The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1856-1888, 1868-07-25

can Conflict to be distributed to the public libra
ries of Great Britain. with the intention. as his
letter explains. Ito proaer the British people,
through their most popular libraries. the means oil
making themselves acquainted with the causes,
nature and incidents of our great struggle
Tue Trustees of the Peabody Fund have decided
that Texas does not come within their province.
After So years of litigation Mrs. Gaines has ut
last got q decision in her favor from the Supreme
Court of the United States. which gives her proper
ty to the amount of 50 100000. The laws delay
in this case. has been to sonic purpose.
Iron curling is now being laid in Pittsburg. The
curb consists of an inch plate, Is inches broad,
pierced with holes. and having a corrugated fiange
at the top. The plate is embedded perpendicular-
lv beside the pavement and the tenge extends on
the surface several inches TO meet the bricks.
We read in an exchange that a comet may now
be seen with an instrument of low power, appear
ing like a hazy star, just sSirting the northern bor-
der of the Pleiades, and moving IN a northeasteriy
direction.
A Chicago mother. in her anxiety to temper JUS
tee with mercy. administered chloroforIn To her
offspring before giving necessary spanking
4 Chicago girl of sweet nineteen now sports her
fifth husband. His four predecessors enjoyed mar
ried life from six months 10 a year each.
The new California machine for laying railroad
tracks is laying ties and rails on the Vallejo and
Sacramento roads at the rate of two miles daily.
There is trouble about Artemus Wards property.
None of the money has been transferred to his
mother, and the English executors are suspiciously
silent on the subject.
Prussia. which country has but recently adopted
the use of postage stamps, disposed of no less than
69,66l. 070 during the past year. thereby realizing
4 sum of 81. 759. 622.
All fortresseS in Northern Germany will hence
forth be-connected by a line of telegraphic wires :;
in fact. they are already laid between Mayenee,
CoblentZ, Cologne. and the Silesian fortresses.
The Tariff for kilograms despatched from one
part of Paris to another is TO be reduced. At
present a message of twenty words costs 3D., or
15c. This, when the atmospheric tubes are estab-
liShed, will be reduced one-half..
A romance from real life "A woman in Brook
lyn purchased a quart of milk. and found a small
fish swimming in it. The milkman stated he thought
the COW must have swallowed the fish,
A fair nlinoisian advertises a Decatur newspaper
for a husband. He must be handsome, well-oi,
temperate, anti-tobacco. and go to church regular
ly." The lady is q, good looking and has money.
Pro RATh-The proportion of rats TO population
in France Is as fifty TO one. There are 10000 of
them to every square mile. and they sum up a total
of = 600. 600. 900 souls-we should say-tails. How
the census is taken is not stated. We presume.
however, a commission of cats is employed in the
duty.
Mr.. r. A. Fish. of Worcester. Mass. has invented
and patented n new fish hook. The shank. instead
of ending in an eye, doubles up almost its entire
length. so that the new hook looks like a hair pin
with a ban bed hook on one shank. This continue
ton of the shank acts as a lever to turn the hookin
the mouth of the fish and insure a catch.
Two curious advertisements appear in a London
literary paper. One is of an /" Industrious literary
man, OF positivist views. who wishes to obtain EN-
ployment in England, France. or Turkey, and who
will give $500. security The other is a notice to
" ministers, lecturers. and lay preachers" telling
them that - a respectable, but at present small con-
gregatiOn. who profess pure, simple christianity,
requires (sic) a gentleman of enlarged theological
views, to conduct the Sunday morning service"
CHINA.-"This mission means progress. Itmeans
that China desires TO come into warmer and more
intimate relations with the West. 1t means that
she desires to come under the obligations of inter-
national law, to the end that she may enjoy the ad-
vantages of that law. 1t means that China, con-
scious of her own integrity, wishes to have her
questions stated. that she is willing to submit her
questions to the general Judgment of mankind. 1t
means that she intends to come in the brotherhood
of nations. 1t means commerce it means peace !:
it means a unifcation in its own interest of the
whole human race. 1t means-as you have said
here to-night-that it is one of the mightiest move
ments of modern times. And though this ephemer-
al mission may pass away, that great movement
will go on. The great deed is done. The fraternal
feeling of four hundred millions of people has COM
menced to flow through the land of Washington to
the older nations of the West. and it will flow for
ever.'-Minister BurfinJdnae. IN his address at
San Francisco.
Carr. ScrIuRz-Upon being conducted to the
chair, Gen. Schurz addressed the Convention. At
the close of his speech he advocated the exercise of
n conciliatory spirit toward all. "In the hour of
disappointment" he said, Z" let not the passions in
famed by singing disappointment however keen
orr sense of wrong, carry us beyond the bounds of
wisdom and self-respect. The things that we have
10 accomplish III SO great tndt WDatcEer the prov
ocation may be we can certainly not afford to let
personal excitement seduce us into compromising
our dignity. Whoever may become our friend,
whoever may become our enemy, let us steadily
march on with unfiinc!ing determination to fulfill
all the duties that rest upon us, to secure justice to
the soldier who fought our battles. justice to the
Southern men who fought for the Union cause, JUS.
tice to the colOred race, to whom we have promised
true and eternal freedom, and justice to the national
creditor who has staked his credit. Let rs faith
fully strive to restore the honor of the Government,
to crush corruption inside of the party as well as
outside of the party. and to place honest, true, ca
pable men in public stations"
For the first time in the history of science the feat
has been practically accomplished of sending two
telegraphic dispatches at the same time, from oppo-
site directions over one wire, on long distances.
The inventor of the instrument is Boston man. and
the invention is one of great Importance, making
a second wire unnecessary, and doubling the capa-
city of existing lines.
..Answer your letters, says Emerson in one of his
discourses. Keep your friendship in repair meet
good viii half way" This is good advice. and much
needed by the majority of men. Letter writing by
most persons is felt to be an irksome task. yet how
it enlarges the circle of our friendship, and conse-
quent!y or our sources of rational enjoyment.
True friendship is a great soiace of life. but in this
world of separations it is difficult to maintain inter
course with friends without the aid of correspon-
dence. Friends go away. and are forgotten. Yet
what is more pleasant. IN the dull monotony of life,
than 10 receive q letter from n long absent. half
forgotten friends The man who gets no letters is
shut out from one OF the great enjoyments OF life.
How eagerly they are looked for by the absent
the traveller in a strange land. the adventurer seek
ing the fortune which is to make happy the dear
ones at home. Letters from homel how precious
they are.
European.
LONDON, June 25.-Midnight.-In the House of
Commons this evening, the Irish Reform bill was
read for n third time and passed. Included in the
above. n grant annually to the Presbyterian church
in ireland was voted.
The new postal convention with the United States
is still pending in the House. Government is en-
deayorinc to make uniform terms with all abe mail
steamships.
In the House of Lords tonight a great crowd
was present. as an exciting debate on the Irish
church question was expected. Many members of
tha uonsa u.ere ON the floor and the oalleries were