The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1882-05-21

Y. their brains. Some humane societ
:. ought to look to this.
All good Americans are said to g
10 to Paris when they die; the Rui
st slams commence to dispute thi
d monopoly; We have numerou
o grand dukes, and as for Muscovit
p Drinces, they are as plentiful a
e blackberries. The Princess Dodge
e ouki, the morgantic widow OF
l. Alexander II. is at present With
d our walls she intends making lon
i. stay with her three children, non
s of whom, she has assured an inter
t, viewer, aim at the throne. She az
:, parently has left holy Russia t
e escape the persecution of he
[. mortal enemy, General Ignatieff
b as for the Gar, he is her best friend
s and assures her 'his palace will
4 ever be open to her" an invitation
:, many timid people would decline.
: Authors have still their calami
2 ties. Alexandra Dumas reWrOte {
2 drama for a M. Durantin, and claim:
| the paternity; DurantinI denies the
J soft impeachment, so Dumas makes
him present Of a piece, "Where
: neither the idea nor the compost.
, ton belongs to you" For the fu-
tUre, Dumas will help no play
wright. incidentally, lie observed
! that once on a visit to George Sand
at Nahant, he retoucbed her MAR
|, quis de Villemer," but declined ac-
cepting his joint share of authors
rights, and which represented a sum
OF 10000 francs. Thus he ought
not to be called a Shylock. He saws
he writes play full off in a week,
but devOtes six months to its correc-
ton. According to Dumas, no new
idea exists for the stage; the dram
attic art consists only in giving old
ideas fresh form and new devel-
opment.
A remarkable treatise on educa-
ton as it is in Germany, has lust
been read at the academy of sciences.
and stirred patriotism to the quick.
The author, M. Breale, alleges that
in teaching physical and natural
sciences, grammar and Languages,
the French have much to learn. In
the humblest as well as in the high
est schools will be found the homes
of patriotism and religion. Athe-
ism is unknown among the masses.
The greatness of Germany is incul-
Gated as religion as well as hatred
of the hereditary foe-France. NJ.
Duray. minister of instruction I'M
der Napoleon Ill, said: German
education taught pupils to know,
but not TO think; while French Sc
cured both. He deplored the excit- |
atoms 10 hate, and recalled that it !
was a son of Fatherland who said. |
that after heaven France was the |
most beautiful kingdom of the uni
verse" The TuetOns thought so in |
1871, as they helped themselves to a |
respectable slice of the earthly par
adlse, and will do SO again if they |
ever get the chance.
Numbering the people is oecom-
ing an industry in France: the |
census of 1880 are now published
an operation extending over sixteen
The delay T0bs the vital
statistics Of interest. Then the re-
suits are incoherently presented.
though French be the most peIlu-
CID OF languages. We want to know
the movements of the populations
in the various departments, and
note their correlation with the
OF of industries, agriculture
and Well-being. In 1880 there were
92O,177 births in France, of which
IS, 1927 were lllegitimate. However.
says, "We are bastards
ALL" AS compared with 1879. the
-otal number of births have dimin-
shed, and that of natural children
augmented. There were S39.SS2
ieathS, being 1S,455 superior to 1879.
The nett increase of the population
If births over deaths was
i1,S4G, being $4,000 less than in
$40. The marriages, too, have de-
lined by $40. Why don't the men
mamma? Bachelors reply,
wife is not nowadays q help
nate, but a ruinOus luxury.
Much sensation has been created
" the elimination of the remains
L the SG0G7lt, Henri Clifford, and OF
he seiZing of poisonous substances
It his late residence. BY a curious
his remains were the
rst post mOrtem examination held
4 the neatly fitted up refrigorifc 4
DOM, constructed by his brother at
he mOrgue.
On the Paris and Lyons Railway
few days ago. three sudden deaths
not caused by smash-took
lace in the same train. A passen-
er over the same line, finding the =
ing journey tedious, amused him
elf popping at the road-guards =
18th revolver; he killed time.
Ius mother and child.
Late letters: a tin box hermeti-
lily sealed, has been fished up in
lie bed Of the Seine, opposite the
Ouvre, containing letters, floated
own the river, and destined for the
esieged PariSians, in 1870.
Filling empty natural mineral
alter bottles, containing the old I,
bel, with an ordinary prepara- 4
on, is a remuneratiVe scheme of Il
a rogue has been arrested for
awing letters out of the postofice
x with a hook and line: he al
ged he only sought the anony-
Gus letters, as such destroyed the
ace of many minds.