The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1856-1888, 1859-12-15
Foreign Summary.

At the last dates from Japan n telegraph was built
between the cities of Jeddo, Nagasaki, Simoda, and
Hakodadi, and between Jeddo and the summer resi-
dence CT the Emperor.
The proprietors of the Great Eastern realized over
$50, 900 from admission fees during the time the ship
was open to visitors.
DR.. Abernethy used to tell his pupils that all hui
man diseases sprung from two causes-stufing and
fretting.
ANOTHER FEMALE AUTHoR.-It is now known that
Miss Evans, a contributor to the Westminster Re-
view, is the author of adam Bede,'' the last sue
cessful English novel.
AN ARMY OF THE Observation-Disclosures govern
ments states its total loss in the late war, in killed,
wounded and prisoners, at 1l64 officers, aud AZ, 500
men.
Blondin's latest feat is standingson his head at
night on a rope over the chasm of Niagara. The in
verted position would seem to be natural to him as all
his powers lie in his heels.
The following slanderous paragraph goes un-re-
buked. A wag has invented a new telegraph. He
proposes to place a line of women fifty steps apart,
and commit the news to the first of them as a secret.
A novelty in ladies' apparel is a new article of
suspenders. They resemble those worn by gentlemen,
except that they are made of delicate, white elastic
fabric. with frilled edge, about one inch wide, and
are attached to the skirt by buttons in like manner.
MIR. Benjamin Lindsey, editor of the New York
.Mercury-in consequence of his horse taking fright
and. the carriage coming in contact with another
vehicle-was thrown violently into the street, not
long since, and sustained a severe cut on the head,
broke one of his hip bones, and was otherwise, in
jured. Several weeks will ensue before he will be
able to resume his professional duties. Latest advices
report MIR. Lindsey as nearly recovered.
An implement for threading needles has been in
vented. 1t is made with two blades, which hold the
needle with its eye opposite a little funnel-shaped
opening, into which it is perfectly easy for a person
of weak sight to pass the thread; and the thread in
evitably passes through the eye.
1t is authoritatively stated that the amount of
money RENTED home by lrishmen, residing in Ameri-
ca, the last year, for the purpose of assisting their
friends to immigrate, was $1,000 900. The ten pre-
ceding years the amount RENTED was S4S, csc, 900.
Terry's breech- loading rife has been successfully
tested near Liverpool. From one rifle 1880 shots
were fired without the piece fouling, and several times
nine shots per minute were fired by Mr.. Terry him.
self.
London is at length to be thoroughly drained. The
drainage works will be colossal and enduring. They
will take five years to. execute, and cost four millions
sterling, or nearly e. per head of the whole popula-
ton.
AS was his custom in delivering the washington
Oration.' Mr.. Everett spoke the whole of his late
Eulogy on Webster without any notes whatsoever.
1t is a most wonderful exhibition of the power of the
memory land one rarely, if ever, met with in con-
junction with such great mental powers as distin-
cuisines MIR. Everett.
The Empress Eugene has just presented to the
statue of the Virgin on the alter of Notre Dame de
la Garde, at Marseiles, the dress worn by her on her
first appearance at church after the birth Of the
Prince Imperial. The embroidery alone cost %, OOOf.
What a fortunate Virgin; how happy the statue must
be
Practical experience has demonstrated that the
largest piece of ordinance which can be cast sound
and free from flaws, is a mortar thirteen inches in
diameter. This would weigh about FIVE tons. AT the
siege OF Antwerp, the French used a mortar with a
bore twenty inches in diameter, but it burst ON the
ninth time of firing.
Human hair varies from the 250th to 60Oth part of
an inch in thickness. The fibre of the coarsest wool
is about the 5O0th part of an inch in diameter.
Silkworm's silk is about the 50O0th part of an inch
thick; but the spiders line is six times finer. and O
single pound of this delicate but strong substance
would be sufficient to encompass the globe.
A man died very suddenly in Pennsylvania from
the effects of whisky. The beverage was analysed,
when the chemist reported that he found in It the
poisonous constituent Of Coccuius Indicus. The pro
portion found was two grains to the pint Of whisky.
TINS poison is considered fatal to human life in guam
titles Of from Eve to ten grains, according to circun-
stances and sonditions.
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