Show A JOKE erom GOTHAM THE TEE new york tribune indulges in bome boma very weak talk abbat a at statement ate ste lately made by pro 0 K gilbert to the effect that tha t one oj of these fine nine days sait balt lake city would be shaken to smithereens by a tremendous earthquake the journal named actu actually sity siby places the professor on the missionary pedestal in this fashion liwe liwo we trust he will flood the terni tory with his hib views on this thia not that we condone earthquakes or WO would uld wish to see salt lake city transfer transformed med into a sepulchre and the krestof utah shaken into a howl how ing waste but we really would like to seethe beethe see bee the professor make luch leuch an impression upon the mormons cormons as aa should J 1 I d scare basra them into repentance ani and consequent clean living A sharp rain ol of fire and brimstone is understood to have put a aton eton to wickedness in two well known cities of another age bodom hodom and gomorrah perhaps the prospect of an earthquake might do as well by utah go on with your missionary work professor it is not the first time that science has gone hand hind in hand with reform this talk about scaring the most courageous people on the continent is supremely absurd and the hope of brin blin bringing ginga a community like this to repentance and cleaner living belongs to the earne piece of cloth but for the presence of non mor conall mony mona in salt lake city would have no existence and drinking dens would be extinct institutions A gotham journal talk taik talking IlIg about cleaner living in salt lake city 1 isone bisone is one of the most gigantic jolles city of the season net lot that city of 0 f smut wash hereace her faco face before pro preferring ferning ferring soap to the comparatively pure capital of utah bala bair but bat professor gilbert go on flooding utah with his views and eee ece whether ho he cannot get up a scare like a luzr lurz hurricane leane wo we apprehend that all the panic ho he would create havo hava the effect of producing the spectacle of more than nine tenths of the it mormon population fleeing to other parts with their coat coad tails floating rearward in the breem breeza to get gel away from the predicted crash of matter they dont get gou terrorized to any appreciable extent |