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The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-02-10

Typhoid is said to be epidemic at
Canton, o. The popular idea has been
that it was chills and fever.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-02-10

Detroit Free Press: You bet there are
no flies on me- said the new woman.
Il reckon not said her husband with a
sudden show of sand. Those intelligent
insects manifest a preference for sweets" "
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-02-10
WIT AND HUMoR.

Detroit Free Press: .'Dobbins is a
good talker. isn't he?"
Good talker? l went to his Office once
to borrow 800. and before l got away he
mad borrowed $50 from me-
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-02-10

man" said the stern father, IF you
don't come home earlier after this, I'll
know the reason why -
Glad to hear it. governor; that Will
save all explanation on my part
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-02-10

The peace of Europe is again
threatened. Somebody always seems to
be threatening this peace.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-02-10

When Mr.. Cleveland becomes ex-
president, Little Mr.. Thurber will
adopt as the motto of his coat of arms,
Nil admirari.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-02-10

The New York World terms Hanna
1.-THE Humbug." It would be more
appropriate to term him the Big Bug.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-02-10

The Sugar trust thinks that the
Coffee trust is a grinding monopoly.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-02-10

Peter Maher is going on the stage.
He has been robbed of diamonds.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-02-10

The arbitration treaty has been
amended so that it looks like piece
of patchwork.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-02-10

It may or it may not be a coincidence
that the anti-high hat bill was passed
in the senate by the twelve.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-02-10

General Gomez has issued a procla-
nation forbidding the planters to grind
cane. He will grind them if they at
tempt it.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-02-10

The anti-high theatre hat bill should
be supplemented with anti-corset wear
ing laws, anti-bloomer laws and the
like
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-02-10

Why waste time discussing the
cause of the deficit? Lack of revenue
explains it.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-02-10

Sorrow and sin and suffering and strife
Have been cast in the waters of my life;
And they have sunk deep down TO the
wellhead.
And all that flows thence is embittered.
Yet still the fountain up toward heaven
springs,
And still the brook, whereer it wanders
sings;
And still where er it hath found leave to
-cSt,
The blessed sun looks down into its
breast;
And it reflects. as in a mirror fair.
The image of all beauty shining there
Francis Anne Kemble Butler
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-02-10

Nansen says he did not go in search
of the north pole. He certainly did
not find it. Is it "a case of sour
grapes?
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-02-10

Philadelphia North American: Your
husband death was very unexpected,
was it not, Mrs. Weeds.
"Oh, no; l looked for the worst. You
see poor John stayed home three nights
in succession the week before he died.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-02-10

Attempts to coerce the sultan of Tur
key to grant reforms are a good deal
of a comedy humane.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-02-10

Indianapolis Journal: 81 hold to the
theory that a man has the right to do
what he pleases with his own money,
''Of course you do. You are single.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-02-10

Telephone 1875 for Hewlctfs Three
Crown baking Powder, Spices and
naVOFinS extracts. Wholesale O0iy.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-02-10

No high hats in the theatres; no go
outs between the acts ito see friend"
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-02-10

Chicago Record: Dick got even with
that girl who crowded him out of his po-
sition.'
''How did he do liz
Married her.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-02-10
After.

After the play is over
Ny darling and / repair
To the swell cafe across the way,
And have supper there;
After the suppers over
l pay for the little spree
And then for a week I'm forced to see
Out places where lunch is free.
New York Times.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-02-10

Philadelphia Record: Inebriated Prison
er-"Fine day, Judge,
Judge Exactly, sir. Ten dollars and
costs"
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-02-10
Yonkers Statesman:

Yonkers Statesman: She-And did your
friend take the doctors advice?
He-Certainly.
"And did he pay for it?''
well, 1 should rather say he did! He's
deadv'
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-02-10

Indianapolis Journal: The Giddy Young
Thing-What is that proverb about there
being no marrying in heaven?
The Chronic Bachelor-"FoolS rush in
where angels fear to tread"
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-02-10
Something 70 Know.

