Show FOOLISH FANCIES 1 that was a first class clam piece of snobbery perpetrated in the federal house of representatives the other day when those grave and reverend fellows refused to elrike out the word lady wherever it occurred in the worlds fair bill and substitute aw woman the latter is the more dilli fled ter in and is the only one that should be used in connection with legislation or business affairs the other belonging exclusively to society some men are either co so ignorant or indifferent nt to the demands of propriety as to place such a sentence as so and so and lady on a hotel register rep fater whether intended or not it ie Is an insult for if itaho the woman is to bis his wife she is entitled to be eo so called and if not the reputation of the house receives a blow another snobbish custom spoken of bya by a writer in open courtis that of giving a woman her tier husbands title which has spread from washington to Toomb stone it has pride into vanity and shriveled up courtesy courte ey while trying to expand it the papers are to blame for bome of this because the tile bribe of a chicken bone will turn our special reporter into a jenkins in yellow plain plush livery and with a foot mans rapture he will tell us that mrs commissioner biggs gave a brilliant reception last evening at which wo we noticed mrs general diggs and the charming arc alderman F riggs accod accompanied danied by her beautiful daughter mrs senator jigga jiggs who kept up a lively conversation with mrs representative and so down to the bottom of the stairs it la Is of course understood that the people who pay these tawdry lotteries lat flat teries have graduated in the school of snobbery and that those who accept them without remonstrance are k not much better it bis has been carried to such an extent that even tradesmen are given titles corresponding ini with their occupations most of 0 which are utterly insupportable sime disgusting instances ure are cited by the same writer who says I 1 once had the holde honor of 0 an n lo 10 a lily ady who through 41 society na as mrs conductor gallic gaines her husband tius baud w nas w s a conductor on the railroad A lew few day days ago a newspaper naw paper telling bout about be the burning ol 01 in 4 building in chicago mid paid hat elevator operator gibbs first noticed th he smoke there was aa the be stately ida title given irea to the bor boy A ho run the lift more extravagant than ever that nas as tho the grim and gloomy title glien given to death watch men osborn a mau whose duty it was to bit sit up with c convict let sentenced to be hanged in cong this title W wo touched bottom iad and this justl flea the hope that a react reaction lon williet irell net in towards a simplicity of 0 tn annera IS ind and address worthy of a be Benal ble people A title la is well enough in its place when it la Is a necessary designation or the amenities of the situation actually require re but this indes indiscriminate criminate be I 1 of lof gilt edged names on every occasion whether called for or or not and the of such such things irom from father to son soh are a C custom which our forefathers fore fathers hers fought among ot other things fo down R G dux coa cos weekly H ebuy rethew continues to report satisfactory conditions in in the business world for the week ending feb it says that though at a higher level of prices business continues to exceed last years on the whole and is in character more healthy and conservative than usual with less lees speculative excitement with a sense of uncertainty mailing making buyers cautious in ila nearly all gilt lines so that purchases are closely confined to the actual demand for consumption the volume of bust ness transacted is nevertheless much greater than a year ago in in some of the most important branches and in in scarcely any is there material decrease 1131 money oney markets are everywhere easy in part because speculative liquidations and the marketing of crops have liberated large bums for w which bich there la is no immediate use and the volume ol 01 currency in circulation therefore decreased nearly in january but it is is noteworthy that while outstanding legal tenders bank notes silver certificates silver notes utes 0 and silver coins all dec decreased ceased re ased there were over IOCO mora more gold certificates taken oat out and held in in circulation cu 11 the business failures during tho the week were fewer than for many weeks past and lacked sixteen of reaching the number for the same week last year MB P L WILLIAMS an attorney of salt lake recently sent the board of school trustees a nil b 11 for 1000 for a alleged services eer Fer vices A good many down there are said to ba bs curious to know what be he ha done to entitle him to any such sum and several others are asking why it is that with an a attorney on the board presumably preen mably C capable of attending to its very small amount of business another must be employed and one who judging adaid 9 from his charges ought to be belong ong to the military thosa those who thi think n k it is is none of four cur funeral are admonished that the school interest ever everywhere is a matter of concern to this paper RE REPORT PORT iso no being a pham referring to the hilt bill for the relief of V gen e n 2 postmaster of ogden to the amount of 1329 33 38 which is the sum that was stolen from the safe about a year ago has been received from lion ilon john T caine it gives a succinct history of the ca case seand and to in each instance where an 1 official expresses himself at all be recommends the passage of the bill in simple justice to gen kimball THE tue ru PUBLISHED report of ex Clev elanda elands letter on the si silver 1 ver bill in reply to the invitation of the reform club of new york indicates that bow how decided he lie may be in his lie views on the subject be he knows how to express bim him belf eo so as to prevent the country from finding out what thosa those views views are AM AN ELECTRIC c s street treet railway in successful I 1 oper operation atlo a will bring money into the town faster than any other agency it will put life into dull things and make lively things livelier it ought to ba be rushed TUB THE SALT LAKE papers did not quite elect another new now mayor for ogden yesterday we were quite prepared for such an announcement and its failure to come is therefore a sore disappointment AKE aric plenty of beope now who believe in stricter election laws A week ago some of them would could have been insulted at the tile suggestion that our election laws were anything else than fair tim REMOVAL of tho the union pacific offices to ogden has in no sense disturbed the worlds equilibrium nor ogdena placidity salt lake might learn a leeson lesson in resignation in MB CLAGETT fred I 1 red dubois will find a toeman foeman worthy of his steel and the contest for that will be long and bitter |