The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1856-1888, 1873-12-06
Foreign Items.

The wedding cake for the marriage OF the
Duke Of Edinburg and the daughter OF the En-
per0r Of Russia Will be feet E inches IN height
and weigh go pounds.
Ninety-slz million bushels Of wheat, the Mar
7 Lane Express SAYS. viii be required by England
this year from abroad, in consequence Of the fail
ure Of the potato crop and shortness Of the grain
crop.
The London lady whom joaquin Miller Is to
marry is Miss Hardy. the novelist. and daughter
Of Sir Thomas D.. Hardy. long employed in the
Office Of the master Of the rolls, and himself q
learned histriographer.
ORANGE TREES.-We estimate, says the Mays
Vile appeal, the number of orange trees in this
city alone at 800, TO say nothing Of the hundreds
growing in the country. The bearing trees in
the city are loaded down with fruit, some Of
which has reached nearly the full size Of ma
turity.
1t is charged that the New York Tribune help
ed TO bring about the panic in Wall street, and
TO destroy public confidence, by assailing the
management of different local banks. That II
should pursue this course Is attributed 10 the
ownership by Jay Gould Of a considerable p0r-
ton Of its stock.
The RICE CURE-Dr. Hall says that II ought
TO he generally known that ordinary boiled rice,
eaten with boiled milk is one of the best remedies
known for any form of loose bowels. Its efficacy
is increased if II IS Drowned like coffee. and then
boiled and eaten at intervals OF four hours. taking
no other food or liquid whatever: It's curative viz
tue is increased if no milk Is taken with il, and
the patient will keep still in a warm bed; that il
becomes an almost iniallible remedy.
Boston trade is now quite brisk, and the build
ings IN the burnt district are rapidly approaching
completion. Some of them are already occupied,
and before the cold weather sets in merchants viii
have all the accommodations they require. The
city, when rebuilt, will present a decidedly hand
sOmer appearance than ever before, and the facili-
ties for transacting business will be largely in
creased. With her streets widened and straight
ened, and the style and form of her structures i'm
proved, it may truly be said that Boston has been
purified through the agency of fire.
Joaquin Miller's new book, .. Life Among the
Modocs,'' was harshly reviewed in the London
AtheRGum, and Mr.. Miller was so troubled about
it that he wrote to the AthenGum, saying he
wished to tell the reviewer TO his teeth - that
he was {" liar, a coward and a cur The re-
suit is not to be a duel but, as is the custom in
England in such cases, We are told, Mr.. Miller
will be " cut dead " by all English gentlemen.
This is better than fighting a duel and we i'm
agine that if the cutting s done thoroughly in all
cases, Charles Reade mus have suffered terribly
by this time. :
The product of the Haley ledge of the Silver
Bay gold mine, IN Alaska, is causing considerable
excitement in Sitka, the apital of the Territory.
A letter from that town, dated August %, says
that on that day 200 tons of the quartz rock in
which the gold is contained were to have been
shipped to Portland, Oregon. A large force of
Indians is working at Silver Bay, extracting the
ore and making 1t ready gor transportation. The
mechanical facilities to work the mine are still
wanting, but already an entrance of twenty-five
feet into the ledge has dereloped specimens, picked
IN or tbot 6aptb aSSoriTp ac hirb as como 70 Tho
ton. The owners of themines refuse to sell the
site, the letter says for 800 900.
The Odd Fellows have their excitements over
the Sunday question likeother people. Recently
the Grand Lodge of the -nlted States, in session
at Baltimore, according 0 a dispatch from there,
had under consideration the Sunday law So
called, on which there WIS a general debate, the
representatives from Now York, Pennsylvania
and California taking activo part in the discns-
sion. In 1870 the Gnnd Lodge passed a resolu-
ton since known as ne Sunday law, which pro-
vides that no lodge or encampment or degree
lodge shall hold any meeting for work or business
on Sunday, except fir funeral purposes. At each
annual meeting of ue Grand Lodge a proposition
to repeal this resolution has been introduced. At
the present essionHepresentative Estee, of Cali
fornia, under instruction from the Grand lodge
of that State, introduced a resolution repeating
the Sunday law and leaving to the several
State grand bodies under the jurisdiction of this
GEdnu IOuRe, tut SUBJECT mdlIeE lUcIcOI. MT.
Estee's resolution vas referred to the Legislative
Committee, whic. submitted a majority and
minority report. After an animated discussion
the majority repOr was adopted leaving the Sun
day law as at present..
How TO MANAGEAN UNMANAGEABLE HoRsE.-A
beautiful and hi9-spirited horse would never
allow a shoe TO be nut on his feet or any person
to handle his feet. In an attempt to shoe such a
horse recently he resisted all efforts, kicked aside
everything but an anvil, and came near killing
himself against th.t, and finally was brought
back to his stable ushod This defect was Just
on the eve of CONSUMING him to the pillow, where
he might work barefoot, when an officer IN our
service, lately returned fDm Mexico, took a cord
about the size of a common BEDFORD, put it in
the mouth of the horse like a bit, and tied it
tightly on the animals had, passing his left ear
under the string, not painfully tight, but tight
enough to keep the ear down and the cord in
place. This done, he pated the horse gently on
the side of the head, and commanded him to fol-
low and instantly the brse obeyed, perfectly
subdued and as gentle nd obedient as a we'll
trained dog; suffering hi feet to be lifted with
entire impunity. acting nall respects like an old
stager. The gentleman Who thus furnished this
exceedingly simple meas of subduing a very
dangerous propensity minated that it is prac-
ticed in Mexico and Souo America in the man
agement Of wild horses.
Additional particulars 'elating to the financial
embarrassments Occasional at Vienna by the fail
ure of the Exposition to lraw Il large crowd of
visitors, are furnished bya correspondent of the
New York Times. 1t sen that many exhibit
ors, who We're subject I a charge for ground
rent, failed TO make payment at a proper time.
giving as an excuse INABILITY TO sell their goods.
In addition to this diffcuy another arose, from
the fact that a considerable proportion of the
merchandise on exhibitiomnd sale was purchased
on credit, and creditors re becoming so much
alarmed that they have claimed writs of attach
ment, and adopted otherlegal measures which
will probably result in orced sales at auction
after the LIST of November Meanwhile. some Of
the visitors have Jared as oadly as the merchants
and local spectators in dging houses and res
taurants. The prices ofiving have so far ex-
ceeded their expectations hat their funds are ex-