| Show 8 L CITY june juna 10 1870 editor deseret news dear sir there are few nuisances in our delightful city but I 1 saw one or rather smelt and saw last list night whlor i beats bests a great many it Is dangerous very dangerous and ought to be abated immediate ly or the worst kind of cholera or some other equally destructive pestilence may spring from it and cause considerable trouble and woe the nuisance I 1 speak of is a large stagnant pool of water on the corner of third south and east temple streets immediately opposite winders corner and the stench arising fromet from it is to use an old expression almost enough to knock knocks a man down nor is the dead water sufficient for some people as a walk around the back of it to wind windward fard lard showed that the residents closest to it empty into it all their siope slops pig swill etc the attention of the health officer of the city should be directed to it I 1 think and it should be got rid of as soon alpos as possible for it Is really a hugely dangerous nuisance an ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure nod wink horse blind etc etc the attention of the police I 1 learned I 1 from a person living close by has been called calle d to it once but nothing has been done in the way of remedying remedy ing or abolishing it yours respectfully J E EVANS SALT laile LAKE CITY june lith 70 editor deseret news dear sir learning that a certain photographer in the city had succeeded in photographing a spirit from the other world I 1 called in and looked at it in with some friends he showed us a plate on which two pictures were faintly visible yet we are convinced that no spirit had haa anything to do with it unless it was the spirit of alcohol this doubis double apparition in photography is quite a common occurrence as all experienced perien ced photographers can testify it may be caused in various ways we are satisfied that in this instance the apparition was the result of an imperfectly cleaned plate upon which the thao likeness of captain storey had previously been taken and when the likeness of the little girl was taken it became developed redeveloped re I 1 deem it necessary to make this explanation as an impression is beginning to prevail that the gallery is haunted by spirits from the other world and such an impression might injure the business there there are several photographers in the city who are prepared to furnish any number that may be required of such spirit photographs respectfully SPECTATOR FEMALE tipi TIPPLING ling the habit of drinking is becoming almost as common among the english ladies as it is among the english gentlemen any philosopher who chooses to go to a ball and take his stand near the buffet or survey the supper table with an observant eye will bee eee that the old fashioned beverages which cooled but not inebriated are indeed supplied just for fot forms sake but that they have entirely lost their ancient popularity he will see eee young women dash crl ft as much champagne and claret in the course of a single evening even ing as would have more than sufficed their grandmothers fora month the ease and familiarity with which they drink is worthy of the most accomplished complis hed frequenter of a new few york bar that the results are not more astonishing toni tonis hing shing is in itself a moa mott satisfactory proof of a seasoned head at dinner dinder one may notice the same taste for stimulants the afternoon tea is beginning to be tea and something else it itis ills Is rumored that even the taste of spirit is not absolutely unknown to fair lips E even ven the youngest matrons matrona have begun to feel the necessity of that brandy an and d water which is prescribed for their over tasked lords they tirey too have become persuaded to use the doctorial phrase of the necessity of keeping up the system A woman who has been a mother a twelvemonth if she has got with n earshot ear shot of a plausible and sympathetic physician soon catches the the cant about the disorders of our day being characteristically disorders of the low lyie lyle in alarm lest she should bring enfeebled offspring she niles flies to the fitial usual spirituous tonics bran brandy dy and water at bedtime is the great disinfectant the grievous evils of our civilization it lathe supposed secret of a genial life and a vigorous progeny reynolds newspaper |
