The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1898-08-11
PUNGENT PARAGRAPHS.

A 400-pound bear walked into a barnyard
IN Proebstel, Wash, and carried off live
can, The citizens organized a posse, and
AFTER long chase captured bruin, who
hac Rugged the calf to death.
There is no national feeling in China.
me different sections Of the country hate
each other more cordially than they hate
foreigners. Such military and naval forces
as exist are provincial rather than i'm
perial.
The tomb of the late Duke of Clarence,
IN the Albert chapel at Windsor castle,
is now being completed. A recumbent
statue of the deceased prince is to be
placed on the lid of the beautiful Mexican
onyz sarcophagus.
Fresh meat easily abserbs nicotine from
tobacco smoke ana soon becomes tainted.
Aware of this fact. the proprietors of
some of the New York hotels will not per-
mt Kitchen EMPLOYEES TO smoke in the
kitchen or storeroonns.
Chinese bicycle riders do some funny
things on their wheels occasionally. They
are frequently seen in the streets of
Hongkong and Shanghai carrying an open
umbrella or d fan, and in some instances
with the handlebars removed.
Because the sexton of the Methodist
church in Kennebunkport, Me, refused
TO let a crowd of men and boys ring the
bell on the Fourth of July, they assaulted
him, smashed the windows. tore down the
IenceS and beat the policeman who tried
to stop them
Marians. the Spanish governor of the
Ladrone islands. who was captured and
taken To Manila by our forces now de-
clines an offered parole and prefers to re-
main prisoner at Cavite rather than run
the risk of being shot by his countrymen
III Manila for having surrendered.
Tho Rev. w A Van Gundy, of
Hutchinson. H., led his 5-year-old boy TO
the reform school by leather strap. one
end OF which was tied around the boys
neck. After the boy had been placed in
the schoo. the father returned to his
church and conducted the usual service
The great damage inflicted by "Old
Ironsides' upon her adverSaries in battle
with comparatively little injury TO herself
brought forth the following comment
seems but too clearly established that the
Americans have some superior mode of
firing"
What is known in the Hood River val
ley Ore, as the Big Ditch cost $4,000,
and this years crop of Strawberries.
blackberries and other fruit in the valley
will bring enough money to pay for it. 1t
was constructed -Or the benefit of the
fruits growers. who are enabled thereby to
get their products to market in greater
bulk.
William Mcbride. in the county jail at
Camden for having secured $500 from a
bank on a forged chick. has always main
tafned that he had none of the iH-gorten
money left. but a day or so ago a rat
was caught in a trap in the jail and along
with it were some bits of bank notes. Nc
Brides cell was searched and nearly all
the money was found and turned over to
the bank.
George s. Christman has introduced in
the Municipal assembly of New York
bill to compel all street railways to pro-
vide seats for every passenger from whom
a fare is collected. Those who stand up,
if the conductor permits them to ride, are
not to be asked for fare. The bill was
received without demonstration of any
kind by the assembly and referred to the
law committee.