The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1856-1888, 1868-01-11
Late Foreign Items.

The fashionable world of Paris threaten a return
to crinoline.
New York State contains Isl. 995 widows.
The latest mourning fashion in Paris is rather
grotesque-a skirt OrRaInented with Death heads
bout the bottom.
\ whisky distilier in Ohio has made a million
within five years. How much government tax ne
paid Is not stated.
1t is estimated that three hundred millions Of dol
lars are annually expended in the I. States for dry
goods 10 be tranformed into articles OF dress
That's where the money goes.
OF the frelre gentlemen who acted as reception
Committee when Charles Dickens visited New York.
in 1912. all but one are dead.
\ Newfoundland dog. in London, twenty-six
years of age. has been turning gray for two years.
and Is now almost white.
a case of c~ourtship of f~orty-fve years standing
is reported at East Lynn, Mass. The gentleman
has paid his visit on each alternate Sunday even
ing.
Maryland is making progress backward. The
new constitution jsut adopted by the aid of rebel
votes abolishes the common school system.
The Burton brewers have reduced the price of
East India pale ale by IS per barrel. thus revert
ing to the prices which ruled prior TO October last
year.
Lord Brougham was ninety years old on the 10Th
OF September.
\ lady writing to the Chicago Tribune. depre-
Gates the severity of the press toward Mrs. Lincoln
on the ground that she is evidently insane.
There remains To be built. to complete railway
communication across the continent. l.O76 miles OF
road-.3S by the Central Pacific, and 32S by the
Union Pacific.
The Oakland Journal says there is not a dance
house in that city. and there has not been for years.
One Of the municipal regulations prohibits the
keeping Of such places.
There are now CO. prisoners in the California
State Prison-725 being Tie highest number that
has been confined there at any time within two
years. There are only four women prisoners there,
and only about half the males are white.
An eruption of Mt. Hecla. in Iceland, recently
occurred. of so terrible a nature that the inhabi-
tants of Renkavik, one hundred miles distant. were
nearly suffocated by the sulphurous fumes.
BEECHER's APoLOGY.-In n recent Sunday even
ing sermon. Rev. III. w. Beecher justified his con-
tribution of Norwood to the Ledger by the as
sumption that the parallels in the New Testament
We're little novelettes."
BY the best calculations made. IL is asccrtained
that the average duration of human life is greater
in the United States than in any other nation.
Over two hundred deaths were caused in the
L.. States last year by the explosion ct kerosine,
and upwards of SG0O,9 600 worth of property des-
troyed by the same agency.
Lord Brougham gives ii as his opinion in one of
his learned papers contributed to the publications
of the society for the diffusion of useful knowledge,
that the child receives its Interchangeable bent of
character before its fifth year. Ii this be so, how
important are home influences.
New York lawyers have arrived in Washington
TO initiate a law suit against a daily il that city for
S0O,UUU damages Tor alleged llBel on MIS- John
Dean, of New York formerly Miss Boxer, whose
ms carriage will be by many New York
ers.
The ancients evidently looked Well after the safe
ty of their property. a fire and burglar proof safe
has been discovered among the RUNS OF Pompeii.
with its contents uninjureG although subjected to n
volcanic eruption.
One of the saloons in Nashville. Tenn. employs a
hack To carry off its uStomcrs as fast as they be-
come intoxicated. No fare is required. and the
happy beings are insured against the police and
the workhouse.
In the chivalrous State of Kentucky during the
past year. nearly 500 murders and ontrages have
been committed on freedmen, the perpetrators of
which have in almost every instance gone unpun-
ished.
An explosive substance, whose effects are some
what like those of gunpowder, has been discovered
in France by NJ. Pool. 1t is prepared by the
action of chlorate and of nitrate of potass on Or
binary glue or i~singlass.
4 telescope for the examination of objects stu
ated under water is said to have been devised in
Paris, and to have been tested in one ofthe French
canals. 1t is reputed to have enabled the observers
to see pencil marks distinctly at a depth of more
than five feet. Its practical application will he to
the cxaminatsou of the hulls of ships, without
placing them in dock"
For Those GoING TO SEA.-Make a mild deeoc-
ton of the bark of the wild cherry, about the
strength of breakfast tea, and take a wine-glass
full before every meal for three days before going
to sea on the last day take n mild aperient.
This remedy, SAYS the bulletin, is perfectly limo
cent. and we are assured by n person WHO having
suffered during his whole life from sea-sickness
when travelling on the ocean, that it is perfectly
cficacious.
Marshal Valiant receives as a marshal of France,
80, 0C0 francs; as minister. 100 900: as senator.
so. 000;a as grand officer de Ia couronne, IS 900;
and as Grand Cross of the Legion n HORehr,
3 Zoo. Total, 22l 200 francs, or about SO, 200
sterling. He is Supplied with apartments, lights,
fires, and n v ashcrwoman, because he lisa minister:
he is fed because he is a grand officer ofthecrown;
and the exTences of his e~quipagc are betrayed by
the civil list. Finally, with the exception of his
clothes and cigars, everything is paid by the State.
Commenting on the decadence of royalty. a
contemporary remarks that - when our Puritan
ancestors chopped off the head of Charles the first,
they did not deal the kingly Office half 50 hard 4
blow as the Prince of Wales did when he called
upon Punch to request him not To make fun ofhis
royal mother. England had long since deprived
royalty of Its prerogatiye, SO that it has been only
a costly pageant but, now that il has lost its
prestige, and can no longer command the super
stitious reverence of the people, it is essentially
gone altogether, and the mockcry of a throne and
n crowned head, which are only a cost and not a
power, cannot much longer be tolerated by a
sensible people. Monarchy in England may be
said to have died a natural death"
In the first volume of DIR. Behn's 3 Geographic
cal Annual, - lately published at Gotha, there is
an interesting article on the population OF the
earth. This was estimated by Busching in 1877
at j 900 900 900, by Fabri and Stein in 1900 at
900 900 900, by Horschelmann, in 1888 at S72.-
600 600, by Dieterici in 1858 at lbs, 600 600,
and by Kolb in 1865 at loo, OOO. 900. DIR.
Benin estimates it ut l ,350.000. 900, thus distrib-
uted: Europe, 2S6, 900 900: Asia, 40, 600 900;
Australia and Polynesia. 1850, 900 Africa. lSS.-
200 900 and America, 81 500 900. Al tho same
time he acknowledges that it is impossible to
arrive at anything more than an approximate
notion of the population in Asia and Africa, there
being no census or other accurate means of ascer-