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Show A NEEDED INSTITUTION. The marked success attending the establishment of the 3m trite Lying club of Austin, Nev., and the national na-tional notoriety it has acbifvfd, have led several of our most distinguished fellow citizens to a serious consideration considera-tion of a proposal to establish a somewhat some-what similar institution ia tbis city, and the Herald must confess that very plausible rtasons have been brought forward in favor o! plauting a lying club at Salt Lake. There has been a eeuHral misapprehension in the miods of first class uitiiena iu regard to the character ol theae cluhtt. Many people seem to think that they have been organized for the purpose of infringing an important item of the moral law, and to bring truthfulness into disrepute. We do not understand under-stand this to be the cans. It) do ad, if the character of thuae institutions can bo judged by the original model, the Sazarac club, nothing can be more foreign to the constitution, by law- and workings of such ussoeiatioiie. Instead of promotiug or encouraging loose and promiscuous laUitying in the community, it is the aim of the clubs to mluce the amouut of lying to the smallest proportions; propor-tions; to systematizs lying as a science; to induce originality in lying, by giv ing the credit for the eflorti of original ganluB by frowning down the practice now so prevalent among tne leaders of society, of revamping and appropri ating the lies of other persons, which j is a great moral wrong. Another i feature for which the lying clubj are responsible is a worthy ooe. By bringing lying up to the dignity of a fine art, and robbing it of its vulgar, selfish sel-fish and criminal aspect, its professors will merit and enjoy the sympathy and applause ot refined society, such 1 las ia extended to croquet, base bail, 1 'cricket, and amateur editorial associations, associ-ations, and will bj admitted to equaj competition in the race for half-fart ' railroad tickets and d. b. newspaper ' pufN. They can hold conventions, j memorialise congress and treat with I iiftd be treated by politician none ot j which things an individual liar can successfully accomplish. There ia usually some difficulty experienced in filling up the membership of ordin " ary clubs, principally .pn account of the lack of proper associates ; but lying club hu almost the entire community com-munity to pick from priests, lawyers, doctors, editors, undertakers, boot , blacks and merchants all are fish to its net, nd as it is no rtjipeiter of persons the members are usually selected with a view to their merit aa liars. Fjr imiance, Mr. Becher would be thti inevitable president of the Brouklyn lying club, should one be stirtrjd at the other end of the bridge ; bat it does not follow that the editor of tbi Tribune could become a mimharof the Svlt Like club, as he is a mere vulgir liar, re : peats his lies daily, aud being a coup-Imuuist, coup-Imuuist, would not aorupte to appro-i appro-i pritte the original lies of other members. Such a thing could not be tolerated. We are not sure, however, that Judge McKean might not be taken in as the legal adviser of the olub, as many of his judicial decisions illustrate his remarkable gtniua in bringing out the fictions of law. The arguments in favar.of the inauguration in-auguration of a Wasatch lying club might be gives at great length. If a little place like Austin oan sustain a lying club in a healthy condition for years, Salt Lake city, with all its facilities for this kind of literature, ought to make such an institution a great feature of the country. A SAZERAC LIE. The telegraph company are now using the quadruple! system over the Virginia aud Salt Lake circuit, by means of which four messages may be went simultaneously over a single wire. The increased strain on the wire is sot visible here in A.ustin, but I was out at Dry creek yesterday, and in that vicinity the wire was just humping itself, and groaning and straining, and dropping words ofl in chunks. I examined the wire and found a knot iD it, and came to the conclusion tkat a quadruple! message bad sluok at that point. I tried to straighten the wire out, but a section of an account of a battle between the Turks and Russians struck me on the ear and knocked me down, and I concluded that it was not advisable to fool with the thing." Eli Perkins, president of the Saratoga Sara-toga lying club, sends us the follow ing effort of one of die members: A SARATOGA LIAR. Tne other day be told some young ladies that lie composed the Nightingale Nightin-gale Polka the original one and that he is soon to issue tvo more bird politas as good as the Nightingale. "Oh, do tell ua the names ot them!" gushed the young ladies. '"The canary bird and the bob-o'-link polkas," he said. "How do you write this bird music, Mr. Siuimooo?" abed all of the young ladies at once. ; "Oil, I takfi the canaries and bub-o'-liuks, pack 'em in salt and ice and put them in a refrigerator. Then when they sing the notes come out in a solid torm frozen stiff. Then all I have to do is to pick 'em up, make a wax impression, and from this impression cast the notes in zinc, and the printers then set them up like type. Oh, I don't mind everybody's every-body's kuowing IhiB secret!" This morning this truthful young man breakfasted in a plaid suit of olotlifs, very stylish, with stockings, : tie, and shirt collar to mat:b. A yuung man from Chicago admired the plaid clolh cxcoedinitly. Alter looking at it he crossed the balcony and bhiU: "1 beg pardun, sir; hope you won't think me impertinent, but really I should hko to ask you where yon pur-chaird pur-chaird the cloth tor this suit. I admire ad-mire i:an much that I should like to buy one like it " "I'm sorry," saiil my truthful friend, "but it cannot be duplicated. Tc teil you the truth. I have the cloth for all my rui:s made at a pri VHte factory, and when they make a piece of cloth to suit me the pattern is immediately destroyed to prevent duplication." "It must be very expensive!" stammered bis friend. 'Yes, rather; etipecially when 1 happen to get an elegant suit like Ihw," and he looked admiringly down at the lappel. "How nbout this especial suit?" inquired in-quired the Chicago fellow. "Well, tbis was such a wonderful Dlaid, so many people admired it, and offered such large sums for a dupli cale of it, that I had to have the loom destroyed too, and had to send the weaver oh" to Europe, an. I I may yet have to burn down the factory." My truthiul trumd rcruived an oiler of 5,0.10,000 per annum yesterday lu accept the position ol religious reporter re-porter on u Chicago uewnpaper. |
