The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1856-1888, 1870-12-10
Foreign Items.

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The manufacture of leather from seal-skin il
successfully carried on by a Newark firm.
VIM. Lewis, we'll known to a past generation a:
the best chess player of his time. died recently in
London, at the age of eighty-three.
Eight orphan children have been admitted into
the Good Templars' Home at Vallejo. California
which is now open for the reception of all proper
applicants.
a GRAND AUGMENTATION. Won Moltke is q
very taciturn man. He is also a great lingnist
Hence some one made the mot upon him recently
that she knew how TO hold his tongue in eight
languages"
1t is reported that in three counties of Illinois,
Sangamon. Morgan, and Macoupin, there are over
5000, 900 acres planted in corn. which. according
to the estimate of good judges, will yield 50,0OO,-
600 bushels-ffty bushels to the acre.
The present census will show that the United
States has fifteen cities of more than one hundred
thousand inhabitants. There are but two coun-
tries that exceed this-the East Indies with twenty
one cities. and Great Britain with sixteen.
A report from Rio JaneirO says the Emperor of
Brazil c~ontemplates a visit to the United States.
The object of his visit is to gather information
which may prove useful to him in the administra-
LlOH OI uUdlFS III the vast Country over WITCH IL %
rules.
Italian chestnuts are doing well in Santa Bar
bara and in Los Angeles. California. The tree is
said to be a rapid grower, hardy. and a prolific
bearer. 1t grows from seed and needs no grating.
One tree three years old had % nuts upon it this
season.
An exchange paper suggests that the system of
directing letters is wrong, and that the order
should be reversed. putting the State first, as this
is the first Item TO be looked at, then the city, then
the street, and finally the name of the person it is
written to. This, it is said, classiHes the direction
In the order in which the post Office attends to it.
Last year the value of the entire dairy product
of the United States was set down at S40O, 900 600,
which is 500. 600, 900 more than the value of the
cotton crop. and S25, 600, 900 more than the value
of the wheat crop. The rough hill sides and the
rocky pastures are made to produce more than all
the fat cotton lands or wheat lands of the country.
A BREWERS EsrATE-Mr. Bass, the great English
brewer, whose name is as well known as Napole-
on's, has just announced that he will give baths and
wash-houses to the town of Derby. lie lately gave
the same place a recreation ground, at a cost of
S25, 900. Mr.. Bass has, besides his London and
Derbyshire residence, a 6ne place in Scotland.
where the Chancellor of the Exchequer has just
been paying him a visit. There's nothing like beer
for money-making IN Britain.
Accounts are given of a most frightful devasta-
ton in the Island of Cuba, and the most violent
hurricane which has visited the West Indies for a
century, occurred in October. Whole villages
were blown down and their inhabitants crushed
under the ruins. Coffee plantations were uprooted
aud the whole country reduced to ruin. 1t is esti-
mated that 1000 lives were lost by the storm. The
gale extended along the coast and numerous wrecks
have followed. The Island is filled with lamenta-
ton and gloom.
A severe earthquake was felt at Schenectady,
New York, at ll:l5 Oct. 2Ist. 1t was felt at Cleve-
land, Ohio, at IL; at Montreal, Canada. at Has; at
New York City. at Ills; at Detroit, Michigan, at
IL; at Cincinnati. at 1880; at Conneautville, Penn.
at II; and at several other places, time not given.
1t was felt throughout Canada and a large portion
of the United States. At Brunswick, Maine, a
chimney fell. 1t drove the people of Schenectady
into the streets. At Cleveland large buildings
swayed to and fro-so at Montreal. Three hundred
feet of the bed of the Ogdensburg Railroad, across
Otter Creek, in Standish, sixteen miles from Port
land. Maine, settled ten feet at the time of the
earthquake.
England is about trying a postal experiment
which, if successful, will be an advance in the sci
ence of cheap postage. 1t has been tried in Ger
many with great success, especially during the
war, and is known as the c~ard-post system. The
cards are issued by the post-ofice at a lower price
apiece than the regular postage on a letter. They
contain a space for an address, another for a mes
sage, another for signature. The people of German
cities buy them and carry them about in the pocket.
but pse them to write letters upon, usually in pen
Gil, in the street or anywhere, and simply drop
them in the nearest post-O1lce receptacle. For all
messages that do not require secrecy, one can dis
pense with pen, stamps and envelopes. In England
the card is to cost one penny.