The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1881-08-14
THE FRENCH CAPITAL.
Bad for Degs-Departurs of the
Swallows.
French Facts and Wit.
Correspondence ofthe HERALD.)
PARIS. July 9th. 1881

tax. which is 10 harmony with dem
ocratlc principles, But any friend Of
man belonging to the wandering race
found in Paris, with tongue out three
inches longer than usual; with tail
between legs-the canine plan OF
of striking oolors. aud eyes regarding
any OF the sovereign people askance,
Will be executed instanter as hydro
phobial, and buried as rapidly as AID
oriental funeral. Vets are even pro
hibited from holding post nssrtem ex-
aminati rs on their clients.
notice that the swallows have
quit Paris for the suburbs; moparch-
ists alleg & this is due to extraordinary
doses Of the NarsdiLIGise admins
tered pending the national f6,e: the
poor birds are short CT food supplies
in the city. As q set of, the rivals
have lost their nightingales, in the
sense that these truant tenors of the
garden chant no more, but are occu,
pied fattenipg themselves for sUsl
low fight southWards. Italy will
send many of the wsrblers back in
winter, along with thrushes and
house-sparrows, to de duty as orto-
lans on the spit, under a paletot OF
fat bacon. The only wild bird that
now carols is the Fed-stsrt; though it
frequents the crevices Of churches
and tombs, and has q cleric al lcok
somewhat, it is not religious bird.
Its notes are menlAcholic, hence,
why it is called in France the wall
nightingale" 1t will build its neat
and rear its family in the most model
manner, but will never accept the
smallest contribution in the shape OF
O worm Or larve. Its song is said to
remind you to pray fer the souls OF
friends in purgAtory; like the Greeks
it fears gifts.
EAll French school boys are hence
forth to be taught rifle drill aud
practice; humane clause dispenses
with the goose step ia the dog days.
but oompels lessons to be taken in
rotation. French men will never be
nation of swimmers; they may
freely seek reputation at the cannon's
mouth, but have holy horror of
headers. It is not drilling young
France requires but ball practising,
true rife contests, not puttering
at small birds. To place ball where
you wsnt it. is to possess no mean
power. Jules Girard the lion slayer,
rarely missed that quarry, but he
could no more bring down a par
fridge then he could find a krou-
mir.
The young savage Lewsitre, aged
fifteen, who killed and cut up a little
boy aged seven, to have himself re-
marked, could not be legally guillo
tined, so he remains prisoner for
life. | observe that all the criminals
whom the alienists pronounce to be
mentally, that is organicslly diseased
menesclus, provost to wit-Are executed
while those the doctors pronounce to
be sane, are condemned for life to
cease to do evil and learn to do we'll
having at best but limited interest
to 30 distinguish themselves.
Ferre was one of the most renown-
ed leaders of the commune; be was
executed in 1870 at Satory, stimuli
with Roussel. minister of
war of the communists He "died,
game" not so Roussel. Ferre va,
tied to the stake, declined to have
his ey es bandaged, and begged to be |
allowed to finish his cigar, fixed in
an amber mouth piece. He was shot
with the cigar in his mouth and 60 |
buried. The authorities have per-
mitted his exhumation, to transport
the remains to a family vauls. His
bones were collected and placed in q
new coffin; his sister took the skull |
and removed what hair was still |
round it, distributing it to Louise
and other no surrender red
people. Letters arrive ia hundreds
begging hair for memory" Roche
fort has been presented with the am
Der mouth piece.
The Ce-Ule de Ia Librsrie. publishers
club. has organized a very splendid
exhibition of engravings, chrome
Iitographs, aud illuminated inks in
general. ALI are classified according
to schools, and cannot but impsrt q
stimulus to art and delicate taste.
Many of the exhibits are priceless,
and charming products of the most
famous engravers.
A novel worth reading, and capital
foP this siesta epoch of the year, is La
Vie FdciLlc, by Alberto Second. The
writer was an excellent journalist,
but during the last ten years, hiss
1riited into novel writing. His present
work represents the history of man
Of pleasure in Paris, rich, honorable,
and in sense correct, among all the
snares and temptations that beset
him. A life of pleasure is g very Ia
borious affair. Like Demus and
Murger, Second writes to amuse and
10 move: to provoke tears and eVoke
laughter, and where the bitterness Of
observation, ia connected By the COMO
ations of practical philosophy. He
loes not pretend to be the first who
has fattened Paris life, or discovered
he human heart.
Ii. Louis MoIsnd has brought forth
he aioht v0I0naea of stVoltaria'a c0r-