The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1856-1888, 1871-09-09
Foreign Items.

Thirteen millions of money sat down to a break
fast at Saratoga recently.
sun baths have recently effected complete cures
in paralysis at Piqua. o.
A society for popular education of women has
been organized at Vienna.
For every thirty-fve white people in South Car
Dina there are ninety negroes.
Boston estimates the value of its public school
property at about six millions of dollars.
An attempt is being made in some of the South
ern States to revive knee-breeches and shOe-buckles.
Theodore Tilton wishes New York could have
=. Ben Butler for Governor for a couple of years.
We wish so too.-BoSton Journal.
A great meeting has been held in London to
congratulate the Irish church upon the happy re-
suits Of disestablshment.
In Sweden female students are now admitted to
the universities like male students upon passing
the regular college examinations.
The Ottawa Times believes there is little doubt
that the Princess Louise and the MARQUIS of Lorne
will visii Canada and the United States in the
course OF The present year.
Here is the ~freelove marriage VOW as finally
adopted: I'VE promise 10 love each other. and
live in the same brown stone front till we are tired
o! each other and see some one we like better"
One hundred and ninety-6ve Asiatics arrived at
Callao on the 18th instant. in the Salvador bark
Joaquin Rigdud. from Macao, and consigned to
Don Juan de Urgate- This vessel has lost fifty on
the passage. three of whom committed suicide by
throwing themselves overheard into the sea
IL is reported that the Duke of Sutherland. John
Fender and Mr.. Fowler, the eminent engineer, are
about to purchase the Suez canal for G6, 900. 900.
The undertaking cost the French company En-
$4,000.
A ieweK- of Southbridge, Mass, has made a
liver essnim arie' -SoO In
1lete. which covers no larger space than a silvel
quarter dollar. 1t is described as OF - ten mos
quito power"
The Sunday law question continues to agitsts
Cincinnati. Twenty-Five German societies, with 8
membership numbering 900, are favOring a repeal
IF the Sunday laws. and have appointed committees
% circulate petitions. The Sunday-law men are
llso circulating petitions to be ubmitted to the
Council. and the clergy are preparing to take a
Iand. likewise, in the struggle.
On the first day of the japanese year. styled in
he vernaeular. Meigi. or. according to our compu-
alton, the LIST Of February. 1871. the Mikado
ordered a census of his dominions. and 10 a Yoko-
hama paper is the FIRST official announcement of
results. The population is given as 34.7s5. ISL. or
about three millions more than the United King
dom of Great Britain and Ireland, and about the
same less than the United States.
Flakes Bulletin. published at Galveston. Texas.
avs: One of the most instructive lessons taught
q our southern series of letters is that of the sure
reward that attends on patience, courage and per-
~Sistence at the South, as everywhere else. Wher-
ever the southern people have taken hold of their
wrecked fortunes with courage aud hope. letting
bygones be bygOnes.' they have brought hack
much Of their old prosperity. and in some places
are better of than before the war"