The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1856-1888, 1870-01-29
LATE AMERICAN NEWS.

The immediate cause of the death Of George
Peabody was congestion OF the lungs lie dled
without suffering.
The Board of Education of Cincinnati have voted,
% to Is. TO prohibit the reading of the Bible and
singing as the opening exercises of the pubic
schools.
Neckties with little mirrors in the centre of the
bow. is the latest fashion with the "nobby " lads.
What next?
Scarlet fever is prevailing in London and various
other cities of England, and is proving very fatal.
A gentlemen was lately bIackballed in an Eng
liSh club because his wife was in the habit OF drop
ping her his.
1t is related of somebody that he once drew an
elephant at q rattle, but was puzzled to know exactly
what to do with him. Somebody has drawn the
Coliseum building in Boston, and he is probably in
the same fix as was the pOssessor of the elephantic
prize.
Two-thirds of the students of the General Episcopal
Theological Seminary in New York, have just gone
over to the Catholic Church. This Institution Is
under decided High Church control.
1t is expected that two hundred delegates from
Europe will visit the United States a year from last
fall, to attend the General Christian Alliance in the
city ofNew York. The convention will be one of the
greatest events of the age.
A Young man in Napa county, California. went to
sleep, leaving his candle in the bung hole of a pow
der keg, which he supposed was a nail keg. His
dreams were troubled by an explosion, and he was
blown all over the ranch.
we are sorry Jumpers VeeEty SnOulQ DlOt lS
pages with the disgusting pictures of the Pantin
murder in France. Nothing but a miserable NOR
bid curiosity could be gratifed by them.
ITEMs.-The smallest animal which the micro
scope has found is as much smaller than the COM
mon house-iy as the fly is smaller than an elephant.
The sale of school and music books is enormous.
" Bright Jewles" for instance, has sold to the extent
of some 125, 900 copies since May last. and d" Fresh
Laurels," by the same energetic publishers-BIg-
low q Main-5O0. 600 in two years.
A Georgia paper says that the food prospects in
Georgia were never darker, even during the war,
than they now are, and if left to her own resources,
half the population would, probably, starve before
another crop IS produced.
Everything was lately in readiness for the mar
rage of a Cairo (Ill.0 lady. but the groom came not.
After hours of waiting. IL despatch was received
which read " Have to wait till next week-my wife
has overhauled me"
An eminent physician says that the white rubber
used for nursing bottles and infants toys is very
poisonous. causing sore mouth, skin eruptions, de.
cayed teeth, spinal curvature, and death. In Eu-
rope the sale is prohibited by law.
Once more Mr.. Boutwell, makes the nation feel
like a man with a comfortable bank account. The
debt statement for October shows a reduction of
the debt during the past month, of 81, 363, 852.75,
and a reduction since March /, 1869 of 1854. 332,-
070.65. At this rate the first year of Grants term
will show u diminution of one hundred millions.
The popular appreciation of books is sometimes
curiously mirrored at the New York Trade Sales.
This Fall, Sir Morton Petos Resources and Pros
poets of OO-sold for 10 cents.
Such old books as Burton's Cyclopedia of Wit and
Humor, Dana's Household Book of Poetry, Irving's
Works, ETC.. brought nearly the regular wholesale
price. TUpper's Proverbial Philosophy went to an
buyer for Is cents
THE u. S. MALs.-The annual report of Post
master General Creswell, for the year ending June
80, 1869, now in course of preparation, announces
that the total number of stamps, envelopes and
wrappers sold during the period men,
toned amount TO SOP, 722.50O, the total value of
which is SIS. 07S.009 Receipts and expenditures
Receipts, SlS.344.57l. being an increase of I21 per
cent. over the receipts of 1865. Expenditures,
$23,698.l32 being an increase of a per cent. over
the expenditures of 1868.
Hon. Rufus Dwinel. of Bangor, Me-, who died,
one of lis Wealthicst citizens, and left a re-
markable will. He gave, among other requests,
SlO 600, divided in different sums, to trustees, to
be used purely and solely for charitable pur-
possess - 8 900 each to the editors of the Bangor
Whig, to show his 50 appreciation of their valuable
IN the good cause in which they are en-
gagged, politically and socially" and $4,000 to a
friend, in proof of his appreciation of his friend
ship, and not because he needs it."
The Island of Juan Fernandez has been coded by
the CHILEAN Government to a colony of Germans
numbering about 100, headed by one Wehrhan.
They have provided tn. mselves with cattle, fishing
apparatus, agricultural implements, and hope to es-
tablish II thriving settlement in mid ocean.
IMPORTANT DECTsION.-An interesting case has
been decided by the Supreme Court of Ohio.
wife SO long as she remained his widow. In case
Of her contracting marriage, the property was to
revert to the children. She did marry. and brought
suit to recover her dOwry. The Court decided
her acceptance OF the conditions imposed by
the will was a bar to any further claims.