The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1883-05-06

manufactures. The true temeoy tuE
the relief OF distressed work people,
would be q poor-law. but that the
propertied classes will never consent
to. However nothing almost sees
miracles, but misery" Then an in.
come tax is required. A man, and
the cases are not few. can have
rental of quarter OF e. million francs
q year, and by living in an upper
story, often of the mansion he owns,
can escape all direct taxation.
The horrible cold has gone and the
trees for 10y can be almost seen rush
ing ito leaf; it did not do much harm;
the vineyards are not in any alarming
state. Commercially, much ia to be
desired in the situation, but business
can not be revived in q lew We eks;
patience 10 necessary. Many enter.
prises are being wound up; the banks
have reduced credits. The result
may be reaction on other indus
tries.
M. Renan has delivered an inter-
esting lecture at the Sorbonne on
'5cience and Islamism He said
that from US to the thirteenth CEN
tury, a period of 500 years, the Mus
sulmans we're our masters IN science
and philosophy ;the latter only copied
from the Greeks, because Mohsmed-
ism had not fully triumpned. and
Greek science was unknown to Chris.
tianity. Renan says he never entered
mosque without experiencing the
regret not to be a Mussulman; but
it is not the lees religion, he avows,
Injurious to human reason. Science,
observed Renan, creates superiority
in the industrial end military arts.
A lew Krupp cannon, for example,
would have stopped the cyclones OF
Attila and Ghenkis Khan. What is
not so clear, ia, that science will one
day "creste a stats OF society where
the quantity OF justice Con patible
with the essence of the universe,
will be proeurable. This has the
air of close relationship with Vol
taire's definition of metaphysics.
The public ia shocked and dumb
founded at the breakdown of justice
in the case OF the abduction of Mile.
Monarterio. That lucid lunatic ssys,
she is happy in Kent, and begs the
French judges will set at liberty those
who kidnapped her into mad house.
The bungliug will bring about the
needed reform of the lunacy code.
Louise Michel. ia safely lodged in
prison: an asylum was her natural
home. Not the slightest interest ia
taken in that political termagant; she
complains the prison authorities, the
nuns, are killing her with kindness.
Her only anxiety is in reference to
her psralytic mother, Rnd-her three
cats. AZ the evidence will bs diff
cult to obtain proving she melted the
mob to gut the bakers shops, she
will be discharged. She is confined
In the st. LaZsre prison, of which
the Pere Lamourette was once the
chaplain. It was this clergyman
that preached to hostile factions 80
emotional q sermon on paternity
that the Montagues and Oapulets
kissed each other. Next day thsy
fought more feroely than ever.
Hence the origin and Specification of
the proverb "a Lamourette kiss"
a scheme is on foot to consolidate
all the pawn officers into vast credit
foncier society. to lend money on
shares, at 8 Der cent. On new mer-
chandise, at 5, and on otheE pledges,
at s per cent. The first pawn Office,
Monte de-piets, was founded in Itsly
by the Friar Barnabe; be preached 6
crusade against the usurers, and be
obtained from the charitable sums C
form capital, which he lent to the
needy without interest. In 1864 and
1906, papsl bulls backed up the gooC
work. The first Mont de pieta VA
established in Paris in 1879. Rithou
! capital. but it quickly made money
because pstronized By gamblers anC
idlers. hence the charge, sit lent only
to the rich." In 1904, it borro WeC
money at z, and lent it at 10 per cent
} At present i! lends at 9 per cen
and { per cent. for expenses: all it
profts-it ia governmental monopoly
go to the poor's fund The central
= Office employs 500 persons. In 1881
! the number OF pledges was l, SOC, 600
! the amount lent sc, 600 COO; the ex.
Eenses OF " pledge are nearly 16 soul
, each. The Institution has such credi
that its bonds are readily negotiable,
hr 8 to s months at u per cent
, Tue pawn Office in France ia known
: as my aunt" as elsewhere, "mJ
uncle
. A philanthropist proposes polyg-
amy to augment the colonial popula,
tions OF France. In the mother
3 country be advocates the idea of Her.
: mippus, that of pruning clubs o.
! healthy people, the younger the bet
J ter, whose collective breathing.
| would fortify constitutions. A sickly
{ sheep would poison such an atmos-
r pheEe. Dsmocritus, the laughing
, philosopher, to obIige his wife, lived
! three days longer than he intended
On the odor OF bread snd honey. Ho
mer existed for time on che DER.
3 fume Of apples. Plutrarch said the
odor from the Temsina o sAlexsndeE
: WheE dust capable of stopping beel
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