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Show Inst night wag a failure. The strains of the harmonica accompanied by the light guitar were sweet. The energetic swains planted their most melodious music close to the chamber of their, adoration but all to no effect. No lair faces were visible and the night stars brightly beamed on the belated boys. Call again musicians, perhaps the old man was on guard. ' Unless attention! at once given the matter the Union Pacific company will be hold for heavy damages regarding accidents that may occur any moment at its passenger station on South Temple Tem-ple street. The Times has reference to the railroad crossings at North and South Temple streets which , are unguarded un-guarded by watchmen. The former has no guard and the latter has a cripple crip-ple on dutv, an old man who received his injuries in a railroad wreck. At all hours of the day and through the night the engines are running at high speed across North Temple street, and no-bodv no-bodv is there to warn people of their danger. Why are matters thus when life and property nro at the mercy of the iron horse. The Union Pacific is sadly in ne'ed'of system we say system. It cannot come too soon. THINGS SEEN AND HEARD. A Few Facts From a Time's Pencil Pusher's Page. How much does your bull dog weigh? This is now iho daily qaery with people peo-ple possessing this sort of caniuo. How oddly fashion does create these new fads. But to knock along in the usual rut would give us all the blues. Americans Amer-icans demaud new diversions whether or not tho things created meet with practical vieva. Just so and last evening even-ing a bull purp of black aud tan was eoaxed on the scales of a First South street store but tho dog was not out for weighing. His owner administered a dose of strap, the collecting bystanders backing on bully showing his" jaws of solid teeth. Here we have it after the dog had decided to permit his master boss the situation he woighs just 40 pounds. v There are not a few expert card players in Salt Lake city. Said a veteran vet-eran last night: "The only people, that I will not play seven-up with are; citizens citi-zens of Arkansaw. The people of that state teach their children the mysteries of the game before they teach thnm their letters. A few years ago I lived down iu a town amidst the swamps of Arkansaw and cultivated the acquaintance acquaint-ance of an expert of the place. They called him Sugarfoot and in no ti ne he had sweetoned all the players in the village so that hardly a man dare put up a quarter against the game. Things continued and finally two professional gamblers were imported to squelch Sugarfoot. The result was that Sugar-foot Sugar-foot came out winner by I30OO, and the exports had to borrow tin enough to carry them out of town. They Iried cold decks and marked cards but to no avail. Sugarfoot's education had been so thorough that the syndicate supplying supply-ing cash to the professionals sneaked out in a grove and gave up the ghost." "The custom of putting a new sort of twist on the mustache is comparatively fresh in this city," said a tonsorial artist. art-ist. The knight of the razor applied small pieces of tin foil to the curled hairs of the reporter's upper lip and let them remain. After the hair had bem dressed the foil was removed and a curl too lovely for anything was on each end of the mustache. This idea' was probably pilfered from the secrets of a lady's toilet, she using paper or crimpers to curl her bangs. Really it looks as if each successive season is drawing the masculines closer to many customs used by the girls. That serenade on Commercial street |