The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1856-1888, 1870-04-30

With every foreign country with which her teie-
graphic connections have been formed. her busi-
ness has at once begun to develop itself far beyond
anything previously known.
The Cincinnati and Chicago papers and people
have long shown an Intense Jealousy, often giving
rather sharp thrusts at each other. Here is the
latest story which Cincinnati tells of its young rival
metropolis. 1t carries a good joke, even If not lit
orally true: -Four of the Chicago Vigilance Com
mittee were out the other evening. and pursued q
man who they assumed was 4 thief. He was walk
ing leisurely along. looking behind occasionally.
and on each side once in a while. The suspicious of
the four were aroused. He is a thief; said one.
why does be look around 81 remarked another.
- Let's go and see who he is" said another, and
they walked towards the supposed thief. He
walked faster. They were confident now. and COM
menced running. The solitary individual also
started on a run. and being heet-footed. soon dis
tanced his pursuers. They kept alter him, about a
halfa block in the rear, and saw him enter:a three
story brick house. Then they concluded they had
made a mistake. and they went home. The next
day a well-known merchant called at the Central
Station aud reported that be had been chased hSme
by garroters the evening before. He met them
"lObA NASNAOH- ApCNAHS ANa41 NiAHN WIN bAhNh
jacks" and had he not been a good runner he
would have been knocked down and probably
murdered. This is the heaviest " load " on Vigi-
lance Committees and selfconstituted police We
remember to have noticed."-
The following will. with the weather-wise. sufi-
GENTLY account for the cold snap" in April,
when the thermometer has fallen on our highlands
to almost a frost point:
Sports ON THE SUN.-The Washington ReDuJIican
says that the astronomers are just now turning
their glasses in the direction OF the sun, that
luminary having lately broken out in a perfect
rash of spots, some of them of enormous size. No
less than eight groups of spots are visible, and Of
these groups four are to be seen in the suns North
ern hemisphere, two in the equatorial region. and
two in his Southern hemisphere. The largest sin
gle spot covers a superficial area of not less than
one thousand four hundred and 6tty-eight millions
of square miles. or seven times the snperhcies OF
the terraQueous globe. The Northern hemisphere
of the sun presented on the 9th of February a
most remarkable linear series of six groups of
spots. paralleled with his equator, each group
separated by about the average length of one
group from the next in order, and the whole form
ing a chain of apparently connected phenomena
not less than four hundred thousand miles in
length. 1t is thought that these phenomena may
be followed by some such remarkable aurOral dis
plays as were noticed in 1856, seeing that these
displays seem to be not unfrequently dependent
upon the appearance If these spots upon the sun.
During the past few years, the custom of travel
ing in Europe has greatly increased with Anpri-
cans, large numbers of whom are now TO be found
in almost every city of Europe. The Dresden cor
respondent of an American paper says, that in no
other European city except Paris and Rome, can
so many Americans be found as there. They are
met every wherein the street, the school, the art
gallery, the concert room, and the theatre. They
form a considerable element of the population and
without them the business of the city would sadly
diminish. Indeed the Dresden of to-da may be
said to live from foreigners, and of these the Ameri-
cans form a great majority. As IN the larger cities
at home, they are formed into sets and cliques, and
it is only on the occasion of the celebration of some
national festival, as the late Thanksgiving reunion,
or on Sundays, that one sees them together, or com
paratively so. -
Boston favors the world with the following rich
anecdote of what actually occurred there. A young
lady met in company a young gentleman who
evidently had an excellent opinion of himself.
During conversation he introduced the subject of
matrimony, and expatiated at length upon the
kind of wife he expected to marry-that is, if ever
he should take the decisive step. The honored
lady must be wealthy, beautiful, accomplished,
amiable, etc. etc. His listener quietly waited
until he ended, and then asked cOolly, " and pray,
sir, what have you to offer in return for all this q"
The young man stammered, Redeemed q little, and
walked away. -
At a meeting of the American Scientific Associa-
ton in Salem, says an exchange, a paper was read
on the trichinn in pork, after which Professor
Aggassiz stated that he thought parasites existed
in all kinds of meat. and everybody who eats fish
eats hundreds of them and that only one of two
alternatives could be adopted to escape injury,
either to stop eating flesh, or to have the same well
cooked. May not the practice of eating raw fish
be one cause of the great increase of disease and
death among the natives of these islands?