The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-04-22
STARBEAMS.

/ Kansas City Star: A word to the wise
/ is sufficient, and usually even that is I'M
necessary.
in France about 5000 widows manage
/ TO fit themselves out with new husbands
/ every year
The enmity between Mrs Lease and
/ Senator Householder of Kansas may be
explained by the domesticity of the sena-
tors name.
1t was a celebrated German physician
who said: There is nothing so good for
the inside of 4 man as the outside OF a
horse.
To treat a young woman to ice cream
three times during a single season is held
by Boston court to be equivalent TO an
engagement to marry in the fall.
\ rich Chicago widow has come back
from Europe to live down. among her
friends of the Lake Shore Drive set, the
mistake she made in engaging herself to
her husbands valet
Maria Kicks of Hudson, Wis. a we'll
educated woman who has been teacher
and q professional nurse. has a mania
for breaking windows. which keeps her in
asylums or prisons a good part of the
time.
Fortune telling has become such a nui-
sance IN Milwaukee that the police de-
partment has been compelled to take
steps for its SUPPRESSION The town seems
TO be about equally divided between the
beer sellers and the clairvoyants.
A messenger took great pains to break
gently to New York woman the news
that her husband was at the point of
death. Then I will go upstairs" she re-
piled. "and pray that he may die tonight.
so that l may collect his life insurance
Prince Bismarck describes himself as
"a bankrupt in nerves" The neuralgia
pain in his jaws often makes it difficult
for him to open his mouth. THAT is a
natural and reasonable Judgment said
he. for all through my life my chief
sins have been those of my mouth-eat-
ing. drinking and making speeches.
Along the lire of the Illinois Central
railroad in Chicago clocks are an I'M
known luxury in scores of homes. Many
families arise at oil" as they call it.
larry passes at Z a. m The ringing of its
bell IS their alarm clock signal Trains
pass all day long. and those acquainted
with the schedule can thus tell the time
of day. At night they know 1t by the
ringing of the bells. They are thoroughly
familiar with all the sounds. and claim
that train time is more reliable than
clocks.
Woman teachers and girl scholars We're
of small account in New York in early
days. Girls, however attend the public
schools. We find Matthew Hillyer. in
1876 setting forth in New York that he
hath kept school for children of both
sexes for two years past to satisfaction
Dame schools existed. especially on Long
Island where English influences and Con-
necticut emigration obtained In Flush
ing Elizabeth CowDerthwait was reckon
ed with in 1851 for schooling and diet
for Children and in 1853 she received for
so weeks schooling of Martha Johanna
a scarlet petticoat-truly typical Dutch
payment.
Said a typewriter who bad been forced
by hard times to take place as nurse in
a private family: Il wouldn't for worlds
have any of my friends at home know
that / had sunk so low as TO go into
service They would never respect me
again." She was an American. A girls
club in a New England town was nearly
broken W. a few years ago because an
intelligent well bred Scotch girl who
was in service was admitted through a
misunderstanding. To save the club.
composed chiefly of shop girls. she had
TO go.
The battle of Waterloo was fought June
Is. 1875. On June %. four days later the
London Morning Chronicle contained this
complete and graphic account of 1t under
the heading: Total Defeat of Bona
parte." We stop the press TO Announce
the most brilliant and complete vic Dry
ever obtained by the Duke of Wellington.
and which will forever exalt the glory of
the British name. Last night at a quar-
ter past II o'clock the Hon. Major Percy.
son of the Earl of Beverley, arrived at
the Office of the Earl of Bathurst with
from the Duke of Wellington,
containing the account of the actions
which have taken place from the 18th
to the 18th. concluding with the grand
baltic of Sunday last. in which the
French were completely routed, with the
loss of 30 pieces of cannon and other
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