The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1856-1888, 1872-12-07

Agitation has begun for the abolition OF fog
ging at Newgate PRISON, London, n penalty for
crime
There are four indictments against Billy Tweed
the boss thief Of the universe; but be Is just
uucuneerned and deIiciOusly unctuOus as ever.
An appeal for Prince Napoleon has been made
90 the French assembly by NJ. Routher. NapO-
leon proposes to prosecute the minister Of the in
terror for expelling him from France without the
authority Of law.
The force OF example Is illustrated in the state
meut Of the Abbes Chichester and Renaud that
more than 300 priests, including themselves, are
about to follow where Pere Hyacinthe has led,
and - demand from marriage felicity which is
permitted in the Bible
How TO CURE DYsPEPsA.-IIaye a right good
talk, with a funny anecdOte two, and a half
dozen hearty laughs, with each meal. This eat
ing alone nc n restaurant. and shOvelIng IN the
provender in solemn silence, viii give dyspepsia
10 ostrich.
A man recently broke of a marriage because
the lady did not possess good conversational pow
ers. wicked editor, commenting on the fact,
says: - He should have married her, and then
refused her new bonnet, to have developed her
power of talk
Music IN FANmIEs.-ShOw US the family where
good music il cultivated, where the parents and
cullureu ure uCGusLOtncu OILcn 10 minglc I1elr
voices together in song, and will show you one,
IN almost every instance, where peace, harmony
and love prevail, and where the great vices have
no ablding-place.
A barber of Titusville, while cutting the hair
OF a rural customer, ran his shecrs against some
hard substance, which proved to be milestone.
The Old farmer said he 90 had missed that whet-
stone ever since haying time last July, and had
looked all over a ten-acre lot for it, but now re-
membered sticking it up over his ear.'
The Empress Eugeuie is reported to have as
sured the pope that the greatest grief caused her
by her altered circumstances arises from the re-
Election that his holiness downfall is the newt
able consequence thereof. COnceited as is the
declaration, there is deal of truth in it, which
none appreciate 80 fully as does his holiness.
FRENCH LANGUAGE Prosecuted IN ALsAcE.-Not
n word of French, it seems, Is allowed to appear
on the walls Of StnsbOurg. Not only are the
names Of the streets written up in German, but
the old familiar French names for them have dis
appeared. Even police notices of the simplest
kind, fOrbidding whatever may hurt the health or
decency OF the town, and which it is highly de-
sirable that everybody should understand, may
not be written IN French-the prohibition nat
urally suggesting remarks more piquant than
pleasant, to the effect that the warnings to be
cleanly and decent only given IN German, be-
cause it is only the Germans who require them.
The Pail Mall Gazette has not much faith in
the power of the new way of setting international
difficulties, and maintains that after all, arbtra-
ton il bat disguised diplomacy. 1t holds that
not at Geneva but ut Washington all was granted
by the EnglIsh diplomats which America desired
"A formal apology and admission that Eng
land has 50 tar violated It's international Oblga-
tiOus To be liable to n claim for compensation.
The quarrel was therefore entirely settled at
Washington, for 50 far regaris the amount of
Compensation demanded it had al along been de-
eIared to be indifferent to the American mind,
which wanted only what is known in slangy cir
cles as - satisfaction"
The Peoria Rerieu1 thus corrects the story in
the Missouri Democrat about 1000 sheep who
leaped through the window OF u covered bridge
near Peoria: This story Is very nearly correct.
There were, however, only $50 sheepin the drove,
instead OF 900. The bellwes ther did not see
the open window. Ii did not jump out of it. The
flock did not follow it. There Is window in
the bridge The drover did not drive his sheep
across the bridge; he crossed at the ferry, three
miles higher up stream IL the bridge was 500
feet above high-water mark, the present piers
would have to be heightened 400 feet in order to
reach the bridge. There isn't covered bridge
within l 700 miles Of Peoria. With these typo
graphical inaceurac.es the romance is correct"
IL is said that Earl Russell is writing PAM
phIet, with the purpOse OF refuting the Chief
.Justice-it will be the dwarf assailing the giant
Cockburn smites Russell under the fifth rib all
but naming him IN this sentence: - The vessel
having thus escaped, through want of due dill
gence IN that department of the government to
which it specially appertained to seize her, the
entire British Government, and through them the
British people, become, as it appears to me, by
necessary consequence, involved in a common
liability" The head of that department, in
1862, when the Alabama allowed to escape
was Earl Russell. ard no quantity of pamphlet
eering can rail that fact off the record.
The COMING CANERA.-Isn't this the greatest
OF inventions, and won't it be hailed with feryor
of delight? It comprises practical Photographic
apparatus that can be carried in a case like an
opera-glass, which it closely resembles. "One
tube we are told, serves to show the image of
the object n ground plate glass, and the other
tube contains the sensitive plate prepared with
dry eollodiOn. The plate is shifted from one tube
to the other, without being exposed to the light
Is it necessary to dilste upon the value Of this in
yentiOn? For the credit Of those who pretend to
know good thing when they see it, we trust not.
The American youth will sit in an orchestra chair.
with the photograph opera-glass in his clutch,
and permanently mirror bis favorite danseuse with
her best leg in the air. The American belle will |
pop focus on her duck or parson, and preserve
the expression Of bis most joyous hallelujah in
carte de visite. Even the changeful face Of po-