The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1856-1888, 1875-08-07

i % be taken from the centenary IN question, and
10 this age OF anniversaries IS worth recording
Boieldicu was born IL winter but hIs fste VIII De
held during the summer Rouen desires to have
the son at the ceremony. and the Normands are
proTerbially 4 wide awake people. An anecdote
about the composer be wrote his music IN bIts
and scraps, executed IL for his family. his pupils.
his visitors, his trades people, the house porter,
in fact for everybody while playing he studied
the features Of the listeners, and at the simplest
sign of disapprobation be rejected the moTsel.
The OPERA cnaiqsle was hard up for q new work
in 1926 the director heard that Boseldleu had
an opera ready, and called on him the composer
promised 10 give the score when be retouehed 1t
but the manager made his wife promise to collect
every scrap Of music thrown into the waste paper
basket and send it 10 him. 1t was thus IN shreds
ard patches that the opera Of the Dome blanche
vas secured for the stage.
+ The hippophagists have made 4 step in advance;
hencefOrth the cavalry horses, instead Of being
sent directly to the knockers yard, when declared
useless, will be sold directly to the horse butchers.
No futher novelty in this food supply save that
horse flesh is now sold rs potted meat
The postage stamp collection mania must be
now 4 good business; there are no less than three
weekly publications devoted to its interests, and
in the one, st. Lazare alone. there are two shops.
which must be doing an excellent business, TO
Judge by the shop rents that have to be paid.
Another mania has set in, that for collecting
books with the arms and devices of eminent in
4AdA ttGAEOAs VIC tD54ENAADA &c dE ACsACN Lc
harmless as accommodating the buttons Of old
clothes and the shoppers of carafes.
John Quincy Adams is not an name
in the States, and the town of Quincy, in Illinois,
is DESTROYS of correctly knowing the origin Of the
name, according TO one of the Inhabitants who
has written to the Academy Of Bells. Lettres,
in Paris, for information as to the Quincy family,
the famous American President, having been de-
scended from French stock he also desires to
know the Latin name of the place. its population,
- - 4 L. A-
called Quincy in France, six having been created
since l771. You pays your money and you takes
your choice.
1t would appear that the most important trade
at present in Paris is in flowers; the shops for
selling these are as numerous as the dealers in old
curiosities, to say nothing of the c0stermongers,
and children and old women that sell from hand
baskets. The flower girls OF the Central Market
understand their epoch they are mostly young,
and always pretty they study the newspapers !;
thus, II you are nominated 4 knight IN the Legion
of Honor, or advanced in that order a grade, if
you are about being married, or honored with
any testimony that you regard as the happiest or
the proudest day in your life, there will be a rush
from these syiphs to present you with a charming
bouquet, your smallest contribution, provided it
covers first cost, being thankfully accepted in
return. And remark. the value of the bouquet
is by a marvellous instinct, composed to harmon
lie with your purse. These girls also sell, side
by side, bridal wreaths, baptismal bouquets, and
innnorteNeS with tears and eternal regrets. Per
haps it is imagined the provinces supply the
capital with flowers on the contrary Paris ex-
ports to the provinces and to foreign parts enter
any florists shop at midnight, and you will
observe the assistants as busy as nailors, packing
mp enormous bouquets in zinc-lined cases, to
start by the morning mail to decorate London
bathrooms that evening. 1t must be the taste in
the making up Of the bouquet that enables this
expectation of Goals 10 Newcastle to pay. 1t is
the country Immediately around Paris that sup
plies the flowers, and each district has its special
ity for flowers, as also for fruits. Montmorency
has its cherries, Fontainebleau it's grapes, Mont
reuil it's peaches, and Argenteuil its asparagus
but lilies and pinks come from Cheyreusc, violets
from Mendon, mignonette from Vanguard, roses
from Nauterre-the classic land Of r0SiereS-
geranuims and verVain from Clamart, lily Of the
valley from Marty, wall flowers from Maisons-
Lafdtte, lilac from Montmorency, and thyme
from Chatillon.
Chariyari represents Q deputy III the tribune OF
the Assembly, reading the prayers for the dying.
Garibaldi calls peoples, /" the red-shirts of
vegetation \ well-known tailor lately con-
verted to spiritism, took a medium into his en-
ployment, on the assurance that he could divine
solvent customers the first trial be declared one
gentleman to be the best pay in Paris as he
owed the tailor 5000 francs since twelve years,
the medium was at once dismissed.
A wife rushed TO the Commissary of police, and
accused her husband of attempting to poison her;
the husband who had followed, asserted his inno-
cence, and demanded at once, that his wife should
submit to a &" post mortem examination"