The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1856-1888, 1867-06-15
Foreign MISCELLANY.


millions Of francs.
EGSsM.-A long letter from Mr. g. Y Fox rcla-
tive Ia the presentation to the Empress Of Russia Of
the c"n@ratHlatpry resolutions Of Congress upon
the escape of the Gar from assassination. has been
laid before the Senate IN = message from the PTcsi-
dent Nh. Fox declares that the manifestations of
the frirndlincsS OF the people of Russia for the
United States Sf the most remarkable kind
~ hi- Journeys through the country he was re-
c,ivcd with gathering Of crowds AZ every point
Offering OF presents. singing of national songs. and
casting down Of garments for the strangers to walk
upon. All description fails to convey an idea. hr
says. Of the enthusiastic friendship Of the Russians
for
lNPRACrICABrITY OF An EIGHT-II0UR Law
The New York Times has the following IT eight
hours u made Il legal days work the first result
will be that the pay for day work will be les
scncd accordingly. Nothing but the shcerest
folly can expect anything else. If any man ex-
poets To get the same pay for eight hours labor
that fc would get for ten, he viii most certainly
bc disappointed. lie must first change all the
laws Of trnlic-aIl the laws that fix prices and
TcgUlIt" the exchange of commodities; and thee
not the laws of Congress of the legislature
Suppose Congress should declare that every pound
Of meat should contain twenty ounces that every
barrel of -four should hold five hundred hounds
that every ton of coal should weigh twenty-five
hundred weight-wOud the money buy any
more meat, or Hour. coal than ii docs now?
Yet the ease Is precisely the same with the price
of days labor. Illinois has an eight hour law.
Employers now hire labor by the hOurand not by
the day That Will inevitably be the wherever
Il similar law is passed. IlborcTs may :. strike -
and refuse u work but they may, and do
now. against low wages long time; but it
makes M difference. They work now for the
market rate of wages, not because they like IL.
but because they must or stIrvc-and they Will
do tire same thing then. 1t * curious to see how
much time and labor is wasted in efforts to do
what cam bc dJnc-tD change things by chang
Ing their names Politicians are constantly try
ing this. not because they expect to do 1T, but
because they hope 10 make people believe they
Will. And il Is also curious, and lCtle mean-
chOly, To- see how often they succeed.
TME's CHNNGES.-In comparing the AiHaHdct
de- GOfH for 1867 with that of the preceding year,
there appears great number of changes among
the royalties of Europe, some of them due - the
ordinary course of nature. and more being the
suit of political events There arc but thirty
eight sOvercigns in Ecr0pe, as follows: Three
EmpcrOrs. one Sultan. one Pope, ten Kings. two
Queens. six Grand Dukes, five Dukes and ten
Princes. The oldest sovereign il the Prince of
Reuss. Schlcitz. who is scvcnty-eight years old
The Youngest II the Prince of EcuSS. Vet minor.
of the rei@nin@. living sovCTcigus. the Prince of
Rudulstadt has rcigncd about
sixty years. The Duke of Anhait has rci@ncl the
shortest space of time, dating only to 1850. of
these thirty-esht InOnarclIs, five have never mar
rc'l: the King of Greece the Duke of Brunswick,
and the Princes of Lcichcnstcn and of Reuss.
The Queen of England Is widow: and five are
wid1wers: the King of Italy. the Grand Duke of
Icsse Darmstadt, the Grand Duke of Mccklcn-
bOurg Schwcrin, the Duke of Anhalt, and the
Prince of Monaco. The Prince of SchwarZbDurg
SJnderShatI-cn iS divorcc the Prince of Schwartz
bourg Rudnlstadt has lcit-handcd marriage
and the Sultan of Turkey l. very much married.
The general cutting down of high and mighty
titles III Europe is more marked by Il comparison
of this new alHamIck with the old, than any
European map shows.
~ firn ly-p
by sleep l. calculated to be about six or eight
hours out Of the twenty-uuT, it would greatly
promote the healthful maintenance of the price
less pearls, whose loss decay greatly inllu-
cnccs our Appearances AMI our comfort. II we
We're t. establish habit of carefully cleansing
the teeth with Il soft BRUSH and at the same time
pushing the food which may have become wcd@cd
between them. ont with soft pine spimt, before
going To bed. The small particles of food clog
@ing the gums impede circulation. generate tar
tar and carries, and affect the breath. Think oil
an anal91mati1n of flesh. cheese swcctmcats.
bread fruit. ,Sc.. in Il state of decomposition,
wcJaci between teeth for six or
eight hours Yet how few take the trouble to
attend To this most certain cause of toptlmchc.
di>cploration, and decay, cntainG the miseries of
scaling, plugging, extraction, and the crOwning
teeth.
WHY LETTERS FAN OF THEIR DEsTINATIoN.-
The Albany JOlTH0i has interesting article
upon tine subject of - missing letters, which we
subi,In. It should bc promised that the editor
speaks from knowledge derived from ms oihci;'l
position IN the Post Office of that city: - W hem
ever letters are missed, the fault Is charged upon
the Post Office. Bat in nine cases out of ten 1t
lies with the parties sending the letters lake
a few examples:
q. \ short time since Government officer IN
this city was notified that two letters had been
sent t. him, one containing check for :SSO.oOO
and the other for :3O,OOO, lie was. of course.
in great tribulation, and supposed the dclinqucn-
cv To- be in the Post Office. But the letters had
been directed To- the city of New York instead of
Albany. and discovered in the advertised
list. and secured. all right.
Recently gentleman IN Syracuse notified MIR.
Roess.Ic ~ the DclcyIn House, that he had for
wardcd him $500 To take up note But mo-
such letter came To- hand. Search was instituted
and inquiries made. but the letter could not bc
found. Ii was finally discOverel~in the Post
Office mt Syracuse. held for postage.
One Of our citizens lately nut thousand dol
lar draft in letter directed 90 Buffalo. II did
not reach it, destination and the Post Office was
duly mathematical when, 10 the letter turned
up among those held for postage.
y 80. .uGD check w:Is. the writer supposed.
sent L. Illinois but IL did not reich it, dc-tinI
ton. I'm due time IL returned {" hin from
the Dead Letter Office. Ii had been directed to
Michigan instead Of Illinois
Three members of family in this city own
stock in Western bank One of them received
the regular dividend, but the others did not
ifrcr u while it WAS fbuud that the Nv" missing
letters had been directed To New York instead "i
Albany
Instances like these are occurring every day.
The Post OiIicc Department l.. of course. held
when the letters are missed,
but not relieved from ccnsurc when the dein-
Gucncie- are found to belong to the parties them
selves. For no one likes 10 talk about MS own
bluuIrrs.
The chief cause of missing letters are tIr-t.
and. secondly. neglect to stamp
them properly or the latter, there have been
dcr,stci at the oicc in this city, since the iiI~t
Of january. I74. Except in cases where thc
writers are known (bv having their card upon
the cnveiope). these arc sent to the Dead Letter