The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1856-1888, 1870-07-30
Foreign Summary.

Foreign Summary.
Mark Twain says that the Sandwich ISL
ands dish of plain dog "a is only our cherished
American sausage with the mystery re-
moved"
A Danish ship, lying in Boston harbor,
has a large windmill on board, which is ap-
piled to working the pumps. 1t is also
adapted to other work as occasion may
require.
A wealthy American :" who married a
titled young Milanese, has turned out a
journeyman barber, and the Milan aristocracy
call it a shave.
One thousand and fifty yards of mating,
one yard in width. are required to cover the
floor of the National House of Representa-
tives.
The Society for the suppression of cruelty
to animals, IN Paris, has made a movement
against frying small fish and eels alive.
Over 100000 persons have died of the
small pox in Russia since the beginning OF
the century. Vaccination is not compulsory
in the Cars dominions.
Miss Chase, daughter of the -, of the
u. S. s. Court, is writing and illustrating a
work for Juveniles. She has marked talent
for sketching.
The fee which Mr.. John Graham received
for defending Mcfarland was S10,000-the
largest ever paid in this country in a trial
for murder.
It cost the Imperial Government $4,000
to print the proclamation on the plebiscite
and the voting cards bearing the word "oui."
10000 reams of paper were used.
Wonderful effects of sound nave been OBJ
tanned by manufacturing bells of aluminium,
in France and Belgium. A bell of Is inches
in diameter scarcely weighs 40 pounds.
Fell, A French savan, recently exhibited
to the Paris scientific academy nearly perfect
glass limitations of emeralds, ~sapphires and
white and colored rubies. One specimen of
deep violet blue, and rich in tone and brill
fancy, was thought to surpass the finest
amethyst.
The New Haven Palladium chronicles the
sudden death Of Mrs. Pratt in that city, with
the following notice She was of Irish
birth, and said to be one of the best milliners
in the city. Her store had a good run of
custom. OF such is the kingdom of heaven
W~AsHINGToN's DEATH.-lt is a fact not
generally known perhaps that Washington
drew his last breath in the last hour of the
last day of the last week in the last month
of the year, and in the last year of the CEN
fury. He died on Saturday night, at II
o'clock, December 3lst, 1899.
Massachusetts is shaken from Cape Cod
to the " blue hills of Berkshire" on account
of the introduction of Chinese labor. Home
labor is so high, manufacturers find they can
make a handsome profit on Chinese toll.
Mr.. Robert Coward, of Pittsburg, Penn,
has reluctantly come TO the conclusion that
he S1d his brother are the lawful heirs to an
estate in England valued at S250,0O0,O00
in gold. "What a fabulous sum to contem-
plate, exclaimed the Pittsburg Gazette, and
that is probably just the word.
CAN A Man SWIM IN Oh ?-This question
was practically solved the other day, by q
workman employed in an oil mandatory of
Nice, who fell into a tank of olive oil nine
feet deep. He was an expert swimmer. but
he went to the bottom like a plummet, and
was only saved from drowning by the timely
aid of a comrade. Oil is too light to swim
in it is not sufficiently buoyant, and does
not offer the resistance necessary to keep a
man afloat.
The Louisville Commercial says that, as
a general rule, the colored people of that city
are steadily advancing. One year ago there
were only SAT of them, depositors in the
savings Dduh- INOW lI6IC are 1,ZSO QepOSl-
tors. The richest colored man in the city is
worth $4,000 or $4,000, but there are
many who, within a few years, have secured
houses and lots that are now worth several
thousand dollars each. The colored people
have altogether fourteen churches, whose
membership is estimated at 1920. They
have eighteen or twenty singing societies
and one literary society with a large men,
bership, while another has just been started.
There are over twenty secret benevolent
societies most of which have grown out of
church fellowship.
To PRESERVE STEEL GooDs FROM RUSHING.
The simplest way of preventing the oxida-
ton of polished iron and steel goods is to dust
them over with quick lime. When articles
are required to be preserved for many months
(such as polished steel grates). strips of paper
freely covered with powdered lime are to be
wrapped around the bars or they may be
placed in cases, and interstices filled up with
quick lime. Pianoforte wires and small
goods are preserved in the same way. The
rationale of the method is this-steel will
not oxidize in dry air, and thus indirectly the
line preserves steel from rust. This is not a
new plan, but it is the method adopted by
the majority of the Birmingham houses.