The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1856-1888, 1868-12-05
Foreign Items.

There = np fear tina, the Spanish revolution will
disturb the peace Of Europe.
Dr. Livingstone j. said 10 De within a day :
march 81 Zanzibar.
The travelling Engli-hman who smokes j. rrjoic-
ing over the passage Of An act Of Parliament. COM
pe!iing railway companies % furnish one or more
smoking carriages Oh each train.
The celebrated Jardin Nabelle. in Paris. is lila
minated On fr;e nights. which occur twice a week.
with $4,000 ga jet-. The superb gror-o. which wa
recently partially destroyed b. hre. cost l5.0ool to
restore.
Count Won Setback. n Pm-sisn artillery li"uten-
ant. and considered the best swimmer in the North
German army. made a bet recently that hc would
swim across n. Spree. lying on bis back. and
bearing on ts brea-; q board. with two fUll bottle
% wine. six egg in a dish. and four umbiers. II
one Of these articles should fall from the board lie
would lose the bet He won H.
In answer to incredulous persons. who contend
that lager beer Is not nutritious. Prof Liebig has
demonstrated. by q series Of experiments. that
one thousand four hundred and sixty quarts OF the
B4varisn nectar contain exactly the same amount
Of trim a. a = pound loaf Of bread. People
who drink lager for its strengthening properties.
therefore. should not b. discouraged. Every nine
casks they swallow will be- a. least equal 10 a ten
cent loaf.
One Of the grst physicians desi=nates grapes a q
certain and speedy cure for all liver complaints.
and cites "a certain watering place in Southern Ger
many. known a. the d" grape cure. 20 which crowds
Of patients resort in the grape season and devote
IAfA4-FAaFF ~ hAF AhaA4 20 AAFfN WatA hAANA sAN
grounds aud the surrounding country abound
The name Of the hair-drcsser Of the Empress
Eugeuie. is LerOi. VI. Leroi receives 10000 francs
a year from the Empress and passes two hours
every day in her Majesty's dreSsing-rOOm. He has
moro influence over her than even her Jesuit con
frssor and. besides arranging Der golden hair lays
the IhrOHig"s >cgHillelSe - tire dag before her.
lie j. q most abjeci fltterer. and hi influence over
the Empress has given rise TO the mot. Lrroi
(Lsr5i. tie kiugl has more influence over the En-
press than the Emperor
some OF the German emigranis who have settled
in South Carolina have written the most dolorOus
Letters 10 their relations in the old country. They
say that the natives Of S0uth Carolina. whites as
well a. blacks. are the --LATEST aud most dishonest
people they ever saw that little can be had at the
stores that the land Is unproductive that thefis
are exceedingly numerous ana that they have
cursed already. Il thousand times, the idea Of set
Ting in that country.
The Russian Government. having forbidden the
Poles 10 speak Polish on the streets. and AZ the
theatres. the educated classes Of Warsaw. when
they leave their houses SPEAK French or English.
and. when they now and then inter . Russian
word. they pronounce il Intentionally in a very lu-
licrOus manner. The ladies OF Warsaw. especially.
are firmly determined not 10 BE- dragooned into
Russian. Whenever a Russian addresses
them in his native language. they shake their heads
in f-igned surprise. and say that they do not I'M
a word Of II. since instruction in the
language Is prohibited in the city schools Of
only One-teuth of the pupils that formerly
visited them attend. The hatred prevailing be-
tween the Russian ofscers and the higher classes of
society, Is intense. The former are entirely
excluded from the parties given by the latter.