The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1890-08-31

with his arm in sling, If his friends and
lovers of right and justice generally do not
withhold their congratulations.
Norristown Herald: In a recent battle in
Guatemala thirty six brigadier- generals
and six privates were killed. It is difficult
to understand why so many prlvates should
have been in the tight.
What the average eastern journalist does
not know about the needs of the great
west, would make very large volume
very large one, indeed. The Chicago
Tribune has 'got 'em' again, and this time
he see, salvation for the 'rotten borough of
Nevada by annexing it to Utah, thus max
ing combination state. "It would them"
he says, "have a population of nearly 49,
600 and people and property enough TO
maintain a respectable state" 1t is an old
chestnut, this annexation scheme, and the
idea is not at all original with the paper
quoted above. But let Congress attempt
any such move, and our solOns will hear
| something drop. the idea Of annex n 8
prosperous, clean, healthy and wealthy Utah
to crippled, ruined. diseased and dirty Ne
| vada is as nonstrous as the linking of a
dove with buzzard, or virgin innoce nee
| to ricketty roue. Why UJah's people
who have always been prudent, economical
and honest, should be saddled with the in
mense debt that Nevada has piled and is
now piling up, is question that only an
eastern journalist can solve No Nevada
in ours. The vassalage of territorial ex-
| istence is calling to Americans; it is far
Preferable, however, to annexation to
Nevada.
| Newark NeUs; There is a dim suspicion
that the Keely motor mystery is connected
with the occult principle upon which the
worked.
An exchange rises and remarks that ''the
man with the hoe is cultiva5ing new field
this year-the political field" Some
humorists have no regard for the hot
weather.
The back yard of Lord Tennyson's home
is said to be strewn with clay pipes that he
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digious smoker and, like Carlyle, he prefers
the humble clay pipe, rarely smoking a
cigar. He is now over eighty years old and
looks more like farmer than a man OF
letters.
What is modestly designated as "a com.
Portable summer home' has recently beer
bought by ex-Presie ent Cleveland TIL,
, property is at Buzzard's bay, tifty-fivt
miles from Boston and eighteen miles south
of Plymouth, on the Old Colony road, an(
, comprises an estate of over one hundred
{ acres delightfully."- situated. Locally tn,
, property is known as ''Tudor's Haven.
from its former owner, name which will
be changed by Mr.. Cleveland, but just wha
the designation will hereafter be has no
yet been determined. Mr.. Cleveland will
have for near neighbor Joseph jefferson
the actor, whilethe place Immediately ad
joining this country seat is occupied b.
Colonel Daniel Appleton, of the Sevent
regiment.
Boston Courier: When 1t comes in hi
way to do US the service we can always dc
pend on the elevator boy to giveus ''lift
Omaha World Herald: That the propert
of the farmer, under the present system q
tariff taxes and railroad charges, will graG
ually pass into other hands is or ought I
be self evident by this time. A bushes
that does not pay ana cannot be made t
pay more than or per cent. upon the il
!, vestment, in a country where the rate c
: interest varies from to 20 per cent.
bound TO end in bankruptcy. The numbe
of years that it can endure can be math,
matically ascertained. They are not
great many. In Sangamon county, Illinois
the home OF Lincoln, one-half of the farn
ers are now renters. Did Mr.. Lincol
imagine that such a state Of things woul
ever exist at his home when he spoke of g
government of the people, by the peopl,
for the peol p" The forces which hav
worked this result at the home of Lincsl
are felt over the whole land. The NOR
Cages are being gradually toreclosed. Tt
land owning farmer il passing into the col
ditions of the peasant of Europe, and tt
process will go on as long as the same sy
TEN of tariff robbery and railroad extortio
is in existence.
st. Paul Pioneer Press: Editor Watterso
while luridly brilliant and given to flower
flights of gushfpl imagination, can, und.
the exgencies of the moment, turn his a
tention to abstruse mathematics. Takir
u Superintendent Porter's rough estimate
% our population, and contrasting it with tt
~ recent Kentucky holocaust of highwine
{. Editor Watterson says: "Oyer a lnillit
l. barrels of whisky were burned--enough
e give every inhabitant of the United Stat
q a good drink" On the basis of 6i,0O0,0
J. population, this means I'll drinks to 81
J. Ion, is drinks to quart, 5 drinks to pin
i 4 drinks to half pint, and there you hay
e expert testimony on the correct size of
d Kentucky drink. 1t is not so large as pc
y ular impression had estimated it.
u In the Berlin law courts, a perso
- who was Caught red-handed," has BET
= proceeded against for stealing roses from
" prettily decorated grave. The sccus
O produced in court a copy of the ms cripli,
- on the tablet over the grave, which runs
- follows: Traveller, pause a moment
ID this spot and pluck rose in remembran
of what l was" The defendant on t
strength OF this, commended that he "
acting simply in accordance with the G
pressed wishes of the deceased; but t
Oh judge thought otherwise. He said the
10 scription stated that the traveller was
ar pluck rose and not handful of roses. a,
rs he therefore pronounced the defenda
r! guilty.