The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1856-1888, 1869-03-27
EF0rcESEs Miscellany.

4 At'Ntf ~ WINS tfGa WILLIE f"I
Is one 81 the fine arts in that city
\ London paper calls Chicago "a scrs of = depot
for qu2rrrlsomc husbands and wives
Prussian coal mines Weld o5,Oooog sons e
year. and give employment So 25S.1ud people.
\ clerk in a mercantile establishment writes to-
hi, friends at home; Plagury Easy times nova
dtys-vrfy little work 10 do--o,T srm don't adj
vrrtiSc."
Mr., Bonner says that within the pass year the
son Of one of his contributors has been elected
President " the United States, bat does no; assert
tAat the LajJo'S biography did the business.
Anna Swan, the Nova Scotia maiden of p. who
stands nine feet high, has gone To London. Eng
land, to astonish she citizens by holding a few Ierees
IN that city
1t appears to be understood in Washington shat
The Cuban insurrec,ioniSiS are gaining ground rap
IDLY. and stand u lair chance al securing the islands
independence.
When the Pacific railroad is completed, a tour
round the world. all the way lay rail and steamer.
$4,000 miles, will take eighty days and $1,000.
At a recent church - social" in Mayviile, Chau-
tauqua county, two sisters" pcrqunbulatea the
room selling kisses to the brethrea ~ ten cents
apiece.
1t is now said that there Is i great warm river
in the Pacific Ocean, analogous In the Gnlf
Stream : in the Atlantic. but III greater volume,
warmer, and moving with greater velocity
The PgSgtiRo of Turin caricatnres She present
state of Europe by a ballroom in which all the
Powers are represented waiting for the next dance.
L hN tGiNAh We ga - II Pa ihn ~ NNA0
tier Polka" with the La Nallette Maztrka.'
" Although the dances vary the musician is still
the same
Al Brussels during the year 1865, $500 births
were registered. of which 3,0l3 were boys and
2,SS9 girls the deaths were S.242. being 2,6S6
males and 2.55G females. During the same period
l,695 marriage We're celebrated. The number OF
divorces was eighteen. The population of the
city is about I65, 900, without the suburbs.
An employee of the Bank of France has calcu-
lated that the number of twenty frame pieces in
circulation at present, if piled up in a pyramid in
London and then tOppled over, the topmOst coin
could fall some miles beyond Calais. In his calcu-
lation he allows interest on each coin from the date
OF coinage.
An exhibitor of wild beasts in Paris has adopted
a plan tor securing his money which is respectfully
submitted TO bankers and bloated bondholders
generally. Every night he deposits the daily re-
cciptS OF his exhibitions in the cage of the most
ferocious OF his animals. and he has never lost SO
much as 4 SOU.
d. Il. Locke (Nasby), nj the close of his present
lecture tour. will have delivered two hundred and
thirty lectures. yielding him the handsome sum of
$4,000 gross receipts, or say 100000 with all
expenses paid.
There is no other spoken language so cheap and
expressive by telegraph as the English. So the
tongue i'll foreign countries. The same amount of
information can be transmitted i'll fewer English
words than French, German, Italian, or any other
European language. In Germany and Holland
especially, it is coming TO be u common thing 10
see kilograms in English. to save expenses and
insure precision.
SMALL Pox IN WESTERN CITIEs.-The Detroit
Post says that the small pOX is very prevalent and
very severe in the Western cities at present, aud
makes these specific statements about the disease
in several places
A hundred deaths u day have been reported in
Cincinnati il is declared to be an epidemic iG-S.
Louis it Is s%cOurging Chicago, though nothing is
said about II IN the newspapers and In Milwaukee,
the public schools and the rink have been closed
in consequences. and the shutting nm of theatres
concert saloons, and other places where people
most do cOngregate, has been discussed"
The earthquakes seem to have abandoned Cali
fornia, the West Indies, ireland, and other we'll
regulated countries, and betikcn themselves to the
more congenial soil of Mexico. They can't very
well increase very greatly the confusion and tur-
MOL which are chronic In the more disreputable of
republics. We are not sure but they shake the
country into something like conscience and common
sense. Almost any physical cataclysm would bea
small price to pay for such a blessing.
The negroes in Southwestern Georgia are gener-
ally renewing contracts with their last years
employers, and manifest less disposition to change
them than at any period since the war. The Macon
Telegraph admits that they are quiet, well behaved
and well disposed prices range from 800 to Sl25
in money and rations. About $50 is tie average.
The system of planting upon shares is less popular
than it was a year ago. The plan OF paying men
according to their worth Is now adopted.
E. De Cost McCay, a young man of New York
has $I25, 900 of insurance upon his life, most of il
In endowment policies. y Jay OF TWO since ne
walked into the office of one of the best companies
and paid down for a single premium endowment
Sl5,500, cash This is the largest single transac-
ton in life insurance that has ever taken place in
this country, and it is believed to be the largest on
record in any country. He is himself a life insur-
ance agent, and one of the most successful CANVASS
es in the city.
Elder Jacob Knapp. the rivalist preacher, is q in
luck" He went to California a year or two since
to pursue his calling, moved thereto by a desire to
earn a sufficient amount of money to lift a mortgage
upon his homestead farm i'll Illinois. While thus
employed he was advised by u friend to purchase
eighteen thousand acres OF land which was offered
for sale in California for one dollar per acre, and
he made the venture. In n few weeks a purchaser
offered him two dollars per acre for the tract. He
accepted the offer, pOcketed Sl7 900. and has Just
returned home quite content with his luck.
REECIIER on Total. ABSTINENCE.-In a recent adj
dress on q" temperance Henry Ward Beecher
urged the young men of his audience to adopt the
principle of total abstinence. He said:
1t is remarkable how the water OF Europe affects
the bowels of Yankees, while there, and how quickly
they find a cure in the wines of those countries.
This habit they all bring home with them, and in
many cases il degenerates into one still worse.
Wine drinking in America is on the increase, as
can be shown by abundant statistics. The grape
growing interest of New York State is already very
large Virginia promises great things in the future
in this respect Ohio Is now as famous as the
banks of the Rhine. and California is destined to
more wine than the whole of Europe.
Now. the argument for the production of large
quantities OF wine III u country > nat Oh account
of its cheapness and excellence men will use it in
to stronger drink and the inhabitants
of Italy and Switzerland are cited as examples of
the absence of drunkenness among wine drinkers.
But the fact Is, while gross drunkenness may be
wanting, the people of those countries are always
up to the quarreling pitch, and there is no question
but that they would be healthier, better and more
prosperous without their vineyards. \ booster set,
writes Holland, could hardly be found than he sees
daily Longing around the Cafes of the towns of
Italy. The speaker himself was satisfied that wine,
bpyvpynr abundant NVpulI meyer bpcnmp n SubSti-
for whisky in our country it will rather be
the first step toward the use of alcoholic liquors.
Americans drink to fire up. not for the flavor of the
beverage and they will use that stimulant which
does the work quickest. The stomach, brain and
entire system are healthier without excessive slim
Ilauts. which are scarcely better than poison. In