The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1856-1888, 1869-07-10
Foreign Miscellany.

Two Mexican laiiies hslu uuei hDOut D'eui-
Etr.
Dickens gets $4,000 year for reading his
books in England
a whisky fair is suggested to be held ut Gym
thiana, Kentucky.
The Florida penitentiary is being rapidly filed
with negro conyicts-
New Orleans has voted $500 worth Of poisoned
snusugr for stray dogs
B.smarek's Confederation has | ,440, 900 troops
mt its disposal in case OF war.
C;en. Moltke is about to be appointed Field
Marshal Of the Prussian army.
The journey OF the Empress Eugenic to the
Holy Land viii cost 100000 francs
Cvrus W. Field failed in 1861, but has since
raid up AMI added million to his pile.
The hunchback man Mt the Fulton ferry, New
York. who sells candies and soda, is worth
$4,000
The number OF Iunntics in France corresponds
very nearly 70 the muster roll Of the French army.
A woman has been presented to the Grand Jury
orowen county Ky.,) ON the charge Of being a
witch.
Rates Of fare on the Chicago, Rock Island and
Omaha Railroads have been reduced To 800 IL
~ supposed the Northampton line would follow
suit.
Mrs Stanton's mammoth petition charges the
party OF great moral ideas with giving the ballot
To ''the very last Of the most ignorant and de
graded classes Of men,
A bridge on the Jacksonville and indianapolis
Railroad, 160 feet long. was recently burned
DOWN and rebuilt SD that the trains passed over it
an eighteen hours
The death Of james Harper lets five OF the
= younger Efarpcrs into the Brothers firm, soon it
4 will be the Harper Cousins, nc this rate.
Horace Bushnell has in press u book entitled,
a. Woman Suffrage, the Reform against Na-
turc.'' it will be widely read and its author
soundly scolied.
A New York paper says: Doctor Hayes
wishes To go North ae7tin- No Arctic explorer
il really happy until he has failed to come back
The English government has assumed the CON
troll Of the telegraph lines, to be managed on the
same principles rs the postofhec.
A Western ruraIist complains that he sent four
dollars To n jewellery firm in New York for n mu-
sic box, playing 24 tunes, and received IN return
ajewsharp-
The propositions to lease the lamp posts OF Chi
cago for advertising. is offset by n bid for the
privilege ot pIaear1inS the backs of the city po-
ieemen and fremen-
Algeria being menaced by locusts, the Govern
ment has offered 800 for every 200 pounds of
their eggs, which it proposes to crush and bury
with quieSIime-
Posterity cannot flil to be gratiied by the in
telligence, which we record for its benefit, that
Winnie Ream had the original square-toed boots
OF the late Mr.. Lincoln to model his statute from.
vt photographers exhibition in Boston may
be u view OF the with n flock of birds on
the wing, from an English camera It is said To
he wonderful triumph of instantaneous photo
graphing.
One OF the hest things which fashion has done
OF ate help the oculists Is the introduction of
what are called - mask ves'-little, short, spot
tel veiIs which, einging close to a lady's face,
disturb and ultimately ruin the eyesight OF the
wearer.
This is the way they do up things in Bucta-
rest A brigand Of herculean strength was about
to be hanged for murder. He burst the straps
which bluni hm like fax, seized the cxecutIoner,
AMI hung him before assistance could arrive. He
was thercupon appointed to his victims Office.
There was a thoroughness about practical
joking IN the middle ages When Pope Adrian
died, the Roman people, who hated and despised
him, determined to testify their pleasure at the
event. They therefore adorned the door of his
physician's house with gariands, adding this in
scriptiou So To the deliverer of his country
IL has been cnlculateS, that some Of the stars
seen with the most powerful telescopes are at
such enormous distance that it takes their
light-travelins nearly 100000 miles n second
10000 years 20 reach the earth. There's anti
putty for us-n the light that has already got here
The poet suys: There Is n tide in the affairs
of men, which, taken at the food, leads to for
tune etc. The trouble with many is that they
get stuck in the mud at low water mark and are
thus overwhelmed by the sweeping tide They
unwary aics thar have walked into the spi-
der's parl5r.
VINO IIE Is.-GeneraI Quesada, the newly
appointed generalissimo OF the armies of reyolu-
tlonary Cuba Is n soldier by birth and training
For some eight years or more OF his life he has
served with distinction in the armies of Nex;c,
enjoying high command and brilliant reputation
London keeps growing. Its population has
not been counted for seven years, but ir Is esti
mated now ut J, ,l26, ,635. In it more than II5
600 children are yearly born and rs 900 uersous
die. The metrOpolis-ineluding the suburban
districts-stands upon ,997 acres, or I22 square
miles.
The following Is an exact copy OF q promissorv
note dated at Concord, November 25th. I793.
. For an old horse which have bought of Mr.
Isaac Dow, Il promise to pay him in wheat or
Hour mt cash price but f the horse does not live
To get TO Lebanon and three days after he gets
there, am to give but two dollars for the horse.
Witness my hand.
Hiin kESTS.-The highest rent paid In Broad
. way, View York, is that OF r. s. JaHray's dry
goods store. ut Leonard street. which brincs
10000 The highest hotel rent Is that of the
fhth Avenue, which rates at 800, 900 per an
mum but the most profitable of all edihces ON
that magnib.sat street Is Trinity BuiIdinS This
N occupied by othees. Il cost about 500 900.
and renns Tor nearly One-haIf that sum- SINGLE
Offices yield from s 900 To $4,000