The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1856-1888, 1872-10-19
Foreign Items.

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Pope Plus Y has abandoned the idea Of leav-
ing Rome to live in France.
Since 1886, fifty daily and two hundred weekly
papers have persisted in New York.
Adams nativity has at last been discovered.
tie was, according to Darwin, n cerm-man.
Samuel Brannan is the richest man in Nara
county. His property is assessed at SlS0,Si0.
Grace Greenwood calls riding astraddle "a the
way women used to ride in the high heroic days"
Duluth observed Decoration day with much
ceremony. though il hadn't q soldiers grave TO
decorate,
An old lady. writing to her son out West.
warns him to be aware Of bilious saloons and
bowel alleys.
Greeley buggies are advertised in Grand Rap
ids, Michigan. They are 50 called because they
turn 50 easily.
1t seems probable that Marshal BaEaine will be
found guilty of infdelity TO his duty as an officer
and sentenced TO death.
:" 1t is a sin to steal a pin,' and q man IN
Philadelphia has been arrested for that very Of
Tense. The pin has n diamond attached to il.
1t is said Carl Schurz threatens to " lick
Mast. who weighs loo pounds. For further
particulars see full-length pictures of Carl in
Harper's.
We have good news from Paris. The narrow
military heels for ladies' boots ere no longer
fashionable in that city. Half-inch heels are the
mode.
Car Alexander's baptismal day was celebrated
at New York by the Russians on the llth Sept.
de was f~fty-four years old last April 29th, and
has reigned seventeen years and seven months.
Sporting tourists who are spending their sum-
mer vacation in Wrangel's Land and about the
shores of NJ. PAWS polar sea, will be interested
to hear that the skins of Arctic birds, such as the
loon and penguin, are coming in vogue for fash
ionable trimmings. The preference is probably
owing to the prevalent taste for offers colors.
The Atlantic Monthly says Mr. Greeley is
believed to be capricious, conceited, peculiarly
open to hattery and prejudice, bold in opinion.
but timid in action, and with that indefinite
something In his character which makes it i'm
possible not TO laugh at him, however much we
may esteem him. He is unsteady, grotesque,
obstinate and dIculous-epithets never yet
justly applicable, all at once to q President OF
the United States"
The method of sustaining points of order in
vogue among western legislators is more ~efectual
than that in use in the elder and less vigorous
parts of the country. In the Wyoming Legisla-
ture a short time ago, when a man insisted that
he was not out of order, his opponent jerked off
his coat shouting, Z" Mr.. Speaker, if some relia-
BILE man will hold these buds, I'll teach him that
he is out Of order > and the point was sustained
without further controversy.
Among the pleasures not vouchsafed to ordi-
nary mortals, is the one limited at by a Saratoga
correspondent, who in speaking Of A. 7. Stewart
at the Grand Central hotel, says: Mempbistop-
heles could scarcely have known more exquisite
enjoyment while watching " Faust, " than the arch
dealer in silks and satins in seeing a cup OF coffee
or IL sherry cobler thrown over a SIC, 900 costume.
The sensation must be delightful.
Rev. B. G. Northrop, of New Haven, Secretary
OF the Connecticut State Board of Education, has
finally accepted the invitation from the Govern
ment of Japan to take charge of the educational
interests Of that country, with a salary of &c.
900 q year in gold. Mr.. Northrop remains in
this country about a year, when he goes with his
family to enter upon his duties on the Imperial
soil.
Mr.. Seward is making rapid progress in his
narrative of his journey round the world. He
has got through Asia and Africa, and is now
writing the account Of his visit to Switzerland.
The latter part of the work will contain his gen.
eral reflections on the countries he has seen, and
Il summing up of his comparison of different
races and nations, which, from a man of his
ability and experience, can hardly fail to be
highly instructive and interesting.
Folks don't have much to say about Andy
johnson lately, and he appears to be no better
than a dead man. But he is indefatigably trying
TO raise a breeze just at present. lie mas an
nounced himself as the workingmen's nominee
for congressman at-large from Tennessee, and at
a public demonstration in his honor at Nashville,
recently, he made a speech in which he stated that
he would stump the state and invite opposition to
all the convention nominees.
Alarming, indeed, is the extent to which the
publication and circulation of obscene literature
has reached. News dealers in New York, here
tofore regarded as eminently respectable, have
been detected in this villainous work. and their
guilt unveiled. Recently a book jobber named
Charles Mackay was arrested on a charge of de-
posting obscene literature in the mails, and was
held in gil 900 bail. Other prominent book
sellers are to be arrested shortly. Hasten the
hour when this powerful agent of Satan, so in
sidiously ruinous to young minds, will be swept
from the face of the earth!
\ gentleman from 90 sunny Italy," residing in
San Francisco, recently made a trihing mistake in
arranging the preliminaries for his marriage. He
wished to procure a license, but being from ''sunny
Italy and ignorant of the language which is
spoken in California-which is said to resemble
the English in some respects-he could not make
himself clearly understood. Thus il happened
that when he presented himself with the expectant
bride before the officer who was to perform the
ceremony, it was found that he had a license, not
to take a wife, but to keep a dog! The record
ends at this critical stage of the proceeding, but
if that young woman was a representative Cali
fornia female, it is fair to infer that there was
rather an animated scene in that vicinity about
that time.