The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1883-04-22

ElD6rI0lu T1VdlS Tie pTOQuCGS OF
Lyons. Hamburg firms have gen.
orally two partners, one who re-
sides in Australia, Japan, etc., to
sell what the other purchases at
home. Paris instead of seeking
buyers abroad, waits till they come
hereto the capital of the world
according to the poets and senti-
mentalists. Strangers are happy to
come here for pleasure and taste.
But taste is ephemeral; not many
centuries ago fashions came from
Italy and Spain, and France cannot
build on an eternal monopoly. Ger
many and England a,e treading on
her kibes. Schools of design and
technics are springing up. Dresden
has college, for both sexes, Of 374
students devoted to the fashions,
and it is to the committee of ladies'
dress at London. that the reigning
colors olive aud russetS are due.
France is not asked to make good
things bad, but interest exacts she
must produce cheaper, not for the
educated who are but sunshine
clients and limited, but for the mill
lion that form the backbone of trade.
80 far is this necessary, that French
manufacturers have sent out repre-
sentatiYeS to sell their wares in for
eIgn countries, and had to finish by
selling English goods.
Raw materials are too heavily
taxed in France: labor is too dear,
so that monsieur is in many cases
beaten out of his own market by the
foreigner. In the building trade Of
Paris, now undergoing check,
contractors have been forced to i'm
port ready-made window and door
woodwork from Norway, and iron
requisites from Germany. Strikes
ran up wages, and workmen left the
premises to the injury of agri-
culture, for the % per cent. higher
wages of the capital. This explains
why the artizans of Paris have
doubled in number since 1876, and
: what dangerous element that now
is,when house building is restricted.
This restriction is due to the rush
to invest capital in mansions. Money
, could be borrowed at 4 and AZ per
: cent, and so invested, yielded per
cent. But now there are more new
houses than tenants, for the rents
are too high, owing TO the luXuriant
character of the construction; a
fall Of 30, so to 70 per cent. in rent
is inevitable.
Palm Sunday was noted by very
!, crowded attendance at the churches,
and this is the more gratifying. as
it was the occasion Of the first taste
of spring weather. The seventies
l of Holy Week are apparent. Fast
ing is more extensively observed,
and the Free Thinkers offend less
;, by ostentatiously paradlng their
7 bills of fare. Easter has come upon
. us so early as to resemble a surprise
, it will be necessary to 90 back to
. 1742 to find a fete equal in date, and
: that there is no "oldest inhabitant'
to remember. However "Old Parr'
: died aged 141 years, bequ eathing
e only his pills.
! The Ham Fair has opened. On
y the present occasion it is remark
! able for the number of foreign
! Israelites to judge by the few
4 Hebrew letters on the signboards
Z Is this the result Of the anti-semitiC
. agitation? The marVels of the Gin
J gerbread Fair are also offered. Tht
4 notOrietieS honOred are the present
= : war minister, Louise Michel anC
. Sarah Bernhardt.
Like case like rule: Prince de Pol
= lignae declined to recognize his lille
- gitimate son; the latter set fire t.
. his papa's rooms, to create scandal
land so become famous. Charles
. Richard, aged "a, remembered he
I too was illegitimate. and that {
g COmte de MaiSniel was his putativt
= father; he demanded 100000 francs
y from him, or he would be shot; the
= jury saw no poetry in the bill OF
= rights presented by Richard, whc
o was sent to prison.
= The Avenue de Champs ElySee;
has been so cut up by the late frost'
i that it has become veritable cor
!, iduroy road. A drive alongit is con
, sidered equal to dirty night in tht
3 Channel.
3 The French authorities are now
=, studying the repeating rifle a.
! IadopIed by Germany. The onl!
q drawback is the difficulty of keep
L ing up supply of ammunition OF
: the battle field. The uniform o
$ the infantry will undergo TIT
" changes of a darker shade in color
= and greater freedom for movement
The student socialists Kept th'
q anniversary of the commune; il
e point of oratory they are very in
y ferior to some ordinary wOrkmen
3 One speaker toasted, ''rhe Ideal ant
!. Sentimental" and another, 9TH
y Equinoxes, " because the convention
~ ~ was born in September and tn
- commune IN March. The waiter
! were addressed, "Citoyen garcon."
In New Caledonia the lad.
g. g. canaques employ their back hal
- pins as forks.
- Mr.. Parnell has presented Roche
~, 10 fort with a scarf pin, representa-
&c &c Erin in tears.
1 rf Between two communists: "Whe
- there will be no more Grape c
y merino to make black flags, we wi
of use our shirts"