It may be worth something to know
that the very best medicine for re-
storing the tired out nervous system
TO a healthy vigor is Electric Bitters.
This medicine is purely vegetable, acts
by giving tone to the nerve centers in
the stomach, gently stimulates the
liver and kidneys, and aids these or
gans in throwing off impurities in the
blood Electric Bitters improves the
appetite, aids digestion, and is pro-
nounced by those who have tried it as
the very best blood purifier and nerve
tonic. Try it. Sold for soc or S1.00 per
bottle ar z. C. NJ. / drug dept.
If there is any Difference between
the Three Crown and th'0Ue cOnced-
ed by almost everybody to be the
best powders on the market, the
Three Crown b. king Powder, manu-
featured by Hewlett Bros, has the
greatest I~avening strength and pu-
rity. j. Il. kINGSBURH,
CheD'ist. University of Utah.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-02-10

Atchison Globe: Making old-fashioned
country sausage, and selling it to the
neighbors, win pay woman better than
a literary career.
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1897-01-12

The present emperor of China is
Huang Hsu, who succeeded to the throne
Jan. 10, 1875. He was one Of the young
est monarchs who ever assembled the
throne, being at the date of accession
only years old. There have been %
dynasties in China, the royal history of
this country being better ascertained
than that of any other which reaches
back to ancient times. With some few
breaks, the Chinese have had regular
succession of sovereigns since Fuhhi,
who, the Chinese say, reigned from b.
G. 1852 to 2787. According to Chinese
tradition, Fuhhi was no less person
age than the Noah Of the Scriptures,
who, after leaving his ark on Mount
Ararat, travelled east and founded the
Chinese empire. Chinese history asserts
that several of their early monarchs
ruled for over century each; one reign
ing over China for 115 years, another
for 102, another for 100, and so on. 1t
is considered probable by historians that
these figures represent rather dynasties
than the reigns of individual sovereigns.
China has had in almost direct descent,
with no more than two or three breaks
in the history of the royal family, 33
sovereigns, 80 emperors, . Tartar rulers,
Mogul emperors and expresses.
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1897-01-12
Municipal Time at Glasgow

One of the most interesting of Glas-
gov enterprises is what may be de-
scribed as municipal time for the entire
city. Some years ago the experiment
was tried of placing municipal clocks
in prominent positions all over Glasgow
and regulating them by synchroniza-
ton. The present scheme is much more
elaborate and is nothing less than the
establishment of system of standard
time, by means of electrically controlled
clocks, regulated every second from the
stellar clock at the observatory. A reg
ulating clock, directly controlled from
the observatory, has been placed in the
city chambers, and this in turn controls
three circuits of public clocks at vari-
GUS points in the city. In the meantime
only about dozen clocks have been
provided, but if the trial proves sue
cessful the corporation intends to erect
from 200 to 800 IS inch dials, thus pro-
viding a reliable system of standard
time for all parts of the city. This ex-
tension of the circuit will involve the
laying of 81 miles of wire. 1t is hoped
also to include time keeping in private
houses. w Westminster Gazette.
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1897-01-12
MUSIC AND NICE.

