The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1856-1888, 1859-06-30
Tereisa ssmmary.

1t is reported that the Juarez government win pay
American claims with Sonora, Chihuahua, and a part
Of the Gulf Of California!
POPULATION OF DEnorr-A census Of the city Of
Detroit, which has just been taken, shows a total
population Of 81, $50. In 1850 the population was
only 22.057.
CHEAP LUxuRIEs.-A western paper offers to write
"Mr." before, or :" ESQ., after the names of such Of
its Subscribers. in directing their papers to them, as
will pay % cents extra, or add both of said "handles'
for 90 cents Cheap enough for a luxury
Louis Napoleon is now said to possess a nav, that,
in effective strength, is not inferior to that of Eng
land.
In the British Islands the work done by machine
power is computed by Lord Brougham to equal the
labor of eight hundred million Of men.
Prince Napoleon, who recently married the Princess
Clotilde, receives by the marriage contract, frop the
state. the comfortable little sum Of $3.50, 900 per an
mum for household expenses.
New IxvESr1oN-Queen Victoria lately conferred
the honor of knighthood upon a Captain Armstrong
for a newly invented cannon which can be used effec-
lively at the distance of eight miles, This gun is
fred in the old fashioned manner and admits of only
one round a minute.
The armed expeditions now being organized in New
York, and other cities, with the ostensible view OF
emigrating to Arizona, will not be permitted to enter
that Territory, special orders to that effect having
been issued to the United States troops.
Washington s birthday was celebrated at Berlin by
n dinner, which Humboldt attended. Among others
the following toast was given: 1.-The Baron von
Humboldt-the King of Science-the latchet Of whose
shoes no common Kings are worthy Of unloosing."
GRowrH OF LoSDoN.-London is rapidly extes-aa,,
ing its boundaries. 1t now covers an ares =. ~
square miles, equal to a square Of IL -nes 70 ne
square. The population in this he YEAR 1851 to
o J" eSo aae Tho Iondon o. 1853 is equal to three
Londons of 1901. .
80 - az a~ress offices in Cincinnati, there is
smell i-on e, still in use, which lay Mt the bottom
u ozo coo 000 -, UolI fr az
The safe belonged to an express company at
Ze time, was on a steamer that blew up and sunk,
and was raised by q diving-bell after the lapse of
time mentioned.
The rapid growth of Leavenworth city, Kansas. is
astonishing. Although only four years old, it con-
tains a population of 10, AGO, with an assessed valua-
ton of S3,S71 ,375. 1t has nine churches, ten
schools, four daily and four weekly papers, seven job
printing Offices. eighty-nine lawyers, and forty doc
tors.
A FAMILY PUzzLE-The family of Mrs lnda
Burr, of North Wilbraham, Mass, accordin9<<o the
Palmer Journal, consists of one father, three mothers,
two gr~andmothers, one great-grandmother. two wild
ows, three children, one husband, one wife. two
daughters, one son, one grandson, one great-grand-
son, one mother-in-law and one son-in-law; yet the
family numbers but FIVE persons, who all live under
the same roof.
The WASHINGTON MoSuMENT.-The marble shaft
at the national capitol, commenced in honor of the
illustrious namesake of that city. still stands in its
OdoEL-a 0blschN otatN- thfh6 = ctfff ehA
desolate about the spot, az it has been for the last few
years. Not a blow is struck, not a stone is raised,
and the solitary visitor who wanders to the site.
gazes upon a scene Of loneliness quite as profound as
that which surrounds the pyramids of the desert.
About the end of February, the following singular
mistake was made at Dole, France:
Two persons had died at the hospital Of that town,
and were to be buried at the same time. The de-
son. Both collins being placed alongside Of each
other, the were so COMPOUNDED that the young girl
was accompanied to her last home by a platoon of
dragons, with military honors, while the young
soldier, covered with a white pall<of flowers, pious
emblems of purity and innocence, was borne on four
feminine shoulders, and followed by a procession of
young girls reciting prayers.
BoRING GLAss-we have heretofore spoken of the
method of boring or drilling glass, by means of
placing a drop o: turpentine or camphor thereon, and
using a common drill. We published something of
the kind in the New York Mechanic, five years ago.
We BOW learn that the discovery is claimed by sew
eral persons. among whom is Lieutenant W. D.. Por-
ter, Of the United States Ma From these circum-
stances we are inclined to think that there is some
utility in the MISUNDERSTANDING Paper.
A CINCINNATI HERES To SIR FRANCIS Drake
A widow lady, Mrs. Ann Cooper, (Ree Harris,) now
a resident of Cincinnati, but formerly of New Jersey,
claims to be n lineal descendant of Sir Francis Drake,
who died in England in 1922, or thereabout, and left
an immense estate, worth some $500 o 900, which,
after passing through several generations, has at
last been unable to find one of the family upon whom
to bestow itself. The sons and daughters, uncles and
aunts, sisters and brothers, cousins and cousins
cousins, have all die1, and in the whole Of Britain
not a relative exists who can accept the colossal for
tune.
THE MARcSTo PIXIES PEAK-The Missouri Demo
crat states that the emigration now going west
through that city exceeds that of 1852. Large
numbers from Kentucky and other southern slave
States are pouring into Missouri, taking very few
slaves with them. But the great current of emf
grafton sets toward the gold region of western Kan
oa ne quo foarnor that arriva Mt 81 T0nic W
day last week, one from Naples, H., had 30 Pixies
Peakers; one from Lasalle, ILL.,, had 62; one from
Louisville, Ky.s so; one from Cincinnati over 80.
Two boats started up the Missouri the same day with
125 and $50 Pixies Peakers on board. The ST.
Joseph Journal of the l4th mentions the departure
of four companies for the diggings the previous day.
The news from the mines continues good, but some
persons who have arrived with the Salt Lake mail
predict starvation and death for a large portion of
the adventurers.
EUROPEAN WAR-Respecting the European War
now imminent the London correspond of the Philadel-
phia North american says:
Should war, unhappiy, be commenced, it will be
such a war as Europe has not seen for long years.
Probably no nation was ever better prepared with
deadly and destructive weapons of war than France
Mt the present time. Every modern improvement
has been introduced into her gunnery, and her arse
nails were never in such n complete condition. They
are casting cannon in enormous quantities, having
reduced the various calibres TO two, viz II aud 4
Founders, rife bore-projectiles hollow, producing a
double effect, that of solid shot and shell; they are of
q conical shape; they have brazen aIrlettes, which
give to the balls a precision never before attained.
They have constructed near Marseilles n large
number Il newly improved small al med steamers,
very fat, carrying one gun each, on a swivel, and the
gun and gunners are protected by an iron shed. so
that the enemies balls must glide of on either side.
without doing any harm. Horses have been pur-
chased in such great numbers that vast temporary
stalls have been erected in several districts of France.
Thirty thousand pairs of shoes and thirty thousand
overcoats have just been ordered in France, for the
Sandman army. With the vast armies of France
and Austria, the terrible war aateriei which will be
employed, and the certainty that, the dogs of war
once let loose, all Europe will be involved, no wonder
the people shudder and stand aghast at the very
prospect
LOUIS KossUrH.-This Jealous advocate of Hunga-
rian independence is said to be now in Sardinia, pre-
pairing to make a diversion against Austria, should
the threatened war between France and Austria
hraaE mt The Eco ds HnI,n nm Italian nausnanar