The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1856-1888, 1870-04-02
Miscellany.

MfSCeIIADy.
Ben Wade, formerly Congressman. say:
Cuba must and shall be free.
Nasty says he made $4,000 last year by
lecturing.
Iowa has given about one-ffth of its area
to aid railroads.
"The Life and Adventures of James Fisk,
Jr." is to be written.
Gen Sigel declines the New York Assess
orship to which he was lately appointed by
the President.
Charles Matthews, the English comedian,
is to get $4,000 for his two years engage
ment in Australia.
An Ohio Journal prints the names of its
delinquent subscribers upside down, as a
hint that they should settle up.
Two pauper ~lunatics in York, Eng, re-
Gently scalded a fellow lunatic to death by
forcing him into a tub of boiling wafer. The
keepers were at dinner.
The Chicago courts tried last year 1913 di-
vorce suits, and put asunder 469 couples.
Of the successful suits, 305 were brought by
the wives.
The trial of Mcfarland for the shooting of
Richardson, at New York, comes off in
March.
Some excitement has been created in
Knoxville, Tenn, by a baby which has de-
parted from the old established rules govern
ing "cutting teeth" by cutting its back teeth
to start with.
1t is said that a new description of lava is
being thrown from the crater of Vesuvius
since the last eruption, consisting of crystal
lied salt. This beautiful phenomenon has
heretofore been unknown in volcanic natural
history.
IBsissh9p dSjmtegsqg9t ffsstRattffs tRWa55 r it val ffke
present rate of progress. The Bishop does
not intend to stay and see the job completed.
Some profoundly speculative minds are
agitated by the enticing possibility of putting
a steam engine and screw machinery aboard
of an Arctic iceberg, and propelling the con-
Germ down to New York to sell for high
priced ice in the dog days.
A little boy having broken his rocking
horse the day it was bought, his mother be-
gan to scold when h silenced her by
inquiring, Whats the good of a horse until
its broke 2"
An American gentleman from Mantanzas,
Cuba, where he resides. says that in view of
the emancipation of the blacks, preparations
~ Importing q ldISS uuiIOCi u OOIlS ak
being made. Ten thousand have arrived
within a few days to work the sugar planta-
tons. ,.
The rumor that a marriage is contemplated
by Her Majesty Queen Victoria, with Prince
Augustenberg, is reiterated, and received
with more credit in London. 1t is said that
the event will be shortly officially announced.
The challenge from the Tyne crew, brought
over by Walter Brown, to row five miles in
a straight-away race for $4,000 against the
St. John Paris crew having been accepted by
the latter, Lachine lake, Canada, has been
decided upon as the place for the race. 1t is
to come off in July next.
Orders are received at Brooklyn Navy
Yard to fit out the Tennessee, a screw
of the first rate, mounting ID guns.
It is understood she will be the flag ship of
Vice-Admiral Porter, and will go to European
waters this summer.
HUMBOLDT had the popularity of using his
knee for a writing desk. This may in some
account for his iIlegible style of writ
ing. He doubtless fell into this habit while
on his journeys in the wilds of South Amer
lea, and he retained it to his latest days.
From this popularity originates the bon mot,
that in the "Cosmos" the word Z" God " does
not appear, although Humboldt wrote it from
the beginning to the end upon his knees.
James Sargent, who has recently succeeded
in picking the best combination locks in the
Treasury Department at Washington, has
offered S. 1000 to any one who will pick his
newly patented safe lock within "a hours,
and a Mr.. w. F. Ensign, of New York, has
his willingness to try.
Blondin got stuck six yards from the
landing place while recently crossing a thea
ire with a velocipede on a tight rope. The
screamed and fed from the house,
,ut an attendant lassoed the performer and
irew him in without hurt.
Burnt cork troupes are not travelling as
much as formerly. The fact is. negro min
trelsy is playing out even bootblacks no
grow fat upon it. The business. i. lit
.ver had any dignity, has degenerated to
lang and stale jokes, and there are but few
ompanies now on the boards whose preten-
ions can be called respectable.
JOURNALISTIC FAILURES IN LoNDoN.-In
london, as well as in some other cities, as
DON as some men get a little money they
re crazy either to manage atheatre or to
tart a newspaper 1t is stated that nearly
IL the cheap evening papers projected IN
sooner or later. result in financial
allure. Many of the new weekly papers
re also IN a dropping condition, and a cor
espondent says that the now profitable
sporting papers" will be ruined if the
ecree is confirmed which closes the betting '
advertisements of these Offices
aving been the mainstay and chief support
the sporting papers.