The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1884-03-02

DC WAS 700 cOuectSatlfo huu tOO JuI-
ist, to approve of the spoliation OF
the Orleanist Princes. and his name
will ever be associated with the treaty
o. commerce with England, that he
and Lord Golden negotiated.
Bnt on the other hand he said, for
he was the representative spokesman
of the Second Empire. that the Mex
lean expedition was the most glorious
thought OF Nspoleon's reign. that the
Italians would never have Rome, and
that, on the declaration OF war
against Prussia, France was ready"
thanks to the Emperor's care. M.
Rouher's idea OF conducting the stage
coach was: confide the reins to auto.
cratic hands; keep the brake we'll on,
and omit nothing to secure the ma
terial welfare of the travellers. He
did not believe in playing with iber-
ties.
M. Rouher had a marvellous fac
ultY for clearing up what was con.
fused, and mastering the details OF a
subject with rapidity. He personally
talked over the project of the com =
mercial treaty with manufacturers,
importers, and shippers, OF high and
low degree. He knew the profits and
losses of their trades to a centime. He
go amazed poor herring ship broker
by his knowledge. that on parting,
the visitor confdentislly begged M.
RouAer to remember that il ever he
''lost bis place to write to him, as
they could do business together"
NJ. Rouber was not strictly q man
of cultivated intellect, his eloquence
WAS unsdorned; he was said to be
'Demostheness. before the pebbles.
He bad a happy knack Of clutohing
adversaries; he ever commenced re-
plying to their weak arguments, and
then demanded. what was the use of
continuing. Ab uno disco onaes. He
WAS never a tiresome orator and he
could hit of q situation with q phrase
He was an incesssnt worker; be rose
at five in the morning, lsbored till
eight in the evening, and went to bed
ct ten. lie cared but little for society,
and bis only amusement was, q quiet
rubber with school-boy friends. he
was a good looking, rather than q
handsome man; be dressed well, bat
negligently. Physically. be had what
PlutCrco exacted for q statesman, an
''ample chest and god TANKS" He
possessed the courage to say "no,
when be meant no. WheE the
Prussians invaded France, M. Rou-
bers Chateau at Cercsy, which was
gift from Napoleon III, fell into their
hands, and what they most priz d
above ali, the secret and confidential
archives OF the Second Empire. III.
Rouber was SO yssrs of age, and cue
cumbed to soitening of the brain. A
clergyman that M Rauber once
aided, insisted on being allowed to
repay little OF the debt Of gratitude;
since year that clergyman prayed
morning and evening with the de-
ceased statesman Rouher he'd n
prize in him: when q practl cling
barrister he was content with q break
fast in al humble restaurant for Is
sous; all his townsmen were free to
call ON him, and be apologized at not
being able to take their business. a.
his client, his retainer, was now
France.
With III. Massenet, nothing suc-
ceeds like success. A fortnight ago
his opera, Aanon. received an ova.
ton. Now bis HerodiQde opera ia
four acts has been honored with a
triumph at the Italian theatre. 1t ia
al once a sacred and profans opera,
kind of Passion Play set to music.
The peoples represented are Jews.
Romans and Christians, and the
epoch, the year 80 of our era. The
principal characters are Herod, Hero
disje, his sisterain-law's wife, her
daughter. Salome. and Jean John
the Baptist Herod is represented As
loving Salome, who has be.towed Der
affection en- Jean. The latter returns
no. earthly but spiritual love, which
salome does not comprehend. in oIdsr
to convert her to Christianity.
Through the influence OF Heroilade
Jean is executed. Saloms resolves TO
stab her, but Herodiade turns the
blow by confessing to Salome sae Is
her mother; then Salome poignsrss
herself. The music is remarkably
beautiful, melodious and voluptuously
delicate. The soenery, that of the
temple especially, is superb.
Either ne have 80 many of them,
as to remain Indifferent, or tina. they
have died out, but the fact: Is. we hear
little about the strikes. The rag
pickers still remain in public fsv T.
since their cslliDg has been prac l.
cally abolished by thu authorities. A
municipal councillor. Joffrice, de-
nands, on behalf OF that fraternity,
tina. they be compensated by the
state, az France did the shareholders
in 184S, and the postmasters and
postilions. when railways abolished
their lawful callings.
An inmate of the lunat;c asylum OF
Charentondince twenty years, one
Vacherot. has been inferred. He
Was the cause OF serions diplomatic
Misunderstanding between France
and Austria. The deceased had been