The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1856-1888, 1871-10-14
Foreign Items.

A black man and white woman, recently mar
ried in Georgia, have been fined 81 900 for - mis-
cegenation, - and, in default ot payment, sent to
Jail for ak months.
Petroleum. it is stated, is now being obtained
at various points in Germany, and operations ON
an extensive scale have been undertaken To bore
at unusual depths for this valuable mineral OIL
Slavery is probably doomed in Brazil. The
enancipation bill is a prominent topic OF discus
sion. Ii has already passed 10 Its second reading
in the House of Deputies
The custom OF putting on black for a deceased
friend has lately received a blow, from the gener-
al adoption of black toilettes for street wear,
which renders it less distinctive. In fact, unless
crane Is worn, black is no longer considered
mourning.
There is a difference of fifty per cent. between
the male and female population OF New Zealand,
which the colonial authorities endeaFor 10 count
erbalanee by Offering free passages to Great Brit
ain to all single young women OF good character
The San Francisco Gail publishes a list of the
wealthy men of that city. k%ilty-one mlnionalres,
with fortunes ranging from one million to ten
millions OF dollars ten worth three-quarteTs oil
a million, and s~ixty-one have halt a million and
upward.
The largest landholders in California are the
members Of the Great Central Southern Pacific
Railroad corporation. 1t is said that were the
Company land divided, it would give them some
thing like two million acres apiece and in addI-
ton to their Company land, most OF the indIVidu-
al members OWN Considerable tracts in their own
name.
The London Lancet. replying to attacks on
Queen Victoria, based on her absence from even
ing entertainments, and ON her brief residence IN
London, makes the statement that tie Queen is
not physically capable of bearing the effects Of
crowded or Oyerheated rooms, or OF prolongedres-
idence in London.
At Berlin, the scheme for a canal to unite the
Baltic and the North Sea is now under more Sc
riOus consideration than ever. "The cutting
says one of the papers, . across a plateau two or
three miles wide, and of which the highest eleva-
ton is not more than sixty eight feet, cannot
present any serious difficulty.
The proposed new constitution of Nebraska
takes two Or three steps in advance. 1t estab-
fishes compulsory education, a Ia PruSse; gives
power to towns to prohibit the liquor traffic, and
permits females TO vote. II the latter clause be
adopted there will be n s~qualling among the log
cabins that viii drown the war whoops OF the
saVages.
\ new and timely toy has been invented by an
ingenious mechanic Of New York city. 1t is n
miniature steambOat, the machinery OF which, on
being wound up, cXplodes by means OF a spring,
scattering portions. of the boat, and the little men,
women and children, by which it is occupied, in
every direction. The object of tins pleasing toy
Is 10 IallLlitlIZ6 cilIuIctL carry WILL VIC NOutLli-
gencies of steamboat travel.
Fashion writers say that an entirely new style
Of arranging the hair is to be adopted soon. The
old French twist in the back < is to he revived, but
rendered more graceful by a plait or cable of hair
surrounding it, dropping low on the nape OF the
neck. \ corOnet of hair is to take the place of
the Pompadour roll, and from beneath that coro-
net light curls ana ~irizettes arc to fall ON the lore
head. Four long eurls, two on each side, are to
fall on the neck and shoulders from beneath the
braid or cable. The temple hair is to be braided
high and smooth.
L. :. aa;I thot 90 - Gel tain OccasIUn IIenry Ward
Beecher preached q seTInan on the injustice OF
obliging men to work on Sunday. The next day,
while riding down to Fulton Ferry, he entered in
to conversation with a car driver, and asked if he
did not think some plan might be adopted to dis
pense with the need of running the cars all day
Sunday. The driver, in Ignorance of his inter-
rogating friend, made a frank reply "Yes, sir,
l think there might. But there is no hope of it
50 long as they keep that BeecheF theater open IN
Brooklyn. The cars have to run to
that.
A party of gentlemen in a liquor saloon, dis
putting over the question whether the American
system of treating or the European system of not
treating was preferable, couldn't settle the mat
ter by talking, and So they went TO work testing
1t by practice. First each man took a drink by
himself. Then each man invited a single friend
to drink. After that each single friend returned
the compliment. And finally each man in the
party-there were six OF them-asked all the rest
10 drink. When all that was accomplished, not
a soul in the room could tell where the discussion
originated, or what it was about.
In the House of Commons, when all other eff
forts to preserve order fail, the Speaker threatens
to name a member. Then profound stiffness per-
vadeS the chamber, and - the subsequent proceed
ingS : are atmosphered in awful solemnity. Such
is the effect on the British mind Of the Speakers
simple threat to name u member. What would
happen if the Speaker actually should name a
member the British mind has never yet developed
sufficient fortitude to consider. What is accom-
plished in the English Parliament by this fear
full threat is accomplished in the French Assembly
by { the President putting on his hat" This
process has 4 curiously soothing influence on the
GallIc temper. The President tried it on the
other day and a tempestuous tunlult was succeed
ed by a sudden calm. The Presidential bat as
sumption seems to have on a French mob the eff
feet that the reading OF the riot act does hot have
on other mobs.
The article I, Politics OF Women in the Au-
gust number OF Lfpp8tlcOtt, has this The best
bred men IN America are the officers of the regu-
lar army and navy. They have been taught to
look up, to reverence authority, and to be respect
tul. 1t never leaves them they become -the
most dignifed and most simple men in the COM
munity. Our Chief Magistrate is a very con-
spicuous example of this Bred a soldier, raised
by a most extraordinary series of events to our
republican throne, and having to contend with an
inyincible shyneSs, it is only fair to say that our
President has the best mapners in the world.
Never too cordial, always sufficiently so, never
forgetting his station, and yet never obtruding it,
1t would be difficult to find a man who has com
mitted fewer solecisIDs, or who has made more
people happy by bis unaffected and simple greet
ing than President Grant; and yet he is a man
who has probably never thought twice on the sub
Ject OF his life. His manners are the outeropping
or a training IN a school which has produced the
perfection of manners.
The reason given for taking the State Depart
ment agency in London from Barring Brothers is
that that house had incurred the dispIeasure of
our authorities at various times. For fifty years
past they have had constant use of the cash bal
anee, amounting to $50. 900, worth three to four
per cent. During the late war their conduct to-