The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1856-1888, 1869-06-12
LATE FOREIGN NEWS.
American.

1 = NeAANA A-A~ III oAN e'N- N-NN 1"~->
graduates Of female medical colleges now in
active practice in the United States, some Of
whom are in receipt of $4,000 per annum from
their profession.
George Francis Train is organizing a grand
round the-NyuIld excursion party at New York.
limited to Is. The fare viii be 81 go. and the
time required 90 days.
\ strong temperance society has been started
ar Bau, Feiee Islands 100 persons have become
members, with King Cako and the Queen At
their head.
\ rich citizen Of Cincinnati is going to present
u that city 4 beautiful fountain, costing 100000,
thirty feet high, and surmounted by Il female
figure in bronze. The work il doing IN Nurem-
burg.
The Cincinnati Times devotcs a half column to
a ilattering account of the W hite Pine mines,
and concludes with the calculation that If eighty
millions dollars (Which was the total yield OF the
United States for 1869 = year be paid on the
national debt. but twelve years would be required
for its entire liquidation.
The uncertainties of book publishing are shown
in the fact that Mr.. Greelcy's :. Recollections,"
which are gotten out in beautiful style rs a sub
s~cription book, after their appearance in the
Ledger. have not sold more than eight thousand
copies, though the publishers had expected to
dispose Of thrice as many.
j. d. Enos. a colored man, is appointed Post
master ut Naladosta (Ga.) This Is a notorious
rebel town, and the place where the Kuk klux
attempted to blow up the Court house with pow
der while the Republicans Were holding Il meet
ing there.
1t may interest those who prosecute wild-gOose
chases after vast estates in that country to which
they imagine themselves heirs. TO know that no
alien can inherit land in England, or even take it
by Viii; and further, that as land there always
descends 10 the oldest son, no title derived
through Il younger brother can be good in any
event.
The proposal that Great Britain shall surrender
her North American possessions as a set off
against the Alabama claims, has created n deep
sensation in certain circles. Many regard il with
decided favor. Senator Summers speech was
copied in full by both the English and French
journals, and is the topic of much discussion.
The Secretary of the Navy has decided that the
enforcement of the cight-hour law in the Navy
Yards &c luces the wages Of employees onc-ffth-
or IN other words that they shall be paid accord
ing to the time they labor. There is some COM
motion in all the lards-the workmen claiming
eight hours work and ten hours pay.
y rather funny thing was developed in a recent
trial between two Germans in New York city.
Ii came out that the great whale, which used to
disport himself 50 furiously in the New York
- aquarium, = 70 the great awe and amusement
of visitors, was nothing more nor less than n
piece of mechanism with a man inside of it. One
OF these Germans was the Jonah in the belly of
the artificial monster. After this what can we
in?
The Washington correspondent of the New
York Commercial AdrertSer, under date of April
18th, writes " An unsuccessful attempt was
made at the commencement of the executive ses-
sion to eXalt the character of American dlplOmacv,
requiring from Ministers and Secretaries of
legation at least a knowledge of the language Of
the courts TO which they are respectively accred-
tied. This custom, which is inexorably enforced
by all foreign Governments, failed in consequence
IF the alleged exigencics of party, and the neces-
sTfu nf rplyIIIpr ~ rrhlIa p,a, irr,-,A...-. e D
merit or special adaptation for their functions
SALARIES OF UNITED STATES MENIsTERs.-In
with the foreign appointments Just
made by President Grant, it may not be unintcr-
sting to know the salaries attached to the res
lcctiye Offices. The ministers to England and
rance receive 81 800 a year each the ministers
o Russia, Austria, Spain and Mexico. So 500
the ministers to Hayti and Liberia. 81, 800
ach the ministers resident in Sweden, Belgium,
iuatemala, Bogota, Bolivia, Hawaiian Islands
nd Nicaragua, 81 500.
CANADA FOR THE ALABAMA CLAIMs.-The pro-
sct of Canadian annexation, in settlement of the
iId5ana claims, with the joint consent of England
nd the ColOnists, begins to attract attention in
government and diplomatic circles, and is by
ONE regarded as likely to become a prominent
cature of Grant, administration The views
expressed on this subject by part of the American
favorable response of the English
ewsTapers-and the demand for annexation
mOng the colonies, especially Nova Scotia, have
belief in the feasibility of the scheme,
managed with diplomatic tact and careful ,
egard to English honor. Objections to the pos
ibllity of its accomplishment, and doubts as to L
nc policy and safety of such an enlargement of I
ne republic are strongly urged by individuals, il
ut it is confidently asserted by others that pub
{ opinion is setting in favor of our acceptance
{ Canada should it be rendered by Great Britain, o
the surest mode of harlnOnizing the interests
nd ending the iealousies between the two coun-
lies and atiording the basis of a permanent and Ct
1rdial peace.
The following Chinese curiosities have been
lded to the City Library's Museum in Spring
ED Mass. J.: two cancelled bank bills on some
90 Chow financial institution one representing
80, and the other $500. They were sent to the
Ierriams by Rev. Justus Doolittle, n missionary
nong the Celestials. Accompanying them is
is visiting card, inscribed in Chinese hero
yphics also, two coins, one of which claims TO
lte back to the year 20. f.
The increase IN the number Of horses in the
nited States since 1850 is estimated Mt I.7jO.- n
10, or twenty-five per cent. The whole number
said to be about S,000. 900, valued at y. 666.-
O,OOO, or something more than the whole ma ~
Dnal debt. Ohio, Illinois, Indiana, New York,
,nnsylvania, Missouri. Kentucky and Texas are
c great hOrse-raising States in the order in -
hich we Lave given them. California, however,
Is increased her stock in a greater ratio than
" other. namely, from 100, Gle in 1850 to 500,-
10 in 1869. n
NELoCIPEDhNA.-A gentleman in Honellsyille.
cuben County, recently bought IA velocipede for
he paid 800, broke a plate glass window
r which he paid $40, cut his face and neck for Y
he paid the doctor -, ruined one pair of
ntalOons for which he paid SlI, frightened a
So that the animal ran away and broke a
.ggy for which hc paid damages amounting To- -.
20, and TO cap the climax. he finally smashed =
velocIpede 10y running into a brick wall, lcav-
: hIm S2l6 out of pocket and a ourt-plastered Tn
c 70 show for it.