The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1856-1888, 1865-10-07
Foreign Items.

the Female Medical College of Pennsylvania, which
institution is now In the sixteenth year of its exist
ence.
At one of the grand balls in London. this sea-
SOD, three hundred ladies appeared without crino-
line.
There is a physiological reason for calling this o
fast age. The human pulse has q~uickened from ten
to twelve throbs q minute over THAI Of fifty years ago,
says \ recent writer on progress.
Il Hilton Head negro, who had learned to read
wishing to give some Of his acquaintance who had
never seen q book an idea Of il, said 'Rsading is
the power OF hearing With the eyes"
A movement has been inaugurated in England by
eminent men from the different religious dsnonins-
tons, for the more complete and thorough explora-
ton Of Palestine.
It is a remarkable fact that electricity travels so
rapidly that 1t may be sent thorugh gunpowder with
out igniting it, and il is only when it is retarded
that an explosion takes place.
At the last Oxford Concentration" the stu
dents applauded the name Of General Lee. but Kissed
President johnson, and Butler, and the British
Chancellor OF the Exchequer.
\ French paper says that on the 18th of April.
the Queen OF Madagascar solemnly caused herself
and daughters to be invested in crinoGne. and off,
cislly declared il was only to be worn by the wife of
her first minister.
printed 14O, 600 copies of the first edition. He has
not yet got rid Of more than $4,000, and complains
bitterly.
In Morocco. a criminal never knows his sentence.
~ lie tiiS IL IAOQc VI CaTFyluR J. Out. 10 save
his feelings, he may be shot dead at a moment when
he IS, perhaps, looking for liberty.
A new infringement of the liberties of Frenchmen
is announced in a Rouen paper. Hereafter no one
is to get himself photographed without depositing a
stamped (imbre) copy Of his likeness in some off,
cial depository.
Macmillan has dealt O very heavy blow at the
Mexican priesthood. He has declared State educa-
ton to be universal and compulsory. This is most
remarkable and advanced ground to be taken by an
Austrian Prince.
In a trial now in progress in one of the Courts Of
Sweden, a series Of the most appalling crimes has
been brought to light. A clergyman named Lind
back is charged with the murder Of several Of his
Pensioners by administering to them poison in their
sacramental wine The proof is said be conclusive.
The statistics of the United States census show
that the number of deaths among the colored popu.
lationof Boston is nearly twice as large as the births;
and that if it were not for the accessions from the
South, the negro population would soon be extinct.
Alfred Tennyson, the poet laureate of England, is
failing very fast. He was just recovering from a Sc
we're attack of throat disease, when, walking late one
evening in his Isle Of Wight garden, he took cold.
and now it is stated symptoms Of consumption are
evident.
a Californian speaking of the progress of the Pa
citic Railroad in that State, says. q the hills are
being cut down, valleys filled up, bridges erected,
and all kinds Of railroad work going on as fast as
$500 able bodied men, with a full complement Of
teams, can do it,"
Workmen are now engaged in removing the wood
work. furniture, SC, from Ford's theatre, prepars-
tory to remodelling it as a 6re-proof building for the
reception of the archives of the late Rebel Govern
ment. The alterations are made under the super
vision of Mr.. Clark, the architect of the Capitol ex-
tension.
British lawyers ought to be in a state of delight.
The whole Of the ier scriptd, or written law, now
occupying forty,four 9uarto volumes, are to be con-
densed into ten volumes of common size. Plenty OF
waste paper.
The Springfield Union nominates Gene raj Butler
for Governor of Massachusetts. 1t adds From
the hills of Berkshire and all through the Connecti-
cut Valley, we hear his name mentioned. as the man
above all others for the gubernatorial office"
The New York World, which outdid itself in
abuse of Andrew johnson when he was Vice Presi-
dent, now says that the country has reaser to
congratulate itself that this ~high'minded statesman
is at the head of affairs"
The fact that the Last baby of the Princess OF
Wales is to be called after its grandpa is thus ele-
gsntly announced in the Court Journal. "There
is just n faint runner that the infant Prince will re-
ceiVe the name of Christian. after the royal Dane.
his grandfather"
They kill pigs by steam in Chicago A great
iron claw, with five fingers, hooks out the pigs which
are quarreling in the pen below. and lifts the porkers
10 a giDbet near by. and then plunges them again
into scalding water. BY the machine City porcines
are killed, scalded, scraped. cleaned, split and hung
in r0ws ready for sailing, within an hour.
Corporal Henry II. Recor, coior-bearer of the Fifth
Vermont Regiment, met with a very pleasant sur
tered out of service, Uncle Sam presenting him a
purse of.S150 in recognition of his valor, he being
the first person to plant the colors over the rebel
works at Petersburg.
Miss Sylvia Ann Rowland, late Of New Bedford
in addition to the requests already published, left
$4,000 10 the trustees of her estate, to be held in
trust until q corporation shall be established and or
ganized as a National Sailors Home. in aid of which
a Fair was held in Boston last year. 1t is reported
that the will is TO be contested.
Neither Grant nor Sherman were among the
q good boys" Of the Military Academy at West
Point, Sherman standing No. 12i in the order Of
good behavior and Grant falling as low as 147. In
scholarship, too, neither of them obtained a place
among the honored FIVE. Sherman. who stood the
first year at No. 9, did, indeed, graduate at No. 6.
but Grant. beginning with % above him, rose only
st graduation TO No. p.
The editor of the Unipersaiist having been GEN.
sured by a correspondent for intimating that JEFF.
Davis should be hung, replies " After the excite
ment has passed, and Jefferson Davis is hung, we
may be sorry But, in oil soberness. let US say, il
Jefferson Davis is not hung, the hand that in this
land ever after signs q death warrant should drop
from its socket If he is %pardoned, let every prison
door OPEN"
Italy now possesses a feet of SO vessels, "a OF
which are ships of the line. and "a are transports
The ships of war consist of Is iron-clads, 81 screw
steamers, 25 paddle-wheel steamers, aud 10 sailing
vessels. The nominal power Of the engines in the
war steamers is %. 40 horses; they reckon 1880
cannon and 20,3s3 men. In the transport service
the engines are 1850 horsepower, and he ships are
provided with AZ cannons and manned by 1892 men
According to the Internal Revenue returns, the
theatres and other leading places of amusement in
New York city received nearly two millions of dol
lars Isl 1896 ,651) from their patrons last year
This sum, however, IS much below the amount spent
for amusement, as there are scores of minor places
of entertainment where a great deal Of money is ex-
pended.
The New ENGLISH LORD CnANCELLoR.-Lord Gran.
worth, the new Lord High Chancellor of England,
| ,s SOC q old II is n prnhahlc fhoro.