The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1856-1888, 1867-05-04
American Summary.

The Chinese population in California ia 5S.30t
persons. one fourth OF whom are Employed upon
the Pacific Railroad.
\ young lady is reported in Harrisburg Wit
can play two pieces on the piano, and sing L third
all at the same time.
! \. colorcd man was fined one dollar and costs il
New London. Connecticut. for - grooming like u pos
sum = in meeting.
About two dozen fyst-class houses on fifth avcn
ne, New York. are for sale prices ranging from
5000 to 100000.
4. L. Stewart, of New York, has recently pur
chased Rosa Bonheur's Horse Fair for $4,000. II
is said that the artist originally received but 81 900
An ingenious Frenchman has Invented n method
OF stopping 4 running horse by Il contrivanco
which seizCs his nostrils and stops his respiration
Salt works have recently been erected npaI
Cambridge, Ohio, and some thirty barrels per day
are made, at a cost of sixty cents per barrel.
Figures will not lie is an old. and used to be
credited saying. But the Introduction of hoops
crinUiinc, hips. and cotton brcastworks, has played
the dickens with the prOverb.
The question of establishing n Chair of IIomeO.
pathy in the Michigan State University is being
vigorously canvassed in the Legislature of that
State.
On the Eastern Railroads the sleeping cars are
the favorite spots for the thieves of the rail 10
prosecute their calling.
Rev. Henry Ward Beecher delivered n lecture in
the Brooklyn Academy of Music, not long since,
Oh universal suffrage. in which he strongly advo-
Gated the extension of the suffrage to women.
Iron ore is taken from Missouri to Pittsburg, is
there manufactured, and then returned to Missouri
and sold. The Pixies think this should not be, and
are talking of iron manufactures at home.
So anxious were the Parisians to see the Exhi-
bition building. even in its unfinished state, that
$500 of them paid a frame each for a Sunday visit
to the enclosure one day last month.
The Kansas Legislature has adopted an amend
mcnt which strikes the words :" white and male
from the State Constitution. and makes intelligence
the basis of suffrage.
DEATH OF MR. BACHE.-Alcxander Dallas Bache.
Superintendent OF the Coast Survey, died on Sun
day, February II, of softening of the brain. He
graduated at West Point in 1924 and succeeded
Mr.. Hassler, on the coast survey, at his death i'll
1915.
In regard TO overstocking the market with dry
goods. an English paper says: THE truth is. that
machinery has been so improved, and its increase
in the country so great, that, with an adequate
supply of cotton TO work on. 1t could soon furnish
fabrics for another planet as large as our own
\ Western paper, after chronicling the fact that
Queen Victoria has an income of over two millions
OF dollars a year. and yet always keeps her expen-
ses within five hundred thousand. thus saving a
million and a half per annum, remarks D." There's
a widow worth going for"
THE BELGIAN PAvEMENT-Broadway, New York,
is 10 be repavcd between the Battery and Four
teenth street with the ''Bclgian pavement" The
material is granite in blocks three and onc-half to
four inches wide, eight to twelve inches long and
nine inches deep. Cost. So per square yard.
Mr.. Stewart intends charging his uptown store
at New York, SO that it will cover the entire square
bounded by Broadway. Tenth street. Fourth aven-
ne and Ninth street. 1t will then be the largest if
not the most magnificent business establishment in
the world.
A Frenchman. who has been in India. speaking
of tigcr-hunts. Pleasantly remarks: When ze
Frcnchman hunts re tigarc, ah re sport is grand,
MAGNITUDE, but, when ne tigare hunt &c French
man. oui zere is ze devil TO pay"
TIE JAPANESE EMBAssY.-By the Colorado an
Embassy to Washington, arrived at San Francisco,
and ii is needless to say that in America they will
receive all attention. as they have a right from the
nation which opened their country to influence and
m of the world. 1t is understood that they
return by way of the Hawaiian Islands in Scptem-
Der next.
WAR SHIPS IN HoNGKoNG-The American ships
of-war in China waters are the Hartford, flagship
of Admiral Bell, Commander Carpen-
ter; Shenandoah, Captain GoldsborOugh: 1ShHUeiOt,
Commander Tebingcr Supply (storc ship, Com
mander Conroy, at Hongkong Wyom ing, Com
mandcr Bankhead. at S~hanghac and WdchuSeus,
Commander Shufelt. at Choofoo.
The Methodist Centenary collection now foOts up
over S3.SO0,00O. and it Is not all in yet. II will
probably reach Si.OO0.0 900. OF this sum Daniel
Drew. OF New York. gave $500. 900 Mr.. Baldwin.
of Ohio. S30O.0O0: Mr.. Rich. of Boston, S7j. 900.
and many others from $4,000 10 $4,000 each.
Good resolutions were numerous in Boston on
New Years Day. and on the Saturday following
the Five Gents Savings Bank in that city received
S3I 900 in deposits. which is said TO be the largest
amount ever taken in one day by any savings bank
in the city.
New Rule IN BILLIARD PLAYTNG.-The last num-
Der Of the Billiard Cue contains an announcement
from Mr.. Phclan Of an important change in the by
laws of the game OF billiards. Heretofore when
the cur-ball was in contact with another, or
" frozen" the player must strike another ball before
the one with which he was in contact, in order to
count. Mr.. Phelan announces that after the first OF
January. n player. if his ball be frozen. can count.
provided he plays away from the ball with which
ia j. in contact .lEh.trrb. on tho PatnrD of tho nm
ball from the cushion or nidsSe it touches that to
it was frozen first. the rule seems fair, and
will occasionally lengthen a run.
\ petition is being circulated among the colored
people Of Kentucky, asking the Legislature to
secure to them an impartial distribution Of the
school funds TO grant the right of testimony unre-
stricted the admission Of the color,d insane,
idiotic and inffrm puuperS into institutions provided
for them. and the benefits of sucn civil enuctments
as are deemed necessary for the protection of per
son, property. virtue and labor. The petition
closes with an earnest appeal for increased educa-
tional privileges o. Indispensable 10 the welfare
Intelligence Of their children, and for the pros
perity OF the State.
EDUCATIONAL ~ TiE SouTI-Mr. Geo. Peabody
has just made u donation to the southern poor, TO
the amount Of one million OF dollars. This liberal
may be the means OF doing an immense amount
Of good. If this large fund il put into the proper
hands and is jUdiciously managed il will undoubt-
eddy 20 far towards relieving the destitutiOn which
IS commonly reported TO be prevalent throughout
the Southern section Of our country. But whether
be properly used or misapplicd we can but honor
the motives Of the generous donor. lie has how
ever. in contemplation. if report be true. another
donation for the benefit Of the South of Il somewhat
different character and one which promises to be
productive of vastly more good. lie proposes to
furnish the funds for establishing "a uniform system
Of education. throughout the Southern States. Il
Is TO be hoped that he will carry this plan into
immediate effect. The educational privileges of
the south have been and still are extremely linn
Education has been confined to the upper
classes Of society, while the middle and lower
which constitute the great body of the pop
1latIOu, have been allowed to remain in e blissfui
ignorance. The political leaders of the South
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