The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1856-1888, 1870-04-30
Foreign MISCELLANY.

Commander Edwards, who surveyed
route across the lsthmus of Darien for
ship canal in 1854, writes 10 the Londo
, St0Hd0rd, exulting in the resumption
the project, and expresses his belief in il
y perfect feasibility.
= The LARGEST ORGAN IN THE WORLD -
The largest organ in the world will be III
organ now building by Willis for the HaI
y Of Arts and Sciences, South Kensington. !
will have III sounding stops, Independent
of IA c~ouplers.
The long agony about the distribution o
;, the 100000 appropriated for the capture 0
Jefferson Davis Is at last over. The thirC
auditor of the treasury has made ont ;
report, which has been approved, and tht
money will be divided among 240 claimants
> By the latest count, the House of Lord:
consists Of 474 members-of whom four are
princes Of the blood, three archbishops, q
dukes, 81 marquises, l67 earls. 80 viscounts
81 bishops. aud III barons. The new rep
!, resentative peer for Ireland remains 10 be
classed. The total number is ten more than
at the opening of the session of 1869.
Sir Henry Rawlisson, the distinguished
tarchBologist. maintains that Babylon is the
site of the Garden of Eden, and that the
Babylonian documents now extant give an
exact geographical description OF the scene
of mans first disobedience."
LONG ROw.-The Pennsylvania Central
Railroad Company owns four hundred loco
motives and seven thousand cars, which, if
placed in a line, would extend a distance of
seventy-two miles. This Company owns or
controls seventeen hundred and sixtv-nine
miles of "a ilrOad.
The whaling ship TI,le Lore, now hail
ing from Hull, Eng, is said TO be the oldest
vessel afoat, having been built in Philadel-
phia, in the year 1864. Owing to a Pc
culiarity in her model, she has several times,
when squeezed by the ice, on occasions when
other vessels were DESTROYED, risen up on the
surface and rested there till danger was over.
She has made eighty voyages 10 Arctic seas
and is still sound.
FAIR PLAYA divorce case is reported
from Detroit, Mich, in which Judge Patchin
recently decided that a farm should be divided
equally between the severed couple, on the
ground that the wife, by her hard work, had
done as much as the husband to acquire the
property.
SMALL HOUSES WANTED.-There is an
unusual demand for small houses in New
York. Many find they cannot stand the
rents they have boen paying, and are looking
for smaller and cheaper houses. Those
renting for $1,000, $1,000, and $500 are
very scarce, and the demand is far in excess
of the supply.
For rHE SoLDIERs.-By action of Con-
gress the Communication Fund of $4,000 :
IS TO be turned over to the Asylum for
Disabled Soldiers. This fund. now in the
Treasury, is the money paid as communication
money during the war, and its appropriation
to this object is just and right.
A CoLoRED Boy APPOINTED A CADET AT
WEST PoINT.-General Butler has appointed
4 colored boy, named Charles Sumner
the Military Academy at West Point. This
IS the first case on record of a colored boy
being appointed to West Point.
Henry Bessemer, the inventor of the steel
process, has discovered and patented a plan
5y which sea sickness may be avoided in
uture. By the application of the principle
which a ships compasses are suspended,
ne provides n room which will be perfectly
rec from the rolling or pitching motion of the
-essel. A working model which has been
tlready constructed, shows the simplicity
efficacy of the plan. The suspended
in this model is ~hemispherical in
hape. and can be made with Il glass roof"
The Chicago Post has n table of cities
rom which it appears that Chicago, which ]
n 1860 was the eighth city in the Union, is
low the third, or will be by the census of
his year. 1t adds Another decade and
re shall be second still another, and we i
be first. The prosperity and happiness :
t this great republic, with a hundred million a
opulation, and Chicago the greatest Of all /
reat cities, it is almost beyond. the capacity ;
the finite mind to comprehend" ;
The Washington correspondent of the b
london Ae'rs was pleased with the treat !
lent accorded to Prince Arthur in Wash .
lgton. Referring TO the reception at Gen. d
herman's, the writer says: g was partic- C
larly struck with the wel!-bred air displayed ?
= those present in regard to the distinguished "
Isltor. While the curiosity 10 see him was y
ot disguised, the-e was n total absence of =
ny OF that push q and scrambling which, y
am sorry TO say, may often be seen in Il
urope among persons who ought to know
great deal better. Nothing could be nicer IA
an the Princes carriage and bearing. IN
IS manner was courteous, digniied, and u
al
MIR GLADSTONE THREATENED WITH AssAs- &C
read in the Stpd Gend:- W
Within the last few days there has been n "
esslrg correspondence between the Belgian 81
d English Governments respecting a some D.
lat serious matter. Mr.. Gladstone recently n
a letter in which a person, whose
mature was illegible, used violent threats
wards him. Amongst other things the
tier stated that if Mr.. Gladstone persisted ge
the measures taken with regard to the VI
Istchuk-Varna Railway Company he might 81
Dect TO be stabbed or shot. This letter WI
d been written at Client and posted in Ia
city. The English Government handed op
letter TO our ambassador in London, who for
It 1t to our Government for inquiry to be of
de. That inquiry has taken place in our PEI
but Notwithstanding all the investiga- alb
rs made the writer of the letter has not be-
n secured" me
-. Al
OF the Freedmen's Savings Bank, ma
Washington, just published, give addi- ba'
nal evidence that the negro is not only hac
able of making a living, but of saving w
Nnfhan. e. Al E. Ire