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Show Gunnison Gossip By O. Nemo. What is the mutter witn our telephone tele-phone system? Some of the instruments instru-ments are not much tetter than a speaking tube ; onu has to hello loud enough to make the other.fellow hear without the aid of wires. A great many peoplo earn their bread by '.he sweat of their honest brows, some by the Beat of their tongues, and I know a few men who swell their bank account by sweating other people. However, during this hot spell vicarious sweitiug dont go, but all must sweat for themselves. Jeau Wade, the obliging clerk in the city drug store, has returned to S"alt Lake City for an indefinite stay. The young people as well as some of the older ones, will miss his smiling nn.,,A..onna and craninl nreRftnefi. 1 I - , , and piekel, or hot buscuita and torn bread. Never wou.'d he touch thn d -f-ert of poeticil pie, the nis-trcial marmalade, the epic fruit cake, or the rhythmic strawberry and cream What a lot of good things the man has missed Shakespeare, Pope Byron, Tennyson, Longfellow, and eren Whilcomb Riley, all fail to touch the hearty of this gormandizer of 6olid food. But j oetry.js not coifiued to verses. It trills amid the lines of prosH and wings its melody in the arguments of cause and effect. There is more tiiie poetry iu Col. Robert Iugersoll's oration at his brotherV grave, than in all the slot machine drivel of ilie modern magazines com-, bined. Thosa f'e v broken wordH, straining to see the '..'Star 0f Hope," and listeni f.g for ih flutter of th "Angel Wing," battling like a giant, witn grief and despair, LiFve passed into the treapure-boiiEe of memory, a poetic gem that will sbine ever on and ou , vi bile mankind live' and lovi s. UUUUlGUIiUVU j w . . l We wish him prosperity, health and happiness wherever bis lot may be cast. s The Gunnison Valley Salt company, one of the prosperous enterprises of this vicinity, is quietly doing business to an extant scarcely realized by our own people. This company have already al-ready Bhipped 2,000 tons of rock salt from theii mine this year. We are informed that the company will very soon install a refining plant, which ! will add much to the income as well as the output. The tale of the fishermen, is a romance equalled only by a selection from the Aarbian Nights, or Jack 1 the Giant Killer. The fish that got away could easily have been swallowed swallow-ed by Jonah, and the orie wbich wbb caught and eaten in camp was as long as a speech ou the tariff, and the reasous given why a greater number was not captured are as numerous as ! the causes which led to the defeat of Jarr.es G Blaine for president iu 1881. Ask Geoege and Doc if the above is not true. . 1 Greater Gunnison will not forget to do the celebrating act in proper manner, man-ner, on the glorius Fourth of July. Of all the numerous holidays, this is perhaps the greatest and most uni versa) in the United States. Old and young, rich aud poor, male and female a.l unite to emphasize that patriotic spirit, which dwells in the hearts of all who love home and country. Let us have one of the old-fashioned sort; safe and sane, full of good cheer, forgetting for-getting for the day all our religious and political disputes, and all unite to honor our forefathers of 1776. A gentleman once said to the writer, "I never read poetry ; it is too much like eating baled hay,' or playing pokei with Confederate money." The deluded .man, of conree, never knew what a good intellectual meal was I He would feed his mind on prose pork j and beans, beef and cabbage, potatoes |