The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1893-11-19
TOLD ON THE QUIET
Snap Shots by Mental Cameras-origsnaI
and Otherwise.

Snap Shots by Mental Cameras-original
and Otherwise.
Ex-President Harrison gets good pay
when he takes his pen in hand and
writes a few lines. He recently re-
ceived $1.666 for an article of less than
! 5000 words-or say a page of The Her
aid. This is at the rate of $20S for
column of the paper. | know a number
of "the boys who would be perfectly
willing to cut this figure at least SIS
per column.
I saw rather funny sign in drug
store the other evening In a case full
of the finest cigars that money can
buy in this neck of the woods was the
advertisement of an antidote for the
tobacco habit.
Roman women were admitted to trag-
edies but not to comedies Just as
though women did not have enough
to weep about at home.
Cigarette smoking among the fair
sex in this city has not the hold that
it had a year or so ago" said a dealer
the other day. Then I had half-a-
dozen fair customers, and they We're
not Of the under-crust of society either;
now 1 see comparatively few"
1t is understood there are several
members of the medical society who are
anxious to whitewash the physician
who has of late gained considerable
notoriety of a kind he would probably
! like TO shake. In the language of
/ o17lr ~,
jail
Sunnyside Sentinel: God bless the
women of Colorado. May they lend pur-
ity and strength to the ballot for the
honor of the state and the protection
and prosperity of her industries. God
knows Colorado needs it.
The Lowell Courier has discovered
that 'the largest expenses of married
life are caused by the little ones" l
understand the editor has been married
but little over two years. Wait,
brother, wait.
Mary Burton. coy maid of one
hundred and one summers, was mar
ried in the Grimsby England) parish
church recently" There is hope for
some of you yet, girls.
There is one consoling thought in
connection with the recent Republican
landslide. It has caused a cessation
in the flow of editorials on the deadly
car stove"
A bosom shirt, which is open in
front and made to button like a coat,
is a recent invention 1t has one great
objection-it is tailless.
Speak it softly! Whisper it low
Patti is on her farewell tour once
again.
A San Francisco clergyman recently
resigned because. as he said. one of
the girls in the choir giggled while he
was preaching. 1t was a constant
gigSle and was so annoying he had
Ito quit endeavoring to save souls. He
lis said TO have grown quite indignant
though, when he was asked by a
brother clergyman whether it was not
fact that his salary was ''intermit-
tent
81 understand Corbett, the great
prize-f1ghter, has a great record. $
You bet; fifty-three challenges,
twenty-eight Withdrawals. fourteen
ldisagreements over terms and a years
Experience on the stage Elk.
I'm his younger days Joe jefferson
took boxing lessons for dyspepsia .
This is respectfully referred to the
editor of the Tribune.
Among the hills, the Berkshire hills.
I loved a maiden fair;
Her eyes were blue. Just tinged with gray.
And sunny brown her hair.
drove her about the town
i To let the fellows see
How sweet maid would smile upon
My village cart and me-
We wondered through the lovely lanes;
told her all my love
But never swore to cherish her
| Nor called her little dove
1 shall not ask her TO be mine.
Though she's priceless pearl:
The very simple reason is
l am another girl
Rolling through the papers of the
country. without mark to indicate
to whom it belongs. / find the follow
ling. which is applicable to this city as
Elsewhere:
'Tchabod. my boy. methought
heard you speak of your sire this
morning as the old man. You are
leighteen years of age, are you not
Just so. That is the age when callow
youth has his first attack of the big
head You imagine at this moment
that you know it ali. observe by the
cut of your trousers. and the angle of
Iyour hat. and the flavor of your
breath. and the style of your tooth
lpick shoes, and the swagger of your
walk. that you are badly gone on your
iself.
This is an error of youth which