The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1856-1888, 1868-05-16


The fast time of I7.5 knots has been made by a
sailing yacht owned in New York city.
The New Premier of England has reached the top
OF the ladder and Is :" Dizzy
1t is proposed TO form a society in Boston Tor the
prevention OF cruelty To animals
In 1867 there were lost 3,0i5 vessels, against
1882 in 1s66-an increase OF lis.
Nantucket is about to engage in the whaling bus
iness more largely than hereiofoie.
The White Mountain elevated railroad will be
completed this year, in time for visitors 10 make
use OF it,
How to take the census ofthe children Of neigh
borhood-employ an organ grinder Tor five minutes.
Parties in Boston have solicited Professor Blot To
establish his system of cheap dining rooms in their
city.
Vermont's dog tax amounts TO over Sic, 900
more than all the dogs on the continent are worth.
Judy represents a gentleman at dinner .sdling
up ii horse SHOE from the soup-iureen. aud saying:
''Pon my soul, it's too bad! This is the second
time COOKS forgotten to take the shoes OH"
y celebrated lawyer once said that the three most
troublesome Clients he had eyer had Were a young
lady Who wanted to be married. a married woman
who wanted "A divorce, and an old maid who didn't
know what she did want. ~r-=
Awealthy New Yorker-Robert Watson Williams
who died recently. bequeatbed to a young colored
man employed in the Office of the n, Y. Times.
more than 10000.
AT Mound city, on the Mississippi. there are eight
Monitors laid up and as the care OF them is rather
u tbStlS dIu uOuDicSouiCJ Oo. IL Is btOpOcsu u tA-
cavate a basin at n cost of 500, 600, in which they
may be allowed to lie. assn fs
A bin is now before the Massachusetts LegisIa-
tire which provides that "a any city or town may
choose QUE or more women as members of its school
committee"
: There are 1855 lakes in Maine, some of which
are from l 200 to 1000 feet above the level OF the
sea- 1t is claimed that no other area of equal ex-
tent in the world possesses SO much water power.
A man advertised for a wife. and requested each
candidate TO inclose her carrie de Uisite. A spirited
young lady wrote to the advertiser in the following
terms: Sir ] do net inclose my carte, for. though
there is some authority for putting a cart before "A
horse. i know of none for putting one before an
ASST
Mr.. Bigelow, the former T.. S. Minister to France
is preparing for the press, from the original manu-
script which ne found in Paris, a new edition of
Franklin's Autobiography The fate Of this manu-
script has for more than half a century been a mys-
terry.
-eUrss AND DowNs-Young Steele. the oil milIioa-
aire. whose Income three years ago was 900 a day.
is now said TO be q teamster at the oil works he
once owned
Sixtyfour publishing houses in the United States
are reported to be engaged in publication of school
books, and there are at least 200 different text
books i'm the market. The school population of the
United States is FIVE millions, and they consume
twenty millions of volumes a year. The annual
expenditure for these books is estimated at SIS, $780,
006.
The NORTH China Herald. speaking of Burlingame's
mission says:
| lie KNOWS the weakness ana the strength OF his
digniied employers; and he has, we presume. as an
enlightened and honest diplomat. their best wishes ut
heart His Instructions from Pekin will. of course,
be very general. and they will unquestionabiy be
Interpreted in a liberal spirit. But his chief Duties
will be explanatory. Ifhe discharges these functions
we'll. he will be entitled to the highest credit. At
present the Chinese misunderstood the western
nations, and the Western nations misunderstood the
Chinese. 1t will be the task of the Plenipotentiary
to interpret the peculiarities of tie Monaghan modes
of thinking to the politicians of European Courts and
to the Cabinet at Washington. We do not imagine
that Burlingame will be empowered to declare.
with deiniteness, that China has all of a sudden
thrown of her restrictive policy and is about to
permit railways to be made, mines 10 be opened.
and communication over her vast provinces TO be
henceforth free and uninterrupted; but it seems to
us that he may demonstrates. by example. to the
Chinese, that this more liberal course would in the
end pay best; and that he may explain to the states
men in Washington London. Paris. Vienna aud 81.
Petersburg that the best means to effect these de-
sirable objects is To adopt n decided and united
action.
The French Expedition to the Norri. Pole
Lnmbers'. Preiect-A New Rouse.
PARis.'Feb. 24.-The French have been stirred
up to compete with their Anglo-Saxon cousins in
the task of Arctic exploration Up to this time
~Bellot-wbose heroic devotion in the search after
Franklin won him the admIring gratitude of all
Eagiand-is the only Frenchman who figures on
the long roll of Arctic explorers. Gustave Lam
bert. however, just returned from an expedition TO
BehIing Straits. has become fired with en- enthusiast
tic desire to plant the banner of France on the
North Pole. anu ls $ now trying 10 awaken the
public interest ON the subject. An imposing Com
mittee of Patronage has been formed, comprising
eminent pames in science, politics and finance
subscription lists have been opened at tie Bureau
of the Geographical Society and elsewhere; and
Lambert has published "a most interesting little
pamphlet. which explains the objects to be gained
by the discovery of the Polar Sea. and the method
by which these objects may be attained and de-
scribcs a new route devised by himself for arriving
at the pole. -sfrrT
The French project. proposed by ambert de-
a. nsAr van 80 ~ Iat- 49, - -
the west. past Cape Judge and Cape Cook TO cut
the way through the floating ice fields. when neces-
sary. by blasting or saving to reach PolyuIa. the
open sea recognized by Hede1strom IN 1910, aud
Wrangel aud -injou in 1925 from this point
finally to sail straight to the pole, which. ON the
sapposition of an open sea, would be easily done
in Summer. This route has never been attempted
except by Capt. Cook. who unfortunately deemed
it necessary tn interrupt his voyage on account of
the fogs and winds of September, and return to
at the Sandwich Islands. That fatal Winter
he was killed by The kauakas. and this circum-
stance alone, according to Lambert. prevented
from reaching the North Pole, although his
object was only TO explore the coast OF Siberia.
The only objection that can be made to the Behr-
irg's Straits route is the necessity for taking the
preliminary voyage around Cape Horn.
This voyage. however. presents no difficulty. ouiy
occupies four months. can be broken by stopping
At the Sandwich Islands. and gives an opportunity
ior testing the souaduess of the vessel. sunicieucy
IF appointments aud worth of the men. The expe-
iitinn, setting ont from France in February. shonli
arrive in July AT the entrance of the Polvnia Sea.
md in August he Mt the North Tote.
The vessels are TO he thoroughly protected
a.linst the shocks of floating ice by a double prov
md p~lsnkings of wood covered with iron the ints.
-ior Is Ca be divided into water-tight compartments:
he machinery will be Of low power. in order tx
'conomiZe Che coal. and should this give eat is
place may hc supplied by whale biubber, ginailv.
'nrrgetjc means are la he provided Cor crushing
'nd saving The barrier vt ice which sepetates Bchr-
NJ Straits from the rolvnia Sea.
The crew will be composed OF aty volnr.ea-s
,mong whom are many old whalers. intrenid SRA
men. accustomed To the glaciers, aud consrmn. 10
The scientific eaCrs VII be selr.,,.l