The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1856-1888, 1866-11-10
Late Foreign Htesls.
Tennyson is fifty three years old.

Teunyson is fifty three years old.
Rome has a population Of 2lO. FOL, an increase of
1000 since 1861.
The ravages OF the cholera are decreasing in the
West.
Three persons in Massachusetts, were married for
the GGh time in 1865.
A new vegetable in Paris is styled the "Raphanus
Candatus."
The present pension list Of the United States is
about $40 100000 per annum.
An elephant in an English circus tossed his keeper
in the air, and when he fell trod him to death.
A story in Harper's Weekly commences de-
ceased judge once addressed a jury SC. Then the
dead do speak
What disease does the provisions Of Dog Law
inhict upon the canine race during the heated term
Collar-a.-[ Er.1
The defence of n man in Pennsylvania sued for
$50, 900 for breach of promise is that the young lady
weighs 2S5 lbs. and it is coming warm weather.
A quartette of soldiers who had lost limbs in bat
tie, recently gave u serenade. and sang, Ills sweet
to be Remembered. II Er1
They are enforcing a Sunday (liquor) law in Bal
timore. too. But the only difference is said to be,
that the people get drunk on Saturday now instead
of Sunday.
Since the bar rooms are shut up on Sunday, some
of the BARRIERS have invented a new hair tonic-for
the beari-which is applied just under the nous
tache.-.E y. Express.
The Belfast (Naine) Journal chronicles the death
Of an elephant in that city, and says he left no estate
to be administered upon-his trunk had nothing in
it.
An Z Too Mucu The Buffalo Courier is guilty of
the sin of saying that General Burnside's former
staff have given him a punch 6o'cei.
Lord Derty's profits for his Had version amour
ted to SO, 100, and have been invested as u prize for
pupils of the Wellington College.
A Paris letter says that " Rosa Bonheur is going
TO America to see a buffalo '-perhaps, or, possibly,
to see the elephant
A fashionably dressed young lady recently made
her appearance in "A Washington City street car, &C
companied by a pet toad.
4 son of Mrs. Hemans, the poetess, was converted
to Catholicism some years ago, but has recently been
reconverted to Professionalism
The latest assignment in England of the author
ship of " Ecco Homo" is to MI. Palgrave. the
author of a volume of travels in Arabia. He has
been a Jesuit missionary, but has left the Romish
church.
IrascibIe old cent-s Waiter this plae is quite
cold - Waiter-'' Yes, sir but the chop is 'ot, sir,
which | think you'll find i.n warm up the plate
nicely, sir
A SPLENDID COUNTRY FOR FIsu.-A traveller in
Montana relates that in some of the streams at the
sources of the large rivers the speckled trout are SO
ravenous that they bite at anything. He says that
they even followed him into the woods aud bit at the
spurs of his boots as he rode away.
HEIGHT OF Mt. HooD.-A party recently assembled
MI. Hood, Oregon, TO its very sdmmit. They ascer-
tained its height TO be II 600 feet and also, to n GER
tainty, that it is a volcano. If this measurement be
correct, Mt. Hood is the highest peak in the United
States.
An English moralist styles the EPSON course, on
the Derby Day, one range of actual physical stink"
the swearing men, the drinking women, the OBJ
scene gypsies, all provoke the wrath of the high.
toned journalists.
Congregationalism is becoming a power in Great
Britain and Ireland. We find il stated that there
are 2. 1855 Congregational Churches, :. 307 ministers,
444 students, with an increase of II churches, and
40 ministers during the year.
The archbishops and bishops of England have de-
termined on the formation of a new order of labor
ers in the Church, called - readers They are to
be publicly appointed after an examination by q
bishop, and are to minister in outlying districts.
They will be not unlike the local preachers of the
MethodIsts, aud 1t Is thought their influence will
draw the masses toward the established Church.
When General Grant was travelling through Hi
nois, lately, q lawyer Of Nation mistook him, as he
stood upon he platform of a car, for a brakeman.
and asked him to stand aside so be could pass in and
see the general. The lawyers request was complied
with, but he was somewhat mortified on entering the
car to find that the hero he sought was the unassum-
ing person he had passed outside.
a Connecticut exchange says that several months
since a peacock, near one Of the railroad stations on
the Danbury and Norwalk road, which was sitting
on the rail at the time the cars were passing, jumped
off. leaving his tail across the rail. The care passed
over it, cutting it of. As soon as he saw the extent
of the damage, he started for the woods and did not
return until his tail had entirely grown out again.
\ conservatory of music, founded on the plan of
that Of Liep=ic, Is in successful operation ut Oberlin,
Ohio, and is conducted by Professors Morgan and
Steele. Its course is three years 10 duration, and
gives a study of harmony, counterpart, fugue music
and part writing, together with a continued and
careful drill in vocal and instrumental music.
One Of the new boxes intended to supersede mail
bags in the transportation Of mail matter was intro
duced on the Boston and New Bedford line last Fri
day. The baggage master supposed it TO be a part
Of a negro minstrel cOmpany's property, and on its
arrival at New Bedford locked it Up in the baggage
room, where it remained safely till Saturday morn
ing.
A LONG JoURSEY.-To make the distance Of the
sun from the earth iutelligiole, VI. Guiliemin states
that n railway train leaving the earth, aud going at
the rate of thirty miles an hour, would require
rather more than 347 years to reach it; so that If
such q train had started on January /, 1866, ii
ton.
UTAH-Rev. Mr.. Mcleod, the missionary of the
American Home Missionary Society at Great Salt
Lake City, has been preaching a course Of lectures
on polygamy, attacking the system in its stronghold.
The MOrmons have attended in considerable num-
bers, though the leaders threaten the preachers life.
One gentleman at tine third lecture subscribed 81 900
toward a large church in that city. Mr.. Mcleod is
greatly encouraged.
a day or since, two ladies from the country,
on a shopping excursion TO the city, dropped into
4 hardware store where agricultural implements
are sold. They had read Johns advertisements,
and therefore innocently inquired for " cradles.
The storekeeper said it was rather late in the
season for the article. and be had sold all he pur-
chased. The ladies looked at each other wonder
ingly and whispered laughingly, and one, turn
ing 10 the blushing John, remarked " Out of
season, Thought babies were always in season. "