The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1881-12-09
THE FRENCH.
The Tunisan Noble and Gambstta.
Partisan Notes.
Correspondents Of the HERALD.)

class of feathered friends: he has been
six and twenty years in the diplom-
attic service, and has "bloWn" on the
Tunisian intrigues: he is an author
ity on this matter, since he was
officially employed to negotiate and
pull the strings. Some pricks OF
COINCIDENCE, or visions OF a heavy &C
count TO settle at Judgement days or
something gone wrong in the rules OF
promotion compelled M. de Billing to
let the cat out of the bag, and the
funcsionary who yesterday shook
hands with the king of Italy, eat salt
with TIE Bey, put his feet under
Gambeta's mahogany, cracked jokes
With NJ. Grevy, related society an
ecdotes TO the foreign minister, has
.lnn- c,rr 10 kucnriort auG company.
This exp. aims wnY III. de Bill ng, an
ancIsu; B0nhpaItIgt npd 60 WITH the
marx Of Cain, /! seems, appeared for
the first time Cn any stage, at the
Populace Tribunal on Sunday last,
held in the Cirque Fernando, as pub
lie prosecutor against the govern
ment. With docu nents 10 hand he
confirmed what everybody believer,
save the French, that the Kroumir
plea for invading Tunisia was a
broad farce; that the real interest was
to aid and abtt financial specuIations;
10 the name OF, not the prophet, hgsl
but of civilization. Just ss that
boosted most glorious event of the
reign OF Napoleon IIl.-the invasion
of Mexico, was net having the Jecker-
bonds discounted, but to plant the
Latin race-a variety OF srborculture
that Uncle Sam liked less than the
Yorktown rejocings. OF course the
meeting voted the cabinet guilty OF
every high crime and misdemeanor,
and vigilance committee will per
manently ait, til poles be obtained to
hang the ministers as nigh as King
Haman. II was also ruled, that
there was no necessity for falling back
on barbados. The chamber will
vote rigorous inquiry &c.-the tub
as usual will be thrown to the whale,
tits said that Bismarck never
laughs, but opens bis eyes instead of
his lips, to indulge in cschinussion.
After egging the French on to tae
territory of the Bey, he might indulge
in splitting OF both his sides at the
spectacle of so. 600 soldiers having
had to be sent to pscify the country,
of whom the moiety ia h0rs de combat
by sickness: l. 500 have died, OF
which total IS per cent from typus
fever alone. France has reason to de-
nand OF the war minister" Varro,
give me back my legions"
Gambetta is still on the read; he
still siGmps Normandy: many people
conclude be is OVERRIDING the Com.
mercial traveller business for the Re-
public. Ali the yarns he may spin
will not equal the solution of this
sum in simple rule of three direct:
given 8 chamber of 557 deputies,
with only 200 Gambettists, to find
200 more to constitute his ministerial
majority. That's the nut he has to
crack. The journals have, already
published the obituaries of the un.
interested ministers but the biogra-
PIXIES of their SUCCESSORS remain deep
in pigson holes.
Gutenberg when in doublet and
hose calmly pulling his first proof,
never imagined that his disciples in
France would be collective socialists
OF tAs frat water; the shortest name
tor such a party is cosmopolitan
nihilist. Beyond speaking end
writing" daggers, they however use
nore-at least outside of their pro-
fession. One D.dgeon has fer mania,
10 cry at every reunion, "dealh to
Gsmbetls!" about SO Wearisome as
"Aristides the just" Only one idiot
has taken the joke In earnest; he
came up from Brittany to shoot Gam
beta. bat finding that gentleman like
NJ. Beneiton, always out, and resolved
to pat at somebody, be fired bis re
volver at the first passerby who hap
pened to be doctor. AIienists ex.
amined the prisoner, concluded be
was sg sane as judge, save his NAL
ady 'Bourgeoismania." or desire to
kill the first respectable. looking per-
son encountered. L; seems this
newest form constitutes the 364th.
variety of lunancy, and pending the
arrival Of one more. to suit every day
IN the year, covers an uncomfortably
wide field.
Louise Michel is the high priestess
OF this new sect; she was never known
to kill a fly in her life and would no
more trample on one of Darwin's
newly revealed tillers of the sofia
worm. than she would enter con-
tession box. The doctors say, it is
useless locking up; they prescribe
mstrimony for the old gal, and it is
whispered she is the heiress with a
fortune of ten millions guaranteed
out of the secret service fund, that
every matrimonial agency has on its
books, and that every newspaper
with the widest circulation in the
world sdvertises. / had a full view
of her few days ago as she sat in
front OF q RESULTANT, slipping her nips
OF brandy Or gloria after her coffee:
she was in a Sehum&nn reverie for
the regeneration OF the uniYere: since
her return from New Caledonia, she
has, like Rocheiort become more
bony-the jaws of both celebrities are