The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1856-1888, 1873-08-16
Foreign Items.

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wheat crop OF that state will br fully A. large %.
last year.
The Mobile Rs7iSfsr any man Who
believe, that advertisements in newspapers are uDj
read 80 advrt'ise that M wants 10 buy a dog
Arumor comes from Berlin thar Emperor VIII
lam j. incapacitatel FOR further duty. and that the
crown prince. Frederick William, Will hc pro-
claimed regent.
\ report is in the papers that Hon. W. + Glad
stone il reported to be- looking misrrahly il Ca. 60
suffering from oyerwork.
Pope Plus delivered an allocation and the pet
sonal communication Of King Victor Emanuel
was pronounced.
On the morning of the Goth Of May. Prot C. II.
Peters discovered a new planet, or as;eroid. OF the
eleventh magnitude. right ascension lGl degrees -
min. south, aud 2ll degrees Is min. deccnsion.
Motion due west.
French soil is 90 be- freed from the foot Of the inya-
der on the 9th Of September Of the present year.
From that day France will take a new departure in
the history Of her true greatness, and under n Re-
public achieve more substantial rcnown than that
which proceeded from a long line Of kingly exploits
The late Spanish census shows that in a population
Of little more than sixteen millions over twelve mill
ions can neither read nor write, that Of the remain
ing four millions about three-fourths can only read
and the rest can only sign their names. OF four
thousand mayors Of cities. towns and villages. only
about half could read aud write.
Scientists are now Of the opinion that fragrant
flowers are a protection against certain malaria.
Utilitarians may now 60 90 work among the flowers
without dread Of being called sentimental and ia
chil-and-feyer regions men may be shaken into an
interest in flower gardening. who could never have
been attracted to it by a love Of beauty.
The recent advance in coal and iron has begun
to have a depressing effect on British steam uayi-
CATION. Many shipowners are having the engines
taken out. and their vessels converted into sailing
ships. The supply of coal represents her power 80
far as steam navigation and ommerc are con
cerned.
But ten thousand dollars has been collected for
the monument TO Horace Greeley, and the sub
s%criptions have stopped. Directly after Mr.. Gree
ley's death a dozen monuments 10 his honor were
projected, and it appears TO be impossible now 10
secure the money necessary To one. Eulogies are
cheap but monuments cost money.
THE WILL OF GoD--At n recent meeting of the
Trinitarian Congregational Ministers of Massachn-
sets, Rev. Mr.. farmer. of Hyanns. told the follow
ing: The Cniversalist Church in Hyannis was
struck by lightning. The nearest bell was on the
Baptist Church, but when they applied for the key.
the old Baptist sexton refused. He was not
going" be said, 10 interfere with the will Of
God The church was consumed.
The evils which were feared from the adoption
of the postal card system have not appeared. They
have not been used for offensive communications.
very seldom even for n harmless joke or gibe. In
this respect the American people contrast favorably
with those of other countries.
The Austrian Government is reported to have
resolved that both on political and financial
grounds il will be expedient, II not unavoidable.
to interfere decisively in the complications arising
out of the recent crisis. so as 10 restore confidence.
and to regain for the Vienna Bourse its lost stand
ing in the commercial world.
These two young girls are unmarried. and young
men are informed that il costs only twenty dollars
TO travel to Battle Creek Lizzie and Lydia Tay-
Tor have been setting type IN the Office of the Battle
Creek. Mich. journal for five years, earning from
eight to twenty dollars "A week. From their earn
ings they have supported their mother, as house
keepers have lived well. bought n piano. taken
music. given $500 toward the building Of the Bap-
fist Church at Battle Creek, and have saved 81 200.
THE Conference.-The late Lowell Mason once
led the choir in a church where IL was the custom
to take up the collections during singing. De
teTmined TO put a stop TO this. he had an under
standing with the collectors to this end. One
afternoon, when the usual time for taking the col
lections came, they kept their seats. The minister
inquiring why it was, Mr.. Mason said, that as the
collection was taken up during the singing In the
forenoon. they had concluded TO have IL taken up
during the praying in the afternoon. - COHgregd-
t~iOndiist.
The British Government expedition for investi-
eating the bed of the ocean reports new and curious
discoveries. Creatures composed almost wholly
of eyes have been dredged mp and crustaceans
have been found in which the eyes are wholly
wanting, the blind body being supplied with won
derfully delicate claws, with which it feels its way
about. IDeSe iaCtS cOnHfm the ncnte ODSerVutiOu,
made some time since by an eminent biologist, that
deep sea dredgings would probably bring creatures
with abnormally developed vision, or perhaps
those in which vision was wholly replaced by
feeling.
The Postmaster General has now under consid-
Grafton the theme for a postal card convention
between England and the United States. by which
the cards would be received and delivered IN
either country for three cents. The only obstacle
now is the demand Of the steamship companies,
.Ia -. t-L a.ntn anI lus H.. =.
paid. The new Philadelphia steamship line has
signifed its readiness to carry the mails at the
lowest rate. The Postmaster General has authority
TO make the convention without reference TO Con
gress, so that the old idea Of ocean penny postage
may be prSximately realized in a few months, and
this will be a long step toward The lowering Of The
rates for letters.
Mr.. Charles Francis Adams in his Phi Beta ora
ton at Cambridge, said
Prospecting in material interests as they have
never done before, the problems now presented TO
the people affect the very foundations Of religious
faith, Of moral philosophy, OF civil government.
and even OF human society. Our advance in cdu-
cation, ia civilization. is now and then startled by
a blind and animal ferocity that would have dis
graced the rudest ages. Onr progress in philan-
thropy is balanced and evened with the magnitude
of our crimes.
Quoting this, the New York EUen;ng Post very
justly says:
Our own study Of the subject compels respectful
dissent from certain Of these conclusions. That
our murders are as numerous or as ferOcious az
they were in the middle ages. is now very gener-
ally denied by thoughtful men but their sensa-
tional discussion by the press gives them a promi-
nence in literature which did not fall to their lot a
century ago. This is clearly the case with all de-
%partments of criminal activity, and no good pur-
pose IL to be subserved by indicting 1873 for "a
depth of d~epravity Of which it is not guilty.
An upright life should be a sufficient answer 10
SANDER. 1t needed not that Henry Ward Beecher
should put in any denial Of the gross charges Of the
"unsexed thing" Victoria Woodruff, even when
those charges were repeated by such men IS Theo-
dore Tilton and Henry c. Bowen. To the discredt
Of human nature it is true, that there is in men n
prurient love for scandal, and the more conspicuous
the subject Of it, the keener for it seems to be the rel
ish. While disclaiming belief in the absurd story OF
Mr.. Beecher's vileness, men have clamored for in
vestigation, fer proof of innocence before there was
any fnir nresumntion Of guilt. or Of least. for active