The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1856-1888, 1870-03-26
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Every fashionable young lady in Me-
York says she danced with Prince Arthur.
$ H. r. Fl. the Prince of Wales has becom
a Past Grand Master of the Masonic Ordel
The will of the late Hon. Henry J. Ray
l mond, of the New York Times, leave
/. $3.50, 600, of which amount S25O,OO0 IS /
real estate. " .f 1'
) Lovers of the fine arts will regret to lear
that Bierstadt's picture of the Yo Semi
was among the works destroyed by fire i
Mr.. Earle's gallery in Philadelphia. -
Admiral Semmes applied for the position
of president of the Alabama University. 1
negro named Cyrus Northrup was elected t
the place.
A Liverpool woman, doubtful whether tn,
fire in her stove was out, poured gunpowde
on the embeis in order to ascertain the fact
Her doubts were removed, and SO was she
There are now eight Chinese Sunday
Schools regularly taught In San Francisco
which are attended by upwards of SOC
Chinese, most of whom are adult males.
Rear Admiral Charles H. Davis has been
ordered to make a survey across the lsthmus
OF Darien, to ascertain the propriety of cut.
ting a canal across the said isthmus.
st. Louis received nearly 12,OO0,O 600
bushels of wheat, and manufactured over
100000 barrels of -four last year.
A little girl repeating her Sunday School
lesson, gave a new version to a familiar pas.
sage" We cannot serve God and mamma"
Oranges "grown in the Florida planta-
tom of Mrs. Harriet Beecher Stowe" are
for sale in Montgomery, Ala.
The Byron scandal has given rise to in
Vulnerable articles in the literary journals of
Germany. Mrs. Stowe is bitterly denounced
by the German critics, as guilty of I" the
greatest literary crime of the century,"
A tall man can walk upright down the
tube CT the Rose telescope.
A Tennessee girl, in order to make a sure
thing of it. allowed two young men to AXE
out a license to marry her.
A house without children is like a lantern
and no candle a garden and no flower; a
vine and no grapes; a brook and with no
water gurgling and rushing in its channel.
1t is said that bleeding a partially blind
horse at the nose, will restore him to sight ;
so much for the horse. To open a mans
eyes you must bleed him in the pocket.
The London Gazette is a government
paper for court and state announcements
and nothing else. 1t is published semi
Observation-Disclosures enough announce
ments accumulate to fill its pages.
Capt. John Travis, a New York sport, has
promised to shoot with q pistol an orange
from a mans head, if he can find the head.
He once prevailed upon an Indian to let him
shoot an orange from his head. The effort
was successful.
A man who has served sixteen years in
the Ohio State Penitentiary, six years at
Jacksonville and two years at Michigan
city, has just been sentenced to another
term of four years in the latter prison. 1t
is a chronic case.
81 believe that mine will be the fate of
Abel" said a devoted wife to her husband
one day. How so 2" replied her husband.
:" Because Abel was killed by a club, and
yoaw club will kill me if you continue to go
to it every night"
Ten years ago, a man was clerk for his
brother at $500 per year. Not being able
to support his family, it was raised to $500.
Now he is President of the United States,
and a good President too. There is a
feather in the cap of the republican idea.
The identical Star Spangled Banner which
f1oated over Fort McHenry when Key wrote
our national song is offered for sale by the
heirs of Col. Armistead, who commanded
the fort and who kept the historic bunting.
HYMNs.-Watts composed six hundred
ninety-seven hymns, and Wesley six
hundred and about a. tenth part of them
live to this day, and are sung in every
church where the English language
is used.
SENs1BLE.-The Marquis of Butte is dis
his Scotch ecclesiastical patronage
by leaving it to parishioners to choose their
own ministers. A very sensible plan.
The expenses of the Spanish Government
in Cuba are now about two millions and a
of dollars a month, and their revenue
not far from nothing. No wonder that they
estates, and want to sell their
claims to the island.
Fanny Fern says: "If one-half the girls
knew the previous lives Of the men they
marry, the list of old maids would be won
increased Whereupon the Boston
Post asks: elf the men knew what their
lives were to be, wouldn't it increase
he list of old maids still further"
A New FLAG OF DIsrREss.-The physician
If the Prussian Admiralty has proposed the
tuOpLNOn Dy all civilized OtdteS or a nag or
distress to be used on every occasion, both
n peace and war. 1t is suggested that the
lag should be of a dark yellow color, with
red cross upon it.
A steamboat on the Mississippi passed
drowning man. The unfortunate man
truggled, FLASHED, 1oundered and screamed ?,
or dear life in the water. The pilot of the
teamboat yelled to him to &" stand up p" he
lid so, and found the water scarcely knee
.eep. A more foolish, sheepish.appearing /
elbow than he, as the ladies and gentlemen S
m the boat screamed with laughter at the (
udicrous scene, it would be hard to meet. 4
The New York San suggests that Mr.. s
Boutwell, is in danger of being kidnapped {
nd carried across the ocean by some of the {
of Europe. and made to reveal by
astonishing process he is constantly i
down the public debt, which, in the f
chief countries, is as regularly rising. I
DEATH DEALING INvENTIoNs.-A captain
a the Italian Army claims to nave invented h