The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1856-1888, 1875-04-17

Tue MJutIE WFItU JIG HidI bIEUF UN-TIaS- .Ia0g
ladies lost their husbands in the ball. At the
buffet 8 set Of teeth was found, and handed next
morning to the - dentist OF the opera.
The Beuf Gns procession may be regarded as
dead. The bullock henceforth favored with the
prize Of honor at the fat cattle show, viii not
be escorted to death by Time. Venus. & Love,
saluting the sovereign people On hs road to death.
The animalw will be allowed to enjoy in peace, theiew
DAYS which separate its entrance to the Gbaifoir.
Ii is the best manner to finish for a sage.
The librarian OF the Clarendon Iunatic asylum
is one of the patients; he believes that the world
is in a conspiracy against him n TO hs ability as
a sculptor; the billiard marker l. also an inmate,
and bis weakness il to crib the balls and t. sit on
them as if they were eggs 70 be matched Among
other singular patients Is a man who believes
himself to be made Of crystal, and who wraps bis
legs in straw to prevent them from being broken;
another imagine himself TO be the SiaInese-twins,
and is ever talking 10 his supposed brother, shar-
ing his food and bed with him. There Il an OH
Ger wounded at Solerino, who petitions every day
to be buried as nothing Is more offensive than
keeping a corpse above ground. The father of
the ~lunatics is q naval lieutenant, and a patient
since 1926; bis daily occupation Is writing a re-
port to the god Mars on the state Of the world;
there is a notary who asserts his wife has eloped
with the Wandering jew, and a public singer,
who holds that he has a bass voice on Thursdays
and a tenor one on Sundays. His constant occu-
patton is performing on a knife board for a piano.
The most eminent Republican writer's IN France
have formed an association TO publish the bio
graphies of modern leading men the pamphlet
sells for two sous, and is becoming a great success.
The same body has put in circulation a series of
cheap tracts rebutting the assertions published by
the 1mperialists. Trade is benefited by this
competition, and it is better to combat thus, than
With arms. Complaint lie made that in the Off
cial Bulletin of the Primary Schools, monarchal
ideas are sedulously endeavored to be propagated,
by giving subjects connected with royalty for
pupils to compose their prize essays. Ii is truly
difficult to please the whole world and his wife.
Why cannot some Village Michelet. Quainet or
Blanc, with dauntless breast, furnish a republican
thesis on royalty and so e~lectrify the school in
spector!
After ali no spectacle takes like the lion-tamer;
there is one now permanently fixed in Paris, who
is quite at nome in his family of wolves, hyenas,
lions, tigers, lambs, and an elephant; used up
citizens punctually attend to lay in their weekly
store of excitement. The mania has reached such
heights. that a few ladies have applied to be
admitted inside the cage, and one Italian girl &C
tually enters therein as if going into an ordinary
room. She exhibits for nothing; sensation is
her recompense. 1t is nearly time for somebody
to be devoured, when the authorities OF course
will step in. The Registrar General now pub
fishes every week the number of suicides-only
four are reported as having taken place last week;
this is a satisfactory decrease, and is attributed by
an enthusiastic print to the recognition of the Re
public. The civil interments are also tabulated;
seventeen of these have occurred in the space of
six days.
An American lady has committed suicide by
shooting herself with a revolver in the Bots de
Boulogne she had previously intimated to several
friends by letter, that at a certain hour they
would find her remains at a well known spot in
the Bots on arriving, she was discovered to be
badly wounded, and the doctors hope to save her
life she is described as a very handsome person,
which only renders her lover less worthy of her.
If she returns to a better frame of mind, and
40 BarkIss be still unwillin,' she might count
upon a score of Frenchmen proposing for her on
her temperance in society. a curious action
for damages is to be taken against a railway COM
pany charged to convey a corpse from Nice to
Paris. When the train reached the city, the
'' strong box could not be found and the tele-
graph, though set to work, has thrown no light
on the matter. Perhaps u reward will be offered;
a " strayed corpse would be very unique. 1t
is believed that the deceased has been shipped at
Bordeaux for South America, along with pack
ages of glass and China.
Quite an epidemic of suicide has broken out in
the 18th Corps a. Armee, and General Espirent
as commander, has issued an order of the day,
that every soldier who commits self-destruction
m MlI1 6e O SGnSrs s4 rsenRSssifTs5Gay 4, Ct ms mId FeSains a"d The he
General also lays down, that the man who CON-
mits suicide is a coward. This assertion has
brought down on him, an avalanche of contradic-
tions, tending to prove, suicide on the contrary is
in many cases heroic. 1t is said Bourbaki has
been very panied at the ethics OF his brother in
arms as Bourbaki it is well known attempted to
blow gu. his brains at the close OF the war.
The various railway companies are establishing
industrial schools for training the children of their
employees those that acquit themselves in every
respect, superior, are provided with employment
or bound as apprentices. The question is also
mooted of providing the parents with home &C.
commodation on ONE of the vacant land adjoining
the lines near the city.
The Un,uerS is the chief Ultramontane organ in
Franco and falla fonl OF the EDd~n for tOutipo
for religious subscribers. One of the editors Of
the former agrees to be described as a 8 black
guard and a fool" France does not monopolize
politeness, but repudiates with scorn the charge
of being /" a subscriber to the Figaro"
Cousin, the philosopher, knew little of the
outside world at a dinner party he was seated
beside Meyerbeer, and described him as a pleasing
companion, a Bohemian with a taste for music.
Meyerbeer was then in the heyday of his fame.