The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1856-1888, 1870-06-18
Foreign Miscellany.

Lut view IOlh bDItH ACElNNo tNHb hN
Court of Inquiry at Yokohama, only "sus.
pended Captain Eyre's commission instead
Of s~uspending Captain Eyre"
Four thousand five hundred glasses Of beer
were drank in 4 Cleveland beer garden
one Sunday afternoon.
Kansas College has among Its students
eight intellectual red men, who are fast learn
ing TO play draw-poker and tear up side
walks.
Many a man grumbles because it costs as
much per day for ice for his family as ne
pays for a single drink for himself.
Five more japanese students have arrived
in New Jersy, one of them is said to belong
10 the Imperial family of that country.
A man at Lowell, Mass, has made a pro-
vision in his will that he must be buried in
a burglar proof safe when he dies.
a Bangor man weeps for his fifth wife.
To prevent misrepresentation it should be
added that he weeps because she is dead, not
because he is in search of her.
Here is the piihiest sermon ever preached 4:
" Our ingress in life is naked and bare our
progress through life is trouble and care /;
our egress out of II we know not where but
doing well here we shall do well there"
British Consul Murray gives notice of a
reward of $4,000 gold offered by the Gov
ernor General of India for q machine to
separate the fibre, bark and stem Of the grass
plant of China.
There are in Kansas 1899 pensioners, to
there are 1S5, 125 pensioners, to whom S27,-
2 1854 are annually paid.
A Methodist minister in Ohio had the
parents of a child present it for baptism, not
long since. On being told that the child's
name was " Yallandigham, he refused 10
baptize it, with the remark that he " could
not give any child the name of a traitor"
\ Louisiana planter delighted his hands
last week by paying them in silver quarters.
One old negro exclaimed Federit
money come and done go, and greenbacks is
played out, but dis Is the stuff that rats ant
chaw. De old time Is come again, hoo-rayr'
And then ne went away and buried his
money.
Bad as Paris is there are 300,0 900 women
in that city who strive 10 gain 4 living by
honest e~xertiOn. None of them get wages
equal to wages paid TO the commonest ser
want girl in this country. OF these women
about 10000 employ the needle. The av-
erage pay they receive is twenty cents per
AAI y hlAI sOAtlE lGNEtNt d. hl8l dS Utility
cents, but the majority no more than twelve.
The London 1hhemeosnt says " Recent
returns show thai 30 per cent. of the ~popula-
ton of France can neither read nor write;
whils more than 20 per cent. can read but
cannd write" If cur arithmetic Is correct,
the percentage named make up 100 per cent.
and therefore no person in France can read
and write.
The ReUoLtion says that in connection
with the new firm Of Woodruff, Claain & Co,
a bank is about to De established, and a brok-
erage exchange for ladies', in the upper part
of the city. where women can buy and sell
stocks, and do all the financial business which
they have had heretofore to transact
through men, or run the gauntlet of Wall
street.
In the town of Hyde Park, Massachusetts,
sixty women, including one " Fifteenth
Amendment voted at the last town meeting,
on the 9Th inst, and had their votes duly
counted by Sy~lvanus Cobb, Jr., the modera-
tor of the meeting, but not as part of the off
cial list. The affair included some of the
most fashionable women of the town, and
regarded by those who participated in it
as an entire success, albeit the shoutings and
surgings of the assemblage of the tyrant man
were ~discomposing and deafening.
SAVING BANKs.-There are in New York
1873 savings banks, with deposits
amounting to S194, 500, 000-being an in
,rease of % banks and S24, 500, 900 within
l year. In Massachusetts, there are 13I
such banks, with a deposit of Sll4,0OO 900.
IN Connecticut the deposits in such banks
mount TO S5O,OOO,OGO and in New Hamp-
hire TO S17,O00,O00
FRANCE.-Within the last century, or
ince the establishment of the American
Government, France has been twice Il mon
twice a republic, and twice an empire.
has it passed through these three forms
f Government in the same order, TO wit:
Monarchy, republic, empire; again monarchy,
empire. The first and second re-
ublics were both founded on the ruin of a
monarchy, and the first and second empires
'ere both founded on the ruins of a republic.
he Kings were always BoWbons, and both
T the Emperors have been Bonapartes. In
ne regular order of things, we may expect
be followed by a Bourbon monarchy, which
IOuld last till il is superseded by a republic,
n the ruin of which some Bonaparte should
the Third Empire. Thus the po-
teal rotation would be maintained, by
hich France Is saved from stagnation.
Some idea Of the extent of the Western
20 trade may be formed from reading a
iragrupn in the Toledo BEnde, stating that !
Gently there arrived in that city in a freight q
ain on the Wabash Railroad, seven car {
ads Of eggs. There were in each car 125 f
or SIS barrels in all. Allowing 120
ven eggs TO each barrel. there were $780, c
10 eggs on board that train. a
These are among the blessings of the Pa t
fc Railway, as shown in Chicago the other t
", upon the arrival of the refrigerator car (: b
weighing from fifteen to thirty-fve v
unds each Holsters of immense size +; soft G
ell crabs, larger than any at the Atlantic 1
asst; cauliiower, each head from six to =
-elve inches in diameter; celery of man. .
9th size new potatoes n~inety-two boxes :
strawberries, which cost in California 81 ;
T quart; green peas, fresh and very large, Y
d asparagus. "