The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1891-02-08

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WHERE THEY ATE THEIR MELONS IN rs
Proud and happy that she made hit,
she has been ever since sweeping away
the cid cigar stubs, and resodding the
bald place where the raw and hairy ex-
cursionist from distance cut his water
melon and bedded down his team in
Paramount park in 1876.
could not avoid little pang or two
OF pain when | rode through the beauti-
full parks Of Chicago in November, and
was told that there the great hurdy-
gurdy would have its home for a few
months in 1892, and that time alone
could undo the devastation. And who
is most benefited by a Worlds fair?
Surely not those who pay for it. But
why speak so sadly of what is for the
general good, though it may come Of
personal sacrifice?
Two hundred and thirty-six acres We're
devoted to the Worlds fair in Philadel-
phia. Horticultural hall was the most
ornate building on the grounds. Many
believe that there will be nothing or
mater at Chicago than this same build
ing, which was built at cost of over a
quarter Of a million Of dollars by the
city of Philadelphia.
| admire Boston. love Chicago
do my trading, in New York, and pay
my pew rent on Staten Island, but l re-
spect Philadelphia, and although l have
never yet succeeded in running an ac-
count at Mr.. Wanamaker's often go
over and visit Franklin's grave.
Mr.. Charles Dickens, the great novel
list and Rudyard Kip1ing of his time,
says: 1.-The journey from New York to
Philadelphia is made by railroad and
two ferries, and usually occupies between
five and six hours. 1t was a fine even
ing when we were passengers referring
to himself in the plural number, like the
man who is addicted to the tapeworml
in the train, and watching the bright
sunset from little window near the
door by which we sat. My attention
was attracted to a remarkable appear
ance issuing from the windows of the
gentlemen's car Immediately in front of
US, which 1 supposed for some time was
occasioned by number of industrious
persons inside ripping open feather beds
and giving the feathers to the wind. At
length it occurred to me that they were
only splitting, which was indeed the
case, though how any number of passen.
gers which it was possible for that car
to contain could have maintained such
a playful and incessant shower of eX-
pectoration | am still at loss to I'm,
derstand, notwithstanding the expe-
rience in all salivatory phenomena
which l afterward acquired"
Mr.. Dickens was and is my favorite
author, but in his descriptions of Amer
lean scenery he showed conclusively that
he allowed his bright red fancy to run
around loose when he should have
checked it, and left the check at the
Office. When l go over to Philadelphia
] often think of this disagreeable expe
rience of my fellow author, but do not
find it duplicated. OF course the Amer
lean does expectorate too much, but the
habit was acquired at a time when thai
was the only appropriate way of show
ing manly disgust for the foreign foe
We are getting over it now great deal
1t is almost as difficult to get chewing
tobacco in New York and eastern cite.
now as it is in Paris or London. And i
is very announcement indeed to be caught
abroad without chewing tobacco if one
be accustomed to it. A friend Of mine
who is greatly addicted to the use of to
bacco in this form told me one day, a.
we stood at the apex of the Matterhorn
looking off toward Sandy Hook, that h
had but one great sorrow and disap
pointment in the midst of that hour O
triumph. "And what is that" l asked
as scratched my chilblain against m,
alpenstock and looked down into hi
melancholy eye.
"Ah," &c said, breaking off row o
icicles that hung from his chin whiskers
Il ran out of tobacco yesterday, and thu
dream of my boyhood's geography day
is vanished, for l cannot do what cam
here to do. l cannot stand upon th
bleak brow of the mighty Matterhorl
and spit an amber hole in the snow"
Mr.. Dickens said that Philadelphia
was handsome city, but distractingl,
regular. AFTER walking about it for al
hour or two," he goes on to state, 81 fel
that / would have given the world for
crooked street" Possibly if he coul,
visit Philadelphia now, and dine at til
Clover club, things would look Different,
to him.
Col. Shepard visited the Clover clul
last month, and he says he never saw
anything any more sociable than tn
people of Philadelphia. They conversec
freely with him on religious matter
while he was making q secular speech
end 2 glee club sang bright little bits O