The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1856-1888, 1870-01-15
Foreign News Items.

Napoleon announces u cheap edition of his
- Caesar"
The death of the Empress OF Russia within six
Mrs. Andrew johnson is not expected TO live
through the winter.
The Princess of Wales is said to be dying of a
broken heart.
Beecher announces that he throws soda water
bottles at cats. Where is Bergh?
VI. de Lesseps, the Suez Canal man, is about to
marry "a woman f~orty-four years younger than
himself.
1t is rumored that Miss Anna L. Dickinson will
soon make her debut on the stage OF the Boston
Theatre.
The French Emperor's family have nick-names
for each other, and that of the young prince is
~ lEnfant Litti."
The journey of the French Empress 20 the Suez
Canal will cost about $l5O,0OO in gold. besides
- pin money"
The Springfield Republican declares that the best
thread in the world is now being made in Massa-
chusetts.
4 Scotchman has assembled Mont Blanc, wearing
the kilt, and describes the sensation AS most de-
lightiul.
a shoe factory is 10 be established in Washington
by a number Of business men, headed by Gen.
Howard.
A woman in Concord, New Hampshire, crazed
by religious excitement, insists upon preaching in
the garb of Eden.
The Pope receives on an average 80, 900. 900 per
annum from Peters pence.
The pursuit of. knowledge ander difficulties "
playing croquet by candle light.
Apples sold at 10 and peaches IL cents per bushel
in Crawford county. Ind.
Within the past year $500 people, mostly from
foreign countries, passed through Pittsburg. on the
way TO join the MormoDs at Salt Lake.
The late President Pierce left 40 family. His
WIFE died several years ago, and their two children
died before her.
y Western town is without a newspaper because
" the ladies' sewing society answers just as we'll"
a roast OK is TO be eaten by the New London
Fat Mems Club, November LIST.
The Chicago Rogue's Gallery contains The por-
traits of S04 of the people of that town.
President Elliott. of Harvard, has already made
his mark by giving n dinner 10 the Harvard crew,
and by taking ground against the admission to the
college OF female students.
The intense agitation caused by the ontrages
perpetrated at the Carmelite nunnery at CracOw
will probably lead to the closing Of all converts
in Germany and Austria.
A correspondent of the Syracuse journal states
that Frederick Hudson refused TO take charge of
the New York Times except on a salary Of III 900
a year, and the exclusive control Of the editorial
page. He was permitted to return TO his farm.
Brewster & Co., the great carriage building firm
at New York. announce that hereafter they will
allow their workmen to share in the profits with
them, on the cooperative plan.
Spanish women are beginning to engage in the
woman's rights movement. A. new Republican
club has just been formed at Alicante, composed
OF and ofhcered entirely by ladies.
Whisky, IL is said. is killing off the great Bis
marck, the King of Italy, aud Prince IIumbcrt, Of
Italy, as it has killed tens Of thousands before.
DIR. Cumming asks the Pope how it is that the
Catholic priests are celibates while Peter was mar
ried. The Pope will probably answer that the
custom has p%etered out.
Sir David Brewster shows that Euclid knew the
fundamental principle of the stereoscope, which
was also described by Galen fifteen hundred years
ago. Nothing new under the sun.
Four Jews are now English baronets-Sir Francis
Goldsmid. Sir Moses Montefore, Sir Anthony Roths-
child, and Sir David Solomons-all of whom have
been made such within thirty years.
The latest in regard to Mrs. Stowe is that she
left Hartford, Conn, for Brooklyn, New York.
where she will spend a few days, and then proceed
to her residence at Mandarin. on the st. Johns
River, in Florida. She will stay there till May of
next year.
NJ. dc Lesseps, Of the Suez Canal. aged sixty
four, is about to wed an Algerine beauty, aged
twenty-five. The engagement was first announced
in Egypt, where the universal response was. May
you live a thousand years" making the difference
of age a triie.
The British s~ixtyfour gun frigate Augnsta, sunk
in the Delaware River, below Fort Mifin, in l777,
has just been raised in a good state of prcserva-
ton.
Father Hyacinthe, the famous Catholic priest
and orator of Paris, in an address in that city a
short time since, said There are three religions
in the world, the Jewish, the Catholic. and the
Protestant, and all three are equal in the eyes of
God"
AS a lady in Franklin county, Indiana. eighty
five years old, was attempting to remove a box Of
honey from a hive the other day, she was stnng
near the temple by a bee, and died in less than
ten minutes.
Madagascar, during the past year, is without n
parallel among any people in modern times. The
missionary report shows the conversion of no less
than 10000 of that idolatrous people.