The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1884-05-04

ntd thelr fatal days, and marked IL
the calendar, when business was 10 E,
| Suspended.
: Cynical though they be. Psrisian
yisld to the influence. Its uotori
eus fact, that the receipts of the ON.
/ nibus company are % per cent. les'
on Fridays, than on any esber day o
the week; and il Friday happen to be
also the 18th of month, the receipts
fall to 80 per cent. 1t ia not only
because Jesus was crucified On Fri.
day, but that at the last supper, there
: we're thirteen at table. You would
net find q lady in France to give q
dinner toAthirteen guests. Il is a1
unlucky number. During the old
monarchy in France. it was on Good
Friday that the chancellor sealed all
letters for the remission of penalties.
From Good Friday till Easter Sunday,
DO church bell rings; the bells are
said to have gone to Rome.
Paris returns eighty members to the
municipal council, or four fer each
w.rG; the new bill as voted By tee
Chamber, and thrown out by the Sen =
ate, and fevoted by the depu lies,
henceiorth divides the city into four
electoral districts, to return about tee
same number CT councillors. bnt pro
rate to the population. and by Ssrattia
dc Liste. II the System will swamp
the monsrcnal minority, it will eE-
clude the smnestied, but protested
communists from being returned. Il
Is the forecast OF the plan OF baliotags
for deputies and senators, and which
oansed the downfall of Gambet!a, be-
cause precociously proposed.
The strike at the Amin coal and
iron mines augmeuts in violence;
the Anarchists kept blowing the
coals;" the fighting the military ia
left to the women and ohildren-the
old revolutionary tactics. as French
soldiers would never FIRE on either.
NJ. Masois, who leads the chau-
whist section OF the Suez shareholders,
declares his party far from decress-
ing. bag augmented; re is confident
OF securing the rejection Of the COM
promise with the English shippers,
and thus maintain the canal French.
and bsve political grip at same
time on Egypt, as the route u tina
future empire, doubtless, OF French
China. Thus With France on the
eastern, and Russia on the western
flank, British India will find itseli
between the anvil and the BANNER.
Only the lsttsr exist nearer hom. tor
both powers.
III. Hughes Kraft! may reasonably
count upon his statue. as the fever
for erecting such is stili rife, He bas
uncons ciously solved one OF the thorns
in the flesh of every resident hare,
save Victor Hugo, whose pet oa5msu
is a fellow poet III. Kraft has
resided for come time in Yokohama.
Between that city and it's suburbs,
there is class Of runners" who
instead of cabs, have hand cart
arrangement by which they trundle
fares, at the rate OF five miles sn
hour, or doutls the velocity OF Paris
cab, when drawn even by Gladis-
teur. The trundlers can do their
thirty-aix miles 8 day, in sunshine
or shade without fatigue; they live on
a bowl OF rice and few mouthiuls of
cold tea is their scla pick-me-uD;
they are as merry as crickets. are as
polite IS c0urtiers, crack jokes with
their fares, and never demand pour
boire: that would &c az great an insult
az tip to an American wai.er. l! is
proposed to try the experiment at
Psris-as last chance: If so, 1t is to
be hoped the distinguished foreigners
will not fail to bring their double
swords. as the outskirts OF the city are
dangerous even for policemen.
When Japanese ladies and geDtls- I
men meet in the streets, they salute
it seems several times, by doubling
themselves in two, and passing their
handle from their head to their knees;
Whistling their compliments and
forcing smile. Tney could not beat !
the French or the Italians at the
grinning business. Meals sre served
by women walters, who bring each /
dish on a separate little table. kDeel.
ing all the while. For one.franc and
a-half, the traveller can have q
supper, a bed. the first plunge into q
bath that would recall the suferlngs
OF st. Jahp in his cauldron at Patmos,
wax lights and a breakfast. The
religion OF the country is Buddhism,
bat as liberty of conscience exists,
every inhsbitsnt appears TO be sect
in himself, and selects his own
savior. hero. or divinity. Catholics
and Protestants have alike failed IN
their missions.
Paris has had a veiy fair week of
crime; one case, where wife shoots
her husband, and perhaps by the law
of sympathies. q husband ma:sacres
his once Juliet. A money lender had
Just time to ring and inform his clerk
that be had taken poison. when be
fell down and expired. The parents
of an infsns aged two years, LETT their
apartment for short time; on return
ing, everything had been knocked
about, but nothing stolen, and the
child was found lying at the bottom
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