A Suggestion of a Novel Trap-Effect of
Piano Playing on Rodents.
Truth of London suggests that as
mice like music there is an independent
fortune awaiting the man who will in
vent small music box which when
wound will run all night, since such a
continuance would serve to call mice
into traps and would be to the mice
what decoy is to flock of ducks or
looking glass to tiger After this sug-
gestion, which is not untrue to nature,
Truth goes on to say that music that
sounds out of killer to a CRITICS ears
would also drive mice from the house.
II the Truth writer had even actually
seen mouse under the influence of mu-
sic, he would never have made that mis-
take. Neither would he have said can
accordion would also make the agile ro-
dent desert the house as he is said to
desert the sinking ship Whether mu-
sic affects rats is question not yet set
tied by students of natural history.
AS to the actual doings of mouse
when listening to music, it has been OBJ
served that the playing of piano, even
the tum tum of beginner learning his
first tune, will cause mice of the COM
mon house variety to run up and down
behind the plaster of house, causing
1T to rattle in way fit to disturb the
most earnest student. One night half
dozen persons were gathered in the par
Tor of an Adirondack home listening to
skilled player, who, as a woodsman
said, could make pianner talk, :"
when it was observed that the mice
were acting in an unusual manner. The
ordinary conduct of mice when they
hear piano music is to merely rattle the
plaster, but on this night they squeaked
and squealed and ratified the plaster as
they had never done before The rush
of the rodents died away after the mu-
sic stopped, but it was hours before the
last squeak was heard.
One of the human listeners was a boy
who had some little skill as a harmon
icon player, and he.went frequently to
the woods, where, with the aid of the
instrument, he succeeded in calling
chipmunks, red squirrels, and on one
occasion a woodchuck, besides wood
mice, including the deer mouse, and
the smaller birds. The mice chiefly ran
about the player, with now and then
squeak, but sometimes low strain
with slight modulations would seem to
drive them insane, and then, without
hesitation, they would run over the
player as if he had been stump. The
squirrels were less demonstrative.
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1897-01-12
There Is a Class nf Pennle

AHeIb Is a OIsass OF Te0pIe
Who are injured by the use of coffee. Recently
there has been placed in ali the grocery stores
new preparation called GRAIN-O, made OF
pure grains. that takes the place of coffee
The most delicate stomach receiv es it without
Distress and but few can tell st from coffee. Ii
does not cost over a as much. Children may
drink it with great benefit. 10 cts. and 25 cts.
per package. Try it. Ask for GRAIN-O.
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1897-01-12
TIE PAINTER.

Nature hath taken her delicate brush,
Her palette and paints and all.
She hath worked in the silence Of starlight
hush,
She hath worked in the storms loud brawL
She works, and, 10,
The frescces grow
On the sides of her ample hall.
She hath tinted the apple with Pushes Of rose,
She hath covered the pear with white,
And the osier blooms where the honeybee goes
She hath crowned with golden light.
The leafng sloe
Is draped in snow,
And the celandine stars CLEAN bright
She hath sprinkled the meadows with silver
and gold
And the cuckoo flowers delicate hue
She hath kindled the gorse on the wind haunt
ed void
And hath garnished the woodlands anew.
The speedwell's eye,
Demure and shy,
She hath touched with heaven born blue.
And in and about and around them all
She hath filled in background Of green.
The leaf buds burst at her noiseless call
And spread out verdurous screen,
And wearied eyes
In quiet wise
Find rest in the soothing scene.
IT Bruce bikes in Temple Bar.
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1897-01-12
QUESTION OF LUCK.
A Citation That CIinched the Other Side
of the Argument

A Citation That CIinched the Other Side
of the Argument.
II hate to hear people say there's no
such thing as luck, remarked the mel
ancholy Mr.. Dolittle.
81 don't see why, his wife rejoined.
because it isn't true,' he returned
with asperity. "a man can go on try
ing and trying and never get along,
and some other person will go ahead
and tumble into good things without
making any effort whatever.
Hiram, no great man has succeeded
without hard work. "
''That's the kind of talk you always
hear. But nine times out of ten it is all
owing to the opportunity that presented
itself Fortune just seems to lie in wait
to kidnap some men. Look at Sir Isaac
Newton. His name is handed down
from generation to generation. And
why? Simply because he was sitting
under tree, and an apple happened to
drop on him. You can't pretend that a
man is in position to claim superior
merit simply because, through no ao-
ton or preference of his own, he gets
hit in the head with an apple, can your"
ono, Hiram.
Then don't tell me about there not
being any such thing as luck.
1T seems to me that you've chosen a
poor example in support of your argu-
ment. The case Of Isaac Newton goes
to show that the difference is in the
people. If it had been some men that !
know of instead of Newton, the first
thing they would have done after the
apple fell would have been to go into
the house and moan for the arnica bot
tie; then they would have spent two OF
three hours of precious time talking
about their bad luck. Washington
Star.
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1897-01-12
An Etching Of a Busy Town

