The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-04-13
STARBEAMS.

Watch that person who is disliked by
dogs and children.
In Shakespeare's time "kicksy-wick-
sy" was a term of endearment for a
wife.
1t is, indeed, a hard choice between
the slovenly and the severely clean.
Too many persons there are who say
their prayers, but who never pray.
AS between wickedness and dullness
the former is probably the more dan
gerous 10 mankind.
in an English home for the aged, have
petitioned the authorities to let them
have a tandem bicycle.
a woman, who has given up music
for literature. keeps her hands in ex-
cellent condition for the piano by her
constant work on the typewriter.
Sydney Smith of Argo. Ga. insisted
upon hearing his own funeral sermon,
which was preached just a few days
before he died. aged 11S years.
AS noses are usually cut off by way
OF spite work, it is pleasant to read of
West Point cadet who had his pro-
boscis reduced by an inch to please
his sweetheart.
At meeting of distillers and whisky
dealers at Cincinnati, Saturday, it was
decided that the price of whisky must
go up. But whisky will continue to go
down.
The names of American cities are
known and referred to at Rome only
in their Latin form. Kansas City is
known to the pope and cardinals as
'Kansanopolis-'
That blow that "Fitz" gave COrbett
over the heart caused a North Caro-
lima man to eat baked cat His
wager was to get away With the great
er part of the animal, but he liked it
so we'll that he devoured it all
1t was Carlyle who said: IF you
are in doubt whether to kiss a pretty
woman, give her the benefit of the
doubt" A Minneapolis man who acted
on this advice was given the benefit of
a S25 fine by the hard-hearted police
judge.
Every good housewife ought to as
certain how much truth there is in the
statement that a pinch of powdered ar
rowroot will cause salt TO remain per-
fectly dry and fine in it's table recep-
tacles, whatever the conditions of the
atmosphere may be.
There was also Julian law in an
clent times, but there were no tele-
phone companies then for a vain and
light headed official to try to annoy
with it. Some of his disconnected sub
jects, however, flung it up to Nero
when he was getting a little too gay.
That grim and grotesque monarch
brushed it aside with the remark: LAS
if the Julian law had any terrors for
me-"
1t has been found by experiment that
tea regards digestion. An infusion of 1
per cent of tea, causes a perceptfble de-
lay; per cent infusion will delay the
digestion sometimes as much as u
times the normal period; 10 per cent
decoction arrests the digestion of ally
starchy food. Indigestion promotes In I
ritability, as everybody knows who has
ever suffered from that disorder. Hence
the little asperities which are so COM
mon at those feminine gatherings call
ed tea fights"
The following are the commonest
names in New York, according to the
New York City directory for 1897, from
which they are selected: Smith, 31S3;
Brown, 1852; Miller, 1,495; Murphy,
1,210; Meyer, LOB; Johnson, LOSS; Kel-
ly, 1.074; Cohen, 1006; Levy, 961; Will
iams 1913: Jones, S92; Murray, SS4; Will
son, S73; Clark, S4S; Sullivan. $50: Mar
tin, SIC; White, 1872; Davis, 1852: O'Brien,
76O; Ryan, 752; Moore, 752. Excepting
Cohen and Levy the same proportion
will doubtless fit Kansas City.
At the consistory court of the diocese
of London, held on Thursday to ar
range the transfer of the Mayflower
records to America, the chancellor first
put the question: rs New England a
part of Massachusetts? ?" None of those
present, and there was a large assem-
blage of dignitaries, could answer the
question definitely. although some OF
them thought it was. The Associated
Press reporter then enlightened the
grave and learned cleric on the sub
iect Kansas CitV Star