The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1884-01-20
ACROSS THE ATLANTIC.
Some Remarks Anent the
France and China War.
A Chat CONCERNING Corsets.
And Some New Ideas About the
Same.
PARIS, December 26.

the ghost OF enthusiasm has been dis
played anent the capture of Son Tay
Critics find no fault in the attack
save that part of the plan which al
lowed the enemy, ''to fold up thei
tents like the Arabs and as silently
steal away" Public opinion doe
not feel convinced the venture vii
pay. The pacifcation even OF Ton
kin will even be drain on the re-
sources of the mother country, and
China is there to prove thorn in the
flesh whenever France may be sore
pressed on the continent. Ii was the
war of 1901, that compelled the
French to evacuate Rome. In any
case people would like to see an ar.
rangement effected with China, and
thus finish with the Don Qaixote POI
sition Of only combating the Chinese.
England is denounced in advance for
throwing sleeps eyes on the Island OF
Hainan. that being limited as her fee
for reconciling the antagonists.
France obtained Nice and Savoy for
making war OF an idea; England, If
she solicited it, might be accorded the
island for making peace for an idea.
The laborer is worthy OF his hire.
The aore point with the French is
the conviction, and perfectly sound.
that all their new takes are far from
balancing what they have lost by
their fight from Egypt. This senti-
ment is practically reflected in the
augmenting disinclination of the
Suez shareholders to accept the COM
promise made with the English ship.
pers. That once ratified, John Bull
would be virtually master of the canal
and French influence in Egypt ami
bilated. Thus it is not at all cock
sure that M. de Lesseps may be able
to have the convention voted. He
has commenced tour, at Abbeyville,
to explain the necessity of accepting
what he has negotiated. But the ups
and downs OF Suez scrip very faith
July represents the breakers ahead.
Very shrewd judges suspect that one
OF these two solutions must be &C.
oepted; either selling all the stock to
an English company, or seeing the
Khedive himself construct the second
canal with the English capital offered
to him.
Affairs continue in a depressed con-
dition, and discoursR emeIt does not
tend to diminish. The belief is rap.
idly spreading that it is the treaty OF
Frankfort, the most favored nation
clause, imposed by Bismark, which is
the cause OF the stagnation in French
trade. There may be truth in this
charge, but the explanation ought
rather to be sought in the high ssla-
ries paid to workmer, the excessive
profits expected by lubricants, the
production OF high class goods I'm
suitable for the masses at large, and
manufactures not being fitted up to
economist labor and general outlay.
Perhaps when the government brings
out its new lean of $3.50. 600 600.
matters will improve. That will be
more feasible than cutting down M.
Grevy's salary to meet the cost OF the
expedition TO Tonkin, as M. Ranc,
Gambetta's henchman, attributes the
Tonkin imbroglia to the Preside nt's
letting the 81 dare not wait upon the
l would"
The strike still! shoulders in the
Amin coal basin, the most important
centre OF industries in France. The
miners desired to form kind OF trade
union, which the directors oppo.ed,
not that they discussed the right of
the men 10 strike etc.. when they
pleased, but the law not allowing
workmen to go unite, the company
could not be a tacit breaker OF tn
code. The Amin coal veins were
only discovered in 1874, by the Wis
count Desandrouin; q company was
duly formed, that purchased five con.
cessions, covering an area CT 119
square kilomsters. The property il,
situated near Valenciennss, close to
the Escaut. Some 5000 persons are
employed, representing tbree-iourths
of the total population. There are
some thirteen pits ut work, and
varying in depth from A to $50
yards. The capital of the company
is fixed at 26. 900, 900 francs, and q
part share represents $4,000 francs.
Il ewes much of its renowned wealth
to the government protecting the out
put OF mines from foreign COMPETE
ton. The due d'Aumale is one of
the largest shareholders, then Baron
de Rothschild. Besides the extrao.
ton OF coal, there are several factories
more or less Independent, for the
smelling OF iron, foundry productions.
Dreweries. glass works, brick fields,
distilleries, sugar mills, etc.
The subject of corsets, or stays,
is recaiving much attention in conse-
quence of the leading artists in the
ballet, La Farandale, at the Grand
Opera, dancing with q new kind of
corset made of india rubber. The
performers are charmed with having
discarded the busc, and the public
has found the figures and the move
ments of the dancers, only more
graceful from the change. The
bayadere3 Of India, make their corsets
from the inner bark OF tree brought
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