The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1856-1888, 1870-09-24
Late Foreign Miscellany.

The notes OF the Bank oil France are now at
five per cent discount.
There is one county in Pennsylvania which has
not granted a license to sell liquor for 10 years.
1t is Potter county.
Confederate Generals Lee and Beauregard
have offered their services to France, but they
were declined by General Lebeuf.
TARIFF ON OL.-The tariff bill before Congress
fixes the duty on n~eatsfoot oil and all whale, seal
and fish oils at 20 cents per gallon.
1t was Bismarck who ordered the immediate
advance on Paris. The King acquiesced, though
bis Generals strongly opposed it till Mcmahon
had been disposed of.
The Russian and French Ambassadors at the
neutral courts have asked the interposition of
the great Powers to guarantee the French dynasty.
Those who have been irritated year after year
ut their increasing gas bills, will seek relief in
Professor Tyndal's discovery that a clearer and
steadier light than from common gas, can be
obtained by burning diamonds in oxygen.
VIM. Lloyd Garrison has received $40, 600 as
an expression of the value of his services in the
abolition of slavery.
A Portland advertiser is a genius. lie
announces Starvation, checkmated, goods
slaughtered, ruin bluffed, prices smashed"
Moreover, lie sells fine hoopskirts at 81 cents {;
best switches, Is cents best c%hignons, 25 cents.
a New York editor gently applauds a contem-
porary, by stating that it " can compress more
deliberate, willful, wicked, villainous lies into a
square inch than any other that is or ever was
printed"
Havana correspondent give the sequel to the
famous Oviedo- Bartlett diamond wedding. The
Senior died, leaving no will, and his American
widow gets nearly 81 900 eco, while So, 900 900
are divided among his forty-four children, most
of them illegitimate and free persons of Cuba.
MADRID, Aug. l.-Captain-G General DeRodas
has asked for IA 900 endorsements for Cuba.
In view Of this demand, some journals urge the
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of the Island. No day has yet been fixed for the
assembling of the COrtes.
Women have been elected as superintendent
of Public Schools in several towns in Vermont.
Why is a mosquito like a railroad ! Because
it fastens upon the sleepers, and takes heavy
draughts over them.
4 single leaf of the Victoria Regia, in the
Botanical Garden at Client, flOated two hundred
and sixty-four pounds of bricks that were piled
upon it.
Twenty-Five years ago a couple were married
in New York, had one son, lived together ten
years, and then after losing all their property,
procured Il divorce. The woman married again,
and got a fortune the husband didn't, and
remained poor. And now that the woman has
become a rich widow she has remarked her first
husband.
An anatomical observer asserted a few days
since that there were 489 ,98I feathers on the
wings of a butterfly. 81 don't believe it, said
one of his hearers. "Thcn count them for your
self, was the reply.
An freshman, with a heavy bundle on his
shoulder. riding on the front of a horse car, was
asked why he did not set his bundle on the plat
form. He replied Be jabbers, the horses
have enough to drag me. I'll carry the bundle"
A Kansas journal says that the identical star
spangled banner which foated over Fort McHenry
when Key wrote our national song, is owned by
the heirs of Col. Armstead, who commanded the
Fort and kept the historic bunting.
Peanuts may be joked about, but there is a
fortune in them. Two years ago, an enterprising
Yankee went to North Carolina with a few
hundred dollars and began cultivating peanuts.
This year he has sold his crop for SS4 600, get
ting S54 900 profit.
There is a man in Wooster, Ohio, who has had
eleven wives, and been divorced from them all.
The last one was divorced last Saturday, and got
81 200 alimony.
The Chinese Government for a tribute to the
memory of Arson Burlingame have issued a cir
cular announcing his death, and gave six thou
sand dollars towards defraying the funeral ex-
penses, and ten thousand taels to his widow.
Thomas Scott, a member of the first Congress,
in a speech made in 1870, speaking of the Afri-
cans, said Congress may at pleasure declare
them cOntrabGnd goods. and so prohibit the trade
altogether" This is ahead of General Buffers
time. See Hildreth's History, vol. a, page 1876.
Since Queen Victoria took her place on the
English throne, thirty-three years ago, every
other throne in Europe, from the least unto the
greatest, has changed occupants.
A NEW STATE.-'' The State of New Mexico -
promised to be the 18th of the Union. 1t has
l24 500 square miles of territory, and by the
last census % SIG people, of whom 10 1887 were
Indians.
At Cincinnati the news of the defeat of the
Red Stockings by the Atlantic Club created more
excitement than the calamity to our arms at Bull
Run.
At Harvard College the very suggestive motto
for dull clergymen of A." He giveth his beloved
sleep" has been chosen to adorn the walls of the
new chapel. !
One of the larger openings observed in the sun
is lS1 900 miles in circumference. The earth
rolled into this dark crater would be like an
apple thrown into n bushel basket.
During this season the wages for house servants
in New York has ranged from SO to $40 a
a month, averaging at SIS. For males as waiter,
coachmen, farm laborers, not less than $50 a
month is paid, and the average is S25. First
class cooks are paid as high as $40, and even
500 a month, but these cases are rare.
There is shortly to arrive in Paris a dwarf
aged about So years, having n beard reaching to
his feet, but with only one arm and a completely
bald head. He possesses 1000, 900 francs when
he is willing to share with any young girl about
20 years ola, and who is good tempered and
pretty.
The General Council of the city of Louisville
tried the experiment of a Sunday prohibitory
law, but a little overdid the thing. The Mayor
has represented to them in a message that under
their enactment the good people of Louisville
can of a Sunday purchase neither milk, ice nor
soda water, and he is of opinion that this is a
little too hard on the babies and ladies.
An English sailor was washed overheard from
a ship in the South Atlantic last year. The case
duly reported to the British Vice-Consul at
the port next visited, who granted a certificate to
the captain of the vessel. of which, the following
portion is rather Hibernian - hereby certify
that the within named - has been discharged
and left behind at sea on the alleged ground of
being drowned that | have inquired into the