The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1884-01-06
THE WAR.
Our Paris Correspondent
Gives His Views Con-
corning 1t.
A Brief Biography Of Rosa Bonheur.
With Partisan Paragraphs, Witty and
Wise.
THE WAR.
A Brief Biography Of Rosa Bonheur.
PARIS, December II, 1883.

lO6 C8OlDet Dy It's OIOnZ9 majority
OF over 100, has now carte blanche
not to protect, but to make good the
right OF France to Torkin. Those
who voted the 100000 of expenses
long since expended. did not the lesl
badger the ministry for logging
the country. displaying studied econ
omy, even to parsimony. in the mat
Ter oitrus lfulness, and terrible olun.
dering in the whole escapade. Nc
ministry il ever defeated at the close
OF the year. When the nation requires
fortnight's political certainty to psss
through the holidays. 1t is predicted
III. Ferry will be ous!ed early next
month, result not at all certain,
since his successor is not Visible with
the naked eye.
War may now be regarded as de.
clared between France and China;
big nations do not usually indulge in
such an operetta of cracking one an
others skulls and remaining at
the same time bosom friends.
China will soon have the
occasion to demonstrate, does
she mean fight, or has she only
ga smashing and martial outside"
What retains France from precipi-
tating matters, is the league of the
where Germany figures side
by side with psrfde Albion. France
has never yet produced the Hue
treaty, that she caused to be signed
q la mode Tunisis. That document
China will doubtless give, when she
publishes her yellow and black book.
A cartoon represents Tonkin as pig,
The Chinese pulling at the tail, and
the French at the ears, to see who is
to possess the lard. M. Washington
On the break up OF the Berlin Con-
sress boasted, with eyes turned sky
wards, that France was the only
power that quit the meeting with
''clean hands," We know now, that
ne had the Tunis seizure scheme with
he Khroumir overture at that time
n bis pocket. Since then, note toe
progress of the "clean hands policy
the. Congo. Ocesnica
and Tonkin. One can apostrophise
". Waddington with a-"You dirty
Doy!"
Rochefort's son, Henri II. accom-
panied Brazza 10 the Coago as the
of colonial young
France. The lad has returned a
wreck for the remainder of his life,
BE was deyoured-not by the natives
but by feyers; be has lost his hair
md his teeth. On these points his
ather oonsoled him with the remark,
bat the wig-makers and dentists
,eing now terribly slack of work
wing to the badness of min;sters-
le would have him made up as good
Is new; but On condition that he was
,ured forever of the colonization craze.
Young Rochefort views Brazza az a
visionary; like the Mahdi, be is hard
lp fer cash, and pookethandkerchiefs
AVE fallen as low as assign ts. Brazza
ecalls the time it seems when man,
rec as nature made him, "Wild in
yoods the noble savage RAM" he goes
laked; but that is doubtless to win
he good graces CT the natives, for |
is the best form OF fattery;
le is a vegetarian, as he lives only on
ocoa nuts; and bananas il the inhab.
.ants give them to him. He is
man. 80 ne drinks only |
7ater, so his feats of "pe1estrianism"
ught TO be noted by hydophists.
,razza's ambition is simply to keep
novipg, like the Wandering Jew
What pity not to practically back |
% such an enthusiastic pioneer. 1t |
, suspected here that his mission is
owes labor lost, as the railway from
be Red sea to the Soudan, wind,
1eather, and Mahdi's, permitting
7ould, with extensions. be the bes.
QUITE to tap central Africa.
Rosa Bonheur's legion of friends
nd admirers must be prepared for |
be worst in respect to that great |
rtist; she has obtained momentsry |
eliet from her internal cancer-the |
aalady that carried off her mother |
7hen Rosa was only years old. The
rtist is now in her 62d year, and still
ssists, when health permits, to give
er services, as she has done since |
ears, gratuitously, to the Scnco! of |
Design for Girls; but it is her sister |
hat practically conducts that scoool |
ow. Mile Rosalie Bonheur. that
er schoolmates baptised Rosa" for |
aortness, is rich, as she could ever
anne her own price for her paintings, |
nd the purehasers-almost wholly |
,nglish and AmeIicans-bespeak
lem years in advance as they did |
'eelaroche's. Her lie was hard |
.ruggle in Its youth-time. Native OF |
bordeaux, she came to Paris with her
.ther when 9 years of age, but he
sd to send her, and her two broth
rs, and sister, to boarding school,
j order to leave him free to gain
velihood az artist-designer.
A fellow student of Rosa's once told
he, that Rosa was one of the joiliest
iris in the SCHOOL," was unequaled
, romps. and ready wit; that she
ad the habi. of squattiug in a cor
er, and designing her class mates,
18th rapidity and surety OF touch,
nat Cham only could match. It. was