The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1905-03-13
SOME (URIO5 AND ODDITIES
THE strange sentence imposed re-
Gently on a professional beggar-a

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Gently ON a professional beggar-a
fine of 10 cents a day, to continue
for two years-Was being discussed by
some lawyers.
TT was good sentence" said one,
"for it will keep this woman under the
magistrates eve for ali that time. 1t
was a good sentence and an original
one"
ut reminds me-" said another. "of
Il sentence that I once saw melted out
| to a wife-beater. This man, coming
| home drunk, was refused admittance
/ by his wife-was obliged. in fact. to
| sleep all night on the cold. hard door
step-and in the morning, when she let
I him IN, the man was so Infatuated that
| he struck the woman on the arm, in
| flicting a. perceptible bruise He was,
/ of course, at once arrested, and the
/ magistrate sentenced him to fight the
4 bench To fight the bench, to fight the
magistrate. a Sullivan of a fellow, and
/ the wife-beateF weighed no more than
100 pounds The fight came off at once
! in an alley behind the court room and
! the wife looked on while the husband
I took as cruel and bloody beating as
have ever seen inflicted
T. said a third lawyer saw a beg
! gar hailed before a magistrate for ply
| ing his trade in a town where begging
! was prohibited. The beggar pleaded
! ignorance OF the law. The magistrate
[ pointed out that placards forbidding
| begging were posted all over the place.
! The beggar thereupon said he couldn't
read. You can't, eh?' said the magis-
! trate. Then we Will conhpe you in the
town jail until you have learned te
read and write simple English "
"A woman of talent and social stand
lnS-a female poet, in fact-was arrest
ed for chronic drunkenness. said an
other lawyer. The magistrate sen
I fenced her TO do missionary work for
a year in a neighboring reformatory for
drunken women. This proved to be a
good sentence. II brought home to the
erring one the evils of alcoholism in a
most moving way. She swore off, and
since that time she has not touched a
drop, while her output of poetry. un-
derstan0, has increased in quality and
| quantity and her price per line or the
market has gone up several per cent"
Il wish the corkscrew would disap-
pear off the face of the earth. Ny bus
mess would then increase tremendous
The speaker was a dealer in second
| hand corks. AS he spoke he drilled with
sharp Instrument the mutilated in
side of lot of coTkS that had been
cork-screwed.
These hollows. these rings that
have left" he said. ARE only good for
porcelain stoppeTed beer bottles. Cork
screwed corks are called screws in the
trade, and fetch very little. They have
TO be cored, you see, with this cork
liiS machine. ana Ine rings Ih9t are
ietC don't amount to much.
"Unscrewed, mutilated corks, with a
little pairing. come out the same as
new again. Hence they bring a good
price on the secondhand market.
Those that fetch the best price are the
corks Of fine quality that come from
fine wine bottles.
I'm some fashionable cafes YOU will
often notice that the walters extract
the corks from your red and white
wines without mutilating them with
the screw. In such cafes the corks are
the walters perquisite. The men make
quite a lot of money by selling these
unmutilated corks to us second hand
dealers
NO cork should ever be Quilted with
a screw. Then it would pass through
the second hand market a half-dozen
times or more, descending, with its va
rious parings, from quart bottle cork
to cork for a two-Ounce vial"
There are a number of actors who
viii not shake hands with anyone eX-
cept on Sunday. One or two will not
even touch anyone except on Sunday.
These men claim that their work de-
mands of them every possible particle
or nervous energy and they hold that
IN hand shaking end in every sort of
freshly contact q certain portion of this
energy passes Off.
Hand shaking, they say. is accompa-
MED by good wishes, and in the uncon-
ScioUs effort of making good wishes the
perfectly fresh and unimpaired physi-
cal condition, 50 essential to fine work
in the actor, is a little gnawed away
Sir Henry Irving goes further than
anyone else in his precautions against
loss of energy For the three last hours
before the playing of a trying and diff
ncuit part he not only viii not touch
or shake hands with anyone, but he
Will not, If he can AVOID it, even speak
to anyone.
Say. doc, do you want to buy four
teeth? - said a shabbily dressed young
man to a dentist.
Natural or artificial teeth?" the
dentist asked. !
Natural ones. out of NV own mouth
Here's the holes in my gums
Natural teeth are no good. They are
never bought, the dentist said When
the tooth is extracted it becomes dead.
it becomes dead. As the amputated
arm decays. so decays the extracted
tooth Remember this, young man,
and never nope again to take any mon
ey out of the contents of your mouth.
After the youth was gone the dentist
said:
L didn't tell him that he could sell
old artificial teeth. for this is fact
that am ashamed of. There are a few
dealers in every city who buy second
hand artificial teeth at a good price.
What they do with them is a mystery.
l hope none come to me. I should hate
to put into the traffic devouring mouth
of millionaire patient teeth that had
previously cheWed the dry bread and
sausage of an itinerant organ grinder"
"One day at St Louis. said a
drummer I saw three little savage
children stabbing into n tub of water
with daggers- A man stood over them
and when one gave the water an I'M
usually clean stab the man would
emit grunt of appreciation and pat
the yOungster on the head
"A guide told me that these chill
dren were learning TO handle the dag
ger-that the use of the dagger was
always taught among the tribe in that
way
He said that a child practiced and
practiced till he could stab wafer.
without making splash. Then he
was promoted TO Stabbing the car
casses of dead animals. Then he stab
bed live animals that were tied up.
Finally he stabbed live animals in mo-
ton.
Il took one of the daggers and tried
to stab the water cIeanIy myself. I
couldn't do it. With every stroke 7
made a tremendous splash. The little
savages laughed and their mentor
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