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Show A pessimist is a fellow who remembers the kind of weather we had last week. ' It certainly is discouraging. According to Harper's Weekly, a'' patent has been issued to Dr. Henry Spencer Blackmore, an industrial chemist of Washington, D. C, for converting gas into alcohol. With the use .of gaa fox cooking and lighting pur- ) $ p-ses already widespread, it will W i, i until every home will become its own iwfjiiP ' there won't be need of any further ;itri' " the saloon. .; The name's of those 'mentioned" a p...,;;; presidential candidates are many, hi;; ;'no,,lr, V"'i' nently qualified in one important PTi .:;!ar0 job. John D.'s is not among them. ' The hand of God is guiding IP- r ,- r, era of universal peace. - - There's .one thing about pari.-.,- ., . worse than giving up the money ajvi :!-.;, t to live in an old h ouse painted bris V w, 3rini It's a funny thing, but some rs T',-- . children names which the doting par.-rr .,' However, it will not be a sane Yr. ; 0f j , celebration i f the small boy can h"'r No parcels post this year. It -rates show that. It is just killing the wav the nuri--. '.'- improve the condition of society. f A man may have a good ear for :r ; - ailfj t. refuse to accept the phonographic r:;,r'i of j,-" neighbor as really first class. ' A Chicago poet, singing of the rr.r;rPm9ri? Admiral .Evans, says "the bugle has palorj fori,: minor key." 'It may have sounded tha; --,ir t h:m but it must have been a poor bujrW- ti.ar t;,p' pealing. We will not be permitted to forget the freej weather of "May when the fruit season arm?? Unless prodigality and vain display ar.. rjjtjril,. tive features of American life. The implicit? f ' the revolutionary patriots added to thir efficien" in dealing with the problems of their day, arfj , return to their old-fashioned modesty wuM ,hTp a great many of the present difficulties which up before us. At least half of our national are a result of ostentation. Embezzlers do not seem to have di-cnvrrM ant lack of funds with which to prosecute their wvk. . m , Tweedle-dee, tweedle-dum. That -.CnVikiii tine is again in the courts. Speaking of the commission system of city g-t-ernment, the "political leaders" could hardly bp ei-lcted ei-lcted to favor it. i It might be expected that the expo?ue of j dozen or more murders of men with money by ti "comely widow'' of Laporte will cause some rwi tion about entering into matrimonial dnls throng advertisements or bureaus to promote happy nx-riages. nx-riages. If they,just get that Utah state baseball lraj; running, it will furnish the fans a pretty good flense fl-ense for being slightly indisposed now and then. About the only improvement that could he mid in the national game would be to gag the pla??rj when they enter the fieldl People who enjoy talking talk-ing matches can have their needs supplied at coun-cilmanic coun-cilmanic proceedings. The people of Utah. rejoice with Park City t the opening of the Ontario drain tunnel. The erect is of state-wide importance, and will redound to the benefit of the state to almost the same extent as it will to the old camp. r A bicycle rider mounting his wheel at Thirteenth East street on Brigham can coast to Ninth Fa?t in a minute four blocks or at the rate ef thirty-five thirty-five miles an hour. During his wild coa?t of four blocks an automobile will run three square? farther, far-ther, or at the rate of sixty miles an hour. Thee things are not only possible, but thpy are accomplished accom-plished alrnost every day, notwithstanding the ordinance or-dinance limiting the speed of automobiles the city to. eight miles an hour. Once :n a while we read a news story ri vcim who pays pp honest debt after the lapse of nW years, or of some one who returns property c)iu a long time before, but somehow these things don't 1 happen vtry close to home. Admiral Evans , says we need more battleship and fewer statesmen, which indicate? fhc protar.a Bob's opinion of the relative importance of the navy and congress. -A visitor to San Francisco during the viit of. the fleet tells how a sailor showed several per?o;i?" himself among the number," over one of th batt.?- ships. At the close of the visit, the victor?, in ') spirit of good will, and from habit acqu'reu in ing house and barber shop, tried to hand the ?ai'. just an ordinary seaman a two-bit piece in ! f preciation of his kind scrvAee. Take it? Not It may have been against the discipline of the na? j but by his refusal the sailor proved himself a Some Republican politicians say Taft has to spare, but lie is not passing any around amofl? his friends. - Until it is proved that Mrs. Gunness is r?aH dead, there will be some misgiving in answer'-"" ads wherein "comely widows'' want husband'. . TWe "alleged" grafters in the furnishin? 'J the Pennsylvania state house have decided to the ca?e of the state against them, each for him? - Evidently r f raid to be mixed up with the other tc lews. .... - I |
