The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1856-1888, 1863-07-02
Foreign Items.

Queen Victoria is fond of sver-grey as a color in
costume. So her daughter in-law wore a silver
grey poplin Dress her first visit to Her Majesty,
which took the latter by surprise. And it is now
understood that silver grey poplin. from this cir
cumstance, is to be " all the rage this season and
moreover that, by the act of making il fashionable,
the Princess Of Wales inaugurates her reign the
English, the Empress Eugene is the French,
Queen of the Modes.
New Iron -CLADs.-The immense iron clad frigate
Roaaoke is out of the hands of the workmen who
have been engaged on her for nearly year in alter
ssisus and repairs She ic taking .FE--aT3eHs,
anGJ~n hen work is completed she will be taken
down the Narrows. where she is be stationed as
one Of the permanent guardships of our harbor.
Another famous steam frigate, tho Niagara, which
has been undergoing repairs and alterations the
Brooklyn Navy Yard, is now nearly ready for
mission. This vessel has been strengthened and
fitted for carrying battery of enormous weight and
she is expected to prove of the formidable
craft in Navy 1t the intention of the De-
pertinent TO have gotten her off in to join in
the attack on Charleston. She is behind time for
that glorious work, now so we'll commenced, but her
sailing qualities will enable her do good service in
any other meridian where her assistance may
happen TO be needed.
Why THE NATIONAL NoTEs HAVE " GREEN BACKS.
Ever since the adoption of paper currency. it
has teen the constant study of bank note eDgravers
get up plan of printing bills that could
be counIerfeited in this they only partly succeeded
till late as 1851 person named Stacey j. Edison
invented kind of green ink. which he patented
June SOth of that year Ii called anti Photographic
ink. because it cannot be Photographic account
OF its COLOR and he dslodged with alkales by
counrerfeirers, to get complete fac simile Of the
bills. And it is secret only known by the
American Bank Note Co, and the inventor, it is
impossible counterfeit the greenback money. Ii
used by many banks before the war, but
leading feature in the bill ; but If the
position of the lux known, IL would be of use
the work could not be copied from the genuine
bills with any other kind of lux. The date of the
patent can be in all the bills in small print.
WHs ARE To FIGHT-All citizens are subject to
military duty who 20 and under As years of
with the following exceptions Those who of
unsOund mind; those who have been TO the peniten-
tiary; those who have any bodily defect disease;
the Vice President of the United States; all United
States Judges; the heads of the Executive Depart
menfs Of ,he United States; Governors of Sates the
only of widow depending his labor for
support; the only of aged or in6rm parents de-
pendent his lsbor-if of such
subjects, the parents may decide which shall 60
the wSr; the only brother of children under ~
years of age the father of motherless children under
II, who dependent his labor for support;
where there father and sons in the same family
and household, and of them in the service of
the United States, non commissioned officers,
officers. privates the residue of such family, not
exceeding =. shall be exempt, aud persons shall
be exempt except those mentioned above.
The bodily conditions which exempt from military
service chiefly follows /. Those having disease
of the lungs heart; Loss of fore6nger of right
hand toe; 3 Lameness in either foot; 4. Loss Of
any limb; 3. Having any kind Of rupture; 8. Any
defect in either eye; 4 Any deafness in either ear
g. Having - hump-back;'' .. Subject to any kind
OF fits; 10. Having chronic leg-HaIL's Journal
Of Health.