The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1884-02-17
suez canal as very ugly; but its util-
ity? Its importance must be esti-

ity7 Its importance must be esti'
mated by the shipping passing
through, a. Herodotus, to impress III
with the vastness of the Great Pyra'
mid, supplies the quantities OF onions
consumed by the workmen in its con
struction. Port Said, it appears /:
nothing but gigantic European
brothel, tempered with money-or
your-lifs male element. Suez is the
Arabian Cytheris. The stokers o.
the packets when passing through the
Red Sea, have the slenderest OF ne
leaf tnilettes, and the place where the
bad niggers 60 tc, ought to have nc
secrets for them should it be thell
fate ever to be sent there.
M. Massenet, the composer OF the
operas the Roi de Lahore, and Hero
diade, has won fresh success In bis
Msnop. 1t is to be regretted that he
did not bestow his talent on more
fitting subject than the old-153 years
of age-smutty novel OF the Able
Provost. It is the trite story of un>
chaste and adulterous women appeal,
ing for sympathy to the society they
outraged, for the natural punishment
OF their misconduct, lingering, neg
lected. and ignominious death. All
the spare time and help We have,
ought to be devoted to virtue in rags.
Passionate love does not beautify corr
ruption. Manon Lescsut was beau
tiful young girl, OF proud family, on
her way to a convent school,; at
Amiens. where the diligence
changed horses. she encountered
Chevalier Desgrieux; they no sooner
saw but they loved-snd eloped.
Subsequently they came to Paris.
Desgrieux living With, but always in
tending to marry Manon, his mistress.
Desgrieux was arrested by his father,
and sent to the seminary of st. Sui
pice to be educated for the church;
Manon became a demi-mondian, till.
discovering the whereabouts of Des-
grieux, she found her way, as peni-
tent to make her confession, to the
seminary, and obducted the young
priest. The unfortunate couple led a
wandering lie. finding in the lower
deep lower still; be was imprisoned
for gambling; she was transported as
a prostitute, and ultimately the beau
tiful sinner expired on the sands at
Havre, in the arms of Desgrieux who
had organized a rescue. HILARY and
ecribe attempted, unsuccessfully, to
set the story TO music. MassaDet has
been more fortunate. The music is
written with great elegance, aud is
sttrsctively curious from many no,el-
ties in point o! operasic treatment.
Il is contineen exchange of melody
between the orchestra and the srtistes,
full OF unexpected nc. dulations;
grave, soft. and poetica'. The best
songs are those executed by Manon
and Desgrieux on their first meet pg,
then the dust In the seminary, the
gambling house. and her death, the
latter did not succeed az hit, as in the
Dame aux Cameliss and From .Frou
Madame Heilbron and NJ. Solazao.
interpret the muaic absolutely perfect
as in the novel, so in the opera. there
are emily two roles. Massanet liz his
earlier days was a Wagnerian. add
still to that composers
natural or scientific ideas; in princi-
pie Mussenet aims to surround his
characters wi b their special lyrical
and dramatic stmospheres; each has
the music peoul ar to their roles; thus
Manon has hers, gay and melancholy
local dare it be said-human? One
Of the librettis.s is Meilhac. but who
detests music like Theophile Sautier,
that held the only difference between
ordinary noises and music was, the
latter was the most wearisome and
costly.
In one OF the leading thoroughfares
of the city q railway official on arriv-
ing home, found his wife tied hand
and foot, gagged, and lying on the
floor just as the robbers had LEI. her
at 8 O'Clock p. M, after carrying of
the family linen, the mantel piece
clock, money and spoons. One
Chantoisel has been acquitted by the
Jury of St. Briene; be csugh: a man
in asgrante delicto With his spouse. |
With . log OF wood he killed Lothario.
and then requested the famil, to
come, fetch, and bury the corpse. al
Paris jury has just sentenced q batch
OF promoters OF swindling companies
to several years OF imprison nent, and
which will contribute to the puri6ca-
ton OF the financial atmosphere. al
member of the jockey club having
lost bis fortune at play blew out bic
brains; the report was then spread he
died from natural" causes; perfectly
correct. a cabby has been sent to
prison for three months, for attempt
ing to tan the skin of his fare who re.
fused TO pay 900 per cent. above the
legal tariff,
NJ. Marcel Deprex has delivered q |
very interesting lecture at the Sor-
bonnie, on the employment of cleo
tricity az motive power. Indeed his !
name is prominently identified with |
the idea. He exhibited q very res
pectsble Nasmyth hammer, worked |
by electricity, that could crack nuts |
as well as bend huge bars OF iron. In
q few weeks he intends TO be able to