The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1856-1888, 1872-11-16
Foreign Items


Admiral Sernmes has been elected City AttOr-
ney Of Mobile.
A Chinese Lodge of Masons has been organized
at Oregon City
The Old Testament revisors have got as far as
the sixteenth chapter Of LevIticus.
The Duke OF Genoa, nephew of King Victor
Emanuel, will shortly start for a voyage around
the world, on board an Italian irigate.
A teIegraphic message of twenty words can now
be sent from London to Queensland, in Australia,
for fifty dollars, gold.
Toe Boston Post calls Henry Wilson the ''great
brogander" :" Never mind, he is shOer to be
elected, =" says a well-posted neighbor.
The Craeow Car says that the voyage of the
Grand Duke Alexis has thus far cost his father
the handsome sum of half million of dollars.
The Japanese utilize their condemned. Two
Yeddo policemen, sentenced to death for murder,
were lately set mp targets on the Yeddo rifle
range
RAKEs WRoScLY.-An old farmer said OF his
clergyman whose sermon lacked point: " All, yes,
he's u good man, but he will rake with the teeth
upwards
a member of the Young Mems Christian AS
sOciatiOn at Lyons, France, was recently fined
sixteen francs for distributing Protestant tracts
upon the bridge of the Palace of Justice
Clarence Kings brilliant Mountaineering an the
SIerTas has met with remarkable success. Five
editions have been already printed and hungry
people eargerly cry for more
The pastor Of a church in Columbus, Ohio, has
notified his communicates that no members OF
secret societies can come TO the altar of his church
The resuIs mas been large secession and new
church.
Too D1FFIcULT-A debating society discussed
the question, Is il wrong to cheat a lawyer?"
After full discussion and mature deliberaton, the
decision was: Z" Not wrong, but too dIihcult to
pay for the trouble.
Hrs WisH-A brute of a bachelor, on being
informed that - marriages made in Heaven,
said he wished that prohibitive duty had pre-
vented their export from the place OF their man
ufacture.
Reciue from an exchange: "Just before going
to bed, eat two pigs feet and cold apple pie
In less than an hour you will see a snake larger
than a hawser, deyouring little blue-haired chill
dren which have just escaped from monster
with sorreI eyes and red hot overcoat"
A witness in a suit in Chicago, in which the
pIaintif was a lady, when asked as to said lady 8
Character stated that it slightly matrimonial
Upop inquiry by the counsel to the meaning
of such description, the witness replied; - She 8
been married seven times
GAVE IT UP.-ss Now John, suppose there's n
load of hay on one side of a river, and Jackhss
on the other side, and no bridge, and the river s
too wide To swim, how can the Jaekass get to the
hay?'' IL give it up" Well, that's just
what the other Jackass did
Mrs. Laura Fair has occupied her leisure time
in i,il in the preparation of Number Ot lectures.
saws A san FranciscO paper, with which she pro-
noses 10 mount the platform this winter. lt - her
intention to make her debut shortly IN New \ ork
and from there making professional tour through
the South, to New Orleans
The "a funeral " of Pere Hyacinthe took place
according 10 the London Echo, on Sept. 5th- 1t Is
the custom Of Roman Catholic religious eommu'
mites to consider any member that deserts them
dead. and the ceremony Of burying them IS gone
through. This was done at the Convent OF the
Dominicans, to which NJ Hyacinthe Loyson be
longed.
We learn from Mr. Crocker's Literary WorlC
that the s'Reeollections of an Old Stager, II
HgrDer's. and 80 Desultory Sketches" and th'
=. "Reminiscences of Tyler's Administration" IL
the CaLarv were written by I. N Parmelee, o
New Haven, who once edited paper in Buffalo
New York. and was Private Secretary of Presi
dent Tyler.
Fdmond About has ready for the press sc Wis
aenbourg, the first of series of war novels o
which he has been for some time engaged: liner
will be no lack of audience in France ior tines
works II they come up to what the puollcexpeC
of this celebrated writer, as hut two things In
forest the French at present-pleasure and tai
about their war with les Prussiens
The fashion OF utilizing one portion OF tn
human body to repair another is extending
Young man in Waverly, n. Y, had his foe
mashed by a car, and a space of several inches
the upuer part sloughed off. Several pieces
Aesh were taken off the mans arm and pante
on the wound, some two weeks ago, and have
~ taken root, - and the foot Is fast recovering
SCARED 1gTo PRoPRIETY--A TItusvllle WI
,Iaced a toy snake In her husbands boot, an
then could hardly get breakfast because OF h'
snickering at his performances when he hrst Oil
covered n He first looked into the mirror, an
tbsn went and threw his demijohn OF rye whisk
IN the miII-race He drank thirteen cups
coEss AT breakfast, and for several days atterwaI
sstonished his children by going to bed at MI
O'Clock each night
GROWTH OF LoSDoS.-In twenty-three yea
more than a million of population has been adds
20 the city of London, without including u
snburban towns swallowed mp in the course
the eitv's EXPANSION upon all sides In the san
tTme go. .OO0 houses Of all kinds have been bull
and the beats of the police have been extend'
100 miles. Eighty thousand policemen are no
employed regularly standing army more enec
i've and better paid than any equal number sin
the days Of the PratOrians OF Rome; ana toe
are on extraordinary occasions, assisted oy u
Guards and household regiments OF the pueen'