The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1856-1888, 1872-03-09

Marshal McAlaho Is writing n book on the
surrender of the French army at Sedan.
The number Of persons employed in the textile
industry in the United Kingdom is $4,000.
At Treves 4 priest has been sentenced to SIX
months imprisonment for comparing the Emperor
lillian to Beelzebuh.
The number of persons who received the Order
Of the Iron Cross during the last war IL otscially
stated at about 10 900.
The practice. unusual m London, of selling
meat by auction, las been adopted at the City Of
London meat market.
MovING BAcKwARD.-The Territorial Legis!a-
ture Of Wyoming. now in session, have passed L
bill by a vote Of 10 To 3 in one branch and by a
majority of two in the other DISTINGUISHING the
ladies.
The Chicago Tribune suggests az a neat and
appropriate monument OF the conhagratiOn. a
pyramid Of the worthless fire and burglar proof
safes scattered through the burnt district Of that
city.
New York women are said to surpass in folly
ami extravaganza the women Of every other city
in the world. They are now supplying themselves
with handkerchieis which cost their fathers and
husbands from $500 to 5000 a piece.
The John Bull hears on good authority that an
addition is expected 10 the family OF Argyle, and
that her Majesty will probably be blessed with
another grandchIld.
L A4aS OCNl - hAOb VIZ AAsAAS VI
- Tammany" from the title of any society,
names u general and ward committees, and from
the building now known as Tammany Hall. The
name to be substituted is = Columbian"
Garfield, from the Committee on Ways and
Means, reported the bill appropriating $4,000 to
defray the expenses Of the Japanese Embassy,
lately arrived in this country. Passed.
a bill is shortly to be introduced in the North
Carolina Legislature to make the use of the
terms :. liar, =. thief ; = scoundrel," &c, or
similar opprobrious epithets lndictable offenses.
The mud at the outlet Of the Mississippi river
advances seaward 1913 feet every year, and the
work of keeping the channels open constantly in
creases in difficulty.
Nearly half of the internal revenue of Great
Britain is derived from inland duties on malt and
spirituOus liquors and licenses for their sale. For
the year 1869 the amount OF revenue obtained
from these sources was nineteen millions sterling,
or ninety-fve millions of dollars.
The London Advertiser says Gladstone is a
s. gusher,'' and is about as fit to contend with
statesmen of the Bismarck type as the limpest
production in nature-say a jelly-hsh-to resist
the Prov of an advancing steamer cased IN steel.
The Emperor of Austria shows a very COM
mendable desire for the uniicatiOn Of his Empire,
but seems sadly troubled to know how to secure
it. Every concession is only followed by fresh
demands till the poor monarch hardly knows
what to do. Better resign in favor Of a President.
y new hlhu Vi lIH4 ny jury hdo DCCh hlO IN
Saxony for petty crimes, end has worked so well
that its extension is advocated. 1t is composed of
three lawyers and four laymen. a majority YER
dict must have the voice of at least one lawyer,
as it must have the voice of five Of tue seven.
The BIGGEST EXPLOSION ON REcoRD.-AstrOno-
mers tell us that the late explosion in the sun
hurled flying debris to the height of over two
hundred thousand miles and that the huge pro-
tuberance which rose some fifteen thousand miles
above the g chromosphere,' and subsequently
burst, was composed of hydrogen gas.
NJ. w. de Fonville reports the lighting of one
Of the public gas burners in the streets OF Paris
by a flash of lightning. Many of our readers are
doubtless acquainted with the parlor experiments
of igniting the gas by an electric spark from the
finger, but no natural instance of the kind has
been known previous to the one above recorded.
WORTH REMEMBERING.-The following is the
statute in the old Saxon code referring to leap
year s'Albeit, az often as leape yearre Occurre,
the woman holdeth prerogatiye over the MEME
in matters of courtshippe, love, and matrlmonle
SO that when the ladye prOposeth 1t shall not be
lawful for the meme to say her nae, but shall
entertain her proppOssall in all guide courtesie."
Mr.. Dakin, the retiring Lord Mayor of Lon
don, is made a baronet, and it is rumOred in well
informed circles that a similar honor Is to be con-
frmed upon the principal editor of the daily pa
per which has the largest circulation in the
world" Mr.. Dakin is to be baroneted because
he has done so much good during his year in
office the newspaper editor is to be " handled
because he has been successful in business
Mr.. John Charlton Bloxam gives, in the pro-
ceedings of the British Meteorological Society, an
interesting discussion of luna influence upon rain
fall. He finds that influence to depend, LIST, upon
the age of the moon I'd. upon the length OF time
she remains above the horizon on each day of the
lunation Sd, upon the length of time the sun and
moon are together above the horizon.
An autograph hunter lately succeeded in get
H. 800 r. D.-,uI- uHn Drinoa inSorihal
his name on the page graced already by the au-
thographs of Guizot, and Theirs. Nj. Guizot had
written, . In my long life | have learned two prin-
ciples: To forgive much and never forget" NJ.
Theirs had added, "A little forgetfulness does
not hurt the sincerity of the pardon" Prince
Bismarck improved the sentiment by writing,
- | have learned to forget much and to have much
forgiven me-"
The immigration into New York during 1871
amounted to 228 1862 persons, or 10, 792 more than
in 1870. OF these immigrants lib III were from
Great Britain, s. ,298 were Germans, including
2 1000 Hollanders, and 10 $50 were Scandinavian.
There were 81, 500 immigrants from Ireland, and
4 1886 from Wales. The Mormon immigrants
amounted TO 800, Of whom 6T3 were English,
332 Danish, and 264 Swedish. The vessels trans
porting these immigrants were GAO in number,
and including 20 barks with 3.1l6 passengers, 80
ships with l0,84S passengers, and 522 steamers
with pa 1893 passengers.
The Fastest YET.-The London Times, of No
vember 9th, declares that the fastest passage on
record from Liverpool to New York, has been ac-
complished by the Inman Colnpany's Royal mail
steamer City Of Brussels, Captain Kennedy, who
left the Mersey on the evening of Thursday, No
yember 9th, and arrived at New York on the
morning of November 18th, at about 8 O'Clock,
having made the run in eight days and three
hours.
At the recent annual meeting of the American
Association for the Care of Inebriates, a resolu-
ton was passed TO the effect that inebriety is a
physical disease which, in the majority of cases,
can only be combatted by medical treatment,
and that inebriate institutions are beneficial, in
asmuch as they afford the means of hospital
treatment and necessary restraint. 1t was also
resolved that it is the duty of Legislatures, as a
uaaSnra of Stata npOuOu,v IN proyilp means for