The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1883-06-10

PA1AA' 1HcI0 Is NO O1U6r0uC0 U0'
tween human dwellings and stables.
From Gatschina to St. Petersburg
the court resides at the former, a
distance of twenty-five miles, the
railway is a line of sentries, on
the, and in the, cuttings; above and
under the bridges, armed with
loaded rifles. The same precautions
Will be observed when the Gar sets
out-the day is kept a profound
secret, from st. Petersburg to Mos
COW, a distance of 3T5 miles. De-
spite a superficial calm, a nervous
trembling affects all. classes, and
that sismograph could almost reg
lister, as to the fate of the Gar. In
terest is not at all concentrated in
! the ceremony, but to see if his
majesty will be blown into frag-
ments. The danger for the Gar
lies in the moment when, following
the obligatory custom, he must mix
three days running, and alone. with
the crowd. Every person author
lied to take part IN the ceremony
must be prepared to show his photo
when asked. People shake their
heads at the late significant silence
of the nihilists.
l have lately looked into Mercier's
Paris tone hundred years ago." Sc
bastien MERCER liked Rousseau,
waged war against the excess of
luxury and corruption of manners.
He denounced the nude statuary in
the public gardens, and would de-
molish them with a hammer, as the
DUO de Mars Arien did those in his
gallery. A century ago the streets
of Paris had no side paths, a COM
mon drain ran down the middle Of
the streets. Oil was commencing
to replace candles in the public
lamps, and the duration Of the
lighting was regulated by the phases
of the moon. The market of A.
Lunocent's was a golgotha; skulls
and thigh bones were stacked under
the arches, and along side huxters
sold their wares. Men with Ian
terms could be hired to light you
home, and protect you from thieves.
The religious orders did duty as fire
men, and when the opera wardrobe
took fire, Capucin monks were to be
seen carrying on their shoulders, the
statues of gods aud goddesses of
Olympus. MERCER fixed A. d. 244O
as the ideal of human progress then
horses will no longer be treated
with cruelty, suicides will be at
minimum in Paris; culprits will be
executed by musketry mufled in
Grape, and the cortege will apollo
gize for having to shoot them. No
butchers will be admitted to this
preliminary millennium because
they kill cattle publicly in the
streets. However Plato excluded
poets from his republic.
A friend " no has returned from
Amsterdam informs me the OPEN
ing Of the exhibition passed off in
the "most glacial order" The King
never opened his lips nor declared
the building open. In his circuit
of nearly three hours, he stopped
once to feel if a Russian soldier
was in wax, and to examine speci-
mems of Belgian cloth for the army.
The building is in the centre of the
city, a novelty in itself; but the in
stallatiOns are very backward. In
six weeks the goddess can be ad-
mired fully decorated. The Amer
leans have opened their bars before
their stalls. and vacant places are
covered with flowers. The Pan
opticum is wax work show where
M. GreVy and Rochefort are in the
vestiary watching the canes and
umbrellas. Bismarck and the Pope
are cheek-by-joWl, and the King of
Holland is surrounded by his fam
ily,and as silent as if in the midst of
his loving subjects. Taciturnity
runs in families like wooden legs.
What an elegant compliment M.
Wertheim paid the French COM
missioners. "Franee," he said,
though all mutilated remains the
chef-d'9uvre of nations, as Venus
de Milo rests chet-deuvre of art
despite her dilapidation." Hope
Bismarck will not propose Zoll'
verein to the Dutch for the simile;
we give the orator a chalk.
In crime, an uncle invited his
nephew to a big drink, but declin-
Ing w OoJ3 OhO 1f6CC4 QhOO1OnC0
his wooden leg and beat that rela-
tiYe's brains out. A barber made
his sweetheart join in a deed, that
if either Of the high contracting
parties INDUCED in dice's oath,
the penalty was to be 800 fir. Othello
saw his love flirting one day with
beggar, whom he concluded to be a
prince in disguise. He waylaid her
next day, but instead of demanding
the 800 fir. he took the value by at
tempting to cut her throat.
Renau's Souvenirs are the favorite
reading of the moment. There are
two men in Renau, the dreamer and
the thinker. He illustrates what
Napoleon 1. observed: eve carry al
ways our mother within US" Renau
not the less despises woman, "Who
is only womau." He remarks, 81
have encouraged friendship but
little. l have not done much for my
friends and they have done about
the same for me-" When Renau
visited his native village, Trequier,
in Brittany, the inhabitants, very
devout, made the sign of the cross