The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1884-01-27
FRENCH FACTS.
With . Number Of Faneies Thrown
In.
Cur Paris Correspondents Interest.
ing Budget of News.
PARIS, January 2.

PARIS, January 2.
Annum norum fdustum ct feIicom
tibi. We are delighted that 1888
that Annee Miserable is dead and
buried. though its successor arrive.
| shrouded in more clouds than sun;
shine. But it has hope on its side
| and that's a medicine; and it has
youthiulness. and so brig h.ness and
| courage. The past has belonged tc
! the lean years; from its sticky birth
it suffered from consumption and
anemia. It ress mbled those bud'
that open only to decay. The wicked
fairy that presided at its birth, never
allowing it moments repose. Il.
was the year OF budgetary deficits.
that deceived all provisions, due to
the incontestable sufferings OF indus
try and commerce. Ithas compelled
French savings to seek remunerative
investment with the more favored
foreigner. It has been the year of
distant expeditions, to Madagascar
and Tonkin, which scatter the
strength and dispute the nations
riches. It was the year of universal
torpidity in business, where confidence
was absent and enterprise myth. II
was year where fnanciers remained
coy, and capital INDUCED in strike.
It was in word, year of stsrili:y,
with very little 10 its credit account.
The budget having been votel at q
wild.cat express rate by the Senate,
the session was thus enabled to be
closed, and the Republic saved BY q
fuke, from having to resort to the ig-
nominious shift OF accepting q
monthly instalment, or twelfth Of
the estimates. The last speech de-
livered was by Prime Minister Ferry.
who was called an ''insolvent fellow"
by the cratic deputy poet Clovis HUI
CUES, and mex. challenged by another
M. de Languinas. The latter ex-
planned in tbs Pickwickian sense; the
former has been temporarily expelled
and his grog stopped. But the social
lists, headed By Rochefort, have made
I'D g purse to compensate Gracious.
Then be is to be given five dinners.
which viii keep thus the wolf from
the door.
Where are We now about Tonkin?
We want toe Marquis Tseng to
explain, what be meant By asserting
Sontsy taken, war was Inevitable.
That indicates China is still little
behind the age, and her CON batting
smacks more of the gong and the
stink-pot, than multichsrge canons
and repetition rifles. The attitude of
willing to wound but afraid to strike,
has naturally led to the French aug
mentirg their demands, and being
more difficult to compromise matters.
For example, they now repudiate
mediation, John Chinaman must
either knock down or try to quarrel,
hiit to hilt.
The Communists, which is real
noun of multitude meaning all the
political roughs in France, intend
erecting monument 10 the memory
of their brave, inferred, to the num-
Der at least of ], 900, in an Aceldema
corner ofthe PeIe LaChaise cemetery
The municipal council is playing into
their hands. The Communists have
their Baudin in Delesciuze. and
mean to large the bourgeois cabinet
tightly on the question.
The last day of the year being the
of poor Gambetta's death
"a void still unflled-some intimate
friends proceeded to his residence
Iardiss, at Vile d'Auray-to fix a |
slab On the house. |
The premises are nearly in the same
state as when he died. / passed by
the grounds a few days ago; they are
cared for by an old gardener and bis
wife. 1t il intended to preserve the
house as republican heirloom OF
some kind, perhaps for q museum of
Republicans, as the monarchy had 1t
for sovereigns. The public subscrip-
ton for the Gambetta statue, now
RQOuute w O10,O wv AohOSs ~ 40
Contemplated" to erect the statue
before the pantheon, to vie perhaps
With that of Sainte Genevive. To do
10, the permission OF the municipal
council would be necessary, and such
is not at all certain, the councillors
being rabid anti'opportunists. This
explains Why the lioerator OF the Ter
,itory. Theirs, and the soul OF the
National Defence. Gambetta, have
1either of them IN the capital. even
| blind alley baptized With their |
names, much less a statue.
In France, the year did not always
commence with the Let OF January,
Tor did modern peoples. in accepting
he names OF the months, adopt thslr
rider o!dste. In the greater number
u the towns OF Italy and spain, the
ofths year was fixed
It Christmas; under the early kings
II France, March was selected; in the
,inth century, Xmas was chosen.
There was no uniformity; each prov.
nee had its own New Years day; if
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