The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1856-1888, 1872-10-05

Grain IA California IL likely t. suffer greatly.
for the reason that the facilities for it, tTanspOr-
tati0u src inadequate. Ia Is reported that farmers
viii be unable - get the bulk OF their grain I'd
their hands before the rainy season scts la.
Josh Billing says Love is an honorable de
ease enough 10 have. because IL - natural. bat
any fellow who has lain sick with a. Tor seven long
wears, after hr gets over At. feels something like
the fellow w0o has fell down Oh toe ,cc when 1t is
very wet he don't feel ike talking about before
folks.
Timber culture is not Q bad business il a mnn
can afford t. wait. Half Il century ago, a worn
out field in Western Connecticut was planted with
Young trees. and when cleared last year produced
fifty cords per acre, besides furnishing fencing
timber Tor the whole farm and ten cords OF wood
annually for the past twenty years.
The weazel haz an eye like a hawk, and a tooth
like n pickerel. They kan see on all three sides
of 2 right angle board fence at once, and kan
bite through a side OF sole leather. They alwus
sleep with one eye open. and the other on the
wink, and are quicker than the spirits of turpen-
tine and a lighted match Billings
England has invented = new intoxicant, con
sisting of a mixture of naptha and ether, the
effects Of which its users claim TO be highly
agreeable. No check can be placed upon its con-
sumption, except by special act OF Parliament,
because it does not come under the head of excis-
able spirits, and its growing use Is viewed with
considerable alarm.
The n. Y. Herald says The final downfall of
the prize ring can have no better fastener than
the actio" of the doughty pugilists, Mace and
O'Baldwin. who, after having pitched = ring
in West Virginia, held an exciting contest for
over an hour in gutter rhetoric over the question
of a referee. This ended in - draw" TO the
disgust of the assembled thousands, who hoped
for a drawing of a. claret " instead.
There was never anything half so ludicrous as
the last fzzle of Mace and O'Baldwin. Fancy
- 80 - 81 - E-Ie l...- An.
all night in the woods, quarreling as to the ref
cree, and then, there being no officers of the law
kind enough 20 arrest them. packing up their
traps and fastening home! ls there not IA law
providing for the immediate burial of such people?
The Geneva Tribunal is expected to close it's
session in a few days, when it's proceedings will
be given to the press. The era which the succesS
full arbitration inaugurates IN international policy
is 10 be c-ommemorated in a picture, il is said
from the brush IF NJ. Armand Damarerger, n
celebrated French artist, who has already arrived
in Geneva.
There is an anti-tobacco league in France, the
members of which call themselves patriots. The
league has determined TO exterminate the weed
- because it has contributed to the degeneracy of
Frenchmen and their consequent failure IN the
late war with Germany" Certainly the Ger
mans are great smokers but something of their
success was due to the needle-gun. let not the
weed have all the glory.
The Massachusetts Grand Lodge of Odd Eel
lows held it's annual session in Boston, August 9.
From the report of the Grand Secretary it appenrs
that the membership in the State is IS 200.
During the past six months / 600 members have
been admitted, GO have died. the receipts for the
term were 500 .469. % and the amounts paid for
benefits Sll 1870, -.
RAMIE FIBRE OF lS72.-We have seen n speci-
men of ramie fibre fresh from the stalk cleaned
from the woody portion by a machine made nj the
Minars' Foundry Mr. Insapb Graham nf Hau-
wards. Alameda, Co., has over four acres Of ex-
cellent plants two years old last March, that have
attained a hight OF six feet this year. and yet he
is of opinion that a warmer climate than his To-
cality would grow it still better.
At present we seem TO lack experience in re-
gard TO the precise time at which 1t should be
gathered for the best yield and quality of fibre,
but when it assumes q chocolate color IL il sup
posed TO be about right. Within u few days a
much larger quantity will be brought to the
Miners Foundry for further experiment. The
fibre is now valued at from 5000 10 $500 per ton
in the English Rural Press, :. +.
\ SECOND EXPLORING EXPEDITION, the Heraid
informs us, rs already on it's way up the Nile,
under the command of a Herdi8 correspondent. to
Join the party of Sir Samuel Baker, who, with a
strong force. is pushing into the interior III the
service OF science and the viceroy of Egypt. The
khedive has volunteered to pay half the expenses
of this second expedition, which was last heard
from at GondokoTa, on the " White Nile"
The Prussians are about 10 establish IA new
feature in that country which will doubtless be
initiated elsewhere. a stock company, with un.
limited capital, has already been organizei for the
establishment of Il daily paper, which SHALL sur.
pass any Journal now published. in size and
facilities for obtaining news. The paper is to be
conducted on the American plan and no expense
spared to get daily news from every part of the
globe. The editorial department is to be ably
managed by the very first writers of the German
press.
1t is the generally received opinion that the
Pacific railroad is doing an immense passenger
traffic. The fact of the case is, however, that
the travel is much less now than when the road
was first opened. Between May, 1870, and
April, 1871. inclusive, only 80 500 passengers
were carried to San Francisco by the Pacific rail
road, and "a ,349 thence to the Atlantic States.
The following year has shown n considerable
decrease even from that, only %, 1924 passengers
having gone to San Francisco by that route. and
20, 707 on the return to the East. There is a
large and constantly increasing freight traffic,
which alone renders the road n not unprOfta
BILE one.
By a French judicial enactment dueling is made
n criminal offense in France. Two gentlemen,
who fought a duel at Vincennes lately, NJ. NJ.
Westyne, chief editor of the EcLair, and Rane,
member of the Municipal Council Of Paris and
editor of the RepubHque FrdncoiSe. together with
five seconds, were tried for violation Of the law.
The principals in the affair were sentenced to
fifteen days in prison, and the seconds to six days
each. According to this verdict, it appears that
in Paris the two parties to a duel are punished
equally without regard to provocation or the in
Fiction Of wounds.
No MORE CAPE HoRN.-News comes from Val
paraisO that Cape Horn is to be practically
doubled no more. The difficulties Of sailing
round the Cape and the dangers of passing through
the Straits of Magellan are TO be done away with
by the establishment Of a service of steam-tugs
in the Straits, for towing sailing vessels through
the narrow channel, thereby ensuring safety and
shortening the passage to the Pacific by at least a
months time. The Straits of Magellan will, in
view of this enterprise, be carefully surveyed