The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1856-1888, 1874-08-08
The Telegraph Bill.

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Saturday is the grand day for the tradesman and his
family, when they occupy their villa till the follow
ing Monday. IL Is, however, the western line that
is most crowded by the financial. official and Journal
istic world; il traverses the most picturesque districts
in the vicinity Of Paris, and is the favorite outing for
strangers. Nearly every gentleman carries a sac or
a p~ortefolio, and presents the air Of having to support
the world on his shoulders, were he not balanced
with sundry small light paper parcels. made up to
hang from his fingers by a special knot, and that
twinkling little eyes can only divine the contents;
parcels that no clerk Of the OctTOi would desecrate
by examining, and that stimulate children to " lisp
in numbers BY counting the trains and the hours
till both arrive for them 1t is said many nurseries
escape from being put under martial law, by the
pre- spect Of such articles de Paris.
The Guild Of Literature is anything but 4 peaceful
corporation. 1t has been called upon to expel four
of its associates, who have been condemned for their
Communist proceedings. The committee or jury Of
discipline elected on a divided vote, two Of the OBJ
noxious hterati, rather insignificant people, but de-
clined TO eliminate eI-Foreign Secretary Grousset,
who has escaped with ROchefort and Felix Pyat
This is an odd kind Of publication for a society Of
communists by retaining the chief sinners. However,
they manage these things differently in France. 1t
would be better not recognise politics at all, but then
the government could hardly be expected to continue
a subsidy TO a society that could not decline applica-
tod from Felix Pyat for money to live, or from
Grousset to deray his travelling expenses from New
Caledonia. The only question not examined is the
utility Of the society itself. The calamities of the ex-
PEELED authors will be brought up on appeal, and the
ordinary tribunals will be invoked to order the expul-
sion of Felix Pyat, Literature, like journalism, in
France is unhappily to a great degree a matter Of
personalities, which naturally neutralises much of
the good that might otherwise be effected.
At the grand national steeple chase Parisians we're
drowned; at their Derby, they as a compensation,
were roasted. Never was the heat so torrid as on
Sunday last, and never was the crowd so great and
the appliances for shaking thirst so deficient. How
the Comte de Paris might have earned Immortality
had he ordered out a few barrels of wine from his
uncle d. Aumale's cellar /! Not a racing man but
could have voted the due Stakeholder then and there,
with the reversionary interest to the nephew. A ride
to Chantilly, even on the steps of the railway car
riage, is worth undertaking to see the forest in the
month of May. That happy being, the lover Ct
nature - will be rewarded, and if he have in addition
a feeling heart, he could sympathise with thousands
of his fellow creatures who lost their +" good bit of
money, - owing to the favorite being eclipsed by the
nose of an outsider whose loWly merit no one esti-
mated.
A curious innovation in high life marriages is to
be noticed, that of only inviting young, and above
all, single persons to the lunch; the grave and heavy
relatives being united at q monster dinner. 1t is
also a compliment of a delicate nature for the bride
groom to present the bride with a prayer book printed
in as many languages as she speaks, the pignettes
also to be as expressive, as an additional tongue.
Since January, the practice is h becoming more general
for French newly married couples to travel during
the honeymoon.
The carriage accident by which the due de Mouchy,
husband of the Princess Murat, had his thigh broken
in four places, reveals a phase of social manners.
The French seem to be going mad on the subject of
horses, whether for racing, trotting, or for vehicles,
aud among the creme de la creme of society the sue
cess for a g%entleman's Brougham is TO have it yoked
to q horse of runaway pretensions, and driven by a
lad-a smart tiger, who as in the due de Mouchy,
has not the strength to control the animal when in
dulgiug in the preliminarics of q baIk. To commit
your life to such an experienced arrangement is con-
sidered high courageous. To go out in your carriage,
and return with broken bones on a stretcher, is truly
q droll fashion.
Some reprisals are taking place respecting Bun
vans Pilgrims Progress. There are two editions
circulating in France; one is altered to suit Catholics,
the original being accepted by Protestants. The
latter are now bringing out their volume with the
Catholic title.
The " Murphy Family " have become in France,
90 MORT, or Morphi, 4" tracing their origin from the
Greek, 0 .Norphi. The learned seem to have at last
established, that it was a member of this classical
family, who was guilty of ordering a roll of the
drums to drown the voice Of Louis XIV, when on
the scafold. Two other points are occupying the at
tention of antiquarians Was . Cinderella slipper
in glass, and was the man with the iron-velvet was
the real material-mask, an ancestor-or the elder
twin brother Of Louis XIv.-of Napoleon l.. 2 If this
relationship were established, it might explain why
the Legitimists aud Bonapartists manage to so often
stable their horses together. Perhaps this may ac-
count for the boast Of the Imperialists, that their
chief unites the blood of Divine Right with the doc
trine of appeal to the people.
No new feature in the way of suicides, save that a
widow has drowned herself out of grief for her hus-
band, thirteen months dead. Sorrow is thus not the
less severe for being ripe.
The Figaro newspaper, ever given to surprises,
has a premium to subscribers, a watch, which in adj
dition to other marvels. will remind them when
subscriptions fall due.
According to the city sanitary inspector, the fol-
lowing is the favOrite recipe for Jamaica rum, as
g imported - from one side to the other of Paris
Jour paris OF SCFaEeu new leatneT, one OF OAK DARK,
one-quarter of cloves, one-auarter of fresh tar, forty
of treacle, and water ad Ei6itum, favored with
alcohol.
The artisan who repairs the merry-go-round in
the Champs Elysees. mostly hobby horses, has taken
for sign, veterinary surgeon for wooden horses"
A wife with invalid husband number two, brought
him to Plombieres to try the waters, alleging that it
was there she lost her first husband, but who died
without pain.
The Medical Inspector on going his rounds in the
barrack, gravely informed the general who accompa-
MED him, there were "missms beyond doubt in
one of the dormitories; the general appraised the
colonel that there were miasms; the colonel informed
the captain, who directed the lieutenant to look to
the matter; the lieutenant charged the sergeant, who
ordered the corporal not to fail in looking up the
rogues; the corporal accompanied by his grand, en-
tered the dormitory, locked the doors, and solemnly
told his men to arrest the miasms.