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TRUTH If I
ADDITIONAL SOCIAL
The San Francisco Chronicle of a
few days ago has tho following:
B. S. do Wolf, proprietor of tho Im
perial Hotel, slipped up to Sacramen
to last Monday, and there mot Mrs.
i Winifred Shaughnessy of Salt Lake
City, who had just returned from a
European trip. At 8:30 o'clock that
evening they were privately married
by Judge darken, an old friend of the
groom. Do Wolf's now touring car
was In waiting for a bridal tour to
Los Angeles, but the storm came on,
and Mr. and Mrs. do Wolf decided to
come to San Francisco by rail. They
expect to start eastward within a fort
night, and after their return, about
I tho middle of March, they will honk
along tho roads into the southland.
Next October ho will open tho Belle-
vuo a million-dollar hotel now being
j erected at Geary and Taylor streets.
J The employes of tho Imperial yester-
day presented Mr. and Mrs. do Wolf
with a beautiful electric lamp, tho
standard of which is a bronze stork.
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MADE THE SONG REALISTIC.
Contralto's Musical Efforts Accom
panied by the Living Article.
Alice Sovereign had a trying experi
ence recently In Pittsburg, her recital
ending with a llttlo tragedy, tho dra
matis personao of which wero tho con
tralto and a bluebottle fly. Tho re
frain of Nevln's "Yearning" had just
been reached and Miss Sovereign In
her most appealing tone3 was entreat
ing, "Oh, fly with mo!" when the blue
bottle, nccei.,ing tho invitation, ap
peared. Refusing to bo brushed aside,
it buzzed blithely about tho singer's
pretty face and with commendable
taste remained in the vicinity of her
lips. "Oh, fly! oh, fly!" continued Miss
Sovereign, a bit tremulously. "Buzz!"
was tho noncommittal answer. "Oh,
fly!" confined the contralto, on a low
C that gave very little hint of her
trepidation. And then the worst hap
pened. Without pausing to reflect, the
fly impulsively rushed into tho breach
and disappeared. It was a critical
moment for both, but Miss Sovereign
proved equal to tho emergency. With
out wincing, and with excellent
breath control, she aided tho Intruder
In Its downward journey, and con
cluded tho song with a clear, mellow,
and truthful, "Oh, fly with me!" The
Incident was unnoticed by the audi
ence, but Miss Sovereign still has the
fly in memory, at least.
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Steel Pens.
Steel writing pens aro a modern In
T . ventlon. They were first mado In 1S03
f In England by a man named Wise.
Tho quill pen of our forefathers was
first used In tho fifth century. Before
that time split reeds were used to
write with. Thero was not much use
for pens In tho olden times. Theo
dorlc, king of the Ostrogoths, it is
said, was so Illiterate that, instead of
using a pen with which to sign docu
ments, he had a gold plato through
which letters woro cut, and this being
placed on a piece of paper, the king
traced his slgnaturo with a quill.
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Corrected.
"Charley, dear," said young Mrs.
Torklns, "you said those' losing ball
ilayers fielded badly."
"That's what I said."
"This sporting talk Is demoralizing
our grammar. You mean tliey felt
tad!,"
THE OLDEST DIAMOND FIELDS.
Kohlnoor Probably Came from Them
About 350 Years Ago.
In a recent report of tho geological
survey of India thero Is an Interesting
account of tho Panna diamond fields
of central India. Historically this
country Is believed to bo the original
home of the diamond and from thorn
it 13 supposed that tho famous Kohl
noor was extracted some three and a
half centuries ago, the earliest dia
monds dating some 25 years previous
ly. Of late years India has quite re
tired from the Hold as a precious stono
producer to any extent or value, but
from tho account given It should bo
worth tho whllo of a small syndicate
to take up these diamond fields, says
tho Pioneer, and work them systemati
cally, though It Is said that neither In
luster nor price do the stones found
compare with tho yield of tho South
African fields.
The methods, however, now In
vogue mean merely superficial treat
ment, following the lines which have
been In vogue for centir'-,s, with tho
probable result that the strata con
taining the most valuable deposits of
stones are not reached. From a geo
logical point of view there aro said to
bo diamond bearing conglomerates
over several areas, which would ad
mit of deep shaft sinking, and sys
tematic mining under competent "-n-trol
being carried on profitably.
Proper Time for Inspection.
One of tho officials of a town near
Philadelphia has been tho butt of
much good natured raillery for some
days past as tho result of a bull mado
by him at a recent official meeting.
Complaint had been made that tho
hose In uso by tho fire department of
tho town had been very unsatisfactory
and that at tho last two fires to which
tho company had turned out sections
of the hose were found In a leaking
condition. After considerable discus
sion as to tho proper action to bo
taken tho official In question sur
prised his colleagues when he arose
and said: "I move, Mr. Chairman,
that until further notice tho chief of
the fire department be instructed to
have an Inspection of all fire hoso
mado two days before every fire."
