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The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-12-31

"Three things Los Angeles wants,
and wants right away; namely, a deep
water harbor at San Pedro, the extern
sion of Claus Spreckles' valley road TO
this city, and the construction of a
railway to connect with the railway
system centering at Salt Lake City,
says the Los Angeles Herald. We hope
that Los Angeles gets them all. but
if she can have only one we will trust
it viii be the railroad to Salt Lake
CITY.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-12-31

are not. The advice the World gives
Mr. Bryan is good, it is excellent, and
We're it and those who think as it does
TO act upon it. they would experience
untold benefits.
The next time Mr.. Bryan enters the
race he viii perhaps enter on q Bu-
cephalus and do what all the dapper
Gordian knot of finance and solve a
problem that has been to them I'M
solYable
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-12-31
TALES OF THE DAY.
A Question of the Hour

He was leisurely, middle-aged man
face as he folded up the newspapers he
had been reading and strolled over to the
Star reporter, who was talking to the
hotel clerk.
Young man. he said, are you quick
at figures?''
Not very. confessed the reporter.
I m. not in the circulation department..
you know
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-12-31
A La Solomon.

jewelers. I.eview: A man was recently
tried for stealing a watch from lady in
an omnibus.
The man declared that the watch was
his, and the woman was mistaken in
identifying ii as hers Suddenly the mag
iStrate asked:
where's the key2'
The prisoner fumbled in his pocket and
said he must have left it at home
The magistrate asked him If he wound
the watch frequently with the key, and
he said Yes
Then a key was procured. watch and
key were handed the prisoner. and he was
told to wind the watch. He opened the
case but could not find any place to use
the key 1t was a keyless watch.
He was committed for trial.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-12-31

THE HERALD fs "A franchise mem
be- OF The United Press, and re-
cefves the completes leased wire
Overland and Pacific Coast news re-
ports of The United Associated Press
IS, embracing accurate intelligence
of all curresat events in the whole
world. With its special wire and
operator in its own Office THE HER
AID is daily I'm Immediate possess
sion OF the Intest news ND till the
hour of aOfrE to press.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-12-31

The retiring county officials say they
are glad to go. The way some of them
manifested their joy few weeks ago
at the thought of going made people
think they were not SO glad as they
pretend. But different people manifest
their joy in different ways.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-12-31

Experiments made with smallpox pa
tinents in Oaxaca, Mexico, show that
honey, diluted in water. administered
to the patients. causes postules of the
worst variety to disappear and the
fever is said to Immediately disappear.
If all that is claimed for the discovery
be true, it will prove one of the great
est blessings mankind has ever ex-
perienced
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-12-31
Well Married.

Cincinnati Enquirer: so Bondwart
is married, is hep" commented the re-
turned native. Married we'll, hope ?"
That's what answered the resi-
dent. He is so well married that he
has been trying for six months to get
unmarried, and hasn't succeeded yet"
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-12-31
A ROYAL Ambition.

Boston Courier: Seeker wonder why
it is that the male cycler always follows
I'm the wake of his female compa Mon?
Sageman-It is the prompting of a royal
ambitions he feels that he may become a
successor to the thrown
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-12-31
Iuse. mihi causas memora quo numine
Wonderful ENDURANCE.

Cleveland Leader: How did your wife
catch that terrible cold?''
Ssh. 4 new family moved into the
house next door on one OF the coolest
DAYS last week If you or / had stood
beside an open window all afternoon we'd
sirnnlY be dead.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-12-31

1t is the last day of the year. 1t is
very much to be hoped that the cpl
demic of bank failures will come to an
end with the close of the year. They
are bad in themselves and they spread
encouragement and doubt everywhere.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-12-31

There has been so little of it this
winter that we feel our readers will
pardon US for exclaiming. "Oh, the
snow. the beautiful snowt''
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-12-31
SOME EDITORIAL COMMENTS.

Atlanta Journal: mean Atlanta man
was heard to rejoice this morning that
his wife gave him yesterday the amount
OF money which she borrowed to buy him
Christmas present with. Santa Claus
VIII shun that man hereafter if he is
worthy of the name he bears.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-12-31

The school board of Usage City, Kan
sas, has made an order forbidding the
teachers to dance. What a progressive
school board Usage City must have.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-12-31

Does gold grow?" asks an exchange.
!, Certainly it does. Everyone has seen
his pile of gold, no matter how small,
grow. less.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-12-31

Many prominent politicians are call
ing upon Mark Hanna. Is he distrib-
uting the tickets for admission to the
cabinet?
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-12-31
NOTICE OF ANNUAL MEETING.

