The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1856-1888, 1868-02-22
FOREIGN Miscellany

SOULFUL
For LrBERIA.--The colonization ship Golcoadd is
expected to sail from Charleston. South Carolina,
on the 10th inst with some 500 OF the better class
of freedmen for Liberia making a total of over
1900 emigrants taken to Liberia during the last
twelve months, by the American Colonization
Society.
DICKENs.-The New York papers give entertain
ing accounts OF the rush for the tickets to the
second course of Mr.. Dickens readings. The sale
was announced 10 begin at nine o o'clock on Nednes-
day morning. Two individuals took their stations
at the door of Steinway hail as soon as 1t was closed
at half past ten on Tuesday evening, and remained
there ten and a half hours. The queue was formed
ut eleven, at half past one O'Clock in the morning
one hundred ard fifty persons were in line, and at
seven O'Clock four hundred. Places near the head
of the procession were sold for high prices. and in
one or two cases five dollars was paid. When
the sale began six hundred persons We're IN the
queue. which extended from Steinway hall to IT.
wing place and up Fifteenth street TO Fourth avenue.
WAS 1T MARINE MONSTER. Som fishermen
caught A queer looking inhabitant OF salt water,
and put him ON exhibition at Browns wharf in New
London. He was about six feet long and weighed
$50 pounds. His head was the biggest part of him,
and he had jaw enough to excite the envy OF 4 pol
itician. His mouth was about eighteen inches wide
and was furnished with three rows of ugly looking
teeth. Crowds OF people stopped to take a look at
il. not one of whom expressed any desire to indulge
in sea bathing near the locality where the ugly
looking thing was lshed out. IL was finally thrown
overheard, as nobody knew any use that could be
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known as a bellows fish. 1t is pleasant TO know
that they also stated that such fish were rarely seen.
CONSUMPTION PRONOUNCED CONTAGIOUS. - The first
question discussed in the Medical Congress was a
question which reaches and interests more directly,
perhaps, than any other, every family. 1t was the
question of tubercle, its contagiousuess and pro-
phylactic. The discussion turned mainly on these
two points is tubercular consumption contagious,
and may IL not be prevented by incubation! /
should tell you that the profession. tired of being
bafhed by a disease so slow in its progress and so
certainly fatal. have been experimenting of late
years all over Europe. and that enough new facts
have been arrived at TO warrant a certain number
of the experimenters to declare that tubercular
phthisis is contagious, and that a healthy and ln-
fected person ought not to sleep in the same bed.
Experiments have been made upon rabbits and
other animals. by inoculating under the skin the
matter from tubercles. and those inoculatcd ami
mails die c~onsumptive in three months time. The
discussions of the Congress established no new
doctrine in a positive way, but they brought out
many valuable facts which will put the profession
Il step in advance in a right direction.-IParis Cor
respondence New York Times.
THE WEST INDIEs-The West India Islands,
about ~forty-iive i'll number. are divided into the
greater and the lesser Antilles, and Bahamas group.
The greater Antilles comprises the four large
islands of Cuba, Hayti, Jamaica. and Port Rico,
aid the lesser that long chain of small islands eX-
tending from Port Rico to the Gulf of Paria, known
rs the windward and leeward groups, With the
exception Of the more n~ortherly of the Bahamas,
they are all within the Tropics. They cover an
area II v So.uuU sQtIt lllitS slHu Il u pODult-
ton of about $500 600. Their great fertility is
we'll known, and they produce in abundance many
of the most valuable articles of commerce., such as
sugar, coffee, cotton. tobacco, and rare dye woods
and cabinet woods, besides a variety of spices and
choice fruits. With the exception of the indepen-
dent Republics of Hayti and Santo Domingo, the
possession of these islands is at present divided be-
tween England, France, Spain. Holland, Denmark,
AID Sweden. The Dominican Republic compre-
bends IL ,609 square miles, with a population of
1876, 500 souls. and the Haytian Republic iO,Osl
square miles, with q population OF 5I2,O6O souls:
England owns 1868 square miles, with a popula-
ton of $50. 944: Spain, 5l.143 square miles, with a
population of 1864 France, LOIS square miles.
with a population of 276.453: Holland. 1863 square
miles. with a population of 2S.497: Denmark, l2T
square miles, with a population of 39,623; and
Sweden, % square miles. with n population of
5000 souls. The population of the West Indies Is
partly European and partly African, aud in most of
the islands civilization and Christianity have made
considerable progress.
THE DICKENs' TICKET SALE.-The sale of tickets
for the second course of Charles Dickens readings.
says the New York Tribune of December 18th,
commenced at S~teinway Hall, yesterday morning.
The throng. however. commenced to gather at log
O'Clock on Tuesday evening, two individuals en-
sconsing themselves beneath the pOrticO of the Hall
Immediately after the conclusion of Tuesdays
reading. Before midnight these were joined by
seven others. and at the cheerful hour of l O'Clock
yesterday morning. $50 ticket purchasers were en-
joying, not the midnight and moonlight, and
music. that Emerson writes of. but midnight. and
moonlight, and cigars. Two O'Clock brought some
additions, of n not altogether unconvivial character.
BY 3 O'Clock the line extended east TO Irving Place.
1t is understood that the majority of those who
formed were in the pay of speculators. By Z O'Clock,
500 men and boys were in line-mOTe than sufficient
to purchase the entire number of seats-and by 9
the queue extended from the box ohica along Four
teenth street to Irving Place. thence to Fifteenth
street. and west TO Fourth Avenue the inevitable
police being present, in the picturesqeness OF brass
and blue. The order of sale for the first day was
that the front row should be frat disposed OF, then
the second. until the grand floor was sold. the first
and second balconies following in order. 1ester-
day. TO defeat the spectators Mr.. Dolby ordered
the sale to begin with the seats in the rear of the
hall. Perhaps ii is this arrangement that has
brought against the ticket sellers the charge of sell
ing seats promiscuously in the body of the hall,
and tavoring those whom they rec~ogniZed-specu-
lators-for the most part. Be this as il may,
however. at . o'clock the doors were open, and then
followed the usual onslaught by those who were not
in the queue. and the usual election by the police.
In one or two instances places in the line sold for
S24, and turns sold at all prices between SIS
and So. Two women resolutely kept their place in
the line. with that endurance for which the feminine
nature is distinguished. Spectators, either in spite,
or because of Mr.. Dolby's precaution. bought many
tickets and Haunted them in the approved style
during the morning. On Tuesday evening, however,
the effect of the spectators success, was to leave II
large number of seats unOccupied, and when the
lecture began. one speculator had 100 tickets left.
On the night OF a lecture. seats can be bought
cheaper than at any other, if we may judge from the
fact that al u quarter past eight O'Clock on Tuesday
evening, spectators We're selling tickets at so cents
apiece.
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