The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1856-1888, 1866-07-21
TIE PACIFIC
Commercial Advertiser.
Foreign Items.

EOreEsn Eeeifls.
1t Is reported that the gyp>ies are leaving
Europe for America in large numbers.
a paper skirt" Ii. q. pettieoat) has been in
vented to replace crinoiine. 1t is u Yankee idea,
and i said u be light and cheap.
Two engines. named e. Horace Greeley" and
E james Gordon Bennett have just been com
Vlet-d at the Schenectady Works.
Grapple with every opportunity, As you do
not know when opportunity will happen, keep
your graphing irons always ready.
The Prince of Wales ha~ consented to lay the
foundation stone oi the British and Foreign Bible
Society new building, IN London, early In June
The New Haven Clock Company's building at
New Haven. and eleven buildings adjacent, were
burned April 3oth.
There i a house in Pembroke, Massachusetts,,
which l. two hundred and thirty years old 1t
i It'll INHABITED. has always been in one family,
and Is believed 10 be the Oldest house in the
United States.
An elephant passing through New Haven re-
Gently frightened = horse to death.
IIUMAN SAcRIFIcE.-An old man OF fifty was
Joined in marriag- in san Jose recently To a
girl of fourteen-with the consent and sanction
of the mother of the child. the father being dead.
\ traveller SAYS he saw Gen. Mcclellan at Dres-
den, a few weeks ago. and that it was thought
he would - break up his winter quarters and
advance IN the spring, a. soon rs the roads were
dry"
The reIoubtahle Wigfall (of Texas and wife,
are ia London, where they are received with great
honor lay the dristocratic symptthizers with the
South.
The publication of the second volume of the
- Life of Cesar" Is officially announced. The
Imperial Printing Office has already despatched
sample CORES to the Tuileries. Correcting the
prof sheets Of this volume has occupied but five
months. whereas correcting those of the first
volume took one year.
The Belgian Chamber is about to Introduce a
new clause into the penal code of thar country,
furnishing with n fine or imprisonment ali persons
convicted of c~ock-fghting.
\ pitched battle between Il rat and a cock
came off in a stable in Edinburgh. Scotland, a
few weeks ago, in which Chauticlccr was the
victor.
Mankind should learn temperance from the
moon-the fuller she gets the shorter her horns
demonstrating.
We can't see that the moon is such Il model
of temperance. She is bound to have her regular
two horns, even though she has been reduced to
her last quarter.
New York milkman recently had his " milk
forcibly a~ualyzed by his customers. The fifty
gallons he furnished were found to be three parts
of water to one of milk, to which was added
starch to give the mixture sufficient thickness.
grease 70 make it oleaginOus, and Il small portion
of roasted sugar. to give it Il rich, yellow, creamy
color.
SAKE, the joker and poet, was once taking a
trip on a steamer, when he fell in with II lively
young lady, to whom he made himself very agree
able. OF course he made an impression upon
the damsel, who said. at parting. . Goodbye,
Mr.. Sake, | fear you'll soon be forgetting me-"
- All miss" said the inveterate punSter, - If
was not a married man already, you may be
sure I'd be for getting you"
RAIN.-M. Renou, in a paper on rain, read
before the Paris Academy, says:
In order that this phenomenon may be devel-
Oped in its full intensity, there must be two strata
ut least Of clouds, the uppermost of which must
he composed of cirri at Il temperature of forty or
~ffty-fye degrees Centigrade below zero. and the
lower one consisting of cumuli which are cooled
by the fall Of crystals of ice from the upper
stratum.
An agonizing story is told of a vain New York
young lady, who, dissatisfied with her good but
irregular teeth. had fifteen of them pulled ont to
make room for a new and false set. In vain the
dentist wished to spare her eye teeth. She
would have them out. Nervous prostration fol-
lowed the operation, and she died Il victim to
her pride, and leaving the set Of false teeth she
had ordered uncalled for.
a Rich JoKE.-Recently, Newbern, North Car
olina. was dreadfuliy alarmed, by posters placed
in conspicuous places all over the city, in these
mysterious characters:
G
Here was a plot. The Mayor called upon his
officials To tear the incendiary document down,
which could mean no less, he supposed, than
Rise, CulOrcd BTcthren.'' When all but
twenty-three were destroyed, the agent of "a Ro-
maine's Crimean Bitters'' rushed into the Mayors
Office in IL great passion. complaining of the de-
OF his posters, which explained the
mystery, much to the mayors modification. He
tried 10 hush up the matter; but 30 good a joke
for the military officers soon leaked out, and
caused n great laugh at the worthy officials ex-
pense, and brought the medicine into greater
nOtOriety than any advertisement could have done.
The French are never tired of ridiculing Eng
peculiarities. The traditional Islander (with
1 red nose and full of oaths) in most of their
arces is well known. At one time the English
were so famous for countermanding
orders given to their commanders in the field.
that a farce was actually played in Paris in
the harlequin entered, as an English cou-
rier, with two bundles of dispatches fastened
before and behind him they ask what the one
II ces s0Rt mes OrdreS." And what
he other? " Mas eHes Soaf mes confre-ordres.'
The late Bishop Fitzpatrick used t. tell with
great JUNCTION of Il bill of fare he once saw in "A
Partisan eating house, where they ~profes>ed to
,ook beef-steak like the English Z" BGuf stck a
a god dam"
Sugar and Molasses Containers.
. AND : Gall. PINE SHOCKS. clean and bright