''Bay-bee, bay bee?'' called the grimy
faced urchin coaxingly.
The baby with the white coat and the
kid gloves looked sidewise toward the
curb. Its mother was one of the crowd
in front of the store window and look
ing at a perfect love of bonnet.
"Bay-bee, bay beef" came the invita-
ton again.
Totteringly the baby approached the
curb and smiled trustfully up at the
dingy face. The urchin dropped dowr
on his ragged knees, laid the papers be
was selling on the pavement and patteG
the little kid glove with bis red, dirty
little hand. pretty bay bee'' be said
just then the mother turned, raj
across the pavement and dragged the
baby back. ''How dare you touch her
you dirty little good for nothingp' sht
said.
The urchin grasped his bundle of pa
pers and rose, digging his toe into thu
dirt of the gutter shamefacedly.
"Aw-g'wanl'' he said sulIenly. =
New York Press.
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1897-01-12

The method Of making blood brother
hood among the Gala and Somali has
its peculiarities. 1t is described by Will
liam Aston Chanler in Through Jun
gle and Desert: -
Lokomagul, on behalf of his people,
and |, on behalf of my own, each seized
in our right hands a round stone. Upon
the stones we literally expectorated.
Each then passed his stone to his fol-
lowing, who did likewise. We then ex-
changed stones, and each, holding the
stone in his right hand, with his left
dug small hole in the soil, meanwhile
uttering words of supposed magic i'm
port. In these holes we finally placed
the stones and covered them with sand.
We then grasped hands and assured
each other that we were the best friends
possible.
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1897-01-12
He walked Far Too Far.

In hotel in Berlin there is a night
Waterman who did not take kindly tc
the system adopted a few years age
requiring him to go through the hotel
at certain hours and touch an electric
button fixed up in various places.
After much thought he fixed up an
automatic arrangement on several OF
the buttons so that they would report
at certain hours Soon the button sys-
tenn got so out of order that the man
agement abolished it.
1t was found necessary to keep watch
in some way on the gentleman, how
ever, and finally pedometer was given
him to carry on his rounds which would
register every step be took. All went
we'll the first two nights thereafter, but
on the morning following the third
night the old man was missing. On
search being made he was found sound
asleep in the engine room, and the Pc
dometer SO attached to the piston rod of
the engine that with every stroke it reg
istered step. 1t had been travelling all
night, and when taken off it registered
ala miles. Berlin Gazette.
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1897-01-12
eARIsH BOOK BINDINGS.
They Are In Bad Taste and Are DisIiked
by Bookworn and Scholar.

DAcAA@@%N@
by Bookworm and Scholar.
Books have right to he, first Of all,
books, not purveyors Of WITNESSES in
color and design AS matters are at this
moment three-quarters of the new
books look more like some strange en-
tree at feast than like everyday edi-
bles. You take up one, and it has the
air of a curious ragout; there are un-
known fragments of design floating in
sauce of queer elemental color. The
next one has an air as honest as apple
sauce at first glance; tits pale greenish
thing, but presently you see that the
trail Of a serpent is over all its border.
And who can hope for content from
dish thus garnished?
Again a book, and this one burns
bright red and yellow, like pudding
on fire with cognac, which is all very
we'll for pudding Another has cover
which looks like resisting beefsteak
pounded by the stern hand of fate in
boarding house; another reminds you
irresistibly of coffee wherein ohickory
/ has too much inserted its diluting aid
and cream is missing But, first and
last, the new books are ever more prone
to resemble small plots of deceptive
stage verdure than honest, simple souled
books. 1t is impossible to help doubt
ing the value of the literary pasturage
to be found in such Enclosures. Fortu-
nately one is sometimes most joyously
| deceived. Authors have little 'fsay"
concerning the garb of their volumes,
and often-good luck to them-they
rise superior to the mechanical makers
of books and rejoice the souls of their
readers in spite Of the bindings
And it must be repeated that in the
present bizarre and excessive fancies in
binding there is seed of Astounding hope
for the future Publishers are cropping
for something; few of them know what.
But they will learn, and the world will
be made glad by genuine revival in
the lovely old half forgotten craft of
bookbinding. In that happy coming day
there will be great honor for the men
who lead the taste of this country to-
ward better things in bookbinding, sim
pier and saner and more sincere. -Bos-
ton Transcript
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1897-01-12

