The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1856-1888, 1870-11-19
Foreign Items.

The Suez Canal cost ~eixty-hve million dollars.
90, The practice of pharmacy in Rome is absolutely
prohibited TO Jews, Q rsa
An intelligence Office for Chinese servants has
been opeuediniBostop, Mass. II =
The Roman Catholic population OF France Ia 3d.
500, 664 the Protestant, sol, $50 the Jewish,
l58.995. an
A, Papal bull is soon expected. dissolving the
Ecnmenical Council. on the ground that there is no
place where i. can be held. r-rn I'LL
Wind up your conduct like your watch, once
every day; examine infinitely whether you are
'tfast" OF, Slow r. -rf.
Sir Francis Crossley, fhe famous carpet manu-
facturer of England, has Just donated $4,000 10
the London Missionary Society.
A young girl Of Schenectady has been commit
ted to the Troy jail in default OF $50 6ne, for hav-
Jog promenaded through the streets with a colored
man.
An indemnity OF $50. 900 has been demanded by
the English Government on behalf of the widow
Of Mr.. Lloyd, one OF the Greek massacred victims.
The peanut crop OF Virginia this year will be
400, 900 bushels, while Tennessee raises 100000
bushels, and Georgia and the Carolinas from 1907
600 to $4,000.
Australia has an import and export trade of
S375, 900. 900 annually, and last year there were
60. 900 frst-class passengers between England and
Australia.
The North German Lloyd Hamburg and Bremen
Steamship Company have upwards OF forty vessels
in all, and not one OF these has produced a single
AOtAoA pAOAt oihSC ZhfkhPt Ac&
Ln proof that Dickens was always in sympathy
with the United States, II is said bis manuscripts
were always written with blue ink, on white paper,
and his published works were universally read.
The Masonic Grand Lodge of California has
passed exceedingly bitter resolutions on the subject
of the murder Of Cuban Masons, and denouncing
the Government of Spain and the Catholic clergy
in unmeasured terms for such outrages.
1t is nearly settled that the total population Of
the United States will be found, by the census now
aimost comnlptpd IN exceed fOPfV-one' fniIIi0na-a
gain of fully ten millions within the last ten years
though the war must have cost us fully half
million. lives. ..... AH "a
Illinois now takes rank az the fourth State I'm
population, being exceeded only by New York,
Pennsylvania and Ohio. When another decade
shall have passed the three States named may we'll
look to their laurels.
Canada foots up IS, 900. 900 damages alleged 20
have beeA received on account of FeniaR Invasion,
and wiilfOrnaliy present its bill 10 the ". S. Govern
ment, as better than the ApeEican claims for the
naturalization on account Of the Alabama out
RACES .T94GfId .t9ihDaH .ft9ngbU
A dispatch from Washington, dated. October IL,
says Secretary Boutwell, to-day sent orders 90
the Collector of the Ports OF San Francisco and
Sitka, directing them to seize summarily all persons
that may bring in. any fur seal skins from any
other Islands than 81. Paul and 81. George, on the
coast OF Alaska"
A NEAr RErRor-TO make a man a arunkard.
give him a wife who will scold him every time be
.eomes home--[Exchasge.n Euf0wSnFaH
TO make a woman seold. give her abnsband who
comes home druDk.-lWOman's Journal.
Tofmake a happy home, give the AtIan'a sweet
voiced, neat, frugal wife, and give the woman a
sober. industrious even-tempered husband.
DIR. Halford, professor OF Anatomy In the Uuiver-
sity Of Melbourne. has been successful in treating
cases of poisoning by the bites of the deadly
snakes Of Australia. In twenty Instances of bites
by exceedingly poisonous reptiles, seventeen were
cured by the injection under the skin Of thirty
drops of water OF amnoaja.K 4I43oF
The opponents of Freepaaonry have been hold
ing a Convention at West Union Iowa. DIR. Blan-
chard, OF Wheaton College, Illinois, talked for three
hours to prove that Masonry is the identical I" har-
lot OF baDyfon.fsH akfl4JDd M NN
All the American missionaries at Tune Chow.
near Chefoo, China, have deserted their houses, and.
there being no United States man-ofwar in port,
veyed them to Chefoo. They left IN icouseauence
of warnings of an intended attack. sa.
At the late Jewish Synod, held at Leipsic, the
following was resolved; "No bitter or harsh ex-
under revision or to be newly composed ; the con-
tents shall embrace all human beings of the uni
verse, and nothing shall be said therein with regard
to the chosen people which might In the least offend
our brethren of another creed"
The new French coat of arms consists of n d0nre
OF Liberty with the legend " in the name Of the
French people on the reverse and a garland OF
mixed oats and olives. with a wheat ear in the
Of France; Democratic, United, Indivisible.D
Around the periphery are the words Liberty,
Egalite, Fraternite."
MAsoNIc-The Masonic Grand Lodge of the
State OF Illinois, at its last session, which closed
at Chicago. October 9Th, repealed this statute.
passed in 1916: n
" Section Stall Subordinate Lodges under
this Jurisdiction are Instructed 10 admit no negro
or mulatto as a visitor or otherwise, under anv
circumstances whatever.
Section s2-If any Lodge In this jurisdiction
violates this expressed will of the Grand Lodge, "a
shall be the duty Of the Most Worshipful Grand
Master OF the State at once TO arrest Its cbarter."@
The vote on Its repeal stood $50 to $50, while
the year previous there were but I53 votes In favor
Of the repeal ont Of q total Of $50.