The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1884-01-13

The Comic Multiplication and
Baron Mechin, hardly reposed after
their five years overland journey
through Asia and the Russ as. intend
to pay Aging visit TO the Soudan
and let us know all about the Mahdi
and his goinks On. If he bs an Alb.
dullah ben saed. or a noun of multi
tude. The young Due de Morny, In
tends to give up iupons and ballet
dancing, as be desires to accompany
the amateur expedition. "Ds Morn y
will be in it. :" a. was said OF his pa ps,
when speculation was launched
under the second empire. The
Mahdi may end his days like Ab
dullab. who was captured by Ibrahim
Pasba; the latter divided the 1--WE
chabites into two corps. drove one,
toward The Persian Gulf, and the
other, commanded by Ab-duIlab,
was cor centrsted in the town OF
Dersjsh, ia the middle nf Arabia, dis
tant twenty days from Cairo. About
2. 600 Wechabites, double the num-
Der of Hicks Pasha's force were slain
Ab-dullah, his treasures and family,
captured and conveyed to Cairo,
where ]. 900. 900 of piastres. paid out
OF the government, was expended on
Examinations and tar barrels. Mecca
and Medina were restored to the Sui.
tan. Alb dullah was sent to Constan.
tinople, promenaded In chains
through the stre cts. tortured by the
popalace, and decapi,ated. 1t is
thus dangerous playing at false
prophet.
Though the times here are little
out Of Joint, that's no reason why
young folxs ought not to have their
cakes and ale Toe sugar bakers
and knics-knack shops are we'll pro-
yisione5 with attractions sufficient to
make young France forget the deoa-
logue. The sugar productions are
not so much new. as newly packed,
and the leases" display decided
leaning to Japanese art, fine as veil
as diabolical. In the cheap jewelry
line, the novelties are legion and in
genious, Flower designs are in the
next reptiles, and then
some of the bes: known beasts, birds
and fishes. Mexican feathers az raw
material, enter largely into the COM
position of these articles of the sea-
son. As there is nothing like leather,
pocketbooks are made OF peau de
dinde. This means perhaps fewer
tough turkeys at Christmas. The
pig all pork is now free to enter
France, is converted into a pen
holder; his sides are of coc5anu.
shell. his tail and trotters in silver,
and his bristles, like those OF the
fretful porcupine, do the rack duty.
Jnmbos bead seems to have been
selected by common artistic consent,
as model for cigar ash-pan.
Then the Christmas trees, though
the season has been bad fruits, are
we'll laden. 1t would require the
patience of Homer to catalogue them
and of a Linr@1a to classify them.
Xmas is peculiarly the festival for
children, but their elders desire to be
OF the party. In France, the reveIs
generally commence on the eve;
being in Republic may explain why
we have no "lord OF misrule." The
French are not commencing, but re-
commencing to vie with Saxons and
Teutons in observing Christmas.
But how few think of toasting the
health of Bishop Telephone, who in
1873 first organized the joys of the
period, though it was only in the
fourth century the fathers fixed on
the 18th of December. There are
writer's who question this date, as it
ia the vigorous season in Judea and
not favorable to out door living. But
we are ted, tthere were shepherds
abiding in the fields" and the essen
.ial point is, the fact celebrated. In
the time OF Charlemagne the year
at Christmas.
Mirth is, WAS and shall be, the dis
trait of Christmas, though
st. Bernard protested against people
being given to merry making. But
lid not the puritans at one time place
mince pies in their index ErpurgG-
'oriass, because being made long, they |
were an image of the sacred manager?
On Xmas ere the beggsrs are let loose
IN society; they sre free to sing |
ballads of their BEST" and the little
children in the south of France
combine fireworks with charity, as
IN torowing sous to the poor, such
IRE enclosed in paper with loose ends.
he ends are ignited, so that the MAIN,
he halt, and even the blind, can see
he mamma falling like shooting stars.
There is not q department 10
France but has its Nael or Carol. for
he nativity enlisted not only to
highest talent in art and theology,
,ut in music. Handeps greatest
riumph ia the Messiah. These
Naels are sung in the churches at
On Christmas eve, and mid
light church service, is not uncom-
non in the Isle Of Man, Tor the fes-
iVal ranks third among those OF the
hurch, coming after Easter and
Vhitsuntide,
Candle burning and lors, are pecu.