The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1856-1888, 1868-09-19
American Miscellany.

American Miscellany.
Hiram Powers has made 5000. 900 in Italy by his
art.
y Missouri graveyard was sold for taxes the
other day.
Rice lands. well cultivated. produce 800 pounds
to the acre.
The excess of births over deaths in England is
more than II thousand a day.
just one half of the American exhibitors in the
Paris Exposition received rewards.
In London. recently. there were forty eight mer-
chants fined in one day for using false weights and
measures.
Three million patent strawberry boxes have been
ordered by one firm in New York for next seasons
business.
They have a solar surgeon in New York. He
cauterizes cancers and the like by concentrated
sunlight.
l. Ralph Waldo Emcrson's income return Is 1888.
That ot Alvin Adams, the express man. is S62,612.
! The annexation fever manifested by the small
towns around Boston will culnlinate IN 4 bill to the
Legislature for general consolidation.
Portland is in ecstacieS over the Vermont marble
for its new post Office. The marble is of the finest,
and the ediicc will be the gem of The city archi-
lecture.
be made by the agents of the hair dresserS of Paris
among the long sllky-laircd tribes of the South
American Indians To supply the anticipated demand.
There are now 600 persons in the State Insane
Asylum in California-4G0 males and 200 females.
The ". Y. Observer Orthodoxy is shocked at the
printing and putting of Henry Ward Beecher's
prayers, and remarks: "Ii this is praying. the
less we have OF it in books or pulpits the better
1t is settled in New England circles that by Nor
wood Mr.. Beecher meant Northampton. And now
it is established. on the same reliable authority,
that Oxbow Village. in DIR. Holmes Guardian An
GEL Is but another name for Haverhill, New
Hampshire.
An Alabama paper announced that it would keep
silent in regard TO a Z" certain little affair. If Il bot
tie OF champagne were sent to the Office. The edi-
tor received seven bottles from seven different
parties.
\ deputltion from the English Bible Society re-
Gently presented the Emperor Napoleon with Il
copy of an English Bible. The Emperor made a
brief address to the gentlemen OF the deputation. in
which he declared il was his first rule to protect all
religions.
\ man advertised for a wife. and requested each
candidate to inclose her carte de visite. a spirited
Young lady wrote to the Advertiser in the following
terms: Sir. / do not inclose my carte for,
though there is some authority for putting 4 cart
before a horse, ! know of none for putting one be-
fore an ass
\ poor woman, wife of a retired soldier. living at
Nuns Hill, near Valparaiso. has recently brought
forth six children at one birth. four boys and two
girls, and is at present wonderfully well under the
circumstances. sucking her children herself, and
exhibiting n vigorous vitality.
My PEw.-Some years ago. a lady from a South
ern city went to pass = short time at a watering
place. The sunday after her arrival she attended
divine service at the small church of the place, and
took her seat in the first convenient pew. Before
long the mistress of the pew entered and sat down.
with many sour looks at the intruder. These looks
producing no effect, the owner leaned forward and
said, Z" Madam, this Is my pew" 81 congratulate
you" said the stranger. 81 it is an excellent pew"
The proprietor drew back, quite astonlshed but,
after "A few minutes, returned to the charge Il
said. Madam. that this is my pew Indeed: 1t
is truly comfortable pew. The light is very pleas
- here After this all went well till the hymn
anS~, ont, when the stranger took up a hymn
was givcn~~ 1g for the first line. when the
book. and was looSr Ma6am, that is my
pew-owner interrupted hcr. crodit y said
book YOU have there 1T does you oreu-@
the other. lit is very handsomely bound, ana the
print is exceedingly clear. You must take great
pleasure in it." This last repulse was complete,
and nothing more was said till the service ended,
when the intruder thanked her unwilling hostess
for the use OF her excellent pew, protesting that
she had never been more comfortable In church
\ NEW TERRIroRY.-In the House of Represent,
atives ut Washington. Mr.. Ashley. of Ohio, reported
a bill for the organization of the Territory OF wy
Ming lpg; Ii proposed to form ~ 4 ' ,I" paIa ,,
area OF nearly one hundred thousand square miles
contains fifteen thousand inhabitants. and that the
population is rapidly increasing, on account of dis
coveries OF rich gold mines. The Governor of Da-
kotah has recommended the proposed division.
The capital is TO be Cheyenne City.
\ philosophic and thrifty editor thus moralizes:
q" Either our fashionable young men are seized with
a sudden fit of economy, or their salaries have
been cut down so that they can't dress themselves
respectfully. 1t is really painful to see them going
into the streets. their thin legs shivering in the
scantiest Of pants. and their coats so short as To
leave a considerable portion of their bodies ex-
posed to the searching Winds
II was frank-at least-on the part OF a Rhode
Island Judge, before whom n liquor dealer was
arraigned. that. in reviewing the evidence. he adj
mitted its ineficiency, saying that under ordinary
circumstances the defendant would be entitled TO
a discharge; but. he added, the court cannot ig-
more the evidence of its own senses. The court
has frequently drank a; your bar and would stulti-
fy itself if it protested any doubt of your guilt.
The court therefore imposes upon you a ine of $50
and costs.
GETTING WET.-Whena person is wet he ought
never to stand. but To continue IN motion till he
arrives at q place where be may be suitably accom-
modated. Here he should strip off his clothes, to be
changed for such as are dry, and have those parts
of his body which have been wetted well rubbed
with a dry cloth. The legs. shoulders, and arms
are generally the parts most exposed to- wet they
should, therefore. be particularly attended to. IL
is almost incredible how many diseases may be
by adopting this course. Catarrhs, in
rheumatisms. diarrheas. feyeTs. and con-
sumption are the foremost among the train which
follow an accident of this kind.
Prussian military chemists have reduced nitro
tn a condition available for military use,
and grenades filled with it and shot from guns of
moderate caliber are said to have smashed the
stongest cuirass that ever covered the sides OF an
ship. Nitroglycerine has been reduced
to a solid by precipitation. The combustibility of
this dangerously explosive fluid is considerably di-
minished. while its force remains unimpaiTed. As
necessary in handling nitro-glycerine, the value of
the discovery il exceedingly important.