The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1856-1888, 1869-10-23
Foreign Miscellany.

Foreign Miscellany.
The Prussians have out an Arctic Exped,tion:
When last heard from il was an latitude -
degrees. longitude 10 degrees west on the coast
of Greenland. All well, but weather colder
than in 1868.
There are said to be over 1000, 600 minute
feathers on the wings of a butterfly. Disbeiievers
ss can count for themselves"
The Boston Advertiser says that Mrs. Stowe
will not reply to the criticisms on her byron
scandal until the comments of the English press
are received nv mail. when she can deal with all
together in one comprehensive, annihiiating
broadside.
A fac of distress, consisting of a red cross upon
a dark yellow ground, has been suggested by the
surgeons Of the Prussian navy, as the proper sig
nal TO be used by all civilized States, both In war
and in peace, and on land and on the sea.
Milwaukee has adopted an original method of
getting rid of street ~loafers. They are photo
graphed by an artist and hung in store windows,
labeled /" street loalers."
The women's paper, the Rerohaion, says the
coming style of female dress is to be silk stockings
to the knee, short trousers, slasbed Jacket, no
hoops, no petticoats, limbs in full play.
A Detroit chemist made an analysis of water
from a well at St. Louis, Gratlot county, Mich,
and says: 81 know of no we'll at present which
shows 80 much electricity. There is one In
Europe, but it is only slightly charged-not
equal to this"
Next to the astonishing fact that each Of the
New York evening papers has :" a larger circula-
ton than all the rest combined, - is the singular
incident that each published the news of the boat
race 80 in advance of all competitors ="
Kansas seems to be growing faster than any
State in the Union. An normous immigration
is flowing in from the Middle States, New Eng
land, Canada, Germany, and Sweden. As the
new settlers are well supplied with money, times
are flush. Kansas already contains 400 900.
The Cuban Junta. in appreciation of Secretary
Rawlins' strong sympathy for the Cuban cause,
have presented Mrs. Rawlins with twenty thou
sand dollars in bonds of the embryo Republic,
and n hearty letter of coincidence.
The eldest son of the Viceroy of Egypt will
m a course of study at that university,
as u member of Christ Church in October term.
His Highness will occupy a house at Oxford
during his three years of residence, and will be
accompanied by a suite, in the same manner as
the Prince of Wales in 1859.
A boon to mariners who navigate the North
Sea is the Ship Canal that is to connect il with
Amsterdam, and the work upon which is to be
resumed. 1t will cost % 900 900 g~uilders, and
be fifteen miles in length, and will cut off Am
sterdam from Zuyder Zee.
A contribution was recently taken in one of
the churches in Northampton, Mass, and on the
day following n man, who counts his property
by hundreds of thousands, called on one Of the
elders and said: al made a mistake yesterday,
and put in the box ten cents, when / meant to
put in five CENTS
The Edinburgh university court has given its
sanction to the matriculation of ladies as medical
students, but with this condition that separate
classes shall be formed for their instruction.
The assent of the General Council Of the Chan
cellor is necessary to give this concession the force
of university law, but the Scotsman appears to
ennsiler the matter an ylrtuallv SETTLED
COMET En- RoUrE.-The earth is now enjoying
the close ncighborhood of 20, zoo, 900 miles to
Winnecke's comet, a little affair discovered in
1919 by NJ. Pons ut Marseilles, but named from
DR.. Winnecke of Bonn, the second finder in 1858.
1t is nearer us now than at the time of its peri
helion, or nearest passage to the sun, though it
was then 20, 600 900 miles from that body.
1t is asserted in the G~entleman's Magazine
that the Chinese were the first to discover Amer
lea. About 500 years after the birth of Christ
some Buddhist priests brought back to China de-
scriptions of a country which they called ''Fu-
sany," from a tree the description of which
answers to the Maquay tree of Mexico. If there
be any truth in it, the Ch-ineseSecords should
show it.
Four of the parties engaged in the duel which
took place at Kershaw's rancho, were arrested by
officer McDermott, on u charge Of an attempt to
commit n public ofense, namely, the crime of
murder, by fighting a duel. They will be taken
to San Rafael for trial. The names are: James
r. Smedberg, j. II. Gardiner, I'll. Crittenden and
). Taylor.
Two Buffalo chickens partook of some poisoned
crumbs of food the other day, whereof one died,
and n physician was called in the case of the
other. The dissecting knife was at once put at
work biddy,s crop was laid open, all the con.
tents removed and the membrane carefully washed
with cold water, and then neatly sewed together
again. The patient was then taken into a cool
shed and placed in n -four barrel. The next
morning she was fed with corn starch and milk,
and is now hale and hearty.
The Ritualistic Bishop Jenner has returned
from his New Zealand diocese, where his inter-
probation of the rubrics was not received favora-
bly, by the inhabitants of that u~nenlightened land.
A large amount of elimination and recrimination
has already passed between the bishop and GER
tain ecclesiastical dignitaries at home, and there
is every probability of further and more public
proceedings.
Monsieur Lesseps is determined not to rest
content with the laurels he will have earned by
the successful completion Of the Suez Canal. He
is ready with a new project for cutting through
the Isthmus of Corinth, which, if carried into
effect, will shorten the journey from Marseilles to
Constantinople by fourteen hours, and that from
Trieste to the same town by twenty hours. The
length of the canal would be two miles and n
half, and the expense, If commenced next Spring,
only 1000 900 francs.
DISAPPEARANCE OF A STAR.-Some of our ex-
changes have devoted considerable space to spec
~ulations ON one of the most startling of astronom-
ical facts, the explosion, or rather the conflagra-
ton of Tau-Corone. 1t now appears that another
and much more important star is slowly taking
itself out of our system. Calculations of extra
ordinary minuteness have demonstrated that
Sirius and our sun are mutually receding from
one another at the rate of 29.4 miles per second.
In the end, therefore, though the distance of
time strains the imagination, we must lose sight
of Sirius-that is to say, provided we have not
by that time gained the capacity of watching the
more distant universes towards which he must
be re~cording-an improbabLity. Nothing seems
30 near its final limit as the power of astronomical
telescopes, while the power of the human eye, if
it alters at all, probably decreases.