The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1882-11-26

church. as in the time of Moliere
he would only secure more elbow
room for virtue and the serious pro
fessions. Nearly all the actors Sent
him challenge, for that is the first
step a Frenchman takes when he
receives lead in the wing. The pro.
cess, too, puts an end to further dis
cussion. Mirabeau suggested that
the artisteS delegate one of theirs to
fight them; Sarah Bernhardt pro-
posed her husband or her son or her
self-duelllng would be quite a new
role for her-and as she keeps her
coffin in her bedroom, if the worst
happened preparations would be an
ticipated. The Figaro disowned M.
Mirabeau to please the actors, and
MirabeaU publishes the private let
tiers from the editor applauding him
for his article, at the same time
sending his seconds to demand sat-
lsfactlOn for having been sold and
used.
Elisee Reclus is an incorrigible
communistand a 6teratelLr of a high
order. 1t was owing to his English
admirers that his sentence was rela-
lively mild, The old man is a foe
to matrimony, and has just got off
his two handsome daughters by &C
cepting simply the parole dion
near Of their-partners say, for bet
ter for worse. Conscience alone
binds the high contracting parties.
Reclus believes neither in the reg
istrar nor the parson. However, it
will be awkward for any little stran-
gers that may arrive, or for the in
heritance of property. These nat
ural unions We're common under the
First Republic, but they will hardly
make way under the Third.
Fontenelle died at 100 years of
age, and maintained that it was
not worth while coming into the
world if we should quit it so early
as at 80. Tranquility and modera-
ton were the respites he demanded
of nature. When at 100 years of
age, he had lost hearing, teeth, legs,
hair and stomach, he replied he had
sent his baggage on before him.
Voltaire, with head of iron, and a
body of paper, lived to so, and no
life surpassed his in storms; he left
no person in quiet, and was repaid
in his own coin.
The French are very proud Of
their cOuntIyman Marcel-Duprez-
having carried off the blue ribbon
at the electricity exhibition Of
Munich. That gentleman has
solved the question of electricity as
a practical motive power. Hitherto
the difficulty was, to preserve the
power generated, as it became re-
! duce1, leaked as it were away, in
proportion to the distance it had to
be conducted. 10 secure a working
volume of the power, the wire or
cable had TO be made proportion
ately voluminous. M. Dupez has
generated electricity by two
Gramme machines, at a distance of
thirty-six miles from the exhibition !;
conducted the force over this
distance by means Of an ordinary
wire, on poles roughly inaugurated,
and which sets machines to work in
the building. Only 40 per cent. of
the force was lost. Niagara, and
other falls; the fluX and refux of
the tides, can now be utilized to
drive dynamo-electric machine,
ana so generate the one thing need
full.
A synopsis has been published Of
! the number of deathS-1, 35S, caused
by typhus fever during its late out
| break, 4th of August to goth Oc-
tober. 1t was more severe by 20
per cent. for the male sex, and most
mortal between the ages Of Is and
So; during the existence of the
epidemic, the wind sat chiefly S. S.
W., and the rain rained every day.
Typhus is in any case an epidemic
in Paris. Cabmen and house
porters suffered mosC-a fact in
! which many might see the finger of
Providence.
The Due d Aumale has commenced
his series of shooting parties at his
splendid estate at Chantilly; they
are said to have a political signii-
canoe. That does not change the
sport, however. The Duke has a
staff of six men solely in charge of
the pheasants, of which 1900 are
bred annually, and in their early
youth 1000 eggs per day, to say
nothing of chopped meat, are re-
CURED for their six meals. A few
years ago the Prince of Wales was
among the invited; an awkward
sportsman wounded a beaten; the
Prince, hearing the yells, went to
the man and said: ''My friend, 1
am doctor; drink this, and then
keep that" so saying he gave the
wounded man pull from his flask
of brandy and 100f. bank note.
Since, the heaters deplore the alb
sence of "the English doctor"
1t is contemplated to set up tele-
phones in the. tobacco shops, and
charge 8 sous for the message.
A new play for children, called
dynamite" has appeared; it con-
sists in a kind of spring movement,
by which a house and its inmates go
up, up, up.
NJ. Oustry. the new project Of the
Seine, was transported to LamhesSa
for his political views by Napoleon
III. On the fall Of the empire
Theirs made him project Of Algiers,
and when he visited Lamhessa on
his official rounds the convictS re-
ceiyed him with "hail fellow well
met!"