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Pope's Skull.
Tho skull of Alexander Pope, tho
poet and satirist, is in tho private col
lection of a phrenologist. During
some alterations In tho churchyard
where Pope was burled It was neces
sary to move his coffin, which was
opened at tho tlmo to ascertain the
state of his remains. By bribing the
sexton of tho church possession of tho
poet's skull was obtained for the
night, and in tho morning a different
skull' was returned Instead. Tho cost
of the skull, Including the bribe, was
50 pounds. Tho Sunday Magazine.
The Proper Procedure.
A school teacher asked a pupil how
old ho was, says tho Kansas City
Times. Tho pupil replied: I am
one-fourth as old as my father and
he's two years older than my mother.
My two brothoj pro as old as my
mother was wher. my mother was
25." Tho teacher solved tho problem
by knocking tho pupil to tho floor,
sitting on his head and pounding him
with tho poker until he was ready to
talk sense.
MEN OF MANY LANGUAGES.
Cardinal Mezzofantl Probably the
Greatest Linguist of them All.
Fifty-eight langunges at tho end of
one's tongue! Yet this was tho num
ber of tongues of which tho Cardinal
Mezzofantl was master, and tho most
wonderful thing about It was that
nearly all of these different languages
had sovoral separato dialects. Mezzo
fantl was probably tho greatest lin
guist tho world has ever known. To
hear a languago was with him to
speak it. Ho was a man with thren
score words for every Idea, and ho
laid his great attainments to his excel
lent memory and to tho fact that
onco hearing a word ho never forgot
It.
Jeremiah Curtln, tho translator of
"Quo Vadls," Is credited with speak
ing GO languages and dialects.
Thero aro few men nowadays who
pass t o mark of a speaking ' knowl
edge of ten languages. Six or eight
soem to be the limit, even with men
of great learning. Mlthrldatos, Pico
and Sir William Jones wero said to
bo masters of over 20 tongues, and
Sir John Bowrlng, Muller and Frcs
nel are said to havo spoken In 20.
Tho Sunday Magazine.
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The First House Clocks.
Tho very early house o'ocks, which
are tho kind In which ordinary col
lectors aro chiefly Interested, wore
called bird-cage or lantern clocks.
There wero somo of them very small,
four or five Inches high, and could bo
hung on tho bedpost, which was
where Catherlno of Braganza had hers
and where Pepys saw It. Ho says in
his diary (1CG4): "And her holy wa
ter at her head as she sleeps, with a
clock at her bed's side, wherein a
lamp burns and tells her the tlmo of
night at any tlmo."
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Coal Mine Easy to Work. -
Hongay, Tonkin, China, has the j
safest coal mlno in tho world. The
working Is on tho sldo of a hill, which
is one sjolld block of coal about 200
feet high. To get at tho mineral It
is necessary only to removo a layer
of schist on tho surface. Tho coal, j
which Is of good quality, Is mined to
tho extent of about 1,000 tons a day.
There Is a good deal of dust, which
Is used for making briquettes. Tho
staff of tho mine is composed of 50
Europeai and 3,500 natives.
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Japanese Incense Parties.
"Incenso parties" wero a common
feature of old Japan. Each of the
guests had a llttlo furnace, a small
wooden box, packed with sand. On
tho top of this was a small charcoal
fire. Each woman In turn burned
somo incenso and tho others had to
guess what It was. After every burn
ing tho windows wero thrown open
and tho room was cleared for tho next
experiment
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Clever Clerk.
"For somo tlmo past I've been buy
ing a dozen eggs every week at tho
store, and I invariably And tw bad
ones in every dozen. Somethings
got to bo done about it," said an lrato
housekeeper. "Well," said tho now
clerk naively, and with a quiet smile,
"mebbo if you only bought half a
do on you'd get one bad ono."
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A Symptom of Servantgltls. M
Lady Your references aro far from jfl
satisfactory. H
Maid References go for llttlo nowa-
days. Yours were no good, but I H
thought I'd try you." iH
UTAH PRESS ASSOCIATION. I
Owing to tho alleged inability of
members to leave their business, tho H
association will not hold Its nnnual H
meeting in Logan, as anticipated.
In consequence, tho annual meeting H
will bo held In Salt Lako City on BJ
Tuesday, Jnnuary 22nd, 1907, at -102, D.
F. Walker Building, at 2 p. m.
Thero will bo no program, no feast-
lng, no pleasure simply business! If H
Interested, bo thero; ir not, stay away
and forever hold your peace. H
Tuesday, Jnnuary 22nd, 1907, is tho BJ
date; 402 D. F. Walker Building, is
the place. Don't forget! H
S. L. RADDON,
President. Ba
Dated at Park City, Utah, January BJ
14th, 1907.
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