The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1884-01-06

Out aIeO DIS house kef per. But Wha
energy che had in her teens! She wen
alone during several years to cattle
market and central slaughter houses,
to study groups OF animals; in order
to avoid the curiosity of drovers
butchers and the peculiar frequenterG
OF the above places, she adopted
masculine toilettes. and in later years
forgot TO reappear In her old clothes.
This motive was com orehensible; not
a vagary or eccentrieity, as in the cass
OF George Sand.
Rosa was Is years of age, when she
exhibited her first picture at the Salon
OF 1910; there were two small paint.
ings, rabbits nibbling corrots and
turnips; her sister, Madame Peyrol.
is the possessor of the pictures and
treasures them as an heirloom.
Rosa's second grief was the death oil
her teacher and father, in 1S49. Love
for him and for art, closed her heart
for any third affection, save that foI
her family. When dying, he begged
Rosa to bring him the last picture she
had cOmpleted-Labourags nisernaiS:
she did so. sobhingly, to his bedside;
he took her two hands in his, and en-.
deavoring to smile, expired.
In 1858. appeared her celebrated
"Horse Fair" and in 1866, Ebay
making in Auvergne." and now in
the Luxembourg museum. It was the
Empress Eugene, that not only in
sisted on Rosa being decorated with
the Legion of Honor-rarely conferred
upon the fair sex-but having sue.
ceeded, pinned the red ribbon her.
self on the artists breast.
Mile. Bonheur is also sculptor, but
her productions in this line have ad.
ded nothing to her fame; her brother
is fair sculptor, the other brother
being painter OF average talent.
She resides at Fontsinebleau, that
hsllowed ground OF artists, and dur
ing the invasion the Kronprinz of
Prussia ordered ber residence to be
carefully protected. Forming an ante
chamber to her studio, is a stable
and paddock for the accommoda alton
OF horses, sheep etc., that she pur.
chases herself for objects. Thus she
is surrounded by all that can develop
and keep up that strength and surety
of design. and the grand character OF
her landscapes for which she ia dis
tinguished. She draws her nature
and the dictates of her heart, and de-
spite what some describe as her va
carries, che remains woman above all,
the corinne, more beautiful at Let
cade than at the summit of the Capt..
toll.
A lively quarrel is going on res-
pecting the salubrity of Nice this
winter. Il ia said fever is in the air,
like the volcanic fiery dust of Java,
that philosophers ASSERT recently pro-
duoed our supply of aurora borealli.
This is unfortunate for Nizza la Bella
and the International Winter Exhi-
bition that some spectators have Or
ganized. However, an epidemic of
some kind is as much an attribute of
a Worlds Fair as an augmentation
in ho.el tariffs. Fortunately, only
sturdy invalids 60 to Nice &c avoid
the coughing streets of Mentone.
Crime has been On the decline the
past week or two, and this is perhaps
due to the new law which allows the
to deal summarily with
''losfsrs." the stratum of the popu-
lotion which furnishes the perpetra-
tors OF all crimes.
M. de Lesseps has escaped being
blown up with a kind of dynamite !
snuff boy, so for the future he refuses |
10 accept "toletiers" as souvenirs. |
ne only hopes to De spared to assist |
1t the inauguration of his Panama !
canal and make things pleassn. all |
around for SueZ; thsn he will chant |
1is Nunc Dimittis.
A poor cabmau has had marrow
,soape; while pursuing his lawful
calling, the Pnilistines visited his
BEDROOM and next to Quilted it. All |
bis clothing was taken save a very
I'D pair or psntsloons, in which he
Kept all his fortune, 10000 francs III
arge bank notes stitched in the lin
ng. Old friends are best.
Az the piping times OF peace ara
,erha~s destined soon to cease for
france, this may explain why
he srtillerists paid extra honors
% the anniversary OF their
saint and pasroness few
lays sgo-Sainte Barbe. This
ady, go dear to the soDs of gun,
was q native of Nicomedis, and e1-
sted sbou. the year 235. Her father
vas rich nobleman. but cruel and
as we'll as no-suTelder
pagan. sainse Barba was very beau
iful and an heire;s. To protect both
Ter father, Dioscore. built a tower
md locked her therein when away
DC business Sbe declined to marry
he husband selected for her. as be
vas a pagan; bat further she had |
'esolved to wed DO mortal. Her
ather then handed her over to tbs
project of the province. one Marclao, !
,ut she would not renounce Christi
unity. despite scourgings and soratch-
ngs with broken earthepware; her
read vas pounded with hsmners
md her sidel iaked with heated iron
combs. But no use. A: last she
vas condemned to be executed. and