The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1903-06-28

some more equally famous men have
been recently found in coal bin
During the process Of hunting up the
documents in evidence in the case Of a
'-railrOaded" appointment Of minor
Official, the investigators Of the post
OTflce department scandals dug a dllap-
idated file out Of one Of the coal bins
IL the basement Of the pOStOfhce build
ing. Among other papers it contained
the record Of the first woman appoint
ed to the postal service, who must have
been as well one of the first employed
IL. any department of the government
Another document bore the written
sen Liments of a IA bid SeceSSiOnist who
held his position on the strength OF
hrs penmanship and composition. while
mis- anti-UniOn expressions were polite
" ignored, or merely filed away. A
letter OF recommendation from Horace
Greeley justifies all the nasty things
that were ever said about his hand
writing. 1t is almost undecipherab bic.
One from Roscoe Conkling earnestly
asks the appointment OF one OF the
great mans proteges. ending with the
naive statement that such appointment
IS "a thing concerning my own per-
sOnal convenience" Imagine such
frankness nowadays. when favors are
only begged for the good of the
service"
A bath for the Goddess Of Liberty
costs Uncle Sam S40O. Il requires two
weeks to properly battle her ladyship-
Three hundred and eighty-seven feet
abOve the earth. the old Goddess has
stood on the dome of the capitol, tld
for all her nineteen feet of stature
looks no bigger than a three-foot doll
TO the curious tourists beneath her.
Seven steeple-jacks have been at work
for two weeks on her toilette. At first
they used pumice stone on her but
n civ
shine, 50 CASTLE soap was substituted,
and every fold of her vOiuminOus gar
ments, every lock of her abundant
hair, has been most carefully tended
She looks as fresh as a debutante. She
has been struck so many times by
lightning that all three of her light
ming rods were practically melted
away. However, a new set has been
rugged up. one rising from each shOul
der and one from the tip of her cap;
but it is impossible to distinguish them
from the ground.
A White House 'EHunch."
Booker T. Washington gave the
clerks and guards at the White House
q ''hunch' on the Suburban which net
ted them a nice little bunch Mr.
Washington had come up to the White
House to consult the president on the
proposition made to him by Lord Grey
to go to South Africa. It was the
Washington came out from his inter
view he stopped to speak to some
newspaper men about the South Al
rican project, ending with a plying
remark on the condition of the be-
nighted Africander. A guard pricked
up his ears, saw extra luck in the
great teachers color, and promptly
circulated the tip, and as Africander
ran Is to L the White House racing
contingent are in high glee.
The German Got Wet.
Washington made a great TODD over
the Sangerbund but from the heart
of the secretary of the interior all
kindly feeling for the German singers
has been plucked out by the root. A
nice little delegation of them came TO
make a pleasant call, and Mr.. Hitch
cock gave them a twO-handed wei
come. His cordially even carried him
along at their heels to the door of his
sanctUm. 1t was just as the door
closed that the trouble occurred The
secretary had a pet water cooler,
present from an admiring friend, AM
itself the best kind of friend in the
warm spell which is coming. It con-
sisted of two glass cylinders with
nickel plated attachments in the way
Of faucet and cover. The smaller cyl
Under held the ice and fitted into the
larger cylinder, which held the water
The faucet was a patented arrange
ment-you press the button, etc. a
rOtund ''Sangerbunder" pressed the
button with too much pressure. and
there was one tremendous crash. The
secretaTy's door flew open and the sec
rotary himself giared down at the
offender, who glared back with twice
the formers fury. At last the san
gerbUnder' gasped out: Mein Colt!
vat you care? It's me watts vet
Story on Dewey.
Admiral Dewey ie. = ccusa5 IF having
disposed of the rum from a preserved
chimpanzee. Almost half century
ago DR. FarQuarSOn, a surgeon of the
United States navy, sent a chimpanzee
to the Philadelphia Academy of Nat
uraI Sciences to be disseCted by the
celebrated anatOmist. DR.. Leidy. The
monkey never reached his destination,
and an old letter written by a mutual
friend throws a faint light on the myS-
terry of his disappearance
7 was much gratihed at the receipt
of the enclosed postal card from Dr.
Leidy. I never could account for the
fact that no mention was ever made
in the proceedings of the Philadelphia
academy of any dissection of a CHM
panzee by him. I find that in referring
to my note book in the summer Of
1857 I bought the animal at MOWrini,
Liberia. and that he lived six weeks
Upon his death opened the body, eX-
pecting to find extensive tUbercular
deposits, but found none whatever, but
such a condition as indicated plainly
that he died of starvation. I put him
in a five gallon key and filed ii up
with rum. Two months or so after
wards we captured the SLAYER GlamOr-
gan, and after taking out her officers
and crew. sent her to Boston with her
captain as a prisoner and the picked
Chimpanzee as carEo). under Lieuten-
ant Dewey with a prize crew. The
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