The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1856-1888, 1871-08-12
Foreign Items.


The French. army voted the republican ticket
for the assembly.
The legitimist members of the French assem-
bly, feel so lonesome and discouraged that they
talk of resigning.
, Property IN New YoRK.-The assessed value
of property in New York in 1870 was $l,U4I,-
$40, 224, and in 1871 Sl,076, 249 Alb, being an
increase of over SIS, 000, 600.
The French bishops have been silly enough to
demand of the Versailles government the restora-
ton of the temporal power of the pope and the
government has been wise enough to refuse the
demand.
The University of Oxford has just doctored
DIR. Dolfinger, and the Spectator reminds the
church of England that the same sort of moral
support may be given TO its own recalcitrant
members by bodies outside and unfriendly.
France has paid Sutherland two million francs
for maintaining French soldiers who took refuge
in that country during the late war. The war
material brought to Switzerland by the refugee
soldiers is to be restored torrance.
France is not yet free enough TO tolerate free
dom of the press. The assembly has passed a bill
requiring the deposit of caution money by the
press. Republicanism will be a sham until free
speech and a free press are guaranteed.
DIR. Dollinger is marching on. In a recent
letter to certain Hungarian Catholics, he declares
that IS the legally regulated participation of lay
men in the ordering and administration of the
affairs of the church is the one thing most needed
now by the church.
The Boston Neacs says: "None have suffered
more from the effects of intemperance than women,
and they have a right to go to the polls and dis
pute with the enemies of their households. 1t
will not detract one whit from the original attri-
butes of her sweet nature"
An ambitious glazier in New York has spent
three months trying to get a contract to put one
pane of glass in the new court house. He says if
he could get such a contract '' on the usual terms, -
it would make him independently rich. The man
who painted the lightning-rod has erected a brown
stone mansion on the profits of the job.
The last New York legislature passed an act to
make redress for words ~imputing unchastity to u
female, which is as follows An action may be
maintained by a female, whether married or sin
gle, to recover damages for words hereafter spoken
lmputIng unchastity to her, and it shall not be ne
cessary to allege OF prove special damages in order
TO maintain such action. In such actions a mar
ried woman may sue alone, and any recovery
therein shall be her sole and separate property.
NOVEL DUEL.-An apotbecary lately refused to
resign his seat at a theatre in Vienna to an
officer, who, feeling himself insulted, sent him a
challenge. The apothecary was punctual at the
meeting, but observed he had a new way of set
Ting the dispute. He then drew from his pocket
a pill-box, and taking therefrom two pills, thus
addressed his antagonist: LAS a man of honor,
sir, you would not wish me to fight on unequal
terms. Here are, therefore, two pills, one COM
posed of the most deadly poison, the other per-
fectly harmless. We are, therefore, on equal
grounds if we each swallow one. You shall take
your choice, and j promise faithfully to take that
which you leave" 1t is needless to say that the
affair was settled by a hearty laugh.
WHERE IS THE CHAMPION TYPe-SETTER Now
A Montreal paper says: 'At a type-setting
match held in the La NauUeau MOnd Office re-
Gently, between Alphonse Barrette and Alphonse
Mondon. the former set 2,038 ems, and the latter
,944 ems in an hour. The measure, type, and
copy were similar TO those used at the match
held throughout Canada and the United States
on the lOth of May last. The best done then
was by George Ahrensberg, of Philadelphia, who
composed 1922 ems, and received the Champion
ship prize from the International Union. The
young French Canadians above mentioned have
now surpassed him, and proved their superior
swiftness, SO far, over the craft on this continent.
About fifty persons were present at the match re-
ferred to. The proofs of the contestants were
remarkably clean"
There is nothing, perhaps, which Paris feels so
keenly as the loss Of its headship. That city be-
lieves that it has as sure a right to rule over
France as the original Bourbon himself. The
function of Paris Is to conceive, to think and to
issue orders the place of France to listen, to be
moved. when the injunction is to that effect, and
above all to obey. 1t may be that this dream was
rudely disturbed a few months ago. The en-
trance in triumph of the Government troops
helped in a very marked manner to dispel the IL
fusion. But Paris for all that cannot give up the
idea of it's headship. We perceive that it is now
importuning Theirs to bring back the Assembly.
Cannot think of getting along without the signs
and emblems of the supreme Government. Theirs
IL raportad r., havo said ithat in Oafabar fba "a
quest will be granted. If he fulflls his promise,
Paris will again begin to talk right out in meet
ing. 1t is an easy thing to crush a government
there if there be not a strong hand somewhere
Alta California.
If the Asiatic cholera be really prevalent in Po-
land 1T is advancing upon mankind by a some
what unusual route. 1t was by way of Poland,
We believe, that we got tue rinderpest, but cholera
is generally developed on the Ganges seizes upon
the annual p~ilgrimages to Mecca works its way
to Constantinople, and then spreads throughout
Europe. 1t is a fortune circumstance that at
every appearance of this epidemic the mortality
grows smaller and smaller. The improvement in
ventilation and the greater cleanliness of the mas
ses have not been without their effects in reducing
the virulence of these periodical visitations.
Science, too, is graphing with them with heroic
fortitude. We have heretofore enjoyed almost a
complete immunity from e~pidemics of all kinds in
this city, and there is no reason why We should
not continue 10 uO eO- III muoG DS UOT06 III NINA.
however. that our population has greatly increased
and that, as a consequence, we can no longer af-
ford to neglect every sanitary precaution.-Aha.
Massachusetts loves its lager. The fact was
shown beyond peradventure at the recent elections
to decide whether lager should be sold and drank.
The lnajorities in favor of lager in the various
towns were very large. This is remarkable of
Massachusetts,. in itself; but what shall be said
when we are told that Massachusetts, ladies fire.
.,o-,a1 %Ao ~olIo orA xuorlod anarraffaoIu -
behalf of prohibition I? They distributed ballots,
marked "No," all day long, and threatened with
their disfavor every man Who voted I" Yes" We
drop the question of the political influence of
women as here evidenced. We have heart only for
grief that Massachusetts, of all the States, should
vote in behalf of the lager and in opposition to
the great and good New England women. There
will be fewer weddings in the old Bay state for
some time to come than there have been for some
time back and it Is melancholy to reflect that
there are women outside of Massachusetts, who
will give aid and comfort to the Massachusetts
youth who voted to have his lager.