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Show Midway Plaisance muscle dancer dan-cer chestnuts! W. H. Boothe, Jr.," the rustling insurance agent, was in Brigbam i yesterday. And now the Brigbam girls have the bicycle craze. Oh, papa get me a bicycle. Bishop Carl Jensen of Bear River City, gave Tiik Bi'oi.r.u otlice a business call, Thursday. Willard has a fine program arranged ar-ranged for tl.c Fourth of July. T hey expect a better time than ever before. The Iverson corner in the Second Ward is being cleared this week in J j preparation for the erection of a new brick district school bouse. A young lady in divided skirts who was trying to ride a bicycle got dumped off a bridge into a cold deep ditch, Wednesday afternoon. She fell about four feet, but was up in a second and her merry laugh assured her frightened friends that she was not killed by the fall. Several of the hoys were "taken in" by some sharpers, the hangers-on hangers-on of every circus. The boys mustn't ''monkey" with these professional pro-fessional bilks if they do not want their pockets scraped clean of all spare cash. Even a "Young" attorney at-torney from Three Mile Creek bit at. the "shell" swindle. Wednesday evening a number of Democrats of Boxelder precinct met in the Court House and the following officers were appointed .for the precinct society: Oleen N. Stohl, President; 1st. Vice Pres.. Jonah Math i as; 2nd A' ice Pres., David P. Burt; Secretary, Earnest llorsley; Treasurer, John Chrislen-sen. Chrislen-sen. Committee on membership, T. H. Blackburn, Brigbam Wright and J. II. Forsgren. The Sells & Rentfrow circus, given in Brigham City Thursday afternoon, was the best circus that has been here for years. The menagerie me-nagerie was good, the seats were unusually well made, the costumes were strikingly handsome, the performing per-forming horses were noble specimens speci-mens of their race, the bands, the riders, the rope dancers, the trapeze performers, etc., were first class. An elaborate program was carried out. One of the finest features was the tent parade. The Roman race, the camel-elephant race and the race between the five Shetland ponies with monkey riders were especially exciting. Next week, as per announcement in today's Buui.kk, R. L. Fishburn k Sons will move into their commodious com-modious new store on Main Street, one block and a half south of the Court House. During the month they have expended a large amount of money in renovating and improving im-proving their new quarters, and now they are in possession of one of the nicest business blocks in Brigbam City. The front of the building is handsomely constructed, construct-ed, C. M. Squires being the architect. archi-tect. Fishburn & Sons deserve much credit for this progressive stroke in purchasing and building in these comparatively quiet times. Mrs. Alice J. Dean of North j Oyden, was in town the forepart of; this week spending a few days wi.h her sitter, Mrs. Lambert. j Messrs. Tom Lewis, Gil Cole and J Jacob Peterson of Lugan, were in ; j town Sunday trying to ''smash" j isome of our Brigham liellcs. Wantkij DO men to cut and! I burn sage brush. For further par- 1 liculars enquire at tlie Bear Iliver '. i Canal ollice, Corinne, I'tah. It ! Tlie Coalville Times says two j fishermen captured 400 speckled , i beauties in one day near that I ! place. How muc!i powder did it take? j A wilty exchange says there is ; nothing new in this year's bulbing ' suits. They are like those worn : by mother Eve about six thousand 1 years ago. The trades union of Salt Lake ' City proposes to establish some industries in-dustries on the co-operative plan, such as will give employment to a large number of hands. The Millard J-oytrss of June 23 reached our sanctum Tuesday all battered and ragged and tied up with a string. Has the Blade bushwhacker bush-whacker been over there, Bio. Jacob? Selbcrmaii Bros, Chicago, wool circular for June has been received. It says that considerable quantities of well bred and good staple t'lah wool have been received lately and they find ready sale. The gnat, the fly and the mosquito mos-quito now hold the boards, causing the farmer to cuss, the good housewife house-wife to scold and all to wonder what on earth the pestiferous little varlets were created for. Bicycle. Second-hand bicvclo wanted. Apply at once at J. Peter Larson's paint shop, half block north of Court House. Weber County has instituted suitagainst the Central Pacific railroad rail-road to recover $5-10, the amount spent by the county in caring for the Common wealers brought into the county by the railroad. Our happiness depends on little things, says an exchange. This is true. A man who conies into possession pos-session of a plugged quarter can never know true happiness till be succeeds in passing it off on some one. Wc hear that the copper smelter at St. George, and the mill at Silver Reef will both be started up at an early day. We are glad to note this fact, as activity in this direction means increased prosperity prosperi-ty for this southern country. Iron County Record. 