The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1856-1888, 1865-03-11
Foreign Summary.

An industrious s,a,isticiau calculated that q tobac-
c~o-chewer splits $50 gallons in twenty-five years.
The Typographical Union Of ST. Louis has been
abolished This ends the printers strike.
Never nap in The cars. The train runs over sleep
The California papers publish Births. Marriages.
Divorces and Deaths in regular order. This is sys-
tematizng the thing.
Charles Windsor, the absccudiug Mercantile Bank
teller, who was charged with embezzling S2S4, 900,
has been arrested in London.
Upon careful calculation it is estimated that Pres
ideut Lincoln, IN the two hours Of his levee, on Mon
day, shook hands with about seven thousand persons.
men, women and children, Of all ages, ranks and
races.
The London Stanflr2 has grown TO a wonderful
state Of prosperity It issues one hundred aud thirty
three thousand papers per day. II has just made =
years provision Of paper, namely 35,5iO, 900 sheets,
which, Je good eHGug h 70 reckon, mud the result aud
make IA note Ot It.
REBEL TAxATIoS.-A Confederate widow, in n pit
eou~ appeal, published in the Richmond Sentinel,
anuouuces that whereas her yearly income IS only
one thousand two hundred dollars, her yearly tax is
one thousand three hundred and sixty dollars.
The Richmond Dispatch says: - Que OF the most
remarkable things about the completion Of this (But-
ler's) canal Is 10 Us the fact that it should be done
right under our noses. dutch Gap being, as the
crow flies, only twelve miles from Richmond and
yet We heard not one word OF il until the news was
brought 10 u from New York.
The demand for Lord Derby's translation Of Homer
y 50 great mat very ieW OF the booksellers eau get
supplied. 1t Mr. NUrray's sale, the confidence Of
the trade was tut small in fact. only some eight
hundred copies we're sold but Z large demand from
the public has since st IN.
\ man, noted for his caImpess and I scolding
wife, was one night STOPPED III the woods By \ pre-
tended ghost. II can't stop, my friend, said he.
&c II you are a mlu, | must request you 70 get cut Of
the way ami Jet Ge pass. Ii you are the devil, come
along and take supper, for l married your sister -
j good story Is told u NJ old lady in Richie
~ruur Nest VIRGINIA uhr gyrup1 a i4rra tr1rr cF
barren land which she could not sell, and who took
the advice u q visitor and poured some petroleum
oil along the streams that meludered through it.
She sold hT land at a fabulous price. toe owners
agreeing 20 give the lady one eighth Of the oil. The
old lady thought she had a pretty good joke on the
SPECTATORS, but Il turned out they had a better Ike
on her. The euterprisiuS fellows set up their der
rick and put down an auger. and in q short time
they struck q well which yields one hundred bar
rels Of oil per day.
BKITIsH SEAMES-The number of British sailors
Is estimated at sc, 900, exclusive Of fishermen and
other anPAitious races These seamen are divided
iuto 10000 belonging to the Royal Navy, for whom
100 c~Iergymen are provided aud 900 900 belonging
10 the mercantile navy, for whom. until recently, the
Church made no provision whatever. 4 Society
maintains 10 c~Iergymen and 70 readers for seamen.
Then there Is The Thames Church Mission, and va
rious mariners and floating churches st seaports.
lie STRENGTH OF THE NoRTH-The States that
voted at the last Presidential election cast 1 200, sos
votes. In 1860 the same States cast 5.S6S.6l6, be
ing an Increase OF l3l. $50, Notwithstanding all the
drain Of the war But more wonderful still IS the
fact That, while the whole vote Of the States, North
and South, amounted il 1860 TO 4, $50, 1S5, the loyal
States alone. III 1864, have east as many within ESQ.,
900, or less than a million.
FOREIGN INTERVENTION We have the old bugbear
Of foreign intervention trotted out again. and the 4th
Of March i the day fixed on which England and
France are To cry - hands off" Before that time,
u i 90 be hOpel-aud there are reasons FOR hoping
that General Sherman will have taken Charleston,
thar Wilmington will have fallen, and that Rich
mond will be surrounded by an irresistible force. Il
IS too late now to talk about foreign Intervention.