The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-06-07
PERSONAL

Mayor Gleason, as he hustles about
10 escape trial in police court for his
last assault on a brother statesman,
must sigh with envy as he notices how
much better such things are arranged
/ in Spain The Duke of Tetuan boxed
an enerny's ears with great severity,
and yet he will not be forced even 10
submit the difficulty to the arbitranent
+ OF battle. There was 9rovocasion on
I both sides, so. according to the Spanish
/ experts on honor. there was no need of
a duel. and. of course, there will be no
proceedings in court.
Lord Rosebery does not play golf,
and IN speech which he made tha
other day at the opening of new club
house by the Edinburgh Burgess Golf
ing society he seemed disposed to claim
eminence for himself because he is one
OF the two or three Scotchmen who
| have not yielded to the attractions of
the game. The ex-premier has nothing
against golf, however, and he amused
his hearers by telling them about the
Impressions it made upon a complete
outsider Ike himself He was old
enough. he said, to praise it as game
not monopolized by youth. and the
Thought that by its aid Scotland has
once more conquered the world recon
longer walk across the most lonely
common or moor in England without
running risk of being hit by small,
hard balls vigorously propelled from
unexpected points of the compass. Lord
Rosebery explained his failure to learn
the game by saying that he feared it
would engross too much of his time
When man." declared he, lis once
seriously inoculated with the love of
golf he is of very little use for other
pursuits of society. / know one gen.
tleman at least of considerable possess
sions and large business transactions
who declines to open his letters on the
morning on which he is going to play
for fear anything in them should dis
tract his attention; and a short time
ago l saw IL as a charge against a
distinguished statesman that he gave
TOO much time TO golf and not enough
TO the house of commons. When a
man in middle life makes a deliberate
choice of golf as his amusement, know
ing these facts and viewing the infat-
uatlon Of his friends, he is making
choice OF 4 wife,
Cincinnatis art critics are finding
savage fault with a portrait of ex-AttOr-
ney General Judson Harmon, painted
by a local artist and destined to hang
with other portraits of attorney gen
erals in the office at Washington The
general opinion is that, while the re-
Semblance is good so far as form of
feature goes. the color is so high that
people will think the picture represents
the effects of too generous banquet.
When this theory was brought to Judge
Harmon'S attention he said the artist
had been misled by his subjects nat
ural modesty. Il blushed at being
looked at so much declared the judge /
1T is not wine red. but blood red" !
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Il have lived in my present home for 4
% years" said Governor Budd of Cali !
fornia last week, :" and in all that time ]
l have not had occasion to inquire the (
name OF certain street a block away /
from the house. If asked now for the I
name of the street 1 could not tell it," /
The governor made this statement /
while discussing a curious incident (
which marked the hearing he gave the !
attorney of Theodore Durrant In the I
course of a plea for his clients pardon,
the lawyer impugned the evidence of a
witness who had been unable to tell
how many steps there were in front of
her own door. Governor Budd, who
has had experience with peoples prone
ness not to notice many things con-
stantly before their eyes, asked the
lawyer If he could answer. in regard to
his own house, the question which had
puzzled the dangerous witness. The
lawyer hesitated moment and then
made a reply, which subsequent in
restigation proved 10 be amusingly in
accurate. He not only gave the wrong
number of steps, but ne said they Fere
we're in two divisions, whereas, in
reality, they were in three. Il told
him." says the governor, with the easy
that is permitted in the
vest, even to the occupants of guber-
latorial chairs, that he had made
good bluff, but was now in the position
If the man whose bluff is called