The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1856-1888, 1869-11-13
Foreign Miscellany.


D The Goodenough frauds would be bad enougl
in any business concern, but in q religious estab
Gshmcnt Methodist Book Concernl are infamous
Why was Pharaoh's daughter like a broker
Because she got n little prophet from the rushe
ON the banks.
IL we would all oy us take kare ov our OWL
souls, and let our neighbors alone, thare woule
be less time lost, and more souls saved
\ Chicago girl says that she doesn't get mar
RED, for the reason that she doesn't know Whose
husband she might be marrying.
A railroad newsboy in Kentucky is the latest
favorite of fortune. He has fallen heir to Sl3S,
OOO by the death of an uncle in Europe.
In the wild beast market an elephant brings
$4,000, a giraffe 90, 600, a hippopotamus So 900,
a lion or a tiger $4,000, a gnu 1880, and an
ostrich $500.
English lord-Lord Hubert Ainsley-who Is Wis
iting this country, and will become Lady Ainsley
In November.
An exchange says the difference between an
editor and his wife is, 81 one writes articles to set,
and the other sets articles TO rights" We have
frequently known n more striking difference I"
than that between an editor and his wife.
A wealthy and beautiful young lady in Erie,
Pa. recently married an upcouth and crippled
journeyman shoemaker, who was already married
and possessed of a family of children, on the
supPosition that he was wealthy and the agent of
A. L.. Stewart.
On August 29th, a meeting Of :, 1000 persons in
Berlin, adopted resolutions advocating suppression
OF converts and the expulsion of the Jesuits from
the country. A declaration, however, was made
10 the effect that these resolutions were not
directed against confession.
The Prohibitory Law went into force in Nfassa-
chusetts on the LIST of July last. Since that time
the police have instituted 1,SOS prosecutions.
including seizures. The amount of fines paid up
during the present year on the prosecutions Of
the State Police is STA ,703.
\ rich man who lives near Rio .Janerio il soid
to keep n large anaconda on his premises TO
brighten of ladies and missionaries, who are
constantly soliciting donations for charitable and
religious purposes in that city.
John Camden Hotten of Picadilly, London. has
collected and is going to publish in a volume,
everything on the topic of the Byron scandal that
everybody of note has put forth.
A photographer of Simla, Hindostan, has dis
covered a large vein Of mecrschaum, said to be
superior to that in ordinary use for pioes. II
does not fuse when exposed to heat, but increases
In hardness. Specimens have been sent to Cal
cutta and to England to be tested.
California would make seventeen states of the
size Of New Hampshire. The sea coast extends
nearly a thousand miles, and the territory extends
into the interior one hundred and eighty miles.
Kentucky is by greatest odds the largest
whisky-producing state in the Union. There
were in bond in that state July 3lst, 1929, 54I
gallons OF spirits. Pennsylvania stands next to
kentucky, with 2,7lS,2l5 gallons in bond.
The religious public, especially that of Meth
made in one of the New York dailies that some
OF the prominent employees of the Methodist
Book Concern had been guilty of expensive pecu-
lations, covering n series of years and nany
thousand dollars. The accused deny the charges,
but the evidence is against them.
The Red StocGin1s b,ro -
to the golden shores of the Pacific, by
the Eagles OF San Francisco, on Saturday.
IN a score OF thirty-fve to four. Will thew dare
now to step over and try the L" knights of the
Club y in the Sandwich Islands, who were Base
enough to 1" beat " Captain Cook?
The SPANISH RBGENcY.-The report gains
ground that it will be proposed to extend the
of Marshal Serrano for three wears. thus
postponing the choice of a permanent ruler for
that period. We are assured that all political
parties. including even some Republicans, acoui-
In tins arrangement-it is not easy to see
with what Interior views.
LiPpineon's Magazine tells q story to the effect
mat Admiral Porter, while riding in a street car
in Washington lately, was annoyed by several
NOISY drunken sailors. At last he told them who
ne was and demanded what ship they belonged
Wine had given one of them wit enough to
reply, Admiral, you have changed the names of
The ships SO often that [ don't really know what
'hip We do belong to-"
NEW YORK PAPERs.-The most profitable papers
n New York are said to be the Herald and
Journal Of Commerce, both of which clear about
O,oOO pei annum, while the Times, during
he last few years Raymond controlled it paid but
go 900. The 1ri6une's income is not stated.
WINE AND MLK.-Wine in the wine-growinp
egions of California is cheaper than milk. In
and Los Angeles common wine is but
W cents n gallon; milk costs 80. Even a COM
non strong wine is but 40 cents. In Tuolumme
ounty n large skilled wine-raiser offers 4 800
ailons OF excellent wine at % cents per gallon. I
q the same region milk is 40 cents. In Coloma
ne price OF the two is the same-40 cents. In
onoma good wine is for sale ut 40 cents the gal
and milk Mt the same price. :
n Norwich man has whitfield with a pen-knife j
most curious and perplcxing bottle puzzle. He
as taken an eight ounce vial and set UP in it's
n perfect keg about two inches long,
ith four hoops on IL and both heads in, and he ,
stopped the bottle with n wooden plug which q
ts perfectly tight and is keyed inside, the kew
lnned and the pin toggled. The workmanship
excellent and the way it was done a mystery.
a man by the name Of Zeke Eads, in Greene
ounty, New York, is strangely deformed. He
without ears, and never had any. He gathers
unds through the medium of bis mouth, and
IN hear anything said 70 him in an ordinary II
'nyersation. Equally as strange, his hair is
aek, with white spots nearly as large as the
lin OF a mans hand interspcrsed through it.
G Is about 40 years OF age, and the happy pos
OF thirteen living children. His occupa- I
,n is that of a chair-maker. /
GRAPE DIsEAsE.-Great CONSERVATION prevails
roughout the wine-growing districts of France.
new disease of the grape has made its appear
ice in the neighborhood Of Bordeaux, where it
s already caused incalculable damage, and is r
W beginning to spread to the vineyards of =
irgundy. According to a paper published on
e subject by H. Planchon, this disease is caused
the ravages of a hitherto unknown insect,
he calls philoxera vastarix, and which ali
2 means usually employed in similar cases has
lied to extirpate.
Among the recent reforms inaugurated by the =
ar of Russia, is one which abolishes the hered- =
ny character of the Russian priesthood. Here
there has been a priestly caste, embracing
0 900 families, to which the right of exercising
lgious functions was restricted, while, on the
her hand, a priests sons could not devote them
ives to secular pursuits. n