The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1884-09-14

! "people of its own"-thatiS, the nation,
! about the congress was significant. Not
a paper brought out an extra edition,
not one sold an extra number. Mems
minds were occupied about stagnant
business, the cholera, and Tonquin.
The Republic not being seriously men
aced exacted no anxiety. All the
country demands to be left in peace;
that the finances be not dissipated; that
taxes be not made more crushing. and
that no foreign wars be undertaken.
For the thousanth time, the
PROBLEM or AERIAL NAYIoATIoN
is claimed to have been solved. Two
officers from the balloon depot at Men
don, assembled to the height of one
hundred feet, in a machine resembling
swimming fish on travelling trunk.
It was worked by an electric motor, and
the ease her" "stop her," ETC., move
ments, executed as easily as a river
steamers. No scientific commission or
Independent authority was allowed to
witness the experiment. This, and the
fact that no company has been formed,
demanding cash to work the project,
suggests caution. A number of such
aerial ships would render Metz an
inutility, and the channel tunnel I'M
necessary. After all they might be less
dangerous than the Flying. Squadron"
of Catherine de Medicis, which was com
posed of three hundred of the prettiest
young ladies of France.
THE CHOLERA
is as tenacious to get rid of as dun.
1t is not more intense, but it does break
out like dynamite explosion, when and
where we least expect it. 1t is not bad
plan when case is declared in new
neighborhoodfo for all the leading officials
to arrive on the spot and deal with it.
This gives courage to the white-livered,
who cannot seek safety in flight, in and
around Mt. Blanc. There is about
Cairo, a nilemeter, to mark the rising OF
the river, as the fortune of the country
depends on q few inches more or less,
of melted snow. | have found out
cholerameter, in the selling of disinfect-
ants and cures Two month ago these
were quoted as high as house lambs at
Christmas, or green peas and young
ducks in March. The tariff has now
descended fully so per cent. below origin
al quotationss In Paris, the only draw
back is the continued drought, which
daily reduces the supply OF potable
water. Moral: boil all water before
drinking, and then filter. That puts an
end to The microbes and their wriggles.
Were it not for Sedan, one might say
the second empire has
LEFT NOT WRECK BEHIND.
The CHIEF actors in that accident OF
history" have all but disappeared.
Some relics OF the regime OF Charles X,
existed, as a few cablnen still call when
angry, their soreus, ''polignaci" The
second empire has been brought to
mind, not by a prospectus from Prince
Napoleon, or q protest from Prince Vic
tor, against "My awful Dad but by a
coup de casino, at DeauYille where a
conspiracy, planned By the Due de
Morny's son, aided and abetted by the
deputy mayor, was organized to replace
| the statue of the late due on the pedes-
| tai from which it had been knocked over
By the Republicans, in 1870.
Deauville was one of the mang specu-
lations or jobs, in which the Due de
Morny was stepped to the lips. He
wanted to make that. sandy desert a
kind of Biarritz-Brighton. He was
Joined by Sir Joseph Ollife, married to
I
London. who put nearly all his wife
fortune in the spec. It failed. Deau-
vile is
A FAsHIoTABLE RENDEZVOUS
Tor week or two in August, the present
moment, for example of the prominent
world; it is ennui itself the remainder
OF the season; its sumptuous and triste
villas, give one the blues. To honor the
Due as founder, he had his statue in
Ebronze. A few nights ago his son and a
score of his fast companions arranged
70 remove the statue from the official
lumber cellar and with windlass hoist
it on its pedestal. They were in the'a
OF doing SO, when a commissaryT of
police and six of his men with drawn
was taken to the place from whence it
came. The present duke is a young
man distinguished for initiating ballet
girls; he dances admirably in jupons.
| Russian actress shot herself beside
him while he was in his bath, because
he deserted her, and this gave him
notoriety. He has neither the elegant
impertinenee, dash nor cleverness OF his
! father, who was the adulterous brother
| Of Napoleon ELL, by their mother, Queen
! Hortense-hence the coat of arms OF
the duke was the flower Hortensia.
The late duke of Morny, accepted the
coup d. etat like st. Armand and the
Emperor himself, TO pay their debts.
Morny, had, not a sous, yet he LETT his
son an incameo of q million a year. He
had stud Of AS horses at Chantiliy,
which cost him half million francs a
year. Then he aimed to be thinker,
like Merimee, but had not his philosophy
and a dandy as Beau Brummel but
I.without his passionate elegance He
died from his Nde5aueheries, and his
funeral that all official splendor could
organize, was greeted by jeers by Pari-
slams. - His tomb in. Pere LaChaise
cemetery was pending the last days OF
the commune, converted into drink
ing bar.
rs THE SOCIALISTS
HELD a meeting week, but the
lecturer said he would not make known
his prefecture cure till his,partY were in
| Office. Another speaker proposed that
Ian property be equally divided; hesSas
ready to do so, only he had none but
the coat on his back. Another denoun-
ced Gambetta as a one-eyed humbug
an acrobat, worn-out rake, and an old
.rattlesnake. A, third speaker said the
vroh,,l-r,, A. 1x-ara feinO rTlirleH because