The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1856-1888, 1866-05-05


beehives of certain districts of France. n distinct
sort of infusoria fastens on the bee. and mnitlpiies on
his body with such rapidity that death ensues IN
few hours.
At n recent fancy dress in the Tuileries, the
great success of the evening was Il quadrille IN
which the gentlemen were dressed as leopards
and the ladies as gazelles.
During the past year 200 ,03l emiSrants from
Europe landed in America, of whom 4,59l went
to Southern States, 2,435 to Canada and South
America, while "a 1856 remained in the Northern
States.
\ Chicago doctor says the common angle-worm
is sometimes affected with trichiua, which have
been SO fatal to pork-eaters, and that fowls as
we'll as swine become diseased by them.
=. Oar ar" said n sable orator. addressing his
brethren, 80 two roads tro' dis world. De one am
a broad and narrow road dat leads to prediction,
and de oder a narrow and broad road dat leads to
Instruction. .'Ef dat am de case. sand n
sable nearer, : dis cullud Individual takes to dc
woods"
The editor of the Louisville Journal intinates
that at the outbreak of the rebellion he was
offered a very large sum of money provided nc
would favor a peaceable separation Oh the North
and the South.
United States Senator Hahn, of Louisiana,
addressed an Equal Suffrage Association" in
Washington and took strong ground in favor OF
comforting the franchise on colored men.
An exchange asks if the poor girls Governor
1AIuTeWS SCub "
be sold, like Circassian beauties by their weight
and plumpness2 We suppose not. We infer
they will be sold at liquid measure-so much per
gal.
Foreign papers announce the death of Peter
,Joseph fenne, one of the most distinguished
horticulturists of Germany, and the founder OF
the modern school of landscape gardening.
\ little girl, after returning from church,
where she saw Il collection taken up tor the FIRST
time, related what took place, and among other
things, she said, with all her childish innocence
- That man passed around n plate that had
money in it, bus | didn't take any
The cheapness of the Swiss newspapers is re-
markable, even in this age of cheap literature.
One of them the Ieicgrdf, which contains the
ordinary amount of matter published in a weekly
paper, costs one franc Il year, or not quite n
farthlng per number.
Queen Victoria is reported as shocked at dis
covering that the Prince and Princess OF Wales
smoke cigarettes together in n little blue satin
sanctum called their smoking-room. This per-
nicious and reprehensible practice was taught
her royal highncss by her husband-and, horri-
BILE to say, she likes it!
Some of the recent letters from Rome have
mentioned a singular circumstance as likely To
take place in that city-namely, that the inferior
clergy, who are paid for saying masses for the
dead, are about to refuse continuing their task
unless they receive a more liberal rate OF pay
ment or in other words, think OF having recourse
to the vulgar expedient OF a strike.
DISTANCE OF SIRIUs.-The absolute intensity
of the light of Sirius has been estimated at 224
times that of the sun and its parallax, amount
ing to 0:33, gives for its distance from the earth
the probable number of So 900 900 900 OF leagues.
1t follows that we do not see the Sirius OF to-day,
but of % years ago; the ray OF light that we
receive to-day having been emitted by the star
about 1914.
The following are the salaries Of French Am
bassadors and Ministers Plcnipotentiary as they
stand in the new budget: st. Petersburg, LIZ
900; London, Eli 900; Vienna, rs 200; Madrid,
Sc, 900; Rome, -, 600; ConstantinOple, f5,6OO:
Pekin, "A 800: Berlin. ga, 400; Brussels, f3 200;
Rio Janeiro, E3, 200; Washington, t3 .ZOO; Mex
leo, 60 200; Teheran, 20. 800; the Hague, t2,oOO;
Buenos Ayres. 50, 800. Athens, 60, 400; Munich,
50, 400; Frankfort, G2,400; Lisbon. G2.20O;
Copenhagen, $4,000; Dresden, G2,00O; Stuttgart,
60, 900; Stockholm, i 2,0O0; Carlsruhe, II 800;
Hamburg, 81 800; Bogota, II 600; Tangiers,
81, 800; Cassel, 81, 200; Darmstadt, II 200;
Weimar, Il 200.
EFFECT OF OPEN AIR EXERCISE on LONGEVITY
The greater longevity of persons living in the
country appears almost wholly due to the greater
proportion of outdoor occupation; inasmuch as
shopkeepers and others following sedentary pur-
suits in the country, have no well marked vital
superiority over the same classes in towns;
whereas, farm-laborcrs, though exposed to the
effects Of wet, attain n greater longevity than
any class Of mechanics working in n confined
atmosphere. Even scavengers in towns, who are
exposed to very great impurities, are long-ilved,
owing to the vital influence of the open air in
which they follow their occupation.
4 Berlin paper gives an account of a new way
of preparing butter, which is very simple and
worth a trial, as it would be a great boon to
dairymaids. The cream is put into a close linen
bag, and buried in the ground at the depth of
about a foot and Il half. At the end of twenty
four hours it is taken out, and found quite firm.
1t is then only necessary to beat it up with a
glass of water to get rid of the buttermilk. To
prevent any admixture of earth, it is better to
inclosc the first bag in a second. A very large
quantity Of cream requires a rather longer time.
This method is said never to fail, and the butter
to be of a particularly fine quality.
"PHARAoH's SERPENTs"-A CAUTION.-Cham-
ber's Journal has the following 1.-The chemical
TOYS known as 'Pharaoh's Serpents' have been
so widely taken up, that we may do good service
by mentioning what was said concerning them at
q recent meeting of the Manchester Literary and
Philosophical Society, namely that all mercury
vapour is more or less poisonous, and that inJu-
rious effects have followed from the burning of
the Serpents in close rooms. Professor Roscoe
stated, that, in his opinion, the Inhalation of
even the smallest quantity of mercury yapour
should be carefully avoided. But n few months
ago, two German chemists were poisoned. while
working in a laboratory in London, by absorb
ton through the lungs or skin OF the Vapour OF
a mercury compound which they were engaged
in preparing. One of the two died at the end
of three DAYS in n state of mania, and the other
has become a hopeless idiot. Hence it will be
--lo-to-l +InE y n nnnr IL mot a thlnO