THE ANNUAL MEETING OF THE
stockholders Of the Mercur Gold Mining
& Milling company for the election or
directors, and for the transaction of such
other business as may lawfully come be-
fore it. viii be held AZ the general Offices
OF the company. rooms 705. 706 and 707 Nc
CornIck building, Salt Lake City. Utah,
ON January Is 1897, at p o'clock p m.
z. H. AIRS, Secretary
Salt Lake City. Utah. December q. 1883.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-12-31

Chicago is to become headquarters
for Chinese revolutionary party. The
heads of the party will be very much
safer there than in China.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-12-31
Not a Patriot.

Cleveland Leader: Dalrympie-Hay-
ward apparently takes no interest in the
welfare of his country
Barlow--Why?
Dalrymple-He hasn't ventured a sin
gle guess as TO McKinley's cabinet.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-12-31

Washington Star: Are you going to
make any New Year resolutions" in
quired Willie Wishington's friend.
No It's not necessary
''You don't mean to imply that you
have attained perfection?"
mot at all l intend to use my last
years resolutions all over again. They re
just as good as new"
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-12-31

No doubt General Weyler will turn
over new tobacco leaf New Year,
though the Madrid government may
ask him TO turn over his command. J.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-12-31

San Francisco Examiner: The Tacoma
minister who spoiled the Christmas fes
tivities rather than have such d wicked
fake as 2 Santa Claus introduced. is a
creature of sweetness and light whom it
is a happiness not to know.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-12-31

Spain will not grant home rule to
Cuba. weyler will continue to be the
Ioro of misrule.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-12-31

When Banker E. c. Benedict brings
about that radical change in our form
of Government" what position will ne
assign his friend Grover Cleveland?
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-12-31

Chicago Times-Herald: If Senator Ouav
really is determined to ''go into the bar
ricades with the bourgeoisie and the men
in blouses' We have no doubt that he
Uncle John Wanamaker's bargain coun-
ter.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-12-31

"a babe in the house is a well spring
of pleasure" if there is any pleasure
in a racket.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-12-31

Couldn't someone write a little ode
beginning: Break, break, break o
banks?
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-12-31

That a Chicago alderman should
aspire to a seat in the United States
senatel The thought is Madden-ing.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-12-31

American interests in Cuba do not
appear TO be menaced nearly so much
when congress is not in session
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-12-31
Leadville Herald-Democrat: AMI

Leadville Herald-Democrat: And now
comes the fairy tale from Cuba that Is
Texans were wiped off the earth lately
by a small detachment of Weyler's army.
The story goes that they were caught in
only way that Weyler's men will ever
surround and kill 10 Texans will be on
paper.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-12-31

Let everyone prepare his resolutions
for next year today; tomorrow viii be
too late.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-12-31

The Mckinley tin horn that ar
rived in Canton from Decatur. H.,
isn't cornucopia by any means.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-12-31
WIT AND HUMOR.

Philadelphia Record: Judge (sternly)-
us this counterfeiter a friend of yours?'
Witness-.No: only passing acquaint-
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-12-31

Christmas weather is a little late in
coming, but it has come at last.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-12-31

Cheer up. cheer UP. The days are
growing longer, even if they are not
growing any brighter.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-12-31

The only new idea in proposed tariff
legislation is to take higher ground.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-12-31

"The more the merrier" does not ap-
ply to bank failures.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-12-31

The street lamps act as though they
were afraid 10 be seen.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-12-31

st. Louis Globe Democrat: 1t is a sig
n1flcant fact that the senators whose
terms viii soon expire are the ones who
are doing most of the speechifying about
Cuba.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-12-31

When your enemies applaud you may
be sure you are hurting your friends.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-12-31

Can't the president and the senate
arbitrate their differences?
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-12-31
Springfield Rer

