Show FROM FRANCE S r Our Usual Array ef Facts and Figures From Paris The Effort of the Government in the Cause of Education Important Debates on Socialism in the Chamber of Deputies Other Items of InterestS Interest-S ecial Correspondence PARIS Farmary 31st 1884 The very important debates on socialism so-cialism in the Chamber of Deputies though their can bring no specific remedy to the aafierinss of the working work-ing classes and the industrial crisis must produce a salutary effect on the relations between capital and labor Eliminating the email Bide of the serious subject that of the occasion I for attacking the ministry it was I clearly shown that all partewithout exception sympathized witb equal sincerity with the victims of he hard timf and that all were alike impotent impo-tent to prescribe a perfect cure What may be called the parliamentary parliamen-tary representatives of the socialistic journals that crack up the anarchic and thedisafiected were put on the cutty stove of repentance Brialoua real workingmans deputy for Lyons and so truly such that one blushed at his illiterate speeches in the tribune be the ell if of the prole I I taires of the equal division of unequal earnings school humbly confessed he had no panacea But he made an important admission that it was necessary nec-essary to recognize governing classed or in other words superior capacity to guide and control inferior Intelli gences The debates have thrown the fierce light of truth oa the inanity in-anity of the systems the Utopias the chimeras dire that are mouthed as the reunions in Paris and trumpeted trum-peted by a giddy and irresponsible press M Jules Ferry in a sensible and plucky speech pierced all the wind bagism he invites the representatives of socialism to eschew words and grapple with realities to frame their remedies in the form of a bill so that practical seriousand kindly disposed legislators could have before them something tangible and substantial He asserted toe industrial crisis was Parisian not national the building trade had over speculated the city bad streets of unlet palaces while the artizans were in want of humble and eaaonablerented homes The Poora Relief Bureau indicated no important augmentation of misery the pann offices had no marked increase of business treaties of commerce were fixed for nine years stilland if France was beaten in the foreign as well as in the home market such was chiefly due to the higher rate of wages exacted acted by the French workmen to the more elevated profits demanded by manufacturers and to tha neglect of fskbricaots keeping their plant and their intelligence abreast with the march of inventions and the discover ie3 of scientific industry He reminded the chamber also that in many arts where France has bad a monopolyartificial flowers for example she has been outrivalled by competitors whom by education have been able to tread on her kibes the exclusion of foreign products the expulsion of foreign workmen would bring no remedy as the nations affected had reprisals to fall back upon The French do net see clear into Chinese Gordons mission they begin to smell a rat that be purposes forming form-ing a federation of states in Soudan under the protection oi England and BO enable her to tap the commerce of the upper Nile and control the trade of central Africa The government continues actively iti exertions to spread education It now organizes popular conference under the direction of inspectors It is i about establishing in the local colleges col-leges and chief schools art museums where woud be placed copies of sculpture of celebrated paintings etc all to keep before the minds eya of the pupil the harmonious forma many of the subjects while illustrating illustrat-ing the schools of the beautiful will recall at the same time the duties of patriotism The existence of the republic re-public depends on universal suffrage and the latterin France at all events is a twoedged sword It was voted in 1848 when its advocates least expected ex-pected it or perhaps desired for the nation was unprepared for the exercise exer-cise of that weapon which gave plebiscites ple-biscites to Napoleon III and majorities majori-ties to tbe third republic Univercal suffrage has then to be educated and trained by the constitution constitu-tion as it at present stands a majority major-ity of one has created it Then the existing regime is still largely worked on the old monarchal lines the chief being the intense system of centralization centrali-zation which places each of the eighty six departments uner a Prefect Pre-fect or Viceroy responsible only to the home minister at Pari who makes his subalterns dance as he pulls the strings In the United States that Francs aims to imitate this danger does not exist since each state has its autonomy Were France similarly federated her homegeneity would be destroyed But France has in the thrift sobriety and proverbial industry indus-try of her people such a sound base for existence of vitality and pr green as almost to defy dynasties or gov ments to do their worst to destroy her The educational world has been very much occupied these few days past keeping the fete of St Charlemagne Be is the patron of learning for France as I Francaie I was called the Father of Letters though he hanged not a few printers and publishers dissemble perhaps his love Formerly the national teachers on the anniversary anniver-sary of St Charlemagne bad a mass celebrated at the church of St Glen I dive when a collection was made for their sick and needy Now the colleges col-leges etc stand a banquet to tbe professors pro-fessors and ushers and the wags say it is the occasion for getting off stocks of artificial champagne Guizot called Charlemagne the first intellectual minister However it was from the beginning of tbe reign of Charlemagne Charle-magne the eighth century that the mind of the west reawakened that decadence was stopped and barbatism was thrown back Like Louis Philippe Charlemagne wqs a schoolmaster he taught in a school he had in his own palace hence to this fact is traced the origin of the university of France He died learning and he bad notions of eloquence elo-quence poetry arithmetic and music mu-sic But it is said he dd net know how to write he made his mark with the point of his swordlike a Norman Baron He imitated Solomon by the number of his concubines and Henry VIII by getting rid of his wives He had twenty legitimate