The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1882-12-24
OUR FRENCH LETTER.
Especial correspondence of the HERALD
PARIS, November %.

who love science In sport, has already
effected personally conducted
tour " of-readers, in ninety-seven
hours from our earth to the moon.
He has just organized another excur-
sion trip of five hours duration at the
Porte Saint Martin theatre-A trap
eTs J. Impossible. The voyage COM
mences in Denmark and ends there,
since return tickets have been Issued.
The travelling party comprises George
Hatterss, Eva, his fGncee Doctor Ok,
his rival snd materialist (; Volsius,
the guardian angel and spiritualist
Iarllet. a French dancing master
and Waldemar, a kind of heavy
father. Neither the Bciencs of Ok,
nor the theology OF Volsius, are IN
exoeptionable. Hstteras Is young
man OF the Excelsior class, to f1atter
his hobby for visiting Impossible
places. DR.. Ok gives him a few
drops OF an elixir. This will preserve
him from fire, water, and accidents
in general. He thus hoped to rid
himself a rival. But Eva secretly
drank some also, to qualify to follow
aer lover. The doctor had to follow
suit, to keep an eye on Eva. Finally,
the whole party having drank out of
the magic bottle, wsre rendered proof
against geological and astronomical
dangers. Arrived at Vesuvius, the
travellers selected, not the overground,
out the underground railway. In
ol6en times, when people desired to
pass into the neither world-Orphius
to witt was only necessary to strike
the ground and invoke the name of
Pluto. when the gates into the bowels
of the land were thrown open. Per-
naps Eva was the tails man on this
occasion, for We know what women
beautiful ones OF course, wish, the
gods wish. The party desoends
through toe various strata of the
rocks composing the crust of the
earth, until the center of cur globe be
reached, and which scientists allege
to be all fire. En- route to the grand
centre the travellers meet With a race
OF people having manners akin to
our own possessing long, white hair,
like bards, with weakness for cafe
concert music. The fiery furnace is a
Terra del Fuego, teuanted not by
imps, but by inhabitants only occu-
pied rs dancing oalle.s, in costumes to
suit the region Of fame. Passing as
unhurt as SaadFach, Meshach, and
Abednego through the fire, the voy-
ayers enter tas seas and witness
among other great sights, the wreck
of matter. in the case of an extinct
world. While thus gazing, Walde-
mar was all but gobbled up by an
unesthetic shark rescued, he fell
next into the arms of an octopus.
Arriving at the other side Of our earth
the party. was shot through kind of
rocket tube into the planet Altor, and
which lone etar confirms the more
worlds than one Theory. The inhab.
itsnts of this new world are all given
to singing, ballets, and boating. The
streets of their cities were paved with
diamonds-the only kind OF pave
ment Paris has not yet tried. Con-
dide in his travels through FL Dorado,
found towns where gold was, as the
clergy say, filthy lucre where the
houses in a ward were next to
thatehed with pancakes. and the
lanes paved with penny loaVes. The
planet, however, burst, and one of
the fragments obligingly fell, as
bolide, at Copenhagen, with all the
parties therein. or thereon, safe and
sound. Mother 6hipton's mode of
aerial Iocomotion was nothing to this.
The piece of III. Jules Verne and his
henehman, D'Eunery, is made for
the eyes; neither the thread OF love
which runs through it, nor the scien-
tific data, must be examined more
closely than cooking or politics. The
scenery, costumes, electric lights, and
explosions, are, as the Spsniards
would say, grand issimO. The pot
potrri has been composed from Jules
Verne's wonderful stories generally,
and while being q success, will lack
in interest "Michel 5trogoff" OF the
+" Tour de Monde"
N. B. I nearly forgot to remark
that George and Eva, after annihilat-
ing time and space, are made happy.
Another ToyGge traUers y lmpossi-
bic, is to find out to where. or to what,
France is drifting. Since M. Grevy
INDUCED in an extra partridge at
dinner, and which had the same effect
on him as the last pea on an alderman
at q city banquet, his occupation is
considered as gone. The Figaro has
expended quite little fortune to dis
cover his real age-seventy. five sum-
mers. AInaanacb de Gotta and "a
pereau's Dictionary, please copy.
That age sufices to explain it seems,
the Presidents disease-softening Of
the brain. This ccnGradicis the
philosopher Florens who maintained
that our adolescence only commences
with the Psalmist's span Of life. Who
is to succeed N. Grevy? That's the
question. Some demand miLitGire !;
Others pray to Jupiter for a king.
Gsmbetta has not yet sufficiently re-
covered from his political fall /; it is
possible. that like Ant@ns, be may
acquire new strength by touching the
ground. Even adverssries alludeto
the case arising where Gambeta
might be called upon to fill the role OF
a Lamartine, Oavaignao, or 8
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