Show LAUGHTER AND TEARS S 0 A denver paper of late date contains an interview with a gentleman just back from salt lake who thinks that cites streets are too wide for her ever to become a rival of denver the criticism strikes the salt lake tribune as it will almost everybody se absurd but the tile Tribu nii forced jocularity in the matter ia is hard bard to understand dere der tand stand it bays do you mind that og den here ia is your chance to take the everlasting lead of bait salt lake and so on and so forth there must be some fine point in this and yet it escapes us the tri bunei wit ia is usually of that kind only the writer of it knows when and where to laugh ilisan it ia an advanced humor of which only a very few people in this thie world enjoy the monopoly in all candor we would be pleated to enjoy the tribunes joke but we cannot do anything at it until we get the explanation which will accordingly be awaited with impatience there is a statement however near the end of the tribunes article which is the essence of wit the more so that wit was not intended tended Iff here it is in the end it will belew york chicago salt lake and san francisco that will be the big four bikit is a joke that commends itself to everybody v albany the capital of new york springfield the capital of illinois and sacramento the capital of california are not likely to enjoy it much because it will look to them as though their impudent western co capital was ashamed of them but the metropolitan cities of new york chicago ogden and ban san Franci francisco Fco free as they are from the restraints of legislative legi sessions executive residences and off offic iclal fal bangers hangers on are and will be highly diverted at these contortions of the aspiring perspiring and almost expiring city of ol 01 f the saline sea if the tribunes seriousness is found to be humor why may not its is attempted humor be viewed as pathos I 1 recurring therefore to the advice here ia is your chance ogden to take iho the everlasting lead of salt lake we remember that away back in the dim and musty past there wa was s a time when euch a bint hint was playfully given ogden took it then and has been in the everlasting lead ever since but I 1 we should never think of bloating ul over such inch a fact without first taking oft off our hat bat in deference to its venerable it go AN all excursion party arrives in salt lake like the papers there speak of 0 f them as a representative body of ladies and gentlemen when they leave they are referred to as a acar carload of men and women 11 as a though they were so many bushels of potatoes but perhaps this is tho the way the travelers feel feet to aft a strong under current in favor avor ol 01 0 I 1 north salt aake karam the only reason there is not a strong upper current also is because the water has been unusually low for several fearons Fea seasons ions it will be all current and a strong str ong current thin this spring |