The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1882-05-07
OUR FRENCH LETTER.
Correspondence of the HERALD
PARIS. April u, 1882.

loxera there is but step. We have
clerical and anti-clerical congresse:
ditto free trade and protectionist
congresses for capitalists as we'll a:
for workers, ana now we are to have
one, not for women's rights and
national teachers, but in the inter
estS of school boys. Montpelier,
the region of warm blood, has
taken the initiative to organize a
reunion OF students Of colIegians, to
discuss the griefs of their order and
strike for reform. Deputies are to
be elected from the several public
schools of France; the age for these
representatives is not fixed, nor is
it decided if they will ride on rail-
ways next to gratultously, like the
Legislators. To secure dignity and
uphold independence, it is proposed
to make patriotic appeal to pocket
money-the smallest contribution
will be thankfully accepted.
This is no joking matter; the time
appears to have vanished when
school eHneIJtes consisted in con-
piracy against an unfortunate
usher. by turning off the gas
at evening studies, and COM
mencing an assault and battery with
books against the unpopular master.
The school boys congress limits its
proceedings to nine orders of the
day no protests are made against
the high price of lollipOps, marbles,
and such necessaries of life; but in
dignatiOn is profound, against the
eXorbitant commission the house
p0rters exact, when they are en-
trusted to buy delicacieS for collie
gians; pot of jam has been known
to thus be run up 200 per cent. The
perpetrators Of such usury deserve
to have their teeth drawn. Thurs
day is demanded as a whole, not q
half holiday, and a general amnesty
also, for those pupils punished re-
Gently for revolt in the colleges of
TOulOn and Montpelier, not barri-
cades will be thrown up with all the
lexicOus, grammars, and logarithm
tables, in the lyceums. Children
are said to resemble monkeys and
parrots; in any case they quickly {
initiate their elders. The spectacle 6
Of an assembly bGnabi1li, parOdying !
parliamentary proceedings, and S
taking The most important resolu- t
lions, will not be out of harmony +
with the spirit of the age. a
We have already the phylloxera, F
which decimates the vineyards the h
ioryphOra, that attacks the 'taties t,
he Debrine or cholera, that destroys il
he silk worms; the pepia, which a
avageS poultry yards, the trich- c,
ne, that poisons pork, and the o
microbes that generate rot in sheep e,
ind lung disease in cattle: to a
hese evils, which it has pleased o
heaven to afiict man with forl3 .
he errors of his ways,must be added q,
hat Of the ScOurge proZirerG a 81
nalady Of speech peculiar to free 81
sSemblies, which Carlyle would de- pt
cribe as diaTrh9a of words, and b,
hat the clOtUre even does not rem O.
dy. The Romans, like the Greeks. "
mplOyed the clepsydra, or water D
leaSure, to time orators in the a
curtis of justice and the tribune. ST
[. Thomas proposes that the prin- o.
iple of limiting time be adopted in f.
he French legislature, and so cut "
hort long yarns. The most curious q
eature about the reform is, that its cC
rOmOter is model wind-bag him iI
elf. f.
The legislators being in recess, de- o.
the perfect indifference ~
I the country, as if they were in s,
eSSlon. There is nothing lively in OF
where any seething exists is
creates no interest, as it lacks the q
ash of sincerity, and professional fc
gltatOrS are unable to raise the Gt
ind. But there is a spice OF the AZ
Omfcal in the fragments of the si
nee BOnapartiSt party; a section al
as Joined the ultra royalists in Or ps
a resolution not to obey %
wv on compulsory education: the AZ
esiStance is harmless. because pla- ST
1nic. The attitude was intended 10 r.
eclare "Victor," son of Prince tn
erome, the heir Of Napoleon ~. s.
, the exclusion Of his papa. whose III
Ieas on elergymen in general. is No
1ything but othOdox. Loves labor fo
st, retOrts Papa Jerome, as he and
IS boy are one in politics. w
The most ephemeral Institution of ia
lie moment is the Gingerbread m
air, which extends from the Place 81,
q Trone to Vincennes, a wide hC
)ulevard three miles long. each tb
de lined with all the bizarre at No
actions of a country fair. And
is vast artery is filled by a multi ur
de-not the least important ele- tn
ent in the sight-come to gaze, to da
ink, to eat, to purchase and to be do
nused. There are tournaments by hi
cam; velOcipedes propelled by sn
great pictures of peace DO
d war; the execution of the Re
suits; the capture of Bon Amena; on
e burning of the Ring theatre; oil
g fall of Gambetta: the torpedo
oman; the two-headed damsel S5
e lady whose bosom serves as an 2OC
vii; the incombustible gentleman tb;
2 dwarf who sings like Patti ms
3 giantess surrounded by the inl
,mbers of the Academy of Sci boI
ces; a boy that beats the Babbage 7
chine in calculating, and another Co
1t surpasses Coppee in grinding prc
NETS: the troupe of learned dogs, der
ich perform the FDame aux Ca lea
las" with a hare representing sist
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