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Show It is high time that something was clone concerning the weather bureau in in this city. In old days, when Smith was here; everyone remembers Smith, the good old man with the quiet ways, we had respectable weather. Weather which a man could ramble round in and know what he was up against. Weather which was regular in character. Why in those times a person didnt need to bring an overcoat, or a Mackintosh up town when the sun was shining in the morning.ashedoes now. One didnt have to have a llannel undershirt with him to I put on (in some secluded place as one has to these days. 'Hie weather was of a sort of uniform character. If it was going to be cold, Smith said it was going to be cold, If it was going to be warm Smith announced a rise the temperature. But since Murdock has been in charge of the Hags; why dammit. You leave your home in the morning with a sunshade and have to borrow an ulster to walk home in. You ride up town on a wheel and skate home in a cab. Fire Murdock. Fire him. Throw him over the battlements. Give us Smith. Katherine E. Tingley, an eminent theosophist has been in the city this week lecturing on the doctrines of reincarnation. That is too say she is teaching the people that when they die and their souls wing their flight into the realms of space, some other body is all ready to accept the spirit, after a limited time, and let it live over again. For the sake of humanity in the future perhaps it would be better that this theory should prove untrue, .. because generations which are to follow yill jbe saved a whole lot of misery. The Gatling Gun is the name of a sheet printed back east, by a person named Hurt, who imagines he is a second Brann. He has been getting a whole lot of notoriety of late at the hands of the cheap press, the editors of which think he is bright because he words like aphrodiasiacism, maledictorial, mellific, suspirated, etc. The sheet is vile and deserves no better fate than that meted out to Brann, who was killed because his ways of reformation were not consistant with the ordinary ideas of humanity. used Judge Eyrick is a first class umpire. The judge learned the inside of the profession backin Nebraska seventeen years ago andjiasnt lost an item since. An old, grey grown sparrow, who has been silting around the corner of Main ami Second South for some years, observed Airis horseless carriage whirlAh ing flown the street last night. he sighed at last can see starvation staring mein the face, And the spectators, who understood sparrow, marvel1 ed. ttlljcvr i)c jpdl poum, femenin the fray. He had braved the wildest terrors tf the sea; No danger ever nude him turn away, l or never was a braver nun than he; Where cannon boomed and blood in rivers ran His calmness of demeanor never lied; Hut he rose to make a speech, the foolish nun. And in a trice completely lost his head. lie had fancied fen thousand never flinched when face to face with death. The ureatest danuer never tilled his heart Or even nude him draw a quicker breath--score c f times he plajed a heros part; When called upon to face a deadly breach; lie rushed to act without a siun of dread; But once he roe and tried to make a speech And quickly and completely lost his head. He A well contented, because they get good salaries, but the average enlisted man wants to come back. He asserts that the natives are much better fighters than he had any idea of, and are a great deal better men in the field than were the Spanish. The rainy season is now coming on and there will be no doubt, much sickness during the next two months. The people who send their children to the Lincoln school, encouraged by the success which has attended the efforts of those who sought for the reinstatement of Prof. I lalleck, of the Franklin, are starting a petition in be- half of the former which will be extensively signed. If appears that the parents of the pupils take a better interest in the welfare of their children then was at first supposed, when the insurrection started. Again is the country electrified with the information that Mrs. k has a fighting chance to win her freedom. May-bric- Blue Church Lodge No. 099 has rccieved an application from Angus Ntslin, who wishes to become a mem- ber of the order, and whose application will be acted upon at the next regular meeting. Neslin is said to be a very good man and will doubtless pass all right. President Davis has recieved a k dispensation from Grand Mogul at Cairo Egypt, authorizing him to change the meridian in the country from east of August, Maine to Osceola, Nevada, which will entitle this jurisdiction to a deputy grandmogul That will save the members here money. D. G. Dickson, of Osceola has been recommended for the last name place and will doubtless be appointed. All the lodgesin this jurisdiction are report-- , ed in first class condition and every thing looks lovely. All members derelict will pay their dues at Bennet and Englers place before the meeting, they having been authorized to collect for the same. Gim-melsoc- 'Pile wheat left by departing Presi- dent Orson Smith, of Cache stake, has been sold at auction. The grain was taken under a mortgage calling for 1600 bushels, but only 500 were left, so that was knocked down at 40 cents a bushel. Smith has been heard from since he left, but those who are in communication with him have nothing to say concerning his whereabouts, which are not believed to be Alaska, by any means. Bishop Potter stopped the contro-vesr- y over the ordination of Dr. Briggs, whose trial for heresy by the Presby- terians attracted world-wid- e attention, him to the by ordaining Episcopal and those gentlemen that ministry; . said he could not be ordained are now in the same position that the lawyer was who told his client, through the bars of his cell door, that he couldnt be imprisoned on the charge against him. A country editor, after persistent dunning, forced a dead beat to pay up, and the dead beat in revenge endorsed This check is to be paid the check. One of the volunteers now on duty at Manila, writing to a friend in this on the agreement that this mans paper city, under date of May 20, declares is to be sent to me no more in this that times over there are by no means world. The editor endorsed the I as easy as they should be; that those check as follows: cheerfully accept condition to get my money out of who are writing back to friends in the any I will not send him the beat. dead this states they intend to remain, are those paper any more in this world, and realwho are making money after having ize that should I attempt to send it to been discharged, or furnished with soft him in the next it would burn up beEx. snaps. Some of the officers are very fore it could reach him. |