The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1856-1888, 1882-10-28
Our Foreign Correspondence,
September eth.
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The new law depressing obscene literature has
come into operations; the chronic offenders have
been at once dealt with-two years imprison-
ment and 5000 francs tine-a righteous iudg-
Inent. Attention Is also being bestowed upon
the Insurers, whose terms are $50 per cent, plus
al commission of 20. Jealous efforts ARE being
made TO whitawash the memory of c ubert.
sentenced for demolishing the Column of Ven
dome, as Minister OF Fine Arts under the Com
mune. The monument WAS re-erected at his
expense; the incident killed him, and It appears
now he was innocent.
Only ten days ago the Bnnapartists announced
they had made mp all their family quarrels, and
agreed to leave to the nation-that showed not
the shadow OF anxiety about the matter, to
chose Napoleon V. either in Prince Jerome or
his two sons-three personages who contempt
uously ignored the greatness thrust upon them.
Two Bonapartist editors have inst fought a duel
Ill the garden OF n private friend with foils :;
as neither antagonist was cunning in fence, one
was spitted through the heart-nis wife was
waiting the result with her two children 1T a
railway station clos9 by the other WAS mortally
wounded. and his fancee was waiting also at the
railway station to breakfast with him.
NJ. krupp, OF cannon fame, is within our walls.
This Is said to be his first visit since 1867, when
he exhibited his famous cannon at the the.
Worlds Fair, and that Napoleon III. pooh,
poOhed, as ii mere toy. His Majesty. when he
met Bi mark for the first time AT Biantz. pro-
nouuced MIN to DE a fool. Ii has been remarked
thar Mr.. Krupp's visit comedies with the ami
Versary on Sedan, where his toys did all the
mischief.
Typhus fever is III the increase III Paris it is
generally SO in autumn 10 per cent. OF the
deaths are fro-n this disease, and when such is
officially admitted, what mast the "k'rict - card
be? We are all waiting for NJ. Pasteur 10 discover
the mlcrobe, or animalculA. that infects the
blood aud begets the malady He has cured
the hen cholera, perhaps that may be the ASiatic
under another form.
The Rev. Pere Loyson, though an old Catho-
Inc r.AtaS taIanS fha TnarA - e,1aA4 -.Ak-
riaiisnl, and OF the scurrilous attacks made by the
partlzans of separation of Church and State, ON
Religion in particular and of sacred matters in
general. The Ex-Carmelite but expresses the
PAIN that too many feel.
The oyster season has opened the bivulves
are as welcome as the return of the swallows 10
sentimental young ladies'. and have the art To
luve-tney can be crossed i'll this passion to be
eaten. With their arrival and the grapes, comes
as punctualiy snails, fat and sleeky looking, and
forming the perquisites Of tie guardians of
suburban church yards.
1t is remarked that Israelites rarely change
their religion exchanging thirty-uine articles u
no reproach when a bride is to become IL sove-
reign or IN Ike her Romeo happy. Mile Bertha
ceiVed into the Catholic Church by the Arch
Bishop of Paris. preliminary to her becoming
the Princess Wagrtm. Whether Jessica or
Juliet, Cupid ever hits home.
At the III memoriah mass IA few days ago for
liners only twenty persons We're present there
were AS many thousands witnessing the Spanish
Biondin crossing the Seine on Il wire rope. The
Journals amuse themselves at NJ. Grevy's ex-
pense they accuse him of IA weakness for pryiug
INTO the kitchen, and of the cook threatening to
pin a dish cloth to his coat tails.