The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1856-1888, 1872-12-28
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Another monstrosity has been added to the
newspaper vocabulary. We now have "nup-
tated - for married.
We learn that all the Boston mutual companies
must call in their notes or make assessments.
The Union Mutual loses 500, 900, their entire
assets.
Australia congratulated New York recently by
cable upon the completion of telegraph commu-
n~ication. The message had to travel 0,000 miles.
Still, it is well to be neighborly, and nothing is
lost by politeness.
The intelligent jury has Just acquitted Mrs.
Lifts of Monticello, \. Y, charged with poison
ing her husband. The evidence against her con-
clusively proved her guilt but she was SO fortu-
nate as to be a woman.
Charles Francis Adams, in New York. Wednes-
day evening, perenptorily refused to be inter
viewed. Let us pronounce him a second Napo-
leon. No other living man than a second Napo-
leon could succeed in obtaining a view of the coat
tails of a New York reporter.
The town of Sterling, Illinois, has hit upon a
ordinance providing that if the windows or doors
of drinking saloons shall be Obscured by means
Of screens, paint or other devices to conceal what
is going on within, the proprietor shall be liable
to a fine of from five to twenty dollars.
a young japanese, Sasoumi Satoo, son of the
chief physician of the Mikado, arrived at Berlin,
in November, 1869, to study medicine he did
not know n word OF German at the time, but he
learned il in five months, and Latin in six. He
recently passed in a brilliant manner his third
examination Tor a doctors degree.
When the late Admiral Foote was in Siam he
invited the royal dignitaTies to a dinner on his
vessel. As they sat down To the meal, the Ad-
mIral, as was his custom, asked a blessing. The
King, in surprise, said he thought that only mis-
c1nrortou DID fhoA & IT,, - ~ fho Ear,fo -
ply, . but every Christian is a missionary"
The Boston papers will reap glory and wealth
from the late calamity. They are crowded with
advertisements, having to issue supplements to
accommodate their patrons. There was no delay
in their appearance after the fire, and they were
as gOOd-natured among the ruins, if their con-
tents were not as varied and interesting, as il
there had been no fire at all.
France demands of Hayti SIS, 900 in gold, as
compensation for damages to French citizens
inflicted by the Haytien rebels and in default
proposes to proceed in the energetic manner
which was SO effective in the case of Germany
against Hayti. There being no money In the
country, nor even promises TO pay, the govern
ment pleads for mercy. What the result will be
is unknown.
The Boston papers are demanding an investi-
CATION of the management of the fire department
during the confdgration. They also call for a
NlOIOuHl EtOIAdllLlllOu u II utltAlllCIt, anu
n new la, out of the burnt district, with broad
streets and occasional open squares. With this
accomplished, the Boston Advertiser says, " BOs-
ton will, in ten years, have gained far more than
she has lost, and may cheerfully pull through
without accepting the kindly p%rotfered assistance
Of her fellow-sutiereT Chicago, which we trust
will be returned with cordial thanks"
As from mall acorns great oaks do grow so it
is that from most trifing causes wide spread
n ,,1, n,s rtn. o-a nTfapfip,aS 1ar1-nH nnn oaa.un
of the Boston fire traces Its origin to an over
heated furnace in the basement of a building on
the corner of Kingston and Summer streets.
This OF itself might have been insufficient to pro-
ducc n confagration, but rs there happened to be
an elevator way above the furnace the draught
therefrom famed the heat into n blaze, which
very soon communicated to the floors above, and
the rest is sad and fearful history.
\ fortnight since the news came over the cable
that the ex-Empress Of Mexico was dying. Un-
fortunately for that afflicted lady, the report
proved untrue. She is now in the best of bodily
health, a feature Of her case that renders her re-
cUyery from insanity more utterly hopeless than
it would be were there room to suppose her mad
ness a symptom of some disease seated elsewhere
than in the brain. Her intellect seems to have
dwindled 10 that of an infant, while she also ex-
hibits the perversity and petty maticiousness
which is SO frequently developed In the noblest
natures by the demon of madness. She spends
AtE VI NA AAAN III bNA toA Wv GAS -
her dresses over the chairs. and fancies that they
clothe the ladies of her transient court. She still.
remembers dimly that Napoleon was closely con.
nected with the tragedy OF her life, and frequently
sends long and incOherent Geographic messages tC
the Imperial schemer whom vengeance has at last
Overiaken. Her nearest relatives she refuses tC
see, and they are forced to catch furtive glimpses
of her as she plays in her garden. Everything
that could make life brilliant and beautiful wa.
gwen to Carlotta. and now, widowed and witless
she plays with dolls, and hides in the garden from
her dearest friends. An ambitious woman, fonC
of admiration, she has fallen from Il throne into
the hands of hired keepers, and has exchanged
the admiration of a court for the discipline of
physician. When this is added to the cruel deatf
Of "A beloved husband, and ;he terrible darkness
that has Oyershodowed her mind-woes the mos
bitter that woman can endure-it Is easy to fee
the supreme sadness of the tragedy of = poo
Carlotta.' Whatever may have been the mistake
of Maximilian-mistakes bravely expiated on the
plain OF Queretaro-n no one has found n pretex
= blame the wife who loyalty stood by her nus
"thd Hn- trained .~'erv nerve To- aId him IN hi