The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1856-1888, 1870-03-12
LATE FOREIGN NEWS.

Q YIN ""S 800
In the Senate, the Vice President presented q
communication from the South Carolina Legislature
asking Congress TO recognize the independence o.
Cuba,~
The population of British Columbia has dwindled
down from 20, 1000 to 5000 in the last three years
It costs each colonist eli to sustain the Colonial
Government.
Prof. Neumann. the German historian, says i
Dante had lived in the 18th century he wonld nave
given Jea Davis and Robt. E. Lee prominent places
in his Inferno.
The Inman line has concluded an arrangement
by which its steamers will now touch at Halifax
on their way home, and call at Boston, on and
after the lst of next January.
4 new series of postage stamps has been decided
upon and will soon be issued by the Post Ohlce
Department. The new stamps will be one-thlrd
larger than the present stamps and CONSIST entneiy
of profile busts.
The Boston Daily Advertiser has been made into
q stock company. Some of the former editors and
publishers retire. Six years ago it sold for $4,000
Last week it brought S225,OOO. 1t Is one of the
very best papers In the country
The United States flag was hoisted on the Island
of Carenero, in the Bay of SANTANA, December 6tn,
1869. The United States have a lease for hfty
years at : $50, 900 a year, and are now In possession
The American government has paid the North
German line Of steamships at the rate of over $1,000
per ton for carrying the mails 1t has Just concluu-
ed an arrangement TO have 1t done for S2l3O per
ton first class freight on the same steamers Is car
ried FOR SO per ton.
Ouiel VI Il CllNJ az " 1879
: Supreme Judicial Court of New Hampshire. ruled
that where property is transported over a railroad
! line composed of several distinct roads, the orlgl-
nal company which received 1t Is liable Tor the
| loss or injury, should any occur. whether the dam
age be on its own road or any other.
The question as to the copstitutionality of the
cession of that part of the District of Columbia
which includes Alexandria to Virginia is soon TO be
brought before the courts. Certain taxpayers,
who have paid taxes to the State, are to institute a
suit to recover, on the ground that they are still in
the District.
Train didn't know that Canada was a free conn
try so he telegraphed to Gov. Mcdonald to ind
out. The Governor responded in the affirmative.
whereupon George jubilantly replies: Thanks!
Shall lecture Quebec. Montreal, Ottawa, Toronto,
Hamilton, LOudon-January." May not Canada,
with propTiety, regret its freedom?
LIBEL S~UITs.-Harper shows figures to prove
that in so libel suits instituted against newspapers
in the east, during the last 10 years, the gross
amount of money collected is only $4,000. Parties
who have sued newspapers on the Pacific coast
have done q little better than that, owing to OBJ
tuseness or prejudice on the part of jurors.
4 late visitor to Chicago writes to his home
newspaper: Il went to hear DIR. Hatfield preach
and pray yesterday afternoon. He prayed that the
Lord would remove from Chicago all intemperance,
notwithstanding RIGHTEOUSNESS, fraud. profanity,
cheating and every form of vice and then L did
not hear the next few sentences. because L was
thinking what would be left il Chicago"
The RerolptiOn has perpetrated its first joke.
Some unknown and obscure person having remark
ed that Mrs. Stanton was the salt, Anna Dickinson
the pepper, and Miss Anthony the vinegar of the
female suffrage movement, the fair editors make the
pungent comment that these are 1.-The very elements
TO get the white male into a pickle"
New York papers having called attention to the
fact that all the actors in the Observation-Disclosures
tragedy originally hailed from Boston, Boston re-
joins that while they remained in New England
they were all respectable people. and that 1t was
only after they had been brought under the inau-
ences of New York life that they went to the bad.
The simplest post Office in the world is to be
found in the Strait of Magellan. 1t consists of a
barrel suspended by a chain opposite Terra del
Fuego. Every ship that passes makes 1t a point 10
open it and deliver the contents as far as its desti-
nation will allow.
LARGE Reconsideration dairying now repre-
SCENTS a capital of 500. 600. 900. The cheese product
of 1863 sold for $25, 100000 and the butter produce
of New York alone was nearly 50 .6OO.OO pounds,
and the quantity of cheese made ~, 200, 900 pounds.
The value of these products, at a very moderate es-
innate was S50.O00.OOO.
SECRETS OF HEALTH.-First keep warm second,
eat regularly and slowly third, maintain regular
bodily habits fourth, take early and very light
suppers; fifth. keep a clean skin sixth, get plenty
of sleep at night; seventh, keep cheerful and re-
spectacle company eight. keep out of debt ninth,
don't set down yOur mind on things you don't need
tenth, mind your own business eleventh, don't set
yourself up to be Il sharper OF any kind twelfth,
subdue curiosity thirteenth, avoid drugs.
THE CUBAN WAR.-General LetOna, a prominent
Spaniard under Dulce, has published a paper in
Cuba in which he admits the ferocity of the volun-
teers toward the Cubans. the general cruelty of the
the war. indomitable will of the Cubans. and the ne
cessity of alarge army to overcome them. He says
the revolution cannot be mastered by anything like
20. geo men, and the picture he draws is in the main
to the insurgents. About Eve thousand
Spanish troops have freshly arrived out. and still
they come. Yet the rebellion extends. and is as
earnest and hopeful as at any period of its life.
THE PRESS AND THE PUIPrT.-It was announced
Bigelow had been offered $4,000 o year and
some interest in the paper to take editorial control
IF the New York Times. Greeley receives ST, 500
Or his services on the Tribune, and other editors on
the f~irst-class papers receive from So, 900 to 81, 900
two or three in the nation receiving so much
Is $4,000. There are. however. over 100 preach
ers who receive from $4,000 to $40, 900 per annum
or their services, and yet they have only to work
1ue day in the seven, while the editor has to work
TX days. Considering the labor there is no COM
Dars0n in the remuneration.
A SINGULAR NOPE OF TELLING THE HoUR.-An
gives the following singular method of
ceiling the time Of day or night, which we copy for
The benefit of those who wish to try the expert
Seat yourself at a table. Attach q piece of
metal (say a shilling) to a thread. Having placed
5our elbow on the table, hold the thread between
lie thumb and fCre-inger. and allow the shilling to
hang in the centre of a glass tnmbler. The pulse
will Immediately cause the shilling to vibrate like
l pendulum, and the vibration will increase until
he shilling strikes the side of the glass and sup
posing the time of the experiment to be at the hour
IF Z or u, the pendulum will strike the glass seven
lines and then lose its momentum and return to the
centre if you hold the thread a sufficient length
Of time the effect will be repeated not until a suf-
icient length OF time has elapsed to convince you
hat the experiment is complete. We need not add
hat the thread must be held with a steady hand,
otherwise the vibrating motion would be counter
acted. AT whatever hour of the day or night the
experiment is made, the coincidence will be the
same.
Hayti.
Haytien advices state besides the outlawry of
Salnave, a reward of S., 900 in gold is offered for
ais head. 1t is also decreed that all other insur-
gents who shall fail to give up arms and submit to
he revolutionary authorities within As hours after
he publication of the edict shall be equally out
awed.
New YORK, Feb. 1.-The Port-au-Prince arrived
bringing Haytien dates of Jan. Sd.
Salnaye's family, consisting of his wife, mother
md eleven children, with the fugitives who had
been protected by the American Consul, sailed for
and thence would go to San Domingo.
The troops who fought under Salnave at the late
Engagement at Cuba with Cabral's army, at which