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Show ' LOCAL JOTS. .1 Who can tell what a day may bring j. - . forth? ! Stormont stock is quoted at 14c. on the , ; New York Board. Eeal estate in Salt Lake City was never in ",J less demand and at lower figures than now. The markets are alive with rabbits, ducks, and all small game, at the lowest prices known. The Careless Opera Company meets for the praotioe of " Pirates or Penzance" Mon- ' day evening next, at 7:30 o'clock. ; . - , i The question which some are beginning to I ask is whether the oloud under which the I ; polygamists now are, has any silver lining. f I Among other things, what has been done ! with the City Council's quarterly appropri- j .' ationsof $500 to the Liberty Park contin- gent fund ? II Delegate Caine. as a member of the Con- l - gressional Democratic Committee, is said to be heartily in accord with the Administra-;, Administra-;, tion on the Utah question. Jesse C. Little, the founder of the ilor-i ilor-i mon colony at Sonora, Old Mexico, is in t he city, and confident that -the nucleus of a I modern commonwealth exists there. I '.I Biblical scholars are inclined to think that j Job had a prophetio vision of Salt Lake City when he said, "We are born in corruption, f reared in corruption and go down in corrup tion." I ' Andrew C. Brixen has filed a suit in the i A Third District Court against the Deseret ! .! National Bank for the $752 Smith-Dunbar i i forgery, which was explained to the public : several weeks ago. ' I The sopranos and altos taking part in I ; B. B. Young's sacred concert to be given on Sunday'evening, the 27th inst., are requested to meet at Calder's Music Palace this even- ing at 6:30 o'clock. '! It is a little queer that the Governor's re- -J port should reach Washington but that his resignation never did. The resignation would have benefitted the Territory far - more than the report ever will. 1 ' The San Francisoo Post says a fool and a dynamite bomb form a combination that no f sensible man will laugh at. So does a six- i shooter and a deputy marshal. The Mor- . mon press will swear to the latter proppsi- . tion. E.M. Bynon, attorney for J.J. Schmelzle, i . to-day reoeived notification that pension certificate No. 313,698 had been issued in favorof the applicant, and payable at the San FranciscD agency, drawing from June . . 12th, 1885. Ihe Home Dramatic Company hold the boards at the Salt Lake Theatre in "Confu-t "Confu-t . sion" New Year's afternoon and evening f while the "Iolanthe" people say they will : ? Play a matinee at the Opera House on New i Year's afternoon. . ' As the City Council found it necessary to Ko to Ogden to employ proper legal talent to manage Salt Lake's law business, we sug-! sug-! gest that the Council go once more to Ogden ; and hire Hemenway to make the city dead certain on all legal questions. Ireme Kiralfy tells a San Francisco reporter i that the people there can have no idea of , the magnificence of "Around the World in Elhty Days." If Kiralfy should put it on a la bait Lake, the Friscoites would get "no idea of the magnificence" in about as satis-J satis-J factory a manner as they could wish for. " What kind of fruit do you love the best?" He questioned the maiden fair. "The juioy apple with rosy cheeks t Or the sweet and luscious pear?" , . The gentle maiden smiled and said : i ' The fruit that pleases me I Better than all the fruits I know j 18 the fruit of the Christmas tree." : Judge Powers has granted an injunction on the Eureka, which of course is beneficial t0 the Beck interests, as they are not re- " strained from taking ore from the contro- i verted property. Beck works all the men possible on his mine, and is shipping large ; quantities of ore. The end will come soon, ! and both sides are confident of winning the i great suit. , . . ' Alice Harrison, supported by a great com- Pa?y nl comedians, will oooupy the Salt I . L'ake Theater on Deoember 25th and 26th, I ; with a Christmas matinee. They also give a f , Saturday matinee. The play which is the latest laughing suocess of the age, is en titied-Hot Water." It is said to be ex- Icrutiatingly funny, and we know of no bet-J bet-J er my to spend Christmas than by laugh- ing over the absurdities of this decidedlv ; humorous comedy. J |