The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1881-08-07
PARIS.
The French Capital Burning Up,
And AL the Cry was Water,
Water.
Don Carlos Departure from Paris
Latest News From France.
Correspondence SALT LAKE HERALD
PARIS. July 10th. 1881.

ANS q uIJ ZOIHJ 1901.
1t has always been maintained
that the capital was secured against
short supplies of water-and wine:
thanks to the Seine. We are threat
ened with water famine, and the
authorities impIore citizens to be as
economical of the fluid as if they
were occupants Of the raft Of the
Medusa. Some regard the warning
as the usual seasons scare, to come
to the aid of the water supply COM
panies which obtained a monopoly
to lay down pipe in Paris, guaran-
teelng houses, streets and sewers
millions of gallons daily; indeed,
each citizen would have for his own
use per day as much as would serve
Ben Amema and his peep O. day
followers for month. In the cafes
and restaurants the carofeS are but
half filled; in bed rooms, hands are
being washed, if not with invisible
soap, certainly in invisible water;
SeidlitZ Water-that champagne of
the poor, will soon be as costly as
the products of the Widow ClicquOt,
of blessed and Epernay memory.
The demand is greater than the sup
ply, and oyster shells, which, when
acted upon by sulphuric acid, yield
fizz, are not Obtainable for love or
money. The streets are no longer
sprinkled, no refreshing streams
meander in the kennels, en- route for
cloaca maXima. Doctors recon-
mend the public to only look at ice,
but never te eat it. RefrigeratOrs
that propuce lcicles at the cost of
one sou per pound, ought no
more to form part of ones
penates than a coffin. The Their
mometer is fast arriving at
the last of the nineties, and we will
score 100 degrees FIR. when the last
hair of the comets tail ceases to be
visible to the naked eye. M. Gam
BETA can reduce the most violent
deputy in the tribune to order, by
merely threatening to deprive him
of the proverbial glass Of water
placed within his reach to aid the
flow of words. The most interest
ing art exhibition at present in
Paris is a panorama of the discov-
cries of the north pole. Those now
searching that ideal point are to be
enYied. At the Zoo gardens, look
at the white Polar bear is said to be
a perfect antidote against prelimin-
airy sunstroke; the alligators and
kindred lotus eaters pass their day
there on the green sWard, entering
the house and their warm bath for
the night, to avoid the evening
chills. The most domestic animals
tendency to return to their
savage state; for nothing they de-
clare hoStilitieS against you. The
positively smells of
something burning" perhaps love-
ly old ladies going off by spontane-
Gus combustion In bed one rolls
so as to resemble Ixion on his wheel.
Oddly too, the Atlantic was never
known to be so full of promenading
icebergs as this summer, yet their
cold shade has apparently no effect.
NJ. BerthelOt,th an admiring cOun-
try has taken from his laboratory
and"precipitated' into the senatorial
world, ought to explain, is there any
difference between our earth'S CEN
trail and surface heat? He has al
ready published volume on the
mechanism of the unknown, which
has, it is said. greatly contributed to
the spread of useful knowledge.
The republican regimes of France
have been celebrated for their tropi-
cal summers. In 1893 taties were
dug almost next to ready cooked
fruit became quite prepared for an
herbarium; barn yard fowls re-
belled, and refused to lay eggs, and
were it not for timely thunder
storm, PariSians would have had to
initiate the Abyssinians, by cutting
a "bifteek" off the living oxen. The
academician Charles, he who
boosted to possess manuscript let
ters of Moses, the Virgin, Jesus
Christ and st. Peter, when oppressed
with heat, experienced relief by
reading about the retreat Of his
from Moscow. For the
general reader, book-marker with
the design of a robin redbreast
perched on a holly tree, with snow
landscape, may prove equally eff
caciouS.
Other effects of the heat: The
scrap parties in connection with the
national fete of the 18th seem to be
banners still hang on outer
walls, and tricolor favorS are, like
other stocks at the end of season,
being sold at alarming sac
lidces. 1t is ever G cd theatre
cal tact to send spectators
home with a piece that will echo
with laughter when in their bed
rooms: Thus, after the republican