The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1856-1888, 1875-02-20

it as dlfhcult TO organize the Inauguration ee th
the Assembly to constitute a government. VIM
ter is now well upon US. cold. wet. and ~wickedly
disagreeable there is only one compensation, the
extreme cleanliness OF the streets. IL Is almost
worth ones while to pass a promenade against
wind and weather, 20 observe how rapidly PARIS
makes her toilette there are brigades OF scayen-
gers that work as If the honor OF the nation Was
at stake, and something like a pvess-gang inau-
ence must be brought to bear to muster such a
force Of men and women, and where every broom
sweeps clean, at a minute notice. House sweep
ing machines are also largely employed, and
which thus expedite the work. the paved streets
admirably suitiug into the bargain Public wa
ter-closets for ladies, called chaLas dc N~eesssifs,
are being erected in the most conspicuous thorough
fares at the Madeleine and the entrance 70 the
Champs Elysees for example the structures are
very pretty.
fhe Monte-de-Pi@te intends to inaugurste a
reform. Hitherto it was the practice, that when
an unredeemed pledge was sold. the Surplus
realized over the sum lent, remained for two years
TO the credit of the pledger, after which it lapsed
20 the General Charity Fund. The Municipal
Council intends to extend this right to a period
of four years, but charging an Gd ralorem tax on
the sum unclaimed. The total of these sums is
very large, and il has been found, the credits are
on an average applied for, in the course of the
third year. Nothing has been decided touching
the statue to be placed on the summit Of the
Column of Nendome, now regretted, and having
the air 10 De 0lguer DelOre tue AOmIDQQleIs leVeleQ
it, to raise a more artistic one In its place. At
present a good large tricolor floats from it, and
the effect is not bad. Another institution, as it
is one Of the city sights, has been overhauled,
namely, the Morgue. The piping and taps that
supply the water trickling over the slabs of mar
BILE on which the bodies lie exposed, have hitherto
been in brass they are now in iron, as during a
recent case Of wife poisoning, the chemists were
for O time misled about the quantity of ~verdigris
found in the body of the deceased, which was
derived from the brass in question.
The shops are as busily occupied in giving
prizes at reduced cost to customers, as the journals
are watches and clocks, or books to subscribers.
In the former case the idea is a little new ; thus
one dry goods establishments, called the Z" Poor
Devil gives for FIVE instead of twenty francs,
the bust statue in terra-cotta of Francia's much
admired 'Alsace :" thus business and patriotism
60 hand in hand. 1t is to be hoped Bismarck
will not be down upon us for remembering the
poor, afflicted in mind and estate. A famous
Gordon 6Ieu has just died. and takes the proper
tions of an event. "Sophie was the famous
cook of DIR. Yeron who made his dinners a fact OF
European celebrity not an individual of emf
nence but has put their feet under his mahogany,
and Sophie could describe the characters of states
men and publicists as glibly as her master, the
director OF the Constitutional. There is a set
made upon NJ. Theirs by the opposition press
apparently to Brighten him to death, by insinua-
tions respecting its near approach, consequent on
his great age. The ex-President replies to such
bad taste by looking as fresh as the morn. It is
wonderful how rude the politest nation in :he
world can be when it pleases. 20 s-a.. tslss|
NJ. Hachette the famous publisher, the John
Murray of Paris, has just married his grand
daughter all the celebrated authors, artists, and
editors were invited. One young lady was present
and who divided attention with the bride, the
&c intended " of poor Henri Regnauld, the painter,
who fell 80 gloriously at the battle of Buzenval.
1t was the FIRST time she appeared at any festival
since her lovers death, and it was peculiarly
painful to remark the sincere and respectful
patriotic sympathy she received from all present.
Regnauld is one OF the heroes Of the 50 %torrential
sortie,'' from Paris, and whose memory lives
green in the soul of the citizens, but above all in
the student and artistic worlds. Another proof
of good will on the part of artists is a sale which
has just taken place for the benefit of Pere
Joseph" who with his wife, kept a mall
tavern, fruit, and wine shop in the quarter of the
city most patronized by painters. 1t frequently
happened that the young artists were often with
out corn in Egypt, but never went without a
meal, so long as " Father Joseph " was at hand.
As a consequence, the old man and his wife were
not able to put anything by for the rainy day,
andage came swiftly upon them. Well. all the
artists, several of whom are now famous, have
contributed a painting, a sketch, or a design,
and the collection disposed by public auction,
has realized q handsome sum. Bohemians are
not ungrateful.
a story is in circulation that an eminent indi-
vidual wishes to emulate a former ambassador at
Paris. during the reign of Louis XVIII, whose
bad feeling led him to insist, that all his French
servants, grooms, coachmen, and Wallets should be
old soldiers, decorated with the Legion of Honor,
and who had to display their decorations over his
livery. The King demonstrated with the foreigner
in question, as a very high authority has now re-
Gently done. There is no objection to wearing
medals &C., when the servants are in private
clothes, or dressed in the uniform of public COM
panies. At the grand hotel, there is an inspector
whose coat has as many medals &C., as Esterhazy
himself had of diamonds. 4
At the Fete now being held at Batignolles.
there are four penny gaffs where the sanding
piece is Bazaine's escape, and each boasts to pos
sess g the veritable rope" by which be sluDg HIM
self down the cliff. At Havre there is a dress
making establishment which announces, it has a
"6rGnch at Paris"