| Show 1 fir -- I J Aflemi-XHonthlyFap- YOL to Cents Scents flense and Devoted er SALT LAKE CITY 2 I ' NOVEMBER 1 CTonsense 1870 17 NO vf - ' THE SITUATION I AN EMINENT JUDGE IN ISRAEL AND A DISTINGUISHED COTEMPORARY 9 s '4 t r Y tj & 'K ii ' “AS IRON SEARPENETH IRON SO DOTH is Leviticus A MAN SHARPEN THE COUNTENANCE Dried Up the Wrong Sian The following is related of one of the brethren of a certain church as having a year or two since but for obvious reasons not let out of the select circles where it has always been a source of fun: A gentleman who is much gifted with prayer and likes to talk at Sunday-schoo- l and whom we will call B “for short ” attended an evening prayer and business While the bell was ringing to meeting hasten up the laggards B “improved the opportunity” by addressing an eloquent petition to the throne of grace Thinking the bell had been rung enough another member said very imperiously to one of these small boys who are always around in season and out of season “Go and tell that fellow to stop” A small boy never did understand anything or do any theng as he was told to do it and this particular small boy was not likely to Instead stultify himself in that manner of going to the sexton and silenening “that dreadful bell” he threaded his way down the aisle where B was warming to his work and in a loud hissing voice said: “Here now says for you to dry up that !” ' ‘ OF ' Poor B blushed' a brilliant scarlet cut off an earnest invocation in the middle of a sentence and all the balance of the At the evening sulked in sullen silence close of the meeting he demanded of the offending member an explanation which was satisfactorily given and the “unpleasantness” amicably settled "r i j V - I11S FRIEND"— i Remedies for a red nose'are now in order Among others a contemporary says that the true remedy for a red nose is temperance and the free use of a handkerchief The organ can’t be red when it is blew ' ' r Such fun taking out two jolly girls for letting them do it themselves Girls with plenty pf fun in them and all that sort of thing you A gang of swindlers is operating very know who splash you all over by their successfully in the interior of Ohio in a confounded clumsiness and you have to very extraordinary way One of the three pretend you don’t mind your clothes being composing the gang drives to a town and spoiled you know? and all that sort of makes anxious inquiries if two 'men thing t whom he describes have been seen He then proceeds to They have not When the excellent Mr Joe Meek the dispose of the horse and buggy he has for Orearon trapper went to Washington as a He then Territorial ahorse of much less value messenger his good looks and hastens off with his horse and soon after relationship to President Polk made him the other two appear They enquire a great favorite with the ladies While earnestly for No 1 describing him and promenading one evening a lady inquired learn that he has just traded a horse and whether he had ever been married buggy for a horse They desire to see the “Yes” Joe said “I have a wife and six horse and buggy and immediately recog- children” “Oh la!” continued his nize the property as theire — which being friend “and isn’t Mrs Meek afraid of the reafterwards delivered to them they Indians?” “Afraid of the Indians!” deliver to their confederates and so the replied the frontiersman “I’ reckon not swindle goes on from town to town why she’s an Indian herself?’ : — i V-T a row and you know fi |