Springfield Republican,: A good joke on
DR.. Lyman Abbott of Brooklyn comes
from Wabash college in Indiana. The
winner of a recent oratorical contest has
been found to have plagiarized one of Dr.
Abbott's sermons. But he won on the
delivery, the able Judges having marked
him down on composition and thought.
He is to be expelled, but the judges are
beyond reach of discipline.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-12-31

Put a California man in the cabi-
net.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-12-31

The crashing banks made boom in
receiverships.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-12-31

It is mighty mean to speak of ex-
Queen Lii and her SCOT
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-12-31

As the currency contracts the fail
ures expand.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-12-31

Cleveland Leader: After a terrible
into the straight jacket, but he con-
t aRIood 10 se5 MI Aesassins and
.'Wild-Eyed Sensations
Poor DEVIL For six months he had
been writing the scare heads for the
Chicago Tribune: st. Louis Man-Yes,
sir, and we're going to put up 22-story
building in our town, too
Chicago Man with yawn)-I must tell
my brother out in Kansas City about it.
Chicago Times-Herald: Does your
latest novel enjoySa large sale?" ne in
Il don't know whether the novel en-
joys 1t or not" replied the author, but
1 do
New York Press: $50 you were
dished?'
Yes
You must have chafed under it,
Yes"
Sort of chahng-dish arrangement
-eh2''
Plain Dealer: WHO was that fellow
over there securing buttons and waxing
mis- moustache?'
"Oh, he's just getting everything ready
for d court-martial.
Cincinnati Commercial-Tribune: An
moving thing happened to our funny man
yesterday" remarked the Sunday editor
"One of his jokes, in some unaccountable
manner got into the death notices"
.'Humph,'' remarked the assistant city
editor: that's where it belonged more
ts--n likely
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-12-31

Say, Jerusha, I am going down to
the Seal" Fish and Oyster Market,
IA West First South street, to buy
my OyGsers, Fish and Turkey for
Christmas That's right, Matilda
King handles the best goods on the
market Telephone sos.
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1896-09-03
AMERICAN AND BRITISH AvMoa
Differences Which Each Race Fiads
Difficulty in Reconciling.

Beyond question there is a distinct
difference between American and Brit
ish humor To most Americans Lon
don Punch is indescribably dreary, yet
to the average Britain it is the funniest
paper published. Per contra, the Eng
lishman seldom enjoys an American
joke, and our comic papers are as a
rule senseless TO him. AS an illustfa-
ton Of these national characteristics
Charles w. Brooke, prominent law
yer, recalls the experience of Charles
W. Browne, better known as Artemus
Ward, one of the first of American ltu-
morists. 1t was a singular thing that
Ward, while he captured the British
public in his first lecture, made a COM
plete failure when he became member
of the staff of London Punch, he being,
/ believe, the only American who was
ever employed upon that publication
He began his first lecture in the Brit
ish capital by praising warmly the hos
pitalities of the people Of London. In
glowing terms he described the picture
which had been drawn for him in
America OF the warmth of the greeting
which would be extended TO him when
added, the realization has far ex-
ceeded the anticipation. Since | have
been in London | have been amazed
beyond measure at the Inequalities OF
which have been the recipient. Why
| assure you that even every time
have left cab hand has been ex-
tended to me-for a shilling The
newspapers at that time related that
first there were few smiles upon the
faces in the London audience then
someone Uttered, after that few peo-
pie laughed and in about half minute
the entire audience was in roar
From that time laugh followed every
thing he said. His work on Punch
however, the British people were in
capable of approaching; even his de-
lightful description of his visit to The
tower of London, in which, in remin-
iscent mood, he spoke about his puri-
tan ancestors and told how they had
travelled to bleak and foreign shore
where they could worship God accord
ing to the dictates Of their own CON
sciences and prevent every other man
from worshiping according to the die
tates of his. That sort of real humor
was too subtle for the Londoner. =
Philadelphia Times.
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1896-09-03

