The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1856-1888, 1870-05-07
HONOLULU HAWAIIAN

direction of the partial vacuum. The invention
promises TO be Of great service.
4 modification Of this plan has been lately
brought into prominent notice by an inventor
who proposes TO make it supersede railways for
freigh:ing purposes. He constructs cylindrical
wooden tubes Of nine feet in diameter, air-tight,
and supports them upon pillars of masonry. In
these he places hollow steel spheres, fitting the
calibre of the tube; these are packed with mer-
ebandise of whatever description, solid or fluid,
and then impelled with immense velocity through
the tube by atmospheric pressure. The inventor
claims that a speed of more than 100 miles per
hour can be attained, with safety. by this method.
The proposed changes in the city government
excite much discussion. The liquor question,
always an important feature in the New York
law, promises to be exceedingly troublesome.
According to the present regulation, all places
where LIQUOR is sold are required to be closed at
midnight, and throughout the whole of Sunday.
The new administration proposes to permst liquor
to be sold on Sunday all hotels and places of
public entertainment" The same permission,
in the bill lately drafted for consideration by the
State Legislature. is extended to all dram shops
g. liquor-stores - they called here) that are
situated % not less than quarter of a mile from
any place of public worship" Now the joke in
this legislation consists in the fact that the places
o. public worship in New York are so numerous
that it is not easy to get away eighth of
4 mile from Of them. This clause,
therefore, while it bears an air of concession to-
ward class of people who not generally the
most familiar with the locality of churches, is
yet the only restriction upon perfect license, in
H. e 10 ~
bill imposes. The bill, however, has not yet be-
come law.
The most noticeable volumes of the fortnight
past are W. C. Bryants translation, the result Of
five years of labor of Homer's Iliad and j. r.
LoweIl's volume Of criticism, % Among my
Books The last sensation in noyeldom is u
fiction bearing the extraordinary title, - Red
Rose is She; - by the author Of g Cometh UP as
Flower" SEQ this book in process of attentive
perusal in the street cars and in the bookshops
it is yellow-cogered, and success.
The magazines are tending more and more to
short articles, and published IL full fortnight
in advance of their date. Each number of the
latest monthly, " Old and New edited by Rev
E. E. Hall, Of Boston. contains about thirty
articles. Il issued it's March number before the
middle of February, and diseOursed to its snow
bound readers upon &" the emancipation of spring
time, its fragrance and it's open air. For Febru-
ary has brought us, and all the Eastern States,
true winter at last. January was spring weather:
February has showed upon us and frozen us, and
has made the fortunes of the ice companies they
now have abundant store of ice to sell next sum-
mer, at largely advanced rates for the mildness
of the earlier winter has afforded them pretext
to force up the price. They will have their way.
Economy is not respectable virtue with US we
are ashamed to beat down the prices of things
Americans grumble, but pay whatever is
demanded. CALAHUs