The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1856-1888, 1867-07-06
Late Foreign Items.

Mark Twain i going to Europe To .. occupy
the ground left vacant by tile death of Artemus
Ward"
London has an Everlasting Club" The fire
never goes out. the wine always flows, and the
table is always set.
CATsuP.-A Cleveland merchant lately received
a package labelled Il box Tom. Cats 1t took
him some time to ~decipher the fact that the in
scrip;ion meant a box of tomato catsup.
The English Iapers have it that the monument
of the late Colonel Colt, of pistol memory, Is 10
cost $4,000, i to be sixty feet high, and is to re-
volyc."
The New Orleans Tribune, in a column of cdi-
torial, advocates the election of Benjamin F. But
Ter. as President of the United States in 1865.
y SINGNLAR Casa negro recently refused
To take the oath a. Postmaster at Forest Depot,
Virginia, because he sylnpathizcd" with the
South during the rebellion.
TnE FAR WEsr.-The locomotive now runs four
hundred and fifty miles west of ~. Louis, and the
track il being laid at the rate OF a mile every day.
The japanese are shocked that their Mikado.
or Spiritual Emperor, should have died of small
poX, like an ordinary mortal. They think his
divinity must have departed.
Ladies in London are wearing little gold bells,
fastened To the ends of their bonnet ribbons. \
belle thus attired L. makes music wherever she
goes"
\ Davenport Qowa) woman, who wasn't mar
AA'a Will F"N - l'ttNt u ~. ChtA liz AlllllIS
swain for ST. %, expenses for lights, refresh
Inents, &c.
\ lady recently advertised for employment as
follows " young widow lady wishes to super
intend Il widower's household, and would not OBJ
jet to the supervision of children
oh, mother, do send for the doctor,' said a
little boy three years old. I. What for, nv dear?'
- Why, there's n man in the parlor who says
he'll die ii Jane don't marry im-au Jane says
she won't"
y clergyman :. down East = asked n woman
he had baptised, as she was coming out of the
water. how she felt in her mind, and was some
what surprised to hear her answer, " Bully"
y little girl, four years old, was recently called
as IA witness in Il police court, and being asked
- what becomes Of little girls who tell false
hoods innocently replied that they We're sent to
bed.
No WHIrrING.-New Jersey is now the Para
disc OF schoolboys, the act of the Legislature pro-
hibiting teachers from administering the birch
and the cane for Juvenile offences having taken
effect.
New CoNTRIvANCE.-A watch has been manu-
featured in Paris which is wound up by simply
opening the case TO note the time. 1t only re
quircs to be opened once Il month to keep it al
ways gong, and it is perhaps the nearest approach
to perpetual motion Yet invented.
After Il tedious and prolonged negotiation. the
Post Office Department has finally secured a site
~ CHHN 'AaA' III NN' II llhlI a dIh
OF New York. on which Il splendid structure will
be erected.
Under the pressure of the State Constables near
ly all the liquor dealers in Boston have closed
their establishments. Nearly every public bar in
the city is closed, with the exception of those con-
ncctcd with the hotels, and Il large majority of
the wholesale dealers have put up their shutters
and locked their front doors.
TESTIMONY IN BEHALF OF ONES SELF.-Tlle new
law III Ohio, permitting persons charged with
crimes or offences To testify, is as follows: In the
trial of all Indictments, complaints. and other
proceedings against persons charged with the
commission of crimes or offences, the person so
charged snail, ut his own request, but not other
wise, bc deemed n competent witness, nor shall
the neglect or refusal Ia testify create any pre-
sumption against him, nor shall any reference he
made to, or any comment upon. such neglect or
refusal.
JUPITER WITHOUT MooSs.-This year a celestinl
phenomenon will occur which has been only twice
recorded in history. On the Dist of August next
the planet Jupiter will be seen completely unac-
comIanied by satellites for nearly two hours.
Three of them will be invisible on account OF their
passing simultaneously over Jupitcr's disc. and
the fourth will be immersed in the shadow of the
planet.
LARGE TREEs.-lt is an interesting fact in natu-
raj history, which, we imagine. is not known to
everybody, that the celebrated - Biz Trees" of
California are now being successfully grown in
New YORK state, ana are increasing III lnl9nI-
tudc. according To the proper order of things. 1t
l. now thirteen or fourteen wears since Il gentle
man, resident near Rochester, made plantations of
these gigantic trees from seeds procured in Cali
fornia and the progress they have already made
gives proof that in two or three thousand years
they will attain their full growth, and cover an
Empire with their shadow.
y ludicrOus indication Of how the ritual agita-
ton affects some people occurs at an English
parish named New Basiord. The incumbent had
the door of Il dark closet i'll his church fitted with
a strong iron bolt inside: and when asked by the
Bishop to explain, said it was for safety in case of
4 riot. lie is an earnest ritualist. The Bishop
Of opinion that :. there is no necessity for a
-lergymen of the Church Of England to do any
thing which would render it cxpcdicnt to make
provision for locking himself up in Il dark cup
board in his v~cstry.'
very theatre in Paris To the effect that. during
he Great Exhibition, no piece shall be acted
which might wound the feelings of foreign visit
,rs. All the world is to he treated with profound
consideration and respect. One theatre has been
orbiddcn to present a play entitled :. The Amcri-
an War; on the ground that it might hurt the
ceilings of the . Southern States" The idea
hat the eyes of the whole world are fixed upon
Paris, and that even Il rauderiHe acted in one of
heir theatres might retard the . era of peace
md good Will" which the Exposition is intended
% inaugurate. is one of those ridiculous exhibi-
ions of vanity that are possible only in the French.
TIE QU.EN's GIFT TO Mr.. PEABODY. = The
london Star states that the portrait of Her Maj
sty, in enamel, 10 be presented To Mr.. George
Peabody. has just been completed, after n twelve
months work, by Mcssrs. Dickson, and is now
It their rooms, ia New Bond street. 1t has
PAINTED IN enamel by F. \. Tilt, from a life
i've portrait taken by Mr.. Dickinson. The pic :
ure is a beautiful oval miniature Of the Queen. ,
bout fourteen inches by ten. the largest enamel
attempted in this country. 1t represents the .
queen seated, looking full ut you, half length. {
he arms and hands being beautifully executed !
md thrown out admirably from the black dress. y.
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