The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1856-1888, 1857-01-08
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days out. We CLEAN from our latest Amer;c.:
papers a few items of INTEREST,"
The mirrors in the st. Nicholas Hotel cost $40 ON.
the whole building, furnished and in operation ruu'
resents an invested capital of one million nine bvPp
dred thousand dollars!
The Christian Rerieac says that there are in NJ
York city two hundred and ninety booksellers. ~"
hundred and twenty-nine printing offices, and sivt"
three bookbinderies. We suspect that is below y.
mark considerably.
Two well-known, but long lost, portraits have ~.
turned up in England-that of Milton, by FairbSns
and that of Dryden, by Kneller-both are in n,
collection of a country gentleman in Hertfordsbirn
England.
Mr.. Bates, the late town clerk of Belfast, has da,
of a broken heart, it is stated, in consequence of tha
law proceedings carried on against the BANKRUPT cor
poration of that town.
The Albany Times states that n pistol has been !,
vented in that city which will fire ninety times q
minute, carry a ball forty yards further than anv
pistol now in use, and that it is also much lighter
and in every respect superior to Colts celebrated
pistol.
Mrs. Stoves last novel, Dred, has been put into
shape for exhibition on the stage, and is produces
nightly at one of the New York theaters.
The amount expended in the indoor and outdoor
relief of paupers in England, in the half year end.
ing Lady day, 1856, was 5000 0 900.
1t is estimated that the mission of Earl Granville
to Moscow, as the Extraordinary Ambassador of Eng
land at the coronation of the Gar, will cost the
country from e25,000 to $50 900.
A letter from ST. Petersburg states that Philarete.
the metropolitan of Moscow, who crowned the En-
peror, has received from his Majesty a magnificent
crosier covered with precious stones.
The library of the British Museum contains four
hundred and fifty thousand volumes, placed on
shelves which occupy fifteen miles of space!
The loss Of life from snake-bites in Sinde, East
Indies, has become so serious, that government has
taken measures for tho destruction of those reOf'ec
Silver coin has of late become so very scarce in
Belgium, that the mint at Brussels has been, for
some time past, actively employed in coming gold, in
order to meet the wants of circulation. Gold, it
may be remembered, was, a few years since, with
drawn from circulation III Belgium, silver alone Con-
shutting the currency.
The Raiah of Putteala, whose territorial posses
sions are likely to be ssannexed" by the East India
Company, has a literary Sikh in his pay, who is now
translating into Odoo I" Brande's Dictionary of the
Arts and Sciences one of the heaviest books, in size
and matter, in the English language.
Ten German editors, issuing 10000 papers weekly.
met in Cincinnati, and resolved to act with the Re-
publicans against the extension of slavery.
BANKING IN AUsTRALIA.-There are eight char
tered banks in Australia, having an aggregate capt.
tai of $25 ,O00, 900. Their profits have been enOr-
nous, some of them having paid dividends as high
as thirty per cent. last year, and most of them as
high as twenty per cent.
DIR. J. L. L. Bledehu, of New Orleans, has sue
cecded in training the larger species of mosquitos,
known in New Orleans as GO gallinippers,' to per-
form all the objects hitherto only accomplished by
the leech or the cupper. A dozen of these insects are
equal to six leeches, and placed on the desired spot
will at once commence to suck blood in the same way,
and with far less trouble than the older institution.
Mr.. Champion, the ex-Minister to the United
States, has been gazetted as Knight Commando Of
the Bath, and is now Sir John Champion. The honor
is said to have been conferred to mark distinctly the
British Governments disbelief IN the aspersIofs al
tempted to be cast on his personal honor.
Mr.. 7. w. Whitney, the artist, during his voyage
to and from Liverpool, has completed an ingenious
apparatus, by which the principal sails of a vessel
entirely dispensed with. By an application of a
single valve to each sail, in such a manner aSO
work the sails on deck, the vessel is enabled to carry
sail to the last moment in a high wind. The model
is now under examination at one of our principal
shipping houses.
Lieutenant Walton, Of the British navy, has pre-
pared a mixture of saw-dust and caoutchouc, under
the name of kam-pluticon, as a lining for the interior
of war vessels. The inventor claims that, from its
! elasticity, it will Immediately collapse when penetra-
ted by a ball, and thus prevent the entrance of wa
ter. 1t also deadens concussOn, and by its buoyancy
will keep a vessel af1oat though it should be riddlei
with shot.
Professor Morse has succeeded in telegraphing over
the united wires of the magnetic telegraph OF the
English and Irish Company, a distance of two thou
sand miles, at the rate of two hundred and ten sig
nails per minute, thus proving the practicability oil
an Atlantic communication.
Mr.. Thackeray is at present on the Continent, fast
recovering health, which was not good since his re-
turn from America, last Spring. 1t is stated that
the first monthly number of a new work may be eI
pected from him on the 1st of Decembe
Professors Moor and Francis, of Iowa, have started
for South America, intending to spend eighteen
months in scientific explorations among the Andes
especially the volcanic mountains.
The profits of the Tribune for the last six months
were 100000, and the preprietors donated S1,eWn
the Kansas Aid Committees and another thousandtot s
Fremont Vigilance Committee. About half Of this
sum of profits was devoted to a payment on the puf-
chase Of the buildings occupied by the Iribua, f
which have recently been bought by Greedy s. CO'
for $3.50, 900.
The Life Of Washington will, it is said, yeH
Irving a hundred thousand dollarsi
Madame Lind Goldsmith has realized no less thar
G45, 900 by her %sojourn in England. Having amp!
provided for her family, she intends to settle q
Dresden, and to abstain from singing in public unRS
for exclusive charitable purposes, or unless her hs
band, who has the ambition to compose an Opea
should succeed in his opera.
A st. Louis paper says that the grasshoppers b"
eaten up the entire tobacco crop of Franklin count, s
and the last that was heard from them, they Tr
seated on the corners of the fence, begging ever
man that passed by for a chew.
The Royal Mail Steam Packet Company have nar
known by circular a proposal to at once ~establsg,,
communication between England and AusrnS11
ria Panama. The capital required is e4OoNJ
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