The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-03-11
HOTEL AND CORRIDOR.

Owen Hogle had streak of luck
some days ago, which easily bears re-
peating. 1t was told by one of his
friends in the TempEeton last evening
and ran about this way:
Some days ago a man handed a
FLYER to Owen in payment for some
goods, and it was not discovered until
after the man had left that the money
was very clever imitation of a five
dollar gold piece
Upon examining the coin Owen
found that it was about the size Of a
five and was so skillfully covered with
gold foil that it was hard to detect
any thing wrong with it.
His friends were guying him and
laughing at the way he had been taken
IN, and all the while Owen kept on
scraping off the covering with a little
penknife.
Strange figures began to be out
lined underneath. and when all of the
foil was off it was found to be a very
valuable coin, being a Roman piece
dating thousands of years back. It
was only copper, but Owen had not
had it twenty-four hours before he
sold it for fifteen dollars"
Among the arrivals in this city some
weeks ago was an article known as a
South Sea island onion, which is in the
possession of a fair young typewriter
of this community. 1t is one of the
queerest plants that ever struck this
city, and the Utah climate seems to
agree with it wonderfully
Its large bulb, or the onion part,
rests on top the surface of the ground
and all around it breaking through the
skin are little onions, carried like the
young Of a kangaroo.
Long, graceful leaves shoot up for
some distance and then fold prettily
around the plant, but the most pecu-
liar part is the bloom.
A long, ill-shapen stem winds aWav
for several feet and at the end is a
pyramidical flower which carries hun
dreds of pretty white blossoms.
But the most striking part of the
tropical affair is the odor of the flower.
Some people differ on the results of
their determinations as to what it
smells like, but the great majority say
that it is the twin sister OF that pc
culiarly pleasant incense that arises
to our nostrils upon opening the por-
tails of a Chinese laundry.
People who have long been mystified
concerning the cause of this perfume
in the celestial wash-house are now
enabled to refrain from questions
These arrivals registered at the Tenn
pleton yesterday: j. Beatty, jr., Chi
cago; ]. H. Hendricks, New York; Ell
mer E. Doane, Chicago; j. E. Gate,
Chicago; Mrs. H. Stafford, San Fran
cisco; Jesse Carter and wife, Long
Island; H. Sommers, Helena; ]. w
Payne, New York; J. E. Laird, San
Francisco; B. H. Robson, Omaha; Geo
II. Blackurlder and c. H Tate. ST.
Louis; D. F. Wamock, dry goods, from
Chicago; z. w. Rodgers and wife Po
catello; Mrs. J. G. Bidleman, st. Paul:
VIM. e. Moore, a commercial man of
Springfield; j. H. Droste. a shoe man
of St Louis, and r. L. Duval, Council
Bluffs.
The Knutsford's list comprised p.
Frank Hawman and wife. Reading
Pa; c. F. Abrams, New York: 1T s
Duffield and Phosa McAllister. Fra1v-
ley company, and George King, Oma-
ha.
DR.. ]. e. Hosmer and J. G. Salmon
Coalville; j. F. Storm, Kirksville. Mo
and j. A. Cutler, Butte, are STAYING
at the Walker
Host Ewing at the Cullen had II T,
Ellsoffer, New York, and M. M. O'Mal-
ley, Pocatello.