The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1856-1888, 1857-09-03
Foreign Summary.
ROVER.


There are 1000 men at work in the lead mines of
Southwestern Missouri.
The use of whalebone for hoops has nearly doubled
the price of that article. ~
A n. Y. paper says that hogs in that city are fed
upon dead cats, dogs and rats.
A Worlds Temperance Convention is to be held in
Chicago the present summer.
From 1000 to 1000 frogs are consumed in the
restaurants in Albany every week.
Bennett, of the N. Y. Herald, has purchased d
country seat at Fort Washington, for which he pays
$4,000.
The Russian government has signifed its readiness
to Yet in concert with the British government, in
China, in all matters except its quarrel at Canton.
The offer has been accepted.
Rev. w. A. Scott, Pastor of the Presbyterian
Church in San Francisco, California. receives for his
salary the handsome sum of $12 900 per year-pro-
bablsth largest salary paid to any preacher in the
United States.
EFFECTS OF THE CoMET-The N. Y. Tribune saws,
thesavings banks which receive deposits on Fridays
were almost entirely deserted last week. The Green
witch Savings Banks did not have a depositor. while
heretofore the average on Friday was from thirty to
sixty.
Madame Ida Pfeiffsr, the celebrated traveller, was
at last account at Mauritius, where she was the guest
of a merchant named Lambert, with whom she con-
~templated visiting Madagascar about the beginning
of April. Some two years ago, Mr.. Lambert paid a
visit to Queen Ravantio, in Madagascar, and was
well IcCtlNCu ny uSi AAaICoty.
The. N. Y. Daily .News has received a great curl
osity@a copy of the antique Jewish shekel in pure
silver. ~sn one side it bears the rod of Aaron sur
rounded in Hebrew characters, Jerusalem the holy,
and ON the reverse the censor of incense with the
inscription ss.Shekel of Israel 1t is of pure silver
ana very beautiful.
RELIGION IN FRANcE.-A platform speaker, a
Frenchman, at one of the May anniversaries in Lon
don, makes the following religious division of the
French population 100, O0C Jews, 2,000, 900 Protest
o,+o ~ yrbap, nna tbird ara IrfhoroDo- h cft,or fEA
thirds are Calvanists; the rest of the Inhabitants are
Roman Catholics. Only these four denominations
are recognized by law, or can meet for worship with
out special permission.
ANNIE LAuRIE.-A short time since a laboring man
was drinking and singing at a public house near
Reading, England. The song was sAnnie LAURIE
and when he came to the words "Ill lay me doun
and dee,' he threw his head back The persons pre-
sent thought he did it for effect. After waiting a
short time they endeavored to rouse him, but found
him quite dead.
THE END OF THE u. S. BANK.-Lastw week all the
old books, papers, drafts, checks, letters, etc., that
had been preserved on file as vouchers, IL the long
course of the immense business of the u. s. Bank,
were sold in a heap, in Philadelphia, and purchased
by a paper maker, to be re-ground and manufactured
into new stock. The whole mass weighed over forty
tons.
DoN'T LET THE CHILDREN EAT ORANGE PEEL-
The Oswego Times mentions that q little son of Robert
Oliver in that city is now lying in a very critical con-
dition from the effects of eating orange-peel. He was
taken with violent spasms and vomiting and threw up
the cause of the mischief, but still remains delirious,
and great fears are entertained that he viii not survive,
although all that medical skill can do has been done.
This should be a warning to parents
Messrs. Newall & Co., of Binkerhead, completed
their half of the Atlantic submarine telegraph cable
twelve hundred and fifty miles1on the 9Th of June,
and ON the following day gave a banquet to about
600 of their workmen and families, In celebration of
the event. The process of spinning this portion of
the cable occupied 80 days. The cable was being
transferred to small vessels, to be trapshipped on
board the Niagara as soon as she arrived In the Mer-
sey, which it was expected would be in the course6f
a few days. Experiments with the cable demonstra-
ted in the most satisfactory manncr that telegraphic
communication along the whole length of the wire
was perfect.
The Chinese tea shrub is being cultivated in Brazil
with marked success, and the continuance Of distur-
Dances in China is likely to bring the fact more
prominently into notice. The first plants we're intro
duced in 1910, and. 10 insure its proper treatment,
several hundred Chinese laborers were procured.
Anticipations were not realized, and, SO far as the
government was concerned, the attempt proved q
failure; but several Paulista planters persevered, and
at length the culture Of tea had become 8 Aourishing
and remuneratiye branch of Brazilian agriculture.
A writer in Hunts Magazine suggests a new plan
of extinguishing fires, worthy certainly of a trial. 1t
is simply saturating the water of the fire engine with
common salt and potash, both being very cheap arti-
cles, and both acting together to impregnate the
wood so that the fame cannot spread any further, !.
e., the muriatic acid flies off and the soda remains as
upon a glazed surface. The suggestor of this idea
even goes on to say that many q fire, which is within
reach, might be stopped without an engine, by dis
charging finely powdered clay, lime or chalk through
a tube on the blaze.
SrArN.-A census Of Spain Just completed, shows
that kingdom to have a population Of II, zoo, 900
souls. In the year 1849 the total was IL, 936, 21S. or.
including the colonies, 16, IA, 500. As the popula-
ton of the colonies then was 4 ,208, POI, the aggregate
for the whole Of the Spanish possessions now, with
ont allowing for any increase bevond What IL alrpadv