The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1883-09-30

Republique would be less out of place
here than in Gods acre.
The coast of Brittany has this sea-
son been rendered somewhat unpleas-
ant for bsthers, by the not so much
numerous "a the lsrgeness of the
ootoDuses, or the picture as celebrated
by Victor Hugo. Many questioned
the poets fearful description of that
polypus or dewitt at the time, st.
Malo is not an enormous distance
from Guernsey; now liz the church Of
St. Thomas in the former. there is
picture offered by the devotion of
some sailors, on the occasion of their
having escaped from the great danger
of sn octupus. The monster rose from
the sea during a calm, and extended
its arms or suckers up the mas,
oiinging to the rigging, and threat
ened 10 capsiz9 the boat. had not
sailor seized 81 Ratchet, and cut the
arms of the monster. As pllyL Oe
can be grated on one another, this
may explain their enormous dimen-
SONS, They can be propagated, ike
cuttings of potatoes, and turned in,iie
out without inconvenience as il a
glove. Pesi0ola, the famous Captain
Weob of his day, descended, on being
we'll paid by the EN- erOr Frederick
II, into the depths of Cnary !dis; he
said the bottom OF the sea there was
full OF poly[ce, with erms as thick as
a mans body. No person ever dis
played any anxiery 10 control his
statement.
Il Snaudin was not a playwright OF
the frat order, be was at least as
amusing as he was a prolific writer,
either alone, or &s Collaboration, in
the production Of vAudeviIes and
librettos. He has had a hard in at
least 145 plays, as he commenced
composing at the age of 20; he was
born in 1872. and continued till a
short time ago. He suffered from
Bright's diteAse, but was carried of
by apoplexy. His name is idenGined
with the Courier de Lyon and Nine.
AngOt, which, like the tricolor, have
made the tour Of the world. His
mother was a laundry maid at the
Fuilenss under Napoleon l, and as
that was not political Office she
made up the family linen also for
the Bourbons on their restoration.
This led to young Siraudin's playing
marbles with the late Comt9 de
Ohambord. His boldneFs was a stand
ing joke; he defied Babbagt'4 machine
or any calculating boy, to coart up
the hairs on his head, where nature
had not left even q single hair to draw
beauty. or as sample. He attribu-
ted his infrmity to having employed
thirty-five infallible preparations for
making hair to grow when the roots
had disappeared. Having obtained
the concession to supply the ex-Khe-
dive palace with bon6ons, he went
into the sugar-baking business in the
roe de la Psix, bat as quickly went
out Of it, leaving only. his nams-and
the folly behind. When a youth to
fortune and to fame unknown, he
experienced the usual cold shoulder
from managers, to read his plays; like
Madame Benoiton they we're always
Tout" when he cIlled. Retiring with
the stereotyped put of on one ocos-
sion, he saw big ladder in the court
yard; it was summer time; he placed
it against the open window of the
managers sanctum, and mounting,
he introduced himself with q Paul
Pfy, 81 hope l don't intrude," to
the "out" manager. Both laughed.
Sirsudin read his play, and Left it; it
was brought out and proved success.
Even the present appears to bs the
dead season for crime; the rogues
conclude perhaps, that the few oiti
Gems left to represent the absent pop
ulation, are not worte their attention.
Or perhaps Bill Sykes has gone to the
Chase, or Spa. A young lady
elopsd from the country; she was i'm
mediatsly followed 10 Paris By her
brother; he had given up all hope oil
tracking the negatives, when, on en-
tering "a omnibus, he found the
turtle doves. LovelRce bolted and
the sister ct once felt resigned 10 re-
turn home. A well known reporter
complains, few nights ago he Was a
little asssssinsted, as a knife stab on
the head seems TO indicate, and that
he lost 8 francs. The wAgs say, il ia
the latter sum which appears tue
most perplexing incident in the mys-
terry to the magistrate.
The Comte de Ohambord has had
no lstter-dAy photo taken of himself.
he was az infexible as an old ooquette
on this point. Those photos in cir
eulation are then composed" BE
Was not a bad locking man, bust
wards; but his legs were too short fol-
his body, and . broken thigh caused
him to halt. His countess is very
plain. As Voltaire observes, king
have not ak senses and are made o
the sauna mud as their subjects.
The Bcurbons may boast of bsing the
longest-lived race of kings, but their
families we're not handsome. The
wife OF Louis XIV, MaEie-Tte ele, wa
little, dry and soraggy; she ever la
bored under the dread, that at table
even at Versailles, there would no
be enough fer her to eat. Henrietta
of England, wife of the Kings bro
Their, the Due D'Orlesns, Was ment-