Show J SOTTO VOCE THE other day General Maxwell was conducting a case in the Police Court I A darkey who had been struck with a crow bar was on the witness stand and with that gay and bantering air St peculiar td him the General asked him I now hard he bad heflI ht I dont know Genl was the answer I suppose the witness doesnt realize how thick his skull really is said the General smilingly to tne court I realize taint no thickern than yonrn Uenl responded tne darkey quickly The head of the court aisap peered for a moment under the desk but when it and reappeared it was as grave undisturbed as ever THE FivKyear0Jl terror of B Street was put to bed the other night by his alarmed mamma with a sore throat a heavy fever and other decided tOlns of diphtheria symp At daybreak next morning the patents were awakened by the sound of the patter of a pair of small feet going down the stairs The I mother arose and to her horror saw her sick child in his night gown just fog the front door and gazing intently open out into the freezing gray dawn For heavens sake child flhe ex claimed What are you uptO1 Its all right mamma he sang cheerfully back It aint diphtheria Theres no yellow flag out I THE Magician Hermanns advance agent was expatiating at the Theatre the other day on the marvels performed by his star His one feat of causing a woman to vanish is unexcelled by anything ever I seensaid the agent enthusiastically Pshaw said a wag who stood near that will bo a chestnut in Utah Women have been vanishing here every 1 week for the past three years Usmm the EdmundsTucker law said a prominent Democratic lawyer the other day the Governor of Utah will be little less than a king Let us praise God that it is King Caleb instead of KIng E1 P ELI H Muma knows no man better that his shingle as atlorneyatlaw will swing in the pure farrCSPS of Salt Lake a good many years before he is overrun with custom But Eli is shrewd and ne sees the chance of u delegate ship looming up in the dim future when the Edmunds Tucker law reigns here and sends all Mormons horj du combat So he thinks it best to have an appear ance It least of being solidly interested in the country But as on a former interesting thar occasion he will fail to git |