The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1885-01-06

Al OAfO1 Oc'-'tAc
tion tor its past eius, millions to starr
afresb, ana flee hand, it does not
settle up with John Chinanan. The
bulletins of victories evoke no ELI
thusiesm. Opinion is soured against
Bikmarck-it VAS never sweet; he Il
roundly accused of having solo
France at the Congress, by taking VI
SIanleys ideas aid not their NUNS,
de Brazza. Her Congo protectorates
have been reduced, and her reNer-
sionary intetess III the international
Society Knocked into cooked hat By
the erection oil the Congo basin into
Free State.
To Prince Bismarck's Reichstae
cases, he must note the solemn pro
test by 10000 Parisiaus over The COM
braves that fell at ChampigI'y III 1870.
The i'm nsenOrio8I meeting echoed tie
patriotism of the rich leader of the
Alsace-L0raine party, Paul Devou
lede --"uo alliance with Germany; no
colonial speculations the re-p0sess-
ian of Alsace by arms" He was
called. upon to deliver his speech a
second time. That ceremony will bt'
a rtjninter to General ManteuffePs
suprressirg all journals sympathetic
to France in Alsace, and requiring
all Frenchmen to dtcamp, if not le-
gally entitled To remain.
| The feeling is creeping its way, that
The Eastern question Will soon be re-
opened, and this time for good.
| France being in "vice" with
China. etc, and England occupied
with Egypt, where she will be lett
in undisturbed possession, the oppcr-
tunity is viewed favorahly, and ought
to he seized. AS Germany looks upon
HOlla MI and Belgium as her Nahoth's
vineyard, she would leave the spoiIs
If the "Sirk MANI to the Other>-
who claim to be legatees. Lori
| Palmerston observed: Turkey was
rot a "sick man, but rather a very
respectable old lady, who had coca
sionally attacks of the nerves, ami
who at once came to when a bottle of
smelling-sal,s was placed under her
nose. in the shape of the protection
of the British fleet.
With the disappearance of the
cholera, dramatists seem to have re-
found their talent. do not know if
the seething Eastern Question has
anything to do with the matter, but
ale Voyage au Cancase," three-act
comedy, represented at the RenaIs-
sance theatre, ia an unqualified and
deserved success. Tt is brimful If
sde-splitting mirth, which is con-
sidered the best preservative against
all worldly anxieties, save taxes and
promissory notes. Nj. Chapuzof, q
retired John Gilpin, decided to GO
down to posterity, not 10y endowing q
cnllege-or cat, hut by publishing q
book. Capuzot, in is salad days, had
evicted a tenant, a young man, anC
seized his chattels; among the latter
was the manuscript of his travels in
the Caucases. Chapuz0t published
these, made good match by the act
and i'm time became an idol in the
eyes of his wife and daughter, and
lion among his neighbors.
However. there was a fly in hi
! ointment. One day the son %
Schamyl arrived, claiming the hos
pitality of his fathers olce guest
Now, neither Chapuzot nor thi
Schamyl had ever travelled beyOn'
| 81 III I,tf (fho
zots renown as traveller was a
stake i'm the eyes o. his family ant
, acquaintances. to say nothing of POS
terity. He invited Schamyl tn pitcl
his tent III the garden If his villa res
idence. Schamyl amuses himsei
with his bow, sending arrows through
, panes of glass, the hats of passers- by
AMI once at a policeman whom n
mislook for Russian. Mdlle. Kud
. onga, u fair Circassian from til
Boulevard arrives to claim Schamyl
When Chapuzot protests, ScIamy
speaks to him in Circassian. adding
"You have not forgotten that Ian
guage." Thereupon the two indulg
i, in q conversation of all the words tina
they can recall or Invent, and which
puts Moliere's Turk into the shade
he scene is the quIntessence &
humor, and the Tapt admiration c
the family at the pundits is droller.
, it~eIf Finally, Schsmyl has privat
intervi, w with ChapuZOt; announce
= they are both humhugs; that he
only executing his deceased uncle
! revenge, and he demands tn
:, daughters hand to keep quiet. Their
i, Is still claimant for that hand;
young man has actually made TIN
8 voyage TO the Caucases, the better I
!, win the young lady. When he state
where he has been he is sun
= marty elected from the house as ga
deceiver.
The Government has taken tn
serious step of decreeing tax of 26
= per ton on all imported corn an
i, -four. The consequences are likel,
;, to be unhappy, abroad as well as a