The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1856-1888, 1856-11-13
TIE PACIFIC
Commercial advertiser.
FOREIGN

Ascot races have been very gay this year. The
Queen was present.
The total cost of the Russian war to Great Britain
is now said to be twenty thousand lives and eighty
million pounds sterling.
Mr. Marion. who assembled il d balloon from Pcugh-
keeDsie, New York. travelled 10 miles IN an hour and
q quarter.
A statue of Christ cut out of a block of ivory, the
work of the 18th century, has lately been found III
Andalusia, Spain.
The death of Lord Shrewsbury makes the Earl OF
Derby the premier Earl Of England, ard the h@T& oI
Cork the premier Earl Of Ireland.
The rumor is revived of 8 Congress on the affairs
of Italy, TO which the principal Italian States will be
invited.
A fght between a blacl, snake and q weasel ut
Rochester, n. Y. terminated in the triumph Of the
weasel, which caught the snake o. the throat ana
killed it.
a MoysrEn.-The mammoth steamer now building
on the Thames, England, will require seven thousand
tens Of iron in her construction.
Observation-Disclosures II. is about to cover his
immense empire with q perfect network OF rail-
roads.
The Russians have made q demand upon the French
for 400, 900 francs, for damage done to the Russian
Embassy at Constantinople, 1t having been converted
into a French hospital during the war.
1t is said that Mr.. Macaulay is about to travel to
Venice, and on his return will proceed vigorously
with his history.
4 decree in the -Noaiteur authorizes Marshal
Pelissier to accept and wear the Grand cross OF the
Spanish order Of St. Ferdinand, the Grand cross OF
the Sandman order of the Saviour, and the turkish
order OF the Medjidie first class and Count de Morny.
President of the Legislative body, the Grand Cross OF
the Spanish order of Charles Ill, and the IurKlsh
order CT the Medjidie first class.
The Russian commercial community have volun-
teered to illuminate the Moscow Railway 4oO miles
from end to end, for the Emperor's journey to ana
fro and the quantity OF fireworks IN preparation IL
stated to be almost incredible.
TI, E,ocr Crr. ~ Do At IN THE CTNITED KINGDOM-
The first Steamboat that was made IN this Kingdom
was constructed by Miller, of Dalswinton. at the
Carron Works, within q mile Of Carron, in Stirling
Shire, somewhere about the year l79o-9o' 1t was
the property Of Symonson.
A bear belonging to a circus company escaped from
his cage at Saratoga, and showed fight when the
keeper thrust an iron bar down his throat-ending
the contest, and it is thought the life OF the pear
also.
Under the very appropriate caption !" Loves Labor
Lost" New York paper mentions that a serenadins
! party, the other night, after having played before o
house nearly an hour. were politely informed ny q
Waterman that g Nobody lived there J?
A Philadelphia painter has introduced a new style
Of sign painting which is novel and beautiful. Inc
lettering and figures are done with pearl upon glass,
and they are as richly 'ornamented as the fancy OF the
operator and the combination Of colors can make
them.
ONO WINE CRop.-The vintage is 800, 200 gallons.
The quantity bottled by N. L~ongworth, OF Cincinnati,
this season, is $50 900 bottles, and with that added TO
his former stock, he has now IN cellar full ooo,Uoo
bottles, mostly quarts, of which 2o,oOo are OF Asa-
bella.
AN EXPENSIVE MAcHINE.-The silver-plated fire.
engine. for the city of San Francisco. CAL, is now Oh
exhibition at Zimmerman & Co.'s Works, hoxbury.
costing $4,000 the silver is worth S3ooo, and the
other works cost SoO0O.
Herr Ahorn, the sculptor who executed the cele-
brated Ion, modelled by Thorwaldsen, and carved out
of the solid rock, at Lucerne, died lately at Con-
stance.
The London Gazette contains an official notice. de-
claring DR.. Rae and his companions entitled to the
reward of 10000 offered to those who should brss
ascertain the fate of Sir John Franklin.
William Vincent Wallace. the composer, he's become
entirely blind through intense application, and has
been impelled to abandon his profession and place
himself under the hands OF the first optical surgeon In
London.
quantity Of arms, coins. vases, ETC., have been
discovered on the island Of Gothland, in the Baltic
Sea. They are believed to have belonged to O noted
pirate named Slrka, who died at the beginning OF
the eleventh century.
The American Institute Fair will be held this year
in the Crystal Palace, New York, commencing Sept.
20, and be continued until Nov. /. The Institute
pay $4,000 for the use of the building. 1t is admlra-
bly, adapted to the purpose-its vast dimensions
enabling every thing to be displayed to the greatest
advantage.
The life Of the Bedouin Arab, his appearance and
habits, are precisely the same as those of the patri
archs Of old. Abraham himself, the first Of the patri-
SRCnS,N WIS Il DeupuIiAs dJti y livuoauu SNdiS ~
not made the slightest alteration in the character or
habits of this extraordinary people. Read of the
patriarchs in the Bible, and it is the best description
you can have of pastoral life in the East at the present
day.
The quantity Of milk consumed in Great Britain liz
about eighty million of quarts annually, which
amounts to one million six hundred thousand pounds
sterling.
WHI1TINoToN AND HIS Gait is not, perhaps,
generally known that the story of Whittington's Cat
is borrowed from the East. Sir Ouseley, iii his tray-
els, speaking of the origin Of the name Of an island
in the Persian Gulf, relates, On the authority of q
Persian MS, that, in the tenth century, one Keis,
the son Of a poor widow In Siraf, embarked fer India
with his sole property, cat. There he fortunately
arrived at a time when the palace was so infested by
mice Or rats that they invaded the Kings food, and
persons were employed to drive them from the Royal
banquet Keis produced his cat, the noxious ami
mails SON disappeared, and magnificent rewards were
bestowed on tlc adYenturer Of Siraf, who returned to
that city. and afterwards, with his mother and
brother, settled in the island, which, from him, has
been dcnominatei Keis, or, according 10 the Persians.
Keish.
TIE LATE SESSION OF CosGREss-In q review of
the last session Of Congress the yNa1c York Herald
r saws Sc The long session of this Congress, which
commenced on the first Monday in December, and
which is to close on the 28th of August, will be a
memorable one in the history Of the Government
memorable for its extraordinary, loose, and conflict
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