Show EDITORIAL OTES NOTE S the best cuts of english beef are now selling in london loudon for one shilling or 24 cents per pound and a foun pound loaf of excellent bread weighed out to the customer at ax 5 pence or 11 cents per pound a lower rater rated than the saine same articles cost in many of the cities of the united states although beef and breadstuffs bread stuffs ara arc now being shipped extensively from this country to ED england the omaha bee li iving hiving recently published an article reflecting upon the character of a sporting woman of that town the indignant female has written the associate editor a letter informing him that she is I 1 laying for him with a horsewhip and threatening in if she meets him to w whip lp him so thil thal that h ha a will remember it to the end of nis uis life the modest scribe is said to have conee concealed aled himself in a two inch gas pipe it is asserted that the mississippi api river has an accommodating habit of booming and threatening its levees every time the river and harbor bill is brought before congress millions of of dollars have been expended upon it in the past which have been swallowed up and washed doah to the gulf and still the cry is for more A bili ballnow ow before congress provides for an appropriation pria tion of which will probably go the way of all the rest for a sample of sophis sophistical ticul reasoning we refer our readers to the decision odthe of the district court of zofingen Zo fingen flagen in the case of two utah elders which will be found published in another column for ingenious twisting to find excuses for convicting regardless of law the swiss judge adge is not far behind some of our utah judicial luminaries who 0 have rendered themselves so conspicuous by such doings an election for city officers will be held beld in ogden on the lecont second monday in february the central committee of weber county have called ubon the legal voters of the city at least those of the peoples party to attend the primary meeting to be held inthe several wards on the evening of the and there elect forty delegates to mee meet I 1 in convention on the doth and nominate the city officers the so called liberal element prevails pretty largely in ogden and it is necessary that our frie friends lids rids of the junction city keep wide awake and alive to their duties in order that good city government may be insured to them and the hung hungry ry horde of office seekers hept out who are so eager to get the public finances in their clutches we are confident that the peoples party will be be equal to the occasion general grants tongue is exciting the interest of new york physicians for forty years yeam general grant has been a smoker he has smoked thou sands of cigars using as many as fifteen a day for years and that too of a kind strong enough to sicken even hardened auwers users of the weed now how it is said that he is threatened with cancer of the tongue the doctors are divided in opinion as to whether the smoke has caused the cancer or not the pro smokers hold that the cubans spaniards and some other nationalities smoke more than all other peoples and that cancer is no more prevalent preval end a among mon men them than among the non smokers the most candid statement is made by dr partridge of the new york cancer hospital who says that while cancer is not caused by tobacco it irritates the parts and produces a lesion which may be taken for true cancer where a predisposition to the disease exists |