The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1884-04-06

gambling turned to q mania with
rich and poor. Meu sat On stools in
the streets, and invit d the passers by
to join in game. There were bells
for all classes and purses. The house
on the Boulevard des Italiens-the
Pavilion de Hanovre, that every
visit knows was q gambling palace
kept by the notorious Madame Le-
cour. The beggars had their special
hell at Is rue Riobelieu, but the pool
there was limited to ak farthinos.
Madame Lecour made 10000
francs year alone by the
sale OF cards-thrown on the
floor, after each game. The am.
bassador of Venice paid his debt by
his winnings at her house, and his
colleague. from Sweden obtaine1
there bis income. Under the Empire
the number OF bells were limited aud
farmed. Fouche gave one OF bis spy
Perrin, so as to entice foreigners;
Fouche in return received every
morning a roll of 80 louis from this
bouse. Louis Philippe suppressed
all the bells at the close OF 1887; at
that period, the city budget realized
from 5. O00,C00 to 6 600. 900 francs.
by farming the bells and which
help d to pay the subsidies to the the>
aires.
The French are irritated at the
slowness of the operations at Bac-
ninh and the resistance of the Chi.
nese, this feeling is aggravated by the
successes-mil:tary and diplomatic, OF
perfde Albion in Egypt. They will
never forgive the Mahdi, if he ceases
from troubling. M. Renan demands
money to preserve the Intercollegiate
atone records on the Nile; he heads
no list himself; the appeal has fallen
as Hat as that made for sinews OF wsr
for the false prophet When the
chemist Lsvoisier was condemned to
be gaiilotined, for preparing bis own
snuff, the petitioners for his life re-
informed. ''the republic had no u. ed
OF chemists" The French can do
without megsli.hs; besides, they have
their supply of obelisk.
France is pat to the pin OF her COL
lar to make the two ends meet. Tne
ministers have at last become fero-
cious in refusing new credits. or IN
dulging in fresh expens es-Tonkin
and Madagascar excepted. TIE ex-
change or money market o ce so
omnipotent, has become thing of
the past; worse, the glory that has de-
parted has settled down on Berlin, to
say notaing of London or New YORK.
Inc agitation for the expulsion OF
tie Orleanist princes is between
smouldering and revival. The C)mte
de Paris it appears sees too many
friends; the Duo d'Anmale gives too
many dinners; Paul de Casssgnao.
announces he retires like Achilles to
his tent. Bonapartisll is dead so
long as Prince Napoleon lives. The
latter in adopting legal agitation, in
stead OF Boulogne expeditions and
Coups G'Etat, has relegsted to the
Greek Kalends the restoration OF the
empire. The dynamiters are busy at
Lyons and Amin. The Anarchist
have at last formalized their pro.
gramme; an immediate gratuity OF
20, GOO, 600 francs TO the working
classes; the expulsion Of all foreign
workmen from France, and the cleo
ton of Anarchists to replace Jules
Ferry. Prince Bismarck's coming
move ia closely examined; that uf a
European coalition pledged to ruutuaI
disarmament, with obligation for
France to submit, Or
A leading architect has committed
suicide because not in the receipt oil
an adequate income; he leaves bis
widow and two orphans to society
whion failed to uphold him. Al
Rouen. a regimental schoolboy, aged
Is, being ordered to the intirmary
ins cad Of being gratified in the play
ground, blsw the one-hslf of his face
away with rifle. And an old gen
tlemsn near Neuilly, aged 50, occu
pYiug comfortable rooms, and With
5000 francs in his cash box, dressed
himself in his grave clothes, plunged
q butoher-knife into his stomach. and
actually tore out his intestines 30 thai
they reached the fire, One OF the
jurors, Artemann. who found vet-
dict against that troubie.the.tribunal:
young Morphy, writes to the papers,
he was in favor OF an acquit!al. he
is to be indicted for publishing ID :
secrets of the jury box.
There are people with false be, rts,
false teeth, and heads of hair that a
strong zephyr would carry away;
there are false eyes and false calves.
Madame Berger underwent an eps.
ration Tor the removal Of the uvala,
caused by sore throat. Fee, 1850
francs and that enabled her to speak
through her nose like an escape steam
pipe or the late Ii. Dufaure. To
cover this lacune of nature she ap-
piled 10 @ dentist TO make her a false
ava a; he did so. assuring her it was
superior to the original, and the
price only 2 600 francs. The appa.
ritus was in celuloid. When she
tried it on, the odor made her sick.
She was unable to eat, but worst OF
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