The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1856-1888, 1881-12-31
PARIS
PARIS, December LIST, 1881


Creating cabinets and starting panoramas
are the order of the day:-of the latter, k
the making Of books, there is no end here,
they will soon be as numerous as banks.
First-cIass artists to find paint
ing panoramas more remunerative than
landscapes, genre subjects and portraits.
The canvas is generally devoted to battle
scenes, and defeats rather than victories;
but then pity is akin to love. We have the
siege of Paris; to this must be added that Of
Belfort, the charge Of the heavy brigade at
ReischosfIeT or Worth, and soon the strug-
gle on the C~hampigny plateau, indeedthere
is n possibility of the battle of Montretoul
or B~uzenva1, where the last t%orrential rush
of patriotic Parisians occurred, being also
farmed. Cynics swear that the pictures are
but a combination of photography and
Madam Tussaud perhaps this is not in
correct, but the main feature for the moral
ist and Speculation is that the undertaking
pays, the pictures feast the eyes and stir the
feelings, in the case of those referring to
the incidents Of IS7O-7l, the spectacle is
said to keep alive patriotism, and the
Chamber of Horrors element to make one
Disguised with war. But the latter is one
of the attributes Of civilized man and will
continue till the lion lies down with the
lamb without %devOuring it. The charge of
the Cuirassiers at Reischoshffen, is extreme
IL sensational, the spectator appears to as
sist at a battle without sharing its dangers.
There are the dead and dying, horses and
knapsacks ripped open, a windmill toppled
over, an old woman struck dead and still
upright as if alive, broken helmets, twisted
rifle barrels, battered musical instruments,
all the detritus of a terrible fight. 1t is a
mixture of the Morgue and the Luxem-
bOurg. There is a yellowish haze about the
whole panorama that is at least not art,
though il may be ethical" After sup
ping full of horrors the orchestra e%ndeavOrs
to bring you back to the piping times of
peace by executing choice morceauX from
popular Operettes. Perhaps variations on
the Dead March might be more in season.
VI. Muybridge is cutting out Tunisian
Mustapha Pasha as the lion of the moment,
lie can
Eye Natures walks, shoot folly as it flies.
And catch the manners living as they rise"
Up to the present it was generally be-
lieved photography, like dentistry, could
give us nothing new, but NJ. Muybridge by
his instantaneous process is able to picture
the movements of q man walking, or n
horse running and then by a rotating light
arrangement can project these movements
on a screen, horses can be made to gallOP
rs for the Derby pedestrians to walk at
the rate of n mile a minute hare and grey
hounds bound, clowns jump through hoops
on rushing steeds; the flight of birds is
next down on the roster. Already we can
preserve the human voice in tin canisters
like green peas or tomatoes, and export
them, similarly to electricity. and by the
pOund, all that is required is to keep one
side up with care and dry. What an advan-
tage il will be to have ones self photo
graphed i'm salad days, when a member of
some 50 All Eleven" bat in act of striking,
or running in; or padding your own canoe
or other manly sports, and then by turning
a coffee mill apparatus, before a Suan lamp
and a winding sheet, perceive the light of
other DAYS pass before you, As you nurse n
equity limb, or practice simple addition
with G.. alky knuckles on the mahogany
table, or If we are in the last OF the Seven
Ages, the view so charming might drive Us
back to the sixth.
Sturdy inyalids for Nice are making Paris
n trysting place, like swallows before wend-
ing their way southwark the weather here
is quite summer-like, only the day winds
up with q L. :. in the form of n shower that
would not disgrace March, and a fog equal
to any ever produced over n Roman marsh.
To witness SardOu's OdCtts Is n thing that's
got to be done before starting. The scenery
gives a fOretaste OF the beauty Of the COM
ing health station Those who are really
sick unto death. ought to prefer Cannes as
the auietest place where tO-die.
The French press devote some marked
attention to the condition Of Ireland, IL Is q
set ofFto their own domestic troubles in AL
geria and Tunisia. They do not seem to