The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1856-1888, 1883-01-13
Foreign Correspondence.
(rRoM OUR ouS CORRESPONDENT
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PARIS. November %.
NJ. Jules Verne, a name dear to boys who
love science in sport, has already affected q "per-
sonally conducted tour of-readers, in 81
hours from our earth to the moon He has just
organized another excursion trip of sve hours
duration, at the Porte-Saint-Mart Theatre.
4 trarers t'Lnpossi6is. The voyage commences
in Denmark, and ends there. since return tickets
have been issued. The travelling party COM
prises George Hatteras, his fanee, DR.. Ok, his
rival and a materalist Valsrus. the guardian
angel and a spiritualist TartIet, a French dane
ing master, and Waldemar, a kind of heavy
father. Neither the science Of Ok, nor the
theology of Tolsius, are unexceptionable. Hat
teras Is a young man of the Excelsior class to
Halter his hobby for visiting impossible places,
DR.. Ok gives him u few drops Of an elixir this
will preserve him from fire, water, and accidents
in general. He thus hoped to rid himself of
a rival. But Eva secretly drank some also. to
qualify her to follow her lover. The doctor had
to follow suit, to keep an eye on Eva. Finally,
the whole party having drank out of the magic
bottle, were rendered proof against geological
and astronomical dangers. Arrived at Vesuvius.
the travellers selected, not the overground, but
the underground railway. In olden times when
people desired to pass into the neither world
Orpheus to wit, it was only necessary to strike
the ground and invoke the name of Plato, when
the gates into the bowels of the land were
thrown open. Perhape Eva was the talis-man
on this occasion, for we know. what women-
beautiful ones of course, wish, the gods wish.
The party descends through the various strata Of
the rocks comprising the crust of the earth
until the center Of our globe be reached, and
which scientists allege to be all FIRE. En- route
to the ground %Icenter. the travellers meet with a
race of people, having manners akin to our own:
| possessing long, white hair. like bards, with a
weakness cafe concert music. The fiery furnace
is a Terra del Fuego, tenanted not by imps, but
| by inhabitants only occupied dancing ballets, in
| costumes to suit the regions of flame. Passing
! as unhurt as Shadrach, Meshach and Abednego
| through the fire, the voyagers enter the seas aud
| witness among other great sights, the wreck of
| matter-in the case of an extinct world. While
thus gazing, Waldemar was all but gobbled up
| by an unesthetic shark rescued, he fell next
into the arms of an octupus. Arriving ut the
other side of our earth, the party was shot
through a kind of rocket tube. into the planet
Altor. and which lone star confirms the
MOLC yin Q WAN III IN
ants of this new world were all given to sing
ing. ballets, and boating. The streets of their
cities were paved with diamonds-the only
kind of pavement Paris has not yet tried. Can
dide. in his travels through Ell Dorado, found
towns where gold was, as the clergy say, filthy
ucre, where the houses, in a word, were matched
with pancakes and the lanes paved with penny
loaves. The planet. however, burst, and one of
the fragments obligingly fell ,as a bolide, at Copen-
hagen, with a. the parties therein-or thereon
safe and sound. Mother Symptoms mode of aerial
locomotion was nothing to this. The piece OF
NJ. Jules Verne and lis benchmaR D'Ennery, is
made for the eyes neither the thread of love
which runs through it, nor the scientific data,
must be examined more closely than cooking
or politics. The scenery. costumes, electric
lights, and explosions are. as the Spaniards would
say, grandisSims. Tho pot pourri has been COM
posed from julie Verne's wonderful stories
generally, and while being a success, will lack
in interest Michel Strogoff or the Tour de Monde.
NIB nearly forgot to remark that George and
Eva, after annihilating time and space. are made
happy.
Another Voyage q traUerS impossible is to
find out to where, or to what, France is drifting.
SiuSC NA' NV luNulECO III "H III ttiu o.
dinner. and which had the same effect on him us
the last pea on an older man. 1t a city banquet,
his occupation is considered as gone. The
Figaro has expended quite Il little fortune to dis
cover his real age-75 summers. Almanack de
Qotha and Vaperean's dictionary, please copy
That age suffces to explain it seems, the presi
dents disease, softening of the brain. This con-
tradicts the philosopher Floureus who main
tanned, that our adolescence only commences with
the p~salmists span of life. Who is to succeed NJ.
Grevy? That's the question. Some demand a
miLitdire others pray to Jupiter for a King.
Gambetta has not yet sufficiently recovered from
his political fall it Is possible, that like Ant@us
he may acquire new strength by touching the
ground. Even adyersaries allude to the case
arising, where Gambetta might be called upon to
fill the role Of a LamartIne, a Cavaignac or a
Theirs, to stem the tide anarchy, and put a
break on another class of less extreme politicians,
who love the republic not wisely but too well.
The pistol accident he has met with, is stated to
be a false attempt to attract sympathy, or the
consequence Of a resolution to finish. with the
~chagrins Of life. He has lost an eye now almost
his right hand, not long ago he nearly broke his
leg. Is he destined to become an illustrIous
debris, like that French Marshal of whom it WAS
said, after losing legs, arms, and eyesight on
battle-felds, that = Mars left him nothing but
his heart There is a mOmentary calm among
the divided republicans they are taking stock OF
the situation, and bordering over the conse-
ouences Of the house divided against itself. The
cabinet has got out of it's swaddiing clothes ii
appears in short dresses. The baby is more
healthy looking, and may become bouncing, il
not ill-treated by it's parents.
Colonial questions promise to cut out in in
terest a form of oath destined to please material
lists and offend the religious: The revision Of the
Cnnstitntinn In the sense of not leaYiny q nOrtinn