The unicorn was one of the tabled
monsters of antiquity. 1t was, accord
ing to summary of the opinions of
several of the old time writers, beast
about the-size of a common horse, but
with very short legs. The people of the
middle ages believed in the existence of
three kinds Of unicorns-the magnificent
white unicorn, which had purple face
and blue eyes and single horn yard
i'll length; the eglisserion, which re-
sembled gigantic deer and had very
sharp horn growing from the middle of
the forehead, and the monoceros, or com
mon unicorn. The white unicorn's horn
was of three different colors-white at
the lower part, black as ebony in the
middle and red at the point. Common
unicorns were said to have had horns
about Is inches in length, but so strong
that they could easily kill an elephant.
st. Louis Republic.
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1897-01-12
Better Than An of Them

Mocha coffee from Yemen in Arabia, is re-
puted TO be the best but the principal sup
plies are now obtained from Cey ion, Java the
West Indies, Brazil and Central America. No
matter where 1t comes from, every berry of 1t
contains caffeine, which is slow poison. The
more coffee you drink the more Your nerves
are disordered and upset and your digestion
injured. Coffee makes you fidgety and wake
Iul, then you take sedatives to quiet you. A
bad business all around. Break it up by using
Gratn-O instead of coffee. Made from pure
grains it is a true food and body-builder as
well as delightful and heaithful beverage,
realize that you have a nerve in your system.
The coming table drink is Grain-O. Consult
yo1r grocer. Packages I5c. or 25c. each-one-
fourth the cost OF coffee.
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1897-01-12
Fooled Again.

"Ahr' said Mr.. Knight Starr, the
emotional tragedian, as he came in
sight Of farmhouse. 'tMayhap this
worthy peasant will give some refresh
ment for the inner man. What, no.
therel'
The worthy peasant gazed at the ira
gedian for a moment and answered,
"Yew durn fool, don't yew know a
pitchfork from a hoe?''
And having thus spake he disap-
peared within his abode. Cincinnati
I Enouirnr
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1897-01-12

Two Weeks in Florida.
To see Florida is pleasure; to visit il
ID privilege; but to spend a fortnight
within its borders is an epoc. There is a
great satisfaction in witnessing the ripen.
ing of tropical fruits in their own native
land, and peculiar Joy in wrestling with
old oceans waves when lakes and rivers
at home are all icebound. One appre-
ciates the wonders of modern invention
and railroad development upon leaving
the neighborhood of good skating one day
and finding himself in the vicinity of good
bathing the next. Yet this can be done,
and the man who prefers hunting or fish
ing will take his accoutrements along
with him, for Florida extends a cordial
invitation to all sportsmen.
Whoever would exchange for two weeks
the uncertain climate of the North for the
delightful and Spring-like sunshine Of
Florida should take the personally con-
Quoted Jacksonville tour of the Pennsyl.
vania Railroad which leaves New York
by special train January g. Excursion
tickets for this tour, including railway
transportation, Pullman accommodations
| lone bertb), and meals en- route in both
directions while travelling on the special
train, will be sold at the following rates
New York, $4,000; Philadelphia, $500
Canan6aigua. $52 So; Erie, $5485 Wilkes
barre, $50.S5; Pittsburg, $500, and at
proportionate rates from other points.
For tickets, itineraries, and other infor-
nation apply to ticket agents, tourist
agent at 1896 Broadway, New York, or to
Geo. W. Boyd Assistant General Passen-
ger Agent, Broad street Station, Philadel-
phia.