The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1856-1888, 1859-07-14
Foreign Summary.

The nonulation of the United States increase one
million a year, or two thousand every day.
The population of ST. Louis is estimated at 19O,ooo
by the publisher of the city directory.
According to the Detroit .adrertiser, the population
of that CITY now numbers Il, 900. The population OF
Cincinnati is estimated by the Gazette at 2OO.Ooo.
Professor Agassiz announces that he shall visit
Europe during the coming Summer vacation OF har-
ward College.
Every nerson who smokes in the streets of Salem.
Mass, renders himself liable to a fine of %. The
authorities are enforcing the law in that respect.
The Emperor of Austria has pledged the CROWN
Jewels to the heirs of Baron Sina, the banker, as a
guarantee for a loan of 32,O00,OO0 forins,-about
fifteen millions of dollars.
We NAV soon look for the appearance of Mr.. Jenny
SONS four Arthurian Idyls. Difficulties as to the
choice of a publisher have retarded the publication.
The six New England States send twelve Senators
and twenty-nine Members of the House of Represen-
tatives to Congress, every one of whom at the next
session will be Republican in politics
A French author says "When l lost my wife,
every family in the town offered me another; but
when l lost my horse, no one offered to make him
good"
DIR. C. F. Winslow, known in scientific circles,
and formerly a resident of Honolulu, has interested
himself in the case of Plumer, the convicted mutineer
of the ship Junior, and has published a statement OF
the facts which go to show Plumer's innocence of the
murder of the captain.
The family of NJ. de Tocqueville contradict the re-
DOrt or MS DEATH, WHICH u lie " a LOh
don journal. He is at the Isle de Heres in a suffer-
ing state, but not worse than he has been for some
time past.
TRUE-Politeness goes a great ways. Henry Ward
Beecher says, IAN %impudent c.erk can do almost as
much injury to his store as the neglect of the proprie-
tor to advertise his goods.'-Two undoubted and
significant facts, which every one interested will
please bear in mind.
The Abyssinian Princes who are in Paris were
lately very much annoyed by a large crowd following
them in the streets. The curiosity arose from a re-
port that the Royal sables were from the Cannibal
Islands, where several Frenehmen we're lately ser led
I'D on the half shell; AID the large, white teeth OF one
of their Highnesses added 10 the illusion.
THE FARCE AFTER THE TRAGEDY.-A magnificent
Bible is TO be presented TO the Rev. MIR. Haley, the
biographer and spiritual adviser of MIR. Sicklss, as a
testimonial for his services to the latter. SubscrIp-
tons for this purpose are now being collected by the
needs one.
The chain cable of the steamship .Airiatic, built
for the Collins line. weighs fifty pounds per link. In
the process of proving, one of the weakest links gave
way at ninety seven tons pressure, with a force that
shook the building. A new link was substituted, and
the cable withstood n strain of los tons. The cables
of the Great Eastern are yet stouter, each link
weighing seventy pounds. These are delicate little
necklaces to handle.
The Mormon ~imbroglio bids fair to be speedily and
permanently settled. 1t appears that Brigham
Young has submitted a proposition to a company of
capitalists to sell all their right, title and interest in
Utah territory Tor n reasonable sum OF money, ana 10
leave the territory within a specified time. Some of
the company are said TO be consulting with the adj
minIstratiou. The matter has been kept thus far a
profound secret.
VI. Alexandra Dumas says his voyage to Russia and
the East cost him only $4,000, and that the money
he received from Count K~ouchelif was $4,000 for
two novels, and that his books bring him in $4,000
a year. He has sold his Voyage. to Caucasus for
$4,000; it is to be published daily, and thirty NUN
bers only issued, consequently he receives a thousand
francs daily for it.
Dean Trench, in his work on English, Past and
Present, aftet noticing the anomalous construction of
the word ''ifs.'' says it "does not once occur through
the whole of our authorized version of the Bible; oc-
ours only three times in all Shaksp, are; was a word
unknown to Ben johnson; was not admitted into his
poems by Milop; and did not come into common use
until a few years before Dryden sanctioned it, his
writings"
How To PRoNoUNCE THEM.-The following is said
to be the correct pronunciation of various geograph-
ical names in the Southwest which are frequently
mentioned in the newspaper Mohave-Mo-ha Wy.
TETON lay hone. Albuqu4qu = Al-bu-ker-ky.
Tulare-Tu-la-ry. San Joaquin-San-walk-in. Rio
Grande = Reeo Grandy. Del Norte-Del Norty.
Santa Fe-San-ta Fay.
RECEIPTS OF SoctETIEs.-The following is a COM
parative statement of the receipts for three years of
the various institutions which have held their ami
versary in this CITY within the present week