The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1882-07-16

l1,127 WOrkpeople, but only one
twentieth of this number fulfil the
conditions to become entitled to a
share in the profits of the establish
ment, which share during ten years,
amounted to nearly three-quarters
of million francs, and is never
drawn, save in the case of old age,
incapacity or death.
/ These experiments are preferable
to the ideas put forward by some
working men, whose aim is to not
only convert the employer into a
banker, with no option to refuse
advances, but to deprive him of the
right of selecting or dismissing en-
plOyeeS. Strikes are just now gen.
eral in France; we are never with
out one or two; at present we have
half a dozen. The workman, like
the employer, has the legal right to
strike. Occasionally it may be pro-
ductive Of good, but it is a two
edged sword, and often the engineer
is hoist with his own petard. Rarely
do strikes occur in first class fac
tories; they are the product of small
concerns pinched for capital, where
the owner is not a free agent
French artisans especially, are ignO-
rant Of the fact, that capital emil
CRATES swiftly and the world is very
large; they are also infatuated with
the belief, that in matters of luxury
and taste, they have no superiOrs,
while the revenue returns indicate
a serious falling off in artistic ex-
ports. The shoe makers, whose
special industry is Louis XIV. heels,
are now on strike; they complain
they only earn from s francs to 10
francs daily, double the wages of
stone-breaker, a NAVY or scaven-
ger, and to which they ought to be
reduced, following the doctrines of
equality propOunded by some social
ist proletaires. Nine-tenths of the
human family, four-ffths Of the
population of Europe, three-fourths
of the inhabitants of France, have
not duly income equal to those
aristocratic shoe makers who de-
vote their talents to "LoHis XIV.
heels" The French artisan ignores
there are hundreds of millions Of
men less fav0rably paid, for work
OftentimeS more severe, and that
these millions are their competitors
We know that the old moons are
broken up to make stars, and we can
guess what becomes of pins; but
what is done with the old planes.
They cannot be converted into a
chest of drawers, they are I'M
suitable for freWood; occa-
sionally, they do duty as
a what-not or fower-stand; to pre-
vent the increase Of planes we can
not convert them into a stew as we
do rabbits. M. Tonneuis, the French
attorney who recently crowned him
self king of Arancania, won over
many of the Patagonian chiefs by
presenting them with old pianos;
but he found the cords were re-
moved, and the instrument con-
verted into a bed for the chief and
his wife. However, when the in
strument is not grand, but an up
right, the conversion into shake
down presents difficulties
An old couple aged 70 have COM
mitted suicide. The wife was
suffering from an incurable disease
and could no longer endure the pain;
the husband could not bear to see
her suffer, and to survive her was
Impossible, so they put their prop
erty in order, wrote their memoirs,
aud lit a charcoal fire.
Fourquin is happily rare type Of
fireman; he had the ambition to
win the Cross of the. Legion Of
Honor. but the field of ambition
being limited, he set fire to thirteen
houses and, clothed In his uniform,
displayed real heroism in saving life
and property; he was caught setting
fire to fourteenth house; sentence,
death. "To save or to perish" is the
motto Of the sappers. M. GreVy
will protect him from the latter.
In reply to an advertisement for
a garcon having 500 francs-garcon
means as well as waiter, a clerk,
or best man at a wedding. A young
man replied; paid down his 5OOf.,
was requested to call in two days,
in his best clothes. He came, was
introduced to the friends and guests,
and the bridegroem-his employer,
gave young lady into his charge.
Then came the ceremony, the feast
ing, and promenading; dancing was
kept up till next morning. After
a few hours repose, 1.-THE garcon ap-
peared, delighted with his first days
work, and asked, when they were to
commence business. Commence
what" asked the bridegroom, "do
you expect that 1 can be married |
every day? engaged you as my
best man, not as clerk, and l wish |
you good morning" The bridegroom
was sentenced to three months M
prisonment for swindling.
The clock in the tower of the |
Palace of Justice is being repaired. |
The original clock, predecessor Of
the present, was the first employed
in France; it was made by a Ger
man, who had board and lodging in
the tower to care the works. It was
in this tower that the silver bell was
fixed, which rang out the signal for
the st. Bartholomew massacre.
The CGledonie7l has been launched. |
She is the first steamer for the
French mail service to Australia.
A hater of music observing a |
quinquette getting ready, demanded,
"Are they come to eHrage the public |
6Ve-fold, or to help to terminate