The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1882-08-13

4 DumOuIl6Z Clldl SON SAAO -
Jemmapes. The words do not res
pond to the present state of Freneh
Society, as the standard OF tyranny
no longer floats, nor is the sacred
cause of liberty threatened. Roget
de PIsle in due time became a royal
list. and never afterwards could bear
any allusion to &c made to his mas
terpiece. In his YOluminous cores
pondence the name of the hymn
never occurs. But he had an I'M
pOrtant idea of his composing pow
ers. all the same. He wrote an
opero, OteZlo, Of which BarliOs had
a good opinion, but no more could
secure its representation than ne
could a scene of his own. Both
men alike have been celebrated af-
| ter their death. The grand niece of
| de PIsle, and one of. the two sole dir
| ect descendants, is teacher In a
primary school of the capital.
Another statue which has occu-
pied attention this week is that OF
Liberty, on which the Sculptor
Betholdi is working since 1 years,
and destined as a light house for the
entrance of New York harbOr,
while being a symbol of French
and American sympathy which
secured independence for. the
States. Liberty will be forty
six yards. The Colossus Of Rhodes
was only 80 high. When Herodotus
desired to estimate the height OF tie
pyramids he computed the number
of millions of onions the wOrkmen
consumed BerthOldi might estim=
ate the VastneSs of his work, by the
number Of breakfasts given inside
his giantess. In the statue of st.
Charles Borromeo, on Lake Major,
visitors are charmed with being
able to conveniently sit down inside
his nose. In the statue of Liberty,
"a professor and his class could
easily sit on her big toe; cabinet
council could be held inside her
head. Each Of her fingers Is over
six feet long, and a breakfast has
Just now taken place in the calf Of
her leg-twenty guests feeling it not
,ungall9nt to there meet. When
com pIeted, Liberty will weigh 100
tons, and is being constructed like
an ironclad, the plates being kept
together by screws. visible only in
side.
The terrible explosion of gas
which occurred in the Rue Francois
Miron, by which seven persons were
killed and forty wounded, has at
last been explained. A water main
had been leaking since six months,
and had quite undermined and
damaged the gas pipes. The sim
,guIar fact is, that state of things
continued without being detected.
When the accident occurred, the
street was opened to reach water
pipe, and then the difficulty occurred
TO ascertain whether the pipe was
for water or gas.
BistOr is an atrociOus young
scoundrel, condemned to death since
nearly three months for killing an
old lady. He has fearful dread of
the guillOtine, and awaits every
morning the opening of his cell for
the visit of the eXecutiOner, as NJ.
Grevy takes months TO contribute
fresh proof of his abolishing capital
punishment.
Madame Tourseillier considers
matrimonial agencies excellent for
securing life annuities. NJ. Tour
SELLER advertised for a wife. He
was a widoWer, aged IS, but very
rich; he confessed his only draw
back was to be hasty. Madame,
aged 40, avowed she had little
baby twenty years gO,whose father
died before he could ed her. The
wedding took place; dinner had
been ordered for twenty guests;
eighteen only arrived; the bride
groom objected to pay for the ab-
sent. and knocked the proprietor
down; the walters struck in. as did
also the wedding guests; the bride
rushed to the window, shouted MUIR
derl helpi and fire! The small boys
ran for the engine men, who arrived
just as the party were being marched
to the lookup, and where the bride
groom passed the night. Next
morning the bride assured him he
was an old fool. and demanded
private separation and settlement
of 1000 francs month. Refusing,
the bride and her maid besieged
him, the buttons suddenly disap-
peared from his shirts; the button
holes precOciOusly enlarged; small
pins appeared In the feathers Of his
bed; pitch was found in his arm
chair; he never could find the fel
low of shoe or a boot; he was sup
piled with warm water for soup; for
dinner one sardine on an immense
dish: bottles of poison figured in
the citchen at meal times; he was
fond Of botany and philosophy, but
his library on being searched con-
tanned the portraits Of actresses,
/ very warm novels and q lady's stays,
which rs he never saw before sur
prised him; the wife went almost
without clothing, alleging her
tyTant husband locked up her
clothes; the servant maid was
armed IKE Robinson CrusOe to de-
ftn1 her virtue against the old man
finally the latter struck out. what
was wanted, as he owned
he could not help doing SO. Madaue
obtained her separation and an an
nuity Of 5 0 francs a month, the
drama from courtship to denOuement
lasLIng three months
To secure the due obliteratiOn OF
5ostage stamps a gentleman pre-