The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1856-1888, 1872-05-04
PARAGRAMS.

The Tichborne claimant has been unable to
procure bail, and 50 remains In confinement
A wel-known female physician of Philadelphia
makes on average about $4,000 per annnm
The New Testament revisers have got to the
second chapter in Luke, and hope to finish their
work in six years ...
The Eupbrates Valley Railroad, soon to be be-
gun, will bring Bombay within a weeks ride
from London. Verify, the world progresses
Two Chicago girls, aged sixteen, recently ac-
co1nplished highway robbery, and it a very
neat performance indeed. And yet women are
not permitted the use OF the ballot.
The British mercantile marine consists of 81 =
600 vessels, representing 5000 900 tons. of
these 4. .OO0, 900 tons steamers and altogether
tho English have more ships than all other ma
EiOns combined . s
Chas. Francis Adams, who recently returned to
the United States from the Geneva Conference,
says he attributes the Alabama excitement in
England entirely to the upper classes, who set
fbe idea 10 motion.
The protector Of a new paper at Atlanta, Ga, 4,
having declared that he will - condemn the
wrong and applaud the right" the Era says the
task will keep him about M busy as a school boy
with a hornet in his trousers.
The Catholic Directory for 1872 shows that in
the ranks of the Peerage of Great Britain the
Roman Catholics can reckon one Duke, (Nor-
folk), one Marquis {Bute), eight Earls, four Wis
counts, twenty BaTOns, the list ending with Lord
O'Hagan, the Lord Chancellor Of Ireland.
The large clock at the English Parliament
House is the largest in the world The four dials
are % feet in diameter, and every half minute
the point Of the mnute-hand moves nearly seven
inches The pendulum is fifteen feet long, and
tine striking hammer weighs 400 pounds.
The submarine telegraph cables in China are
suffering from the attacks of some minute crusta-
cean 30 small as to be scarcely pereeptble to the
naked eye. Various breaks have been traced to
the agency of these animals, who mbed them
selves in the gutta percha.
The German Government has notified France
that the Emperor William will accept antici-
pa5orJ payment of 40 900 900 francs of the war
Indemnity, GLOWING r discount of FIVE per cent
off for cash. The French will pay the amount
immediately, and thus save twenty million francs
The total annual circulation of newspapers
printed in the State of New York Is 492, nc, ,808
Pennsylvania is credited with 23S, $50 .532: Mas
saehusetts with 10Y ,69l ,952. Illinois with 1922,
686, ,204. Ohio with 90, ,592, ,448, and California
with As ,S69 ,408.
visitor TO the Supreme Court of the United
States speaks of it as supposed to be the most
dfgniied tribunal, notwithstanding he has seen
one Of the Judges eat an apple with great gusto
while seated on the bench and another partake
one Of his ten fingers with great satisfaction
In Scranton, Pa, it has been discovered that
a member of the Order of the knights of Pythias,
In that city, is woman in disguise. The dis
covery was made while the lady was being initia-
ted into the mysteries of the third degree. Ii has
been decided that the only remedy for the mistake
is for one of the brethren to marry her.
Decidedly the cIeverest matron in all Europe
Is the wife of the present King of Denmark.
I,aF fha Hna tfhp ha6 n
aged TO obtain for her children. One daughter
is the future Empress of Russia, the other the
futur. Queen of England one of her sons is the
King Of the Greeks and now the son-in-lsw of
Car.
The deliberate manner in which Chicago IL
being rebuilt is thus illustrated IN an exchange
Let me see, ," said q Chicago bOss-masOn reflect
iveIy to a burnt-out merchant, '' have got to put
up a block for Brown. this morning, and dwell
ing house this afternoon, for Smith. Yes, L
guess we can jerk up your store this noon by
taking only half an hour noonin.'
Kansas seems determined to reduce to practice
what has for many years been a theory supported
by many earnest men, that no community has a
right % take the life of citizen as a punish
ment for crime. The law abolisbing the death
penalty has passed both houses of the Legislature
and henceforth in that State imprisonment for
life is to be the extreme penalty.
The work of reducing the national debt goes
on If there is one thing more than another that
should entitle the present administration to the
confidence of the people it is the regularly recur-
ring monthly report of the decrease of the public
debt. During the month of February the debt
was decreased Sl2,OO0,0O0. making total de
crease since Grants term began of $299 ,22S $40.
The origin of the title =. The Thunderer,'' by
which the London Times Is known, from a
writer beginning leading article with the
phrase, q We thundered forth the other day,
etc Some Of the Times contemporaries, in re-
fgrring To this expression called the Times ' The
Thunderer,'' - and though nearly fifty years have
elapsed, the title still elings to it.
The Oeeideut of San Francisco says: Rev
It. Dwight Hunt first pastor of the First Congre
eational Church in this city, has received cal
To the PRESBYTERIAN Church In Nunds, New York
The Rev. Mr.. Hunt was IN lS4S stationed al
Iahaina, Maui, leaving during that year for San
Francisco The writer of these lines heard hin
I,reacb In April, 1913, in the schOol-house the
Plaza
A Hartford Good Templar, in selling Building
lot in country village, had this clause inserted
in the deed a. This deed is given upon the con
dition that no spirituOus or intoxicating liquors
ale beer OF cider shall be sold on these prem
ises by the grantee his heirs, assigns, successors
agents lessees, an0 IN case this condition shall
not be complied with. the purchase money shall b
forfeited and all buildings erected thereon.
The case of Edward S. Stokes will probably
come fairly up for trial some time IL 1900. The
nroceedings thus far are worse than farce bu
thew have resulted in 500 pages Of exceptions by
the counsel for the prisoner. 1t may be safely
said that disposal of them will take time-f
great deal of time; and everybody knows tha
their only object is pOstpOnement OF the trial o
the murderer
The English Law Courts have rendered new
reading of Woman's Rights and Womans Du
ties In divorce case, Milne vs.. Milne, decre'
AGAINST the wife was granted, and for tie frs
time. we believe, the divorced wife was ordered Z
nav the injured husband yearly the sum Of t5O'
Tor the education and support of the children o
the marriage. This, says contemporary, show
that while women are continually claiming
s.rights +" which they aver are wrongfully with
held from them, there also responsibility
e. which the dissolution Of the marriage tlt