The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1856-1888, 1870-04-09
Foreign Miscellany.

liz German papers say immigration to
.s' United States will be larger this year
lafI ever.
In France there are 470 beet-root facto-
Is, II6 in Belgium and 200 in Prussia.
st year Switzerland alone produced $780,
DO tons of beet-root sugar.
lThere IS Il scheme to sell the BROOKLYN
Iasy Yard and build new one on the west
al Of the Hudson. opposite Hastings, six
sen miles above New York.
A society has been formed In Paris, with
'apital of 100000 francs, for the develop
ED Of musical art in France, and the in
lsries connected with it."
The product of thirteen iron mines in the
ike Superior region for 1869 was 633, ,2S9
css tons, 7O9,i3S7 net tons, and the value
Is 81, ,l6S, 100.
The Yale students are to have a foot race
af the close of the present term, the dis
30 10 BE- three miles and the prizes $50
l1slO.
II cost Boston at the rate of nearly $4,000
sf1 1our to receive and entertain the Presi-
.1l at the Jubilee in June.
Hiadelphia has executed twenty-five
in inaIs since I7S9-oue for mail robbery,
10 for piracy aud the balance for murder.
be- negotiations for the transfer of West
'6ri la have already cost Alabama SIS, 800,
clhding $1,000 spent in entertaining the
Iorida Commissioners at 4 Montgomery
tel.
a. steel coil spring, sixty feet long, has
st been made in Pittsburg, Pennsylvania,
: steel being five inches in width and
n. -sixteenths Of an inch in thickness.
Ibis is the way they libel honest folks
Il West: "a little boy was asked if he
- where liars went, he answered yes
Ell went to New Work, 10 write for the
pes"
Ros1 B1nheur is noted as an agricultural
+ aud q stock raiser, as we'll as painter.
et farm Is not OF great magnitude, but
lee enough to keep over one hundred ami
&' mostly very odd looking specimens.
~ Individual in Berne calls himself Louis
4p5 leon BOnaparte, and says he is grand
bf Napoleon |. He has published
E1p phlet dedicated tO France, entitled Society
~ NJ Rights He bears some resem-
vfe 10 the BOnaparte family.
B. Prissey's Saratoga Club House is to
( 900, the furniture as much more,
n fhe lair of the tiger $4,000. The par
bf the Leland Brothers big hotel at
toga Is to have walls Of mirrors, and is |
81 $4,000.
be New York World begins to admit
I the National debt is being rapidly re-
%. Other Democratic papers will soon
to do the same thing, the figures are
Ruch for them.
+ National Association. formed for the
Pe Of securing such an amendment to |
Constitution of the United States as
hcOgnize therein the existence of God, !
hdlcate that we are Christian nation, |
hvlted all American citizens who favor |
an amendment, TO meet, without dis |
pn Of party or creed, In Convention In |
burg. Penn, on Thursday. the Sd day
frch next.
lculties having been thrown in the
q the ladies' obtaining anatomical in |
pom In Edinburgh, the Professors of
my at two of the three Scotch Uni |
les have come forward to offer to the |
the instruction which is denied them.
Professor of Anatomy In one of the |
% schools has also expressed his readi-
make arrangements for their instruc-
this branch Of science.
re IS delicate question pending In
'Hew Orleans Custom House. A lot of |
- and dogs arrived on an English ship, /
<efe regularly going through, when It |
{ aoupd that nine pups and five calves
not mentioned On the bills Of landing. |
- were Dorm on the voyage, and the
'es'prs talked Of drowning them.