Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1880-04-07
FROM PARIS.
9Hg WEATHER AND TIE PARTISAN
HABIT JUST NOW.
A Governmental crisis-The Jesuit: and
the Repubic-A Devoted Wife
Notes of News.

the Republic-A Devoted Wife
Notes of News.
PARIS, March Is, 1880.
Winter has hardly turned his back when
here comes summer making leap over
spring, and rushing upon us with all the
haste of a badly brought-up child. The
Goals in the CRATES have not become cold,
and yet the rays of June sun penetrate
through the open windows. What means
this freak of nature? Ii the seasons are
playing at leap-frog and having all the fun
to themselves, we poor subjects will have
to pay for it, for it is not possible that
spring will abdicate, and pouting March
will be sure to avenge her by opening his
whole bag of wind upon us before many
days are past. Then will begin siege of
colds and infuenzas, which make me
tremble to think of, and in spite of this de-
lightful respite from cold and rain, the
pleasure is poisoned by the shadow of COM
ing storms.
THE PARIsIANS
Trouble themselves little about the NOR
row, and, indeed, are philosophical in
that, and they leave their hooks and
corners like so many lizards their rocks, to
bask in the warm rays. The sidewalks in
front of the numerous cafes are crowded
with friends and small families, costly
drinking glass of beer or slipping wine
and sirop. The streets are thronged with
paricI stCyvp6
away in their houses like sardines in box,
and they never lose an opportunity on
pleasant day of descending into the streets
to stretch their limbs. In all this hustle
and activity, amidst laughter and grunts
of satisfaction, the promenaders sniff the
warm air charged with the odor OF violets.
Along all the principal thoroughfares the
eye is attracted by numerous hand-carts
loaded down with these modest, sweet
flowers. Never, within the memory of
the oldest inhabitants, has there been such
a quantity of violets, and it is difficult to
imagine anything more beautiful, more en-
chanting than the sight of these decorated
wagons. You meet them at every step,
and did you not gee them their near pres
ence is made known by the sweet perfume
which delights your senses. Only at
special stands, where bouquets are sold,
can prepared bouquet be found, for they
are little sought after, the French pre-
ferring but one kind at time. There are
punches of violets, punches of pinks,
punches of roses, and so on, to be found
in the street, but seldom are these flowers
united. The violet is the democratic
flower par excellence. Good-sized button
hole bouquets can be had for two sous
apiece, and large nosegays for six, eight and
ten sous. The carts seem never to dimin-
ish in size, yet violets are in everybody's
hands.
ALL LADIES
To be seen carry large bouquet or have
one attached to their dress the button
holes of hack drivers, omnibus drivers and
tramway conductors are also decorated
with bunch of violets, and the house
maid or nurse girl, bare headed and gay,
on an errand, is stopped by her lover, who
decorates her corsage with an immense
bouquet, which renders her bonnetless
head even smaller and Ter beaming coun-
tenance brighter. These heralds of gentle
springtime are sweet balm for the scars
left by cross old winter, and we drink in
their perfume like thirsty pilgrims at
clear fountain. The French Government
is now passing through another crisis. Has
no one ever heard of the Article 7? Then
may he bless his stars that seas and woods
separate him from the sound of that gingle
which has been ringing in everybody's ears
throughout France since whole year. Its
echo has not only been constantly heard on
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in parlors, in closets, in towers and in
churches. 1t has been stiff plank in the
platform of the Republican party but
some of the same party have taken out a
number of nails, and the plank has fallen,
and it is predicted that the Ministry, who
have stood generally on this one spot, are
about to tumble also. The origin of the
famous
ARTICLE SEVEN
Can be traced as far back as Gambetta.
He is a demagogue, and anxious to fatter
the people in their likes and dislikes, and
believing he could not render himself more
popular than by an attack at the Jesuits,
he originated this famous Article 7. 1t is
one of the projects of series of laws pro-
posed by the Government, treating of edu-
cation. Gambetta is really the father of
the article; but that he might remain I'M
touched in case of its being defeated, he
had Jules Ferry, the Minister of Public
instruction, to adopt it in due and lawful
form, so that the person of Jules Ferry has
been the target for all the religious bombs
of the country. The article is not so fero-
cious as may be imagined. 1t asks that
the religious orders who are not authorized
by the State for the reason that they will
not acknowledge that superior authority
be deprived of the privilege of instructing
the youth of France. These are Jesuits,
who have in all about 10 houses through
out the State. Now, in this the Catholics
have hardly been touched but the little
scratch has given them an occasion to cry
out as though they were half killed. For
a whole year all sermons preached in the
different churches have not only been
against the Republican Government, as for
merry, but they have been particularly
directed against the Article 7. Special
prayers were lately circulated throughout
the country, in all the churches, in private
houses and meetings, called neauaine to
be repeated each day for nine consecutive
days preceding the decision before the
Senate for the bill had already passed the
Chambers by large majority. 1t was de-
feated in the Senate by the aid of the
Liberal Republicans, who are ia favor of
LIBERTY FOR ALL,
And who have always disapproved of
the politique de cote, which has been ever
the policy of the Republican Ministries, in
stead of frank measures which would lead
to the separation of the State from the
Church and which would solve the diff
Guilty The Republican Government has
never yet had at its head men of action
and initiation who would have the courage
to undertake radical measures of needed
reform, and that is the cause of all this tri
potage, the religious agitation of the eoun-
try and another ministerial crisis. This
law, however mild, is inconsistent with
true republican principles, hut it is inter-
esting to note that those who have de-
nouuced it the most and proclaimed it an
infamy, are the same persons who voted a
law during the empire for the expulsion of
the Jesuits as company both immoral and
dangerous. And it is above all amusing to
perceive that arguments brought forward
by the supporters of the law were those
heretofore used by these same opposers.
Not that the redctionnaires love the Jesuits,