The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1856-1888, 1869-09-11

The American Board of Foreign Missions has ac-
cepted seven young men this year, one Oh "now
will so 10 China.
P;smarck saws he always intrusts difficult COM
| missions to men with spirited and AMBITIOUS WIVES
The Car is afraid of the women. de has inter
dicted q Sorosis at st. Petersburg.
.b,dy sadlv reflects that the turf should, at one
and the same time. be the ruin of go many new
castles and old houses.
The Chinese Empire has SOC, 900 temples, con-
tanning 5000, 900 idols. The temples are valued
at 81 600, DOC, 900.
The outside of Mark Lemons s~nuf-box is said TO
be married by the motto {" What's the ooos' 81
long as you're rappee?'
The London Times lately had to publish an err
ratum TO a notice of a religious ceremony. saying
that the word "malefactors" should have Deeh
male actors"
The Rev. DR.. Bushnell calls the demand for female
suffrage % an attempt to make trunpets out nu'es'
and sunfowers out OF vloiets.
Memphis must be a delightful place for the home
of a peace-loving citizen. There have been 10 muir
ders and homicides in that city during the last year
A young man of Memphis has appeared IN 81
Louis to claim the reward Of 500 advertised LOT
news OF a missing girl. He married her, Inc other
day, after a successful elopement.
The British soldier is about TO have his straight
jacket tunic, iron stock and snug breecnes changeo
TO an easier uniform, more like the hgnt anu ser
viceable dress Of the boys IN blue.
Sir Edward Landseer's picture of the Eagles al
tockino The Slcan'S Nest. has been sold Tor the enor-
nous sum of $1,000. 1t is said that the artist re.
fused an offer of $4,000 from a nobleman, VINO SEM
him afterwards a blank check which Landseer niied
up to the above amount
Leaveuworth editor is in quest of special at
fractions for his paper. He says; what we
want for this column is personalities, as mean as
possible. Expense of libel suits to be betrayed by
the writer-funeral expenses by u.s."
TeRRIBI E CALAMITY-Three hundred and twenty
one dead have been counted at the coal mine near
Dresden, Germany which exploded q few days
since.
Kitchen education is not despised by the Ger
man ladies. The ~prelates' kitchens of Austria are
celebrated schools for this branch of training.
When a mother wishes 10 give her daughter tue
last polish in the art of high cookery, she sends her
into the kitchen of a bishop, or to a rich clolster,
where she can learn the preparation of the Finest
dainties. For the people OF Linz, the Kitchen OF
the Bishop Of Rudiger is the high school.
Some very interesting statistics have been COM
piled on this subject. water supply. which show
that Geneva receives "a litres of water per head,
daily Brussels, 80 Lyons, S5, London 80 Paris,
at present, l25, and Paris, in 1870, 250 Bordeaux,
10 Dion and Bezancon. 270 each Carcassone.
400 New York. go modern Rome. 900, and old
Rome. 1,500-that is to say, 10 times more than
London, that commercial Rome of our present CIV
ilization. Hence, we might conclude that an an
tique Roman was l5 times cleaner, and drank 10
times as much as a Londoner of to-day-which L
do not believe at all.-CorreSpOndence Chicago
Tribune.
A New IMPLEMENT OF WAR.-A Rouen journal
thus describes the mitrailleuse. a new in
strument of war, partly invented by the Emperor
Naoolen "Imagine a coffee mill half a yard in
height, with an opening at the top half a yard In
diameter. Into this the cartouches are shoveled,
and by one soldier who works the instrument lets
a single cartouche fall into each of the eight barrels
of the mitrailleuse.' These barrels are about a
yard in length. As the trigger falls on the caps 1T
closes the barrels, and the wheel in turning re-
opens the barrel. recocks the trigger, and lets other
cartouches assume the places of those discharged
This instrument. worked by a single soldier. dis
charges from SO to So shots q minute, and is effect
tive a LOO yards.'
The new military harbor, Wilheimshaven just
inaugurated by the King of Prussia, presents TO
view FIVE separate harbors, with canals. sluices to
regulate the tide, and an array of dry-docks for or
binary and iron-cased vessels. As you approach
by ship, you first find yourself in an artificial basin,
fanked by immense granite moles. respectively
1000 and $500 feet long. This basin. called - the
entrance is 700 feet long and $50 feet wide, and
leads to the first sluice, 1872 feet long and &c feet
wide. The next basin, or outer harbOr, is Geo feet
long and 400 wide the second sluice, Immediately
behind. as long and as wide as the first Then
there follows a canal. 5000 feet long. varying in
width from 260 to los feet, and having about half
way another harbor for dredging-steaIners and
similar crafts. This leads to the pOrtpdr excellence,
consisting of a basin 200 feet long and $50 wide,
with a smaller special basin for boats to the right