The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1894-11-25
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If there is one thing more than an
other" said DR.. Benedict the other
evening, as he talked of his late tril
around the world, that made deer
and lasting impression upon me, it was
the super-excellence OF American
newspapers. In fact, was hungry fol
| news from the time L left until / re.
turned to America.
| "Of course, there were many places
and times when we could not expect
very much news of America, and we
stood this uncomplainingly but having
left Japan and China so closely to the
breaking out of the war, it was but
natural that we should be anxious to
near how the battles were progress
ing: And yet you will hardly believe
H,when tell you we were forced to
wait until we had reached America to
get full and intelligent account of
I'm Germany, in England, in France,
ut was all the same. There was col
umn after column of racing news.
parliamentary doings, social events,
meetings of the Misunderstanding in
fact, but the news of the world
1t is but justice to say that The
Herald prints every morning more of
the news of the great world outside of
Utah than does any one of the big
dallles OF Europe. l see 1000 or 5000
words in The Herald about China in
the Thunderer-the London Times
.. % &c, Il
as the model newspaper of England
felt myself in luck when | found
from 200 to 800
''In The Herald of this morning, for
instance, there are 1900 words cabled
from Berlin alone-you will not find
in those alleged big dailies across the
pond more than that amount of all
foreign news.
ut was revelation to me, can tell
you, and it has largely increased my
respect for American journals and
Journalists. In journalism. as in many
other respects, America leads the
world; and it is but fair to say. in this
connection, that nowhere in America
VIII You find such excellent papers as
are issued in Salt Lake every day in
the year-population considered.''
There seems to be good reason to
believe that it will not be many moons
ere Park City is blessed with paper,
whose editors and managers will have
an eye single to the advancement and
prosperity of that famous mining
town. 1t is an old and true saying,
that town is judged by its newspa-
pers 1t is pity that Park City
HI ,fn
many years. Success to the proposed
venture!
He had no overcoat to wear
Though chilly days had come
But ned saved and shaved almost enough
For one chrysanthemum
Chicago Inter-Ocean.
In an eastern town, typhoid fever
has been traced to oysters that were
taken from water a short distance be-
low the mouth of a sewer The favor
lite fishing grounds of some of Salt
Lakes Waltons are said to be very
close to where the filth of the city is
poured into the Jordan.
Two runaway convicts took refuge
in a church which was having an ex-
perience meeting. They listened to the
stories told by several of the regener-
ated, until one of the fellows ex-
claimed in whisper to the other:
Come, Jim, let's get out of thisl It's
a tough crowd, and no mans life is
worth "copper"
And out they lit.-Boston True Flag.
The following is believed to be one
of the biggest lies on record: when
John Edward Kelleys illness made
him take to his bed at his home in
Lambertville, n. j., for the last time
six weeks ago the lad was five feet in
helght and very feshy. When he died
on Friday last, he had fallen away to
a skeleton. but the undertaken found
that his stature was feet 2 inches. -
Elk.
Women amounted to something even
as far back as 1866. In that year a
in Pennington township. O..
collected the money for and
built a sidewalk two and one-half
miles long. The sidewalk is in good
repair to this day.
All, careful husband, now beware
OF some domestic trap;
Inc meaning of that loving air
May be winter Wrap
cleveland Plaindealer.
The New York Herald voices the
sentiments of thousands when it says:
1t has not been a political campaign.
1t has not been a struggle of parties
for power or a competition of candi-
dates for office. 1t has been a general
of citizens, irrespective of
party affiliations and personal consid-
aratlons against the scandalous abuse
Oh power by the baneful machine in
control of the city government.
For parallel we must go back to
the election Of 1872, when Tammany
was on trial for robbing the treasury
and p.undering the taxpayers of New
York
The revelations of the Lexow inves-
legation have startled and shocked the
country as well as New York, for the
appalling corruption, oppression and
terrorism which the LeXow investiga-
ton has laid bare, to the amazement
Of the world, the scandal of New York
and the indignation of its citizens.
so steadily and rapidly has the swell
ing tide of these shocking revelations
flsen That 1t has not only engulfed the
entire police department from bottom
to top, but has poured into the excise
department.. the police court, the dis
1rict. attorneys Office, and even the
grand jury room. 1t has not only raised
the curtain on a riotous saturnalia of
corruption, in which police officials, po-
ice Justices and criminal lawyers are
disclosed as protecting crime and prey
ng on immortality, but it reveals in
quitous grand jury packing for the
protection of violators of the law and
he quiet burial of indictments in the
interest of offenders charged with
grave cHmes. 1t thus shows demon
alizing faint in every department
charged with the administration of
justice 1t is the verdict of
an aroused people determined to res
,ue the city from demoralizing mis-
'ule and restore it ITO honest popular