The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1856-1888, 1875-03-20

well as out Of season, and which have been very
extensively patronized during the holidays.
France is a nation Of g4stronOmists and goUrnsts
not g0uradHds, for this means gluttony. quite
another affair, ard her food preparations are IN
high request throughout the world, each Of her
provincial cities being celebrated for some special
comestible or dish. Her people are hence con-
noisseurs Of good things, just as ancient Rome led
the fashion, gave the ton, TO delicate dishes.
France has Inherited the sceptre in the culinary
art, and has a very wise article in her kitchen
code. a. that a woman shall never rule the roast
"a most excellent salic law, for French cookery
il q laborious profession. AT Rome, persons
were appointed expressly on account Of the exqui-
site delicacy of their palaIes, to test if certain
fish had been caught at the mouth of the TIber,
or farther on, and if the lisers of geese had been
fattened on green or dry figs Ii is only in Paris
that q hancock can be found near TO the Roman
standard, and French cooks are as universal as
Paris fashions.
The Grand Hotel has gone into the dairy bust
ness; it has long since turned poulterer, FISH,
monger, and f~ruiterer. IL has now its own cow
house, and supplies ct the depot, "milk fresh
from the cow - at the rate of u sous per quart,
or if bottled, sealed and duly marked with care
and delivered at the house, eight sous more.
There has been the usual anniversary mass
celebrated for the repose OF the ex-Emperor's
soul. The gathering of the BOnapartists was
perhaps more numerous this year than the laet,
when their prospects were more cheerful. OF
late u reaction mas get In against them caused DY
their golng-a-head too rapidly. On the present
occasion the little violet bouquets were in great
request. In accordance with the event, the
Z" ghost Of a viva was given for the Emperor.
These solemnities must pay, or they would not be
INDUCED in beyond doubt, but they are just as
reprehensible in point of taste, to say nothing
more, as a political Grafton over the grave of a
modern Brutus in Pere Lachaise.
Preparations are already being made for the
Carnival, which really promises TO be gay, as a
new generation has come into existence since the
invasion, which intends to have its cakes and ale.
OF course there is no use of remaining forever In
sackcloth and ashes. Youth never dies. If the
Carnival did not exist it would be necessary to
invent it, and the money spent, or squandered,
does good to the poor and needy. Before our
ancestors knew the virtue of masked balls. the
churches had annually to celebrate the welLknown
Fetes des Faus.
The umbrella is q notable article OF toilette or
of habiliment, the friend of bad days. Sally
Camp was not behind the age as we shall presently
see, nor was Scribe wrong in defeating an ode
to it. Sardon, the rich Sardon now, has preserved
in his dining hall the gingham umbrella which
was his sole companion when he first came to
Paris to seek his fortune the old Marquis de
Boissy had engraved on his, 90 this umbrella has
been stolen from the Marquis de Boissy." 1t is
@ notorious fact, that one never receives back an
umbrella that is worth anything. 1t may seem
strange to relate the fact. that in the eighteenth
century in Paris, umbrellas formed an institution,
and their loaning was regulated by a royal decree.
The waits and strays of the city were allowed to
act as umbrella carriers, just as slaves and niggers
are represented in sereen-work holding such over
the heads of nabobs and the salt Of the earth; or,
to hire ont the same protection, for a small fee.
and on depositing a small sum these a. loan COM
missioners T" settled down where they could, had
a lantern, with a number on it for recognition
and identity, and each umbrella was TO be in
green material the anne applied to parasols.
The revolution swept away the institution like so
many others.
Roch, the executioner, has set out on his circu-
lar tour; he has adopted a few more improve
ments on his etydnt, as the guillotine is familiarity
difference in the chopping off of a head he
ordered a new basket the other day, and the
workman only learned its destination when ordered
to line it with zinc he claims an increase of price,
as he was engaged he alleges under false pretences
to make a Z" plate, }" instead of a 50 head " basket.
Thirty years ago Marie Guernic was found dead
in her bed, the doctors declaring she had been
poisoned; she was on the eve of being married,
and her sister, Madeleine, was believed to be
jealous of her sisters happiness suspicion fell on
found guilty, and executed. Their father has
just died, and confessed to the clergyman, the
Able Barreau, requesting him to publish the
fact, that it was he who poisoned his daughter
Marie, and that Madeleine knew he had done SO,
but died to save him. NoVelists in search of q
peg, could hang one, or three novels on this.
Those who are interested in "self-made men,"
can witness in the Paris hospital Necker, old
Senkeisen, aged Is. Entering the army, at the
age of IA, on the command of his father, he fought
with the Bavarians in their alliance with the
French under Napoleon l. He received promo
ton, and was wounded at Waterloo; in 1880 he
fought in Algeria; was naturalized a Frenchman,
received a pension, and was complimented for his
bravery by Marshals Berthier, Augereau and
Luchet; was decorated with the Legion of Honor,
and the st. Helena medal. Now change all the
masculine pronouns. for the doctors have pro-
nounced him to be a female. What a brave old
girl-but not of the period!