The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1856-1888, 1870-08-27
Foreign Notes.


That terrible scourge, the Asiatc cholera is now |
making its way again around the world. 1t ragged |
for two months with terrific virulence at Madras, |
India. and throughout Ceylon, and has extended 10
the Cane Of Good Hope and quite recently to the |
West Indies. With the rapid steam communication
now existing, port country is sale against Its
ravages, and the duty of ali is be as guarded as
possible preserving the health of cities and large
settlements. There is room for Improvement, 10
this respect, even in Honolulu
It may not be generally known that New Bedford
was one OF the earliest centers OF the abolition
movement which commenced in America forty
wears or more ago. Senator Revels (the colored
Senator from MississPPD recently delivered an ad-
dress there and in introducing him Wendell
PhiIips made these remarks, which possess histor-
ieaI interest now New Bedford Is the refuge and
hiding place to which in years gone by, fugltlVes
gathered sure that no slave hunter would RISK MS
liz. in these streets Here in former generations,
the Rotches. Rodmans, Ricketsons and their asso-
eiates had each secret chamber to hide fugitive
Here Douglas took refuge On your wharVes he
did his Erst hour OF free labor. Here even his
blood chilled as be heard, in a church meeting OF
five hundred blacks, the gray haired preacher ad-
wise that the young should take out the mis-
ereant suspected of betraying the hiding place OF
"A hIgitive and kill him. A dash through the
crushing window revealed who the suspected man
WIS and took him forever from New Bedford
Here in later years, the Collins and Trenches the
Ricketsons and RobesOns, held up with ureless de-
votion the standard OF anti-slaTery protest, and
made your city a light seen tar and wide. here
Mayor French tolled the city bells that anxious
SUNDAY morning when the slave hunter was plan
ming to visit the city in the Sims day. The indig-
uant protest OF our leading citizens made the mis-
creant surrender his commission Some well re-
member the answer of the excited negro VINO was
toIIinR the bell at that early hour, and fond bus
band begged bim to stop, for his wife was Ill and
it disturbed her. What is one dying woman,
said the bell ringer. to twelve hundred anxious
souls each one OF whom does not kho" Du1 NC may
be in slavery tomorrow"
Those who use ice are not perhaps aware of
its many curious characteristics. Besides the
fact that it is lighter than water, there is another
curious thing about it, Its purity. A lump OF ice
melted will always become purely distilled water
When the early navigators of the Arctic seas got
out Of water they melted fragments of those vast
mountains of ice called ieebergs and were aston
ished to find that they yielded only fresh water.
They thought that they frozen salt water, not
knowing that they were formed on the land, and
in some way launched into the But If they
had been right the result would have been all the
same The fact is, the water in freezing turns out
of it all that is not water salt, air, coorng matter
and all impurities. Frozen sea water makes fresh
water ice If you freeze basin of indigo water
it will make it as-pure that made of pure rain
water When the cold is very sudden these foreign
matters have no time escape either by rising
sinking and are thus entangled with the ice, but
do not form any payt OF it,
The general belief regarding the stones of the
pyramids is that they are artificial, formed
by some process similar to concrete stone.
recent French writer, who has spent years in
investigating the subject says that they are built
entirely Of the rock of the Arabian chain, which
extends along the Nile. This rock is formed OF
aggIomerated fossil shells. known as TuInmutites,
(Latin nl1nna1tls, a small con) from their resem-
blance TO pieces Of money. The Sphinx ia cut
from different rock, composed Of smaller species
OF numHulite.
In early life Ar. Dickens married Miss Catherine
Hogartb, daughter Of Mr.. Geo. Hogarth, gentle
man OF distinction 10 music aud literature After
living together two and twenty years a separation
took Diaee. mainly owing to incompahbility OF
temperament, SeVen children from this union are
still living two daughters and FIVE sons, the elder
Charles Dickens Jr., already manilestinR many
traits of character which promise to make him
SnOwn hereafter in the literary world One OF bis
daughters married Mr.. Charles Collins, q brother
TO Wilkie Collins