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Show EXCHANCE DRIFTWOOD. j Fa log l'articlos ricked tip from tb 9oa ; of NtwispaiM-ioro. The dread diseases, diphtheria and typhoid fever seem to have quietly retired from our midst. We have not heard of a case of either for some time. Nephi Enxign. All our caster' n exchanges are bringing shuddering accounts of blizzards, heavy snow storms and congealed conditions generally. In Utah the weather is superb, clear, cool, bracing, invigorating but not cold. HeraUL E. H. Jones of Kelton was in town Saturday. lie relates that ghost story as it appeared in Tjik Broi.Kii and declares the ghost was seen but could not be touched or handled. The affair has created quite a sensation in Kelton. Og-den Og-den Standard Cor. The Indians are leaving the reservation res-ervation in droves, and very few of them show passes, but are all off for Colorado in quest of ''buckskins." ''buck-skins." When the cowboys begin to round up the aborigines the government will make a great roar. Uintah Pappoose. Snow in the mountains has entirely en-tirely stopped prospecting, until spring, when, by reason of the good showing that winter work will doubtless produce on some of the mines, there will be a rush for the mountains and prospectors will be here from all over the land. Logan Nation. Germany proposes to supply its army with a new riile that can be fired three times as fast as the present one and with double effect. Smokeless powder will be used exclusively. ex-clusively. Orators will have to leave out "the smoke of battle" when they tell of the gloriouB deeds of war hereafter. Ogden Commercial. The city is literally over-run with thieves, garroters and burglars, burg-lars, whose crimes are of almost hourly occurrence. Decent people are terrorized, and the community generally is exercised and alarmed. Suspicion naturally attaches to the 1 classes, now so numerous, which arc without occupation and roam the streets and make headquarters at the lower saloons. Herald. ! If the present generation does : not profit from the support of the 1 colleges the coming generation will. Football and rowing and baseball and the other athletic exercises indulged in is making strong men. Their children will be noble Romans, every mother's son of them provided the mothers do not chew too much gum. Park Miner. There arc now five claimants to the escheated Mormon church property: The church, the Government, Govern-ment, which asks that a fund be applied to the bchools, the northern counties, asking for $5)0,000 and the two institutions of learning; bearing the name of Brigham j Young. Brigham Young Academy ! is the latest applicant. Park City Miner. Lo, the poor Indian has donned the war paint again, the remnants of Big Foot's band of duskies having hav-ing revolted against their agent. They should li'ive their just deserts meted out to them in a manner which will put an effectual quietus on any future outbreak. Uncle Sam should know their fiendish natures by this time. Mt. Pleasant Pyramid. Egypt gave to the Mourn, the Moors to Spain, Spain to Mexico, of which California was once a part, the system of artificial watering water-ing of lands, and now we see the oldest coming to the youngest to study the changes which science has wrought in the new world of ours, and to carry back a better knowledge of how to raise, care for and manufacture (lie very grains that Joseph huildtd store houses to hold in the years when there was a ! famine in the land. Jlcrubl. There is a man in Park City' who makes a business of buving vegetables over in the valley and I piddling them out in the Park, ' iO should be arrested for cruelty to animals. He allows his team to stand iiiht afW night over near ' the Marsac wood yards with the , harness on and with no protection ! whatever against the cold nights. The harness freezes stiii and thw p'jnr brutes whinner and prancf around every time any p'-rson passes hv. it is a shame and the man .should bear res ltd. P,,j-kCity licrtird. |