The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1856-1888, 1856-08-07
HONOLULU. HAWAIIAN ISLANDS, AUGUST 7. 1856


treating of the settled antipathy of foreign Govern
meats towards the United States as now manifested
by the conduct of foreign Representatives in their
intercourse with society and our public men, and
which letter was superinduced by alleged indecent
and insulting language against our Government, and
especially against the Secretary Of State, at dinner
recently given by Count Sartfges. The envelope
nclosing the newspaper in question bore the seal ot
the State Department On Saturday CNlnf 5 ertiges
called on Mr.. Marcy, Indignantly complaining ofthe
insult, and demanding that its suspected author be
punished, intimating that in the event OF future to
do thls he would demand his passports Mr. Marcy,
of course, dsayowed all knowledge or responsibility
concerning the letter. and expressed regret that any
thing had happened to occasion offence. Here was
quandary, but Count Sartges was apparently salts
lied, and the Secretary relieved from his unpleasant
position by the author, who was Government en-
poye but who did not send the letter to Count Sar
tiges, promptly resigning his office.
DIMENSIONS of the AMERICAN LAKEs.-The latest
measurements of our fresh water as follows
The greatest length of Lake Superior is 335 miles
the greatest breadth is 100 miles; mean depth 900
feet elevation 627 feet area $4,000 square miles.
The greatest length of Lake Michigan is 36O miles
its greatest breadth 10S miles mean depth 900
feet elevation 6S7 feet %, 900 square miles
The greatest length of Lake Huron is 200 miles:
its greatest breadth is 160 miles depth 800
feet elevation 574 feet 10000 square miles
The greatest length of Lake Erie is $50 miles its
greatest breadth is so miles its mean depth 200
feet elevation 555 feet area 5000 square miles
The greatest length of Lake Ontario is $50 miles
its greatest breadth is 65 miles it mean depth is
500 feet elevation 262 feet 6DO0 square miles.
The total length of all five is 1884 miles, covering
an altogether of upwards of90,000 square miles.
A BATTLE FIELD FOR S1LE-The battle field of
Marengo, with its palatial monuments, its rich mu-
Of precious Objects and its richer historic
venrs, is offered at public auction in the streets
of Paris
The domain of Marengo is situated near Alexandria
in Piedmont on the line of the railroad between Genoa
and Turin, and contains about two hundred and fifty
acres oaground, vines, woods and fields, watered by
the Serya. The monumental palace destined to per-
petuate the memory ofhe glorious battle of Marengo,
gained in 1900 by Napoleon, was built by the Che
Waller Delayo in 1915, and is large and handsome
palace 1t contains furniture, objects of art, paint
museum composed of objects which belonged to Ma
poeon and Desax and found on the field of bat
tie. This museum is collected in the old tavern which
stood on the ground before the battle, ana around
which the palace is built
For the information of foreigners ambitious for an
Italian residence and for Bonapartist souvenirs,
should add that the upset price of the whole property
is 600,0O0 francs and that there IS good mill prlFe-
lege the preTniSes.-C0r. NJ 7. Times.
TIE OR1ENTALs IN PARIs-An unpublished Ab-del-
Kader-ism has just come to light You already know
the great Emirs talent in the utterance of singular
hyperboles, and must have noticed the quiet air OF
skepticsm and raery that run through all his gold
en-tnged expressions.
The last anecdote of the great Arab Chief is the
following One day he visited the national library OF
this city He was there introduced Professor of
Arabic who commenced talking to him tie Arabic OF
the French Institute, which very much resem5led Cn
pcrfecton) the French of the American boarding.
schools After listening minutes, with a great
deal of Saag ffoid, the Emr ordered his interpreter
to say the learned Professor that he did not under
stand French
good anecdote is also told of Ali Pacha, the Sui
tan Grand Vizier, now in Paris few evenings ago
lady, to whom this gentleman was introduced at q
Soiree, hazarded the nGire question
&c Is the Sultan married?''
{. great deal Madam y was the Turks reply. -
hid.
There is o. room in the Smithsonian Institute build :
ing at Washington, where marbles are scientifically
tested. Specimens from all parts Of the world may
be seen there, cut into squares and cubes 10 prove
their strength they are tested in crushing machine
also by acids water drying, etc. The scales TO weigh
the crystals in so delicate that ten Thousand of
its smallest weights required to make ounce.
The index tablet also curious instrument for telling
the weight is SO fine that its movement has to be ex-
anined by magnlfyIng glass
TIE CAPITAL OF EeYPT-The city of Cairo, the
capital of Egypt and of the richest cities Of the
East contains 400 mosques 40 schools, II azaret-
to, 800 public csterns, 40 squares 24O streets from
500 to 600 alleys, many passages, 1865 houses of
refreshments hospital, 50 baths, and from % 900 to
$4,000 donkeys, which are let out for hire These
animals the only means of conveyance which it is
possible to make OF in going from part OF the
4 city to another, or In paying visits,
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of seventy square miles, situated about two hundred
and fifty miles easterly from San Francisco Palmer,
Cook & Co., the California bankers, own one undi-
vided half of the track and the Colonel the other
which many persons believe makes him the richest
man in the world He bought this immense gold re-
gion in 1916 for $4,000, and was laughed for the
reckessness ofhis investment 1t has already yielded
some thirty five millions of dollars and its resources
both mineral and agricultural, are said to be mex
haustble.
1t is said that the Gar has proted by the bitter
lesson which the last two years have taught him: that
he has seen the madness of seeking territorial con-
quest by force of in violation of justice and
right that he has determined to abandon the hered-
ry policy of his ancestors and for the future di
rect the mighty power which he possesses for pacific
purposes for the development of the great riches
his Empire, for the promotion of commerce, manufc
lures and agriculture, for the improvement of the
social and moral condition of his people, for the con
stucton of railways connecting the most distant por-
tions of his iominions, and for the advancement
civilization In general.