The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1882-04-06
OUR FRENCH LETTER.
An Old Boy of Paris.
French Estimate of Bismarck.
Correspondence of the HERALD

devoting much study to the condl-
ton of England, and invite their
readers to study well the evolution
that country is passing through.
Unlike the French revolution,
which resembled not little the ex-
plosion of some force Of nature, the
changes now taking place in Eng
land, although unrelated to cata-
clysms, are not the less potent and
conclusive. Unlike France, they
were the English aristOcracy that
secured popular liberties, and lin
tied the power of kings. From
having been an agricultural, Eng
land has become an industrial and
commercial country, where land
lords are elected from their estates
for reasons Of public utility. Mr..
Gladstone, it is asserted, is The I'M
conscious instrument Of all these
changes. The period, however, for
the reign of pure republicanism in
England is not fixed. because it is
prudent never to predict unless one
is sure. Doubtless it will be coeYal
with Victor Hugo's European re-
public.
One of the halest and hardest
young fellows in Paris is Professor
ChevreuiI, the celebrated chemist.
He is 81 years of age. When
Ia, he lost his grandfather,
who died at 90, so that
Gamaliel was able to speak of con-
tempOry events as far back as the
year of grace 1710-linked sweetness
has thus been long drawn out.
About that period Louis XIV. and
his nobility were sending their plate
to the mint to raise the wind, for
then as to-day, there was a monetary
crisis, and Queen Ann was dis
tracted by the rivalrieS of the
Duchess of Marlborough and Mrs.
Masham. Russia was then engaged
with a second helping of Poland ;
Ireland was observing Forster
Poyning, and Uncle Sam instead of
fraterniZing with the French, was
busily occupied keeping them and
the Mohawks at a gentleman dis
lance.
Professor Chevreuil was honored
by banquet, for eighty years hard
and devoted work In the sciences
applied to industry. In 1906, he was
a member of the committee charged
with the preparation of gunpoWder
to blaze away at the Prussians. He
filled the same Office for q similar
purpose in 1S70-71, and if he patron
ICES Paris pills, he might arrive at
the age of the Countess of Desmond
and SGrpass her if he avoids apple
trees, to perhaps exercise identical
functions. At the banquet, only
wine of the comet year was drank,
and cOgnac was served exactly of
the same age as the hero of the
evening. Winter as we'll as
summer, Professor ChevreuiI is
punctuality itself at his class rooms.
Among his occasional auditors, and
once his lad students, are several
grandfathers his memory is as ro-
bust as his voice. He neither
smokes, reads newspapers nor
drinks-save milk. His life is
like clOck-wOrk, and the
moment any duty fatigueS, lie re-
poses. The only dissipation he in
dulgeS in is to go occasionally to
ball at the Elysee, where he is read
lily recognized by his whitest of
white hair, and slight stoop, the con-
sequence not of weight of years.
but of decorations. He was ever a
ladies' man. He was patted on the
head by Marie Antoinette as a
promising boy; shook hands with
the Empress Josephine; was at the
courts balls sof Napoleon I, Louis
Charles X, Louis Philippe
and Napoleon III, and attended the
small and early parties of Theirs
and MacMahon.
The Chamber has at last COM
nenced seriously to work; it has
'estored to the chief cities of France
he right to appoint their own NAV
)rs. save the case of Paris. The
Cabinet is thus relieved of a burden.
)ut ministers are slow to take the |
initiative in any reforms, as they do !
lot desire to meet the fate of Gam
,etta. PartiSans Of the StatU O1Io.
S considered to be the acme of pol
tai sagacity. The comic Journals /
commence to devote more attention
0 NJ. G7evy, hitting at his sIoWness
nd his homeopathic notions of
hange. The Legislators, unable
0 gain public opinion to accord
hem an increase of salary, have ar
anged with the railway companies
D travel at reduced fares, like SOL
iers, and children under 4 years of
&c.
The Egyptian question is still a
ONT 7lOir: but so long as Turkey
kept out in the cold, and the ma
ionalists exercise a Suliy frupalitv
nth the country'S fart6ings
rance will remain a spectator
luch surprise has been caused here
NJ. DeLesseps identifying him
elf with the young Egypt move
lent. i
NJ. Bourdeau lays down that who
yer desires to estimate the charac-
er OF Bismarck, must never lose
Ight OF the fact that he has been a
I'd, as he at present is, a man of |
0rce, IN whose eyes patriotism isan
nposSlbility without force. He |
ates what Montaigne describes rs
ne science OF jaw" phrases he de- |
9sts. DO you take me for 2 pub-
C meeting?" he asked one dav a
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