The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1856-1888, 1875-04-24

and jewellery coats and muhs: there is always a
notable number OF railway shares and coupons.
Ii Is a punishable offence for a person To retain
anything found; such is at once to be banded over
20 the police.
The first roses Of abe season have arrived in
Paris; they are pale, have not a grand Vitality
the life OF the rose only, and which is said TO be
but the space Of a mOrning-and they cost two
francs each. An evening party where bouquets
Of roses are obligatory, thus amount TO a pretty
sum, but far behind Nero's banquet at Baie,
where be expended ten millions of s~esterces on
roses. Is Lent advances, there seems TO be a
greater rush To hear the celebrated preachers. At
the Madeleine on Sunday last, the Pere Matignon
selected for subject the sin of working on the
Seventh day, when a workman replied, " 1t is ne
cessary, as the children are hungry every day"
be was at once removed; the sermon was very
excellent, but too full of metaphors and over
larded with Latin quotations; the music was first
class, but the faithful must have some difficulty
IN fixing their attention, owing TO the moving of
chairs, the perpetual walking about of worship
pers and collectors; among the latter is the woman
who collects the two sous for the hired chair; she
performs what is called, ga copper symphony -
then the charming qUeteuSes, always in the very
latest fashion, shake their velvet collecting bags,
till being too heavy, the contents are emptied in-
to a common purse carried by Judas Iscariot-as
the beadle is called. 1t is said, that it is not
lucky for a gentleman to waylay his love in church,
hence, why so many members Of the JeuneSse
doree are certain to attend, as they belong to the
perverse and stiff-necked generation. There IS an
advantage too in seeing ladies leaving the Made
leine when the grand doors are thrown open, and
anything but a dim religious light falls, there is
a good deal of pushing-it is remarked that it is
only in a religious crowd that the French push or
dispense disorderly-and many ~toilettes are de-
ranged and tempers rufled; those ladies who in
dulge in rouge and powder, appear to have feat
ures covered with scales, and cracked like an old
.IaDan MAJ to others prpsant q caHavprOus aSpapf
Ladies are quite right in selecting when they can
never to face a full light.
Some cab-men have tried with success a new
idea they are proyerbially known TO be as good
politicians as the ~shoe-makers; and it is only ne
cessary to glance at them seated on their vehicle
to conclude they are constant readers of the
newspapers. The idea consists in cabby invest
ing in two or three different journals, and lending
one to whoever hires him, at the rate of one sous
per perusal. He may unconsciOusly produce
sudden deaths, if he commits the error of hand
ing a republican journal to a Right Divine Mon
archist or Uioe versa. The edict of the Prefet of
Police against public billiard playing is consid-
cred to be too sweeping; two ball pool is all that
he believes, depends on the ability of the players;
more is but a game of chance, in fact gambling.
1t would be better for the police to suppress no.
torious billiard gaming tables, where in addition,
a political club is disguised.
The celebrated chestnut tree in the Tuileries
Gardens, yenerated by the Imperialists as a
thing OF beauty and a JOY for ever, because it
came specially into leaf before its companions, on
the 81 March, as the homage of spring vegetation
to the Napoleon dynasty, bids fair this year to
arrive some days earlier in bloom. Is this a tri-
umph for the Republic, or an honor, as some in
~sinuate, for the Prince Imperial having creditably
passed his examination? However, as the rain
falls on the just and unjust alike, there are chest
nuts at Belleville more advanced still. Another
verdant is the Comte de Waldeck, who has just
celebrated the anniversary of his l09th year; he
married his second wife at so, and has q son by
that union, % years old. The Comte ought to
hold his second series Of silver wedding; he is an
artist Of some notoriety, and his studio is a very
pleasant lounge, the old gentleman being very
chatty and full of anecdotes. He has in his life
time witnessed France endowed with fifteen differ
ent constitutions, and if, as philosopher Flourens
maintained, man is but on the threshold of youth
when a century old, he may live to see fifteen
more.
A new Journal has appeared called the Orphan;
a prospectus of the Widoc may be counted upon.
The inhabitants OF Saintes complained of the
bad bread supplied by the bakers; the authorities
seized samples of flour, analysed them and found
they were adulterated to the extent of 40 per
cent with bean meal and other substances. The
bakers said they baked the -four as it was supplied
to them the jolly miller was then arrested, tried,
and sentenced to a fine of 1000 francs. He. ap-
pealed against this severity, and the court has not
only confirmed the fine, but ordered bis imprison-
II dOulllDn " III mOubucs tAclIOIS Vi
French race courses may recall a very bold look
ing female, generally dressed a Ia catiniere, and
like Joseph's coat of many colors; she is known
as Isabelle the Flower Girl out of compli-
ment to her forty summers she has the exclusive
right OF selling bouquets to the occupants of the
grand stand, and is privileged to indulge in i'm
pertinent replies, which are accepted as witticisms;
she has 10 900 francs a year for supplying flowers
to the Jockey Club, and 5000 francs for doing
the same for Baron Rothschild; she has two
country houses, a little palace in Paris, possesses
and jewellery, and railway scrip; she
only allowed her poor mother two francs a week
to keep body and soul together; the Tribunal has
ordered her to pay a pension OF 5000 a year to
her abandoned mother. 80 wise and upright
judge!"
That popular actress Aimee Desclee, has at
last her suitable tomb; the greater part of Its
expense has been betrayed by Alexandra Dumas,
whose plays she interpreted with something more
than talent. The monument is within a stones
throw of Frederic Soulies in Pere Lachaise. Her
girlish struggles; her sorrowful life, her early
death, and her long and agonizing malady, have
surrounded her name with much sympathy; these
may be remembered when her " Frou-frou will
be forgotten.
Complaint is made, that the Journal Official
does not fairly give the hear hears the oh obs
and the an abs in those speeches made in the
Assembly, in favor of the Republic. After the
deliver their copy, there is the stenO-
in chief, who revises all. He is said to
have q horror of democratic CALCULATIONS.
A clergyman having stated that all God made,
was we'll made, a hunchback protested "For a
humpy, you are very well made" replied the
priest.
French artists, in order to obtain a good price
for their pictures, feign to be seriously i'll the
rumOr of an approaching death of some rising
talent, sends his works up Fifty per cent.
The Sniri+s naEandad