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

see clearer INTO the lnllt-1tOne tlan ANYBODY
else, they conclude, judging from human
frailty, that no rent j. a cry more pOpu-
lar than reduced rent while at the same
time aveTriug themselves incapable Of COM
pretending how 4 general reduction n
rents can make tenants without the capIIal
necessary for cultivation, great, glorious
and free. Wholesale emigration Is urged
a. the sole remedy.
When the Working Mans Congress was
held last year at Hayre, il split up into two
parties. one. impracticable and political,
the other professional. The latter has just
opened its session in Paris, but so far, while
banishing politics, has displayed but little
aptnesS 10 handle the problems Of capital
and wage, guilds, cO-OperatiOns.&c. Invalu-
able assistance towards a solution would be
AFFORDED were the delegates Of the different
trades 70 cOufiue themselves 10 their own
immediate professions. when they attempt
generalitie- they lose themselves.
To form aH idea Of the political situation
10 - necessary 10 consult, TO be well in
formed, the cOmical press. Gambetta is Of
course the central figure in all the cartoons.
One represents him u a cook. surmOunted
by chicke Ihis mIuistersI waiting TO be
fed or tru.sed. Another gives the premier
reckoning all the political ~braggarts, when
out Of office. 10 come and question his poll
cy. and not be ~skedadling. What school
boys call funk" Is a dominant trait on the
opposition benches Of all shades. The re-
publican majority, a. was to be apprehend-
| ed, Is drifting into tad-pOle divisions which
I SiEuile- snort lie TOT Ministers. OuulN
enough, the satirical journals make no al
lusiOns 10 Pau Bert. whose materialism is
considered not To be in place Is minister of
| Public Worship, ecclesiastics must be par
dOned for feeling not quite at home when
i'm relations with that f~unctionary, able
man though he be. In an allusion to the
unpOpulaTity with which he is hailed, he
AYERS his duty simply is to keep the clergy
within the lines of the COrcordat, and to
hunt them as it were down, if they pass
outside the ropes.
The delegates for the election of the future
one-third of the senatorial candidates, point
to n triumph next January for the Repub-
lie. In the voting at Paris, Victor Hugo
was at the top of the poll, and his coadjutOr
is also a friend and a poet TO boot. The urns
revealed that one vote had been recorded
for UTrOmpette, Gambettais famous cook,
and also one for Tony Revillon, that de-
feated Gambetta at Belleville, proof that
the spirit of fun is not extinct with the
severity of republican institutions. from
petite has invented several valuable sauces
and is hence a benefactor of this country.
Is the military spirit in France dying out?
Two classes, numbering in all $4,000 men
become liable at present for military SER
vice $1,000, an unprecedented number OF
absentees have not put in an appearance to
the call, they are simply deserters, and are
liable TO imprisonment, indeed they are
outlaws, as they can neither marry nor eX-
ercise any civil or political rights, if not in
a position to establish they have served
their due period under the flag, and further,
any person who employs such white livered
patriots can be imprisoned for six months.
lola has been annoyed by the natural
ism of the bailiffs. His mama died leav-
ing a small debt unpaid. y creditor held
this claim, and threatened lola to have his
mothers estate declared bankrupt if he did
not settle, so lola left the dead to bury their
dead. Two boys aged 8 and 10 have been
sent to a reformatory till they be Is they
placed stone on q railway near Nancy, for
a lark IN 500 the train rnnnjnU off the
metals.
The Municipal Council of Paris is an ex-
cellent business body, it becomes ridiculous
the moment it dabbles in politics. 1t has
approved hat the Hotel de Vile, now re-
built, shall be Illuminated by the Suan and
other electric lamps; that the lifts shall be
worked by electricity. To generate the
necessary currents a gas engine of Al horse
power will drive the dynamo-magnetic ma
chine pending the Atlantic cable sends the
motive power from Niagara.
\ price is set on the head of wolves and
wild boars. Cne of the latter was captured
near Etretat, when a peasant succeeded III
putting a ring in its nose, then the captive
was led by women very submissively, aided
by encouraging from behind, to the Mayor
to receive the reward; with the latter cider
and head were purchased and after the pris-
oner had been crucified on a pole in the
market place., like a defeated Cartheginian
general, for n few hours, the animal was
roasted like a stalled OK, and served with
out hatred.
The theatrical world gives only the revival
ofde Musset's on n bddiRe pds dUecE AHOu7
The extraordinary circumstance is, that de
Musset, who never wrote for the stage,
though unconsciously possessing the dra-
matte faculty, should nave some of his po-
etical productions arranged for the stage
and maintaining their place in the roper
tOire. His charming fantasies are brilliant
dialogues, inimitable in style. Now the
latter quality is not a drawback for the
theatre, where style means simply saying
all that is to be said, and well.
The republicans bitterly complained of
Marshal Canrobert, of Coup d'Etat fame,
being a member Of the high military board;
well, he has now been ~re-appointed by
Gambetta. The Marshal is IN excellent
soldier and to cast him aside would create
discomfort in the army.
y lecture is announced on the ''Ireligious
Malady of the 18th century," One financial
journal upbraids another with depreciating
Turkish stock. When married, the world
counts one women more and one man less.
DIa1ua &c Hoofe IN N,pruu-