The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1856-1888, 1866-12-08
Late Foreign Items.

tish navy.
A rnce-horse having been recently killed in South
OaroIina by lightning, the owner said there was
some consolation in knowing that nothing but =
streak Of lighting ever caught him.
Mr. Walter. owner of more than one half the Lon
don Times, and his son, are in America on a tour Of
observation.
1t is stated that a mass of the best camel coal of
the fish.
The proposed national monument to the fore
father. near Plymouth Rock is estimated to cost
$500. 900.
Punch says I'VE know a man so clever with his
lathe that be can even turn a deaf ear"
The King of Hanover, having given up his king
dom. has taken a house at Vienna.
MULTIPLICATION OF WouSps-To prevent wounds
from notifying sprinkle sugar on them. The Turks
wash fresh wounds with wine, aud sprinkle sugar on
them. Obstinate ulcers may be cured with sugar
dissolved In a strong decoction OF walnut leaves.
"Eeee Homo " has reached il twelfth thousand in
England, and the demand still continues. The
authors name is not yet known but if he prefers
profit to fame he is probably satisfied, for it is an
nounced that his publishers have already paid him
$4,000.
Among the passengers recently arrived in New
York from Europe Is the Hon. W. Napier, brother of
Lord Napier. late British Minister TO the United
States. He intends to settle permanently, in the
United States as u farmer.
Gen. Grants pay is S1S, 67S per year. and Lieut..
Gen. Shermen's Sl3,51S. Each is allowed fifty
horses A Major General gets So 500 per year and
Is allowed five horses. The pay of IA Brigadier is
"a, $50 80.
MIR. Baldwin. who died in Phildelphia lately.
built the first model locomotive engine ever con-
structed IN this country, about the year 1920. and
al the time Of his death had over 900 men en-
pioyeu In his locomotive works.
1t appears from carefully nrenared s,otis,ics ,bo,
IN time OF peace Europe keeps in arms nearly four
millions OF men. at an annual cost of over three
Thousand millions of francs or considerably upwards
OF SIX hundred millions of dollars.
The British mint has ceasei- 70 coin half orowrs
Tor some years Fast. In like manner the fournaun-.
piece IS made TO give place to the tkSs-~Tr~y
coin of the former denominat@sfeepeDny, no
returns since March II, ls6s ion appearing in the
The operation of the.INo
veins Of a healthy = infusion of blood from the
been performed fl@erson into Il sickly one has just
The healthy Q" at Vienna. with complete success.
Of the sickly -erson operated upon was the husband
- wife.
Henry Ward Beecher and the New York Iudepen
dent have become entirely separate institutions. 1t
is said that MIR. Beecher declined to furnish copy for
a paper which so nerci!essly handled him in its edi-
tOrial columns.
Professor Agassiz says he found the valley of the
Amazon uncommouly fertile and its climate very
healthy. 1t is his opinion that it wi one day be-
come the mart of the world, supporting in comfort
20. 1000, 600 Of inhabitants.
Beaufort, South Carolina. which was formerly an
aristocratic winter resort of The Southeruers. has be-
come completely lanEeeiZrd with New EuglaDderS.
The Mayor OF the city is a New Highlander, and every
oticehOider, landowner, aud storekeeper halls from
the same section.
Horsefesh and hors, flesh soup are now served out
to the poor in Paris almost daily. Tickets are dis
tributed. and it is said that the demand equals the
supply. The poor have no choice, and prejudice
rapidly gives way to the Cravings of hanger. the
authorities dispense charity with a vengeance.
a woman in Charleston, South Carolina, begged
for $50 to bury her husband. \ benevolent lady
visited her home to take her the money. In a
darkened apartment lay the corpse ; the widow was
crying and everything looked melancholy. She left
the $50 and departed, forgetting her parasol. Re
turning. she found the corpse carefully counting the
money.
A hopeless maniac. named Josiah Spaulding. is
now living at Bucklau1, Franklin County, in an iron
cage, where he has been confined for fifty years.
For thirty years he has not stood erect, and his
limbs have become permanently deformed. His
father, Rev. Josiah Spaulding, was the first minister
settled at Buckland, and this, his only son, was the
only survivor of a premature triPlet birth. He be-
came insane while still a young man, and made sew
eral unsuccessful attempts TO kill his parents.
CHEAP READIYG-Tbe Mercantile Library in New
York City, has $40 0 volumes. Clerks pay, the
FIRST year eight cents a week, after that six. Any
person can have the use Of the books for reading in
the library day and evening, Mt one dime a week.
The Aston Library is closed during the evening, and
81 the poor are almost entirely deprived OF its use.
During the day 1t is open TO all. free.
MONSTER AcuARIuM AT PARIs-An aquarium for
sea fish il being constructed on the Boulevard Mont
marie. II will be the largest in the world, Cad rep
resent quite a little sea bay, surrounded by rocks,
and filled with an immense quantity Of sea water, of
which there will always be a fresh supply daily by
rail.
Bishop FOR CHINA AND JAPAN.-I witnessed on
Wednesday last the conservation of Bishop Williams.
appointed recently by the House of Bishops Of the
Episcopal Church to fill the vacancy in China caused
by the death of Bishop Boone. The new Bishop will
have jurisdiction also in japan and at once proceed
to establish missionary stations there. The consecra-
ton took place at ST. Johns Church, in the presence
Of an immense con grega,ion. Over twenty Bishops
participated in the impressive ceremonies. The SER
mon was preached by trof. Johns, of Virginia. The
new Bishop is a young MAD, who, when called to the
EpIscopate, was laoorIng ~ a missionary in China,
and whose whole heart l. in his work. He will re-
turn 20 the scene Of his former labors forthwith
Cor. FIN, paper.
The MoNTAsA-The new steamship of the P. VI.
:. S. Company, the Ho3fGz1. which arrived Thurs
day evening, IL days and 20 hours from Panama. is
the latest built for the above named company. She
Isl magnificent specimen of marine architecture, and
IN some particulars is said to surpass any ship that
has yet visited San Francisco. The Bulletin
furnishes the following details in regard to construct
tion. equipment, and accommodations
The .N0RtGHq is 900 feet keel, 43 feet beam, has
six decks and registers 2,eT7 tons new measurement
being about the same size as the Sacramento, be-
longing to that line. She has a single beam zngIne
of los inches cylinder and II feet strmav, shafts Of
wheel p inches diameter has whsels ~ feet dame
ter and y feet face. being the largest padile-wheels
on any steamer in the world, excepting the Great
Eestern. She has Aliens patent cutoff and double
poppet valves ; cad three steam FIRE pumps, 3 inches
diameter, which can be used as bilge-pumps to free
her in case Of sprining aleak. Has two large bjlge-
pumVe connected with main engine and an Andrews
centrifugal pump for circulating water through the
condenser, which latter can also be used as a bilge-
pump, throwing 40 barrels Of water per minute.
The arrangement Of the furnaces is a most economi-
cal one for fuel, the consumption Of coal when loaded
averging about 30 tons per day or % tons light. IN
der which, with 10 turns Of the wheels, she has made
215 miles per day In ordinary weather. The con-
sumption Of coal from New York to Panama averaged
Is tons per day for the entire voyage. The ma