The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1882-10-08


fixed level-the country people at
tribute this phenomenon to a saint.
The latter is Intercepted by young
ladies who have doubts as to catch
ing husband two new pins are
thrown into the well, which is very
clear; if the pins cross one another
on arriving at the bottom, the
questioner will be married within a
year. The bottom of the we'll is
ever full of new pins, and all
crossed; only the good man knows
to whom any two pins belong. In
an ancient abbey the soldiers use
the monks, cells as dormitories.
Cognac is largely manufactured at
Saintes, and though the vineyards
are more orgless destroyed by the
phyllexer a, more cognac is shipped
NOW than ever. The mystery is thus
Iexplained :iaIt is Berlin that sup
plies the cheap spirit called three
skies, made from rye, because almost
odorless; tolthls is added 3 per cent.
Fofs brandy distilled from grapes,
which imparts the cognac flavor
the hallmark. By this Franco
Prussian alliance Saintes sup
plies 100000 gallons of cognac
to foreigners. Each distilIer. or
rather preparer, of cognac will tell
you confidently, that he alone em
ploys all grapes. Only cognac
guaranteed fifteen years old, and
costing ten francs per bottle in the
cellar at Saintes, can claim excep-
tionfrom the German baptism; be-
low this price, faith must become
a matter of pure superstition. The
peculiar property of real cognac
brandy over other alcohols is, that
it contains nothing toxica1. That
was the Brandy for heres" Burke
could once eXclaim.'' a
The Edison system of electric
| lighting has been tried at the st.
LaZare terminus: the fluid is laid
on like gas. and pipes will soon
lconvey it into private residences.
| But what every one desires to get
at, is the price of the new light, and
the certainty to have it always
with you-like the poor.
The reVolutionists have been re-
latively sane this week at their
meetings, it is true they blow off a
good deal of steam in their journals
denouncing one another, decrying
| General Wolesley's tactics. and writ
ing up Arab, the pure. One orator
proposed to come to business, and
o tx a day, a clear tWenty-foul
hours work, to sweep away the mid
die classes and all laws. Asked
what woul1 he do, if these
classes defended themselves. he re
piled, do not allow them. One
Thomas called in question the
political honesty and incomphbility
of Mile. Michel; only think of the
Grande City0nne Louise herself
being suspected!
The royalists are stirring gOoC
deal, but [ DO not see they ar
damaging the republic; the De Pro
funds of the latter, is as distant a.
the TIE DelEno for royalty. If hume
rous people have become cold to
wards the republic, it must not b.
concluded they have warmed to
: wards that inYisible-a monarchy
Pwo cooks had love quarrel OF
one Of the exterior bouleyards; a
! she would not consent to try anothe
! situation the lover shot her, an
then himself, in full sight of tn
police who had been urging them t
, move on. A very respectabl
= gentleman, who had emptied hi
I pockets of all papers that Nigh
u establish his identity, jumped owe
y a bridge into the Seine: flour boa
: men speedily were after him. Il
Z protested against their gaffing hin
and upbraided them with thei
y cruelty in refusing him the libert
y to destroy himself. An aristocrati
u executive has come to grief frol
. indecently assaulting a child; h
. gave his address at a mansio
: in the Champs Elyssee;
was dressed in the oldest
old clovare, ushered the police I'M
= palatial residence, full of cost
/ furniture, but covered with agt
. of dust; he lived in one room, amid
"a filth. His income is valued {
y 100000 francs a year. Now ha
IT he lived fast, ran through his pro
i erty and got into debt, he wou
u never be suspected Of insanity.
le The reds are about erecting
l. monument to Blanqui, in Pere |
10 Chaise cemetery. 1t will have Ell
D blazoned on the epitaph the old co
y spirator's watch word: f'Neith
. God nor master" force Of fire
IL dom can here no further go. b
= the pity of it Iago!
'. The Cafe Anglais, the first re
- taurant in Paris, and where prime
:: % who move to and fro, love to su
- ! made, last year, 20S, 600 francs n
e. profit.
IL Exactly 100 years ago, the d.
~ d'Urleans hunted stays over Il
~ present sites of the National Ope
= and Grand Hotel.
q. a beautiful countess, preparing
e. grog for her lover, was requested
If the latter to make the mixture tt
" color Of her hair-a deep brown.
Is Judge to prisoner: you relat
al the charge against you different
re before the magistrate" ''Of cour!
ut [ do not like to be accused of tellil
le old stories"
re The police arrested, last wee
10 five persons who declared they We
ne the Project of Police.
ne MANN" said fond daught,
IN why should thank Gcd for 90