The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1856-1888, 1868-02-01
American Miscellany.

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penitentiary through a tunnel 60 ieet long.
Louis NAPOLEON ownsr real estate in San Francis
CO. He may come 10 look after 1t some day.
The proprietors OF the -AtlaHfic Monthly have
made $1,000 out OF the magazine since they took
charge of it. -.
In some part of Kentucky water is so scarce, that
il has been hauled by the car load from Louisville
to a distance OF nifty miles into the country.
English settlers in New Zealand transport with
them boxes of common house flies. which extermi-
nate the native New Zealand blue-boitle.
Michigan has a new secret society composed ex-
clusively of females. having tor its object the NOR
al and intellectual Improvement of women.
The cost of the original Capitol at Washington
city was Sl.400.000 The additions. now nearly
completed, viii cost Sl2, 600. 900.
The body is the she'll of the soul, and dress is
the husk OF the soul but the husk often Indicates
what the kernel is.
Col. Forney published a card. declaring that he
Is fully authorized to state that Grant heartily en-
dorses an editorial in the Philadelphia Press. ia
voring him for President and declaring his Radical
principles.
\ DAMsEL in Boston lately borrowed FIVE hundred
dollars, and gave herself as collateral" The
note has one year to run.
"WHL you lend father your newspaper. sirs he
only wants to read it," Yes. nv boy, and ask
him to lend me his dinner 1 only want to eat it,"
George II. Pendleton of Ohio, is recommended
as a suitable Democratic candidate for the Presiden-
cy by leading Ohio papers. A Connecticut paper
hoists the name of Gov. James Z. English for Pres
ident. 81.
Senator and Mrs. Summer did, after all. occupy
this winter their new house on Lafayette Square
Washington. This disposes of the assassin like re-
ports which have been circulated in regard to
them.
A room at the Springfield Armory is set apart
for relics. One has an attempt at Latin. thus -
"Reb-Nincent amor patriae." \ rife made ex-
pressly for J.B. Floyd is there.
A msnaiee. or sea COW. which is not q cow nor a
tsh. but esemble both, a sort OF bovine mermaid
in short, has been captured in Florida, and the Ia
dies will soon be poking their parasols at it in the
Geological Gardens.
The New York Herald remarks that nearly all
the stock brokers who have figured for fifteen or
twenty years in the stock market have come out as
they commenced. In fact. Wall street is an eXpen-
sive three-card monte table.
INTRICATE.-An Oregon paper says: The Herald
mentions that Levi Anderson Esq, of Portland.
lately married a couple at st. Johns Precinct,
wherein the bride as IA daughter of the wife of a
brother of the bridegroom. May we ask what re-
lation is she to her husbandf
FIFTY thousand Allen breech-loaders. ordered
by the War Department from the Springfield Ar
mory, are nearly completed. The monthly returns
of officers whose commands have use the Allen
guns. are unanimous in praise of its efficiency, and
rapidity of its Gre.
a new idea with regard to weddings has been
invented in Connecticut. A citizen of that State
announces that his golden wedding will come off
just thirty years from now. and offers a liberal dis
count on any presents his friends then design to
make him. N .H tvtV EA 4
A human donkey at Chicago was staring at a
mans wife the other evening, with a %lorgnette,
when the married man took the printed card TAX
en- which lay on a reserved seat near by. and
held it up before his wife. Donkey looked no
more. T
Two men in Vermont went to law about a sheep
worth SIS. The one who recovered damages to the
amount of Sll6.46 had to pay lawyers fees
amounting to $3.50. Question for little boys =
How much did either party make by, the suit?
Preliminary soundings for the proposed Franco
American cable are announced to be completed.
The route decided upon is from Brest to the French
island of St. Pierce. off the South shore of New
foundland, thence along the coast to New York.
JAMES GORDON BENNET is al years old. and is
worth So, 900. 900. And the canny old Scot talks,
it is said. of starting a daily paper in San Francis
co and risking upon it one of his millions
Pitisburg has had a case of witchcraft. A wom-
an whose child had the Group brought a black cat
and took three drops of blood from it to admins
ter to the child, whereupon a tumult arose. The
lawyer of the woman now brings twenty witnesses
to prove that recovery immediately followed the
dose of blood.
In the Convention. n negro named Cromwell de-
clared, :. We will rule till the last one goes down
forever. The niggers are going to- have their rights
in spite OF johnson or any other man." lie de-
clared that he was ready for revolution. Another
colored delegate said a war of races was all hum
bug.
\ Washington despatch dated November 18th,
says the report of General Grant, in answer to the
inquiry of the President as to what number of
troops are stationed within the Department of
Washington, shows that the whole force amounts
to but little over 900 men. all told, in the States
of Maryland and Delaware. the district of Column
bia, and two counties in Virginia.
Abraham Lincoln left his family SIS 900, to
which Congress added SIS 600, making a total of
100000. The annual income of this. it was esti-
mated by his executor. taken in connection with
various handsome sums presented by friends. one
being TO the amount OF $4,000, would be sufficient
for the maintenance of the widow, and the ednca-
ton of the only minor child.
IMPoRrANT IF TRUE.-A patent has been granted
to a Maine mechanic for running shafting at right
angles, or at any angle, without the use of gearing
or betting. The idea is entirely novel and works
to a charm. A slide bar is placed in the angle.
and motion transferred by the action of q donble
crank on each shaft. The machinery runs without
the least noise.
1t is said that the deaf mutes at the New York in
are learning the Morse telegraph alphabet.
We see no reason why it should not supercede
the old manuel signs. inasmuch as it can
he read by the eye or by the sense of touch. in
and in light. and can be written with great
Some one lately exhumed. from the New York
Office Tom Paine's will, and shows by
extracts from it. that the author of Common
Sense and the " Age of Reason firmly believed in
the existence and. omnipotence, of a God.
THE TABLES TURNED.-In a recent number of
Punch there occurs a joke which (for a wonder) is
to good to be true. A little girl and her
are in the drawing room, a nurse Just en-
teriDg. Nurse Did you ring ma ~ Naughty
Little Girl" No / rang. Take mamma away,
please, She's very cross and disagreeable.@
DIR. Peet has discovered a very curious fact
that deaf persons can feel a drum when beaten.
They feel the reverberation as if striking the soles
of their feet and passing up to the region of the
heart. He has made Il cnrIous application of the
having an alphabet which he beats on the
drum. and the mutes. with their backs turned. write
the word spelled in that way.
4 most extraordinary matrimonial arrangement
ms laf.lr haan -.rn mr. tod in llIeann The I
three bridegrooms are brothers. and the happy
brides are sisters. and was literally the marriage of
two entire families. 1t was an economical arrange
ment, thus wooing and marrying at wholesale-a