The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1891-08-30
wooDcHUoKs AS PETS.

Have you ever known a woodchuck to
display affection for human being?
l have not, though / have seen one, ap-
parently rabid, attack man without cause.
However, there must be In the wood
chucks grovelling soul some capacity for
devotion, for New York lady who has
summer home at Binghamton has trained
couple of them as pets. And though have
never seen them, know they must be we'll
behaved pets, for d certain photograph of
them, with their gracious mistress in the
modest background, was exhibited to me
the other day, and the woodchucks had be-
| hayed admirably under the Cameras eye,
looking, indeed, not unlike dogs in their
attitude toward their mistress. Perhaps
woodchucks' souls are not grovelling at all
in spite of their underground ways.
Another photograph of this summer
homes glorles reveals room with seven
dogs nesting about on and under couch
1t was one of the dogs which brought home
the woodchucks in their babyhood. Whe-
Their they quarrel now [ don't know. And
still another picture shows lot of horses,
from all which circumstances one feels in
clined to envy folks who have so many
i beautiful or strange pets.
TITLED ASSEMBLY.
Happening to visit Providence, r. l., a
few days ago, | was invited out to lunch in
the favorite restaurant of the place by a
business man, who knew pretty much
every body in the room. AS he pointed
out the local celebrities l could see how
! living in small State increases the dis
t1nction of casual gathering. l have an
impression that nearly every man in the
room was either an Ex-Governor, ex-May-
or, State Senator, Municipal Councilman
or other high official, and the ''prominent
citizens" shone with startling distinction
in titled rank.
| The Providence business men have one
mighty good trait besides the others usual
elsewhere. They know how to take life
easily. AS l understand it, once a week
during the entire summer, about $50 of the
best known men in the place go down the
bay at midday to eat lunch at club house
overlooking the water. They are gone
about three hours and a half, and nothing
seems to suffer in their absence. Not in
frequently the clerks take their turn
Imagine lot of New York business men
leaving their offices from IL to 3 of a good
business day to take lunch at Coney Island
Yet, if they did take life trife easier, they
might look as robust and happy as do the
Providence men, and they don't now by O
long chalk.
LAWYERS INCOMES.
The statement hazarded by some one
George Ticknor Curtis, L believe, that
Webster spoke complacently of an income
of $4,000 year from his practice when a,
the height of his career has set lawyers
upon comparing incomes of past and pres
ent days.
Nobody knows how many New York law
yers are earning more money than Godlike
Dan earned. A mere catalogue Of them, il
there were anyone competent TO prepare it,
would look as tedious as a tax list sale
They wouldn't all be well known lawyers
either-Choates and Newcombes and Ev
arises and Tracys, nor all fine
orators of commanding presence like
Dan Dougherty and Leslie W Rus
sell, nor all Respondent in yachting
flannels and diamonds like William F.
Howe. In the list, if it were correctly
compiled, would be many staid office
lawyer, of whose existence nobody hears
real estate experts, ''snuffy old drones'
from Nassau street hives and all sorts Of
queer fish.
1 declare that when consider how hare
it is to earn Sl5, 900 year, it seems queer
to see such lot of people successfully
accomplishing the feat.
, ENJOYING AUGUST.
In the trying August weather which
made so many outsiders curl up and die
do not remember of hearing of siugl,
foundryman getting Frustrated by heat
aud for the excellent reason that its abou
1tU ueBEc6s VI upward III Ul6lr warn
, berths next the melting iron at any timt
of the year. The degree Of heat which
people can bear when they are used to it il
certainly astonishing.
!, The foundryman or iron moulder AWAY,
wears flannel shirt. That is one precau
ton, not against heat but against takin,
cold in drafts They drink gallons O
water; sweat profusely and get along yer,
well. You see they really enjoy the sum
mer. Its so nice to get out Of the shop an,
find the thermometer only 95.
THE WEBSTER MURDER CASE
The end of the Webster case will surel
be to blast the political career of one petite
society darling of New York, who Is sup
[ posed TO have some pull with the courts Q
} justice. The woman in the case is an ex
, Jremely unsavory character. How abou
the character of the man who lived wit
3 her, bought her off when his marriage an
) his political aspirations made her ipcon
) venient and has now stood between he
/ and justice to avoid a scandal? Is tn
/ woman so much worse than the mana
And if the electrocution cases are pushe
against the newspapers one of them
likely to get mad and tell the young man
name.
CLERK AND CAsHIER