The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1882-04-06

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in Importance to the financial crisis
Rita Sangalli, the balletine, had in
iured her big toe, and was laid up
at her hermit home in the Bots de
Boulogne, facing poor Lamartine's
Swiss cottage. Over the entrance
door is her escutcheon, in stone; a
tamborine crossed with Pandean
pines: she is a silent, severe and
serious lady; passes most of her
spare time at embroidery; looks
after her housekeeping, and keeps
her accounts like a professional
book-keeper. Three hours day she
devotes to practising new steps, for
this file R air has a private stage,
like that at the opera, with a mon
ster mirror at the end. The happi-
est moment of her life is when thus
alone.
The composer of the music is NJ.
LalO, we'll known for his SYM
phonies; he became paralyZed from
OVer-wOrk, and the orchestration OF
the score was arranged by his friend
Gounod. Lalo is 90 years of age
the present is his first work pro-
duced on the stage, though he has
been endeaVoring since 30 years to
obtain the favor. The librettO of
"NamOuna" is simple; she is Il
Greek slave, owned by freebooter !;
the latter loses all his fortune, gam
bling; the winner accepts Namouna
in settlement of accounts and loves
her; the pirate endeaYOrS to regain
her, but she has organized a pha
lanx of sirens who defend her and
her lover. Opinion is divided into
two camps as to the value of the
music; it is full of science, passion,
grace, and fantasy; the style is clear
correct IN form, and eminently
French; the inspiration however,
is neither fresh nor frank; there is
melody, but the ideas are not sus-
tanned and suggest occasionally the
common place.
Mile. Sangalli enters as a flower
girl, in the market place of Corfu,
where her lover and once owner are
fencing; between each crossing of
the streets, she manages to skip
through; the famous cigarette pos
is admirable; she rolls a cigarette
while annihilating thine and space !;
perhaps it is owing to the prohib-
ition that she does not smoke it.
There is horrible fanfare, which
in noise surpasses anything Wagner
ever wrote; as a compensation,
there is a delicious flute melody.
The scenery is very charming; the
siesta of the slaves, 100 young beau
ties as wide awake as squirrels, is
splendid. Mile. SangallI surpassed
herself in the unison Of strength
with gracefulneSs.
This summer Paris intends irving
the plan Of vacation colonies"
which have succeeded Sc well in
Switzerland, Denmark and Prussia.
The object is, to give the sickly,
stunted children attending the ma
tiOnal schools, an outing of some
weeks at the seaside or Ia a noun
famous district, either under the
control Of their teachers, or lodged
with families-many gratuitOusly.
The. railways promise to give passes,
the newspapers will do all they can
on the same terms, and private con-
tributiOns will be thankfully ac-
cepted. By fortifying a weakly
child in time, it may become a
healthy, robust adult, not chronic
invalid, doomed permanently to the
hospice ward.
Only General SkObeloff left US so
precipitately, he would have found
balm in Gilead at the Geographical
Society, where Colonel VenukOff
stated, 100000 Germans emigrated
last year to Holy Russia, settling
down as i1ldaLStrieLS and employees,
but being foreigners, pay no taxes,
and being from home, escape SINH
larly. NJ. Raffray, the French con-
sui in AbySinnia, has sent some
news of King Johannes. His maj
esty lives in the middle of his camp
and passes his time chastising and
his vdssals and unruly
tribes. TIE consul visited the town
Of Lalihela. 1t possesses ten
all built on" as well as
carved out of solid, rock. These
monolith churches are isolated; the
. standings " are all free, but
the clergy Irregular" as they |
3fficiate only when in the humOr.
At the GbGttoirS there are free
lights which constitute a great at
the rats are enticed out of |
heir holes to fixed spot to eat the |
)ffal; their runs are then blocked, |
md terriers let loose. The authori-
les are more severe in the north, as
hey have prohibited cock fighting,
md punching the eyes out of |
inches to improve their warbling.
Refusing to take Oaths in court.
such might imply a belief
n Providence, is on the increase.
The judges simply order such per-
onS 10 retire.
An important legal reform: the
ourt of appeal has ruled, that in
umming up, the judge is simply to
the law, not discuss the
rial.
A new kind of WEIGHING: an ex-
rlnter of the Figaro, to he revenged
n one of the editors, waylaid him in
ull day on the Boulevard and, as
listed by a friend, knocked off his
lat and replaced it by a certain
hamber utensil, whose contents
oada O9CCarc nv HU lilo tho roadipor |