The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1856-1888, 1872-03-02

The Cuban insurrection has outliycd the \
and exhausted the patience Of the outside w1
The general public has no love for the prime,
on which Spain has managed her colonies, bu
has still less for the manner In which the CD
insurgents are conducting their Guerrilla hghd
numbering and deyastation-for open wariar|
their part was abandoned more than a year I
The attempt to cstablish tie Independence OF
island was nc least excusable in the hcginrs
but now that there is no reason TO expect sued
and hat the rebels have lpst tse Sympathid
all the orderly people IN the Island, even Of I
who hate Spain-it is time Tor Nalmnnodl
issue his notification that after the l5th OF II
AIRY no pard0ns will be- granted. Thoso takq
battle will be shot aud those surrcndering vol
taIily imprisoned Lr life. Such n%otihcnq
have n cruel sound, but they are better 4
endless guerrilla warfare.
Tie Hartford CouTanf hardly Knows whc|
Columbus did "A good thing or not In discovel
America, and moraliEcs thus -" The Ind
never thanked him Cor one party. Tbc ART
had small ground 70 be grateful for the ma
he opened for them. Here are two contin|
that had no use for him. lie led Spain int
dance Of great expectation. which ended IN
gorgeous ruin. He introduced tobacco
Europe. and laid the foundation for more "a
and nervous diseases than the Romans had
thousand years. lie introduced the potato
Ireland, Indirectly, and that caused such a r,
in crease of population that the great famine
the result, and an enormous emigration 90 \
York-hence Tweed and Hall and the c%onstituS
of the Ring. Columbus is really responsible
New York.
japan promises to rapidly emerge from
exclusiveness. The Mikado is cordially cxcha
ing visits with American officers, and the gov
ment conteInplates seuding n number OF VI
women to America for the purpose Of bal
them educated. An innovation not very pleal
10 the priests Of Buddha is also IN process
making. They have been informed that, ins
of giving themselves up 20 spiritual contcm.
ton, they must either enter the army or NJ
some of the mechanical trades, and make III
selves practically useful. All this looks as tho
Japan were preparing to be a live nation arr
live nations.
A writer in the British Journal Of Phoiogrs
predicts that, owing To the projection OF ml
photography brought about by the necessitis
the Partisan siege, we will soon have our q
paper handed to as the size Of a postage stu
and carry our lavof1te poets in our yesl-butt
We will see = . n new edition Of Macauly conf
in three shirt stands" or - the tiny editi0l
Dickens" complete in two slceve-buttons. Ev'
one will then carry n microscope as we now z
penknife.
Col. II. ID. Cook, Of Normal, Illinois,
patented an iron shingle roof. The shingles
about six by thirteen inches. lap each other Y
TO insure n waterproof roof. and are fastened
headless nails. The patent is said to be lese
p%ensive than slate.
Senator Sumner is understood 10 be prepa'
a speech upon the relative merits Of the Bri
and American cases presented TO the GeT
board Of arbitration.
Bolts, the murderer Of Pet Halstead,
hanged on the Goth of January, the New Jel
Court Of Pardons refusing 10 take any actio.
the case.
An Italian nun died Of grief at being 4
PEELED to yacate a cell she had occupied Tor
years.