The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1856-1888, 1869-06-26
Foreign Miscellany.

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It is reported that Mr.. Chas. Dickens will visit
America again.
\ Southern newspaper uses $1,000 Confederate
bonds Is mailing wrappers.
Fifty wives and ninety children comprise the
household of the King of Eurmah.
The proposed Bridge over the East river at
New York il estimated To cost s. ,0Oo.0 GOO and TO
require six years in construction. 1t will be a
mile long.
\ bogus pair Of Siumcse twins is hoaxing the
West of England. The ligamcnt connecting the
- twins " is of India rubber. filed with hot water.
Since tie slave trade has been abolished the
tribes in Africa eat their prisoners, as they cam
not sell them.
Ii Is reported NJ New York that Joe Coburn,
the pugilist, was recently shot dead by q miner at
White Pine, Nevada, daring an alteration.
y professional nurse in a provincial town of
France has been convicted of drowning eight ba-
bies committed TO hor charge. in a pail of water.
The lakes in New York have an area of 72S
square miles. or 466. 900 acres. The coast line
OF lakes Erie and Ontario is go miles long.
The strike of the Chicago shocmakers, which
began three months ago. has not ended, though
the strikers have utterly failed of carrying their
point.
The latest scandal from Europe is the elope-
ment to America of a we'll known Lord with n
young lady from New York.
The Five Cents Savings Bank of Boston has
declared an extra dividend of 10 per cent. ON the
past five years business, making 1t equivalent to
s per cent. per annum.
There is much emulation in Boston harbor be-
tween the rival bingham boats. They began, one
with a fare of % cents and the other of 10, and
now charge respectively 10 and . cents.
Miss Ida Lewis, the Newport Grace Darling,
has been presented with 800 sent from Boston,
beside the $500 raised in Newport, and now the
people Of Rhode Island propose giving her a lie
boat.
y deputation OF Englishmen lately placed upon
the tomb of Macmillan Il superb crown of solid
silver, the product of n subscription. The crown
was made by an eminent jeweler of Paris.
The valleys of the CHA and Salt rivers in Ari-
iona are rapidly being s~ettlcd-mostly with I'M
from Texas. Florence, in Pima county,
is the largest settlement on the Upper ella.
y passenger car for the Erie Railroad, to cost
500, 600, Is building in Jersey City. 1t will be,
it is said, the largest, c~ostliest and most elegant
car in the world.
The Legislature of Illinois has passed n law
giving married women the right to use and pos
their own earnings, and 10 sue for the same
in their own name, free from the interference of n
or his creditors.
London has a sensational preacher in the per-
son of Ned Wright, a converted burglar. His
language is so striking and so effective that Mr..
Sturgeon stands no chance against him with the
female portion of the audience. He has lately
been preaching ut the Midnight Mission houses
IN London, and with such force that many women
ell inscnsible and had to be removed on stretchers.
y rare and admirable act was done in Hartford
eccntly, to clear her dead husbands business re-
from debt, by Mrs. Henry Lewith. The
state inventoricd 500 $40, which left u balance
If Indebtedness amounting to S6573. Besides
her legal right to one-third of her hus-
estate, Mrs. Lcwith paid the balance out
# her own purse which is not heavy either.
Don Piatt says = Governor Cox, in the COM
l%aratively unimportant place of Secretary of tie
Interior, is really the controlling spirit in the
'abinet. He not only controls the policy, but
he patronage of the Administration, both in his
and other departments, in Il greater degree
any other member Of the Cabinet"
Mr.. Thomas Thompson, n native of Boston,
led in New York recently, leaving n large estate,
he income of which is estimated at about $50, 600
er year. This great property is given by his
'ill, after the dccease of his wife, to trustees, to
Z appropriated for the benefit of women who are
e%pendent upon the needle for q living in the
OWNS of Brattleborough, VT, and Rhinebeck,
!. Y. Mr.. Thompson leaves no near relatives,
nd was almost a stranger in both the towns Sc
,cted for his bounty.
'THE NoBLEST ROMAN OF THEM ALL."-At the
of the war the enthusiastic friends of Gen.
hOmas made up 4 purse of 800, 900 to purchase
II HIM a home. In a quiet, modest nanner-so
MET and so modest that one cannot get hold
Ten of the refusal to make a popular point Of
c declined the gift. His sturdy, honest sense o.
and selfrespcct shrunk from the
ansaction. We can well say he is the noblest
oman Of them all.
PRESERVING EcGs.-A. NJ. Reynolds, of London,
anada West, has discovered Il process by which
gs can be preserved fresh for any length of time.
he solution has been tested by several we'll
lown gentlemen in Canada, who certified to it's
eat usefulness. The inventor has taken out n
tent, and George Ii. Denniston, of London,
mazda West, is the agent.
How To MOURN IN T~AsTE.-Crape is n pecul-
Fly bad material for the purpose, from its ex- {
nsiveneSs and Its liability to injury from every
OPP of rain. The too common addition of guam
les Of jet ornaments, or still worse, of blaze.
wers and other dismal translations of fnery
20 funeral trappings, is both lugubrious and i'll
ned. and nobody can think the result really T,
lutitul. To lay aside ones ornaments is tbe
tural symbol of grief, and a relief when the
ling is real. The French plan. of signifying q
icpth " of mourning by increasing the degree '
of the simple black dress, and by the
'ence of ornaments and trimming, seems much
most reasonable and appropriate. Their q
iod of mourning is considerably shorter than "
:. | believe they never wear Grape mt all, and .
lnnot see how any one, living or dead, is the -
rsc for it. The free use of white in all cases
Mourning, however deep, would also be 4 great a
n.-COTEhiH Magazine.