The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1856-1888, 1867-12-14
News.
Late Foreign Miscellany

\ new printing press has been invented at Nor
walk, Connecticut, that will print $4,000 papers an
hour.
General Beauregard writes to a Baltimore paper
that :" he is an outlaw in his own native country
This is equal to the man who said be was an Irish
man, though he wasn't born in his own native land.
A man in Maine has invented a machine for
digging potatoes. 1t consists of a scoop made of
boiler iron. which is driven under the potatoes. and
lifts them with the earth upon a hopper, on which
the earth is shaken off, and the potatoes thrown
into the furrow behind the machine.
Said Tom. " since I have been in France l have
eaten so much veal that | am ashamed to look a
calf IN the face" " dispose, sir, then" said a wag,
:. you shave without a glass;
An Irishman. writing from Philadelphia the other
dav to his friend in the old country, concludes a
letter thus: &" II liver it's me fortune to live till !
dy-and God nose whether 1T IS so-IlI visit ould
Ireland afore / lave Phildmadelfy."
The new grass so rapidly spreading in the South,
called Lespidasa. came from Japan. The Charles
ton papers unite in pronouncing it the greatest
blessing in the form of grass that has ever been
bestowed on the South.
London journal notices the certainly striking fact
that during the ten years of almostunbroken peace,
ending with March last, the expenditures of the
English Government have been greater than during
the previous decade, which included the terrible
Crimean struggle.
During the war a lady passing from cot to cot
through the wards of Il hospital. was shocked to
hear a soldier laughing at her. She stopped to re-
prove the wretched fellow why, look here.
ma'am." says he, =" you have given me a tract on
the sin of dancing when I've both legs shot OFF,;
EIGHT HoURs-The 5. f. car says that the ship
carpenters and steamship companies have come to a
mutual understanding relative to the eight-hour
system. The eight-hours for a days labor has been
adoptcd-both sides making concessions, which
means that the companies take fewer hours, the
carpenters fewer dollars.
An Ohio paper relates the folio wing
animal six inches long. with scales like a
fish. has been removed from the stomach of n young
lady i'm Jefferson Ohio hut another livinU object
as large as a mans. fist, remains, and cannot be
removed without an incision into the body of the
woman. This object sometimes comes to the wO-
mans throat. and almost strangles her"
An Alabama paper administered a most crushing
rebuke to one of the gentleman who are in the
habit of indulging in the bluster about fighting
again in case OF a defeat at the polls. 1t said ::
Why didn't you fight when fighting could be of
some uSe2 You who clustered while we fought are
very ready to renew the battle. We who fought
while YOU staggered have had quite enough of it."
CHIEF JUSTICE CHASE on FEMALE SUFFRAGE.-It is
reported that in a recent conversation with Lucy
Stone. Mr.. Chase said Be free To say from me
that | think there will be no end to the good that
will come by wOman's suffrage. on the elected. on
elections. on Government. and on woman herself.
/ have said this in public and private for many
years. | am glad that an effort Is making in Kan
sas to accomplish it. and / shall rejoice when the
elective franchise shall be as free to women as it is
now to men. | think, too. this Will be at no distant
day
4 colored preacher at the South recently said in
a PRAYER" O Lord. be pleased to shake your
great table-cloth over your hungry children dat
dcy NAV be- fed wild de crumbs of youT love"
Another. preaching at Port Hudson. used the
following illutration De whole oh Gods relation
To Us am like de wheel. De Lord Jesus Christ al
de hub. the Christians am de spokes. and de tire
am De- grace of God a binding EN- all together and
de- nearer we get to de hub. de nearer we get TO
each other"
\ NEW CoyNTFRFEGT-We have been shown a
new counterfeit half dollar. as we'll calculated to
deceive a anything in the line we have ever seen.
1t purports to be coined at san Francisco Mint. 1t
Is slightly lighter than the genuine coin, but not so
much 50 a to be readily detected. and the ring Is
fair. 1t Is composed of base metal, heavily plated
with pure silver. and looks much like a genuine
halfdoIlar which has been partially coated with
quicksilver-ikd-
NEGRO SUFFRAGE-The question Of negro suffrage
was submitted. the other day, to the people of Ohio.
the Republicans carried the State. And now the
same question has been voted on by the people of
Kansas. who have also said d" No " by 5000 to TO-
Gao majority. The question of female suffrage was
voted on. also. by the people of Kansas on Tues
day. and they cast more votes for female than for
negro suffrage.
The New York hotels the past year did well.
The Fifth Avenue Hotel is reported 10 have made
a clear profit Of SI2I.000: the 81. Nicholas SllO.-
900: the Metropolitan. SI0o. 900 the Astor. S75,-
600 the Brcvoort. S6e.0Oo the Clarendon. $50
600; the Gramercy Park. $4,000; the Barcelona
(SpauiSh). S75.0 900 the Union Square. $4,000