The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1856-1888, 1858-08-19

tinued in that state until 1856, when i.
his brothers, sisters. nephews and p;e.s =
claim to his property, he having left M
wife /; but the sou of Merle aud MADAM "
had gone by the name OF Ieplanquos- ~
whole as FARMS son and heir. On this ~
brought an action before the civil tribp,s,
to have LepIanquois declared an adplsss
and they contended that the preceding ~
could not be disputed, demonstrated cl.sS
was 50. ~Leplanquois, on his part, resnc,.
counteracfion to have his Legitimacy A..
the register of his birth amended. IT, !
after hearing counsel for both parties. mi
was an invariable principle Of law, that .
always to be presumed to be the father a y
dren of his wife : that the registration
fathers name, Of a child borne by a wife A.
away with the presumption of paternity ~
that though Farm knew so far back as 1875
wife had given birth to a child, he had nn
due time the measures prescribed by the "a
leon for having bis paternity disayowNI
course of conduct was another presumptis
was the father. The tribunal accordin pl, |
the action of FARMS relatives, declared tia.
ouois must be considered Farms son. or
registry of his birth to be altered to that ~
declared that he was entitled 10 all that i
property. An appeal having been present.
Imperial Court Of Rouen by Farms ~relatiysI
argued at great length, but the Judgment N
bunal was confirmed--Galignani's .HesssnsA
CoLE's Rio FOR REDUCING AND FuRupl
FROM DEcK.-Capt. j. f. Cole, Of this port. n
lished a pamphlet containing n full d~escripd1
new rig which he has invented, and s~uccessh]
in practice On the bark Sarfelie, and which Y
commended to the favorable consideration 4
owners and ship-builders by a COMMITTEE
Board of Underwriters. The Distinguishing \
claimed for this rig are:
LIST. BY it square sails can be set, reduced
ed, when in any position from deck, with .
ease, and certainty.
I'd. Its strength, durability, and reliah1
greater than the present method.
Sd. The weight aloft win be much less.
4th. The ship will sail faster, and NAL,
speedy voyages.
9Th. The loss Of life and great suffering inc
the present method of handling canvass will
much lessened, if not entirely obviated.
9th. Its first cost will be materially less 1
its nature win wear a longer time.
Captain Cole applied this rig TO the topsl
SarfeIle under his command in Cardiff, Id
and found that it worked well in the \
weather. He says:
All / had for o power was simply n six-ine.
wheel with a crank handle on each side (Hs
topsail hJyards to hoist as usually ; with this
topsail shaking, one man could easily reef 4
with the topsail full, blowing heavy. four vi
required to do il quickly. There is no hos
yard at all 10 do with reefing, the sail being i
ed at the foot. This requires far less power
tighten IL by hosting the yard. There be
blocks or gear about the yard, and the sail
the roller freely il was far easier to hoist tia
the old rig. With it ! contl reef my sail in an
ton at "a moment notice-all that was requi,
simply to slack the halyards as fast as the sail
in this way it would roll perfectly smooth.
the sail was unbent, after arriving here, 1
near the leeches was not marked by chafe, a
leeche rope was as fresh as the day the sail "
-S. Y. Commercial -4drertiser.
THE RABBIT TRADE IN BELGIra.-It is ala
credible to what a degree of Importance this
OF trade has attained in Flanders within the Is
seven years. There are fifty thousand skim
casses of these animals exported weekly to &
where they find a ready market as articles 4
while ii is difficult to sell them in Flanders a
ty-fve cents apiece, The preparation and colr
the skins gives employment, in Client alone,
than two thousand workIRen, and since the b
sprung up a few years ago, the export Of thes
to America, France and Russia has become vs
siderable.
II is not yet thirty-eight years since GeC1
phenson drove the first engine over the first I
railway opened as a public highway, yet the .
of passengers now conveyed by railway in
Britain and Ireland is about 134, coo, 600 per,
The rate of increase in the passenger traffic of
lective lines is marvellous. In 1851 thers
81 GOO. 900 in 1882, 5000. 900; in 1853. Il.
900 ; in 1854, ia, 600, 900; in 1855, 1ls.Gs
and in 1856, 129. O0o, 900 of passengers carr
railway.
A new process Of extracting teeth was n
tried 10 Baltimore A number of teeth were e,
ed. and the patients declare they received nc
but experienced a numbing sensation about th4
The soothing is produced by passing q current
tricity through the tooth at the time of exui
The patient grasps firmly in his hand one pclea
electro magnetic machine. and the o~therpole id
ell to the forceps. and by this means a current
tricity is passed through the tooth, and prod
LEGAL anesthesis, and avoids the use of chloNi
ether.
Can't something of the sort be INTRODUCED
neighborhood: Our teeth come out awfully l
ABoUr NEBucHADSEzzAR-Col. Rawlinsl
great English explorer Of the ruins Of BabylOn,l
pairing a new work on his discoveries. II is sad(
claims TO have found N~ebuchadnezzar's hunting
with notes, and here and there a portrait Of n
sketchei by himself, with his name underit 1
hadnezzar mentions in il having been i'll, and
he was delirious he thought he had been cut 81
like the beasts of the field. This is held to bel 4
derful corroboraton ofscripture. Rawlinson as |
q pot of preserves, in an excellent state, and ga !
to Queen Victoria to taste. How LITTLE Nebucb{
Ear cook dreaInt, when making them, that tEe
centuries after, the Queen of England woulde
of the identical preserves that figured at her n
table
The London Times observes 60 istrust M
reign in Paris, but nowhere will they besr|
than in the Imperial breast All history tcSch3
those who govern by such means suffer mor|
they iniiict. Why should Napoleon Ill, al
his exploits and his glory, prepare for himsefi
age of Tiberius = Already mca of every clsss 4
easy, and the roll Of political offences resssmb
of ensiayed Rome. If q man is popular, be
gerous to the Prince-ifhe is rich, he is likely
powerful cnemy-if he ispoor, poverty may n
on to erime-if he is lively. be must be eT1
some solutions intelligence-if he is melancholy
grieying at the supremacy Of the established |
NJ Soyer, the distinguished French Geek, n
upon his art in London His IDEA
the perfection Of cooking consists in making h
simplest materials a sayory aud nutritious lea
for this purpose he relies chiefly on the pressr
tue natural fayors of the substances cooked,
are esapoiatei or neutralized by nine-tenths ~
Of the cooks in the world. NJ. Soyer exhibited !
nfa Kitchen devised by him and Miss Nightinga.
roasting. baking, hroii;ng. brazng, u
stewing and boiling, can be easily accomplish
from I,oov down to 80 men. After partaking d |
excellent soup, impromptu emclets, builli. and
prdd@ets OF heterogeneous culinary contrisance
Soycr, the company departed with the c~onTietRI
!. boiled beef would not long lie the sole ration
soldier.
COL BESTos's OPINION or THE AuTnoHss