The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1856-1888, 1870-06-04
Foreign News.

yeSIty. Howard University Is the institution
to which their footsteps tend.
Persia is said to be very anxious to estab.
lish intimate relations with the United States.
and it would not be at all surprising to see a
Persian Ambassador soon making his appear
ance at Washington. Persia is fast becoming
one of the most important countries OF the
East.
The Commissioners of Excise have issued
Il proclamation announcing the intention OF
the Board of enforcing the Sunday Liquor
/ Law in New York. At the same time they
promise that they will never co%untenance es-
pionage by malicious informers, nor the ex-
IRENE enforcement Of technical points.
RICHMOND, April PA terrible calamity
occurred this morning. The floor of the
Court of Appeals, in the State Capitol, gave
way and precipitated the hundreds gathered
therein, assembled TO hear the decision in
the Mayoralty case of Ellyson and Cahoon,
upon the Conservative caucus, then sitting In
the Hall of the House of Delegates below.
A certain amount of opposition is a great
help to a man. Kites rise against the wind /;
even a head wind is better than none. No
man ever worked his passage anywhere in a
calm. Let no man wax pale therefore, be-
cause of opposition /; opposition is what he
wants and must have TO be good for any
thing. Hardship is the native soil OF man
mood and self-Teliance.
The long projected Improvements OF the
port of Alexandria, Egypt, are in progress.
A ~breakwater, d mile in lergth, will protect
the harbor, the superfces of which is about
5000 acres. A dam, continuous to the
present. dam of the railroad, will extend sea-
ward 1000 feet, and thus form an inner basin,
which will be 20 feet in depth, and surrounded
by broad quays like those of Marseilles.
These quays will be traversed by rail tracksan
so arranged that the lagest vessels will have
no difficulty in lnding and unlading. The
cost will be about SlO,0O0,O0O.
Blossom Rock, the most dangerous obstruc-
ton in San Francisco Harbor, was blown up
on Saturday, April 80. Twenty-three tons
of powder were used. When this immense
quantity of powder was touched of, the water
apparently 100 feet in diameter, was thrown
to the height OF about 100 feet, the centre
being filed with smoke and stones-the lat
ter going far above the water. Between
$4,000 and 10000 people witnessed the ex-
plosion. 1t was scarcely perceptible in the
city only a deep thud accompanied the blast.
WEARING FALSE HAIR.-A horrible init
lldllOU COIneS lIOlu SldIlSSlOuS 1ldSSs n
lady, who has suffered lately from an inflamed
neck, has been told by her physician that it
Is caused by horrid insects called borers, IN
habiting the Hindoo back braid of her CHG
non. She has cast the chingon from her,
and has her head shaved as smooth as a bill
lard ball (pardon the comparison), fearing
some OF the vile insects had taken up their
abode in her natural back hair.
- "
Cole and Gorham, the former a Senator in
Congress, and the latter Secretary OF the
Senate, were, at one time, two promising
young men In this State, with decided evil
dences of talent in their respective professions,
the one a lawyer, and the other an editor.
In an evil hour, they entered the political
accepted office, and have fallen! The
party bringing them down TO official position,
now refers to them as Two Dead Ducks"
and, they are drowned and sunk in the filthy
pool. But for politics they might have ac-
CURED good characters, and been esteemed
in the community as honest men and good
citizens. 1t is better TO be a tanner than a
politician.-Butte (Cala.) Record.
HARPER's Bazaar, treating of the effect of
simplicity in the midst of elaborate and ex-
a%rtifice, says " Let Il young woman
IO nan u hOl WI oiAu Ailab SilbBlJ |
enter a room, filled with those whose
heads are deliberately built up with a profu-
sion of purchased locks, and see who will be
most admired. 1t is a great advantage for
a woman, in these days of a%rtifce, to remain
and thus be unlike every one else.
simple dress, white or black, will produce
the greatest effect when surrounded by the
most gorgeous costumes. These serve as 1T
were, as frames for the former, and women
are often forced TO confess that they have
draped themselves magnifcently, at an i'm
mense expense, for no other purpose than to
heighten by contrast the beauty of a rival. In
fact, they nave been wearing a dress which
is very becoming to-others."
EXPULSION OF ENGLISH LADIES FROM
RoME.-Three English ladies have been ex-
PEELED from Rome under circumstances which
are said to have excited Il good deal Of indig-
nation against the Papal government. On
the 24th ult., the ladies in question received
a visit from three gendarmes and a police
agent in private clothes, who made a thorough
search Of their lodgings. Two days after
they received orders to quit Rome in
twenty-four hours. Mr.. Odo Russell and
the British consul, Mr.. Severn, exerted them
selves in the matter, and Cardinal Antonelli
was communicated with. The Pope him
self was appealed to, but all in vain. At the
expiration of forty-eight hours; 2 rscrife of
twenty-four hours having been obtained, two
of the ladies LETT Rome and went to Naples.
TIE Otner has resolved not to leave until
compelled. A rumor that the adies
been engaged in distributing unauthor-
lied Italian Bibles is contradicted, and no
reason whatever for the expulsion appears to
have been given. 1t is thought that the
order proceeded from the Pope himself.
BIRD's-EYE VIEW OF New YORK City
Population about 100000. One-half
were born in the United States, and the other
half in foreign countries, Of forty different ma
tionalities. 100000 barrels of flour and
9,000,0 600 bushels of wheat are brought n
every year; number of animals received at
the markets in a year, including beef cattle,
cows, calves, sheep, and swine, Is =