| Show THE deseret news makes the following remark about tho endeavors of the minia tera of salt lake to prevent tue city council from officially establishing sabbath breaking and other social evils the gentlemen of the cloth found the council as a body a rather hard for mation impregnable either to persuasion or rhetorical aide cuts tickling with the feather of suavity or stunning with the thunderbolt of demand fall alike unheeded upon the calloused and by no means insignificant ears of the alleged city fathers WE ABB glad that the council has taken up the matter of keeping abo streets from being over flooded during irrigation the prevalence lence of in water many quarters of the city is getting to bo an intolerable nuisance AN eastern exchange says will some kind person please explain the difference to the national pocketbook between collecting duties on sugars from the people and paying bounties out of the treasury to ane sugar growers the difference ie not small lathe first place the collecting of by duty robs the people of only 50 in the second place if this aum wore not collected the treasury would be minus and the bounty would take more which would provos march of progress that she has taken on by way of substantial improvements will do more to enhance the price of real estate and better the condition of the city in a material way than the united cry of many boomers this is an age for doing and not saying citizens must first show their own faith in the town by aclid work before it can be expected that strangers will begin the work of progress A WOMAN missionary on the congo writes that the sunday service isow from two to three hours and the lit tie children getting run outside to play disic worship pers and cultivating irreverence in the first place it is remarkable that they should get tired and secondly to stunk or them cultivating irreverence in those enlightened lands A NEWSPAPER is pretty much as the people make it encouragement from the public must be had in order to make a live paper if the corn alight the home paper by advertising ver in some foreign publication or otherwise patronize the newspapers published in other towns they help to build up other cities and tear down their own THE deseret neica very logically shows that if the CULLOM bill becomes a law and cormons mormons Mor mons are not allowed to vote or hold office many counties and towns of the territory will have to import material to fill the required offices as reside in them to fill the offices it will be a very republican government when it comes to such a sad state THE STATE of kansas is a fair example of reckless bonding and mortgaging more than two thirds of the cities have mortgaged to the full extent allowed by law and the total of the farmers represented by mortgage reach 60 TAKIKO THE census of people is no small undertaking and the preparations made are on an enormous scale the government printing office has abt completed the printing of the enumeration blanks which weigh in the aggregate tons and if spread out would cover an area of square feet THE largest gun the world has yet seen is just completed at noted works at essen it is made for the russian fortification at cron stadt and is of the finest steel jt leighs pounds or about tons the calibre is inches and its length 43 feet it has a range of twelve miles and can be fired two times a minute respectable liberal papers have gained a footing in utah it seems the power of the tribune is fast waning the old spirit of the lying to its former position when dealing with the present city council and it commenced an old time system of bulldozing which has resulted quite for the parly organ the resolution passed tuesday night against it by tho council was each a slap in the faco as the tribune has never experienced before and it will teach it that the das of fast driving are now past as others also havethe road i itis gratifying to note the great confidence our business men have in the future of prove such a heathy location with water power far super bior to any other city of the territory fertile land a health pramot numerous pleasure in the mountains maunt ains all combine to inspire confidence in the future of the garden city of utah but above ail we are favored with a social intelligent community with whom strangers are delighted to abide our reputation for hospitality is far known and the love for is intensified with the more intimate acquaintance with her people THIS WEEK the tramp editor is more mild he had his crow last wee kand now like a proud fowl be chuckles over it and looks vainly at himself he devoted his last issue to the harmless amusement of comparing HEMENWAY with HORACE BENJAMIN NAPOLEON the great and such noted characters charac teis of the worlds history SHOULD have some memorial decoration day the city fathers would do a gracious act to provide for the occasion this s not on ecclesiastical affair but a day on which the sentiments of loyal american citizens should blend in mutual communion there are no more loyal citizens in the wide domains over which float the glorious stars and stripes than the people of and provo is one of the ant communities of the territory therefore jet us honor the day in an appropriate style |