children several of whom were daughters a few of the girls turned out bad Time is a legend that Charlemagne fell in love with a beautiful beau-tiful German a white lady and neglected everything to devote himself him-self to her and when she was dead he became enamored with the corps Charlemagne had an idea that canalmakers ignore he proposed to make a ship canal connecting the German Ocean with the Black SeaM Sea-M de Lesseps please note The election of M Edmond About as a member of the French academy at laot is not an ordinary election He has been a kind of perpetual candidate can-didate and no writer ever ridiculed that Olympus more unscalhingly than did About AR a publicist and critic he is best known hid drama and novels are not in the fi at line Usually ranked by the Bonapartidta as a friend of the family of the second degree he rallied to the republic after the sinking the second empire he then established a newspaper which made money by supporting Thiera and combating MaoMahon Since he has been able to live like the mouse in the Dutch cheese his writings display less ascerbity He has been rated a new Voltaire if so it is the greatness of the dwarf when on the shoulders of the giant The French aoademy will henceforth hence-forth cease to be a elose borough owing to the recent elections tbe axis cf the majority is changed it will be modernized and perhaps may be able to complete its dictionary commenced com-menced 250 years ago and which is always in press The aoademy was first founded by a few literary men who met in secret Cardinal Richelieu Riche-lieu hearing of their ability offered them his protection and thrust upon them greatness not to be refusedand the result was the constitution of the academy by a royal patent in 1635 It took its name from the suburb at Athens of that name near the Platos Villa residence and where he came to teach his philosophy during half a century The original site was a free gift from a citizen Aoademus but Ciman drained and planted the ground and the groves contained the tomba of celebrities Sylla out down the trees to convert them into battering batter-ing rams when besieging Athens It was at an opposite end of the city that Aristotle had his Lyceum and his pupils from drinking in knowledge knowl-edge while perambulating were called peripaticians A philosophical cook has observed we digest on our legs 11 The number of our French academicians acade-micians was limited to forty and a I fauteuil reserved tor each the members I mem-bers were called Immortals because be-cause the ambitious motto on the silver jetons of attendance wasa la immortalitel The academy was to publish a grammar and a dictionary and to cleanse be French language from the impurities of the common people the jargon of lawyers the misusages of ignorant j courtiers an i the abuses of the pulpit The academy never embellished the French tongue but it may have purged it of imperfection Some trace the origin of the aoademy to Charlemagne and his tutor Alcuin when the court read certain books each reader giving an account of what he had perused the members generally gener-ally took the name of their favorite author The wits have not spared the academy they call it the Hotel des Incalides de la literature because once elected the members work no more It is one of the few French institutions that has resisted the leveling lev-eling work of the revolution It was momentarily suppressed by the convention con-vention in 1792 as being aristocratic but was aoon restored Napoleon III would have given a few of his fingers to have been elected an Immortal bat Luoien was the only member of the Bonapartiot dynasty who obtained a fauteuil Those real celebrities who were never chosen are said to be the occupants of the fortyfirat fanteuil this imaginary imagi-nary armchair is also popularly reserved re-served for distinguished bluestockings bluestock-ings Beranger declined the honor of being an immortal in a song considering con-sidering that would be a reflection on his dignity Dumas Pere was excluded ex-cluded on account of hia debts Le Sage because he married a caipen ters daughter Moliere because he was en actor Scrroa because he was a cripple Bayle because he was too buey with other matters Posoal became he wai a recluse Desoartez because an absentee J B Rousseau because he wrote an obscene poem J J Eoueaeau tbe genius of bitter tears because a kind of wild man of the wood The nonxelected however can always console themselves with Pirone epitaph which stated Here lies Piron who was nothing not even an academician Some years ago a Greek gentleman was very indignant in-dignant at the immortals because declined to purchase the original grounds of the aoademy at Athens with Plutos holding thrown in Sara Bernhardt is admitted to be the best Dame aux Camelias that has yet appeared in trying to make tue repentant and nhthisical demimcn dian lovely in death she is matchless match-less < < lessThe The late hurricane was terrible io its effects on chimney pots and cabs Some of the latter were whisked as il old hats The overturning of the telegraphic poles decides the quea tion in favor of underground wires Perhaps the severest euflerers are the masqueraders who attended the opera ball The majority of these hired their character costumes leaving leav-ing their ordinary clothes and a deposit de-posit of money in the old do shops where they make up The hurricane carried away several headdressee and garments the rain doing the rest the holders of the securities declined de-clined to accept the damaged costumes cos-tumes so not a few merrymakers to the surprise of their friends are still dressed as princes bandits dry nurses rajahs and niggers A valet baa been found dead after atrocious suffering he purchased a pomade to rub on his back to cure a cancer in his jaw the medicament medica-ment was a kind of essence of purgatory purga-tory Three scoundrels devoid of pocket money killed an old ecayeugeress and took her purse containing two franca A wife has been acquitted for throwing vitml in the face of the charmer who seduced her husband A mother durmj a dinner party in a restaurant way euckling her infant in-fant eh was joked about its quietness quiet-ness on examination it was dead from cerebral congestion Latest originality A small print has opened a subscription for the Mahdi Hallo my boy you have uo more white hair I1 Of course not that is only suitable when one is young |