The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1882-06-25

materials with brilliant trimmings,
or dark stuffs with light garnitures:
In both instances the patterns were
pretty. One lady had a toilette all
IN green, with a Jockeys cap in
black velvet ornamented with let
beads. AS regards bonnets, there
was the most perfect independence
all shapes which have iexisted since
three centuries were represented,
but with this practical feature, the
Wearer patronized the style that be-
came her best. Some years ago care
was taken to Only allow select
society in the Reighing paddock:
now NanaS are as much at home
there as virtue itself. The harvest
OF plckpockets was so great that
some OF. the horse stalls had to be
demanded as temporary police cells,
Tending that citizens were at the
races, the communists held meet
ings, denouncing as usual the au
thor ties, and recommending the
lmmolation Of the police, as the
first step towards the millennium.
Louise Michel reiterated her readi-
ness to commence, but somehow she
never does. If the police, like the
sugar bakes, proceed with their con-
templated strike, massacre of the
lnnocentS will become necessary.
The lunatic asylum at ChermOnt.
some miles from Paris, is the lar
gest private institution of its kind
IN the country. 1t is farmed by
two brothers, doctors. Some Jour
nails have exposed the terrible
abuses practiced there, and the gov
eminent mas admitted something
like want of power to interfere.
France has one breed of horses
the Percher0n-Which has resisted
all attempts to be improved out of
it's admirable qualities-solidity,
lightness and strength. It is that
breed Of horses which work the ON
Ribuses Of Paris; we'll, be it OBJ
served in passing, the bus cattle
are on the decline, some attributing
the cause to cutting down
their ration of oats, and sup
plementing with maize; others &C
count for the visible degeneracy, to
the Americans buying up all the
best lots. The Percheron horses
are chiefly reared in the depart.
ments of the Orne and ItheIL oir-et-
Cher; the region is not rich in pas
ture lands, but the fields are small
and well-enclosed -paddOckS in fact.
Only mares are kept by the farmers,
and he sells the foals at s months
old, to another class of breeder. that
completes the rearing, and effects
the training. Many call upon the
government to prohibit the expor-
tation of the Percherons.
The Grevla Museum of wax
works has opened; it is better OF gan
lied than Madame Tussaud's, and
has less packed look. The figures
are very artistically moulded, and
minute attention is paid to toilettes.
The men and women of the time
are fully represented, and there is
space set apart for celebrated edi-
tors. Indeed diplomacy if we'll en-
ployed, could secure niche in the
pantheon: at certain figure, pre-
Vided the ambitions had any relish
Of notoTiety about them. Two pat
ent medicine men are already said
TO be fixtures. The Chamber of
Horrors Iis terribly horrible you can
assist at the last moments
of a guillotined. from the time of
quitting his cell, till it is con-
templated. the dissection of his re-
mains before the students in the
amphiteatre of the School Of medi-
cine.
Being a question that comes home
to every mans business and bosom,
the Great Western Railway Com
pany has patented a special
stretcher, for the removal of pas
sengers smashed in collisions. The
wounded will experience no jolts,
and will be as easy as if in water
bed; it is said to be lovely.
On the occasion of the coming
national fete, the municipality will
orgnaiZe balloon races.
The in-memOriam mass in honor
Of the Prince Imperial was very
well attended; the organ executed
the Dead March in Saul. which a
journal states. sis "only played in
England, like big Tom of Oxford,
when a scion of the royal family
dies"
1t is not often that bill Of fare
of the Sultan's dinners is published.
One seeks, not the delicacies Of the
season, but the wines. The only
strong drink on the card was,
Champagne punch" Mahomet,
like st. Paul, is not averse to the
use of a little wine for the IstOmach's
sake.
Master to Butler: "You have for
gotten the potatoes for my beefsteak
this morning." "It'S true, monsieur,
and the more strange, as like them
myself very much"