In one row we're Puyallup and White
River Indians and in the other were
Inequalities In the center OF the kneel-
ing rows of Indians We're the lead srs'
Tommy Lane for the Puyallups and
Skamenke for the Inequalities.
Back OF tie kneeling bucks were
benches running the ertire length Of
the room. On these sat the Indian
women of the respective tribes, who
watched the varying fortunes Of the
players with most intense interest.
Stuck in the ground In seini-circahtr
form, in front of both Lane ond
Skanenhe. were thirty-iiye small
wooden pegs about three inches in
length and cue-fourth of an inch IN
diameter. These were the beans
Suspended from the neck Of each In
dian PLAYER and hanging in front Of
his breast was a handkerchief, beneath
which he deity concealed his hands
when the bones were givsa him to
swing
The bones mentioned are three
inches in length and one inch in di-
ameter. One of them is perfectly
white, the ether one has two black
rings around it, Each of the leaders
has two sets Of bones, but only one set
is used at time. The game proceeds
as follows The leader of the side
whose turn it is to play chants sing
song incarnation to bring luck, the
squaws joining in this musical CD e.
fort and the bucks also, IL they wish
Two of lis men are then designated by
the leader to shake the bones, which
are grasped by the player, one in either
hand and both hands are placed be-
meath the handkerchief hanging over
his breast. where he fumbles the bones
shifts them about from hand to hand
to confuse those who are keenly watch
/ ing him from the other side, and then
suddenly drawing them from heneatN
the handkerchief. begins swingins
them to the right and left in front q
him. The leader of the opposite side
then guesses or names one of his meT
whom he thinks may be the more
lucky, to guess which swinging hant
contains the white bone. If the CUES.
is correct the leader of the side whic,
is playing -not guessing pulls one Of
the beans from the ground in front Of
him, and losses ii over to the leader Of
the side which has made the correct
guess. The bean is taken by the win
ner and stuck in the ground with Tho
other beans belonging to his side
The bones are also to be passed to the
guessing side, whose turn it becomes
TO play.
Provided the guess is correct the side
making it losses a bean over to the side
playing, and the man who has shaker
the sticks has tho right to shake then
again, while his opponents make an
other guess. Both sets of bones Were
guessed upon by the same man at the
same time. If he guessed the white ot
one and missed the other he won q
bean and one pair Sf bones but lost &
bean upon the other set which was
shaken again for him to make another
guess. In this manner the bones ant
beans were constantly passing bach
and forth from one side to another
with the varying luck Of the different
sides. Saturdays game ended in I
draw-Tacoma Ledger.
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1896-09-03
A BRILLIANT WOMAN.

All college women of America must
feel an especial pride in the career Of
the charming Steimatz Rama Kama,
one of tire young Japanese women
educated at Vassar college twenty
years ago, by the Japanese govern
ment Private letters from the island
empire continue to bring interesting
word of this remarkable woman, the
wife now of the Marquis Oyama, one of
the heroes of the late war and beloved
of his nation. The marquise seems to
be fulfilling the prophecies of her
classmates of two decades ago, who
felt that her personality must make
an imprint on her time. Intensely 10y
al to her country, she yet left here
thoroughly lmhued with American
principles, az. Z. tesmiEed 10 ed In
the uplifting Of her sex in Japan. Her
last words to her friends here were to
the effect that her ambition in life
her native sisters to the American
standard of education and dignity. OF
noble blood, her position, with her edu-
cation, has afforded her unusual oppor-
tunity to promote this desire. Her
home Is the very essence of refinement,
with decidedly foreign style as to ar
rangement, though the gardens about
are royalty Japanese. With three
charming children, Steimatz-for so
her classmates affectionately speak Of
hers dispensing a beautiful and up
lifting influence to all who come in
contact with her. While the war lasted
her practical work was constant. She
sent out from her own hands, aided by
women Of all grades of society, enor-
nous quantities OF carbolized gauze
with great packages of other sanitary
supplies, to the seat of battle. She is
promoting many philanthropic
schemes, but none Of them has she so
much at heart as the education Of her
sisters. She is using the influence Of
her own and her husbands position TO
bring about change of native opinion
concerning Japanese women. Beliey-
ing firmly in education as the chief
factor in the elevation Of women, in
this direction she bends all her ener-
gies and arguments. There is little
question that Ter early American edu-
cation has been, through her consistent
application Of IL, the keynote to the
growing nberality Of the Japanese to-
ward women and an American policy
in general. Her progressive spirit was
no transitory notion, but deep, I'M
DERIVING conviction and motive Of
action, which she has been able to d.
rect upon the thought OF her compa-
triots at a most fortunate time.
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1896-09-03
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