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Show j CITY AND OTHER BRIEFS. i A Racy L.o; or wn Item Cut lioit il to Plfme. 'A drop of ink makes millions : j think." : f he duck In w will not expire . 1 until t lit- hist of next month. j The small boys are happy now that watermelon time is here. lirigham City has the finest 1 streets in the world for driving. i Miss Cozier Is in town visiting ( Mrs. Chariotf. Nichols and family. I Our next Legislature will con- j i tain 20 Democrats and seven Lib-i Lib-i L-i-.il.--. I It will soon be time for the child- i ren to make preparations for school. - See Postmaster Bootbe's enrd in tbh- issue of the arrival and close (of mail. j The Woman's Sufi rage meeting i vesterday afternoon was quite well nded. i I'orxu. On Forest street, two i conductor's drawback checks. Now j j at this ollice. j James Russell Lowell, the great j t, died Tuesday morning at Boston, age 72. Will Critchlow has returned from his European mission. He will J likely live in Ogden. ( in b'orgia, .Alabama. Nebraska j nifl Sail lake, says the IL-rnl't. The other day a female cur got lock; 1 in t he Ce-op store over night : by mistake. Early next morning i when a clerk came to "open up" he found ihe cur and a Titter of j eight pup.: lying near the outside I door. If one of our numerous prospectors, prospec-tors, now in the hills east of here, would discover a nd "cabbage-on" to a big coal mine, he would be forever buried in a cyclone of genuine gen-uine blessings and a great amount of cents. The Brigham City people were quite elated to have our home livers so eleverly down the Cache Valley racers. Our local sports are not quite as bombastic ns some of our near neighbors, yet they seldom fail to get there, all the same. Maple .Springs should be digged out and thoroughly cleaned. A few hundred dollars expended there by the City might double our water supply. Cattle should be prevented from polluting the very fountain bead of the spring. Now that the Mormon b have abandoned the practice of polygamy, poly-gamy, the ".Tosephitea" want to send Joseph Smith, Jr., son of the Prophet, to Utah to take charge of the Mormon church. They claim him to be the only true priestly If it comes to a jam, Brigbam's I new opera house will hold over 000 i people. Not. so small, eh? j Lost. Saturday. Aug. 8th, gold ' locket with quartz settings on both sides. Please leave at Bixji.ek : oliiee. j j C. S. Nichols. U. P. telegraph ! 1 operalur nt Aspen. Wyoming, is in : town spending a few weeks at his , old home. J A home without a mother-in- ' ( law is about the same as a busi- i ' ness done without advertising very quiet. We have but one south-bound daily mail train now, 8:30 a. m., i and two north-bound, 1:08 p. in. S and 0:25 p. m. Business will undoubtedly begin to liven up about next month. Still, none of our merchants report times extremely dull. Some 'say that Cleveland and Harrison will be pitted against eaeh other in '92. This would insure in-sure a lierce. close fight. Read The Bremen, and await results. 'Twill either blow brains into you or blow your brains out. We guarantee no, joking. The Philadelphia Record is I authority for the statement that London firms spend nearly $2,500,- 000 in advertising every week. All babes born on the 20th of February. 1SVI0, won't see a birthday for eight years. Dreadful, but ! true. There's no leap yer-r is PJ00. j ! Over the door of a saloon in n 1 I certain western town is this legend: I "Welcome to Hell," and the pro-1 prietor is doing a red-hot business. The members appointed by the Utah Commission In act as a canvassing can-vassing beard wOl meet in Salt Lake to count the vole;; Mun- 1 tiny- What has become of the scheme of the Southern Pacific Ry. to swing over to Brigham? That road is losing hundreds of dollars every month by 'his procrastination.. A spur extended into the City would be better than nothing. j Yesterday afternoon C 0. Mcl'me ' presented us with a basket full of delicious plums, the first of the season. They are large, red and of a rich, sweet 11a vor. The name of the fruit is Botan-Japan. Many thanks for the treat. A party made up of the following follow-ing named ladies and gentlemen are now enjoying themselves in the mountains east of here: Misses Crawfords. Miss Abbie Wilson, Miss Aggie Wilson, Messrs. J. R. Lldridge, William Crawford ami Josh Crawford. Heretofore but little, if any, good ore has been discovered in Utah north of the Park City range, but it will not be at all surprising if the recent discoveries in both Cache and Box Klder counties should turn out to be surpassing-ly rich. The present, cool evenings are most enjoyable for driving and a short spin astride a fie.