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Show a nuisance, and punishable bylaw. I Lehi Manner. Everybody hopes the announcement announce-ment which lias come over the , wires two or three times lately j the latest being in a special to the Herald, yesterday to the ell'cct that the Union Pacific "would complete i its line to l'ioche this year, will be verified; but there are not many who will have faith until work has actually begun. Herald. Already the signs of the building activity that is to be this summer, 1 are noticablc along Main street. Extensive preparations are being made to get matters in shape for active work just as soon as the weather will permit. This is going to be a great year for Park City, the beginning of its advance from a mining camp to a mineral metropolis. me-tropolis. Park City Record. The neglected back yard is the most successful incubator of zymotic disease in existence. There germs may burst into unhealthy vigor in untrapped sewers and dirty sink-pipes, but the filthy back yard is where they grow to their greatest power to wage devastating warfare upon humanity; it is there that the typhoid waxes strong and spreads itself in its pride. Provo Dispatch. The young man from Richmond who fell into the ditch full of water on Second street last Saturday evening, had a narrow escape from drowning. He seemed to he in a kind of faint and utterly helpless, when Mr. James, the tailor man, flew to the rescue ready to measure him for a suit of AVanamaker's best, eierk luulmer soon arrivoU, no doubt to probate the poor man's estate. Logan Journal. These are days when the local news-gatherer t.eares his hair and chases rumors for a mile at a stretch in his frantic endeavor to find something with which to fill the paper. The backward tendency of the weather not only paralyzes business but it makes local news about as scarce as hen's teeth. In the words of the small boy, "there's plenty of news but it's all gone." Park City Miner. PITH OF THE PRESS. Pen I'irlures Culled From t lie Best Mirrors of Our Country, The number of rich strikes made in Utah lately is certainly phenomenal, phenom-enal, considering the heavy snow and general bad weather. Stock Ex. Journal. Something which, if not soon remedied, will prove a serious drawback draw-back to the growth and prosperity of our city is its lack of manufactories manufact-ories or industries which can give employment to others. Payson Enterprise. Green River, Utah, March 2G. Three distinct earthquake shocks were felt here at 3 o'clock p. m. The first shock was very heavy and of about five minutes duration. The other two were much lighter. Price Telegraph. There are thirteen thousand saloon sa-loon keepers in this state and at least an equal number of barkeepers besides. be-sides. That is an army of twenty-six twenty-six thousand men, representing at least a nonulation of four times that many, Nauvoo (Ills.) Rustler. "We are authorized to warn pai ties not to put rubbish such as dead cats, dogs, and rakings from their gardens on the street. They must burn them, otherwise lookout for the consequences as there is an ordinance to this effect making it |