The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1884-02-03
STRIKES.
Something About These Evils and
Their Results.
With A Number Of Partisan Para.
graphs Grave and Gay.
PARIS, January 9.

PARIS, JanuaryS.
S.rikes form the most active indus.
try just now in the country. Oabmen,
miners. porters, sailors, ragpickers,
all are out, not including the anar-
chists whose hand 10 against every
body and everybody's against them.
To the disconnected must be added
the millers. They are far from being
as ''jolly" as their philosophical con-
frere who lived on the river Dee. In
their petition OF grievances they DOM.
plain that their lawful calling is all
but gone. There are $4,000 -four
mills in France, employing BOO, 900
persons, and unless technical
"grinding" schools be founded in
the chief centres of the land, the
milling intesest ia doomed.
This grief il the natural conse-
quence OF the evolution in trade and
industry that France is passing
through. She ia undersold by the
foreigner. Her great market. Eng
land, for her wheat and -four, has
been closed to her by the cheaper
and better fours OF America and
Hungary. say better. because M.
Darrell, the secretary of the national
society of agriculture. recently avowed
that the quality OF French -four had
dsteriorated, was deficient in gluten,
and made less bread per given guam
tity of -four as compared with former
years. Nay more, French bakers
themselves insist on having Ameri-
can and Hungarian fours. Then
again, France is behind the age in
modern four-mili machinery also; it
is useless attributing the loss of the
market to German and American
tariffs, these nations are protec tionists
after their fashion. as is France after
hers; their products sell, because
found TO suit.
The radical journals are right when
they insist, that it is on the home in
dustries of the country attention
should be fixed, and not on NADIA
gascsr, Tonkip, etc, which will drain
France OF men and money, to open
up markets. not for French, but tor
German, English, and American
goods. The republic. as Rochsfort
says, ought to have other ends in
view, than setting up kings in An
nam, as they are knocked over like
nine pins. No news from the Mar
guess Tssng; he smscks OF Bobadil.
On the contrary, M. Tricon. historic.
ally a pro pas with kilograms. has
wired on New Years day. q fresh
triumph-the baby king of AMMAN
and his councillors, have ratified the
Hue treaty-that no one has yet
seen. The odd matter would be, their
declining to do 30.
As there ia something agreeable,
Rochefouoauld, in the mistortunes of
our best friends, the French journals
are loud in their sympathy for the
difficulties of England in Egypt,
They are put about o little at the
prospect of the Turks being let loose
in Soudan, as they would in time
swing round to Tripoli, and 30 be
near Algsris.A Mahdi is bad enough,
but to have the possible extension Of
the sons of the True Prophet, is as
cherries still.
The question OF revising the consti.
tuition, as announced for this year
by NJ. Ferry. has had fer result, to
destroy the cohesion, slight az it has
existed, and with such difficulty OBJ
tanned, in the ranks of the republic~
ans. The country does not demand
anything OF the kind, no more than
it does of colonial extentions. 1t
demands to be LETT tranquil and al
lowing to work in peace.
The epiphany is also the fete or
the Jour des Rois, and il the special
cakes snatched up as rapidly as they
quit the bakers oven, could be
counted as bulletins in plebieoite.
France must be very royalist indeed.
The young people displayed no incli-
nation to forego their evening fun OF
electing mock king and queen,
with their suite OF courtiers and at
tendants, The fret king was lucky
soldier, the king of the revels ia he,
who obtains the beau in his slice of
the GAZETTE. Having won the crown
he organizes his kingdom, and is
monarch eff all the surveys for some
hours. observe that the times con-
ored beau is going ont OF fashion. and
ia being replaced by an article of
jewelry. This is presumed to oorres-
pond more to the symbol OF the pres
ents of the Magi.
Since ages. the epiphany has been
viewed as joyful family fete, though
in the eighteenth century books
we're published against the custom OF
drinking the kings health, the prac-
tioe being considered as Pagan. But
it was not a relic of paganism, as in
the early church Christians Inc
dulged in a severe fast on the eve.
the only air of heathenism about the
custom is, the putting aside Q portion
of the cake for God and the poor.
The Greeks employed the term
epiphany to mean. the apparision. or
the presence of Gods on the earth,
by some visible sign. The Msgi who
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