The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1856-1888, 1872-08-17
Foreign Items.

They say that the potato bug in Kansas is
causing all the converted farmers to baek-sIide.
Bets are freely offered in New York that Stokes
will be acquitted and ten to one that he will not
be found guilty OF murder in the first degree.
The PARIS Palrie learns that a. Monsieur Gree
ley, tie great American farmer, wss elected Pres
ident Of the United States at Cincinnati and
will be installed at Washington in November
Henry Ward Beecher's strong Endorsement of
President Grant troubles the Liberals exceedingly
They canaOT answer his argument, they pUt on
a deprecasing, Multiplying air, anC pretend to
wonder how one 80 gifted can be misled.
Nine steamships left w York IN ono day for
Europe, all having full complement Of passen-
gers, seeking recreation and recuperatiOn in a
foreign land. \ portion went for fashions sake,
but the larger part, probably, because they can
make a tour of Europe cheaper than to spend SO
much time in Sightseeing In their own country.
A San Francisco Journal wants the educational
authorities OF that city provide for general in
structpn in the Chinese and japanese languages,
saying that a certain knowledge OF the MJngOlan
languages is absolutely necessary in mercantile
community having such intimate relations with
the Oriental countries as that Of San Francisco.
The State Of Texas would contain the entire
population of the United States without making
it any more thickly settled than Massachusetts
and the same State would hold the entire pOpula-
NlOu OF tiit EFtuch Eluplre-OE GcpiOllC tnat
now is-and leave uninhabited n margin OF sixty
miles around the boundary OF the Suite.
The notorious French arms investigation has at
last met Its ridiculous end Both the majority
and the minority reports fully all officers
OF the Government from corruption, and from in
tended actual ininctiOn Of the neutrality laws.
The whole affair sprurg on the country for
''buncOmbe,' and goes up in mere smoke
The FIRE alarm bells are. by order of the New
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the morning and five in the afternoon, as a signal
for the beginning and ending of work by those
employed under the eight-hOur rule. This ar
Fangemeut ~ Gt the instance OF the Eight hour
League, who wish to avoid all possibility of
trouble where differences Of clocks exist between
themselves ana tb1sc they employ.
The servant girls Of Pittsburg have caught the
striking fever and demand that in the future their
hours shall be frUm to IL in the forenoon, and
from 10 8 in the afternoon, Sunday Free free
range Of pantry and cellar. free admission OF
friends and cousins TO tho kitchen and wash-room.
hospital attendance at the expense OF their EN-
plOyers IN case Of sickness, and increase OF wages
with the growth OF the family. That's all.
The San Franeisco Chronicle publishes list OF
the newspapers in California with their present
political tendencies. That list SHOWS forty-seven
Republican papers in favor Of Grant, two inde-
pendent papers pronounced for Greeley, ten Dem
Ocrare papers that desire Democratic nominal
favor the indorsement Of Greeley, and two Re
publican papers that seem to favor Greeley.
Late London papers give curious account Of
- Office for Marriages." which Is in full run
ming order in London, and furnishing cOndi-
tim. The Ofhce undertakes to obtain matrimonial
partners with desirable qualifications for all ap-
plIcants- The matches produced by this cOneern
claim To be more satisfactory than those said 90
be made in heaven, and doubtless are better than
the majority of thOse patched up by parents and |
friends.
In bad spell Of pathos Josh Billings says
Babys i luv with all mi heart; they are nj |
sweetmeats they VAIN up mi blood like gin |
sling; they krzwl into and nestle by the side |
mi soul like kitten under a cUOk stove. 1 |
hav raised babys miself, and knO what am talk
ing about / hav got grandchildren, and they |
are wuss than the fust krOp riot amung the
feelings. II could hav mi way, would change
all the human beings now the face OV the
earth back into babys at once, and keep them
there, aud make this iOoisrool one grand nursery
but what would do Tor wet Dusses don't kn0,
nor don't care