The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1856-1888, 1869-02-20
Foreign Miscellany.

OF the human race about I,25O.O00 are Free
maSons.
Napier received sIi925 for six months service
IN AbysSinia.
Napoleon sent : 1000 to aid The sufferers by the
Swiss foundations.
Edwin Booths income last wear amounted 10
100000.
There are three hundred religious newspapers in
the United States.
Parke Goodwin has nearly finished his third vol
ume oil " The History of France
Brigham Young is said to be the largest dcpositor
in the bank of England.
The newest Partisan fan is made i'm the shape ola
horseshoe. Ii is very ugly. bnt very fashionable.
Doctor of Literature is u new degree established
by the University of London.
Gold brown is the iavoritc dress coicr in Paris.
Bierstadt has sent home a new picture, a view on
the Tuolumne river.
a Journal Of Eriies is to be started by Victor
Hugo, to which Rochefort and others are 10 contri-
butte.
y New York journal thinks Grant and the future
Presidents should have Slo0, 600 a year.
Mr.. Ed. About, originally an intense Democrat,
now clamors for a Parliament in France.
Three hundred hands are employed at the River
side Press. at Cambridge, Mass.
Australia has an ostrich pasture of 10, 900 acres.
The feathers of a full grown bird are worth Si0O n
year.
Earl Derby is about TO publish another volume of
metrical translations from the Greek and Latin
poets.
White gloves are prescribed in polite European
society pearl and orange color gloves are pre-
scribed.
Much of the paper used in England is made from
ESparto grass. The London Times uses it.
Victor Hugo is both a peer of France and a
Spanish Niscount. though he neither prefixes the
titles to his name nor wishes others to do it.
Italy is trying to make the port of Spezzia as
CherbouTg or Toulon. Its harbor will accommo-
date the united European fleets.
\. T. Stewart intends erecting q large tenement
house in which ruined merchants are 10 reside rent
free. Tenants will never be scarce.
1t is stated that the Carlton, the chief English
Tory Club, spent 81 100000 in gold, in the recent
general election.
Chas. O'Conor, the great New York lawyer, re-
turns an income of Si6,225.
There is a boy at Hoboken, n. J..-son of the
late Mr.. Stevens-who when he arrives at manhood
will have an income of four millions of dollars per
year.
Cosr OF ENTERTAINING PRINCE AIFREp.-Among
the documents recently laid before Parliament was
one showing the cost Of entertaining Prince Alfred
-$24137-Sl23.6S5
The curvature of the earth amounts to seven
inches per mile. \ man six feet high cannot be
seen from a distance of ten miles.
Sylvanus Morse. of East Montpelier, Vermont. is
the maple sugar king of the State. He has 1850
trees tapped. His total product this year will
probably be from five to six tons.
DR.. Ferand, q French physician. has succeeded i'm
reuniting the finger of a cook, which had been lop-
ped OFF and thrown away. The severed part ecov-
cred warmth and sensitiveness.
The y. J.. Sun has an editorial giving some good
advice to parents-to give their boys q good trade.
That is the best " friend in need' the editor knows
of, as life wears.
The n. Y. Herald now has its paper manufactured
especially for its use. and every sheet is water
marked on the margin y. I. Herald.
At the recent conference of influential women,
in Stuttgart, it was declared necessary that wo-
mems toilettes be modified, to check extravaganza,
bad taste, and incessant change.
Few people know what an empire Texas is. IL
would make twenty-five New Hampshires, or more
than five New Yorks. or nearly six Pennsylvania.
1t is nearly three times as large as the island o.
Great Britain and nearly half as large again as
France.
A spiritual medium in Chicago. Miss Clair Do
We're, is revealing the secrets of Masonry. by
means of spiritual information from her defunct
progenitor, "SirStephen De We're"
The Australian colonies have $780, 900 horses,
1000, 900 cattle, 3S.500.O0O sheep, 1000, 900 pigs,
and $500, 600 acres of cultivated land.
There is a saying among the English merchants
that a man has put in his time well " who is
worth as many thousand pounds as he counts years
in age. Cornelius Vanderbilt can claim the say
ing with a broad, American margin: a million
dollars for every year of his life.
AN ERRoR.-The impression is very general that
drunkenness is exceedingly rare in countries where
vines are grown and wine is made. n California
paper recently stated. per contra, that all the pro-
prietors of vineyards in one grape-growing coun-
try of that State were drunkards.
1t is positively denied by a Paris journal that
the ex-Queen Isabella carried OFF the crown Jewels
when she crossed the Pyrenees. According to the
Memorial DipIO1ndti9ue, her Majesty. who has just
purchased a magnificent hotel in the avenue of the
Roi de Rome for a sum of I.700,000 francs, has for
her entire fortune $4,000, 900 in gold. the portion
of the Prince of Asturias. which was lodged in tho
Bank of England.
bers of which style themselves " organophers."
By means of the nose and throat they give perfect
limitations of all musical instruments. One eXcels
in his perfect performance of the big drum and
cymbals.
Chicago last year sent East As, 900. 900 bushels of
grain. Only nine per cent. went by rail-wbich
shows how much the lakes are worth to commerce
if they are locked up all winter.
Science is growing sensational. 1t not only pre-
diets the exhaustion of the coal fields of England
in a century or so, but prophecies the burning out
of the sun within some four thousand years, since
it gives us light and heat only by consuming itself.
Bonner of the New York Ledger is enjoying the
rich fruits of energy and enterprise, while Hiram
Fuller, formerly of the Mirror. in whose Office
Bonner was at one time employed, is a used-up
secessionist in a London jail
The unanimity of the Press in denouncing the
conduct of Erie Fiske in arresting Mr.. Bowles of
the Springfield Republican. must be highly unsatis-
factory to the former individual. Papers of all
politics express the same opinion and denOunce
the high handed outrage, which was nothing more
nor less than an attempt to intimidate and annoy.
Mr.. FiSke has probably discovered, like the trav-
eler on the Mississippi, that he has walked the
wrong passenger. and will find it quite as difficult
as did the traveller in getting the aforesaid pas
senger to sleep.
Among the persons who recently received gold
medals from the French Government. for deeds of
great courage and devotedness. was a young mat
ron. FRANCHISE Triadou, who was bitten by a mad
dog in the midst of a crowd of children and women,
and who was selfpOssessed and noble-hearted
enough to cling to the dog until he was killed.
The furious animal would otherwise have bitten at
least fifteen or twenty other persons. Madame
Triadou was fortunately saved.
The fact that Admiral Tegethoff, the Austrian
Admiral. should speak English so fuently. has
occasioned some surprise. But foreign Govern
ments regard knowledge of the language of the
country to whom its agents are commissioners. as
an indispensable requisite. 1t is only American