The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1856-1888, 1875-05-15

f0rmalities. The parents then bless the young
couple, the ceremony recalling the tent Of a patri-
arch, rather than the d0nion Of . Muscovite.
The wedding banquet suggests those that GargaE-
tua must have enjoyed; the table Is splendid, and
groans under gold and silver plate the drinking
Il deep; soon a b0yard rolls under the table, then
another jumps up 70 execute a jig, recalling what
must be the first steps Of a dancing bear. When
the Earl Of Carlisle, went to Moscow. as ambas-
sad1r Of Charles IL, his voyage was viewed as
what would be to-day, a similar mission to the
lama Of. Tibet. and the court Of the Car ap-
peared to the Earl - be about a. fantastical his
Majesty Eat motionless and specifies on a pyra-
midial throne like an Indian idol, surrounded by
boyards clad IN furs and precious anne Six
days later 4 banquet was given, and the strangers
were placed az a side table; each guest was ex-
pected 70 partake Of five hundred dishes, and had
only one plate; as for napkins, they were as scarce
as at the King of COngO's table. The repast
lasted nine bOurs, and the company only broke up
when the Gar, owing 10 excessive drinking had
a fit Of bleeding at the nose. 1t was then the
custom for the priests to deliver written passports
10 the dying. addressed to Saints Peter or Nicho-
las, to admit them without any quarantine, di-
rectly to heaven. The Czarina was imprisoned
like a Sultana; when i'll, the doctor could only
visit her IN a darkened room, and was authorized
only to feel her pulse through the sleeve of her
dress.
The spiritualists and mediums have had their
annual fefe around the tomb of Allan-Kardeck
their founder it was the anniversary OF his death,
IT from the spiritual point of view he can be in
cluded among the departed. The gathering of
500 persons had a weird-like character, but the
air did not seem troubled, and the police had
nothing 10 do in the way of interference in this
world or the other. An authority states that
there are in this moment s 900 spiritists IN Paris,
about seven per cent. of whom can compel depart
ed persons 10 come from the other world and re-
appear IN this. The fraternity seems to be lust
as full OF envy, hatred, malice, and all uncharita-
bleness, as less adYantageOusly situated mortals,
nor is the world in any way improved by their
superior knowledge. Robert Houdin's successor
exposes the tricks of the spirit world every night;
front seats, 3 francs each. \ private lesson for
20 francs.
The Society of Painters does not admit to its
annual exhibition historical sketches, wisely con-
sidering the permission might be abused for polit-
ical ends. NJ. Picnic, the painter of the " Death
of Bandin," complains that his painting the
90 Triumph of Order - has Just been rejected, al
though bis subject inculcates mercy on the part
of the conquerors, and prudence on the part of
the disaffected. The picture represents a wall,
against which communists are ranged, and two
mitrailleuses play on them two army officers are
blowing the brains out of some wounded men
with their reyolvers around are heaps Of dead
national guards, and a woman with her bleeding
child IN her arms. Such a work would at all
events create a sensation, as lively as the incident
of the Coup d'Etat.
A DIR. Onimus has drawn the attention of the
Academy of Sciences to the . telegraph malady,"
as experienced by the clerks it is in some res.
not unlike the " cramp - writers are often
subjects to, and where curved letters become
lines, and lines dots, attended with pain
full ~tremblings of the arm, and sleeplessness. A
COmmitte has been nominated to examine the
a few celebrities have arriyed-a Chinese from
Pekin, who is said to be the inspector of the Pa
godas in that capital, and consequently entitled
hu Rn11ba m commit Savan cinS Jo,ly ,u;FbonE I
their being placed to his account in the other
world. Ly-FO is the mildest of looking men, and
doubtless never abuses his privilege. He is ira
yelling on his own account to study Western civil
ization.
a French gentleman has been named editor of
the official Gazette of Siam he is bound to sup
port the policy of the Court, and failing to do so,
must be prepared to receive fifty blows of a bonn
cane on his feet, among other penalties but
hen his reward is handsome; every subject must
become a subscriber, and those who fail to pay
heir subscription, are liable to be bastinadoed.
An Italian named Amotti, a baker, has arrived
to be tested by the doctors as to the extraor-
linary fneness of his sense of hearing; at a dis
ance of ten yards he boasts OF being able to hear
PERSONS who may speak only in a whisper on
listening only once to a note on a violin, or the
PECULIAR bark of a dog, he will initiate both at
i've hundred yards, he can tell from the noise of
musket, to what system the arm belongs.
y Bonapartist agent has been condemned to a
imprisonment for obtaining money under
pretences from house porters, leaving I'm
'erialist tracts in exchange for the money loaned.
t is thus he deceived the house porter of Marshal
lcMahon, alleging he was a policeman, and came
D record his visit, as a testimony of the Marshal's
rule.
s. Have you change for a ten franc piece?' 81
hink l have" replied the friend well then,
md them to me, as l have not a SOUS"
Two Polish Jews demanded an audience of a
entleman the servant said they were too dirty
be admitted, and ought first to change their
lirts. They retired, and in an hour re-appeared,
atng they had acted as requested. Abraham
nd Isaac's shirt, and vice versa.
Husband, gravely contemplating in silence his 8
ew born infant wife piqued-" You have no .
oubts about it my dear, surely?" That which
oubles me- replied the husband, a. is, that you ,
lould have presented it to me on the first of !
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