The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1856-1888, 1872-08-10
Foreign Items.

Thirty-eight women voted at a recent munich
pa! election at BJdmin, England.
Great preparations, we are told, are being
made In kJuIe To celebrate the twenty-sixth an
nlvcrsary Or the pOntIfeate of PiO Mono.
The English journals are amazed at the nomi-
nation Ot YIctJria Z. Wood .uH for the presi-
dency, regarding it as Il serious matter.
CoxUNDRUx.-Is Horace Greeley fulse to all
his Political Professions, are the democrats
turning tail u all theirs?
A Missouri Democratic paper expresses its un-
bounded contempt for tile Cincinnati ticket by
riways omittIng capitals IN alluding the candI-
ddtes; greeley and brown does look mean.
A new system Of casting type Is said to be
coming int, vogue in England, the type being
cast Ia -yllables, enabling an average cOmposltOr
o. set 5.JOO hour. The invention has
been patented.
One Daniel Lewis died of delirium tremens in
IruutDn, UhiJ, Last year, and bis wife sued a
whisky seller named fhImas Evans Tor 90, 900
damages Tne court gave her Tire lull amount
Twelve iron steamships are now in course Of
construction on the Delaware, at u Gust Of more
than SIX millions Of dollars.
The first negro lawyer in South Carolina has
Just been admitted To the bar.
The Imperial Library at Vienna and that OF
the Royal Library OF Berlin, each contains about
hall a million volumes.
The latest thing in the suicidal lire is to fill
your mouth WIKI guupJwder and tlen chew upon
percussion caps until the expiusiUn comes. The
kind Of ma, tries ths never spOils the adJa-
cent furniture with brains, for obvious reasons.
Tie Boston Times says: "A regular Iaborer
on TIE editorial columns Of n daily journal does
more ~ day THAN a country minister averages
IN week, aud business mau wOuldn & consider
parish work "A tea bite"
The late George Peabody, rhe London banker,
once sawed a cJrd OF wood in Concord. y. H.,
20 pay tor a nights lodging at the tavern. That
wa = practical lecture LD young men who fail TO
pay their board bill because they are out Of bur-
mess
The ex-Empsror and his cousin, Prince NapO-
Ielu have had "A violent quarrel at Chiselhurst.
The PrInce TeprOached the EaPerOr with his in
activity while the latter expressed his preference
fJr patient eXpectant pulley. the scene, it Is
said. was a very lively one. and wa followed by
"A complete rupture between PIon-PlOn and the
man Vt - great expectatiOns.'
The people who have been burnt out of house
and hume by the eruption of Vesuvius are told
by scientific gentlemen u console themselves with
the reflection that it it hadn't been Tor the vol
eanIc explosion coming as OppUrtdnely as II did
they mig It very PJssIbly have had an earthquake
winch would perhaps have broken nearly all their
chInaWure.
We learn from late Irish papers that the emf
grafton IrUn that country To America this year
will greatly exceed that Ut any preceding year
Whole districts Ol fertile country are becOruing
dep1puIaJed, and although wages have been raised
in sJne places 10 nearly equal the rates IN this
Country, that action seems 10 have no effect. The
country now contains only about hall the number
of inhabitants that it did twenty-five years ago.
Then the popIIItIOn numbered S,OOO, 900; now it
Is less than 4.UUO,UOO.
When the Prince of Wales was sick ii was re-
ported that his morals would surely mend with
his body. When ne got well he did not justify
the expectations of his friends. In Paris, cur
respondent tells Us, he rushed about as if only
anxious u find where were the must indecent
plays M wOnd + the ParisiaHs thou ght accounts
Of ais illness had been exaggerated, since he
able, after long journey by rail, to Hy to low
thelter, without resting. ~ see piece which
shocks tho morality of Paris