The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1856-1888, 1868-09-12
FOREIGN NEWS.
Photographic and other Items.]

New York is to have II weekly paper with the
dainty name of g" Everything Nice"
The more II woman's waist is shaped like an hour
glass the quicker will the sands of lite run out.
r A Provincetown lad has constructed a zinc boat,
said to be u wonder for strength, lightness aud
Espeed.
Charles Dickens expenses in America were $780,
\ 600, and his net profit SlOO,OOO IN gold.
Madame Rosa is greatly disturbed at night by Il
superabundance of serenades from enthusiastic
California bards and bands.
Our English word shocking has been adopted
into the French language, but it Is spelled and pro-
nuunced choquin."
The Washington municipal difficulty has been
settled by the recognition of the Radical mayor
elect, and the withdrawal of the Democratic claim
ant.
yellow hair is expensive. The first cost in Paris
is $500. warranted only for a year, when the dye
ing must be repeated unless the fashion changes.
An exchange says it is 4 remarkable fact that
while men who are getting good wages are con-
stantly striking. women who make shirts and linen
coats for II cents apiece never strike at all.
At the opening of the Brazilian Chambers, on
the Goth of May, the Emperor stated that measures
would be speedily taken for the abolition Of slav-
cry.
The Legislature of Louisiana, as officially an
nounced by Gen. Buchanan, stands 20 Republicans
aud lG Democrats in the Senate, and 90 Republi-
cans and 40 Democrats in the House.
Somebody reports that Ole Bull is going to
China, but it may be only to give some other body
u chance to speak OF him as a Bull in a China
shop
The colored people have started a subscription
to raise $50, 900 with which to purchase a home
stead for General Howard. None but colered peo-
pie are to subscribe.
An immense bed of solid salt, said TO be 500 feet
thick. and extending no one knows how far, has
been discovered in the immediate neighborhood of
Berlin, Prussia.
At the annual sale of kentucky horses at Wood
burn, ffty-four heads of yearlings brought S2l ,9l2,
an average of more than 500 each.
In st. Louis two mad steers entered a church,
dreadfully Tightening the congregation which was
there assembled.
Two silver dollars. of the coinage of 1904, were
lately sold at Newark, y. j.. one of them for $500,
aud the other for the enormous sum of $500!
There were only five dollars coined that year.
JEFF. Davis was arrested the other day in Elmira,
n. Y, for stealing chickens; whereupon a wag tel
e~graphed to Horace Greeley, to come on immedi-
ately and bail the gentleman. The thief was Ia
contraband.
The Roman Catholic Archbishops of Baltimore,
Cincinnati, New York and st. Louis. have issued u
protest against the proposed enlistment in this
country of troops for the service of the Pope.
Secretary Seward is having a goodly sized vol
ume on Greenland and Iceland printed at the Gov
eminent expense. The general drift of such parts
of it as have been seen by outsiders is to show that
these countries are quite valuable, and that they
ought to belong the United States.
In reply to a refusal by his parents to take a
small boy to church, because he was too small.r
the latter replied. " Well you'd better take care of
me now, for when l get bigger / may not want to
60" The philosopher attended church that day.
During the last year the Irish in the United
States sent home the sum OF S2.I00.600 to their re-
lations. OF this sum more than a million dollars
was IN prepaid passage orders. During the last
twenty years more than seventy million dollars
have been transmitted to relatives in Ireland of
emigrantS.
One of the New York evening papers devoted
its longest article the other day to a serious discus
sion of the question whether Il young man ought
to kiss his cousin when he meets her. The sapient
decision in the affirmative agrees with the practical
determination to which all high spirited youth have
come.
The colored vote in Georgia did not by any
means go all one way. Houston county, which, by
the registry, showed a cOlored majority of 2.220,
gave Gordon. the Democratic candidate for Gov
ernor, 324 majority. Whence the editor of the
Macon Telegraph takes courage, and shouts. Clio
rious old HOustoni'
One of the lady physicians who has recently
with honor at Zurich has passed n salts
factory examination at st. Petersburg. and has
been admitted to- practice in Russia. As there was
no instance on record of a similar character, the
action of the board of examination was based on the
which allows foreign doctors to practice in the
country.
\ Northampton lady went to the depot for the
purpose of taking an extra train for Springfield.
by mistake took the train going north. After
il had started. discovering the mistake, she hurried
on the platform and commenced to flourish a
cotton umbrella, at the same time shouting ut the
of her voice as the train moved out of sight. Il
am not going on this train, / tell you | tell you i
am not going on this train" But she did go on
train, much to the amusement of the crowd
Boston Journal.
Land has become so high abOnt New York that a
company has reclaimed the vast salt marshes at
Bergen Point and its neighbOrhood, back of Jersey
jity, for gardening purposes. The difficulty OF
has been the water rats Kidding the
and letting in the salt water. This
; obviated by driving in a protecting barrier of
hin and broad cast iron plates, that groove into
zach other. This makes rapid progress in what
used TO be slow work. The land is exceedingly
critic, and command a rental that pays interest
m "A thousand dollars an acre. San Francisco can
itself in this way and put up canned vegeta-
,les for the world. by the reclamation of swamp
ands within easy reach of the city.