'Sir. Holton, one of the veteran printers of the Descrct Ncus, has been spending a few days with his relatives, Mr. and Mrs. Fred Holton and Mr. and Mrs. Sam Holton of Three Mile Creek. He also spent a few days with his -old - English friends, Mr. and Mrs. Win. Wrigh-ton, Wrigh-ton, of this city. Why is it that a young man, with not more than a spoonful of brains in the back of his bead, will, upon going to a party, imbibe im-bibe a teaspoonful of -whiskey, and so addle his poor head that he looks and acts just as the '"Missing link" would be expected to act in a civilized social gathering? Ex. In sizing up an itinerant newspaper news-paper man who "got into" him, Editor Scott of tho American Fork Item says: 'The fellow is now at Paysou 'negotiating' the starting ; of a Republican paper, with not enough money to buy a postage stamp. We advise those whom be is trying to 'work' to beware, as he is a treacherous, all-round dead beat." The skipping rope season has only just begun, but already one little girl has just died because she tried to skip too long without stopping. stop-ping. A little girl in Mount Vernon Ver-non was made sick by too much rope jumping and died in the hospital a few days after. Rope skipping is a healthy and wholesome whole-some exercise if not dune too long at a time. Ex. According to the Territorial exchanges ex-changes the hills and mountains of Utah are being prospected for gold as they never before have been, and j the prediction is freely made that: ! the season will sec more than one i new discovery. 'Matters are reallvf I beginning to hrightui up somewhat! 1 in this camp and mining operators ' 1 and business men are showing a' disposition to tukn a more hopeful ( I view of the situation. Park Citv j j hrord. ' 1 Lots of stones have lately been picked off our streets, which makes our highways more presentable. The Bakury in the only place in town where they serve fresh homemade home-made cakes with their ice cream, f Mifcs Emma Matiesen came up from Salt Lake last Saturday to spend a few weeks with her parents. H. L. Steed, hardware merchant, has had the front of his establishment establish-ment on Main Street nicely painted paint-ed this week. J. R. Eldridge did the work. Ves. right here in Brigham City are thre compounds, recently invented in-vented by Dr. Carrington, which eclipse anything so far discovered, one of which is for catarrh. J The farmers are filling their barns and bay ricks, and building stacks of no mean proportions out of the first crop of lucern, which has been exceedingly heavy in many parts this summer, E. R. Chase was down from the north country this week. He said to a citizen: 'Tn Brigham City you have the finest little town in all this western country," and of course our local man did not contradict him. The street sprinkler runs only a few hours in the early morning and evening of each day. Whether this dons the work as effeetuallv as though it were operated during the-hot the-hot portion of the day is questionable. question-able. The tastefully decorated windows of tlie Co-op have elicited many favorable c im merits during the past week. They look as though some professional window dresser had taken a hand in the arrangement. arrange-ment. A man stood on (be Court House steps, And looking very wise, Said businessmen who prosper o always advertise. Tin: UiTii.Eit is the only place To make yoiir money pay ; Don't wait until tomorrow, Hut advertise today. This week. Dr. Carrington treated a son of Brigham Btirbanks of Dewcyvillo, who was alllicted with a large abscess on the arm. Almost Al-most a hat full of puss was taken from the boy's arm, which was ! swollen to an enormous size. N. P. Andersen failed last week, and an eastern creditor took charge of the goods. But Mr, Andersen's brother John has come down from Idaho and the old building is being much improved, and the two will shortly open up a brand new store in the renovated building. During the two weeks just past, quite a number of the first subscribers sub-scribers for The Buglkr (those who received Vol, 1, No. 1 on June 14, 1S00) have come in and planked down two silver dollars, lliiw being the last" payment- due on their five years' subscription to Tiik 15l'leh. One morning this week a man on t he south-bound train got off at the Brigham station to purchase some fruit. He waited too long and the train was moving before he was aware of the fact. In an attempt to catch the iron railing of one of the cars, he was thrown to the ground and was badly bruised, but not seriously hurt. There is considerable complaint made these days about flooding the roads. There is a law forbidding irrigators from allowing water ' to run over public streets or highways and there is a penally attached for i a violation of this law. People should take warning from this as some man may come along some day and enter a complaint with the officers- Logan JoimutL Monday, Dr. Carrington performed perform-ed a ticklish piece of work on Robert Rob-ert Gardner of Deweyvtlle. The nervy young man went into the doctor's office, stretched himself out at full length on the surgical table and lay there in the full possession of his