The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1856-1888, 1872-10-19
Foreign Items

Kaiser Wilhelm is at the head of the Free
masOns of Germany.
The United American Order of Carpenters has
three thousand members
Oranges are one dollar a thousand at Zanzibar.
Is that what keeps Livingstone in that vicinity?
The great SUCCESS of the new French loan is
justly regarded as a proof of public confidence in
the stability of the Republic.
The new Chicago Directory. now nearly COM
pleted, contains $50 900 names, being 10000
more than last year.
The San Francisco lawyers charge a fee of
$500 in perjury cases, 5000 for msInslaughter,
and $500 for a plain case OF burglary
Addie Ballou married a couple at Terre Haute,
Indiana, recently, and in the nuptial lecture
said to them, . cradles are cheaper than divorces"
\ paper says. We have adopted the eight
hour system in this Office. We commence work
at eight O'Clock in the morning and close at eight
in the evening"
A California paper tells of a matrimonial curl
osity in InyO County. a man Of fifty has married
a girl of twelve. No wonder earthquakes occur,
where such things are done.
Some of the Iowa editors are astonished at the
extravaganza offs proposal to spend S75 on a sug-
gested editorial trip to Salt Lake! One offers to
trade his whole Office for a $T5 mule.
Stanley's hair grew gray in Africa from fever,
which Frustrated him twenty-three times. He
is twenty-eight years old, five feet seven inches,
broad shouldered and robust.
The number of Cashmere goats in California,
from one-quarter to full blOOds, is estimated at
40, 900. The fleece. according 10 grade, is worth
from % cents to $l-25 a pound.
Emerson says: Life is hardly respectable if
it has no generous task, no duties. or affections
that couErItufe n necessity fur pVIEfIDU EVPrv
mans task is his life-preserver.'
There are no . peaked p" looking children in
California, according to Charles Nordhoff. The
women begin to take on fat at an early age, and
lose their figure before they are twenty-five.
The republicans will have at least ten majority
on Joint ballot in the Oregon Legislature. This
secures n republican Senator, and does not con-
duce 10 the peace of mind of the Greeley faction.
At a revival not long since an old lady prayed
fervently a for the young lambs of the flock" \
.. lady in black, - not TO be out done by her sister,
responded, and blandly asked who was to pray
for : the old ewes
\ French speculator is said to be making
mucn money by manufacturing mummies from
the raw material of the Partisan dissecting-rooms
and exporting them to Egypt TO be sold TO col
lectors of antiquity.
All European accounts agree that the grain
crop Of Europe, especially in Russia and Hun
gary, will be very deficient this year, and that all
America can spare will find a ready market on
the other side of the Atlantic.
Here's a cordial invitation to Greeley to visit
the south-written a few days ago:
~Come. Mr.. Greeley, come TO the south,
The lana you have lied and relied on;
You can lover your chin and open your mouth
When your neck strains the rope you are tied on
The New York Post, in r~everting to the cata-
lOgue Of crime in that city, says Sunday was
celebrated in a strict metropolitan fashion. Three
men shot, one man Drained with n paving stone,
FIVE men stabbed, two men knocked over with a
slung-shot, and one man missing"
japan is 70 have a bran new religion, furnished
by order of the Mikado. There are between
forty and fifty sects in japan now, and these are
an amalgamation of Confucianism, Sintuism and
Buddhism, Overlaid with a few other important
varieties. The new cultus is 10 be simple and
calculated to please the most fastidious.
Moltke's history of the late war in Europe
shows that even in 1869 every preparation had
been made for war. The routes for the different
troops and their places of assemblage had all
been planned out, the force of the enemy had
been calculated, and the very orders calling out
the men had been drawn up and signed, only the
date being left out.
President Theirs recently, in the French As
sembly, spoke in the highest terms of the great
German leaders in the late war. He expressed
the opinion that the Emperor William of Prussia
Is an ADLER man. than was Frederick the Great
that Bismarck Is Il greater statesman than was
Cardinal Richelieu, and that Field Marshal Moltke
is the most eminent s~;rategist that ever lived.