Show ciicrn1 IVoics About a quarter past 10 oclock on Wednesday the firebell rang out its dismal dis-mal dingdong startling the workman in I his shop the merchant in his store the pedestrian on the sidewalk and everybody every-body else in general and the firemen in particular Of couree the latter promptly responded to the summons and repaired quickly to the scene of the blaze which proved to be only a patch of sagebrush near the iron works in the northwest end of town This is the one hundred and eleventh instance in which the city has been put to from 50 to 80 expense just from HMUO sagebrush fire How this is to bi > prevented it is difficult to divine unless there be a now and sensible sys tpm of alarms A P Snively an old miner from To tao Nevada is in town lookinc up some A the prospects in the lulls and mountain moun-tain sides which are indubitably rich in precious minerals Tina morning Thomas K Little left forBear for-Bear Lale county to travel in the interests inter-ests of Sidney StevensOn S Stevens-On Tuesday next the good people of tigden will have a favorable opportunity to witness one of the best performances ofurhe Mikado the great comic opera of the time Mug Amy Taylor has returned to Salt Lake City after pleasant visit at Mrs Lel18 on Main street Yesterday M Richter turned out another an-other good brew of the weliknown Ogden Brewery beer Ho thinks home industry will yet be duly appreciated Phil Grill is having a very handsome white marble monument sculptured by the expert hand of C P Lambert the artificer The street cars are steadily gaining in patronage and our only complaint is that the dividends will have to be divided with Salt Lake investors in the capital stock This of course is the fault of shortsighted Ogden men of money whop who-p failed to see the profitability of the project when it was first brought to public pub-lic attention The caloric wave is rising and again we are clamoring for rain more rain Giesy Spargp will have their elegantly decorated store in full sailingtrim in a day or so Things were generally quiet yesterday In fact there is nothing to ruffle the surface i sur-face of equanimity How is His Smoothness today 1 was the question at the Broom Hotel bar A nephew of a late lamented poet of the AngloSaxon race answered the call with his familiar alacrity and the counter query What will you have Soda prings water said THE DEMOCRAT Minter Fletcher in their saloon on fourth street near Young have a curt Otis specimen of ornithological rarity it being what most likely can be designated The bird as a sea raven or cormorant wa killed near Ogden bridge last week Sal 1 Muffed by Mrs Minter Its a queer looking feathered hi ped The portly form of Prof T B Lewis Ifittcipal ofthe Central School the apex 05 the public system of education in this COunty appeared in ominous vicinity to the rand jury room yesterday There Ij been previous rumors as to this gentleman being somewhat raatrimoni ttly entangled It might seem to be in the eternal fitness of things seeing that Mr Lewis predecessor L FIn F-In h has for over two years been on a mission to Europe to escape apprehension apprehen-sion on a charge unlawful cohabitation S H r S l II I Otherwise Prof Lewis is a valuable acquisition to our system of learning T There was nothing going on in the Police Court yesterday We are all evi dently getting within the reach of the tangent the peaceful millennium The City Council at its session of next Friday will do well to attend to that an cient though by no means venerable pest hole on Main street close by the Ocden bridge whence infernal malarial effluvia are likely to emanate before long with the heated term upon our brows I didnt catch that said Tohn W Pike for the first time in his stenographic expenenco at the Brosbinsky trial yes terday No wonder Mrs Brosbinsky I was the only one who did catch it I |