The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1893-12-17

"a thing OF beauty is joy forever, y
I read in country exchange the other
day. Did it precede a glowing tribute
on work of art? A description of a
lovely bit of rural landscape? A ref
erence to a new spring bonnet, even
Not much. It was to call attention to
neyer-freezing stockyard pump.
Figures of the late census show there
are over 100000 bachelors in the Uni
ted States-that is 100000 men who
are over 80 years of age, and have new
er been married This item reminds
me of a conversation / had with a
young business man the other evening.
| advised him to marry and settle
down.
Too expensive luxury George
sighed.
why? For the money you now
spend on yourself and young lady
friends, you could rent a cosy little
cottage, furnish it nicely and be far
happier than you are now"
There's the rub. You probably mar
ried ten or fifteen years ago, when girls
were more easily satisfied than they
now are. Marriage, content and conse-
Quent happiness are luXurieS now; they
grow dearer as the years roll on. A
cottage and street car were all right
lHeH, now, IL is mansion ana a
landau at least
He will probably never desert the
ranks of the 100000.
There are several very kind and very
good people engaged in the laudable
work of making the Salt Lake news
boys lives just a little more pleasant;
of endeavoring to tone down some of
f11O t1rr1,,,
at times seems bound to come upper
most. The boys probably need all the
attention that is being bestowed upon
them; at least, their lives are anything
but continual rounds of pleasure but
I cannot help but think that they are
much to be envied by the paper ped
lars Of Russia, who are compelled to
say: Here's your Wjedomosty Gran
onatshalstwa-last editionI' Then, in
addition there is the Olonetzkija Gou-
bernskija, the Pskoffsky Gorodskoi
Listok. the Jekaterinoslawsky Listok,
the Wostotshuoje Objaafienij, and the
Estlandskije Wjedomosty.
To c. M. Jackson: eyes. the char
acter of Dolly Warden figures in Dick
ems 'Barnaby Rudge."
A very mean man has given this Sc
cret away in a recent issue of an east
ern paper: cit isn't always nervous
ness that makes d girl bite her lips.
Sometimes-very often, in fact-she
does it to give them nice color
The year in russell mantle clad. and hood
With tangled, wind-blown hair, and
visage-sad,
Walks with unwilling step and backward
From ali the pomp and spendor it so
lately had.
AS some old man, with lettering step and
And eyes grown dim with mists Of
many years,
Might leave the home his gladstone youth
Hugging an aching grief. too deep for
tears;
So the old year, with trembling, cold
Gathers his tattered mantle round his
Shivering form,
Bows his snow-powdered head before the
coming storm,
And goes to join the paupered royalty
Henry Gray Glover
They are not very choice in their
language at all times are those editors
in Idaho, as witness the following from
a recent issue: "a Caldwell coward
who is hired to maIign unsuspecting
members of the third party-A subsi-
died villain and all around BLACKBOARD
and fraud"
Yes, it is true that a certain young
Salt Laker feels cold shivsrs chase
each other up and down his spine every
/, |. III h - ~,
One of the latest births in the news
paper world is a weekly with the title,
The Servants Own Paper, and an ex-
change is mean enough to say it is
hardly necessary to add it is published
in England, for if a paper of the kind
were to appear in this country it would
be called the Ladies' Help Society
Journal.
They wrote the editors epitaph
In plain and practical way;
One line upon his tombstone:
eve are here and here to stay"
EXCHANGE.