The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1856-1888, 1870-04-16
MISCELLANY.

court of special sessions in New York 70
putting water in their milk.
In Czegodin, in Hungary, a giantess o
$50 pounds in weight has Just been led Il
the altar.
A Partisan author has translated Shake
speare's line, - Out, brief candle" into French
thus Get out, you short candle"
The Peruvian, of the Canadian line, re-
Gently crossed the Atlantic, from land tc
land, in FIVE days, eight hours and forty
minutes.
The Ames Company, at Chicopee, are fill
ing a contract for a peculiar adjustable horse
shoe-the invention of a Baltimorean-which
is made to be taken off at night or when the
horse is not being used, and put on as readily
when wanted as a pair of boots. The corkS
of the shoes are also ad Unstable, and new
ones can be fitted when one set is worn out
Divorce IN FRANCE.-A new monthly pa.
per, entitled the DiUorce, is about to be
started in Paris with the object of legalizing
divorce. The prospectus states that there
are not fewer than $4,000 separated men and
women living in France tina, the courts have
at the present moment ,523 demands for sep
a~ration, and that, moreover, the number OF
couples separated voluntarily is immense.
WHITE LABOR ON SOUTHERN PLANTATIONS.
The St. Mary's (La.,) Planters Banner
exposes the fallacy that white men cannot
endure outdoor work in the South. 1t says
that at Lower Cypremort, amidst millions of
mosquitoes and flies, and in a hot sun, the
breezes broken by the tall timber, ten white
men, on Mr.. Kemper's place, have made as
clean a crop as there is in the parish, and
suffer less from sickness, than the same num-
Der of negroes under similar circumstances
And more than 200 white men on and in the
vicinity of the Teche are this year doing the
same kind of work as that organized and en-
couraged by Mr.. Kemper.
ELEGANCE DOES NOT MAKE A HoME.-I
never saw garment too fine for man or
maid there was never a chair too good for q
cobbler or a cooper, or king to sit IN nevera
house too fine to shelter the human head.
These elements about us, the gorgeous sky,
the imperial sun. are not too good for the
human race. Elegance fits man. But do
we not value these tools of housekeeping a
little more than they are worth, and some
times mortgage a house for the mahogany
we would bring into it ! | had rather eat my
dinner off of the head of q barrel, or dress
after the fashion of john the Baptist in the
wilderness ; or sit on Il block all my life, than
consume all myself before [ got to a home,
and take so much pains with the outside that
the inside was as hollow as an empty nut
Beauty is a great thing, but beauty of gar
ments, house, and furniture is q tawdrv Orna-
ment compared with domestic love. All the
elegance in the world Continues Theodore
Parker will not make a home, and | would
give you more for a spoonful of real hearty
love than for whole ship loads of furniture,
and all the gorgeousness that all the upho!-
sterers of the world could gather.
OF the 1,095 mountains in the moon,
measured by Beer and Nader, 80 are higher
than Mont Blanc, and 6 are 10000 feet high.
The a~nnular Tor c~ircularl mountains are
highest; Dorfel, near the southern pole,
measuring 26,691 feet, or nearly rs high as
the highest peaks of the Himalayas, the lofti-
est submits of our own globe. And there
are also circular caverns, or ~craters, in our
satellite which are $4,000 feet deep! and
some are 100 TO 100 miles in diameter!
FLYING ToAD.-A flying toad" now in
Washington, was captured In a seine at Cape
Henry a few days since. 1t is ofmost singular
conformation, and of beautifully variegated
hues, measuring about six inches in length,
with a perfectly fiat, bony back, eyes wide
apart and in the centre of a circle, capacious
llOulil, anu HIS as ldIgS DIS WHY'S, dDOuL the
centre of the body on each side.
STILL AHEAD. - Chicago, with all her
faults, is always first in the field when an in
dustrial movement is on foot. Chinese SER
wants have been ordered for one of the great
hotels, and the members of the Emigration
Committee have each entered their names for
4 supply for their families. The good people
of the town are now anxiously awaiting the
first lot.
A Massachusetts paper AYERS that a contri-
button was recently taken in one of the
churches in Northampton, and on the day
following, a man who is a capitalist, and
his property by hundreds of thousands,
called on one of the church officers to recover
part of his contribution, stating that he made
a mistake and put into the box ten cents
he meant to put in five cents! The
man could b. so careless.
SINGULAR RESULT OF HEAT.-From Area
,hon, France, on the Bay of Biscay, a very
result of heat is reported, which at
one moment threatened 20 produce a regular
oestilence. The muddy shore near that
place is at low water the resort of innumera-
ill the return of the tide. The excessive
icdl, ny III my up uluu, udu hlllSu tilciIl
n thousands, and the smell of their dead
bodies, washed up and down by the tide, was
BEGINNING to spread fever in the neighbor-
rood. A large number of fishermen were
engaged to collect them in heaps on
he beach, whence they were carted inland
nd buried. The total amount thus disposed
If was over 400 cart loads.
DRINKERS AND NoN-DRINKERs AMERICA.
An American finds that in the United
States of every 300 men 122 do not drink at
III, 100 drink moderately, so are occasional
% drink periodically, rspreeing,"
nd 3 are habitual inebriates. To every 17S
Who drink 3 are confirmed inebriates, 25 are
and so ephemeral drinkers. There
s one confirmed inebriate to every 594 men.
IF 700 women, 600 never drink, 80 taste
vine occasionally, II taste ardent spirits, 36
rink beer regularly, IA drink spirits periodi-
ally, and 3 are habitual inebriates. There
5, he declares, l female inebriate to every
women. for though fewer women drink