The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1856-1888, 1872-04-27
Foreign Intelligence.

The State printing Of California during the las,
twenty years has cost 81 500 T6. or nearly
800 600 4 year. People are getting tired Of
that sort Of thing.
The race between the Cambridge and Oxford
boat crews, is announced To take place on the
Thames course, March %. The betting Is two to
one in favor OF Cambridge.
Mrs. Woodruff lectured in Boston recently,
and there were $500 PUritans whose conscienees
didn't prevent them from going 10 hear her free
love disquisition. They attoned for 1t, however,
by kissing her lecture.
Carl Schurz tells of an interview be had with
Count Bismarck which convinced him that he
knew more on the subject Of American politics
and politicians than any other European with
whom he has come in contact.
The number Of students in the College Of Metz
has diminished from 800 10 three persons since
the German occupation Of the city, and in the
College at Calmar, the number has been reduced
from 400 to 60, of whom Is are Germans.
\ whole page in the London Tunes is covered
with an advertisement of a The United Kingdom
Alliance TO procure the total and immediate sup
preston of the traffic in all intoxicating liquors. -
\ fund of EI0O,0 600 is wished, and about S73,-
00O has been already guaranteed.
The Detroit Tribune has just ordered one of
Hoes four-eylinder presses. ThITty-three years
ago, its publishers were not kept very busy IN
duSNeTlhS ulI uSul1iIuo ny hLll CONlu DC pEluleu
on a hand press.
Russia, Austria and Turkey are about inter-
fering in the affairs of the Danubian principali-
ties. As one of the Hohenzollerns holds the reins
Of authority in Roumania, Prussia will most
likely have a voice in this matter, if it is pushed.
Anybody to beat Grant," is now the grand
hailing sign of departed Democracy. That was
the lnuttered prayer of the rebels during the war.
1t began at DonelsOn, and its last echoes died
away on the field of Appomattox.
A projected Peruvian railway will cross the
Andes at an elevation Of IA 900 feet above the
level of the sea, or 1000 feet higher than the
highest point crossed by the Central Pacific Rail-
road, and within 900 feet of perpetual snow.
IL is related of the Princes illness that when
death seemed imminent, n butcher stood in an adj
joining room with q lamb, ready Mt a moment
notice to fay it, that the warm and reekIng skin
might swathe the Princes extremities, should
they show signs of death GOODNESS.
An interesting revival is in progress in TIamil-
ton, New York, the University. church and semi
nary sharing in the results. Over forty students
have been converted, leaving only five In the Uni
yersity who have not made a profession Of faith.
NJ. P%lantamour, a Geneva Astronomer. an
nounces that a new comet of unprecedented big
ness - impinges " upon this earth next August,
unless something should occur to switch it off the
track upon which it is progressing with frightful
1lNOAA NC"AA ~" " NCAhN btA 0NOA hAC
probably . all gas"
The London Times favors a separation Of Cuba
from Spain. Unless such a separation is effected
one of the most fertile islands If the world will
soon be reduced to comparative desert. Besides,
the butchery of the boy students at Havana,
shows that the people now in authority are unfit
to be entrusted with power. They are sayages,
not Christians.
1t is said that Juarez, President of Mexico, has
enlisted fifteen hundred fighting men in Texas and
Arkansas, and that they are now in active service.
They are armed with Winchester rifles and
Differed by men formerly in the Confederate army.
Such n force should make short work of the Mex
lean rebels. Certain is that no body of Mexicans
twice or thrice their number can withstand them.
The people Of Florida know an enemy when
they see him-at any rate when they feel hiw-
and they recently gave Old Probabilities . of
the signal service abundant proof of the fact. An
Indignation meeting was recently held al Lake
Village, Florida, at which a resolution was adopt
ed, with scarcely Il dissenting voice, to drive away
the signal service observer at that place IS because
it was believed that his instruments caused the
unexampled bad weather and large amount of rain
which has fallen lately