The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1856-1888, 1868-11-28
Foreign Miscellany.


; Bismarck's estate covers sixteen thousand acres
3 French herlcd shoes are going out vi fashion
and velvet coats are coming IA.
S There are more than a hundred houses in Fifth
SAyenue that rent at $4,000 a year.
1 The Australian newspapers are beginning to be
Sprinted Oh paper manufactured in the colonies.
: Italy has realized thirty-two million dollars from
the sale OF church property in eight months
!; 1t takes twelve large steamers TO do the passen-
ger business between New York and Albany.
J There are five or six thousand Chinese in New
York city.
Z Pugiiism is a; a discount in England. The gov
Sernmcut has determined to put a stop 10 prize
S German laborers who have gone to Kentucky
care leaving their employers. complaining that the
S~latter treat them too much like slaves.
: At the Camilla massacre the freedmen were
shunted with bioodhounds and when caught were
abutcLered in cold blood.
: a dispatch was received in Boston, the other
Sday, i'll twenty-four hours from Calcutta.
: Garibaldi has resigned his seat in the Italian
Parliament. because he was of infrm body and
could no longer aid an abandoned people.
: Lady Franklin. recently returned from Asia, Is
NOW staying at Bagneres de Luchon (Haute-Gn-
sronne, France) She is now nearly eighty years OF
.iage-
: England doesn't know what to do with King
-TkeodOre's son. now that she has got him. Sh.
shas princes enough of her own TO provide for.
3 Land is so cheap in Arkansas, that a local paper
ssays you have TO look sharp or they will smuggle
Jan extra forty acres or so on you when they make
sout the deed.
: German papers say that Mrs. Lincoln purposes
s~residing near because her
flimited income will enable her TO live there in bet
ster style than in this country.
! \ western editor. in response to a subscriber
swho grumbles that his morning paper was intolera-
tbly damp. says a. that it was because there was so
much due on IL"
! Col. Gowan, the American. who raised the ships
ssunk at Sebastapool. is to make an attempt on The
SSpanish galleons which the Dutch and English fleets
sscnt to the bottom of Vigo Bay, somewhere about
sl7O2.
! Chewing paper is the latest invention of the
scOnfectioner, intended to take the place of chewing
sgum. 1t Is made of slippery elm, &c, and comes
gin strips about an inch wide and three inches long.
I The young King of Bavaria is to marry the only
of the Emperor Alexander III. whose sister
ss Queen of Wurtemburg. This is regarded as an
Sindication of the increasing influence of Russia iii
Germany.
! \ Southerner has invented a machine by which
sFlorida canebrakcs can be reduced to a fibre fit for
making paper. He thinks he can deliver it in Bos
ston at two cents per pound, and claims it is supe-
srior to cotton rags.
] A bridge is projected across the Delaw are, at
philadelphia, to be 5000 feet in length, and i'll the
scentre 200 feet above high water mark. The cost
Sf the structure when completed, is estimated AT
3, 0O0, 900.
/ The highest prize has been awarded this year, at
sthe Berlin University, to an essay on the causes ami
sefiects OF the American war. 1t was written by al
syoung German n~oblemam, whose parents live in
sPosen.
] 1t is rumored, say Punch, that Caicraft is engag-
led in compiling a history of hanging down to the
sdate of the abolition of public executions. He in
itends to call it :. The Decline of the British Hemp
] 1t is said that the library shelves of the British
.Museum, if placed in a continuous line. would ex1
tfan1 no laSS than ftyautu-Eyp miles Tho aaoasSinn
sof books keeps growing at the rate of about 20.
1000 volumes a year., or between fifty and sixty al
day.
i Ii is rumored that George d. Prentice is to take
charge of the Louisville Democrat. The Journal
a denial of the report that Mr.. Prentice
shas been discharged from its editorial staff. Id
says that Mr.. Prentice is not poor, but in affiuenl
his homestead alone being valued
stt thirty thousand dollars.
! Prof. Agassiz and his party are now at Denver.
colorado. A correspondent writes that the great
snatnralist is :" fairly sweltering with enthusiasm 7
He finds abundant material to sustain his glacial
theory. According to the same correspondent.
i All Brazil was nothing 10 what he had seen of
:natural beauty and scientific revelation already I'M
icrossing the Plains"
] The Emperor of Russia has declined to ratify
sthe treaty concluded by his Generals in Turkistanl
with the Emir of Bokhara. This, taken i'm connect
iion with the late news of the Emir's death, looks
sominous. If the Russians mean to insist on push
ling their advantages further in Central Asia, thew
tcannot have a better chance than now, when the
supreme power has fallen into the hands of a boy
sof seventeen.
The following bon mot of the Emperor is record
led: The Prince Imperial was distributing to some
oh the road part of the two hundred francs
father had given him for this purpose, when the,
3cortege passed a placard which was inscribed the
notice, "Mendicity is forbidden in the whole de-
of the Basses Pyrenses." One of the
stides-de-camp pointed it out, remarking to the,
Prince that he was infringing upon a prefeciional'
decree. "Mendicity," replied the Emperor. "isl
forbidden, but charity is enjoined."
STABILITY OF THINGS IN ENGIAND.-In one of his
lectures, Mr.. Emerson tells a story to exemplifyI
stability of things in England. He says that;
jWilliam Wykeham. about the year 1850. endowed!
Ia house in the neighborhood of Winchester, to pro-
wide a measure OF beer and a sufficiency of bread
ito every one who asked it. forever and when Mr.
Emerson was in England, he was curious to test:
THAT mans credit; and he knocked at the door,i
his request, and received his measure OIL
beer and quantum of bread, though the owner hadl
been dead 500 years!
TALL. CHIMNEY. - The tallest chimney in thes
Iworid is said to be that at the Port Dundas works /
Cow. Scotland. Its height from the foanda-!
zion is 46S feet; above the ground 454 feet. thei
Foundation being IA feet deep the outside diameI
on a level with the ground, is 81 feet, ut thci
top, ~ feet 4 inches. The most wonderful part off
story of this lofty chimney is that. having beens
twisted ont of the vertical line to the extent of "a
Q inches. by II violent wind. before the mortar
twas hardened, human skill has reduced it 10 per-
perpendicular again. The Mortar was sawed.
on the windward side, so as to allow the chin
to settle sufficiently TO restore the perpendicu !
lar. 9
A late number of Al TIE Year Round contains
ban announcement from Mr.. Dickens, that on tbes
completion of the present volume he will conf
|mence an entirely new series. AS to bis coll
leagues, Mr.. Dickens remarks that they will conf
;iuue to DC his associates in the new enterprise !
in company with those younger comrades whomi
u have had the pleasure of enrolling from time to-
time, and whose number it is always one of MY
|pleasantest editorial duties to enlarge" The exA
ira Christmas number is to be abolished. because
III has been go extensively and regularly. andE
often initiated that it is i'll danger Of becoming5
tiresome." I
THE FRENCH ATLANTIC CABLE.-The manufacturer
Of the new transatlantic submarine telegraph ca
Die for the French company (Societe du Cablet
Trans-Atlantique Francois, Limited) was accord1s
ing to the contract with the Telegraph ConstrucE
ton and Maintenance Company, Limited, conf
menced at the Gutta Percha Works, Wharfroad :
City road, yesterday. 1t is understood to be ins
tended to suhmerge the cable next Summer. be-
tween HrpSt and the limited States lj0 tho IslandF