The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1856-1888, 1874-03-21

cheese, was very fine, and with the shops full of
salt cod, smoked salmon, and picked behring's.
ParisianSwin be able to PASS comfortably through
Lent.
The racing season has opened by steeple-chases
at Vesinet. Parisians are IN 4 fair way to exact
ing horse-races all the year round, as they do hot
rolls with their morning cup of coffee, and salad
after dinner. This sudden taste for horse-hesh.
not a good dozen years old, is assuming vast pro-
portions it is not altogether inexact to add, 1t is
becoming a profession, for, after operations on the
stock exchange, betting on horses Is the only
gambling not put down by law. The betting is
merely a monster handicap, where machinery
registers the money received, or paid down. on Il
certain horse, giving a ticket as a receipt, and
the title for q dividend. 1t is only necessary to
observe the crowds that block up these betting
Offices, a motley collection Of all classes who have
faith in the doctrine of chances, 10 Judge what a
hold the turf has taken on citizens. The mania
has not extended to the fair sex, farther than
necessitating additional ~toilettes for the races.
The sentence of four years Imprisonment passed
on the Prince Soutz0, for killing the Prince Ghika
in a duel a few months ago at Fontainebleau,
and of three, and two years respectively on the
seconds, has caused a great CONSERVATION in the
world Il of honor" Every effort Will be made 10
break this Judgment on appeal, which is con-
sidered Draco0ian and calculated to abolish duel
ing altogether, or compelling combatants to cross
the border. There Is a decided determination on
the part of the authorities to put down duels,
and the publH is not opposed to their civilizing
efforts. OF hte also, the cases of assault that
find their way into Courts are very severely dealt
with, and all parties implicated are more or less
punished. II would not be a bad plan to insist
on those who must have satisfaction, TO fight only
with pistols-two shots at least to be exchanged
and to prohibit the newspapers from publish
ing sensational details Of the encounter. The
point has ben ruled, that when a newspaper in
the exercise Of its duty criticises a book, or a
play, however severely, though not intended as a
personal atta6, the writer or author has no right
to insist on he journals inserting his reply, as
it is legally bound to do, under other circum-
stances.
History records that at least nineteen individ-
uals have preferred claims to be the descendants
of Louis XVII, whose tragic sutferings in the
Temple Prison, his death and burial, are next to
unanimously accepted as true events. However,
a family named Nauendorf, has revived its claim
after twenty-ttree years of silence, to be the true
descendants, tie grandchildren of Louis xvii,
and that the Comte de Chambord is but conse-
quently an uRrper. The complainant has GER
tainly a real Bourbon expression of features, but
to make his title good. Jules Favre must prove
that Louis XVII. did not die when a little boy,
but was saved to society and the clock-making
business. The story does not rank even as an
historic doubt.
The revolution in shop-keeping is spreading by
necessitV; indeed business is so dull, that the
selling of one kind of goods alone, or even one
class of articles, does not pay. AS a rule, grocers
are now poulterers and pastry cooks, and one or
two have taken to sell fresh fish vegetables and
fresh fruits have long since become stock in trade.
As a revenge, green grocers sell coffee and sugar,
cheese, milk and butter, and occasionally sweet
meats. Bakers are rising to the dignity of con-
PETITIONERS, not that they make cakes and pastry,
but they sell all these delicacies, being supplied
by a special company. The charcoal men retail
wine since the siege, and in the crib economical
rCf, fLo sym n or11norilu AauOfa1 RI rrOnA COal
and charcoal they serve repasts. 1t is the very
poor who p~atronize these comforts of a home,
but it is the very poor who precisely contribute
to profits. Poulterers in addition to selling their
specialities, cooked or otherwise, now Vend boiled
beef, soup, and slices of ham. Many butchers
also deal In cooked meat and broth. The change
is most perceptible in Diapers shops, they are
rapidly becoming Quitting establishments for
individuals as well as houses they have monopo-
liked the toy and stationery business, and in add
ton to perfumery, sell patent medicines, tea, and
preserved fruits. These transformations illustrate
the courage and elasticity of the French char
acter, which never gives mp If fortune does not
smile on one branch of ommerc 1t may on
another. =
An addition to street accidents has taken place
Eo.l tLo viIvulnptauce of the immense locomotive
roller employed for COMPRISING the macadam,
steamlng right on to the ~footpath, and attempting
to ram down the front of a house. In the way
windows of the omnibusses be in class. instead Of
- SAS w IL @NISg ~ III
every second one, as at present in wood, SO as to
recognize more easily shops and passing streets.
Housekeepers should note, that in the present
state of the coal question, economy ought to be
the order of the day. DIR. Varrentrass has found
from a series of experiments, that coal when
exposed to the air and humidity, loses SO per
cent. of its qualities as fuel, and As per cent. as
gas. The softer or g fatter +" the coal, the greater
the loss.
Heat suggests cold. NJ. Theirs is deeply occu-
pied with the subject of glaciers as an impeachment
to the march Of armies. He merits to amuse
himself after freeing us from the Prussian bis
country may perhaps yet have need of him.
Cincinnatus was so years old when called a second
time to the dictatorship.
Louis Blanc is upbraided with inconsistency;
he holds three hours work to be sufficient for
man, but employs four in making a speech.
At the late Projects ball at the Luxembourg,
H was remarked in a suit quite too
large for him never mind, - observed a guest,
he will fill it before supper is over"
Woman is neither superior, inferior, nor equal
to man she is necessary to him.
Sc cannot make you younger said her doctor
to the aged and dying Nine. de RothschiId "but
| want you, doctor, to enable me to become
older y was her reply.
Orange peel is SO plentiful in the streets o.
Paris, as to supercede skating.