The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1856-1888, 1867-06-08
Foreign Miscellany.

1he number OF Indians IN the United States ut
I present l. So, ,1Tl.
y postage stamp. tied with a cObwcb j. the
| last bonnet in Paris.
There mas never been n divorce granted in
/ South Carolina.
| America has 900 miles of telegraph Europe,
/ GO.OOO India, 5000.
! The New York Tribune boasts of canary bird
in its Office, which sings - Hail Columbia -
without skipping note.
| The box rent of the New York post-oiFce is
about $4,000 a year. One hundred and ftv-
six million letters passed through the Office last
year.
Mr.. Crane, paper maker in Saratoga county
New York, has invented paper which will pre-
vent cDunterlciting. lie runs minute threads of
gutta percha through the shc.t. 1t cannot be
initiated.
Boston papers complain of hard times, and say
tltt more people are now out Of employment in
that city than at any previous time for many
years.
The Victoria Cross has been conferred. for the
first time in England, ON Il colOcrd man, private
Samuel Hodge, l4th West India Regiment.
The homeopathic system of medicine nou1ishcs
in Missouri. The attendance upon the college at
IT. Louis II increasing fast at grounds have
been purchased for the erection of new and Gle
CANT college buildings.
There is Il dentist in New York who pulls so
many teeth that the gold plugs extracted from
them worth five hundred dollars. lie takes
the teeth To his residence in BROOKLYN and uses
them 10 enrich his grape vines, they affording Il
large quantity of ammonia. The effect upon the
sTapes has been To make them bring forth am
abundance Of fruit. They must be quite tooth
some.
At the reform meetings i'm England, the :. Re
form League Minstreis = sing IL version Of an air
very familiar iii this country during the war Its
title, adapted To the needs of the English
workingmen, reads, - Wen Rally Round tine
League, Boys and the chorus is sung by thou
sands with great effect, thus
Freedom forever hurrah, boys. hurrah.
Down with the Tories, up with Reform.
While rally round the League, boys, rally again
Shouting the noble cry Of freedom
The AMALGAMATIoS OF RACES.-Some dayS AGO
n well dressed lady, with little child arrived at
Louisville Ky, and stopped ut of the first class
hotels. At the dinner table she sat down by the
side of another lady, who recognized her as -
person Of color" Lady No. = was highly indir-
nant, and reported lady No. l to the proprietor
of the hotel. who informed the latter that she
must leave. Ii in vain that she offered to
pay her bills. and comply strictly with the rules
of tine house it would not do 10 have Il - Niger
lady bOa?ier. and she turned of. Now
comes the sequel Both ladies were known to
another person in the house, who said No. l was
the half sister of No. ,, and thought Mrs.--
ought not to be 80 hard upon her sister. The
ladics married, understand, and both
slider themselves highly respectable. They were
born on the same plantation, had the same father,
but one had a white mother, while the mother of
the other was unfortunately yellow.
letter written from Boutourlnoyka, in the
Russian . Government y of EOroneSc, states that
on the critical night Of the lIth November last
the phenomenon of falling stars assumed peculiar
form
\ cross composed of these metcorites of cx-
traordnary briiancy appeared in the Eastern
part of the heavens. Around this cross there
ring displaying the colors of the rainbow,
II
observed. Two of these stars We're peculiarly
remarkable they came from two opposite points,
one from the East and the other from the West,
met within the circle, struck against each other,
and burst with Il loud explosion. After this,
tine circle and cross became fainter and fainter,
and then disappeared entirely. \ considerable
shower Of shooting stars followed, such rs was
observed elsewhere.
..YANKEE DOoDLE - IN SPAIx.-W. c. Bryant,
in closing his last letter from Spain, mentions the
following:
7 have mentioned the Basqucs, and have
incident t. relate which connects them, curIOusly
enough. with own country. Some time since,
when Perry. Secretary of the American Legation
mt Madrid. was in ono of the Basque provinces,
hc heard "a band playing their national airs. The
BasGuc- have preserved whatever l. peculiar To
them. their language, their customs. and many
of their political rights. from the earliest period
in which they are known u history their nation
nj music l. claimed to bc Of the same antiquity.
Altcr the band had played several other airs it
struck up Yankee Doodle" the very tune, in
every note. which i familiar u American ears.
Perry Immediately claimed it national air.
=. IL j. one Of our old tunes" said gentleman To
whom hc spoke. :. and | can convince YOU of the
fact. For hundreds Of years 1t has been popu-
Eir air among u.s. The gentleman aftcrvard
nad, good his assertion 10y showing Perry n
uScript Of great antiquity which contained the
same identical musical notes off, Yankee Doodle.
\ Paris journal proposed intellectual cx-
crcisc for it, subscribers the invention of Il suita
hc definition for thc iaircr IL received
immense quantity of answers, of which it gives Il
few -
-. \ woman il a necessity which Providence
has converted into an enjoyment.
=. Definition gcJmctrical-N oman i IOlygOn,
for she has many sides, good and bad
=. Ii j. Il being who has not the soul i'll the
BODY hut the body in the soul.
=. \ woman is being capable of experiencing
sensations. but sentiments never.
vt distance. without thorn; ap-
prDachcd-a thorn without a rose.
=. Women fill up the intervals in conversation
and in life like the down placed in glass boxes
we reckon the down nothing, yet everything
would break To- pieces without II.
=. The of the wOrln l. woman who
knows how % be distinguished with toilette Of
two louis, and simple with a toilette of a thou
sand crOwn-.
so never to be obliged to announce in what CIR
cles she moves
-. Ii i she who feels Mt home wherever she finds
herself