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Show Meanness neared the limit when King Leopold refused to give his daughters the $2,000,000 bequeathed them by their mother, the late Queen Henrietta. That Skagway woman who had a golden washboard made to remind her of past hard times and the way she 1 ' won out, may yet have to put it in pawn and buy a -wooden one unless her mine has no bottom to it, In order to control the legislature j , which will elect a senator to succeed Senator Rawlins, the Democrats must elect twenty-nine and the Republicans twenty-six members of the upper and lower houses. The Democrats have hope and the Republicans have "soap." In the Danish landsthing, on second . . reading, the bill providing for the transfer of Denmark's possessions in the West Indies to the United States was rejected by a tie vote. This is a "hunch" to the loyal Republican looking for the position of territorial governor of the isle to get after a postoffice or some other sure snap in his own state. Reports from Paris say that Sarah Bernhardt spends sleepless nights bemoaning be-moaning the passing of her youth. It . was not so long ago that Sarah or some other ancient artiste wrote entertainingly enter-tainingly on "How to Keep Young." . Some friend should send her a Salt , Lake paper, so she may read up on "health food" and "beauty doctors." George Hull, the man who built the "Cardiff Giant," is dead at Bingham-! Bingham-! ton, N. Y. Although this swindle de monstrated to some extent the number of credulous people there were in this country, it also turned up a lot of archaelogical and geological cranks who found sufficient evidence in the fake stone man io Impeach revelation. The wonder is that another religious sect was not started, having for Its basis the "Cardiff Giant" j What's the matter with Mark Twain? Had he to wait for everybody else to j work off humor on the coal famine be fore attempting, that silly dispatch to the secretary of the treasury placing , an order for forty-five tons of govern ment bonds, "suitable for furnace?" A I joke loses its sparkle when it becomes second-handed, and the only real humor in that dispatch is Twain's willingness wil-lingness "to vote right" if his order Is filled. Evidently Mark Twain is losing ' his grip. ; . A delegation of Eureka miners were i at Provo to hear Colonel Bryan, and when he concluded his speech the pres-j pres-j ident of the miners union presented him a union badge. In reply, Bryan said: "I shall stand for silver, when some of the miners of silver are ready '. to destroy it in order to gain their ends I in the Republican party." Remember- I ing the incident of the silver loving cup I presented to Bryan at Saltair a few ! years ago, some people are prone to I i think that the Nebraskan was not only I sarcastic but a little bit personal. i The annual report of the eommission- ! er of education gives only the number I attending schools supported by general I and local taxes. In round numbers I this Is seventeen million. The expendi- ture reached $2.93 per capita of the pop- I ulation. Of what value is an educational 1 census unless it is complete; unless I it includes the large number, reaching I perhaps into millions, who attend paro- chial and private schools, whose parents pa-rents are taxed to support the seventeen seven-teen millions-, and -who could find no room in public schools should a decree be sent out tomorrow closing every parochial and private school in the country? Let us have the facts in the coming report of the secretary of the interior, or some explanation for their omission. Coming from Father Lambert of the Freeman's Journal, this little paragraph para-graph is doubly appreciated: The series of articles on "Agnosticism and Deism Explained," published recently re-cently by the Intermountain Catholic, should be put in book form by some of our enterprising Catholic publishers publish-ers or truth societies. The following high tribute was paid to our worthy bishop by Judge Goodwin Good-win in the last issue of his Weekly: "One of the biggest and best men, judged by both brain and heart, that ever gave sanctity to the streets of Salt Lake City is Bishop Scanlan." To the above eulogy we doubt if one dissenting dis-senting voice would be found in the whole state of Utah among those who know Bishop Scanlan. Attempting, to minimize the effect of William J. Bryan's speeches upon the people of Utah, especially in his assaults as-saults upon trusts, the Salt Lake Tribune Tri-bune comes to their defense and says that these great combinations "are the legitimate outgrowth of our free institutions." in-stitutions." Paste that in your hat, President Baer. These few words quoted from the Tribune may save you a couple of typewritten pages when next you address the public in defense of the coal operators. All Hallows has a sweet, religious sound, re-echoing from the classic precincts pre-cincts of the venerable pile that sent so many scholars from Erin to the uttermost parts of the earth. That sound was taken up by the choir of J college youths who participated in the corner stone laying on Sunday last, and was heard . in fancy by all the Catholics Cath-olics in these mountains, for the name of All Hallows' college is familiar to those east and west of the continental divide and up to the borders of the Arctic zone.- The pride in All Hallows exceeds local affection. It belongs to all the Catholics of these mountains. . 1 i The odium of palming off wooden nutmegs upon innocent customers has clung to Connecticut until Boston came to the front 'with knavish tricks the devil himself could not beat. Upon the authority of Senator Burton of Kansas, Kan-sas, who has just returned from Hawaii, Ha-waii, the natives there are in "hard lines" owing to the rascality of Boston missionaries. These sanctimonious scalawags have given the ignorant people peo-ple "certificates to heaven" in exchange for valuable lands. Talk about the Philippines welL we believe it was a Boston missionary who first assailed the friars so severely for wrongfully obtaining the lands of the natives. The New York papers report . that James R. Keene, the financier, who has been one of the" most famous "diners" in that city, has had to give up canvas-back canvas-back and terrapin and "come down to lamb chops, well done; spinach, stewed prunes, and a cup of pale tea. His physician has informed him that the chops are nutritious, the spinach strengthening, the prunes medicinal, and the tea digestible. What disturbs Mr. Keene the most however, is that he must adopt this menu for a steady diet and not depart from it until he is cured, if he ever is. For a dinner party par-ty the other evening, at which he was host, he provided all the delicacies of the season, but for himself there were chops, spinach, prunes and tea. There are no more Luculius feasts for him. He cannot evenindulge in the common people's luxuries, such as New England Eng-land boiled dinner, pork and beans, salt pork and baked potatoes, or any of those plain, substantial dishes which are so much more enjoyable than the highly spiced viands of the millionaires. million-aires. But this Is one of the penalties nature provides for the multi-millionaire's money. But how many millionaires million-aires long for the common person's digestion? |