-y charger. That, List is not intended .for our own fair equestriennes, but. all the same it would strike 'em in some eastern towns w here women are learning to ride man-fashion. Take your families to the mountains moun-tains and give them a little outing during the hot, sultry weather. Such a trip would do the husband, the wife and the children a world of good. It brightens and refreshes them and makes ail better able to withstand this warm weather. The hills are frill of prospectors, and the air is full of the encouraging encourag-ing words the prospectors bring as Abstractor K. B. Kirk, assisted his aeeimiplished wife, is still laboring zealously with the county j records, compiling a complete set! of abstracts. The queen of Madagascar takes a bath only once a year. In this respect, we fear (here are a good many queens of Madagascar in this nice world. Tlie thermometer shows mircu-y sneaking all about the ninety m u k u.iw-adays. Once in a while it duosn't fear to hop up over that pohit either. J. L. SchaefVer conducted the pra vcr meeting at the Chapel d-i d-i ner-thiy uilit. as Uev. (iilh-spie 'tbiwn tt) American Fork attending the. I'resbytery. j Fruit is so cheap m town today ! H.-.r iwnii!,' will di-ooe ol it at anv diseovi'i'ies. 'h.ocvei' has climbed to the top of any of our mountains has walked over several fortunes. Somebody will find them. Ogden Standartl. There is talk of the City and county uniting to form a good chain gang. At present there are six criminals lounging in the jail, getting hog fat at the expense of the county. Not one stroke do they make for their victuals and lodging. Put them on the chain gang tti work. During the past few weeks a j number of people have been "taken j in" in town by the pay-a-dnllar-down bogus pieturc enlarging agent. ; (Generally you can put a strange ! agent down as a swindle when he : demands inonev in advance with- out first t-howim,' tlie hot ofcredeu- tials and making known his identity. iden-tity. N o w t in t everything is so dry and combustible, people should ; be exceedingly careful j to J guard against liivs. Keep match- ; es out of the reach of children: ' clean your dues; watch your rh heap-:; be cautious where you throw your ciga rette stumps and takeaH other sensible precautionary precaution-ary measures to prevent conflagrations. U'icc. The bounteous peach crop is hanging heaviest on the shoulders of the people. The Carl tun Comedy company plaved last night to a slim - house. They seemed to give satisfaction. They will appear here again Mon- day'uighl in "The Hidden Hand." The elegance of the new opera ' house will astonish the people not ' a little when they enter it for the , tirst time at tlie openine: per for- ' 1 manee. about the middle of ' j November. ! j Put a sign on a rotten bridge telling people to keep off because i it i-1 dangerous, and the chances i are that the majority of them will ! try the bridge ju-t t see if the sign is telling the truth. Lopau. Lehi and other cities of l the Territory arc juilering with diphtheria and kindred diseases. Let us look to the ch anliness of our own City that such alllictions may j pass by our doors. Samples of the elegant onera chairs th,.t will be used in our new theatre are in exhibition at the j Co-op store today. Thr- ou- s to ! I u.-L-d in tlie par.jiietto are easy, handsome, a nd con venient. V. A. Franks, a n-ted deputy marshal im)ortcd t subdue polygamy, polyg-amy, i" now di;eorid to a ', w b.eh se.le big,iuist. lie lias wiv.-v |