senses while tho doctor deliberately de-liberately cut a cancer, root and body, from his leg. The operation was successfully performed. There have been a number of boy tramps seen on our streets this tveck. The sight of these dirty, ragged, dissipated and forlorn you I lis grown prematurely old is enough to melt the heart of the most stoical. Many of them no d mbt have fond. loving mothers at. home who sit down with aching heart, and staring into the darkness i ithotit mournful !y wonder, "Ob, where is my boy tonight?" Miss Amy Rich of Salt Lake, ie I in the City of Homes visiting with friends and relatives. For Meals and Lunches the j Bakery is the only place in town, f I The Italians invented the term i influenza in ih seventeenth century, cen-tury, and attributed the disease to the influence of certain planets. ; Ex. 1 It's a pretty good plan if yon i live in a small town to take a grandmother's advise: "Believe nothing you hear and only half what you see." Have you tried the fine Soda Water at the City Drug Store? f Cash paid for wool and pelts. Inquire of John V. Rich at Bank of Brigham City or at the old Tannery Tan-nery building in Fourth Ward, f-The f-The crowning fortune of a man is to he born with a bias tor some pursuit, which finds him employment em-ployment and happiness. R. W. Emerson. Let every man be occupied, and occupied in the highest employment employ-ment of which he is capable, and die with the consciousness that lie has done his best. Sidney Smith. (Quoting the words of a shoe man's trip through Southern b'lah, the Nephi Courier says: He says business has never been so good in his line for two years past as it! was during this Southern tour. Let the eagle soar, the rockets burst, the cannon roar and the small boy enjoy himself to his heart's content. The Fourth will soon be with us and noise is needed need-ed to make it one of the good, old-fashioned old-fashioned sort. The strongest animals in the world are those that live on a vegetable vege-table diet. The lion is ferocious rather than strong. The bull, horse, reindeer, elephant and antelope, ante-lope, all conspicuous for strength, choose a vegetable diet, says the Scientific American. An old law in Paris forbids kissing kiss-ing in public places. A cabman who saw his wife only once a week gave her his weekly kiss in front of a restaurant one day recently. Both were arrested. The cabman was fined $5. He paid his fine, gallantly remarking that the kiss was worth it. Word from Washington is to the effect that uniforms, guns, etc.. for 000 Utah militianlen will soon be distributed among the various cities and towns of our Territory where companies have been formed and initiated. Brigham's company com-pany will no doubt receive about fifty guns and as mail)' uniforms. It is estimated that it costs the people of the United States $250,-000,000 $250,-000,000 a year to be bornoOOOO-, bornoOOOO-, 000 a year to get married, 75,000,-900 75,000,-900 a year to be buried, and $900,-000,000 $900,-000,000 to get drunk. The drink bill of the United States is more than all the bread and meat consumed con-sumed by the nation. Coalville Times. After July 1st the United States postollico department will begin using the new form of money orders. These ordera will be similar to the express company money orders. The order will be like a check, and can, after being endorsed by tho person in who3e favor it is made out, be negotiated ne-gotiated and cashed like an ordinary ordi-nary bank check. Wc are in receipt of a copy of a neat little circular gotten out by Skelton & Co., Provo. It contains a lecture on "The Employment of Teachers," by Prof. Geo. H. Brim-hull. Brim-hull. The pages are chuck full of ideas, vim and enthusiasm. The Professor is an educational genius, and some day he will be heard of outside of Provo and Utah County. All changes of advertisements should be handed in not later than the Wednesday before the Saturday Satur-day in which the change is to appear. ap-pear. If the business men will bear this in mind ami sec to handing hand-ing their copy in early in the week we wili have more time to get up better ads for you, and it will save I us much rush and ban! work on ' press days. j The Brigham B; gli:ii has begun ! its fifth volume. Tiik Bi olkii is a j live, wideawake and interesting ; paper, and has always been well I supported. Us success is quite 1 apparent and wc hope it will never ; be any less than it now seems. Mt. Pleasant Pyramid. Coming as the above compliment does from i one of the most progressive and best gotten up country papers in 1 Utah, we feel highly flattered. ! A wide-awake contemporary savs ! while the larger lowns are very ; dull and the merchants complaining complain-ing of hard times, the smaller , towns are doing well and the busi- 1 ness men are happy. But people should nut ask for too much credit of our merchants in these close times, and everyone who owes a store bill should make everv effort to pay it. Hard times swamp : many merchants h entire they find it impos.-ihle to coliei t hundreds of small lulls. And while you are ! paying up, remember the printer. |