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Show i It's a bit too early to worry about a I green Christmas. Still, it bids fair to . j. be an open winter. There wasn't enough prize money to i go around. At any rate Admiral i Sampson continues to get the most of it. i Ncthing from either Miss Stone or j ; Consul Dickinson this week. What's j : I tin- matter with the Bulgarian tele- j phc-ne? 1 - j Do your Christmas shopping in the (i forenoon. Then perhaps we can go f flown in the afternoon and pick out something. ; King Edward's coronation rites will S lust four hours, during which time he i will he compelled to abstain absolute- i ly ftom smoking. There are 25i clocks in Buckingham J palace, and it is a vvnj-k of no small iii'.liortanct- to kejj ihvin all going. Kut if dork are like mares, money j wil! nwke them go. Why doesn't some esteemed New York paper send an expedition for the ' l:ef of Miss Stone? asks the Chicago Tribune. What's t'he matter with the lime museum manager'.' As to Iho Indiana woman of 50 who trf.s sud for damages on account of breach of promise of marriage, there is no occasion for mirth. It in a serious mailer to a woman of that age. ,. If t he Baroness Burdett-Coutts ?ur- vies to witness the coronation of Ed- j ttatil VII it will be the third event of the kind in her experience. S"he was ' - present at the coronation of William IV and of Yictoria. j "It's a hard job," says a Utah coun-f coun-f try editor, "for a fellow to grind out poetry, collect subscription, run the ; job press, anil manage a paper, all at th.-' same time" So it is, brother. Quit . grintlitifr v t. -.-'.. oni?r.a..w-..t ... . ..a.- oet-n acquit. ted of the charge of Jaggcdness, but the most important question in the inquiry remains unsettled. Is it good manners . . to invite a man to take a drink and then criticise the size of the drink? inquires the Chicago Tribune. Senator Kearns had a conference with General Miles relative to the improvement im-provement and enlargement of Fort Douglas. General Miles favored the enlargement of the post, and his influence in-fluence with the board of officers now considering the permanency and size of military posts will be in behalf ot making Douglas a full regimental station. sta-tion. Though "3 years old and wealthy, Samuel Snell of Holyoke, Mass.. de-; de-; . votes all his time to making stone coffins. , During the last twenty-five I years he has made'and diFpos-ed rf bv-er P'O, claiming for them thai, .they! keep ; the body in an excellent ,state of pres-' pres-' crvation long after burial. It would also appear that the making of stone coffins keeps the body in an excellent state of preservation long before i : '. j burial- 1 ; Count up your dollars and your pen- I , ; nies; the shops are all ready for them I ! with tempting arrays of wares. From I ' ! the grocer's to the jeweler's, everything j t Tears an air of festive expectancy. 1 The children begin to flatten their little lit-tle noses against the glass sides of the counters and wish they were tall enough to look over the top and decide de-cide what toys they hope most foi Santa Claus to bring. The stores are filled with shoppers, eagerly scanning ths display of Christmas things, to decide de-cide what shall be bought for each dear one. The lntermountain Catholic tenders its congratulations to President John R. Winder of the Mormon hierarchy on the happy occasion of his eightieth birthday. It is only In Utah do we find octogenarians retaining all tha mental and physical vigor of youth. President Winder offers the be6t example exam-ple of how a man may put two days' work into one, and live long and grow strong without, doctors. At hand are only the brief press dispatches dis-patches relating to the convention of Catholic societies at Cincinnati for the purpose of establishing a national fed-eration. fed-eration. These announce that the first day's proceedings was marked -with eclat, that over 500 delegates were present and participated in a parade, and that everything passed off harmoniously har-moniously up to the close of the cession. ces-sion. All of which leads one to think that those who attended were of one mind before meeting at Cincinnati, and those who predicted that polities would be a prominent feature of debate remained re-mained away. This was a mistake. Nothing becomes perfect without an opposing element to restrain it. and the imperfections of the federation, if any, may properly be charged up to those who attacked it in places other than on tho floor of the convention. |