The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1856-1888, 1883-06-02

ment, similarly as the rich funerals pay for
the gratuitOus burial Of the needy. These Al
OUy women and 25,OO0 men on the charity
roll of the capital.
BY the addition OF italy 10 the Austro-
German alliance, France i isolated in
Europe. So she feels the situation sharply
the more % after 80 powerfully contribu-
ting to the founding of Italian unity aud
aiding Austria out Of her difficulties after
Sadowa. Russia IS equally isolated, and
must hencefOrward count with that ALI
anGe, as well a with turkey. Roumanla
and Sweden in her political movements.
Tn French avOw they ought 10 at once
march band In hand with England cease
to uselessly cross her in Egypt, and negoti-
ate a treaty OF That's the gar
den candide would select TO cultivate. Pro-
tectionist Rouen objects to any treaty, but
will applaud the boring Of the channel tun-
mel, provided it does not lead to an invasion
Of English goods.
In home politics the deficit Of the budget,
and the conversion of the Five per cents
into ~ stock, occupies all attention. Evil
IDENTIFY the country desires no factious agi-
tations and useless discussions. The peo-
pie turn aside from theOTetic politics;
hence, why manifestations prove abortive
and all leagues, whether monarcbal Of
anarchal march from check to check.
Paris appears 10 be coming simply a pied
de terre for those classes who ike the lilies
Of the field toll not nor spin. They quit the
capital at the first cold breeze, for Nice or
Pan; then Oh thef first CLEAN of true sum
shine they depart for the country. The
city Is thus only 4 demi-statiOn, an entire
ments. DR.. RicoTd through aged SO, has
just given his annual musical and
dancing s%oIree; he had u joke as usual for
every guest. The novelty of the evening
was, the dancing of the lancers in costumes
Louis XV.-a charming spectacle.
Much sympathy is felt for Gustave Az
mard, called the French tenimore Cooper I:
he is now an inmate of an asylum, and
though incapable of moving from PARALYSIS.
his constant supplieatiOn, is to promenade
in the country and to be married. BY a
curious coincidence they are his novels that
the inmates prefer to peruse, and that the
doctors prescribe.
Lilo Delibes has scored o success in his
three act comic opera Lakme, Iibretto by
Messrs. GOndinet and Giile. The plot is 4
kind of Selika in the Africaine, in the sense
that Lakme also commits suicide. 1t is
thus a mixture of melOdTama and comedy.
/ Gerald, a British officer, trying to OBTAIN
( the pattern of some sacred Jewels, is sur
pTised by Nilakantha, Lakme's father.
L.akme aids Gerald not To copy, bat 70 keep
the jewels. Disguised as a beggar, Mia
kantha and his daughter travel as wander
ing Ministries, TO discover the icOnOciast.
| Gerald is waylaid and wounded, but Lakme
saves him it is however at the cost of her
own life, as she poisons herself by eating
I the tOXical lea0 Of q shrub. Her father is
delighted at her death, and Gerald is deliV-
cred from an inconvenience. There is a
good deal of gracefulness, color, charm and
warmth in the music IL unttes the eX-
tremeS Of tenderness and passion the me-
lodies are full of delicacy and taste. Al
least q score of beautiful mOrceauX might
be cited, and that were highly applauded.
The ballet was as it were framed with the
popular fife and drum music Of the English
army. The two chief roles were by Tala-
zac, unmatched as a terror his execution
of the ballad. "The wing of love has
passed" vas superb. Mile. Van Zauelt, the
nrotege of Patti and Nilsson as Lakme. and
now their rival, was matchlesi in the
s~tranzas, 1T is the god of youth" II had
for consequence to compel her sutton a dis
tinguished member of the turf and jockey
club 10 at once propose for her.
Biedermann the great Jewish oil-brOker,
in arranging 4 4" corner'-EurOpe is green
in these kind of operations, has been caught
in his own net. Assisted by q ring, they
bought up all the coZa oil in the Continen-
tai markets, and thus commanding the sup
ply, expected to dictate prices. Tn house
of cards fell down Biedermann called Oh
his associate, a banker, to see what could
be done was shown into a bed chamber be-
side the dining-room, and there blew out
his brains; so quietly it seems that the
banker in the next room never heard the
report of the pistol.
The French Lond1Oehr has just put in its
10 days drill. The men are mostly all mar
ried, fathers Of families, and settled In life.
The object Of the calling out OF these eX-
soldiers is TO keep their hands in. The re-
suit was satisfactory; the men had remem-
bered the goose steps, how to fall in, 20
wheel about, and to hold a musket straight.
But all were glad when il was over. In
these mobili, where there is no exception ;
/ resignation rather than enthusiasm reign
ed. The men who preferred to wear
| their own linen and shoes, were allowed
| four francs compensation for wear and tear.
The ability OF the officers has been highly
spoken of, but the supply of n~on-commis-
stoned officers fall short. Complaint was
general that the uniforms were the left of
clothes of by-goue 5rGues. In several cases
there were mayors simple privates, subject
10 sergeants who were the town clerks.
An ApatbecarieS' club has been founded
in Paris; it numbers go members.
The French chemists are Jealous OF their
German coufreres, as they call a new aci6
-" ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS" Hope
England will subject il in any case to her
new Explosive law. An ~ex-banker adver-
tisers for d position to address envelopes and
teach classics to children.
Mother to son that's a darling, for
stopping crying" mo, I've not stopped I:
l am only resting"
A clergyman travelling IN a railway car
riage was a butt to many insolences his
insulters at last shut the windows, com
menced smoking and sending the puffs to-
wards him. "PaIdoH gentlemen" said he
| coolly, drawing n book from his pocket, 50
hope my breviary does not inconvenience
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