The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1884-04-27

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that is to say, unproiuotive expendi-
ture. The anarchists and the discon-
tented working classes, continue
rather to augment than diminish in
their seething, and the hatred against
capital becomes daily more intense.
Tue Orleanists are rapidly throwing
of the mask and entering formally
on campaign against the Republic.
The army organization is at last be.
fore the Chamber, it divides ooinion.
The points over which the fighting
will take place are, aboli>
ton o. the voluntary system. and the
compulsory service during three
years without exception, of every
sbIe-bodiad citizen. The ant ual con-
tingeut of conacripts drawn in Gers
many, is 2S5. 900; in France, 305 600;
of the latter to:al. So, 600 are rejected
as physically disqualified; % 600
adjourned til more developed. 81 600
exempted by law for special exc5p-
tione; so 900 for auxiliary services,
and 4 600 drafted into the navy. De-
duo tons made, that would leave for
active service, $4,000 conacripts
yearly. or a standing army OF some
444, 600 men. The effective "peace
footing" of Germany.is 427 900 men.
In Austria, Italy and even in Russia,
though six years be the time nomi-
nally in latter country under the flag,
the average service for al these ma
tons is three years. But the voun
seer sSstem-to superiutend the active
service of three years, and so ALLOW
young men to qualify for the liberal
professions, varies from two months
10 Austria, to six in Russia. In Ger-
~ any, conscripts can graduate in the
universities while putting il their
service SO soldiers. In Germany also
the maintenance of a soldier, as
compared with France, is as to 5 in
point Of expense.
The monsrchs Journals have been
sympathetic in their expression of
coincidence with Queen Victoria on
the new and sudden bereavement
which has 5efallen her. The repub-
iicsu press rem aimed as mute as ish.
10 all the churches, feeling illusions
we're made to the melancholy event,
and none more touching, than by the
American pastors. One touch of
nature ought ID make the whole world
kin.
Reference is frequently made OF
late to the Mussulman's Paradise. In
battle the Mussulman ia presumed to
see that at The muzzls OF his rifle,
death for him ia the pathway to
"Djenne," and the end of LIES suf1-
erances. Mahomet drew the. picture
OF his Dilemma. Ibis marvellous gardt n"
OF the inst, from the desert. In that
garden the emsncipated from life will
find rivers where the water never
spoils; rills OF milk of which the taste
never alters;stresms of delicious wines
for those that drink them, and rivers
OF pure honey; they VIII repose on
csrpsts lined with brocades; trees.
covered with fruits dropping into the
mouth, will shade them; geld and sill
YER goblets, as large as amphore will
be in continual circulation around
the just. who will be attended on by in.
iants that will lcok like rows ofpearls
clothed with green satin and decorated
with bracelets OF gold and silver
pearls; at their feet will be rivers of
limpid water; hey will have for wivep,
virgins secured to them alone, ana
equal to them in sge-30 to SO years
about Bslzac's acme), with large
black eyes of tint corresponding to
ostrich eggs carefully buried in the
sand-s slraw-color. The hours it
seems are creatures apart and whom
neither man nor genius has ever sp-
preached.
The Hippodrome CIRQUE has opened
for the season, and ea,ti,r than usr al
The greatest attrsctioa-pending the
coming bull fights next month, is
perhaps Mdlle. Dupont. Eight
months ago chs quilted the stage in
disgust, and devoted herself to horse
msnship; she is at present an accom-
plished equestrienne. can stand kneel
or ride on horseback with or without
saddle, and will jump through any
number OF papered hoops at once.
One of the clowns has Two learned
asses; they perform tricks which
make them a remarkable exception
to the intelligence of their race; the
owner will back them, in point OF
knowledge, against the members OF
any academy in the world; they are
capable OF everything, save squaring
the circle or di, covering the philoso-
piers stone, and like the disciples OF
Aristotle, drink in their knowledge,
while walking. Another clown hasa
pair of horses. fresh from red In
dian livery stable; they have neither
bridIs nor saddle, bu: obey when be
whistles or sings, g il he possessed
four Leaf shamrock or an Aladdin's
ring.
Does the present Emperor of Ger
many remember, be was then lad
cornet in his eighteenth year, en-
tered Paris the 31st OF March in
the suite of the allied sovereigns. and
hearing the citizens cry Vire Empe-
reur de Russiel Tire k Roi de Pusse!