The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1891-10-11

nave charming sight, my brethren.
II is too bad thai more people do not
! bowl. More New York people would bow
PROBABLY II SO large a proportion of the
/ ooWIlng alleys were not associated with
peer saloons. The most popular alleys in
tue town are the club alleys, where or
laoles' day there are some clever anC
spirited contests
When wise woman bowls she wears
freely lifting glove of buokskin or some ma
terlal OF the same general style.
TELEGRAPH AND TYPEWRITER
watched a telegraph operator yesterday
as be clicked on a typewriter the words
! mat came over the Niro. The trip-trip OF
the type writer sounded so much like the
! dot-dash OF the telegraph instrumen,
that IL seemed curious that no confusion
was occasioned. 1t seemed inevitable that
the two noises must sometimes lead to q
doubt in the operators mind. But when !
spoke 20 him about this be said:
There is no real similarity between these
sounds so far as tho trained ear is con-
cerned. That is not the chief difficulty in
this combination. The difficulty is in spon
taneously striking tho right typewriter let
ter, in turning the lines correctly and IN
not making slip that will make il impos-
slole for you tc keep with the telegraph
key. OF course the typewriter is more
rapid than the Morse system can be made,
but the turning Of the lines, the spacing
and the hyphensting at the ending of the
lines when you neglect to carry over the
whole word, bring down the speed very
! closely to the key. You see the telegraph
operator has to make sometimes five dis
tlnct dots or dashes for one letter, while
the typewriter key makes letter at one
stroke. The Morse dots are made by a
very slight motion, however, while the
| typewriter stop has to have certain firm
! ness equivalent in expended force TO sew
eral OF the telegraph key motions.
| This combination of type writer and
telegraph key has been in operation for
some time on news work, but it is only
now coming into experimental work on
general work. They are trying, receiving
and copying with the typewriter This
innovation advances slowly, because there
are difficulties to overcome. You see In
news work a slight variation In the
phraseology might bot make great differ
ence so long as the sense is preserved In
private telegram there must not be a
hairs breadth Of variation in any partic-
ular.
AT first there was difficulty about
changing the sheets on manifold work,
but now they have invented feeding
arrangement that overcomes this difficulty
and leaves the way clear Tor the success of
the combination
THE WORD PANTS
think it was Mr.. Charles A. Dana who
enunciated the well-known definition by
which we learned that gentlemen wore
trousers" while gents wear ''pants."
This ought to have disposed Of the word
pants" forever, but it didn't.
They tried to keep the word out of our
vocabulary. They tried hard. But it still
sticks. "Pauts'' has come to stay.
OF rOUrsa m a word is ra,,, x-,,Ioor NJ
body who pretends to be influenced by the
canons of good form is caught saying
pants" when he Is on his good behavior.
But there Is fascination in the crisp, An
o-Saxonish kind of word that leads
many prudent persons to sneak in pants
where trousers" is demanded AS for the
protane public, 1t has decided that it wants
10 t9r say pants" and 1t is going to keep 1t up.
Trousers don't fl.
And what do we discover in New York
TO day! The town is spattered with signs
that are emblaZoned with the word pants
You may see Pants in letters two feet
high. The Excelsior Pants company So
hclts your patronage through the agency
OF most gorgeous and uncompromising
sign. Inc East side in particular is crowd
ed with pants companies. In the street car
advertisements you are assaulted by the
inquiry: DO you wear PANTS" And they
co not mean to thereby ask whether or not
you are the gent" of Mr.. Dana's defni-
ton.
Moreover, to illustrate the fearful and
lnconquerable democracy of language. to
emphasize the popular determination not to
submit TO any RESTITUTION in the use of a fit
ing and expressive term, and to indicate a
certain universal craving for euphony. we
nave the sign l saw yesterday afternoon on
East broadway: pant Hands Wanted ,,
WHO ARE THE FUNNY MEN?
Far be it from me to disparage those
brilliant oartoonlsts, who have given to
American caricature SO commanding po-
sltion, but tits worth while asking, who are
the men who invent the pictorial fun of the
American illustrated periodicals.
Inc answer might be, that he is by no
means always the clever artist who signs
his name to the drawing as it appsars in
print.
Who is he, thenl
The inventor of useful phrase in Ger
tain discussion on political economy would
say that he is the Forgotten Man.
This word has in it q great many For
gotten Men, men whose brains are helping
TO make the world move, but men who for
one reason or another are buried out of
SlEnt Ihelr particular genius does not
bring them into the eye of the world.
Otaer men, without precisely shining with
LHelf Drllllancy, hnQ II feasible to be the
medium or placing the product Of their
valuable but obscure wit where it viii do
the most good.
The Forgotten Man of the funny paper,
ana the funny corner in the serious paper,
Is the man whose head is full of bright CON
celts but who hasn't the luck to be able to
draw. So he writes his droll dialogues or
comments and sdetches his notion OF the
pictorial situation in such manner as to
suggest TO the skilled artist how he thinks
the drawing should be done.
Ihese skeletons are sometimes funnier
than anything that ever gets into the
printed page, because they represent n
funny mans effort to express his funni-
ness through medium of which he is not
a master. Very often the author scraWls
various marginal notes, and indicates By
pointers and other things what he is trying
TO express.
He finds particular difficulty, of course,
when the fun Of the situation he has con-
celyed lies In the character of the drawing,
and he has to make the draghtsmen see
what he IS aiming at.
These unknown funny men, who may be
among the editors of the periodical in
which the picture appears, but are more
likely to be among the contributors, who
send IN patches of ideas" from time to
time, are very useful people, and they are
paid with the hberality that is
prompted by the service of useful people.
Perhaps in eome other channel they are
working for glory. But in the picture way
5hey ''blow inn their wit for collars.
MATT LAMAR
THIS IS PRETTY GOOD.
Mr. Inho