The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1883-12-16

certain Income. Ultimately the state
came 10 bis aid. But it is only since
the revolution. that natural children
are duly protected. The ancients
had no refugees for illegitim te of
spring, unless the Oynocarge at
Athens, be so regarded. In Rome,
it was at the Velabre that infants
were left; these Romans could come
and selt ct baby for adoption, and
many noble matrons voluntarily
came and gave the breast to the
| abandoned. A few of the Roman
emperors ACCORDED funds to relieve
the infants and several of toe en-
presses pdopted them.
The sdopter of an infant could sell
1t when grown up, or keep it a. biz
servant or slave In Gre CO, Lycur-
gas, Salon, Aristotle and Pluto; and
in Rome, Numa. were partizsns Of
legal infan,icide 1t wac the Matthu-
sian doctrine with vengence. Tue
Persisns, Hebrews and Egyptians
protected deserted children. and the
Thebiaus punished that desertion. by
death. IL Lscedemonis, when an
infant was born, it was presented to
the magistrates; il it were found to
be maIform d. it was precipitased
into an abyss. In ancient times chill
dren could be sold to pay their
parents debss. ana father could sell
his son, imprison. or even kill him, if
ne were dlsooedlent. The Jews
stoned those children who reyiled
their parents We moderns cut them
off with an angry shilling.
At the "iour" in Amiens, it was
the custO II to attach little bag of
salt to the baby. to indicate it was
cot baptized; in the east a
child when born is rubbed
over with sal.. symbolical
perhaps OF preservation. French
spouses are reflected upon .or Mt
remembering the precept, increase
and multiply. But il was not always
so in France. La Burgundy there
was the right of the twelve" where
fathers who had a family OF twelve
children we're exempted from all tax
alton. What then ought that Tuscan
noble. the Comte Pichi. to have re-
cei7ed? He was married three times
and had 15S children, and when
Tuscany deputed him as ambassador
to the Pope and Emperor, bis suite
consisted OF forty-eight of his own
children. There was in the church
of Saints Innocents in this CITY a
tablet to an olo lady. who died at the
age Of So. and saw 266 of her chill.
dren's children. She was eclipsed
be vever by the lady Honeymoon of
Kent. who died at the age of 81. and
was able to count 367 direct descend
ants. This reminds one of what
Madame de Sevigne wrote to her
daughter: "Ma file, allez dire rot,e
file, que la file de So file. erie"
The situation of France is not at al!
merry sunshine. From the instruc-
tons given to admiral Courbet, it ia
possible that war between France and
China. may at any momeat break
cut. How long it may endure, no one
Can predict, save the geography man
o. Ls Petit Journal, VINO suggests THAI
the iron clads at once lombard and
burn Canton from the coast"
Superior as the French artillery is
conceded to b.. yet to reduce city
of distance OF 45 miles by capnon,
would be new marvel of science.
The resignation of III. Challmel-
Lacour is better late than never. He
has power ully contributed to he
present bad RI lations of France with
nearly all the foreign powers, and
does not reflect on Gsmbetta's ssgac-
lily, who viewed him as G favorite
disciple. By this the Republic ought
to know. that neither statesmen nor
diplom atists Can be improYised, and
thst an eloquent professor, like M.
Challmsl. or ltterateur such as M.
B. St. Hiliaire, are out OF place at
the Forei n Office.
The relations between the German
and French people, are sore, and be.
coming strained. The newspaper
wars between the two countries are
warm and becoming hotter. The
crusade which has Set iE here to en-
ploy no Teutons, not even as scrobats
or mountebanks, will have it's re-
bound in Germany. The French
journals admit, from the reception
given 20 the German Crown Prince
by the Italiens. that the latter are no |
longer Latin brothers, bat covet
Nice. Corsics and Tunisis. Spain |
cannot be viewed as flirting, that is a |
political pastime unsuitable to the |
M. de Lesseps has displayed good |
sense by going to Englsnd and talk
ing over the canal difficulties with
the clients who enable his sharehold.
ers to live. Shrewd heads consider,
that by the Khedlve's undertaking to
execute the second canal himself,
with an invited loan, the monopoly
lifficulty can be got rid OF.
Paris has its exchange for
soon it will
nave the same for mer-
chants. The municipal council
erecting vast building
divided into sections to suit trades