The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1856-1888, 1872-11-09
Foreign Items.

The Jel0ish Messenger wants Bennett TO detail
Stanley tO hunt up the lost tribes OF Israel.
The liOnization Of Mr.. Stanley has mnde an
English @ronaut desirous Of " going for " DIR.
Livingstone in balloon.
A two page letter written by George Washing
ton, has been purchased by the Emperor William
Of Germany for $500.
Mrs. Moore, a New York widow, worth $780,
600, has quit paying her coachman IS week.
She married him.
Sir Frank Ives Scudamore reports that the
British Government telegraphic business will give
this year a clear profit OF E350,O0O.
Within the last six months there have been sent
to Africa 439 500 gallons Of Medford rum from
the port OF Boston alone.
Mr.. Sewards Travels Round the World ~
will shortly be published by subscription from
the press of the Messrs. Appleton. 1-
As SooS.-"I tell you, Susan, that will COM
NIT suicide If you won't have me-" "Well,
Thomas, as soon rs you have given me that proof
of your affection, will believe that you love me. -
A gentleman. walking with two ladies, stepped
on Il hogshead hoop that few up and struck him
in the face. s'GOOd graciousl'' said he, ' which
of you ladies dropped that?''
The splendid playground which the marquis
Of Westminster has presented to the children of
PimlicO, in Ebury square, London, was thrown
open to Its juvenile possessOrs a few weeks ago.
A japanese scholar in one Of the schools of
New Haven, having been insulted by school
mate sent note 20 Of the instructors
questing permission to kill the offender.
Connecticut is a likely place for a cheap spree
just now. Cider, fresh made, is selling for five
cents gallon, and apples are so plenty that they
nre rejected at the cider mills, and can scarcely
be given away.
Michigan has a law making IL misdemeanor,
punishable by fine and imprisonment, to aim a
frearm ut any person. whether IL be loaded or not,
a.,E
is responsible criminally and pecuniarily.
The ss Tichborne claimant &" recently began
starring engagement in London. i-iyate boxes
were n guinea each and reserved seats three shil-
Iings but the hall was flied.
n Chicago special Says the citizens are becom-
ing alarmed ut the frequent outrages and muir
ders of peaceful, law-abiding persons They have
called a meeting evening recently to
devise measures for the safety of society.
What Rev. E. f. Hale knows about sleep, he
tells in the September number Of old and NeIc.
When lie says that mental labor should be en-
gagged in for some hours prior to going to bed, he
forgets the necessity Of publishing daily papers.
Mark Twain, who has just gone abroad, con-
templates writing third book, it is said, devOt-
ing himself this time to the oddities and eccen-
tricities Of the English people, among whom he
expects 90 reside for the next twelve months in
order to take their mental photographs.
The Methodist Book Concern in New York have
10 check the cashier; the agents are to watch the
book-keepers; the cashier is to watch the book
keepers. cashier and teller, and special COM
mittee is To watch them all
Those big trees at Mariposa and Calaveras are
not the best that California do after all. They
have found one ut Visalia forty feet in diameter
with the bark of, and the bark bad SIX feet of
thickness 1t is strange that these slender sap
lings have been overlooked so long.
The sons of the late Mr. Crittenden, anticipat-
ing the departure of Mrs. Fair from San Fran
cisco, reported by the police waiting, one
at each ferry landing, armed with revolyers. 1t
is reported that they have threatened to shoot Mrs.
Fair since her acquittal.
Describing the Inebriate Asylum at Ward ISL
and the New York Tribune says: 81 Within the
past four years about one hundred women have
occupied rooms in the asylum OF these nearly
one-third have been ladies moving in the highest
circles of society They were all middle-aged, !
and nearly all had been married.
Ii is reported that Robert Bonner will retire
from the active management Of the New York /
Ledger next spring. He has now been at 1t twenty
years. and IN that time has converted paper which
was entirely advertising sheet into paper into
which no amount Of money could purchase the 4
way for advertisement
The inventive genius of the country, according
10 the Patent Office returns, has had most extra
ordinary development within the past five years.
Up to 1856 the patents but once reached 900 /
per annum. From that period until 1860 no year /
showed 5000 patents, while the average Of five
years past has been over 13, 900 per annum-
The price of a wife in the Zulu country, South
Africa, is fixed by law at ten cows. The pur
chaser can give more if ne chooses, but the seller
consequence Of speculator having once brought
up all the young girls and demanded exorbitant
prices for them. J