The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1856-1888, 1868-03-21

The Western Union Telegraph Company havea
capital of $40 900 900.
York.
The daily issue of the New York Herald num-
bers So 200 copies.
Eight papers in the United States are edited by
colored men.
Henry Ward Beecher received $50, 900 for Nor
wood, instead of % 200, a. promised. Generous
Bonner. Who would not write novels?
They have n fog in Sitka 300 days out of the
year.
New York pays her clergymen So, ZOO, 900 per
year
\ sporting man in Liverpool, dying recently,
left n fortune OF s 600, 900. One rich man, in a
million Of this profession.
Trains between London and Liverpool run 81
miles per hour.
Napoleon has built IL new bridges across the
Seine. at n cost of IS ,000, 900.
the Duke of Wellington is printing his illustri-
Gus fathers papers.
The Oxford University was founded \. ID. $50.
That of Paris, \. ID. 792.
There is n religious sect in Germany which wor-
ship IN silence and darkness.
\ horse was put under the influence of chloro-
form the other day, for a surgical operation.
Ii has been discovered that Queen Victoria is
descended from Caactacus.
\ lady in England claims to own a ring giy>l
TO solomon by the Queen of Sheba.
The United States imported 35 1926, Isl pounds
of wool last year.
Inc COTTON Nlclu Oh EGNDt THIS year Will De
1000 times larger than six years ago.
Land near Jacksonville, Florida, is offered at so
cents per acre.
Ross Winans, the celebrated Baltimore million
aire, is 20 years old. He sold $40 900 worth of
milk last year from his farm.
James Browns building, in Wall street, New
York, rents for $3.50, COO per annum. The prop
erty cost 500, 900. Pretty good annual interest
The sales of the American News Company in
1866 were So, 269, 1920. Who will say now
that the public do not read?
The United States OWNS l 400, 900 900 acres of
land. Rich enough to give every man a farm.
Disasters happened to $685. ships and 500
steamers during the first half of 1867, accord
ing to the returns of the London Lloyds. OF
these, l,072 ships and 81 steamers were totally
lost, with 6S7 human lives.
\ Boston naturalist says that the strains pro-
duced by grasshoppers are obtained by playing On
their legs like a fiddle, with their hind legs used
as a bow. Different kinds of locusts play differ
emily, in time and in tune.
The famous American clown. called the Mauhy,
committed suicide recently at Berlin, in the pres
ence of two thousand Spectators, by firing a pistol
in his mouth at the moment he was hanging by
his feet to the ceiling of the theatre.
AT her wedding the Queen of Greece wore n
robe of cloth of silver embroidered with bouquets
of silver flowers, buttoned down the front by
enormous diamonds, fastened around the waist by
n belt in the Greek pattern of diamonds, a
AAAAAI llAAAAh ~ AAaItth AAAh Iobld lbt
top of the corsage and sleeves; necklace, brace
lets, etc, in diamonds, a diadem in the forehead,
whilst the royal crown in diamonds was fastened
at the back OF the brides head. The train, of
several yards in length, was of crimson velvet
lined with ermine.
Washington dispatch, dated December 18th, says
the senate Committee on Naval Affairs has in
structed it's chairman to report favorably on the
bill authorizing the President to appoint naval
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commander, to consular positions under the gov
crnment with short pay.
This is one of many schemes of rctrenchment
looking TO n reduction of the public expenditures.
Ii is stated that it will be n saving of many hun
drcd thousands dollars annually.
Ixpn.-Twenty-fve protestant missionary So
cic,ies are lsbouring in India, and support in that
country upwards of $50 missionaries. The amount
of money expended in India for evangclizing pur-
poses is annually about 81 $50, 600. The India
Government expends every year, in secular educa-
ton, more than So, 500, 600. In British India,
including Burninh and Ceylon, there are upwards
of 100 native missionaries, 1850 native churches,
10000 native commandments, and mt least one
hundred thousand native boys and girls receiving
Christian instruction.
The BRITISH ARNY.-Thc London Spectator
says: .. uHl5
We keep up in India, ut a cost of eli ,GOO, 900
a year. an army of $50 600 men. We keep up
III AHC ltCN " NhC ~ IL CDSl I'll =
Els, 900 900, an army of l2U, 900 men and we
spend so, 000, 900 on n feet. In short, we spend
altogether G42. 900 600 n year, twice the French
expenditure, upon inferior ornaments; and then,
when u mere section of that force is required for
active service, we have Mt once to spend millions
more in n frantic hurry. Surely there is some
gricvous waste, some evidence of defective organ
iZatiOn. ~
Exocu ARDEN CAsR.-An Enoch Arden case has
been decided in one of the Courts at Rochester.
The ~litigants were two Young men, who. in their
friendship at the outbreak of the rebellion, had
agreed that If the one who was married and who
had enlisted should fall, the one who had re-
manned at home should marry the widow. The
soldier went to the war. After n while the re-
port came that he was killed in battle, and his
wife mourned for her lost husband. He did not
return, even at the end of the war, and at length
the widow became the wife of the husbands
friend, and their JOY was crowned by the birth of
n handsome child. A short time ago that long
absent soldier reappeared. explained the reason of
long absence, and claimed his wife. The SOC
ond husband was 10th to surrender his wife, who
the mother of his child also. and le declined
to give her up. The question as to who had the
RICH: to the woman was submitted to n legal
and, on the last day of 1867, the Court
decided that the first marriage was binding, and
the wife must pass TO the former husband.
RETURNING REAsoN.-The English Government
md people seem to be gradually working round
toward a correct knowledge of the way to deal
with Fenianism. Mr.. Gladstone's frank dcclara-
that it was caused by English misgovernment
in Ireland, is producing a good effect, and the
able flashes To US the news that public sentiment
lavors a redress of Irish wrongs. This idea
was somewhat tardy in its development. 1t =
have been much more creditable to the =
reputation Of the English people, if they had ac-
iuired this knowledge in a different manner. So
ong as the Irish people confined themselves to 1
moral suasion,' their complaints We're treated
indifference and contempt. But since they
organized Themselves for war. and made il