The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1856-1888, 1883-03-03

2 their reyersionary prctenders. By the expulsion
Of princes. simply because they are princes b.
the bauishment of citizens, simply because the.
are suspected, not only will the prestige OF tn
Republic be diminished. but 4 blow will b.
struck at the honor and probIty of the nation.
Gambetta would long ago have laid the SCARF
by one Of his prOverbial outlaws; IN the cbsenc'
of the voice that - still, NJ. E1oquet, seeking
ElIjah's mantle, proposes the opening act OF tbs
Reign OF Terror. Floquet is a good third-rate
tribune. capable Of rising to honors; he is on the
shady side of fifty. somewhat of q dandy, and
like RObespiere, whom he IS said to model in
foppisbness and GOODNESS land may he rest al
these traits), goes in tremendously for SNOWY
waistcoats. His wife is very pretty, and might,
If she pleased, supersede Mesdames Adam and
Arnaud in having the representative republican
salon; but she is only fashionable, pleasing and
unpOlitical. Clemenceau's lady, an American,
is only all politics, and practices in the shade,
like Rgeria, having once cried VIUe la POiogne d!
under the nose Of the late Emperor of Russia
during bis visit here, who retOrted that in st.
Petersburg visitors were welc Jmed more politely.
Floquet may be considered as equal to an A b0S
les princes! In politics he is more advanced than
Gambetta, for whom he was a small edition of
Brutus. and Clemenceau is more advanced than
Fl0quet; for the moment. then, the fortune Of
the Republic is between the hands of these two
Deputies.
In the imbroglio the Duclerc Ministry has all
the chances to disappear result that will
CAebS u iAS z bOl tHC BuOiiC- ~. z '
whom the mOnarchists assert to be the arch-con-
spiritor, and worse than all the princes rolled
into one, desires To lave DE Freycinet back-the
man after his heart. and who is mot less mediocre
than the others. The cancer of the Republic IL
the absence of united Republicans. the pTucras-
tlnatiOn to vote legitimate reforms, and II timIdity
to recognize the Republic as "a Government like
any other constituted power,
This pilgrimage this year to the : expiatury
chapel built on the site where the remains of
Louis XVI and Marie Antoinette were inferred in
a 5hroud OF quicklIme alter their execution, was
looked forward to witt interest. The 2lst of
January had been fixed according to rumor, for
the rOyalist rising As 900 trained men were
ready TO take the field, and Is 900 Pontifcal
ZOuaves. IL mere mouthful for the Tanbourgian
republicans, to seize Paris. Prince Napoleon's
escape spoiled the little game. The pilgrimage
was as modest and select as in other years; not a
member OF the Orleans family was present but
the Orleanist chiefs de Broglie, Buffet. etc.. were
numerous. Marshal Mcmahon daughter put in
an appearance I; but during the Empire the EN-
press Eugene always attended this sin memoriam'
mass. However, the Due de Morny maintained
the Empress was a r~oyalist, and passed her time
buying up souvenirs of Marie AntonIette. the
last being the slipper the unfortunate Queen
dropped when ascending the scaEold. The OBJ
served oil all observers was General de Charette
he is the presumed leader of the suppressed in
surrection he looked quite happy and SO did his
daughter, who had his arm. Two detectives fol-
lowed the General like his shadow. If we are to
have a revolution, all political parties will be
lighting for their own account. plus the An
archists whose speciality is limited to killing
everybody who has property. Happy those who
would be banished France at such a moment.
The Anarchists of this city at their last Sundays
windbagIsm. ordered the green baize covering an
improvised table to be replaced by a red rail-
way rug. A member, out for the day from an
asylum, proposed a march then and there to de-
liver the dynamite-Nihilist Prince Krapotkive
and his co-mates from the Philistines ut Lyons.
Not a single Bob Acres volunteered.
Excepting very unseemly carping at England
continuing 10 prosecute her reformatory program
me in Egypt unaided by France. French writer's
devote no other attention to the Nile. The
French Joint-Comptroller's shaking off the dust
of his feet at the Khedive's decree abolishing
Othello's 0ccu patton. has caused not a particle of
The financial world knows very we'll
that creditors will come to no grief when Eng
land looks after their interests. Ii England
courteously propounds her viens through the
Victory, France continues the same at Tunis
through the Boy. In both cases the Box and Cox
is not bad. England. however, ar
rived at Cairo by Tel-el- Kebir. while France
reached Tunis by the Kroumir pass--which in
point o political morality, are not like routes.
John may afford to smile at Monsieur giving
him lessons in colonization and the reorganization
Of peoples; he might include in the same grin the
claim of France for a share IN the winnings OF a
game, out OF which she backed. firmly believing
it would prove the ruin of her once ally.
Gambetta notary has received 137 applica-
lions from persons to purchase the property of
Vile d'Avray where his iIlustrious client died.
NJ. Spuller. Gambetta' 8 fdes dchates will likely
become the buyer. DIR. Wecker. the Vienna oc-
:ulist settled here, sets at rest the legends as to
Gambetta lost his right eye it was while
cooking a turner's lathe when a child, that a tool
off and entered the eye-ball Year by year
he latter augmented, till the eye-lids could no
onger meet. In the spring of 1876, DIR. Wecker,
the abnormal eye he preserved it in a
certifying solution, and it is now in possession of
he King OF Bavaria's brother, VINO is an NJ. d.
The Princesse Clotilde. wife of Prince Napo-
con, has no intention of coming to Paris
which she quit on the 4th September, 1870, not
the protection of a dentist like the En-
press, but in full livery, as becane the daughter
king. She was sacrificed like Marie-Louise
or reasons of State, and thrown in as it were
With Savoy and Nice, to recompense France for
hat : : war of idea which freed Italy from the
Alps to the Adriatic." She was married at 16,
md is now, at 81, quite white-haired living with
Ter daughter at the Castle of Moncuiien, the
Eagles nest of the house of Savoy. She is a
Sister of Charity. After the wedding cere-
nony in Paris, she lost her slipper entering the
,arriage that was conveying to Mendon to pass
he Homogeneous; when she arrived, Cinderella
her slipper en- her dressing table, forward
ID by express, by another Prince. Superstitious,
ike all Italians, she considered the event an i'll
,men, and which has been justift d.
4 highly respectable young gentleman has been
ollared for obtaining money under false pre-
enses. He asked the magistrate to be allowed
champagne, game, ~trufles. ETC., while In prison,
o be paid for out Of the funds found on him. He
vas Immediately put on Spartan fare.
Tenant to landlord: ''You promised in nay lease
o have no hammering industries in the house.
overhead the piano hammering is incessant.
10 | leave"
Notice on bath-house: Closed, owing to want
water, caused by the foundations"
Island Notes.