The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1856-1888, 1858-08-26
Foreign Summary.

Foreign SUMMARY.
~ We continue to CLEAN a few items from our
exchanges, but confess they are becoming rather dry.
1t is said there are 100. 600 Norwegians in the
Western States, most of whom are in Wisconsin and
Iowa. At home they are Lutherans, but here they
incline to the Methodist connection.
Since Nav. 1851, the British have annexed to their
possessions in India, LAG, O92 square miles of terri
tory, with ~thirty-six millions of people. The popula-
ton is about equal to all the people OF North Amer
lea.
R.Sx OF NAVAL OFFIcERs-The Secretary Of the
Navy has issued n general order which is designed to
define more accurately the relative rank OF officers OF
the American and foreign navies. The order is to
the effect that in lieu of the broad pennant now worn
by Gag officers in command Of squadrons. they shall
wear a plain blue flag, and that flag officers whose
date of commission as captain is over twenty years
shall wear it at the fore-all others at the mizzen.
A great tubular iron bridge is now being con-
structed at Newcastle, England, and will be COM
pleted in about two years, for the Egyptian Railroad,
which crosses the Nile about midway between Cairo
and Alexandria. The river there is LOO feet wide,
and a steam ferry boat is now employed to do the
business. 1t does not suit the go-ahead spirit of the
Pasha. He was once detained for four hours in cross
ing by an accident to the boat, and he then gave
Robert Stephenson orders to build. this bridge.
All the American Colleges are invited to participate
in a grand regatta, in July. Yale. Harvard, Trinity,
Dartmouth and other New England Colleges are ex-
pected to be represented, and the New York and
Pennsylvania Colleges will also send boats The
North River, Lake Winnipisiogee and the Connecticut
at Springfield, are talked of as localities for the grand
row. 1t will bring together by its direct and indirect
attractions a great crowd of the youth, the beauty,
the wealth and the talent of the land. The students
and the students friends will makea brilliant assem-
blage.
ADVICE TO CoNsUMpr1vE PEopLE-Dr. Hall Of the
Journal Of Health, says to his consumptivc friends
sc You want air, not physic; you want pure air, not
medicated air; you want nutrition. such as plenty of
meat and bread viii give. and they alone; physic has
no nutriment; gaspings for air cannot cure you;
monkey capers in a gymnasium cannot cure you; and
stimulsnts cannot cure you. If you want to get well,
90 in for beef and outdoor air, and do not be deluded
into the grave by advertisements and unreliable GER
tifers."
SOUNDING BoARDs.-In reference to a statement of
the New Hampshire Congregational Journal, that
the only { : sounding board' now over a pulpit in the
Granite State, is imam old meeting-hous in Campton,
near Plymouth, the Boston Transcript says that
there are two g sounding boards remaining in Bos-
ton churches, viz: in the Old South and the Kings
Chapel. Both edi6ces were erected more than a GEN.
fury ago. The Transcript should have said three
there is also one in the church in Brattle Square.
A Paris letter says the extravaganza in female
dress. at the French Court, exceeds anything of the
kind ever known there. An income of $40, 900 a year
scarcely sutfices to dress equal to the requirement of
the Court An American lady, whose husband was
the receptions. She nearly ruined her husband. but
she accomplished her object, and was called the best
dressed woman of the party.
AUsTRALIA.-The census of Victoria, which has Just
been completed, gives as the result, a population of
264 ,334 males and lag. 1882 females, making a total of
4lO, 766 souls. The total population of the gold mines
is estimated at 166, $50, of whom 1876, $50 are males, |
and sc, 400 females. This is eqhal to 81 per cent. of
the entire population of Victoria. The Chinese num-
Der 24,273, all males; 23,623 are on the ~diggings, |
and 600 distributed over other parts of the country.
The aborigines muster on1 1,76S. OF the popula-
ton. 90 per cent. only are lodged. 14O.s 1872 dwelling
In tents and houses of a temporary construction; and
Of the 466 $50 distributed over the gold fields,
l24,o9l are dwelling in tents, three-fourths Of which
consist of a single apartment. The increase of the
general population within the three years of 1856,
1856 and 1857 has been LIS, 96S, or IS per cent.
SwuL-MuK.-They still continue their investiga-
tons, in New York, as to the swill-milk business.
Here is n specimen of the testimony adduced -
Health Warden Louis ]. Kirk said the last COW he
1issected was worse than any COW he ever saw; she
an ulcer on her hip; the lungs were in the worst
state; an ulcer in the right lung sixteen by four
inches; the lungs were grown fast. He had found
under the skin of swill-fed cows. One COW
for the disease-the pus spirited ten feet
a concealed ulcer when the fore leg was cut.
DR.. A.. X. Gardner, a physician, had examined the
subject, and considered swill-milk the great cause of
infant mortality. He knew, from his own knowledge.
hat children have been made severely i'll by bad
milk; saw diseased cows in Sixteenth street: some of
hem had in the TANKS large Assesses which would
three or four quarts of pus; some of them had
diseases of the lungs. He had seen COWS in the Six
eenth street stables so diseased that they were hardly
'ble to stand up; after death you can easily run a
Inife through the large bones, which. in healthy
tate. would be solid" A later date says
SwILI-FED MILK.-Having finished the swil-milk
oIks, the New York city reformers have unearthed .
lew nuisance, which requires immediate abatement,
1z.:-swill-fed pork. large quantities Of which find
way into that city, from the adjacent country.
he doctors say there is a general distemper among
ne porkers just now. and that swill is the cause of it.
ience, nobody now eats pork.
New BREAD The following is from Or. John
Bunting, who has been experimenting with Alexis
t. Martin, the man with a hole in his stomach. made
y a bullet, through which can be seen all the bro
esses or stages through which the different articles
pass in the act of digestion.
:" Hot bread never digests. Bear this in mind
eader, ifyou are accustomed to Ell the light and
'mpting biscuit at tea, or the warm loaf which looks
appointing upon your dinner table. Hot bread
d'gests g all; after . long season Of tumbling
nd working about in the stomach, It will begin to
'rment snd e viii eventually be passed ont Of the
omach ~ nWelcome tenant Of that delicats
Fgan, putt Xigas-never becomes assimilaAed
or aDeoree1Ny the organs that appropriate nutri-
on to the body. It IS 3 first rate dyspepsiA producer. 4
ne above Is truth, e. It has been n6peabeiiy prove
ON sctnal observation through Us Ids 81 Aioja
: Martin ss4z s.;