The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1856-1888, 1868-03-07

Their art IN Italy
Mr. Dickens is TO give his readings, in Brooslyn,
In Henry Ward ilttcileris church.
Punch calls the Grand Trunk of Canada the big
gest porimantiatt known. S@1
Some it-mizer asks if corn wbiskey necessarily
makes a mans ttr0at huskyy
For twenty years previous TO 1908 Delaware was
"a part OF fehnsy iyania.
Bayard Taylor has been riding over the Alps on
a railroad. He likes il.
The Montana Legislature kindly esempls law
yers' editors and idiots from jury duty.
The latest sensation story Is to the effect ihaf
Macmillan wasit shut alter all, and II II Mi Ans
body the Austrian Admiral is carrying home.
Humbng.
The custom of making calls on New Years day
is falling into disnse in New York. Too much
punch.
The London AHeaeua says of Mr.. Beecher S now
ell The present work shows that a man may ie
a fluent preacher, aud brother OF u clever woman,
and yet break down when he attempts 10 write n
novel;
A new and green Justice of the Pence in Kansas
closed marrying his first couple with these words:
What 1 have this night joined together let no man
but God Almighty put asunder.s l4N
Montreal papers are displaying mock grief nj the
low estate of the business of the law. The fact Is
discovered by the greatly diminished receipts from
stamp duties on legal Instruments.
Five YONG fellows in Berlin, Prussia, tried 70 90
seven days and nights without sleep. Three Of
them died in the attempt, and the others. who snr-
yiye, get no sympathy IN the Illness with which sisey
are paying the penalty of their foolhardiness.
Mayor Thomas, OF st. Louis. inspects the city Of
ficials personally. lie went cut on u IN midnight tour
OF inspection the other night, travelled eleven miles
and a half, and saw only four policemen. Another
night he rambled four miles and i~our-lfths of q
mile before he saw a policeman.
Postmaster Kelly OF New York has obtained per-
mission from the Post Office Department To sell
postage stamps and stamped envelopes TO drug
gists, stationers, and others, in different parts of the
city, at Il small discount. They will in turn sell
them 10 the public, which will be u great convent
ence.
A sporting Quaker puts his bets thus: Friend
Edward, thee thinks thy horse is faster than mine,
| value my opinion at $50. Now. II thee values
thy opinion at the same rate, we will put the money
together and ask our horses what they think of it,
and leave the conclusion to them"
A project is on foot for building twen;y-four
frigates. two TO be finished by each Spanish-Ameri-
can republic. The alliance is nearly complete he
tween Mexico. Peru and Chile.
The famous island of Juan Fernandez has been
colony.
During the month OF November there was depos-s
tied with the Freedman's Savings Trust Company
over half "a million of dollars. nearly $1,000 COM
ing from the negroes OF Baltimore, the same from
Beaufort. and Charleston, 5. c., and almost $4,000
from those in Louisiana This looks as If the freed
men could take care OF themselves"
Washington dispatches state that it liz intimsted
there that on the arrival of Sir Edward Thornton,
the new British Minister. the question of the rights
of American citizens abroad will be taken up and
satisfactorily settled. Ii is also suggested that q
declaratory bill will probably be introduced soon
into Parliament, to the effect that after a certain
date any British subject. on giving formal notice of
his intent, may become naturalized in any other
country withoutstbe British Sovereign having any
further claim upon his allegiance.
WHAT M,Gur HAVE BEEN SAID.-It is a little re-
markable, considering the native tendency of jour
nalsts to make caustic comments. that no one
should have explained the fact that Newman Hall.
saw fewer drunken people in month in America
than he had frequently seen In a day IN England:
and that Bishop Clark, of Rhode Island, saw no
such display of drunkenness in England as he was
familiar with at bome-it is a little singular that no
one should have said that this was because both the
travellers got into better society where they were
known-at home. naf-s~a Fssss4.&a
The Erie penny Dispatch, of the 18th, tells the
following: "A fisherman reports that yesterday
he saw a large gull dive down into the bay 10 catch,
a small herring swimming near the surface of the
water. At the same instant a catfish was coming
up from the bottom, with his large mouth wide
open. to catch a little fresh air. The herring got
out of the way just in time to be missed by the
gull. who dove ~headlong down the catfsh's throat.
Catfish and gull went to the bottom very, rapidly,Hs
European.
AStockholm newspaper, the FolksJlat, advises
the Swedish to follow the example of
Denmark, by selling to the United States the West
India Island, st. Bartholomew.
The Paris newspapers stat that many i.ousand-
objects of art have been purchased at tkes great
exhibition by English collectors. The South Ken
Is Dlti
inlaid Cabinet for 81, 700, Signor Castellani's col
lection of italian peasant jewelry for fl. loo. and0
the Theymar collection of Arabian and Caircne
LONDON, Jan. l9.-Mike Marratt. who. it is now
is positively known to be the party who
fired the fuse at the Clerkenwell explosion, has been
arrested at Glasgow and brought to London in irons
A man named Clancy has been arrested in this city
charged with firing upon the police. a. Fenian
was found this morning posted on the.
wall of the Mansion House. where il had been afRx-
ID despite the vigilance of the police. who have NO
to the lelpetrator of this daring act. The bold
and audacity of the Fenians, in the face of the
rigorous measures for repression which have been
adopted, excites much uneasiness.
Interventions have been solicited by the Popes.
Of the Germans, seventeen times French. fourteen:
French and Germans. one; French and Austrians.
French. Anstrians and Spaniards, one; English,
Germans, and Austrians, one; English and Spaniards,
SpanElfds. one; Hnngarians. one: Greeks. one.
the most extraordinary intervention of all was
hat in l749. when Pope Sixtns ", solicited the
of the Turks against Venice. The occupant az
Peteri-chair must have been i'm a bad way when
le solicited the assistance of such hopeless liercfics
is the Turks. In addition to the above list of in
ervent,ons. the ropes have freqsently appealed to
he faithful of all countries to enlist under their
acrcd banner l1 81 - n
AHysstS1A-The London Times publishes lengthy
etters from lis special correspondent with the
expedition describing the military sitr-
tion at Annssley Bay aud Massowab. The Times
emarks: . The letter of our correspondent with the
Gvanced guard of the sAbyssinian expedition,
ones IN time to make rs sober in our Christmas
nirth. IL Is plain enough that we have entered
pom an enterprise of considerable difficulty. and 1t
ppears too probable thai the time which mustupder
he most favorable calculations. be consumed before
"a can attain our objects. will be much greater than
&c had hoped. Those who have harped on the
Anglers and iupolicy of an attempted raid into the
cart of Africa may turn round and claim the credit >
{ having foreseen everything that has happened or
likely to happen. Egypt and Abyssinia are con-
aptly at war. and they were never more vehement :