The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1856-1888, 1868-10-17
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NV 0NEtttt Ath won y A"t '1ftr
He does not in war but he does in peace.
Gen. Grant has a farm OF over loco acres. nine
miles southwest of 81. Louis, web adapted 10 fruit
aud grain.
Pierre Soule, the ex-rebel, is said TO have inner
tied a large fortune by the death of \ rsiatiye in
Europe.
Henry Ward Beeclsur's salary, rs pastor of the
Plymouth Church, is $4,000 a year. aud The profits
of his Peekskill farm are "a, o0O more.
The head cook of the Asscr House, New York,
receives a salary of over $4,000 n year He has
been employed there for twenty years.
Beauregard is breakfasted by the New York
democracy at Delmonico's. while Grant is de-
nounced and ridiculed by their organs.
The latest census returns make the population of
China 4l4, o0o. 900, nearly all OF whom can read
and write
a man in New Hampshire orawled a quarter of
"a mile in satisfaction Of an selection bet
The story goes that e Radical Congressman
from Ohio lost SSS.e0o sighting the tiger last week.
! Nallandigham has assumed formal charge of the
editorial department of the Dayton Ledger.
Cotswold sheep are said TO be IN greater demand
in England now than ever before-at a late sale So
averaged $3.50 in gold.
European photographers have been selling Gen.
Buffers photographs as authentic likeEesses OF
President johnson.
There is TO be a picnic of fat men at Utica next
month. No person will be allowed to participate
in the festivities who weighs under $50 pounds.
Albert Pike is urging the Tennessee rebels.
through his paper, the Memphis Appeal, To arm
against the Radicals. Piae is a queer fish but
more akin to the sucker than the shark.
1t is reported that the Democrats OF the Fourth
Congressional District OF New York, are about TO
throw Hon. John Morrissey overheard. because he
bets on the election of Grant and Coltsx.
The historian Motley, has been paid; sloo, coo by
the Harper Brothers.
The Germans of Austin (Nev.) have q temper
auce society which restricts its members TO kstesn
glasses of lager daily.
The position of Secretary of the U. S. Senate, to
which George G. Gorham has been chosen, is
worth, le%gitimately, $4,000 per annnm.
Rev. Albert n. Fish, formerly of Chenango coun-
ty, n. Y. and "a Gentle. lately preached in Brig
ham Young's Tabernacle, at Salt lake. To 5000
saints. He is the first Gentle who ever preached
there by invitation of Brigham. His subject was
the :" Divinity of Christ"
For a number of years George William Curtis
has been in the employment of Harper 4 Brothers,
at a salary of go. 900. He is the writer ef the
&" Editors Easy Chair in the Monthly. and fire.
,Iuently contributes a graceful leader to the
Weekly.
versity. one of the most distinguished scholars of
the day, and "A prominent advocate of American
principles. has accepted the position of Professor
of English and General Constitutional History Mt
Cornell University, Ithaca, n. Y.
The secrets of health are: First. keep warm
second, eat regularly and slowly third, maintain
regular daily bodily habits fourth. take early and
very light suppers keep a clean skin sixth. get
plenty of sleep at night.
They are experimenting at Hartford with consid-
cradle success in the new method of curing whoop-
ingcough by inhaling the atmosphere Of a gas
house. Upward of three hundred children are
said to have been wholly, or partially, relieved by
this treatment
A large number of New York merchants and
brokers, doing business on Water, Front and Wall
streets. New York, have decided to close their
places of business at three O'Clock on Saturday af-
ternoons. from May Erst to November frst- This
is a good move, and could be copied with good
effect.
A Puzzle FOR GEoLoGrsrs.-A very interesting,
and, in one aspect, a profoundly important discov-
cry has been lately made at Antelope, a station
$50 miles West of Omaha In digging a well for
the Railroad Company, there was reached, at the
depth of eighty-six feet, a layer of human bones
undoubtedly human, from the fact that there was a
skull and jaw, as well as other bones from the ex-
tremities and the trunk. The cxcavators assert
that in the process of digging they have found lay
ers of bones in which the remains of elephants and
tigers were unearthed, it being known to every
body that these animals are extinct species on this
continent. 1t remains for the Swans to determine
whether these human bones were covered so deep
ly by a cataclasm or were deposited there in pre-
historic times to confirm or correct current scienti-
fc opinion both as to the origin of the human race
and the date of its existence upon this planet.
European.
LONDON, Sept. 3-The contractors who built the
Metropolitan Underground Railway have made q
provisional offer to construct the proposed under
ground road of New York city, and to furnish all
the capital required to complete the road which the
projectors may fail to obtain at home.
The prospectus for the new telegraph line from
Portugal to the United States, under the title of the
I" Peoples Gable" has been issued.
Accounts from Greece say the Cretau insurrec-
ton is fourishing. The Turks are nearly worn out
and discouraged, and it is with great difficulty they
can continue their contest. The Christians are
flushed with success and infuriated by the recent
massacres. Through the Intervention OF Ignatief, the
Porte has been Obliged to dismiss the Pasha COM
handing in Gambia.
Victor Hugo, although amnested by Louis Napo-
leon, continues to be wroth with that potentate,
and refuses to return to France until the Napole-
Ons are Inferred.
Baron Beust becomes boldly belligerent. 1t is
evidence of a great change in Austria when a gov
eminent minister declares to the bishops and priests
that If they do not conform to the laws they will be
subject to fine and imprisonment like ordinary
mortals.
There is, in Paris, one dry goods firm that spends
500. 600 francs a year for advertising. II has done
so for 20 years past, and considers it indispensable
to the immense and constantly increasing business
which it is doing. A Bohemian is engaged to write
the advertisements and see to it that they are prop
erly published.
In a sudden and unusual fit of candor. the Satur-
day Rerieio says: We now take a very different
course regarding the alabama from that which We
once did, and it would be silly to deny that we are
more inclined to attend to the complaints OF Amer
lea, now she has shown herself a very powerful
nation, than we should be if she were a weak one.
An article in a London magazine dilates on the
p~alatable quality of steaks from lions and tigers. 1t
is not certain about lions but it is said that those
who " fight the tiger" rarely get their stakes.
In France there are about eight hundred Protest
ants Sunday Schools, with about forty thouSSsan-
The Empress recently presents Union.
ncr and a silver medal to the Sur Al ocnoo cunSav
These were displayed at che annual zee u o"'
School children held in the Cirque Napoleon.
Woman is asserting her rights IN frahce % ~
as in other countries, The LADIES
on the French Bourse in great mum ain.
and sell stock with a visor and earnestness COM
pletely unknown to the less favored sex.
There are at the present time Ice theatres in
Great Britain, of which SO are in London. s in
Liverpool, and 3 in Glasgow and there are IA cir
cnses in various parts of the kingdom. OF the
London theatres, s have been totally destroyed by
fire within the last twenty-seven years.
Near Cologne. IN the circle of Sieg. a tremendous