The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1884-08-24

IPiniNou eue WAS OlacR anu due,
but nevertheless for him to proceed.
as between men all was permissi-
ble."
DIDERoT WAS A WILD YOUTH;
he was educated like Voltaire, BY the
Jesuits, and proved their most terri
bic foe, as his conirere. he was des-
tined for the priesthood and like
Rsnan tonsured in advances. His
father was q cutler. trade sacred in
1.-THE family since two centuries; Denis
| Diderot put on il ather apron, but
he soon spoiled more psnknives than
the whole workshop was worth. His
fond father gave him choice OF pro-
!essions. He said, / do not wish to
kill anybody, so I will not be g doc.
tor; l am too honest to be a lawyer,
and since l detest med6ling with
lother peoples business, I won't be q
notary. I wish to 60 to Paris to be
free to study and go be happy" And
he tramped all the way 10 the capital,
$50 miles.
j He lived by giving lessons, and was
paid in linen, furniture, books and
occasionally money. He was 81
miserable that on Good Frida y 10
1741, he tainted with hunger. having
been two days without food-ior his
father had cut him of. He slept on
q bundle Of straw; but as Heine OBJ
J serves, Genius like medlars, only
} ripen on straw" A few days later,
he took fancy to the daughter OF a
sbirt-maker; be entered the shop,
ordered shirts, had net a SOUS in his
J pocket; proposed then ard there for
Juliet and promised to find work to
] support her. That wild marriage
; domestioally unhappy-saved him
He was now thirty years of age, and
, commenced bis first literary work, 6
, TRANSLATION o. an English history o.
. Greece. 1t was also an English book
j that suggested to him and d. Alem
i bert, the memorable Encyclor e lila
. where FOR thirty years he put his life,
, which brough. him in ten francs a
day. when as Voltairs himself an old
old moneygFuboer and money-iender,
observes an army contractor, made
| 10000 francs oaily. There is a good
deal OF legend about DideEot being
, prosecuted for his encyclopo lis, al
being irreligious. 1t attacked nc
religion, and Diderot's atheism must b
. sought for in his writings for D. Hol
). back, It was when desiring to settl
I Idowry on his daughtsr that the EN-
: press OF Russia purchased his library
4 begged him to keep the books for he
. in Paris, and named him Librarian c
!. 1t at a salary. His voyage to Russi
. was to thank her majesty for b G
generosity. The "Gauloise of tn
;. North" had fancy for philosophers
4 but net for their philosophy, as ate
i 1892. she commanded all ths busts c
= Voltsire that adorned her gallerie
. and salons, to be removed to q cellar
4 Just as svery new regime in France
a stores away in lumber rooms, tn
a Louis, Napoleons, and Lady Repub
!. lies. that have their day. Catherin
n declared to her visitor, philosopher
n might write good books, but that the
=. were bad business men; you wor
i on paper with your imagination an
your pen, while l in mon petit men
y age tine name for her great empire
\ work On ticklish human skin." Did
a erot died in the rue Richelieu, not ia
. from where Moliere expired, and thl
n clergy 60 far absolved him. as TO bur.
h him in Virgin Mary side chapel @
y St. Rooh's church, where the FRS
q Napoleon played few years later Oh
= insurgents and bis tomb, with :
Il battery OF artillery commanded b,
the young soldier of fortune.
n an old gentlemen aged 20, wa
4 quietly walking along the Boulevarda
r. when a man got cut of cab AM
4 punched his heal with a knuck
4 buster. As the victim is rich AMI hs
II no kith or kin, it ia suspected tina
n only the minister OF finance coulc
n have a design to slsy, go that his bud
!. get would benefit by Windfall.
a Polish merchant complains ths
oa the 18th OF July, he was seized
S locked W in q cellar with rep