The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1856-1888, 1868-10-24
Foreign Miscellany.
living cat has been found in India.

Xenophon Demosthenes Tingley graduated re.
Gently at Brown University.
The British Royal Family cost the country
$50, 500 900 annually.
An exchange heads an article az 4 dangerous fe-
male as If they were not all dangerous.
Redpath, the Abolitionist, will act as Du Chail-
LUIS agent in the lecturing business this winter.
Imitation pearls for dress trimmings and neck
laces are much in vogue.
Browning's . longest poem in the language
will shortly appear.
1t is said short dresses will be in vogue for
parties and balls next winter.
The poetical works of the late : Miles O'Rcilly,''
edited by his friend Savage, are in press.
Dayton, Ohio, annually manufactures GA ,OOO
gallons of linsecd oil, worth 81 200 900.
The patent safety coffin was advertised under
the head OF amusements in the ". Y. Times.
Edwin Booth paid Sl25 per yard for some cloth
for his new dress for . : Richelieu.'
timber mpregnated with silicates is much used
for fre-proof floors in Germany.
Not less than 800 houses have been erected in
Kansas City this year.
The new cable in the Persian Gulf is to be in
sulated with copper instead of gutta percha.
They are going to try n preparation of petrole-
um In France to FIRE cannons with, instead of
powder.
10000 babies in Paris are farmed out every
1884, AANN-HAd4NC VI " lut nTsI wear.
Emerson, it is said, has not failed to study or
write at least six hours n day in the last 80 years.
Great activity is reported among the minor
opera composers of Italy.
Brigands about Rome are more lively and sue
ceseful than ever before.
New York city spent more than So, 600, 900 for
school purposes last year.
III. F. Parrish has a nursery of over 90 900
fruit trees growing near the old Mission Ridge
battlefield, at Chattanooga.
Bazile Gabine a Russian lawyer, is travelling
through this country to observe the administra-
ton o., justice.
The Manchester, England, Unity of Odd Fellows
has a fund of So, 900 900 sterling and a member
ship of 100, 900.
In Philadelphia a new style of water carts has
appeared. They are cubical, handsomely painted
and covered with advertisements.
Independence Hall. in Philadelphia, has been
furnished up, and the eagle and ball ON the stce-
pie are Respondent with new gilt.
Fifteen hundred miners in Mahoninr Valley,
Ohio, have gone to work again after all unsucccss-
full strike of four months.
1t is reported that DIR. S. S. Booth of Philadel-
phia, a brother of Edwin Booth, is about TO re-
turn to the stage, which he abandoned many
years ago.
An ingenious Londoner collects catalogues from
shopkeepers and sells them by the pound to retail
butter dealers.
The last Ba.ar illustrates the Grecian bend as
exhibited Mt Saratoga 1t is worse than the Po-
ice GGSene.
Four bridges have oeen destroyed by freshets
ON the Atlantic and Great Western railway, be-
tween Salamanca and Cory, penny
\ fash of lightning lasts only the one millionth
part of a second, according to Arago, the celebra-
ted French savant.
English courts have decided that an editor may
call La yyers 81 80 lan0 aarei fat sbnuliarad cpf
manned breed"
Paris uses more than twice as much illuminat-
ing gas as ten years ago. 1t cost the city nearly
half a million dollars in gold to light the streets
last year.
France has given two iron-clads to Turkey, and
them.
that the announcement of the death Of Mr.. W
is a malicious fabrication"
The reporter of the Brooklyn Union narrowly
escaped being mobbed the other evening, by a
party CT roughs, who took him for a whisky
spotter."
Madagascar's Queen was buried in n silver box
valued at las ,000f. Her jewels, dresses, furni-
ture, and also n box full of piasters, which re-
quired 10 men to carry, were also buried with
her.
Beecher once said that the . opening voluntary
should be like a screen rolled down between the
CpiEIt5uliOu 'h4 III NDEAu. Dul Wlen lL lOllb
up, what then?
The St. Petersburg Gasette says there is now
in the Russian capital the richest Chinese library
in the world. 1t consists of IL ,6O7 volumes,
l jos wood engravings, and 276 manuscripts.
All the railroad conductors in Connecticut
have received special police commissions,
will enable them more readily to deal with
unruly passengers.
An Is year old miss, lately from one of the
In ghIouab lp Nyn tprinp plappg spys thera JS nnfhipu ]
mean about her lover. He had given her an
50, 900 ring as u sOuueHir.
Only nine per cent. of the area of Sweden is
cultivated, the rest being covered with forests,
but much of the growth is young, and extensive
Expectations have been committed on the older
trees.
Barton f. Allen of Baltimore has been decorated
Is n knight OF the Order of the Rose by the En-
peror Of Brazil, for his efforts in obtaining a sub
'cription for an invalid soldier asylum.
Pennsylvania is erecting a very large State hos
nital for the insane at Danville. 1t il to be l ,1I2
in length, and provided with all the modern
improvements.
Cornell University has u full set of the British
Office publications, which already fill
? 300 volumes and increase at the rate of 100 vol
lines a year.
Springfield, Illinois, will lay the corner stone of
he new State House October 5th, with Masonic
ceremonies. 1t is intended to make the OCCASION
grand one.
c. L. Hicox of Albany, New York, has agreed
% walk from that city to lion, 81 miles in "a
starting as soon as the result of the Presi- ,
lential election is known. II Grant is elected, he
nothing if Seymour, he will receive 500.
The tombs in New York is about to have its
exterior &" renovated" tits certainly ugly enough
o deserve something of the kind, but if all stories
ire true, there is plenty to be done before the in
ide will be suitable for human habitatiou.
An intoxicated clergyman, raying mad, and :
.razy with the idea that some one had robbed him
f 500, 900, WAS the sensation on the steamer
Palestine, on it's tripfrom Henderson to Louisville,
lie other day. =
\ new Catholic Cathedral will soon be built ut Z
(Penn. y which will be one of the grandest
nd costliest in the country. y fund of Sl25, 900, =