The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1856-1888, 1869-10-02
Foreign Miscellany.

Foreign Miscellany.
Ex King Francis has sold his claim to he lost
Kingdom of Naples to the Italian Government
for a valuable consideration.
German sewing machines are run by clock
work, which runs for three hours after winding
up
Those Paris commands stick ut nothing.
Some Of them dined on rats, recently, ana e4-
pressed themselves delighted with the delicious
and succulent properties Of the flesh.
The United States income tax law expires next
April. After that it is hoped the government
will find some better way of raising revenue than
by this disagrceable inquiry into the private
affairs of every citizen.
During the second quarter of the present year
the city of Paris has consumed QUO horses, OF
about 257 600 pounds of horsehesh for the three
months. a few mules and donkeys are inciuoeu'
The New Orleans Picaylne thinks that Boston,
after a few years of lager-drinking' VIII become
as moral and pious as New Orleans
The Revolution wants females on the police {;
but we fear this would augment the " won go
home till morning fellows " to an alarming de-
gree.
In New York the Temperance men will not run
a separate ticker this year. They prefer to wait
the result Of the experiments now being maoe IN
Maine and Massachusetts,.
The question of annexing Western Florida to
Alabama is TO be voted upon by all the people OF
Florida on the I'd of November, according to the
governors proclamation. There are eight coun-
ties in Western Florida, and they comprise the
best cotton and sugar lands in the State.
a lady in Iowa set in her garden, as a support
for peavines, a largo number OF green willow
poles. The result is that the poles took root and
grew. She now has a charming willow grove.
South Bend, Indiana, has a champion "
Laughter, who claims that he I" can laugh louder,
longer, heartier and more scientifically than any
other man, white or black, in Indiana"
a reverend gentleman in Hampton, Virginia,
has invented a machine Tor picking and cleaning
I peanuts. 1t is claimed that it will pick and
clean l 900 bushels per day, doing the work OF
twenty men.
In China old people in some instances buy
collins for themselves long before they need them
and filial sons present collins to their parents
against the day Of their departure.
The election returns from eighty counties in
Kentucky give the State Democratic candidate
for Treasurer, n majority ef 1926. Out of
eighty-six members elected to the Lower House
the Republicans return only five.
Alice Cary, the poetess. reports an income of
81 $50; Clara Louise Kellogg, the prima donna,
81 ,039; Maggie Mitchell, the Cricket, 81 1888;
Florence, the comedian, SIS, OPS Barney Will
Jams, the Irish actor, $3,l95.
Rev. Mr.. Purchas, the renowned ritualist Of
Brighton, England, has added to the wonderful
ceremonies introduced into his church that OF
80 rubbing black powder on the members"
If n shoemaker. in drawing to his end, wakes
cold, and gives up his awl before pegging out,
what will become of his sole if be is not able to
breathe his last? That is the question.
An exchange says that n mule driver on the
Miami canal proves to be n young woman, who
took this means to keep near her lover" This
is rough on the lover.
In Virginia Senter's majority is GO, 900, with
nineteen counties to hear from. The State Senate
is composed of twenty-five members; it stands,
twenty-onc Conservatives four Conservative Re-
publicans. The House Of Representatives is
composed of eigthy-four members; it stands,
sixty-seven Conservatives; nine Radicals; six
Conservative Republicans, with two districts to
hear from.
A gentleman, who had amassed a competence,
was recently asked by a friend the secret of his
success. al have accumulated, - said he, & one
half of my property by strictly attending to my
own business, and the remainder by letting other
peoples alone"
Stetson, the popular hotel keeper Of Long
Branch, can pick out the Boston man, by the
manner in which he holds his knife, the Balti-
MORGAN by the way he Peels his potatoes, and the
Washingtonian from his eating the whole of the
potato, skin and oil.
A most ingenious piece of mechanism has been
completed and patented by q man in Mecklen-
burg. Va. 1t is n scale which, in weighing Ia
pounds of sugar at 10 cents a pound, points out
what the sugar comes to. So of any article, or
any number of pounds, or any price.
Five hundred persons belonging to the Lyman
family, representing n dozen States and Canada,
held n family gathering Recently, ut Mount
Tom, Massachusetts. Rev. DIR. Lyman Coleman,
of Lafayette College, Easton, Pa, delivered the
genealogical address, and a characteristic letter
from Henry Ward Bcecher was read.
An Iowa girl, described as a pretty, talka-
tive, laughablc, bright-eyed brunette" lately got
to Omaha in the evening, was introduced to n
.~.. m. ,axf r,arpspD u-apf 10 a rfnpta With
him, and brought him back and married him be-
fore supper.
An English coekney at the Falls of Niagara,
when asked how he liked the Falls, replied
They're 'ansome-quite 50; but they don t
quite hansen my hexpectations besides, l got vet
ted, and lost Inc at. / prefer to look at 'em in
an hingraving in 'Ot weather, and in the 'ouse."
The manual labor system at Cornell University
works to a charm. One student supports him
self by cabinet making, another by printing, an
other by photography, while some work on the
farm, and another who sweeps the rooms and
makes fires has taken the first prize in science
and German.
"Stranger, will you try q hand with US at
poker?" Thank you, gentlemen, but there
are seventeen reasons why l cannot
you Just now Seventeen reasons for not
playing cards! Pray, what arc they?" "Why,
the first is, l haven't any money! "Stop /!
that's enough never mind the other sixteen"
"My dear, what shall we have for dinner to-
day?" One Of your smiles" replied the hus-
band L" can dine on that any day" But 1
can't" said the wife. "Then take this" said
he, giving her a kiss, and departed for his
Office. He returned to dinner. This steak is
excellent - said he, " what did you pay for it?"
=" What you gave me this morning." said she.
I" The deuce you did"
The following notice was found pasted on a
large box which passed over the Sioux City and
Pacific Railroad u few days since: Baggage
smashers are requested to handle this box with
care, as it contains nitro-glycerine, Greek fire,
gun-cotton, and two live gorillas." The box
was not broken.
There promises to be q severe fight in the
United States Senate next winter over the con-
frmation of Gen. Sickles as Minister to Spain.
From the violence Of his ASSISTANTS heretofore we
NAV Judge that the dictionary will be nked with
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