The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1856-1888, 1871-05-13
Foreign Summary.


Siamese twins not to be cut apart.
Rosa Bonheur is painting a group of dogs for
the Gar. She makes $4,000 n year.
1t is said that it takes ten men nearly a year
to finish a handsome camel's hair shawl.
An acre contains 4 $40 square yards. A square
mile contains GAO acres. \ mile is $3.50 feet,
or 100 yards in length. A league is three miles.
A fathom is six feet. A hand (horse measure)
is four inches. A palm is three inches.
Rothschild gave nearly a million dollars in
gold for the chateau Laftte. and was thought TO
have made a very bad bargain, but in the first
year of his ownership the vineyard has made q
clear profit Of nearly % per cent. on the price
paid.
A portion of the anti-Ritualistic party in Aus
tralia have formed what they designate n = Free
Church Of England, - and have elected a bishop.
He went through a form of conservation, took
the oaths Of supremacy, and on the following
Sunday held a general ordination. The new
bishop preached on the inutility of the Apostolic
succession
The number of public houses in London being
beyond the actual wants of the people, n bill has
been introduced into Parliament resembling that
now before the Pennsylvania Legislature, called
the Local Option bill. 1t is proposed 10
divide London into small districts, to the in
habltants Of which shall be referred the question
whether or no they will sanction the establish
ment of a licensed public house.
1t may be very gratifying to our readers TO
know that scientific men predict for us a summer
of unexampled severity, when disease and death
will be plenty, and the chances Of a general
carrying off Of the population quite cheering TO
undertakers. 1t appears that our winter has not
been cold enough to suit these gentlemen, and
that, in consequence, the broiling sun Of July
and August will breed pestilential air, because
the breezes of January and February have been
altogether too mild.
The Jews are pushing forward in the world,
and this is to be kept in mind in forecasting the
future. They are a very tenacious race, and
likely to hold on and make the most of every
point gained. Seven Jews have been elected to
the new English Parliament, and probably a few
more were sent into the coming Cortes of Spain.
AT any rate the Spanish Bishops, alarmed by the
claims Of the Spanish Hebrews and other heretics,
are about to meet in grand council at Toledo, TO
deliberate and to do what they can in such a de-
pressing state of things.
The Salt Lake correspondent of the Chicago
Tribune says it is rumored that Brigham Young
is going to transfer Church Headquarters 10
hanab, an almost inaccessible settlement in the
mountains of Southeastern Utah, about which
Brigham has been fussing and huttering for n
year past but thinks that it is more likely that
the place is designed as a retreat for Mormon
criminals In case OF troublesome grand juries
and courts, as he and his set are too well fixed
where they are to voluntarily tramp further into
the wilderness again in their old age. The same
correspondent says that Brigham has recently
caused himself to be elected Secretary and
Treasurer (he was already Presidency Of the
Utah Railroad.
Many observant politicians express the opinion
that General John A. Logan will be the most
formidable competitor General Grant will have
for the Presidential nomination next year. A
strong movement in General Logan's behalf is
said to be organizing in the West, and to be
rapidly extending throughout the country. The
CAM, Alafs .
The Grand Army Of the Republic which has
its branches IN every village Of the North, and of
which General Logan is COMMANDMENT Chief,
furnishes the nucleus of this movement, and gives
strength and organization at the start. General
Logan says that he has no knowledge Of any at
tempt to make him "A candidate, and that If an
effort is making in that direction, it is without
any consultations with him.
FREED FROM The BURDENS OF OFFIcE.-A num-
Der of the stalwart young men in the Treasury
Department at Washington having resigned in
anticipation of the reduction i'm the force, the
New York Tribune congratulates them after this
comforting manner Young gentlemen, we
congratulate you! You are free! You no longer
groan under the burdens of Office The free
West awaits you! Its boundless prairies yearn
for your coming with the shovel and the hoe!
Better raise a dozen ears of corn than twist a
thousand rolls of red tape Happy boys! 20
and enjoy your freedom, and know the felicity Of
that work which brings the sweat to your brows
and makes sweet your daily bread"
Partial returns from States where the negroes
were slaves in 1860 do not altogether bear out
the predictions in regard to the decay of the
colorcd race, as a result of the war and in a state
of freedom. They do, however, show that an
emigration has gone on among them. under which
they have, like the leopard, changed their
spots A carefully prepared table shows that
in the purely Cotton States there is an increase
of &c 900 negroes, or 81 per cent, in the par
NsnI- IF,NNn- - Nna g NnweH- Nu.als- - II
nessee, an increase of IA 900, or 81 per cent,
and in the non-Cotton States, a decrease of 34,-
900, or 81 per cent. The negroes have gone
Southwark. The tide sets from Maryland, Vir-
ginia and Kentucky toward the Gulf States. And
this emigration will go on.
A correspondent who has had an interview
with Cardinal Antonelli, reports him to have said
relative to the Italian Parliament: "They arc
occupying themselves with guarantees. Guaran-
tees We know that Jesus Christ gave to the
Holy Father the right, as his successor and the
successor of the Apostles, to rule His Church,
but we never knew before now that lie be-
q~ueathed to them 1.-THE Italians) the permission
or duty to concoct guarantees for the purpose
OF establishing after what way the Church shall
be governed guarantees which all Catholics on
the face of the earth, and the Pope first Of all,
will refuse to accept. o.. there is no transaction
possible with them You can say 50. There
will never be any between them and the Church"
A correspondent dL L1dNdnd Ddb interviewed
Captain General Valmaseda since the ~latter's
return from his tour in the interior Of the island,
and has had from his lips a truthful statement
regarding the present condition of what is left
Of the rebels in Cuba. The rebellion has ceased
to be worthy of any consideration whatever.
Those in arms rgainst the Government are few
in number and without organization they are
mere marauding parties, committing destruction
and destroying life when possible or, in other
words, they are land pirates, who have become
desperate at failure, and who appear determined
to die sword in hand rather than by the garrote.
The end Of the rebellion is near indeed, il may
be considered as having ended, and we are salts
fed now that at no time during its existence was
it entitled to the Importance that has been
given it.
Queen Victoria seems to be determined that
there shall be no old maids in the royal family.
Concerning cid bacbelorhood. among her sons, she
Ia not so anxinns. OF five danphfpre. She has now