The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-04-11
SOME GOOD STORIES.

mat state table seems to be bother.
ing a great many people in these post
legislative days. 1t is announced that
the putative builder has invited sealed
bids from the governors of all the
states. including the two immortals.
from the Carolinas. But now comes a
man who hands a reporter for this pa
per card bearing the inscription &c.
F. Murray, Manufacturer of fine cab
met work and wood carving, % West
South Temple street, Salt Lake City"
who says he is the maker of the table
and does not want to be deprived of the
credit of the same. Mr. Murray de-
clared yesterday that he spent a great
deal of time and trouble on the table;
that he did the job for just half what
it should have cost in order that he
might have the credit of constructing
it, and to make sure that no one got
away with the glory he carved his
name on some CT the wood work In
the light of the past declarations made
this statement is akin to revelation
The table ought to De preserved by the
state however, as there are associa-
lions clustering around it outside the
fact that a portion of the old ship
Constitution, a chunk of the char
ter oak and a slab of pine from Geor-
gia are a part of its materials.
Judge Goodwin and Allen G. Camp
bell were sitting in the latter's Office a
day or two ago, when a young man
came in with a small account for col
lection. Campbell paid him and he re-
tired. After he had taken his depar-
ture Judge Goodwin remarked:
THAT fellow is a sort of ornithoryn-
Gus, isn't hep
WHAT" gasped Allen G. as the syl-
tables rolled out one after another.
why be is a beast with a BILL was
the rejoinder and the journalist float
ed out leaving A. G. buried in thought
One of the state senators had
novel experience during the session.
For several days a middle-aged woman
with about as much beauty as a cir
Gus poster haunted the chamber. She
would come when Thygerson opened
the door and sit there until the session
closed. There was sort of yearning
look in her eyes as she gazed constant
ly at this particular member When he
arose to speak she drank in every word
he uttered and when he didn't speak
she was disappointed. The astute sem
ator was coy and although he knew
the lady fair was gazing at him all
the time he avoided meeting her gaze
aging the lady. One day he received a
missive, fragrant with frangapani, in
which she declared her passion for
him; said she knew he must be a wild
over and as she was a. poor lone Wo-
man and wanted some one to lean ON
she addressed him with the hope of
making an impression upon his sad
dened heart. The senator was in a di-
lemma. He was a married man, who
had a large and rapidly increasing fam
lily and did not want any entangling
alliances, so to speak. He held eau
Gus with his wife and the result was
the good woman concocted an epistle
in which she stated that her husband
had appealed to her for protection.
She advised the lone one to select
some senator who had no wife to cheer
him and lay siege to his affections. In
the event that this was not agreeable
she suggested that the importuning
one make a trial ON some of the mem
bers Of the house of representatives.
The letter had a good effect for the
lady came no more and the signs OF
relief which emanated from day to day,
from the bosom of the senator afore-
said, as he looked around and noted
her absence, would weigh from eight
ounces to three and a half pounds
But it was noticed that ever afterward
his wife seemed to take a greater in
terest in politics than heretofore and
especially in the laborS of the upper
house of the legislature.