Erie, Pa.—Mayor Adams has a novel application to open his term with. David Gutenkunst, a saloon keeper, is an applicant for the post of police chief, candidly stating that he has no personal detective ability but that his recently married wife is a medium able to detect burglars and recover stolen property by looking in a glass of water. Fearing the mayor would not appoint his wife to the post, Gutenkunst asked it for himself but will let his wife run the business.
Wichita, Kansas.—The new liquor law has closed, to all appearances, every saloon in this city but as anyone can get all the liquor he wants at drug stores by stating he desires liquor for medical purposes, many of the saloon men have started drug stores and a doing a very thriving business.
The postal letter carriers at Salt Lake City are having a unique experience. On account of the late polygamy arrests all the Mormons have been severely warned against talking to strangers and giving their names or residences. The carriers in their rounds knock at doors and a scurry ensues inside. A child answers the door. It is asked who lives there and it often refuses to tell. It does not know the names of the neighbors, or where its father and mother are to be found. The uniform is a sign of the enemy and no information is to be had.
Pittsburg.—Thomas Carney relates a strange tale in the divorce proceedings now pending against his wife, Mary. She was passionately fond of baseball and went to see all the games. She became so absorbed in the sport last summer that she neglected her children. At length she got to betting. The Alleghenys seemed to possess some attraction for her and her money was always put on that club. As they were nearly always beaten the husband testified that this business became rather expensive. When he suggested to her that she should stay at home with the babies she told him to hire a domestic. Carney finally left his wife and the last he heard of her she was desirous of joining a woman’s baseball club.
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| Roller skating was in the news all the time. New rinks were being built. There were strange contests at the rinks—the longest necktie and the longest apron were two of them. Sounds a bit dangerous to me. Doctors proclaimed skating was bad for the ankles. Some ministers declared skating evil while others found it preferable to dancing. Laws were passed to keep kids out of rinks during school hours. |
When lawyers fail to take a fee,
And juries never disagree;
When politicians are content,
And landlords don’t collect their rent’
When naughty children all die young,
And girls are born without a tongue’
When preachers cut their sermons short,
And all folks to the church resort;
When back subscribers all have paid,
And editors have fortunes made;
Such happiness will sure portend
This world must soon come to an end.
And juries never disagree;
When politicians are content,
And landlords don’t collect their rent’
When naughty children all die young,
And girls are born without a tongue’
When preachers cut their sermons short,
And all folks to the church resort;
When back subscribers all have paid,
And editors have fortunes made;
Such happiness will sure portend
This world must soon come to an end.
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