The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1882-01-07
THE FRENoH.
Panoramas and Cabinet.
What the French are Doing.
Correspondence Of the HERALD.)
PARIS, December Il. 1881.

1.a.
Correspondence Of the HERALD.)
PARIS, December IA, 1881.
Erecting cabinets and starting
panoramas lare the order of the day.
Of the latter, like the making OF
books, there is no end. Here, they
will soon be as numerous as banks.
First class artists commence to FIND
painting panoramas more remuner-
alive than landscapes. The canvas
is generally devoted to battle scenes
and defeats rather than victories
but then pity is akin to love. We
have the siege of Paris; to this must
be added that of Belfort, the charge
OF the heavy brigade at ReischOs
fen or Worth, and soon the strug
gle on the Champigny plateau. In.
deed there is a possibility of the
battle of Montretout or Buzenval
where the last t0rrential rush OF
patriotic Parisians occurred, also
formed. Cynics swear the pictures
are but a combination of photo
graphy and Madame Tussaud; per.
hapS this is not incorrect, but the
main feature for the moralist and
Spectator is, that the undertaking.
pays. The picture feasts the eyes
and stirs the feelings. In the case
of those referring to the incidents OF
18Te-71, the spectacle is said to keep
alive patriotism, and the chamber of
horrors element to make one dis
gusted with war. But the latter is
one of the attributes of civilized
man, and will continue till the lion
lies down with the lamb-without
deVouring it. The charge of the
cuirassiers at Reischeshffen, is ex.
tremely sensational. The spectator
appears to assist at a battle without
sharing its dangers. There are the
dead and dying, horses and KNAPP
sacks ripped open, a wind mill
toppled over, an old woman struck
dead and still upright as If alive;
broken helmets, twisted rifle barrels,
battered musical instruments-ali
the detritus of terrible fight. 1t is
a mixture of the Morgue and the
Luxembourg. There is q yellowish
haze about the whole panorama that
Is at least not art, though it may be
"ethical." After supping full of
horrors, the orchestra endeavors to
bring you hack to the piping times
of peace, by executing choice NOR
ceaux from popular operettes. Per-
haps variations of the Dead March
might be more in season,
M. Muybridge is cutting out
Tunisian Mustapha Pasha as the
lion of the moment. He can
"Eye natres's walks, shoot folly as it
flee.
And catch the manners living a. they
b rise."
Up to the present it was generally
believed, photography like dentis-
try, could give us nothing new; but
III. Muybrldge by his instantaneous
process is able to fix the movements
of man walking, or a horse run
ming, and then by rotary electric
light arrangement. can project these
on q screen; horses can
be made to gallOp as for the Derby !;
pedestrians 80 walk at the rate of a
mile a minute; hares aud grey
hounds bound, clowns jump through
hoops on rushing steeds. The
flight Of birds is next down on the
roster. Already we can preserve
the hu IAN voice in tin eanisters.
like green peas or tomatoes, and ex-
port them, similar to electricity,
and by the pound. All that is re-
quired is, to keep one side up, with
care, and dry. What an advantage
it will be to have ones self photo
graphed in salad days, when mem
Der of some Cali Eleven" bat in
act of striking; or running in, or
your own canoe, or other
manly sports, and then by turning
a coffee mill apparatus, before a
Swan lamp and spFeap out winding
sheet, perceive the light of other
days pass before you, as you
nurse equity limb, or practice
simple addition with chalky knLck-
les on the mahogany table; or if we
are in the last of the seven ages,
the view so charming might drive
US back to the sixth.
Sturdy inValid5 for Nice are max
ing Paris trysting place like swal-
lows before migrating southwards.
The weather here is quite summer
like, only the day winds up with a
P. S. in the form Of a shiver that
would not disgrace March, and a
fog equal to any ever produced over
4 Roman marsh. 70 witness Sar-
dou's Odette is thing that's got to
be done before starting. The
scenery gives a foretaste Of the
beauty of the coming health station.
Those who are really sick unto
leath, ought to prefer Cannes as the
luietest place where to-die.
The French press devote some
marked attention to the condition of
Ireland. 1t is a set off to their own
domestic troubles in Algeria and
Tunisia. They do not seem To see
clearer into the milestone than any
body else. They conclude, judging
rom human frailty, that 10 rent, is
! cry more popular than reduced
rent; while at the same time aYOW-
ing themselves incapable If compre-
bending, how a general reduction in
rents, can make tenants without
The capital necessary for cultivation
great, glorious, and free. Wholesale
is urged as the sole
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