Show General Notes We have been enjoying a fine spring rain that moistened the bushes and buds and gently laved the lawns During Lent there is at the Church of Good Shepherd a daily evening prayer on week days at 330 oclock except on Fridays when there will be evening prayer and lecture by the Rev Samuel Unsworth at 730 p m Dr 0 B Adams one of the leading members of the medical fraternity of this city intends leaving us for the East in a few days He will leave a void behind I himOur Our sidewalks still need a good deal of fixing In a few days we shall be compelled to bid adieu to our old friend Kollin P Saxe the great importer of thoroughbred thorough-bred stock He will be greatly missed in social circles as will his amiable wife The rivers are rising rapidly and will swell still more with the heavy snows melting in the mountains All telegraph operators are not as lucky as some For instance the other night one of the Western Union Morse manipulators manipu-lators drove out to the Hot Springs of Dr Slater with his inamorata They had a bath in different apartments of course took supper together smoked cigaretts from Paysons and were about to return to Ogden when lo and behold their buggy had disappeared as Cicero puts it Aliit evasit erupit Now for the telephone to the livery stable for another an-other conveyance An anxious hour or two and finally there came relief On the way back they met the old nag quietly jogging along between the two railway tracks But the double hack fee is what troubles the Knight of the Key although he had extra time with his girl Henry Smith the lower Fifth street barber is made sport of occasionally by some unscrupulous wags in his neighborhood neighbor-hood But he buries his grief in THE DEMOCKAT and gets consolation there from Whooping couph scarlatina diphtheria diphthe-ria and other similar diseases of more or less dreadful effect are best warded off by complete cleanliness both of your person and your premises Let the sanitary sani-tary committee make a rigorous search nf th fnnn Uv LV If Dame Rumor having gone out of her way for once speaks truly it would pay during the coming summer to have an office for a justice of the peace at the Hot Springs so as to accommodate loving couples who have been reading or dreaming about the veil that will be lifted for them in tne Gretna Green of conjugal bliss That popular resort is planted with yew trees This is no pun either neither does this suggestion need any browning as it is done up all in good faithIt It is only right to statealthough somewhat some-what tardy the two friends of Major and Mrs Silva to whom is due all credit for the admirable arrangements of the funeral are none other than Colonel Hudson f Hud-son and T A Knauss The foregoing in yesterdays Tribune jottings must be considered in miserable taste From our long acquaintance with the gentlemen named we know them to be modest and unassuming and that they neither desire nor seek such notoriety While the fact stated is undoubtedly true we are inclined in-clined to think that both Colonel Hudson and Mr Knauos are averse to newspaper credit for the faithful performance of a sad duty |