Show A Semi-Month- ly Paper Devoted to Cents Scents Sense and nonsense VOL 2 SALT LAKE CITY OCTOBER 1870 NO 15 OUR START FOR REAR LAKE UNO HOO—“ CAN WE PROCEED TO THE FRIGID REGIONS OF THE FROZEN NORTH?” GUIDE— “IT IS BARELY POSSIBLE” CAN SET BEHIND”— AND THE EXTRAORDIUNO HOO—'“THEN LET US SET FORWARD-YOU NARY MARCH WAS COMMENCED BASE BALL There is censiderable talk about base ball just now Now bawling is something with which we have been familiar from our infancy The first of our recollection was a game of bawl W Te have played it in extenso with all the variations in various localities under trying circumstances We have attended crying bawls dancing balls and singing balls and we take this occasion to say that the man does not live who can truthfully say he has ever beaten us at a regularly scientific game of Base Ball If our editorial duties were not so urgent nothing would afford us greater pleasure than to pass through the Territory and beat the various clubs now organized We call attention to a Card from Bear Lake Ladies embracing these young men s offer will oblige by restricting each company to thirty as more than this number cannot well be accommodated at once on account of the short run of suckers this season “Well but the grass which they had formerly eaten had by digestion turned to feathers on the backs of the geese to bristles on the backs of the swine to wool on the sheep and on the cows it had turned to hair do you believe that gentlemen ”? “Certainly” they replied “Yes you believe it” he rejoined “but do you understand it?” It is said that the man who won’t take a he can borrow one has paper “I will not believe any thying but what I invented because a machine with which he can understand” said a man in cook his dinner by the smoke of his neigha hotel one day bor’s chimney said another “Nor will “Neither will 1” chimed in a third A gentleman paid a compliment to a “Gentlemen” said one “do I under- beautiful German lady at Newport by stand you correctly that you will not betelling her she resembled the Prussian lieve anything you don’t understand?” so?” she asked “You are “I will not” said one and so said each army “How was the reply winning’ trio of the “Well” said the stranger “in my ride “Mamma” said a wee Child one Sunthis morning saw some geese in a field day eveniug after having sat still in the house all day like a good child “have I eating grass d you believe that?” “Certainly” said the three unbelievers honored you I dont know” redo you plied the mother “why do you ask?” Be“I also saw An Iowa paper says that a lady living in believe that?” pigs eating grass cause ’’said the little one shaking her bead that state goes regubarly to the barber’s to course” said the three “Of “tho Bible says ‘Honor thy father sadly shaved Can the razor raise her? get ‘And I aLo saw sheep and cows eat and mother that thy days may be long No I We consider this is rather a relapse and this has been oh the longest day I grass do you believe that?” towards barber-is“Of course” was again replied ever saw” n Well Answered I” 7 I |