The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1856-1888, 1866-12-29
FOREIGN ITEMS!

There is q town in Maine which does not contain
n lawyer, a doctor, or a minister, and its name is
Wales.
Mrs. Burdell Cunningham was lost on the Eren-
ing Star.
George Sanders is in Paris, and talks of going to
Russia.
Last year the people of England paid to religious
institutions 81, 500, 900, and the tax on spirits paid
to the Government amounted to $780, 0O, 900.
The practical printers of Richmond are about to
organize q temperance society, for the special benefit
of their own fraternity. A good move.
The crop of Indian corn for the United States for
the year 1866 has been estimated at the enormous
amount of l .039. 900, 900 bushels.
CHEAP.-Ten dollars will buy a broadcloth coat,
eight dollars q travelling suit, and thirty-two cents a
pair of kid gloves i'll London.
BUILDING IN PORTLAND. MAINE-It is estimated
that about seven hundred buildings, of various
descriptions. are now in process of erection in this
city.
SESsIBLE.-An advertisement in the Birmingham
(EngIand) Post reads: a lady, unable to get
daily teaching, desires daily cooking, washing, and
scrubbing."
The number of known suicides in England in 1864
was $40. In the seven years lS56-64 it has
averaged ~sixty-six in every million Of population.
The following advertisement appears in the Boston
papers Of October 18th
MARRIED.-In this city, 17th inst, by the Right
Rev. Bishop Eastburn, Hon. Charles Sumner TO Mrs.
Alice Cooper, daughter Of Jonathan Mason, Esq ,
Boston"
George Peabody has given $4,000 20 Harvard.
for the formation and maintenan"" - a.h-"m aud
Professorsbip Of American a" lea g r-; 10
logy. The trustees are RObeI. - 5s.a~sa. IA -
Francis Adams, Francis Peabody. -aI g .,
Asa Gray, Jefries Wyman, and *. ,-yydy
Russell.
A Mississippi paper tells of some Southern girls
who planted, cultivated and picked a bale Of cotton,
and sent to market the first new cotton Of the season,
for which they received 81 IL cents per pound.
Sensible girls
BABEL.-At one time during the present season
there we're congre2ated at the springs nj Pau, 365
English, 81 Americans, Ice French, 60 Germans, SO
Russians, % Dutchmen, Is Poles, ~ Spaniards, 10
Swiss, 9 Belgians, 8 Swedes, 8 Austrians, and 3
Italians.
MINIMUM OF ACCIDENTs-Out of 22O, 900, 900 of
passengers on British railways during the year 1865,
only fifteen were killed by accidents. Still, who
would wish to be the mortal fifteen? or even the
fifteenth part thereof?
A negro woman passing the Stacey House, at
Nashville, with a rough coffin on her head, vas asked
what it was for, replied. For my ole man"
why don't you get come man 10 carry 1t for you?"
said a bystander. Pore folks has to tote their own
collins desc days. said the woman, and hurried on.
An artificial ivory is made in France by NJ. Dupre.
from q paste Of papier- mache and gelatine. Billiard
balls Of this material can be thrown from the top of
a house to the pavement without injury. "Pari-
sian marble is the name given to it.
The Newark New Jersey Courier thus ad vertises
a poetic contribution The contributor who sends
US a poem entitled The Girls Of Bloomingdale,' is
requested to take il away, and no questions will be
Asked
An Australian and China packet lately arrived at
Southampton, England. with q cargo of 1,60S bales
and cases of silk, valued at nearly $500, 900, together
with eighty. four boxes of specie and precious stones,
valued at SIS 500, 900.
a keg of yeast exploded in an express Office at
F~reeport. Illinois, recently, hurting a forty pound
bar of iron, lying upon it, through the ceiling above
into a crate of c~rockery, to the great detriment of
earthen ware.
4 young man in New York, named G. W. Steven
son, recently came into the possession of $50. 900 by
the death of Of n relative, but he has lost it all. He
fought several battles with the tiger and was
badly whipped.
A colored woman was recently delivered Of four
fine boys. not far from Columbus, Miss. An ardent
admirer of freedom and white bretheren of the North,
she has named them respectively Abraham Lincoln,
William II. Seward, Henry Ward Beecher and Hor-
ace Greeley.