The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1856-1888, 1871-09-30
Foreign Notes.

The Chicago Tribune asks and receives SzZ'ooo
for a column of advertisements one year.
A negro owns one of thesbest dry goods stores
in Richmond.
President Grant has abandoned the idea OF Visit
ing the Pacific coast this year. He will not come
even to California.
A vast society has been formed in France ior
the purpose of discouraging the purchase OF articles
manufactured in Germany.
The English Government is seriously consider
ing the project of employing its now ldle s0iulery
on regular daily work in addition to lis drlii, anu
would commence by making them build the COAST
Notifications.
Mrs. Colt. wife of the pistol-maker at Hartford,
having built a 5000. 900 church i'll memory OF her
husband. and in behalf OF her workmen. Is onildlns
IA 100000 school house on her armory GROUNDS Ior
the children of her employees.
A recent dispatch announces the death OF John
Slidell at London. at the age of rs. j. NJ. Mason,
his companion on board the Trent. when Commo-
dore Wilkes acted with such intrepidlty IN making
their arrest, died in Virginia about 3 months ago.
During the three months ending June 30th, the
number of immigrants arriving 10 the United states
was lOI, los. or these the largest number belong
ing to any one nationality. 30,Sl4, were Germans.
From Ireland there were 26. l49, and from Sweden
aud Norway, 5.727.
There is evidently a rivalry among the Western
cities. The Cincinnati Gazette calls attention to
the proximity of St. Louis to the line of hurri-
canes . HuGT6uD Ou liz SlItCuSO L Ohf a Ihob
St. Louis may well retort that Cincinnati is so far
out of the usual route of travel that even a hurri-
cane could not afford to go out of its way to visit
that city.
An attempt is to be made by an ambitious
young writer to revise and improve Bunyan's
~allegory, The Pilgrims Progress, so
that it shall be in nicer accord with the spirit OF
this advanced age. We have not seen the draft
of this proposed plan of revision, but it is said
it is something like this: The Pilgrim, in
stead of starting on foot with his bundle on his
back, buys a through ticket, has bis bundle
checked, and gets into a sleeping car in the light
ming express. The train stops at Vanity Fair
twenty minutes for dinner, and while he is at
that place he telegraphs on to tie Delectable
for rooms, but is prevented from reach
ing them that night on account of the train run
ming off the track and pitching the passengers in
to the Slough of Despond.
NEWSPAPER WoRK.-A recent writer p~ointedly
and truthfully remarks that journalism is the only
profession which is denied the privilege of privacy.
The Lawyer, Doctor and Preacher do their work
in private, and no weighty personal responsibility
to them on account of it. But the
is a mark for the public eye, and his
every moment is as open as the course of the sun.
The work of the press is continuous, as well as
public. There is no rest for the weary.
Space is no more annihilated by telegraph than
lime by journalism. The evening and morning
ire not merely the nrst DAY out all the seven.
Night is annihilated as to all it's quantities of re-
pose. Every minute of every hour of the twenty
our is occupied by some workers doing some
work that shows itself in the newspapers of the
lay and afternoon. Repetition is as impossible
IS rest. Facts are ever new. Comments must
,e as fresh as facts, and the edition is the remorse-
es giant that eats up all the seconds. The max
ng of a newspaper is perpetual motion in a thou
and fields. In such a work, demanding ceaseless
fort, permitting no pause. eXacting eternal and
yer varying exercises, it is impossible for wheat
o be unmixed with chaff, for accuracy not to be
impaired by mistake, for injustice not occasionally
D be done.-Boston Record.