The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1856-1888, 1869-11-20
Foreign Miscellany.
A current impression-a So bill.

\ current impression-a So bill.
A store in Denver City has q sign as follows /:
FyNE KUT 2 bak O..
According to the Cincinnati Commercial" cheap
brilliants I" are IS dime-uns."
.sPapers for forming connubial partnerships ="
Is the latest Chicago term for marriage licenses.
A Berlin comedian has been fined 40 thalers for
putting in q 80 gag " referring to the Cracow al
fair.
A fellow wants to know why his creditors vio-
late the injunction, Post no bills. Chicago
Republican.
OF the twenty-iour thousand streets in London,
six thousand are counted 80 business streets"
A Hungarian giantess who was lately married
charged an admission fee to the church when she
was married. The house was filled.
The French exiles lately returned to Paris are
to publish a new paper, lie Rerenonf. They may
as well retain their quarters abroad.
Illinois papers state that n lady at Presumption,
in that State, lately presented to her husband six
children at Il birth. The whole hock are doing
well, and the father is represented as being per-
fectly delighted"
The Germans announce bethrothals in the pa
pers as regularly as we do marriages and deaths.
They herald births with much flourish. For IN
stance 81 have the honor politely to announce
to my relations and friends the happy delivery OF
my dear wife, Julie, maiden name Sattmarn, a
utltllnN- elTOuS DON. SOiOEhSs <b5 -
Eduard Fomm."
A Buffalo railroad man has invented a new car
starter and brake for use on street cars. 1t con-
sists Of an ingenious and simple arrangement of
friction wheels, by which he throws a spring into
| gear and when the brake is taken off, the spring
starts the car ahead, without any effort ON the
part of the horses, thus saving much wear OF the
horses.
Brigham Young employs a poet to write Nor
mon HYMNS. The World adds, the hers are pro-
vided for. We wonder if among the metres en-
ployed. the L. : meet me by moonlight alone " is
included or do the Mormon youths court half n
dozen ut q time?
writes to the Methodist that he sees more drunk
enness there in n single day than in any other
Country ON the continent in three months. At
the same time hc says the most marked national
feature is the unfailing honesty of the people.
IL il n noticeable fact that the English papers
are less severe upon Mrs. Stowe than most of the
American press. y Canadian paper accounts for
it by surprising that in England there are verbal
traditions which had prepared the English mind
for startling regulations about Byron.
The high wages now paid the freedman of the
South induces them to be consumers of n higher
grade of goods than formerly. { The result rs seen
in the greatly improved Southern trade of New
York ana Philadelphia, and indeed the whole
country feels the benefit.
Adeline Patti has made an arrangement with
Strakosch by which she is to receive 800, 900 for
an eight months engagement. and all her travel
ling expenses and those of her suite arc to be paid
beside. This is the largest sum ever earned by
any singer in so short q time.
A NovELTY.-An American steamboat has
been put upon the Rhine, and astonishes the ma
tives. For years the only steamers on that
much-travelled river have been the little, narrow,
slow boats, with sub-aquean cabins, which dis
grace all the German rivers.
DEcLINED.-The noble offer made to the Turk
ish Government by Miss Burdett Coutts to repair
the works for the supply of water to Jerusalem,
ut her own cost, has been declined. The Turkish
Government, however, have promised to under
take this work.
CoyvERTs.-It is estimated that there are two
hundred thousand native Protestant Christians in
India. These are living witnesses of the utility
of missionary operations. To be n Christian in
heather lands means a great deal. Only the sim
cere will make n profession OF the faith, when, by
so doing, they lose caste with their people and no
power but the grace of God can sustain them.
Yet these are but a handful among the heather
millions.