The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1883-03-04

| to Nice and Rome. Indeed, any
change from our chronic political
masquerades would be boon. Only
children's fancy balls, and they are
ever attractive, minister to our
amusement; the opera rGeutS are
dead failures, a kind of big dance
where nirth is absent and famlsh-
ing demi-mondians come to seek
fortune in the form of supper. AT
private evening parties an amuse-
ment is extending, that OF ladies
making up a head-dresS to recall
some historical character. The soul
of an evening party now is the
"funny man," He is in full dress
costume, plus the head make of a
clown. He has the privilege of
court fools, to crack jokes at every
ones expense, but if he turns out
not to be witty and expert at re-
partee, his position becomes pitia-
BILE. The daw in borrowed feathers
would be nothing in comparison to
his lot.
Limoges is city of 10000 inhab-
itants, and its speciality is the man.
ufacture Of porcelain ware, dinner
services, toilette materials, etc.; one
fifth of the population lives by this
industry: more cups and saucers
are turned out in a week than all
the careful servants in Europe could
break in a year. The lubricants
promised the turner's of cups an in
crease of salary and gave it. but
withdrew their written pledge, when
the busy season was oyer. now two
months ago; a strike at once followed
and continues; 5000 hands are out
of work. Yet the fact IS hardly
known in France, so orderly are the
people. The porcelain trade is con-
centrated in Limoges since one hun
dred and fifty years, and the wages
vary from half a franc to five francs
per day. The employers allege the
competition of England and Ger
many is too severe to allow Of their
executing their promises. The strike
will likely be patched up till the
busy season comes round, and then
the hands purpose having their re-
Yenge, a Roland for an Oliver.
The LGRteTne is an able extreme
republican journal, published
at a sous, and has undoubt-
eddy political weight. 1t
has a speciality to expose
the detective branch Of the police
service. 1t publishes the 'confden-
tiaf' reports Of these agents, the
most trashy stuff imaginable. The
most Humorous are those by the de-
tective told off to spy the Lonterne,
who was once an employee there,
but dismissed three years ago for
improper conduct. Since then he
has deluded the police; he is still in
the Office, and draws police pay for
imaginary conversations. The Jour
nal in question has brought about
the downfall of several police pre-
feCts and one home minister by it's
untimely reflections
In 1854 the Comtesse de Beure-
gard and Lady Simpson fought a
duel in Belgium, with swords,
caused by the beautiful eye Of a
captain of dragons. a milliner
recently got married, but shortly af-
forwards had proof that one of her
bridesmaids. Berthe, had suspicious
relations with her husband. Acct
IDENTIFY meeting III the street,a quar-
rel ensued; the wife proposed to
her rival TO enter cab and have it
out, while escaping q crowd. In the
course of little time cabby hearing
screams, pulled up, and looking IN
saw the ladies covered with blood,
and in grips, ore using a pocket
knife and the other a scissors. He
deposited the duelists IN the hos
pital.
A Partisan uphclsterer has lust
completed q bed for a rajah in a
distant part Of India; the cost is
10000 francs, of which the one
third is for the silver and GOLD en-
ployed in the decoration. Each
'post" is the type of the ladies of
Italy, Spain, Greece and france.
They hold Jares in their hands, have
a gold bracelet round the wrist, and
The eyes are mobile like a dolls. So
long as the bed is occupied. a selec-
ton Of airs from Gounod's repertoire,
continues to be played.
| NJ. Renan has been dealing with
the subject of Judaism, so as to give
| the anti-semetics of Germany food
for reflection. He maintains that
the Jews are religion, not a race,
and if they have manners and
customs apart, it is because they
are minority living in the midst
of great majority, similar to
French prOtestants Of the present
| day. France, he observes, places
the insoluble question of race OUT
side natiOnalities and aboliShes all
ghetto5. There is nothing he adds
to be despiSed in those who belong
10 the founders of religion seven
centuries before Jesus Christ. NJ,
Renan remarks that Christian serv,
ants in Jewish families generally
become converted to their masters
faith. In his Souvenirs Of child.
hood. now being published, NJ
Renau states, his father was a fisher.
man, was drowned, no one knew
how; his remains being washed
ashore month later. Renau avows
he would like to be buried along
side his sister, under the palm trees
at Byblas, in Syria, and its sacred
mysteries, and not in the sad anC
horrible cemeteries Of western
nations.