class
[ know Most of them are well educated
and many of them come of bluebloode6
families. Each clerk gets months leave
during the year and most of them take the
time in the summer l. AT some of the water
ing places you may see number of them
together. Some may register from Wash
| ington and others from their own homes
All, however, seem to have one rule anG
that is not to talk shop away from Wash
ington. Quite number do not care to be
J known as Uncle SANS girls. You would
never imagine that many of the apparently
| most frivolous Of them hold good position;
and make from sl,C0) to $1,000 year by
, their brains and hands. Some of them arc
, very silly in their being ashamed of theil
work and few pretend to wealth tina
they have not. | saw one of these
do q very extravaganza thing in ont
of the leading iewelry stores here
yesterday. She came in with a FRIEND
and asked to see some pocket TASKS of sole
} silver. She was shown beautiful half
pint bottle encased in silver. She looked
] at it moment and asked the price. TIL,
l storekeeper told her it was ten dollars
But" said she, this can't be solid,
want to give the flask to my fellow an,
! it must be of solid silver'' ''But," salt
, the man. 1.-THE solid TASKS are so expensive
1 that we don't keep them in stock. / Cal
order you one, but it will cost you sac.
"All right" said the young thousand dol
lar year maiden, 81 want it, and vol
8 may order it'' Ii struck me at the tim
1 that $40 was a good deal for whisk
3 flask. and am wondering what dude il
4 Washington will carry it. l would not b
SURPRISED but that the young lady Woul
: bear watching.
t don't mean to say that there are man
department girls who are this foolish
Many of them are
y THE INCEST GIRLS IN THE WORLD
q and there is more good marriageble mater
q ial going to waste in Washington than any
!, where else in the country, Massachusetts
/ and it's $4,000 old maids not excepted. No,
and then one goes off like Attorney Gen
eral Brewster's wife and this reminds In
:, That the young lady who married MI
Jones, of the ST. Louis Republic, is harin
4 a gay time in Paris. The two are doing u
g Europe in style and a private letter fror
: Paris states that Jones has just bought
q pair of earrings for her which cost jus