The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1856-1888, 1872-07-27
Foreign Intelligence.


A barkeeper q at Lynebburg, Va, advertises that
gentlemen wishing drinks must bring orders from
their wives.
Stokes il now designated az the man who was
present when Col. Fisk fell down stairs and killed
himself
And now they put 1t, in London, that DIR. Liv-
ingstone " found the Herald expedition, and in
good season for the Herald folks too.
The emperor Of all the Russias has conferred
upon little Phil Sheridan, that great bareback
rider VI the Shenandoah, the order OF the White
Eagle.
Styles himself the Oldest Mason living of whom
|, any tra-rs are known, having been initiated in
:l7S7.
The REsULT.-A Houston (Texas) darkey
poured kerosene into his ear to drive out q bug
that had obtained lodgment there. And in death
they are not divided.
USmAPPY.-A man in Washington only belongs
60 400 secret societies. He is unhappy because
refused admittance to the =. Seven Serious Jack
asscs, - the number being complete without him.
The University OF Oxford, England, will ceie-
brate its thousandth anniversary this year. Pop
ular tradition assigns King Alfred the Great as
its founder about the middle Of the ninth cen
tury.
Gen. Howard advises the commander of the
United States forces in Arizona to take active
measures for the suppression Of tie Apaches, de-
signaling them a. robbers and murderers who will
not be eOneIIated.
1t is 80 pleasant to know that Agassiz has found
n few species Of gasterOpOds, fourteen kinds Of
shinOderus, including an euryale, fifty specimens
Of Ophiurans, ard to crown the whole, a large
heliaster.
New York is making unusual preparations in
anticipation OE the approach of cholera, this sea-
SON Three ships have already been provided for
the use Of patients, capable Of accommodating
nearly 1000 persons
Irs Enthusiastically asked a Paris editor
Where do you get your intelligenee?' From
the pnpers." Where do the 9apers get is?"
From other papers, But who is the first
author Of it, 80 Nobody"
By the closest estimate, that at the present
may be made, about 1000 acres Of cotton will be
raised in California this season. The crop Of tho
present year will leave no further doubt in regard
to the adapHbiIity of the soil Of the valleys Of the
State that may be preferred To raise this desirable
and profitable staple crop.
DEFENsEs OF SrRAsBoURG.-Germany is survey
ing a new system Of defenses for Strasbourg, by
which the city - expected to be made impregna-
BILE. There is To be a girdle of eighteen forts,
placed one mile in advance Of the walls OF the
town, and in such short distance Of each other
that no army can pass between any two OF them
without being torn 70 pieces by their guns. These
extensive works have been begun already, and
will be finished by April, 1875. They are to cost
40, GOO, 900 thalers, or something near 1900, 900
American dollars
AGRIcULrURAL NoTEs.-Mr. Greeley considers
the present month the best time for grating
baked-bean trees and pruning celery vines The
pork crop should be trausplanted from the hot
beds a. early as the 2Oth, or the ears will not I'll
out well and the curculIo will devour the fruit as
fast as it falls from the limbs. Lettuce should be
planted about four seeds in a bill, on land plowed
at least SIX feet deep with n sub-sOil plow, and
poles should be set for the vines 10 run upon. The
heads should not be shaken from the branches,
but picked By hand. Suckers should be pincbed
of beet bushes and the dried-apple crop sown in
drills with sauerkraut planted between the rows
The education bill which has just passed the
Nc til German Parliament provides that every
Z wuship Of ons hundred inhabitants shall have
school, to be provided for By the government,
with whom shall rest the appointment of teachers
and the providing of apparatus and suitable
premises. The selection OF teachers shall De
governed by education and collegiate training,
and persons Of al denominations shall be eligible,
nrovideS thew take oath not to inculcate their
particular dogmas. The text books shall be best
known on each particular subject, and the high
est development IN each Of the sciences shall De
aimed at. The daily exercises are to be opened
by the recitation Of the Lords prayer. No
clergyman Of any denomination will be permit
ted 10 imparr in school instruction Of q religious
nature and any tutor so doing will be summa-
rily dismissed.
L. has been stated that the reason why the
British Cabinet iavors the postponement OF arbi-
tration is in order to gain time to clear doubts
concerning the obligations imposed BY the Sup
Elemental Article and, also, TO take this existing
issue out Of the Presidential canvass, thus seem
ingiy favOFing the rejection OF Grant But the
President could not be caught in this way. lie
cares nothing for himself, and will not let England
saw that be TOO was in favor OF pOstpOning arbI-
trsrion for his own interest. Accordingly he
promptly notified England, through Minister
Scbenek, that bis country respectfully declines to
ioin in any application for adjournment. Grant
has done all he could to bring abouta settle
ment with England. and his country cannot
make him responsible if the Washington Treaty
fails. England alone must blame herself, on ac-
count Of her oscillation.