The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1856-1888, 1872-06-22
Foreign Items.

contemplates organizing another Polar Expedition.
Colorado store-keeper solaces his customers
with FyNe KUT 2 bako.
JEFF Davis ought to vote for Horace Greeley if
he has q particle of gratitude about him, and
should be pardoned in time.
Henry Ward Beeeber is getting fat We don I
sec why he shouldn't; he gets a fat salary, has
plenty to eat, and thinks there is no perpetual
torment hereafter.
The AngIO-American Association Of London is
composed Of English and American residents OF
that city, whose purpose is TO promote amity and
good will between the two great countries Tom
Hughes, NJ. p, is President.
The London Spectator is strongly in favor of a
woman's university in England IL thinks that
on many of the most delicate questions Of modern
civilization need the fine judgment OF educated
women.
Thomas A. Scott, of the Pennsylvania Central
Railway. when asked If he would be candidate
for the Presidency, replied that the term was too
short but If it could be made 90 years, he would
take the lease at once.
Prince Pierre BOnaparte. the assassin of Victor
Noir, is little depressed by the fact of his wife
opening a millinery shop in London. that he
boldly declares ne looks with entire resignation
upon the cruel fate which throws him upon his
wife for support.
Dr. Daniel E. Dodge, Superintendent Of the
BinghantOn IN. Y.,) Inebriate Asylum, sailed
in the Russia, last month. for England. where
he goes, by invitation, to lay before Committee
OF the House Of Commons the results of the ex-
periments in this country for the cure ofinebriety
The country has no keener political seer than
Mr.. Garrison. He knows, as every person of
any foresight knows, that The people are for Grant.
and only want a chance to vote for him again ard
the Philadelphia COHUentiOH will give them that
with wonderful unanimity.
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Martin Luther lived before he became q reformer,
and which has been an orphan asylum in these
days, burned lately, together with his Bible,
which was kept in the cell occupied by him, and
we pres1me those famous ink-stains on the wall,
made when he threw his inkstand at the devil.
The Superior of the new Roman Catholic order
which has undertaken the education OF the col
ored people of the South, says he found in five
States that they relapsing into Fetichism
and VoOdooism with all it's revolving rites, and
that thousands of them without any creed
whatever. This is probably an extreme state
ment, however.
Il is reported from Madrid that the Pope has
written a letter 10 Senor Gorilla the subject Of
the relations between Spain and the Holy See, in
which he says IT Spain desires to be recOnciled to
Mother Church, the principle Of religious liberty
must be modified. Tolerance OF public worship
the Church will not object to. but the Catholic
HgiOn must be restored TO its former supremacy in
fhe realm, the superintendence of schools must be
RENTED to the priesthood and the civil marriage
and the register of births must be abolished.
The Chinese Government has decided to send
120 youths to the United States to be educated at
the expense Of the government. The first company
OF 80 will leave China during the coming summer,
and will be under the charge of Yung Wing,
graduate of MOnson Academy, and of the class of
1854 of Yale College. The second company of 80
will come next year, aud will be under the charge
OF Wong Shing, another MonsOn graduate. The
other two companies will follow at intervals of
year.
William Lloyd Garrison, in an article in the
IRdepeHdeHf, says:
President Grants strong point is that he 10
sustained by the mass OF the people, whose choice
those in Office cannot mistake and may most
heartily sanction without any impeachment of
their motives. That choice will be cOmmandingly
expressed in a delegated form at Philadelphia in
June, and SUCCESSFULLY ratified at the polls in
November, all factions and so called % Liberal y
devices to the contrary Notwithstanding, whether
made ut Cincinnati or elsewhere.
Paris isin very disturbed condition. Within
short time IS 900 Frenchman have emigrated
from it, showing that there great fears of
revolution. It was also feared that Napoleon
would abdieate the 10th of March, the day
his son came of age, proclaim him Emperor, and
make a descent on the Normandy coast. But this
date passed of quietly, though the Channel fleet
was greatly increased. number OF regiments
were also sent to the south of France as a pre-
cautiOnaI measure. Everybody seems to be wai:-
ing for old NJ. Theirs to leave the stage, which
will be the signal for general upsettng Of things.
New YoRK CHURcHEs.--The Missouri Repub-
Ecaa IN the course of a long article on the
churches Of New York city says: There are
no less than $40 different church structures with
in the limits of the great city of New York,
whose united capacity affords the opportunity of
religious instruction to almost 300 900 persons.
When We consider that the entire population of
that city i given by the census of 1870 as 942,
2O2 souls. and that Of this number perhaps one
half are children, IL will be that New York
ciry may safely challenge the careful scrutiny of
the Sabbath-keeping Puritans of New England,
and scarcely less punctual successors Of the
Quaker founder of Philadelphia
A German physician is said to have lately
stated the theory that the fearful disease Of small
matter in the blood, and that this is to be pre-
vented by the administration Of common salt. liz
is further added that be holds views follows
The habits of children in indulging over-freely
in sweetmeats is one great cause OF this undue
development of albumen, and tea and coffee, If
highly sugared, tend also 10 excite 1t in adults.
An organic acid. such as lemon juice, is the best
means of freeing the blood when clogged up with
too much albumen, and by taking these simple
remedies in the way of precautiOn, he has for
upwards Of twelve years, frequented or taken up
his abode in the most pestilential smallpox hos
pitfalls Of Europe and South America with entire
impunity.
The daily fare of an English laborer is shown
in a communication published in the DAILY Tele-
graph, purporting to have been written by an
agrculturist. For fifteen years this honest fellow
has worked for the same master ten hours daily,
at the munifcent wages of eighteen pence a day.
On this he has had to support himself. wife and
three children. The wiie's labor adds to these
scanty resources two shillings, and one of the
children earns two pence more a week. For his
he va four rara Nat
rally poor Hodges fare this income has not
been precisely luxurious. For breakfast he has
generally piece Of bread and water cress, &" and,
If We have it, cold potato His dinner is