The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1856-1888, 1884-03-29


in that time more liberty for sim than in
London during nine years. Perhaps in
point of downright fun, and superior to Nice
and her 5ItajUe de Fe,n'S and confetti.
BuenOS Ayres and Montevideo carry OF the
palm; there eggs filled with water, the per
foration being closed by wax, are freely
thrown by ladies at the passers-by, and they
are most dextarous at this hydraulic amuse-
ment.
1t has been said that one half of human
ity is mocked by the other half. The blacks
of Hayti if revolutionary SaGements per-
init, wear white masks during carnival, and
similar colored chemises, Glossy fitting the
waist and from which bells suspended
they then dance prettily. The Arab bs for
disSuises, wear the ordinary clothing Of the
western nations. In Bohemia, bears are
led about from house to house, when the
smallest contributions is thankfully accepted
to drink bruin's-the bGuf gra& health.
And should marriage take place during the
carnival, fat cock is dressed III white, with
i red hiding hood, and sOlemnly arraigned
by two public prosecutors, condemned to be
executed. Chanticleer is marched, preceded
by music, to the public market place and
beheaded; he is then roasted and presented
to the bridegroom, while the head is handed
to the prosecutors for their fee. In MoldaVia
the carnival opens by the funeral of bass
fiddle; the cards having been removed, the
case Is enveloped in a winding sheet, buried
with mock solemnity, men, women and chill
dren crying like tho chOristers at Il Roman
interment.
The French are dissatisfied at the slowness
Of applying the winding-up act to Bacninh
General MillOt has received hint not to
take for model the Dutch and their Atchean
war 1t is felt that the honor Of the flag
necessitates England's making demonstra-
ton somewhere near Osman Digua's where
abouts At least invite him to trample
the tail of coat, like the Irishman a Don
nybroOk fair.
Since the Forty-Four Committee has taken
the industrial crisis in hand, there is less
complaining of want Of work. Politics
doubtless had much to do with the cry of
the sovereign people being starving. NJ. de
Clemenceau has not yet opened his wallet Of
cures that he has brought from the English
trade unions. In the meantime the strike
has e-broken out at the famous Auzin col
lieries near Valenciennes; the men accuse
the directors of not having kept faith with
them.
The Anti-English Suez bondholders repre-
sent $4,000 votes, each shareholder has only
a single vote, whether he has but share,
or like John Bull, 175 900. Not too much
Importance ought to be attached to this
clique, ostensibIy intended as a spectre for
British ship-owners.
Prince Kropatkine is undoubtedly sinking
fast in his prison at Clairyaux. However
he has only himself to blame ne is treated
with special favours; he has room to him
self, can write and read: he receives all the /
newspapers, and can order his meals as lac |
pIeases from an hotel. But lie insists, like |
Blanqui, on living like the other prisoners,
and will not petition for release-the only |
obstacle then to his discharge is his obstin- |
acy Blanqui declined to leave ClairvauX
till Napoleon III came and apoloSsed for |
incarcerating him. Prince Kropatkine is |
very wealthy, and though only forty-two /
wears of age, is now looking an old man Of /
seventy. His hair has come out III handfuls; |
his teeth are nearly all gone: but then he !
suffers from scurvy, caught some years ago |
in Russia. His young wife passes her days |
studying medicine in Paris, and travelling |
to see her husband. She has a strange, |
weird-like beauty; she is e'tciente, and car
ries loaded revolver ! pocket companion, |
and is fully resolved TO shoot herself should !
her husband succumb.
Marie, the Queen of Tahiti, is in our midst |
ilcognito. She is a geod-lOokinS Creole, |
aged %, but appears on the shady side Of 80. /
Her mother Is the daughter Of chieftaness
with as many orange groves as the Due de !
Montpensier Her father was an English
man-Mr. Solomon. and the Queen learned F.,
reading, writing, arithmetic and the use Of
the globes al seminary in Sydney, \. S.W.
She thus speaks English, and Is acquainted
with the French She was married at 10 TO
the Dauphin. now Pomare V. They are al
present sepsrated. His Majesty has been
ruined by reading French history, as from
over-studv of the reign CT Louis XIV. he made
a Madame de Pompadour of pretty snake