The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1856-1888, 1869-07-31
European Miscellany.

the ncighborhood of Cheltenham, England, goin
. their rounds upon velocipedes.
Ophthalmia of a contagious character prevail
. at Berlin, which medical men believe to be
the same nature as the terrible Egyptian disease
Measures of precautIon have been taken in cor
sequence.
Cardinal Bonapartc is expected shortly IN Paris
IL Is this prelate, report says, who will presid
over the religious ceremonies on August 18th, a
AJecclo, on the occasion ut the centenary @
Napoleon 1.
A meeting of German schoolmasters has JUS
been held at Berlin. Resolutions were adopte'
by a large majority in favor of the freedom ant
independence of teaching.
The cotton operatives of Preston, England
have caught the emigration fever, and many o
them preparing to move westward.
The capital invested in the Italian net work o
railways amounts to 500, OOO, 900, and is doing
well.
The railways of France, which run at low rates
under restricted tariffs, have for the last six years
{ averaged dividends of III per cent.
An English velocipedist is To ride on his bicycle,
IN July next, from St. Petersburg to Moscow.
The Russian police have given him the necessary
permission 70 do so.
The FOREIGN MAns.-The lumber of letters
passing through the New York Post-ofice during
the last fiscal year amounted to IL lbs, $50, an
increase OF S3O,29S over the preceding year.
Associations are forming in North Germany to
enable the families of the poorly paid teachers to
emigrate to America.
Laura Farina, a young lady of 81, now owns
the genuine cologne factory, and is now worth
two million thalers.
Irreverent Paris laughs Mt the Prince Imperial
for the air OF gravity which he assumes in imita-
ton OF his august father.
Hungary raises nearly all the wine made in the
Austrian Empire, about thirty million barrels. 1t
IS worth on the spot about two dollars q barrel,
but, Notwithstanding its cheapness, only about
one per cent. of it is exported.
Bertrand, the little grandson of Napoleon III.
that is to say, the son of Nine. de Bienville,
daughter of Napoleon's mistress, Kate Howard
bears so striking n resemblance to his Imperial
grandfather that he creates quite a sensation when
ever he makes his appearance in the streets of
Paris.
A sad account is given of the pecuniary affairs
OF George Hudson, tie English ssex-railway
king" AT Il meeting of the River Wear Com
missioners, ut Sunderland, a subscription was
commenced for his benefit, and it was stated that
MIR. Hudson, who is now sixty-nine years of age,
~ IN great distress in Paris. The subscription
list was headed with three gifts of a hundred
guineas each. This u warning to American rail-
road autocrats.
Minister Burlingame rebuked the foreigners
who thought they " outranked - him i'm Paris.
In the following style: "Wc Americans do not
raise the question of rank. We receive all gen.
N "S OSSupyH ny IL common level. But III
you raise the question of position, we outrank
you. You are nothing but Dukes, Marquises
and Counts. We belong to the royal family.
we are the equal of our President. We are all
helr apparents to the throne. We stand up for
our order, and if need be, we fight for our order"
The excavations at Herculaneum, undertaken
by means of the 30,000.r. granted by KING
victor Emmanuel, have led to the discovery of a
large room, which must have served for a kitchen.
In 1t was a wooden clothes press, entirely car
Dohized also fourteen vases, a candelabrum and
a lamp, all in bronze, several vessels in glass and
terra Gotta a small marble statue of n faun. and
two broken tables, one in marble and the other
IN slate. Visitors have been very numerous of
late 20 examine these objects.
1t is announced in most of the French papers &
that the principal shops in Paris will hencelorth
be closed on Sundays. This important social !
reform is not the result of a religious movement, I
but has been brought about by the same kind of t
agency which. in England has introduced the /
saturday haii-holiday. The Society of the En- l
Dloyes dc Commerce inform the public that with n
ew exceptions, all the linen diapers, vendors of v
,eady-made apparel, silk MERGERS, and hosiers of g
paris have consented to close their sbons on Fl
sunday, and the employees 'sappeal to the good t
7Hi OF the public to aid them in making the II
Measure general" b
AGED PorEs.-Although no Pope has yet lived "
o the years OF Peter in the Episcopate, vet Is e.
'opes, like Plus TX, have lived to celebrate the 81
ftIeth anniversary of their mass. These were N
.regory Nil, who died in 1409, aged 90; John 81
MI, who died in AIS, aged 81; Paul ILL.,, c.
mo died IN lS49, aged 50; Paul ", 1855, aged "
Innocent N, 1916, aged sc Innocent XII.
700, aged sc; Benedict Kill, 1889, aged ST: P'
lement NIL, 1749, aged 70; Benedict XIV. st
l3S, aged SO Plus VI, Plus VII, and Gregory la
VI. n
CURIOUS DETECTION OF A CRMINAL.-Not long =.
90 there occurred in Prussia one of those cases 81 81
detection of crime by scientific means which -.
lterest a large class of readers. A quantity of =.
Did, packed i'm boxes, was despatched by a rail ~
ay train On arrival at its destination it was ;,
scovered that the gold had been stolen from IL
me of the boxes, which were reflled with sand a
make up for the deficient weight. Measures
ere at once taken for the discovery of the thief.
ID that no chance might be lost, Professor Ne
nrenberg was requested to make a microscopic
of the sand. The Professor, who is SIS
of the Academy of Sciences at Berlin. -
known for his researches into minute objects
d his comparisons Of volcanic dust from all
rts OF the world, asked that a quantity of sand y
I'm every station by which the train had passed -
ould be sent to him. Examining those one
ter another. he at last came to sand which was
'ntlcal with that found in the gold boxes. The q
me OF the station whence this sand was col ]
ted was known inquiries were set on foot Mt G
1t station. and among the persons there en- =
,yed the thief was detected.
OUR ESTIMATE OF OTHERs.-There are folks u
10 can never look at any one else i'm their own 10
TX OF lie without some reference to themselves. tidil
ey instantly institute n cop,por;son Al ~ by
reduces a disturbing element, which makes ""
III estimate of the other person of no value. -
ey are looking on the other person through
ctacles strongly tinged with green; PERHAPS
IN yellow. If you desire to form a sound and s.
ut estimate OF any one whose work is the same
yours, or who may be regarded as n competitor ~
the same kind of standing, you must for the wes,
forget yourself altogether. The most inap- with
cable reference In vonrsalf will .,t;raI, -. octa
estimate formed. But there are neonic VII One
&c it not in them to form an impersonal and
'elfish estimate of another. They never think %
t the other man is six feet high, or seven, as
case may be but that he is so many inches
or or shorter than they are. They never
nix that the man is a very clever man, or a v I
= stupid man but that he is not SO clever as q
y are, or stupider than they. Such are tie y
nan beings who are disconnected unless they .Cl