The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1856-1888, 1868-12-19
Foreign Summary.

Spain calls for German and English immigrants.
y French biography of General Grant has been
published,
General Lee and about forty other rebels are all
that remain unpardoned in Virginia.
Mrs. Anne 5. Stephens, the novelist, Is writing n
life of Andrew Johnson.
The English Hanson cab is becoming popular in
New York. The .Astor House keeps one for its
guests.
Arson Burlingame's Chinese name is Poo-an-
Chen, Chin-chi-c hoong jen-tachen. the pronouncia-
ton of which an English paper sneeringly COM
pares TO a prolonged sneeze.
The Conscience Fund of the United States Treas
ury. paid in between November, 1868, and June
SO. 1865. has reached the amount of $96,G92.
Efforts are making IN England to amalgamate
the two branches OF the legal profession, by abol-
fishing the distinction between attorneys and bar
riSteTs.
Two years ago, q Chicago lady, in the absence
of her lord, snapped a pair of the family horses
for five acres of land south OF the city. She Is
now offered $4,000 for the land.
Swearing on the Bible was first introduced into
judicial proceedings by the SaXons. about \. ID.
600. 1t was called a corporal oath. because the
witness touched with his hands some part OF the
Holy Scriptures.
The Egyptian Viceroy has sent his two sons to
Paris to finish their education, and Napoleon has
appointed a general army officer to instruct the
second Prince. y third Egyptian Prince has gone
to England.
nv L INV "a SANo ~NhAhNS W b"f bhf NhhS
to do with the FreemasOns- His father taught him
not to enter into any secret society unless he was
first theoretically made acquainted with its nature,
mysteries and objects.
The New York UofRI's old cry, Hang the
Herald" now "comes home to plague the in
~ventor.' Brick PomerOy's New York Democrat is
filed with letters from the rural districts, from in-
dignant Democrats who are stopping the WoTtd
and taking the Democrat.
Berkely Street Central Church, in Boston, sends
up the highest spire in New England. 1t is TWEEN
ty-sIx feet higher than the Bunker Hill Monument.
The ediGce and site cost S300,000.
Osaca. only opened as u free port last January,
seems destined to become the chief commercial
CITY of Japan. 1t has two newspapers, one pub
lisled by an American and the other by an Eng
lishman, and the next civilizing innovation that Is
projected is a railroad.
1t costs. on an average, S6,44O to get a seat in
the English Parliament. The aggregate amount
expended by all the members for electioneering
purposes was $3.7OO.1OO in gold. One member
paid S65, 900 for his seat, while that OF another
only cost him 81.
Louisa Muhlbach, whose books have enabled two
German publishers to make a large fortune, is poor.
In a recent letter she says that she would like TO
have money enough TO buy a small house and gar
den, which she might leave to her two daughters.
The report of Vandal. the French Postmaster
General, about the circulation of foreign newspa-
pers in France, states now that nearly as many
American journals are taken in France as English
ones, while but a few years ago the circulation OF
the former. as compared with that of the latter,
was as one to twenty.
4 writer observes: at is so well proved that
the destruction of woodlands promotes extended
drouths and ruinOus freshets, that the French Gov
ernment has provided for the replanting of thou
sands of acres of forests, as a protection for the
lands skirting the Alps against the tremendous
floods which render certain districts unfit for agri-
The Chinese have contracted the habit of cover
their umbrellas, rooms and houses. everything.
in short, with old European stamps, which they
-. l.. ,"l l,A Tho ~ Mic
sion, which has stations in China, collects these
stamps and sells them at IS. a thousand. From
the money so acquired the Mission educates such
as have been either exposed or sold as
slaves by their unnatural parents.
Capt. McDougall, of New York, has contrived a
way TO erect frame houses in a day. ready for
The description is not perfect. 1t APP
pears that he prepares frames at the mill in sections,
five feet square. so as TO quickly lnterlock very
firmly. No braces nor studding appear. but an
rod runs back of the basebOards. which holds
all strongly together. y house of six or eight
rooms. rafters and roof included, is put up in one
Law by five men. The price of a small house of
Lhrec rooms is given at $500 in currency. No Gel
are included. In this climate. and in the con-
iition of things in our city, and in the country also,
very slight housing would be in great request, if
The price correspondent.
The thousandth anniversary of the foundation of
he kingdom of Hungary is approaching, and pco-
pie are discussing the way in which the memory OF
go rare an event i'll the political history of Europe
ought to be pcrpetuated. Some propose the cree
ion of a colossal obelisk on one of the vast plains
IF hungary others prefer a national Pantheon on
he mountain which overlonks the capital. The
commune Of Pcsth, says the General Correspondence.
IF Vienna. will soon invite. by a circular letter. all
he jurisdictions of the kingdom TO meet in that
the programme will then be definitely fixed in
council of representatives of all the muuicipali-
les and comitats.
DIR. Fournic of Paris lately examined a Chinese
uggler named Ling-Look, who used To thrust a
abcr. almost three feet long, down his throat.
md swallowed a hens egg, but which he afterwards
pit out unbrukeu. 1t has hitherto been generally
believed that the saberS used by the Chinese Jug
Tiers for this purpose were not solid. but could be
like telescopes, so that they would re
main in the j~ugglcr's mouth but DIR. Fournic cN-
imincd the Chinaman's breast and felt the point of !
he sdhcr some 30 inches below the mouth. When
.ing-Look pretended To swallow the egg. itsccmcd
o the Doctor that he did not do so. lie caused I
he iugglcr to repeat the experiment, and discover |
ii now that Liug-Look rolled IL under his tongue.
where. in consequence of the long practice, quite a
avity had been formed.
I'm the recent report on leprosy prepared by the
'ollcgc Of Physicians. great prominence was given
the cruel neglect of the leprous outcast. and the
necessity and humanity OF deccntly lodging aud a
ousiug him. instead of allowing him to live on y
more like a wild beast than Il human being. II is
he hoped, writes the Lancet, the Government
viii not lose sight of the point. The Indian papers
ell us that the practice of burning lcpcrs alive is
till carried on i'm liljbootuna. 1t j. an easy aud
hort method of getting rid OF the afflicted. The
of Scroll has issued a proclamation iorhidding
he practice. under a penalty oi 10 years incarccr-
tiou but the prevention of the act il difficult.
me means to this end would be the provision of n
uiiablc lazarctto at or near Scroll. The expense
would he comparatively tritllng.