Show fc I 1 s josh s dies lu cal iro rula etwas only a month or two ago that tho celebrated humorous philosopher os known as josh billings english language is read passed a week or more in ogden city and delivered one of chis characteristic lectures in the union opera house here and now tho news comes over the wires that ho died suddenly at monteray Mon in california at ten on the morning of the dinst the body will be embalmer embalmed ed and sent east about anthe morning when iho to the hotel delmonte to attend josh billings who was sitting in a chair an the vestibule apparently enjoying the bestif health when the physician arrived he complained of pain in the chest and remarked my doctors east ori or i dered rest pathe brain and head de d throwing back hia long hair but you can see I 1 do not have to work my brain for a simple lee ture it cornea spontaneously while he wag talking be suddenly threw his hands over his head and fell backwards unconscious he was carried to his and at the end of three minutes life was extinct His wife who accompanied him on his trip to the pacific chaat was with him during hia last moments his baca faca has retained a perfectly natural expression and bears no indication of pain he was to have lectured there friday for the benefit of a local lodge of good Temp lars at the hotel ho had made himself a general favorite by his good natured ways when josh billings w aa JB ogden city he paid a long visit to the editorial staff of the and in a very brief interval ingratiated himself into our hearts by bis genial expressions pres of good ivill and his sparks ling witticisms and it Is with deep anac sincere regret that we learn of his sudden demise among all the and humorous characters of this age josh Billi rigg has mccu a unique and conspicuous po mitlon he is particularly a product of america his genius was original and brilliant and his nom deplume josh billings will long live in the hearts of americans when his patronymic appellation of H W shaw is no longer kemem berea |