Show General JVotcB Clouds arc looming and the town is still booming F A Shiells is proud on seeing his name spelled right once in hip American career J H Alcock Fred MartindaPs partner part-ner in the sheep business has been in town to take in the fleece Our old nay young friend J J W Whitney is again in the Western Union lIe looks as affable as ever Shake Complaints about the nondelivery of THE DEMOCRAT should be made at once at the office at Giesr Spargos A C Emerson is doing a good business II I busi-ness in the news line He reports the I I demand for THE DEMOCKAT as rapidly increasing in-creasing At C L Peebles I have noticed a modern improvement on the old cigar lighting schemes It is a contrivance that goes off by itself when you give it a chance Alex Toponce was again a genial smiling visitor in our burg yesterday He says if it were not for Ogden Co rhino would have aio chance to be the suburb of anything Giesy Spargo nave just received boxes upon boxes of the finest and latest literary emanations from the first pub lislling houses of the land Their display cannot be duplexed The other day Manasseh Collinson who is engaged at Syracuse met with an accident by which he hurt his back He is now laying off taking care of his dorsal dor-sal spine and shaking hands with his old time Ogden friends Yesterday Aldermen Reeve and Dee accompanied by other gentlemen of municipal importance drove up towards the mouth of thp canyon to inspect the prospects and advantages of the proposed Cliff Boulevard as Frank Cannon calls it As regards the Lily on tho 23d it has not yet been definitely settled whether Bruce Taylor or L It Rogers will perform per-form the artistic part of Pygmalion to her Galatea Latest cablegrams from Idaho are to the effect that Vic Bier bower may yet appear on the scene as an active contestant and almost irresistible rival for that artistic and esthetic honor There is a dark cloud of sorrowful gloom hanging over the home of J E Talmer the wellknown and highly respected re-spected electrician and manager of the Western Union Telegraph Company in this city His beloved infant son is seriously ill It is the fervid hope of his many friends that health will once more be restored to the juvenile sufferer so that he may live on to gladden the heart of his father The enlightened part of our citizens especially the welltodo ones believe in the ancient adage of mens sana in corpore xano a sound mind in a sound body Physical exercise goes along with mental instruction and moral development Hence we have the pleasure every evening even-ing to see a number of the daughters of our best townsmen taking horseback exercise ex-ercise and thus enjoying the free air that Nature gave us and the good roads that the City Council will by and by give us t As I have already informed you there will be an interesting affair at the Baptist Church on Sunday evening commencing at S oclock The Rev Dr Muller who for24 years was a missionary of the Con irregational Church in the land of the Zulus Zu-lus where the alleged son of Napoleon III was killed by the treacherous assegais will lecture upon Africa her civilization and Christianization Since Livingstons and Stanleys gallant exploring work the darkcontinent has become a center of attraction at-traction Look out for a big row One of our literary giants invented a new pump to him an original idea by copying an old Norse fairy tale from one of the many books in which the same is printed applying ap-plying it to our local climate Unfortunately Unfor-tunately some one else read and copied the same story and applied it to the alcohol question Each will soon denounce de-nounce the other as a pirate trading on the others brains What about the original Scandinavian author But then his book was not copyrighted We intend in-tend bringing an action against anyone who hereafter writes tho fable of the Wolf and the Lamb as we once used it so we give due notice of an impending motion for a caveat |