The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1856-1888, 1870-09-10
Foreign Miscellany.

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The Cubans have lost Ia Generals since the
war begun.
Two thousand lives were lost in the great con
fiagration at Constantinople.
A Missouri pig has rooted up $4,000 in gold,
buried during the war and forgotten by its owner.
The average of the national debt per head in
the United States is STAB in Great Britain,
Sl34.S9.
Gilmore is now talking of a grand international
Musical Jubilee, in which all nations will partici-
pate.
AS WAS TO BE ExPEcTED.-Bishop Colenso's
books are split up into tracts against Christianity
by the Buddhists of Ceylon.
Henry Ward Beecher says that the most graft
flying circumstance in his life was the being
kissed by Kossuth. Isn't this a little hard upon
poor Mrs. Beecher?
1t is now certain that we shall never have the
Z completed story of 8 : Edwin Brood" Only half
of it is written, and very properly, no one will be
allowed to finish it.
In Boston, the other day, a man was struck by
lightning in a liquor shop. 1t was a fluid some
what more subtitle than he had been accustomed
to take.
A New Yorker returned from the country I'M
expectedly the other evening TO find his mansion
a blaze of light. a band in the hall and the
" help . and all her friends dancing the cancan
in the parlors.
GONE BACK.-The Rev. E. s.. Ffoulkes, who
Joined the communion of the church of Rome
some years ago, has lately been received back into
the church Of England. The service took place at
the parish church of st. Mary the Less, Lambeth,
/. London.
PRoGREss.-The English universities are at last
so modified in their legal relations to the English
people, that no creed is required to make students
eligible in them, there is no bar to a Divinity
prOfessorship's being occupied by a Jewish Rabbi,
and NOnconformist services may be held in col
lege cbapels.
Denmark has a Is Maiden Insurance Company"
with which a father may deposit money, which
shall bear four per cent. interest to his daughter
during her minority, a higher rate after she is
eighteen, and an increase at other periods of her
life.
LIBERAL.-One of the gifts of Charles Dickens
was a donation of 81 200 sent to DIR. s. G. Howe,
of Boston, Mass, to be expended in printing for
the blind copies of the {" Old Curiosity Shop
The London Gazette is the oldest newspaper
printed in English. The Congressional Library
has a complete set of this periodical from its
commencement, in 1865, until the present time.
1t is invaluable for historical reference.
The Employment Bureau of the Chicago Young
Mems Christian Association during the year end
ing March 81, 1870, obtained situations for 5O8l
persons of both sexes. OF this number l1I9 were
Americans 479 English 497 Germans 1899
Irish SO Swedes 3l5 NOrwegians 210 Danes
118 French; q Welsh; italians; &c Canadians;
46 of other nationalities, and 1873 whose native
country was not ascertained. The number of
persons between the ages of 10 and 20 given en-
ployment was 1899, and between 90 and 80 was
1904.
The latest novelty in the velocipede way is the
invention of a steam animal of this description:
1t weighs about / 500 pounds, consumes Its own
smoke, and makes no noise. 1t carries two pas
sengers, one of whom must be intelligent-that
is, attend to the machine. The latter q~ualifca-
ton will prevent it's introduction to a great
extent.
Representative Washburn, of Wisconsin, has
received official information from France of the
operations of the postal telegraph system under
Government control. The exhibit is most favor
able to the system, the number of messages hav-
ing increased enormously and the receipts being
much larger than ever, although the rate per
message is as low as economy demands. Advices
from England are to the same effect as those from
France. The increase Of business has been great,
and there is no doubt that the postal telegraph
system will prove n decided success in Great
Britain.
Coop FOR THE NBGRo.-The Memphis (Tenn.)
Ledger says: The negro is fast becoming pro-
prietor of the soil he formerly titled for his master.
About five hundred negroes own farms in the
vicinity of Memphis, and all their farms are well
cultivated, while the farms of a great many white
men are covered with weeds. Industry is bound
to overcome all obstacles and make men rich,
while laziness ends in the work-house and a
pauper's grave"
st. Thomas, we are officially informed, has
been taken back under the sheltering wings of
the Majesty of Denmark, and as a consequence
the latter kingdom is richer in territory. The
Danes, that is the reigning and royal ones, feel
much aggrieved because the Senate did not ratify
the ST Thomas purchase of Secretary Seward.
They cannot understand how the Senator's could
refuse to clinch a bargain negotiated by the
of State, whom they seem to regard as
of more Importance than both Houses Of Con-
gress, the Judiciary and Executive rolled into
one. The majority of our people think, and very
wisely, that we are better off without st. Thomas,
the opinions of the Royal Danes and ex-Secretary
Seward to the contrary notwithstanding