The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1856-1888, 1869-09-18
Foreign Miscellany.

out England.
The Detroit Tribune says Miss Anthony's aC
Vice for people to sleep alone reminds it of til
fox who undertook to make his fellow-fo1es be
liese that it wa n new fashion 10 wear no tail-
The London NeIrs notices Lord Rateman n
ga Peer whOse title IL more closely associate
with the ballad literature of England than wit
its political history or it's parliamentary clO
quence."
y Connecticut man, with an eye to the accom-
mOdatiOn of sleepers in church, ias invented q a
Improved head-rcst for attachment To churcl
pews. formed by the combination of stufing
covering plate, band, base-plate, and springs witt
each other"
An English reverend and u Il. ID. advertise
" to instruct Members of Parliament in Englist
composition, public reading and extemporaneou
Speaking" Here's q chance for an initiative
American TO turn many an honest penny by do
ing likewise ut Washington.
The profits Of Queen Victoria's 4" early Year,
of His Royal Highness the Prince ConsOrt, y
amounting TO Sl2,5OO, have been applied to the
establishment of school and college bursaries for
the benefit of well-deserving scholars, in the dis
trict around Balmoral, her Scottish residence.
The BARRIERS of Portsmouth, y. H., announce
that they will close their .. boudoirs of art - one
evening a week, in order that they may have q
little relaxation. BOudoirs OF ar" is good.
surpassing even . tonsorial studios s" in it's chaste
elegance.
Aht ApilOfAb1 lulDAltfAlIn1 u was OhtItu Nv
n Mr.. Stearns, at n festival given to the National
Division of the Sons OF Temperance, ut Washing
ton, last Thursday night: "Woman-more
beautiful than flowers, more delicious than straw
berries and cream the purest spirit of the age,
she II far more intoxicating than wine; we love
her, and she can not help herself"
a girl keeper of a toll gate in England was
asked by a swell velocipedist, who thought to
chaff her. how much lac had to pay. THAT,
SIR, replied she. ''depcnds upon whether You
ride through the gate. or whether you get off
your dandy horse and drag it through because
IN that case every two wheeled vehicle drawn by
a morse or an ass pays three pence"
Bishop Simpson declares for woman suffrage,
though he says, Z" In an ordinary political can
VASES l do no: see that anything would be gained.
The vote would simply be increased, without any
probability of change; but ON all moral aues-
tions affecting the right of women to engage in
any honorable calling to gain n livelihood, the
ballot in her hands would be a powerful element"
JEWS AND THE LORDS PRAYER.-A San Fran
cisco attorney, in denying the allegation made
recently in that city's Board of Education, that
Jews objected to n recital of the :. Lords Prayer
IN the public schools, says: When you consi-
der the Lords Prayer is n purely Hebrew
composition; that it teaches n belief and de.
T%endencc upon the one God, free from nil secta-
rianism, and that IL was taught by Christ and
His disciples, themselves jews, you must con-
clude the objector, not the Jews, had drawn
"iueiy upon lis IcrtiIc imagination.
PARIS Snors To LIZ CLOSED ON SuSDAY.-It is
announced in most of the French papers that the
principal shops in Paris will henceforth be closed
ON Sundays. This important social reform is not
the result of n religious movement, but has been
brought about by the same kind of agency which
IN England has introduced the Saturday half holi-
day. The Society of the EMPLOYEES de Commerce
inform the public that, with few exceptions, all
the linen diapers, vendors of ready made apparel,
silk MERGERS and hosiers OF Paris have consented
to close their shops on Sunday, and the employees
:. appeal to the goodwill OF the public to aid
them in making the measure general"
ARTIFICIAL LronT.-It is reported that two
french chemists have recently perfected processes
by which oxygen can be obtained from common
air ut 30 low a rate of expenses that the brilliant
light may be made available for ordi-
nary use. The magnesium wire now used to
burn in n hydrogen flame is very expensive, and
though yielding an intense light is better suited
TO photography than the illumination ofdwellIngs.
IL is reported, however, that the recent expert
show that zircon will emit u mild light
consuming in the flame, and that thus a
large part of the expense now required by the use
Of magnesium will be obviated.
The NJ. Y. Sun says 1T is remarkable that
MIR. Ra~ymond-enjoying as good health rs nc did
have passed the very last afternoon of
MS life in selecting n burial place and n still
more striking coincidence was his 81 ying-as the
World rcports-to Mr.. Mcdill, on the morning of
lis death, and when he appeared perfectly well,
hat he would prefer a death by apoplexy to any
'ther. 1t is a tradition of the eloquent James
Otis, of revolutionary fame, that he had often ex-
pressed n desire that when his time should come
o die he might be struck by lightning and that
me day he stood in the front doorway ofhis house,
With the door open, as n small cloud passed over.
)ne single thunderbolt only fell from il. and that
truck him and killed him Instantly"
Mr.. Fagnani, to prove to a Frenchman that
women possessed 80 classic'' beauty.
bout n year ago induced nine American ladies to
it to him as models for pictures of the MUSES..
)f the success of his work, now about complete,
writer says: "ln carrying out this idea he
as painted pure portraits, allowing himself no
into the ideal, except in the draperies,
-hich, of course, have to follow the classic, and
ot the fashionable style of the present times 4
IT we cannot imagine even a Grecian Muse with 4
.Grecian bend Had Mr.. Fagnani painted his
iuses from the imagination, he could hardly have I
vented more perfect cmbodiments of the classic {
ieals than he has found in the faces of these 6
american ladies, most of whom are well known I
the fashionable circles Of New York and Bos- (
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ARTIFICIAL IcE.-During the present hot weather c
. artificial ice company in New Orleans is man I
featuring and dispOsing OF about fifty tons per G
~ Mt less than one cent per pound. The artif- I
al is said to possess several advantages over the I
atural Ice. In the first place it is made of con- 4
snsed steam, and is consequently free from the I
winch frequently exist In natural Ice .
nd in the second place it is more solid than the t
itural article. does not melt SO quickly, and, c
,ing made in blocks of particular dimensions, C
weight can be more readily asccrtained. The n
oppression which existed formerly that the chem u
ais used to solidify the water entered more or P
- into the composition of the ice is IN error, C
I'd at present artificial ice is in high favor in a
ew Orleans, where il is believed it can be man. 1
actured on a larger scale at less than one dollar d
IT ton. o
The CROCODILE AND THE ELEPHANT.-Tbe man. :.
ting crocodiles of India are extremely savage. !.
curious circumstance occurred with regard to "
he lately at Cuttack. An elephant belonging to :
ie OF the Ranhs went into a tank to drink, and
doing so put his foot either on or close to a
ocodile, which at once bit it very severely this
enraged the elephant that he trod about until G
got his adversary firmly beneath his feet in =
c mud, when he trampled his life out. Still,
'wever, bis rage was unappeased he refused to