The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1856-1888, 1857-04-09
THE PACIFIC
Commercial Advertiser,
FOREIGN NEWS.


is dF1fted ten feet deep.
Some says the London Times is valued at three
million seven hundred and forty thousand dollars
Its chlet editor has salary of twenty-five thousand
dollars year. and its Paris correspondent ten thou
sand dollars.
The Toronto COlohist has heard that a company of
men from the United States intend to start a daily
newspaper in London to advocate United States prin-
ciples.
sver-hilted sword-bearing on each side the
figures of thistle, lion rampant and the date 15O0-
and a steel helmet have been dug up at Flodden.
Mrs. Partington is enjoying trip to Niagara and
the regions hereabOut for the benefit of her health
and pocket. The old lady never far from home
before.
Mr.. Strother, of Martinsburg, Virginia is said to
be the Sc Port Crayon of Harper'S Magazine, whose
inimitabe sketches have been universally admired.
The Toledo (Ohio) Times says they are sinking
well in that city which will be twenty-five hundred
feet deep This will be the deepest well in the world.
When Col Benton lectured at Bath, Maine, three
gentlemen from Rockland travelled fifty miles by a
wagon to and hear him. The Colonel said it was
the highest compliment he received
Keene, New Hampshire, is competing for the cold
weather premium; the thermometer there stood at
twelve degrees below zero on the 10Th of January.
The inventor of the crnone petticoat boasts that he
has realized, so far, two hundred and fifty thousand
francs by the patent.
Bremen journal contains the following advertise
ment -" young gentleman on the point of getting
married is desirous of meeting of experience
who will dissuade him from the STEP
Children are sometimes born, as it were, at the
beginning of life's second volume. The Alexandria
Gazette mentions colored child that talk quite
plainly thought only three months old 1t was born
with two teeth and has six perfect teeth already.
The heroic Sir Charles Napier wrote very beauti-
fully and touchingy t0 lady, the of his great
victory at Meanee &c If survive, shall be
with those love; if fall, 7 shall be with those
have loved.''
The tendency of the Parisans to political change
was not i'll described by the FYenchman when speak
ing of them during the year of tumult, 1913, he sad
They do not know what they want, and they will
not stop till they have got it =!
An artist has been engaged to take representation
of Queen Victorias visit to the Arctic ship Resole,
and engraving thereof will shortly be published.
The Klamath county California; jail consists of a.
ive-oak tree with staple and chain attached. 1t is
we'll ventilated, and affords good opportunity for
the study of astronomy and the barometer especially
when blankets
The Hartford Erening Press says: ''A sgn-board
In certain locality of the city has this monumental
inscription &c WHIsKERs DIED HERE The cause
of the untimey end of the being referred to is not
known. The hairs to the estate, it is thought, cannot
be very numerous
Mississippi St. Louis, is said, will be the most
costly one in the world. 1t will cost about two mill
ion dollars will be eighty-four feet above high water,
and over O. mile in length The bottom of the towers
will be eighty feet below low water.
CONSEQUENCES DECLINED.-The Emperor of Chi
na has refused to receive communication from
President Pierce, forwarded by Dr. Parker, who Is at
Foo-chow-foo. A letter from the Queen Of England,
forwarded some time SINCE met with similar fate.
SCREW Us. PADDLE.-The screw steamer City Of
Washington from Philadelphia arrived at Liverpool
the 10Th ult, making the passage IN ten days ana
n half Her first trip to Philadelphia was the short
est record between the two ports She has beaten
all her competitors both ways.
The grandfather Of William H. Prescott, the histo
rian commanded the American forces at Bunker Hill,
while the grandfather his wife commanded British
ship-of-war which bombarded the American works
in the same action The historian has the sword Of
each, Mt his residence in Boston
Lieutenant Derby, ('' John PheniX,'' 'SquibOb,''
etc. has, within the past week, been of the lions
If Washington. In personal appearance he is quiet
end unpretending, and, like Hood, Lamb, Thackeray,
and other humorists, gives no outward manifestation
of his peculiar mental qualities, with the eXceptIons
perhaps, of a rather wicked eye.
Theatres in New Orleans are taxed by the State,
two hundred dollGrs by the city, three hundred and
fifteen dollars; and for the Charity Hospital five
hundred dollars total, thousand and fifteen dol
lars per A petition is about to be presented
to the Legislature to reduce the amount.
Niagara, it appears, is to be set to work The
proposition is, to construct an immense Waterwheel
at the Falls large and strong enough to the en-
tire power From this with proper grading, to lay
down permanent shaft through the State of New
York terminating at Albany. Those in want of
power could then '6elt' I'D Iibitum
Farms it appears, sometimes ego to sea- Saws
a paragraph :-ss On Long Island, while the western
shore is increasing by deposit and drift, the
extremity yielding 10 waves Ile
deeds of which are recorded in the county clerks Of
ee several miles from the present shore, deep
buried in the Atlantic Ocean.
Coal Us. GoLD.-It appears that the coal extracted
from the mines of Pennsylvania the last year has
been equal to the of forty millions of dollars,
which is well up to the yield of the gold mines of
California; and yet while we have heard little or
nothing of Pennsylvania COAL all the world has been
running crazy after California gold. Shrewd peo
pie, those Pennsylvania Dutch
DEPARTURE MIssIoNARIEs.-On New-Years Day
the bark Henry Hill, Captain Charles Watson, left
Boston for Smyrna. She carried out the following
missionaries The Rev. Messrs. J. H. White and
wife, L W. winchester and wife, J. G. Coping and
wife, q. +. Morse and wife, c.. H. Wheeler and wife
J. H. Pettngil, and Miss c. NJ. Dodd.
The head clerk Of large mercantile bouse was
Dragging rather largely of the amount of business
done by his 't firm. 6 You may judge ofits extent''
said he, when tell you that the quilts for our cor
respondence only, cost two thousand dollars year
"Poohr' said the clerk of another house who was
sitting by; what is that to correspondence,
When save four thousand dollars year in ink, from
merely emitting to dot the i's.''