The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1856-1888, 1872-07-20
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and seven months.
The settlement Of Napoleon civil list shows
that France owes the ex-EmPeror three million
france. President Thiers has directed this sum 10
be paid.
Ten cents a bushel for oranges are thought ex-
tOrtion in Brazil.
\ PRoTEcTIoN.-An Indians lady keeps y di-
vOrce from her lord 10 her pocket, and whenever
he don't mind che takes out the document and
shakes ii at him.
One of the significant things Connected with
Senator Wilson's nomination 20 the Nice-Presi-
dency il the vast number of dispatches of con-
graduation he receives from workingmen-
COOP WoHAN.-During an illness of the editor
Of the Albuquerque RevieIo. his wife, whose name
is Leonora McGuiness, set the type, did the press
work, got out every issue of the paper IN goUd
shape, and bad a baby
Laura ID. Fair has been denied a change OF
venue by Judge Dwinelle, his Honor deemiDg the
affidavit upon which it was asked was insufficient.
The case will, therefore, be retired in the FIJI
teensh District Court, on the 9th June.
The Jackson, Miss, Clarion states that locusts
are infesting various quarters in that State, and
alleges that each one has the brand &" w" on
both wings, which, in connection with the long
drouth and carpet-bag pestilence, is interpreted
70 foreshadOw " Want
A new vessel is about TO be built on the Clyde.
TO run between Liverpool and New York, of
dimensions only second 10 the Great Eastern.
Her length is to he SIC feet over all. and she is
To be 80 feet beam, and % feet in depth. Ii Is
expected tina: the great steamship will make the
voyage from port to port in seven days.
Some idea of the value Of land in the crowded
business portions of the city of London can be
cleaned from the fact that a small plot in LOm-
bard street, containing an area Of / 500 square
feet-about twenty-five feet by sixty feet-was
recently sold for ECO 900. This averages over
$50 or about SI95 per square foot.
a Portland. Me-, paper says 1.-The benefits
of the stoppage OF the sale of rum can be seen
in this town. A farmer who came into town
every day, now comes in once n week and goes
out sober. For the last ten years he has never
exceeded three-fourths of an acre planted this
year he has three acres planted and four sowed
down to gam his fences are put up, and he
snapped off an old rack of bones of a horse and
has a good one"
4 new journalistic innovation is about to be
made in the shape of a daily London paper, to De
issued exactly at noon, a portion of its contents to
consist Of n = reproduction of the opinion Of all of
the morning papers on every subject, classified
under distinct and initiative headings, so that the
reader can turn immediately to the journal whose
opinion he wishes to learn, and 80 condensed that
the essence of the entire press may be obtained in
less time than is now occupied in reading one
paper" At least that is what the prospectus
promises.
The British House of Commons is considering q
bill making whipping a punishment for VILE
beating, insulting and assaulting women and
girls, and maltreating children. The whip is
universally pronounced a relic of barbarism but
If there is ever excuse for it's use it is to be found
IN such cases. There is Io punishment worse
than humiliation, and good might come from the
conspicuous disgrace of parties guilty of the
species Of meanness and crime mentioned. Ger
tainly, so far as they are concerned, the punish
uent would not be too severe.
In 1868. Horace Greeley, at a banquet in Mon
treal, made the following remarks MIR. Web
sier was not only a gentleman, but he had the
OF moral greatness and he had faults
us well. He failed only in one respect, and in
this respect | differ from him-he wanted to be
President and l don't. lCbeers and laughter.
But for that one misfortune he would have been
the greatest man America ever produced. We
have seen our greatest man, Mr.. Chase, making
the same blunder. 1 have seen men who have
had the disease early, and died of it ut a very old
age. daughter. General Lewis Cass died at
about eighty-two, and up to the hour of his
death he wanted to he President. No one ever
escapes who once catches the disease he lives
and dies in the delusion. Being a reader and OBJ
server at an early age, | saw how it poisoned and
paralyzed the very best of our public men, and l
have carefully avoided it.
AwKwARD STEALING IN SPAIN.-The cause of
the resignation of the Sagasta Ministry has been
made known in Madrid. Isappears that the Gov
eminent used several million piastres belonging
to the secret service fund to influence the late
for members of the COrtes, in order that
they might secure a majority. The piastres did
the work among the Spaniards, as readily as a
railroad lobby does it with Il California Board of
Supervisors or an average scallawag legislature.
has u majority in the Cortes. But
somebody who didn't get what he thought his
share of the ''swagi has blowed on his 'bloomin-
and the Ministry were forced TO get out
Of the way of public Indignation. They do these
things awkwardly in Spain. An American thief
as Sagasta was would have either braved
t out with lies or put on a bold front and iusti-
led the transaction on the ground that the secret
service fund was intended for that sort of use. As
he matter now stands it will be more difficult
han ever for Amadeus to get n Cabinet that will
hold the confidence OF the country and the Cortes,
md it is to be feared that his next appeal may be
rom piastres to bayonets.
CURE FOR SORE TaRoAT.--A correspondent of
IN Australian paper gives the following cure for
ore throat:
1t cannot be too generally known that all forms
# sore throat, whether simple, liberated, quinsy,
iiphtheria, scarlet fever, or otherwise, can be
ither totally cured or greatly alleviated by simply
wearing a soft old silk handkerchief twice GROUND
he neck, high up and next to the skin, especially
{ worn at night when the pain is frst felt. Like
the Syrian, people will take any trouble
tut the right one, and fly to gargles, blisters,
otions, pills, etc., and keep at them for a month
{ a time; but an old silk square-why it's too
bsurd, and SO they hug sheir sore throat, and
Tonder why it don't get batter. Not only does
be silk cure the sore throat, but it prevents a
of it. L was formerly a martyr to
uinsy and liberated sore throat, and used to have
whole month OF it regularly every Winter, and
] spite, too, of all the usual battery of pills,
etc; it ran its course till / tried the silk;
ne sore throat took the hint, and has left me
ever since as a bad customer. / invariably
lied it within an hour of any attempt it made
pom me; an old sore throat will take a day to
Mind, l do not pretend to say that the
TX will cure fever, or any other symptom or
implication that may accompany sore throat; 2
ut this 1 do say. that it will cure and remove all :
lin and difficulty of swallowing in the throat !
ithout the aid of any local remedy, or it will do /
in spite of them If you apply, them and it both j
without it, cure only comes by nature, not by /