The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1856-1888, 1863-05-07
Summary

LANARTrNE-M de Lamar;ine has Just sold fol
ZyO,OOO francs his " Memoirs from Beyond tht
Grave
The PoPE N RoME-The Pope received the officer:
OF the French army Of occupation on New Years
day In a long speech, HIS Holiness expressed his
conviction that repentaut Piedmont would fall at the
feet OF the chair Of IT. Peter, a. Jacob Frustrated
himself before the angel, after having Wrestled with
nun all night IN ignorance OF his origin.
The Austrian ladies' are regulating hoops, and
are preparing 10 take a right up and down stand on
the new platform, going so far as to say they will not
paironlze theatres where the actresses wear crInoline.
FRENCH CoINAGE-The French Mint is preparing
some new copper money on which the Emperor Is
represented surrounded by laurels, 1t is said that
this design will be adopted on all the French coins,
and on the postage stamps also.
The Roman Catholics have built n large church in
leido, Japan, and are using every means TO in
sinuate themselves. 1t Is said they have adopted the
plan Of lending money to arstocratic, but needy
japanese. They thus obtain q hold upon them,
which there is little doubt they will use for the
accomplishment Of their own purposes.
PETERS PENCE-From the month of November,
lo3S, 10 the end Of October, 1862, the Peters Pence
tribute, according to the Tablet, has produced the
sum OF S9,03I,6UO. The collection has averaged
Sl,eUJ,OOO pr annum-about $4,000 per day but
the collection for the present year will exceed that
rate.
The excavations of the Palatine Palace of the
Caesars, at Rome, are being pursued with great
activity. Water, according 10 Guligaani. has sprung
forth III great abundance there, so that a fountain
has been arranged. The amount granted yearly
by the French Government for the researches is
10000 francs.
EUGENIE-The Empress Of France, the extravagant
leader of fashions, whose photograph is such a
favourite in ladies' albums, finds time for state and
ecclesiastical affairs. She is a jealous Roman Catho-
lie, a patron OF Southern rebels, and, by her influence
over her husband, has been the foe of Italian freedom
and the ~upholder Of the Pope,
GREED or GoLp-When Napoleon, about 1911,
desired 10 build a palace for the King of Rome, near
the Barrier de Passy, the shop of a poor cobbler,
named Simon, stood in the way. Simon. having
learned what was going on, demanded twenty thous-
and francs tor his tenement. The administrator
hesitated u few days, and then decided to give it
but Simon. goaded hy the greed of gain, now asked
hundred times its value, and the demand was scout
ed. An attempt was made to change the frontage,
but being found impossible, they went again to the
%cobbler, who had raised his price to sixty thousand
francs. He was offered fifty thousand, but refused.
The Emperor would not give a franc more, and pre-
ferrel to change his plans. The specializing son Of
st. Crispiu then saw his mistake, and offered his
property for fifty thousand francs, for forty thousand,
thirty thousand, coming down at last to ten thcus-
and. The disasters of 1914 happened, aud all
thoughts of a palace for the King of Rome were
abandoned. Some months after, Simon sold his shop
for one hundred and fifty francs, and in a few days
after the sale was removed to an insane asylum
avarice had driven him crazy.