The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1856-1888, 1880-10-09
FRANCE.
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The journey to Chesbourg made by M. Grevy
must be regarded as the complement of the presi.
Dental ceremony of the distribution of the flags
to the army on the 18th July. The Boys in
Blue must also have their cakes and ale. The
Portsmouth of France is very republican, SO the
three presidents naturally found themselves al
home. It is not often that the Navy is honored
as it has just been, as the pet service is the army
NJ. Grevy conducted himself as a Spartan, in
point of simplicity, and Nj. Gambetta recommen.
ded the crowd to cheer, not himself, but the
President of the Republic-the incarnation Of
public virtue, national rights and iniexible legal.
ity. Only one incident took place, when the
Bishop of Bageux headed a deputation Of his
clergy, to pay their respects to the President,
when the latter in reply to the congratuIatory
address. asserted, " love for the Church, was not
incompatible with love for France"
The ~artistes of the theatres have only just hap.
PLY concluded their campaign-to be eligible for
the decoration of the Legion of Honor, when they
enter upon another-all men being equal since
the revolution. They complain Of the disrespeci
in being called Faure, Got, Capoul, Sarah Bern
hardt or Patti, quite short. They demand from
politeness the prefix Monsieur, Mile. or Madame;
this daily decoration is respect. Alexandra Du-
mas is about putting his Dame aux Camelias in
verse, to suit Verdi's Traviata, which is founded
on that novel. But the author Of the libretto
prohibits Dumas from carrying out his intention
Thus the author of a successful novel and drama
cannot put it in verse, because it has been pirated
in advance. A similar difficulty was encountered
by George Sand. One Bourgeois dramatised her
Petite Fadette, and without either her permission
or a division of the receipts some years later she
decided to dramatise her own novel herself, and
was prohibited from doing 30 by the heirs oil
Bourgeois.
DR.: Tanners experiment that in dying Of hun
ger man can live without eating, has certainly
drawn attention to the question, do we eat and
drink too much. The anti tobacconists are il
the field with their hobby, and so are the vegeta-
rians the latter have never had many disciples in
France, though the hermits of Port Royal no more
eat meat than a fakir, which explains the palenesi
of their portraits hygienics and dietary, said
Sainte- Beure. were badly studied at Port Royal
The Nepbalians bind themselves never to taste
intoxicating drinks they hate wine, as Noat
must have done after his celebrated spree al
table they are a nuisance. as they draw attention
TO those beside them who have a weakness for q
glass of pure, generous wine, very annoying
when Q lady is in the case. Pending the siege oil
Paris, it was proposed to throw all the barrels Of
brandy in the city outside the Notifications. SC
that the Prussians could drink themselves to
death. The plan was rejected, as encouraging
intemperance. A sceptical member proposed
that, in case of falling shells. no Nephalian ought
70 seek refuge in q wine-cellar, save when it wal
empty. &
The Collegiate institutions have given up their
Thousands to vacation rambles, and homes are al
happy as they can be by the presence of the boys
--proud in the case where prizes and good marks
form part of the contents of their trunks. France
has reason to be satisfied with the results of the
scholastic year just closed ; and the prospects o.
the coming one are still more brilliant, for ths
education of the country 10 now under the
guidance of a Central Council. whose members
are practical educationists, and pledged In the
fullest exercise of independence to apply every
measure calculated to ameliorate the methods o.
instruction. It is refreshing to attend a distri