The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1856-1888, 1870-11-26

For the srst time 10 the history of this nation
one of the States OF the Union-New Hampshire
will show a falling OF of population by the census
returns --.
eADvERTEsING.-An exchange saws. trying to do
business without advertising is like winking at a
pretty girl through a pair of green goggles Yon
may know that you are doing it, but nobody else
does.
The art of painting on marble. which. if ever
known has been lost for centuries, has at length
after years Of experiment, been brought 10 a high
degree of perfection by New York artist. In
brilliancy Of color his specimens equal to oil
painting while the pigments- when once axei, are
pernanent. and cannot be injured by the action OF
the atmosphere, water or acids
Lord Shaftesbury believes that the next census
will show population in London of nearly
states, IN state of social and moral degradation
30 great that, unless something is done to i'm
prove them, the British Constitution will not be
worth a quarter of a century's purchase.
ARNs.-It is said that Germany contracted for
all the large quantities of for sale in Europe
to keep them out of the hands of France and that
the French there can only pick up such small lots
the Prussians left, wait until more are manu-
faetured. France offers to take any quantity Of
American rifles, landed in any OF her ports, and
pay for them the sum OF fifty dollars each. Some
Yankee skipper will be induced to try his luck at
fortune. $500 rH<
DEEP SEA LIFE AND TAxATION.-Says Mr. Lowe,
in recent speech on the Budget, in the English
the true principle of taxation, and will ilIustrte
it by what is in DIR. Carpenters recent voyage i'm
the Arctic Ocean. He states that they found the
frailest and smallest animals living and flourish
ing at the bottom of the under a pressure of
three tons to the square inch. How did they
contrive to live? Because the pressure was
equalized. And that is the whole secret of taxa
ton"
The newspapers are making much ado over the
fact, if such it be, that Beeeber has abolished
hell In a late sermon before the Plymouth
Church congregation, he denied the existence of
such place, and asserted that no reasoning or
sensible could believe in such q place. He
said that he 80 hOnorcd men for disbelieving such
monstrOus doctrine. Vindictive justice cannot
be defended in the Court of Love. God is 10y
ing Father, not a cruel tyrant, and sensible peO-
pie can take no other view" W hat is this world
coming TO that the preachers preach thus? Is
the world going forward backward? What
can the matter be?
A SOLDIERS VALuAr1oN OF HIS ExPERIEScE.-
Senator Carpenter, of Wisconsin, in a recent
speech at Milwaukee, said ss 1 was standing by
one of our Wisconsin regiments, when, being
mustered out, it finally broke ranks in the streets
of MlWaukee. shall never forget a brief Con-
versation 1 heard between citizen and one of
the soldiers who had just stepped out of the
ranks After the ordinary salutations, Well,
said the citizen, well, john, you must have
seen a good many tough sights Yes said
John, L would rot sell what / have seen for
hundred thousand dollars, and would not see it
again for hundred millions. t-t..
How history repeats itself, even in minute
matters. When in old Napoleon's time, the
Bourbons first returned TO Paris, behold many
magnificent carpets in the palaces embroidered
with the armOrial bees of the Bonapartes These
were carefully picked out and the lilies substi-
cu'e1, 3oo DscA came the Emperor Of Elba to be,
ior 1VO days, again Emperor of France Out
came the lilies and in went the bees once more.
waterloo followed, and the fat Bourbon mounted
the old throne. Out came the bees. and in went
tne old lilies And now we are told that the
,r6icb !; o9s M are chipping out the great 6. -
""iou AS Oiten repeated in the carvings of the
new opera house. Will there he room 70 snhst;-
tase n: r, and if the initials are put there
may we hope they will remain IN. W Tr;6,,ne
STORMS IN THE SUN.-Professor r n Staalo
says the result of observation now haino taI1n',
shows that storms rage upon the sun with a VIC
lence of which we can form no conception. Hnr-
ricanes sweep over its surface with terrific vio
lence Vast cyclones wrap its fires into whirl-
pools, at the bottom of which our earth could lie
like boulder In volcano. Huge flames dart
out 70 enormous distances, and fly over the sun
with speed greater than that Of the earth itselF
throngn space: p" At one time cone of fire shot
out $4,000 miles, and then died ayay, all in ten
minutes time. There is nothing in these pbenom-
.egOn 20 alarm rs. They have fn all probability
happened constantly for ages past That we
have now means of investigating their nature and
measuring their height and velocity furnishes NO
cause Of anxiety.
VE1ETABLE VERSUS MINERAL RE1EEDrEs.-ysoats-
Die nature, says Good Health, is very rich in
what it contributes to physic And here the oh
serEatlonl IS worthy of remark, that the most
deadly PoIsons known to the physician are pro-
ducts OF the vegetable kingdom. This isaltopether
opposed TO common belief. When some ouacIr
doctor wishes to parade the innocence of his nos
trum, he generally takes good care to let the
public know that his physic is wholly vegetable.
Just calling to mind strychnia, the active prinei-
pie OF nux vomica acontine, aconite, the active
principle of Inonkshood; morphia, one of the
active principles of opiun-the reader will un-
ersIand that the vegetable kingdom is not of
necessity 30 very innocent. ConstructiYely, too,
Psusslc ecid may be called vegetable poison,
Saes, ahhough it is not from8the vegetable |
Sr.tS1 Ssuo9 that this ecid is usually prepsred.-l