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Show Peculiar Free List. The requests for theater favors In the small towns are very troublesome. Every person of local standing feels that he has a right to admission at least, while the trustees and the constable feel that they are entitled to private boxes. Some of the requests are decidedly unique. comRecently a Spotless Town pany played a small Southern city. The manager was taking the tickets at the door of the theater and the natives were struggling to get in. Suddenly, he tells, a long, thin, individual divided the his shoulder and with doors folding I stop the whispered confidentially: bell. I asked him to repeat. I stop the bell, he said again a hoarse whisper. You will have to see the opera house manager and tell him what you stop, I said, reaching for tickets. Re tripped up several ladies, while backing out. Soon the manager of the house came in saying, Hes all right; he stops the bell. I allowed him to go in, and after the people were seated I asked the local man what he meant by 'he stops the bell. Well, said he, this man is the janitor of the town hall, right opposite, and on show nights he does not ring nine or ten on the town clock. You see, he said, it would disturb the performance, and so the poor people do not know what time it is until 11 oclock, If 1 when the opera house is open. him he down would have had turned rung out nine and ten every half hour truth. Colonel E. W. Tatlock, who lost all didnt resume until Thursday morn, his books and office fixtures in the fire, ing. Many people had either to walk is temporarily located in the mayors miles to their homes or pass the night office in the City and County building. down town. A few snow plows and 4 i4 things added to the company's equip Few men in Utah have as many ments and vigorously used would friends as former Senator Frank J. have averted all the trouble. That Cannon. The expressions of regret at however, is too much to expect. the serious illness of Mr. Cannon were numerous and sincere. That he is now on the fair way to recover has given J The poverty of the street car com-- I pany in the way of equipment and its inability to deal with an emergency was well illustrated by the snow storm Ion Wednesday, In the afternoon the cars practically stopped running and Fish Love Music. Greenroom Gossip. Manager Max Anderson of Cincinnati has gone to Cuba for his health. A massive monument will be erected in Frimley churchyard, Surrey, England, to mark the grave of the late Bret Harte. Reeves Smith, the English comedian, arrived in New York last week from London, to appear in a Broadway production this season. Weedon Grossmith, who was to close his American tour a week from Saturday, may, it is said, go to the Colonial Theater, Boston, for a run. The rumor that Bijou Fernandez intended replacing Susan Drake in The Silver Slipper was denied by Miss Fernandez, who stated that she would certainly make her debut in musical comedy this season, but not in this place. Agnes Ardeck has accepted a new historical romantic comedy entitled Madamoiselle Louise, by Herbert J. Fowler. The play deals with the period of Louis XIV. Miss Ardeck will commence her starring tour in the new piece the latter part of this month. Has Autographs of 12,000 Actors. W. H. McGown ot Urbana, O., has one of the most unique collections of autographs in the country. The collection consists of the names of over 12,000 actors and actresses, which McGown has secured from time to time as the players passed through the town, where he keeps a modest little peanut stand. This stand, at a prominent corner of the town, is a curiosity shop. A long shelf is dedicated to the autograph books, which are forty-tw- o in number and which contain from 200 to 400 names each. Walnut river love music. For weeks this young woman has gone to the banks of that stream and played the violin and sung songs lor the amusement of the fish. The other day, as she entertained her pets, people on the banks of the stream counted hundreds of fish. Tbe Electric fluid ig espe-man- u controlled and arranged for us la a per- fect servant. Does everything It I required to do. Does It well. ' The use of well Electrical Goods of the latest design by experienced electricians gives to our work that quality which all men of Judgment approve. Wiring for Belle, Telephones, Annunela. tore, Burglar Alarms and Electric Light Ttlepbooe?. Cb&odfliers. Etc. to get even. Practically the entire commercial wealth of Indias 300,000,000 inhabitants is in the hands of 90,000 Parsees and Rajahs. Jt Susan Devereux of Eldorado. Kan., pleasure to thousands, and all hope for his speedy restoration to health. recently proved to a score of her friends that the fish that live in fhe JC bushy-chlnne- d Poor Division of Wealth. JC Hunters Acetylene Lamp. While the Inventor of the acetylene piclamp shown in the accompany y ture states that it is designed other opportunities for utilizing it which would suggest themselves to its possessor. The lamp comprises a reservoir for the storage of the gas mounted on a small generator, with an eyelet at the back which permits the insertion of a belt to support it at the waist. Leading upward from the reservoir to the hat is a supply tube, which feeds the gas to a lamp secured to the front of the hat. While the whole outfit does not weigh enough to be perceptible to the wearer, that portion which must be supported by the head is particularly light, and the claim Is made that the chimney which disposes of the gases of combustion is so arranged as not to heat the lamp or the head. With the peculiarly brilliant light which acetylene gas produces the person traveling at night, whether on a Inter-Mount- w Electric Cn. ain WHEN YOU TRANSACT BUSINESS OVER YOUR :i Leaves the Hands Free for Handling the Gun. hunting or other expedition, would find this outfit especially convenient as the hands are left entirely free to carry the gun or other articles, and the wearer has only to turn his head in the direction he desires to look, the days of light always paralleling a line of sight directly ahead. Rudolph C. Kruschke of Duluth, Minn., is the patentee. TELEPHONE You Want To Be Certain No One is Listening. m The Ztah Home telephone GttaranlttJ 1o Co . . $ Scrcy Subjenbtrj. The old annoying system of party lines X No waiting has been abolished until your neighbor gets through orders ing groceries, or telling her friend all about the party last night Every subs scriber has a complete circuit of his own RATES CUT IN TWO. m Instruments built be of the Latest flnd Most Improved Manufacture. IShe Our Solicitors Will Tell You About It When they CalL m $ m v Characteristics of Alfred Beit Alfred Beit, the South African millionaire, now very ill and said to be the richest man in the world, has the air of a confidential lawyers clerk. Always dressed in almost shabby clothes, with a meek air, mild eyes and low voice, he is a great disappointment to those who expect to see a showy, aggressive personage. He went to Kimberley when but 22 years old and backed by his fathers capital from Germany bought mines which made him fabulously rich. He and Cecil Rhodes, the latter backed by the kothschllds, formed the great De Beers diamond trust, which now practically controls the market for these precious stones. Nuts Eaten by Pigeons. Wood pigeons in England this year have found few acorns and therefore they are feeding largely on nuts. It is a great nut year and in several pigeons crops nuts have been found, testifying to the extraordinary quality of the pigeons digestive powers, Acorns, whole, seem touga i lorsels enough, but they are as not: ing in comparison with nuts fer a bird that is singularly little gifted with any nut-crackin- g apparatus. id |