The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1904-06-12
MAKING FACES


80 &C. 90 o 90 . 60 . 90
, clock set it to strike every hour, and
went to sleep between times in BUNK
he arranged in the sentry box. Then
a bright thought struck him. He
connected the clock with wire lead
, ing to the bell below, and thereafter
, instead of disturbing a gentleman
sIurnbers the clock did the work, and
; for the next six months my friend per
formed no other labor than to draw his
salary and sleep in the sentry box. /
believe that his conscience finally snote
him and he resigned, or else the SD
perintendent detected the machinery
and removed him. Anyhow he is not
there now. But I digress.
I do not understand the French sys-
tenn of taxation, q don't know why 1
should be expected TOP but one feature
of it seems to consist of internal GUS
toms duties or "octrOi," which must be
vexatious. Each petty municipality has a
species of custom house of its own. For
instance; in going to drive in the Bots
de Boulogne-the Central Park of Paris
you pass out of one gate and into an
other The intermediate space "a few
hundred yards in extent) belongs to a
distinct municipality. It's officers are
stationed at the first gate to see that
| your vehicle contains no merchandise
| of any kind, and the Paris officials per-
| form the same duty at the gate Of the
| Bots de Boulogne. Should you design
| lunching in the Bots, and take your
own claret, you would, before you could
| carry the bottle containing it past the
gate at Porte MailIot, be obliged to pay
| thirty confines (six cents) to the officer
| in charge there, and similar sum to
| the brass mounted minion at the Bots
| gate-unless you should stop this side
of the line and, drawing the cork, place
the contents of the bottle where no
human eye could ever see them.
Cheap Europe is a delusion and a
snare. Rent, fuel, lights and food are
a little dearer in Paris than in New
York. For single room at the Grand
Hotel or any first-class house in Paris,
you will pay including lights and at
tendance, eight to ten francs per day;
your meals without wine will cost
twelve francs more; in all about four
dollars and quarter for accommoda-
tions not equal to those which can be
obtained in New York for the same
money. Private boarding houses are
in the same proportion, and you can
not at any of the cheap restaurants Of
farlS OBTAIN LOT TOUR francs as SOOQ
a dinner or as 'F'renchy'' a dinner as
may be had for half a dollar in San
Francisco.
Wearing apparel for both sexes, and
silks, velvets, lace goods, gloves and
embroidery are somewhat cheaper than
at home, but unless you are a judge
of these articles, and familiar with
the local currency, you may pay near
ly as much for your purchases as on
Broadway, although you will, perhaps,
be less liable to be deceived in the
quality of the goods.
We have disregarded the - COM
mandment. CWill the scriptural read
er be SO good as to look up his Bible,
if he has one, if not, I commend him
to the efforts of the agents of the
American Bible Society,-and fill in
the foregoing blank). I am writing
this in Paris where J. cannot find an
English Bible, nor any Frenchman
who knows one commandment from
another. We have been to Versailles
and through the Bots de Boulogne on
the Sabbath. Our excuse is that Sun
day is the only day on which the grand
fountain at Versailles plays, and that
somehow it does not seem to hurt Sun
day so bad to be broken at Paris as
at home.
AS for describing Versailles with any
particularly of detail, it is out of
the question. We We're in a crowd all
the time. In company with a hundred
thousand Frenchmen and women we
traversed long galleries blazing with
'old time gliding, paint and splendor,''
| canopied with gorgeous allegorical de-
vices, and lined with speaking statues
and magnificent historical paintings
There is a basso relieve in marble rep
resenting Louis XIV trampling the
Rhine under his feet q looked in vain
for any device representing Emperor
William returning the COMPLIMENT.
/ There is a large painting representing
the baptism of Clovis and his entire
army at Rheims after the battle of
Tolbiac in the year A. D. 496-but how
each soldier was actually sprinkled is
not delineated, possibly by means of
. a hose and engine. There are marble
effigies of all the Bourbons, there are
paintings of all the great battles of
France, there are illustrations on can
vas of the military history of Kingdom.
Republic, and Empire NAPOLEON
First, in various attitudes, at various
combats, occupies about one-fifth of
the area devoted to paintings. Louis
PHILIPPE in various attitudes on vari-
Gus public occasions, consumes perhaps
another fifth, and the rest of the space
is given to the warriors and kings who
have guided the armies and destinies
of Gaul for fifteen centuries
We moved with the crowd out Of
the museum into the grounds Statues
and fountains, lawns and gardens,
forests and terraces are So twisted and
distributed about a few hundred acres
OF ground as to make the area appear
many times greater than 1t is. You
pass down a broad flight of marble
steps through an old wooden gate IN
to dense tangled forest, with only
narrow grass-grown path through a
briery underground. Again you emerge
into gorgeous orangery. Yet again
you enter a quiet gravel walk, arched
with trees of feathery foliage, filed
with singing birds. lined with parterres