The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1883-07-15

Market Then the FrenchWork-
men leans more and more to pay
Ment by the day, rather than by the
piece, q plan where the best artizan
Invariably suffers.
An event which has caused a
widespread horror, is the suicide
of a lad aged only 6 years,
His parents 80 ill-treated him,
him, that he avowed he "knew what
he wou d do" He climbed through
the skyligbt and dashed himself
from height of fire stones into the
street; block of wood broke the
fall, but the little fellow is not ex-
pected to recover. Two artists were
paying their attention to belle,
drinking absinthe at / cafe. when
she suddenly bolted on seeing man
pass by-her husba Id, and who
lived by her prostitution. The two
artists saw her home; on reaching
the door. the husband was already
there; she tore off her bracelets say
ing. "SaNe them" The husband
seized her diamond necklace, when
one of the artists drew a revolver,
while the other took a "boar's tusk"
from his pocket, and inflicted grave
wounds on the husband. On learn
ing how the latter lived, the public
prosecutor withdrew the case. Since
"boar's tusks" have become quite
the fashionable peace-maker; they
are preferred to knuckle du. tiers.
A Frenchman suggests that, in
stead OF making an inland sea for
Algeria. it would be more to the
point to tap for instantaneous wells
which have everywhere been so
successful in the. desert, then irri-
gate. grow dates ard cultivate wheat.
Next ought to follow the raising Of
edible drumedaries. A date tree
yields fruit when five years old, and
it's produce, 80 pounds, sells at one
and a half franc per pound.
Professor Caro- states. in the
struggle for life the future is to
those individuals and peoples who
know how to combine and associ-
ste In durable action those two
forces. initiative faculty and respect
for the past.
The international congress for the
protection of infants in its aim is
excellent. Unhappily 1t let some
angry passions rise, what ought
ever to be yelled from children. It
was ELECTED that the creches ought
to be near the infants school, and
close IS possible to the mills, etc.,
where the mothers work; that the
institution ought to be organized 80
as to train young girls to be nurses
1t was stated that mothers, when
charged 9 sous per day for the care
OF their children willingly paid that
sum, but if only asked 4 sous they
declined to confide their little ones
to such cheap establishments.
Auber, the composer, lived to the
ripe age of 95, and which he at
trIbuted to remaining perfectly
Indifferent to the events of life; he
INDUCED never in emotions. Then
again he was proverbially lazy:
often he would shut himself up
alone to catch inspiration, when in
reality he was sleeping all the
time. He had an honor of the
country, and du:ing sixty years
never slept single night outside
the capital. It was his reluctance
to leave Paris which caused him to
remain pendant the siege, and the
seiging and eating of his two favor
tie horses, that he fed daily with
lump sugar, fastened his death.
The minister of commerce is
blamed for subscribing to English
mercantile journals for the use of
commercial institutions in this
country, because they have adver-
tisements Of English manufactur
ers.
A sin ing palace in the city begs,
on notice boards, the auditors to
respect the ladies as the ornaments
of society, to uphold the law, and
not to smoke when an artistic is
singing.
BY an old law of the convention.
the father of seven children, can
select any of the boys to be educa-
ted and reared at the expense of
the state. 1t is largely availed of.
a group of travellers boosted of
their wines: they drank only Chat
eau y'quem. or Chateau Margaux,
or ChateauLaffitte: ~ said a listener
drink Chateau d'eau."