The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1883-11-25

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curious have been some deaths: Ana
oreon was choked by the stone Of
grape. and Eschylus from a frac.
tured skull. caused by passing eagle
letting fall tortoise from its claws,
concluding the poets bald head to
have been rock. Corelli, the mu-
sical composer, died of grief from
learning that he had been deceived
in the value of musical note.
Duprat. bishop of Clermout (156O)
preferred rather to die than to cut bis
beard as his canons requested him to
do. Guidi. the poet. died from apo
plexy on discovering a misprin! in his
poems. Marshal de Moatrevel ex-
pired from fright at table, at the
view OF an overturned salt-ce!lar, said
to be a more uplucky event than the
figures 49, Pnilippe III of Spain was
the victim OF etiquette; sick in bed,
6rassero was close by; It's heart being
excessive, the Marquis de Polar beg
ged the due d'Alba to draw screen
between tue fire and his majesty; the
due went to search the chamberlain
charged with that duty; the Junction.
airy could not he found, till the heat
had produced an eryaipelas from
which the king died. Readers OF his
tory can recall TIE very peculiar Gil.
cumstances under which the father
of Henri w was killed. and that were
nearly repeated with the SOD.
China has marched troops into
AMMAN, thus rspudiating the Hue
treaty; the French do aot want war
with the Ceestials, bat that must be
the upshot Of the Tonkin mess and
muddle, If France persists in her de-
mands. The fever for colonial extern
sion is cooling down; the policy does
net appear to be paying one. 1t is
rumored that not much quarter is
asked or given in the skirmishes
about the Red river, and that the
Black Flags cut their enemies up
into "a or $40 morsels; the more
elevated the grade of the captured.
the more scraps be will be onverted
into.
The upholsterers in threatening am
other strike if their employers reduce
wages one-fiftb, will have for newt.
able result to throw the trade into
the hands of foreigners. Skilled
labor is oserpsid in Psris, and the re-
suit IL, permanent dropping BUSH
ness. For TIE nine months ending
SON OF September last, the exports OF
France nsvs diminish. d by 1O2. 0OO.-
600 francs, and the imports have in
creased by 1000 600 The ought
TO serve as pAnsies Tor thought and
rosemary tor remembrance. A no.
rent agitation bias been started in
Paris OH Hibernian lines; the speak-
ers however laho. under the dieadvan-
tsQe OF not being tenants, and land
lords will avoid applications from sucn
doctrinatres. The vintage has turned
out to be 25 per cent superior TO es'
Inmates; the wheat yield is now def.
nitely known to have been good,
while unsatisfactory for other oereals,
, While Dumas pere is having bis
statue inaugurated, Beranger's is iu
! course of preparation also. Paris
t owe, that honor to both celebrities;
each amused, but Berapger stirred
the masses, and contributed by
? "writina the ballads OF the nation.
8 to place Louis-Philippe on the tbroo,
and to revive the Nspoleonic Legend
9 Though descended from good .smil,
{ Beranger was reared in Paris by hi
, grandfather, tailor. He witnessed
3 the taking of the Bastile when 9 yeal
t old; he was born in August 1880, Ant
died July 1857. His first occupation
: was that ut waiter In a county inn
D KEEP. BY lis aunt; here he read Fene
1 lon. Racine and Voltaire; at IA years
\ OF age be became printer and 9,
learned photography and grammar
= Next he became CLERK in bubbl,
] bank founded by his royals. father
j.. that bursting, he tell into misery, on
8 of which he was rescued by Primo
{ LucIen Napoleon. He then VT t,
9 sstires against Napoleon I. whicl
J. made the emperor laugh. bat tn,
!, came exploit under the restoration
= made the Bourbons vince. He re
3 fused pension, post and place alik,
. from Orles nists and the second Em
pire. In 1888 he sold all bis works
t and all that he might write. to hi
. publisher for an annuity of 500 franc
. q year. Elected deputy of Paris il
, 184S. be refused the honor, tn
; worked nut the less behind the scenel
> with the chiefs of liberalism. He was
{ boon companion Of the royalist Cha
, teaubriand, the friend of Lamsrtine
J and Csllyrand; he was popular with
the clergy, and Was visited by Mgr.
6ibour. Archbishop OF Paris, be
, WHO "lay down bis life for his eheep.
being shot at the barricsdes. Nspo
leon III buried Beranger with tn
honors of q field marshal. The lat
|; terday poetry OF BersnRer has fewer
, faults, and is characterized by preci
} sion, vivacity, gracefulness and sim
, plicity.
A false baron has been entrspped
as he was about penetrating te'e
graphic cheque swinale on the credi
Lyonnais, and q husband not havinf
the patience to wait till his wife Wa
dead, be married again when she wsi
given over" bnt she not the lesl
came to. and thus has been con.