The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1882-03-19


running, when the Omnibus Com.
pany will buy up the interest anC
raise fares. To defeat this "ring.'
the municipality has decided &c
compel the tram companies to
execute their contract or to
forfeit their rights;s in the
latter case, the City Coun-
| Gil can then dictate conditions to the
bus company, which is a gigantic
monopoly. Monsieur hugs that phase
of political economy. Indeed, hui
man beings in general have weak
ness fer all the plums in pudding,
Instead of dinners or balls, the
ministerial world INDUCES in recep-
lions, of which nothing is more
monotOnous and WeariSome. You
enter, make bow to his eXcellency,
pass into a second, third, or a
| fourth salon, and then retire. Tine
salons are always the same; they are
the ministers only who change, and
so rapidly, that visitors make in
quiries after their ladies, when the
officeholders are simply bachelors.
On these occasions the buffet is very
so so; after shaking hands with
about fifty people whom you are
charmed to see, while your admira-
ton for them is several degrees be-
low zero, you make for your bed, to
sleep off the delicious evening you
have passed. .
The public auction mart is at all
seasons the most interesting centre
of curiosity the capital can afford.
1t would require the pen of lola to
enumerate all its material impuri
ties. The highest and the lowest
strata of society here mingle and
are in peace; there are Jews, feaE-
less of persecution, beside bayards,
and grand duchesses cheek by jowl
with Aspasias. All is said to come
to the hammer; having knocked
down Madame Blanc's diamonds,
the public are now disputing her
historic laces, some Of which must
have held place in Queen
Mab's wardrobe. The crown dia-
monds are not yet offered for sale.
1t is said the government disIlkes
the selling off. Perhaps ministers
are Superstitious, as according to
the ancients, diamonds attracted
thunder. The "Regent" diamond
Will be kept as an historical heir
leem; it is valued at twelve million
francs, but which according to
money test, mears just the one
twelfth of that sum. Napoleon
borrowed some of the state dia-
monds TO make a crown for Queen
Hortense, who later sold it to Louis
Phillippe's queen, who gave it as a
marriage gift to the Duchess de
Montpensier, who sold it to the
Countess de Paris.
Great activity is displayed to null
tiply schools of design, and augment
the Importance of those that exist. |
Attention, however, appears to be
most concentrated on drawing as
taught in the trade schools. and so |
to special Industries. The
most eminent public men deem it |
no small honor to preside at meet
ings to further a popular taste for
art. The Temple of Ephesus is felt
to be in danger, as foreigners are
on the heels of the French
rather closely.
To correct the laziness or. inert
ness of the ladies Of the fashionable
world here, fine art studies are
being encouraged, by exhibiting
some very fine paintings executed
by such amateurs. AS two ladies by
this means have found husbands,
the idea may be viewed as a
more especially as
5he range of useful work
is very limited indeed, for
French ladies. The two artistic
clubs in the place, Vendome and
5he Ne VolneY, have opened their
private exhibitions, kind of over
,ure of the annual public picture
show. The exhibits of real merit,
~ well-known artists, are chiefly
portraits.
NJ. Roger, shop-keeper, de-
handed separation from his wife on
he ground Of sympathy with the
communists: when a
hip arrived with the amnestied,
madame helped herself to the till, J
o relieve them: she had weakness
or public meetings of the Jacobin
ind: the husband drove her from 1
he house, sold the business, and
wed apart. Excited by the oratory
f his wife's counsel, he struck his l
nee Juliet in full court. The Sc
aration was decreed, and the wife
Warded a comfortable income.
Chevellean was married a second
ime, but his wife soon turned out
0 be sickly: as she was always dv-
1g. he resolved to aid nature: one I
light he placed pillows and holsters
q her head, sat thereupon, smoking
is pipe for half an hour, when he {
1und Desdemona beyond all sur r
cry. Condemned to death, but not I
} be guillotined. o
AZ Provins, a deaf and dumb y
Dung man was taken i'm r,
1ultery with the servant u
laid, an old member of the ~
Imily, lately married. Counsel
loaded and obtained the ac-
initial of the deaf and dumb Il
on Juan, who could neither
ear. nor speak, nor write, nor make
gns, consequently knew nothing
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