Show 48 TIIE TEEP 0’ DAY— A LITERARY MAGAZIND MISCELLANEA Times in’ the Ark — Thun Noah anil hia family had nil there to feed 'and water and clean after The feeding alone would be a fearful task Supposing each animal to he fed once a day and Noah and his family to work only ten hours they would have to feed two thousand live hundred every minute This of itself one would think might keep them busy But they had many cf enough these creatures to water also and the water must all be drawn up through the window and carried down one two or three pairs of stairs And all the refuse and filth must be cleared away at the same rapid rate and carried up one two 'or three pairs of stairs and thrown out of the window in the roof Would there not he some very busy times on those stairs And the animals were all in the dark And naturalists tell us that hut very few animals can live in continual darkness And tNoah and his family had to do all their work in the dark They rushed among the tigers and rattlesnakes in the dark and in the dark flew up and down stairs and you yourselves no doubt are in the dark as to how such things could be done — j Barker's Review: V A PROMISE —A promise should be given with caution and kept with care ‘A promise should be made by the heart and rcnicmber- cd by the head A promise is the offspring of intention and should be nurtured by recollection A and its performance 'promise like the scales of4 a true should balance always present a mutual adjustment A promise delayed is ani-ifta- ls ' X justice 'deferred A promise neg- A promlected is an untruth told ise attended to is a debt settled Fir st Impressions — Often have the first impressions stamped a character on the mind adapted to receive one as thefirsl step into life has often determined its walk But this for ourselves is a far distant period in our existence which is lost in the horizon of our own recollections and is usually unobserved by others f Be Kind to Your Mother — “What would I give” said Charles Lamb “ to call my mother back to earth for one day to ask lier pardon upon my knees for all those acts by which I gave her ‘ gentle spirit pain” ltemember this children and be kind to your mothers mes “ Mr Smithcrs how can you sleep so ? The sun has been' up these two hours” — Well what if “ lie goes it has ?” said Smithcrs to bed at dark while I’m up till affer midnight’ Would be purchaser — Let me look at your stock of cotton socks iii astonishment) — Storekeeper Cotton socks ? The ' articles arc not on our catalogue but we have some very pretty cast iron ones — Monitor pattern which I think wilj just suit you A Dutclmm thus describes an accident:- Voncc a long vile ago I vent into mine abide orchard to climb a bear tree to get some peaches to make wife a init and von I gets on'de tober-mobranch I vail mit von lbg on both sides of the fence and I like to stove my outside in 1 plumb-buddin- g st Papa (who has just returned from a long voyage to his first horn) — Well Tommy have you forgotten me ? First born (who is spoiled' of course) — Oh no I guess you’re the old chap that used to spank me so but I’m getting too big for that sort of thing now you know that’s played out ! “ Well John did you Make the note I gave you to Mr Smithers ?” inquired a gentleman of liis rustic servant “ Yes sir” replied John “I took the note hut I don’t think — “Cannot read he can read it ” exclaimed the gentleman “ why so John ” — “ Because he is so blind sir While I wor in the room he axed me where my hat was and it wol: on my head all the time ” jt” X ! ' i Clerks liavolately been playing fast and loose to such an enormous extent with their employers’ money that it is (vetremedv difficult to know whom to trust We shall hear of th o clerk of the weather liavimr He will something next betaken up probably for having been in the habit of skimming the and appropriating for milky-wa- y years the cream to his own use or else lie will he convicted of transferring some of the brightest stars from the firmament and stitching them all over his person in order to Uc “ a blaze of a swell” as was at Moscow If wc were Saturn we certainly should count our rings every night to sec that none of th?m were missing “ I say Sam Jonsing what for you lookso sober clis morning? Lou most 'usally oilers a larfin but now your face looks as gloomy and brack as dis last spell op wed-der- ” ' “ Why child I feel had — Ise got what de white folks calls de bloos and de wns sort at dat dat’s' what I has Fete Gumbo” “ Do what you call ’em Sam?” “ De Bloos — do real indigo bloos” “ Ears whar ye corner dis child you’s ahead ob me dis time Now if it don’t make any ’terial difference to you I’d just like to hear you gemplify what dis bloos is” tY “ Wy wy Pete you don’t know' nothin' I tort you’d more acquaintance wfid de flosify ob de liu- human mind "Well you see when a man’s got de bloos he looks forard into de comiiur jest as though he was gwine to draw’ a blank in de lottry — he feels like as if all de delight-suprizes in de low dowm skeme hadn’t a single number on ’em When he gets up in de mornin’ he feels bad and wrheu lie goes to bed at night lie feels wmsser He tinks clatliis body is made ob ice cream all ’cent his heart and dat’s a big All piece ob lead in de middle sorts of sights ar hubberin around and red monkies buzzing about his ears Dar deins what I calls de bloos How you lik to had ’em Pete ?” “ Tank you Sain dis child don’t wish for one not if dem’s de sort” Sain THE I3IEIE I3 O’ PUBLISHED DAY BY E L T Harrison & E W Tullidge 20th Ward Silt Lake City 25 Single Copies Per Quarter Per Year (115 $2 numbers) Invariably CO 7 00 ig advance Subscriptions will be received by Mn J D Boss our Agent or by Mu 1 Tavey his Assistant The following1 gentlemen have kindly cor’ seated to receive subscriptions for the paper while the agents are getting round: Messrs Walker Bros Mil Sharkey and Mr 8 J Lee 3 Payments can be made to them and tho Agents will deliver the paper at the residence of the subscriber THE PEEP SPLENDID O’ DAY ADVERTISING MEDIUM We intend shortly to issue without any extra cost to the subscribers a weekly wrapper with this aper three pages of which will be devoted to Advertisements Merc iiants Professional Gentlemen and Tradesmen will see the immense advantages of advertising on this wrapper As this Magazine will be read everywhere and preserved for At ill cover the binding keep every advertisement for at least six months before the public eye We circulate throughout thi and adjoining Territories and States For terms apply irnmediatelyte ou? 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