The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1856-1888, 1882-07-22

Were tie removal Of General Ignatiefi
oe'leved 10 De permanent, people would en-
tertain more hopeful views for the saliva
ton of Holy Russia, but in that Empire
stateneh are certain 10 come up smiling.
The General failed TO stamp out nfhilism.
even by bringing TO his aid the persecution
OF he Jews; nor has he much conduced TO
extend the Pan-olav idea, seeing that TIA e
countries that reaped so much by the defeat
OF Turkey, claimed in the second place to
be delivered from their emancipat0rs. To
the morSantlc widow of the late Car is
due the Generals removal.
For many all these events are but trivial
IN comparison to the great murder commit
ted near at Pee, St. German. 1t nearly in
have beeb bfHSSrnpp 10 the Tropmann horror.
loose way of dol Sthecary, ~ years OF age,
J d by his mistress of eleven
years standing, a married woman ana mo-
ther oftwO children, into a lonely house on
the banks OF the Seine, and there murdered
by her husband and his brother. The re-
mains Were found floating in the Seine,
tfuSsed by means of Il fiattened lead pine,
the lips fastened with a hairpin, and the
mouth further gagged with a napkin. The
vile not only came to Paris to inyeigle
more surely the unfortunate TO the am
bush, but had previously bargained over
the price of p yards of rope destined to tie
tap the naked body, for it had been stripped.
ana the clothes burned to prevent identity !;
she supplied her haiTpins to fasten the lips
of the deceased, so that no wafer couid
"AA'a A<AD lhC " ~ W
noat. The day Of the murder she spent an
nour IN church in prayer. The puzzle is to
discover 4 satisfactory motive for the crime
hot one of the thousand put forward can
explain that. The principal parties were
apoliecarleS, a class that has figured very
extensively OF late in the annals of crime.
Neii-o1 people can have a mania for
begging as Well as for shOp-thieving. An
ola man, said to have diluted blue blood in
MS VEINS, lived since many years on the
1000 tickets distributed by charitable So
clet!eS; he came TO grief on being searched
he had Il bundle of the tickets, plenty of
oaik notes, AMI a most comfortable home.
lie was sent to prison for three months tor
swIndllng, his board and lodging expenses
oy the State To be de Ihcted from his cash
count.
The courts have ruled that restaurants
sellIng cigars are to be considered as toiJac-
conist shops, aud So must take out Il license.
mere are 1000 blind persons i'm France,
ana not more than 10, 200 are provided for;
the remainder have to trust to mendicity-a
uog, Il whistle, or an accOrdeon-tO gain
their living, and some pick up in Paris, 3
10 b I. a day in this manner, and as much
as 10 I. on a Sunday or fete day. Egypt
anu Mexico surpaSs France in obtaining
work for their blind, for it is only since
january last, the idea has been seriously
taken in hand, to train the blind to spe-
cial occupations. The LEARNED professions
are limited, though Rodenbach, the Belgian
reyOlutionist of 1880, ThieTry the historian,
hllnhaus the sculptor and Vida the
painter, had lost their sight. One of the
cnle1 exhibitors at the late International
Exhibit III of electricity, and who took a
prize, was blind from birth. The blind have
Their powers of memory very highly de-
veioped; thus the Japanese employ their
afflicted to learn by rote the annals of their
country.