The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1856-1888, 1870-07-02
FOREIGN News.

A sheaf OF 4" petrlhed oats, four feet long
and weighing eighty pounds, has been taker
:. from the ground sixty feet below the surface
in Nevada county, California.
Here is the modest little array of fighting
men whom the Great powers of the continent
of Europe think it necessary to keep at pres.
ent on their war establishment; Russia,
II,254000 men; France, 1,l2S.930 Austria,
100000; North German Confederation, 94,-
32l. The estimate is made by Herr Kun
mer, an officer of the Prussian General
Staff, and is said to be from official sources.
An English paper says that one of the
novelties OF the season is a summer hat,
looking like very good straw, but in reality
made of wOod shavings, and sold for p pence.
A highly superior article may be had for 81
pence. Ii Is said TO be fragile; a heavy
shower would reduce it to the consistency of
blotting paper, and it will not stand the
slightest blow. But in fine weather it looks
as well as a Panama.
A San Francisco correspondent says al
presume in no city of the United States (un-
less it be in New Orleans) is Sunday so uni
versally regarded as a holiday as in San
Francisco. Picnics, yachting parties, horse
races, target shooting-anythIng you can
mention-they have here on Sunday. Dur
Z IEG III SCdSOl tiOOdOll uOl lCoS Via LeOHtl
thousand people leave the city TO attend some
such scene of f~estivity. 1t is a perfect para
disc here for sinners, and they enjoy it,"
The San Francisco BnHetin, in noting
the fact that the bay is full of tiger sharks
a man having caught five in a short time
with a hook and lime-throws in the follow
ing advice to small boys who disport them
selves in the brine THE largest of these
is FIVE feet long. 1t is said that these fish
are very fond of human beings for food. and
usually swallow their ~victuals whole. While
the five feet sharks denur to six feet men,
as a matter of convenience, they are especi-
ally fond of three feet and a half and four
feet boys, on account of both convenience of
size and delicacy of fibre. Juvenile bathers
should be exceedingly cautions until the tiger
sharks go TO sea-"
A saloon-keeper of questionable honesty
went TO a lawyer to consult him about COM
mencing an action of defamation against a
fellow-townsman. 1.-The scoundrel," said he,
fiercely, = has robbed me of my character"
g All, has he? Are you sure of that fact?"
replied the green-satchel gentlemen, quickly,
and In a sarcastic tone. If so, for Heavens
sake let him go for it is the luckiest thing
that happened to you :" The fellow sneaked
out of the Office like n puppy when a foot is
raised against him.
Queen Victoria did a very happy thing at
the opening of the new building of the Uni
veTsity of London, on Wednesday last. 1t
IS usual on such occasions for the Prime
Minister to furnish-ra speech, which the
Queen IS expected TO read. Whether the
speech furnished did not please her Majesty,
or because she has determined to initiate
Grant in such matters, when the
formal address on the part of the University
had been presented, she simply turned to the
vast crowd which filed the Burlington Gar
dens, in which the ceremonies were being
held, and said, " declare this building to be
opened" General Grant hasn't beat that,
brevity.
WHERE THE GREAT TROUBLE BEGINS
From a false regard to public opinion, or as
1 matter OF convenience, or for the mere
purpose of securing a home and being set
in life, thousands enter into the most
Of human relations, with no such feel
toward each other as will lead them to
8 bear and forbear." There is a popular
ceiling that it Is somewhat a disgrace to a
woman to plss through life unmarried and,
from that obloquy, multitudes
marry according TO the forms of law when
hey are not drawn together by any qualities
If mind and soul, and there is no true mar
Rage of heart. What wonder, then, that
and misery arise, and a divorce,
{ not sought, is often desired Turner's >
SUPERSTITION IN ENGLAND.-Witchcraft is
Tot extinct. An old man in England, nearly
years of age, after imagining or be-
ieving that he had for several years been |
or overpowered as he called ii. BY I
ne Mary Stevens, undertook by the advice, /
5 he said, of more than a hundred persons, c
o /" fetch " the blood of the woman, so that '
e might overcome her. Embracing a favor 6
bic opportunity, he executed his blood +
hirsty design. He did it, however, very b
mildly. Having met her in the market d
lace, he suddenly scratched her arm with a !
eedie and caused it to bleed a trihe, but J
ct enough as he conceived, to fulfill the =
Mysterious law by which he was impelled. 9
)isdaining to shed her blood in so ignoble a :,
ause, the woman complained of him and he !,
as arrested. He pleaded in excuse for the !
that such had been the power of the I
itchery the woman had exerted over him 4
lat for five years he had suffered Affections C
various kinds through her sorcery, some D
mes having four diseases upon him at once, q a
esides losing. in the mean time. fourteen Il
inaries and fifty ~goldfnches. He was fined
70 and sixpence and costs. '
Said a venerable farmer, some eighty n
ears Of age to a relative who lately visited {
/" / have lived on this farm for half a n
injury. | have no desire to change nv a
sidence. as long as | live on earth. / have 4
} desire to be any richer than I now am.
i've worshipped the God of my fathers with V
e same people for more than forty years. =
uring that period | have rarely been absent \,
pm the sanctuary on the Sabbath, and I'll
,ver lost but one communion season. "a
I've never been confined to my bed by sick la
IS a single day. The blessings of God q
I've been richly spread around me, and I -
ade up my mind long ago that if l wished E,
be any happier ! must have more re- W
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