The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1856-1888, 1865-04-15
EOPeigB Summary.

rested IN Detroit by the detectives
Sala says American young ladies are the most
accomplished takers in the world.
Capt. Winslow, late Of the RsaTsargs, has been
made Commodore, TO date from December IA.
Can the Register give US any information SIS 70 the
price Of birthstone ~, H. Courier.
1t doesn't cost anything where you are going
": II. Register.
1t has been officially decided that hereafter in the
Boston public schools, no girls shall be subjected TO
corporal punishment.
OLDEST NEwsPAPER.-The Oldest newspaper in the
world is published in Pekin, China. 1t is printed
on a large sheet Of silk.
The merchants and business men Of New York
have collected S25, 900 10 be distributed pro rata
among the officers and crew of the htdrsarge, for
putting an end to the career of the -4iG6GmG.
The Times special Washington dispatch ssys that
it is reported at headquarters Of the Army Of the
Potomac that Lee had sent his family out Of Rsch'
mond, and that nothing but peace is talked of in
that city.
The following were the gross receipts OF the New
York theatres for one week Wsllack's $500;
Winter Garden, S3,600; Museum, $4,000; Olympic,
$500; Broadway, $4,000; New Bowery, S3,oOO;
Old Bowery, $500.
a foreigner speaking Of the House Of Commons;
says - So diticnlt is it for anything to be heard in
side its gorgeous walls, that the impatient members
are obliged 10 be continually calling out, : Hear
hear hear ."
The sermon preached by Mr.. s~purgeon, on Bap-
tismal Regeneration, has excited an amount of pub
lie attention unparalleled. The sale reached loo, 900
copies in a few weeks, while no less than eighty
pamphlets have appeared. either in opposition to or
in defence Of the original sermon.
Maryland is already experiencing the good effect
of emancipation in the rise of land. Pennsylvanians
are going in and buying farms, aud the Baltimore
american mentions the sale of several large and
valuable farms at prices much higher than they
would have brought while slavery existed. There
will be a large immigration into Maryland next
spring.
Iceland is for sale. The purchaser may erect it
into a monarchy, n republic, or q despotism if be
choose. There are $4,000 inhabitants in it, who
don't care whether they have q king or a companion
in the buyer. He may style himself Emperor Of
Iceland. All the nations of the earth will recognize
him as such.
A Dutchman was arrested in Boston, on a charge
Of running away from Milwaukee with c. W. Worms
wife, son, and nine trunks of linen goods worth
$1,000. The child and the goods were recovered,
and the husband Is now content 10 leave the wretched
Mrs. Worms TO the fate into which she has crawied.
An advertisement in one of the Richmond papers
says persons visiting the city can be accommodated
with good board and comfortable rooms by applying
on the corner of Main and Eighth streets, next door
above the Spottswood Hotel. Price twenty five dollars
q day, including lodging. Single meas-dinner.
ten dollars; breakfast and supper, eight dollars.
Also a few table boarders can be accommodated.
LIONS AT LARGE-An alarming affair occurred
recently at Southampton (England) at Wombwell's
collection Of wild beasts IN that town. The place OF
exhibition was well filled with people, when two
lions escaped from one Of the cages. One Of them
amused himself by leaping among the visitors 10 the
exhibition; the other made his way out, and spread
ing dismay among the crowd. at last entered a house
and took up a position in n room in which were some
ladies. Both the animals were, fortunately, secured,
having done no mischief save causing intense alarm.
The independence Beige gives the following
amounts received by the various artists as the results
Of single performances. Malibran at Drury Lane
received Gl59 each night. The same price was paid
to Lablache for two performances. Grisi at Ne"
York received $500 for one performance, and shortly
after obtained G., 400 as the result of one nights
entertainment in London. TagliORi received El6O
for every performance at Hamburg. and at her second
benefit at ST. Petersburg she realized the extravaganza
sum of 9S, 100, in addition to a magnificent present
of diamond ornaments made her by the Gar.
Peter Cooper, of New York, reports An income OF
SlO6 600; David Dudley Field, $50 .000; Cyrus W.
Field, $4,000; Mayor Gunther. S13,4OO; street
sweeping Boole, S4l8; Mr.. Hudson. the managing
editor of the Herald, So, 742; Robert Hoe, the press
manufacturer, S50.000; and Fitz Hugh Ludlow, the
author, S916. 1t is astonishing how cheaply some
people can live in New York.
Chicago hes three men with incomes exceeding
SlOO,O 900 Potter Palmer, 1888 ,485; John V. Far
we'll, SI97 ,l52; Peter Schulter, Sos, 7Sl. There
are SOl persons who report incomes between $8,Ooo
and 500 600.
H. W. Longfellow, Of Cambridge, Mass has re-
turned his income as Sl4,l7l, and paid tie tax upon
it. Poetry is no longer synonymous with poverty.
SEEDLEss APPLE.-Among the novelties of the age
is a seedless apple. a tree has been found in Dutchess
county, New York, bearing this fruit. There are no
blossoms; the bud forms, and without any show OF
petals. the fruit sets and grows entirely destitute Of
seeds. In outward appearance the apples resemble
Rhode Island Greetings.
The HUMAN ~PULsE.-The human pulse has
in all ages been consulted as an index Of health
or disease. 1t is q kind Of dial within US that
gives us both the measure OF time and of health.
The pulse of q person in health beats about seven
~ strokes in a minute, and the ordinary term
Of life is about seventy years. In this seventy
years, the pulse of q temperate person beats two
billion, FIVE hundred and seventy four million, four
hundred and forty thousand times. If no actual
disorgauization should happen, a drunken person
might live until his pulse beat this number of times;
but by the constant stimulus OF ardent spirits, or by
pulse quickeuing food, the pulse becomes greatly
accelerated, and the two billion, FIVE hundred and
seventy-four Million, four hundred and forty thou
sand pulsations, are performed in little more than
half the ordinary term of human life, and life goes
out in forty or ~forty.hve instead of seventy. This
application Of numbers is given TO show that the
accelera,ion of those forces diminishes the term of
human life.
SUGAR ESTATES or CUBA-From a work on the
Cuban sugar estates, by Charles Rebello, British
vice consul at Cardenas, 1t appears that there were
in full operation in Cuba last season 1856 sugar
estates, which produce 1,l27, 348, $50 pounds, equal
to 563, o74 tons of sugar, worth S45,O93,o $50. OF
these I,365 plantations, 949 use steam power in
grinding the cane, 7 water power, aud 400 OK power,
in the old primitive style. The extent Of land plant
ed with cane on these plantations, is 691 81 acres,
while the area on the estates used for other purposes,
viz cattle fields, fruit, vegetable gardens, &C, COM
prises ,269, $50 acres, or nearly double the quantity
used for cane.
JEFP. DAVIS DESCRIBED By One OF his FOLLOWERS.
The recent disasters TO the rebel cause have raised
a storm about the head of JEFF. Davis which he will
hnd ii difficult if not impossible TO anay. The conf
dence in his skill and ability in the past has been go
implicit. and the obedience 10 his commands so AFFECT
and universal, that, now the charm is broken, the
reaction is tremendous. Thinking men are CALLED by
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