The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1856-1888, 1869-12-11
Foreign Miscellany.

Post with no disresTect to him-of 4 hog {;
because we get 50 many good things from his
PEN"
Mr.. Thomas Watts, n librarian in the British
Museum, who knew fifty languages, and the
titles of half a million books, is dead.
Hazing is worse than ever at Harvard College,
and the Boston Irareier declares that such abuses
and breaches of the peace, if subject to the civil
law, would lodge half the . Sophs ~ in the house
of correction in one week.
A movement is in progress for a railroad up
the Androscoggin valley, from Lewiston to Rum
ford Falls (Me.) The preliminary survey has
been made, and as there would be no bridges of
any account to be built, the road would not be
expensive.
Portland, Maine, is rejoicing over the intro
duction Of pure water. The water of Lake
Sebago and its tributaries covers an area of one
hundred and hlty square miles-ample to supply
three times the present population of Portland.
The lake is sixteen miles from the city and two
hundred and forty-seven feet above tide water, so
that no machinery is needed.
Several Yale Freshmen were SO seriously in
jured in their initiation into the Delta Kappa
secret society last week, that they had TO be car
ried home In carriages, and one, who was tossed
in a blanket, had both bones of his forearm
broken about three inches below the elbow.
The following advertisement appears in the
London Times. The Ne,cs very appropriately
saws that an Earl's brother who wants to borrow
Jaw 10 " aDiS W cSt q W
." An Earl's brother requires u loan of G100.
As security, would admit lady or gentleman into
his family circle to board and lodge. Reference
required. Apply by letter H., No. 40 Yelling
ton road, st. Johns wood"
One Of the leading merchants of Shanghae,
China, is a genuine live Yankee. He ships twice
as much tea as any other firm in the country,
attends two churehes, leads the choir at one, is
treasurer of n missionary society, member Of the
Philharmonic Society, engineer of n fire COM
pany, member Of n regatta association, teacher
in a Sunday school, assistant editor of a news
paper, member of the Asiatic Society, and a
principal speaker Mt n debating club.
Miss Harriet Martincau denies that she began
life as n music teacher, or as any sort of teacher
or that she ever taught music or made music, or
even heard ~music-hnying been deaf from infancy.
PurA declares that Mrs. NIalaprop, who has
read that the Bishops attending the Pope's great
council Mt Rome are to receive an allowance,
= varying between 6s. Sd. and los. a day. says
that sine now understands why it is called the
81 economical " council. She is thankful to think
(Alrs. VI. is an exemplary member of the estab-
lished church) that our Bishops are better paid.
Painting is caused by n want of blood in the
brain, when the heart for any reason fails to for
ward enough for it's uses. For this reason a
iainting person should always be laid down, as
the circulation is more easily restored in that
position than In an upright posture.
y promising young SHAVER oil nSe or SIX years
was reading his lesson ut school, one day, in that
deliberate manner for which urchins of that age
are somewhat remarkable. As he proceeded
with the task he came upon the passage, :. Keen
thy tongue from evil, and thy lips from guile."'
Master Hopeful drawled out, s~'Keep-thy-
girls"
They tell a story about a man out West who
had a hair-lip upon which he performed aroper-
alton himself, by inserting a piece of chicken
flesh. 1t adhered, and filled up the place admir-
ably. This was all well enough until i'm COIN
pliance with tie fashion, he undertook to raise a
moustache, when one side grew hair and the
other feathers.
When it blows in Illinois it blows hard. A
man sitting in his house in Shipman, eating a
pie, heard the storm coming and ran to the door.
The gale first blew the house down and then
seized the man, carried him through the air a
hundred yards or so, and landed him in n peach
tree. Soon afterwards a friendly board from his
own house came floating by. This he sliced and
placed over his lead to protect himself from the
raging blast. Under this shelter he finished his
pie. The above Is related as u yeritable occur
renee.
PLAYING WE'RE WoMEN.@Three little girls
were playing among the sage brush i'm n back
yard. Two Of them were making believe keep
house a few yards distant from each other
neighbors as it were. One of them saws to the
third little girl -. There, now, Nelly, YOU 90 to
siIdh = HOiSc, uIu SiOp u lltl hnilc ana tdIk,
and then you come back and tell me what she
says about me; then III talk about her then
you go and tell her all / say, and then we'll get
mad and won't speak u each other, Just like our
mothers do, you know. q that1l be such fun "
We take it that John Bright, plebeian born
though he be, is about the finest gentleman
within the four seas of Britain. AS long as
the House Of Lords :" said Bright the other day,
in his letter to the Birmingham meeting, "as
long as the House Of Lords acts in harmony with
the country, it may go ON for a long time when
il thwarts the c%ountry's course, it may meet with
unpleasant accidents" Unpleasant accidents -
Is good. Nobody but a ;. grand old gentleman "
could put the case 80 handsomely to q House of
Lords. |
The New York Sunday Mercury says that
false calves are in extensive demand. They are |
composed of lambs and other wool woven into
the material of merino leggings, Just like a pair
OF masculine drawers. Sometimes bran is used. |
a good article can be procured for from 81 to
IS, warranted in ali respects to look like n
natural limb, and oftentimes much better. Al
one theatre in New York twcnty-three pairs of
false calves are used in another, about twenty
seven ard in another eighteen.
To HORSE SHoERs.-The "a frog" should never
be cut. 1t is intended as a cushion and protcc-
ton to the foot. Yet blacksmiths delight to cut
1t away, and keep an instrument on purpose.
No man /" who knows" will allow his horse 10
be meddled with by n sheer who uses that bar
barous shovel shaped knife, with which, braced
against the shoulder, this important portion of
the hoof is SO ruthlessly slashed away by so
many farriers.
TIE ATTITUDE OF ENGLAND.-The Pail Mall
Ga=ee, in an article on the present relations of
England and America, says that a single sentence
will contain the summing up of the present atti-
tude and future policy of England on the Alabama
question. We will pay any fairly awarded
Tor injuries done to American citizens
by the unintentional negligence of the English
Government, but we will do nothing which in
wolves an admission that our Government was
not acting in good faith, or that either compensa-
ton or apology is due for insult offered to the
nation. In the maintenance of this
Englishmen are prepared to 90 all
They do not want WARRIOR many rea-
sons they would greatly deprecate war; but they
national humiliation more than ma
finnal sufferiup- and rather than cOncede To snch