The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1856-1888, 1870-05-21
Foreign Miscellany.

- "lIAtI LiOhhA
y dance where he saw a sign over the door
which read No gentlemen admitted with
out pants on"
II is said that a Lean Mems AssOcia-
ton" is about forming in Hackensack.
Crawling through 4 key-hole Is the hrst step
in the initiation ceremonies
The feminine journalists at Washington
are importuning Congressman to have a por-
ton of the public galleries set apart Tor their
exclusive accommodation.
Publishing INCOME ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
sioner belong has put a stop to a most dis
reputable practice in instructing revenue as
SCISSORS 10 prevent the publishing OF income
returns in the future.
The following question belongs to the
mixed mathematics, and a great many peo-
pie have got mixed up in trying TO solve 1t
:. IF three cats kill three rats in three min
utes. how many cats will 1t take 10 Kill one
hundred rats in fifty minutes?" The answer
Is, six cats.
An informal meeting of the San Francisco
Chamber of Commerce was held on Tuesday
to hear the statement of George Winters
with regard to the FIJI Islands. Winters is
en- route to Washington as representative OF
the Polynesian Society, to solicit the protec-
torate of the United States.
There is a Colorado romance that seven
miners, exploring the mountains, found an
enormous chunk of gold. They fought for
its possession till all were killed but one. 1t
was too heavy for him to carry off, so he sat
down beside it and starved TO death.
Wisconsin will take the lead in the manu-
facture of beet sugar, several factories being
now in process of erection. They say they
can make sugar from beets that can't be told
from cane sugar.
1t is a curious fact that oranges, brought
hundreds of miles from beyond sea, sell in
New York at less than half the price of APP
pies, of the same size, which grow almost at
our very doors.
GLYcERINE FOR BURNs.-Glycerine, as
an application to burns, is recommended.
Through the explosion of a spirit lamp the
greater portion of a face had been covered
with rather deep burns, which healed in a
week by the immediate and oiten-repeated
application of glycerine, without producing
blisters or fostering, or leaving any scar.
THE GREATEST OF BoREs.-The Mont
Gents tunnel will be finished this year.
l0,59S metres have been excavated, leaving
only 1921 metres (less than one mIle) to be
done. Meanwhile, such Improvements have
been made in engines and cars for very steep
grades that the railway Orer the mountain
may prove to be quite as economical, and
quite as safe and comfortable, as the railway
Hr'OWgh it.
NOVEL BUsINEss.-The Government of
India has bought 1000 copies of a novel, and
given Gl00 to its author, a Government Of
fcer; bat this novel in a vernacular language
is a novel for native ladies, written for the
purpose Of promoting the cause of female edu-
cation, and so the Government thinks it dis
charges a duty in encouraging The Brides
Mirror"
We clip this from the Washington CHT0a-
icIe THE typo who was dismissed from
the New York HeiUH office for too truth
fully making the editor call that city New
Cork, has, it seems, found a place on the
World. His last exploit was to make a
democratic leader, in a Legislative speech re-
ported in that paper, speak of the masses OF
his party as them asses showing him a
true representative, even in grammar. That
compositor plainly knows the party"
The English Royal Humane Society has
given its silver medal this year to Lord Wal
ter Kerr. commander of the Hercules, IRON
clad. One of his men fell overheard in the
Tagus, and. striking his head into the chains,
was stunned. Lord Kerr, seeing that he
could not be saved If he waited for a boat to
be lowered, sprang from the bulwark of the
ship-a height of thirty feet-into the stream,
and SWAN to the seaman, whom he succeeded
in holding above water for ten minutes of ter
rible endurance until the ships boat reached
them and took up the commander and his
man nearly dead.
A Joliet, H., clergyman, Mr.. Jenkins, has
issued a circular announcing that arrange
ments have been completed whereby, during
the coming summer. clergymen of all denom-
nations can procure for themselves, and
members of their families, excursion tickets
from Chicago to San Francisco and return.
These tickets wiz be sold at Sis for the
round trip. They will be sold only at the
Chicago office of the Chicago, Rock Island
and Pacific Railroad. They will be issued,
to persons properly accredited, from June 10
TO July 10. Each ticket will be good for
sixty days from the date of its issue, and per-
mission will be given to break the Journey on
the return, to visit Salt Lake City or other
| places.
STREET SONGS IN PARIs.-An English
paper says Not less than twenty-seven
thousand penny song books are being sold
every day throughout France. What is still
more surprising, is the immense number of
persons engaged in the trade. 1t is the Gus
tom for a man or a family OF beggars to pro-
cure the song books and tramp the whole
country round, singing the songs in them.
This attracts a good deal of attention, and
then they sell the little books. The singers
in France number as high as eight hundred
thousand. They may be divided into three
great orders those at fixed posts, tramps
who wander about and sing in the streets,
and those who frequent the low eating houses.
The song book which has been sold the most
is the one containing the FAMINE n Barrie
which Theresa made notorious. This song,
wvehoer. is of German origin.
LAKE TUNNELs.-A decided impetus has
latterly been given to the %tunneling business,
and no less than a dozen or more bores are
under way or being projected. The success
of the Chicago Lake Tunnel, in supplying
the city with fresh water, causes the people