The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1856-1888, 1873-08-30
FOREIGN SUM MARY.

bin Washington correspondent.
Washington correspondent says that during a
recent civil service examination In the Interior lie.
parinient, IN" candidates FOR admission to clerk.
ships "etr asked to state the distance Of The plane,
saturn from the earth. One candidate answered
that BE- was unable TO state the distance In miles
bat did not think 10 was sufficiently near TO inter
iere with the performance OF bis duties a. n CLERK
or 10 get him in any 81 the rings.
Resent telegraph dispatches speak Of sundry
preparations for what il called the &. coming priya
tight between Tom Allen aud Mike McCoolr. II
Is a peculiarity Of these fights that they are ALWAYS
" coming. To the inevitable brutality al the old
prize ring has been added the most consummate
and consistent cowardice, accompanied by a scien-
tic perfection in the art Of swindling. These pro
iessional rukans have made their disgusting cali.
ing sale, profitable and ridiculous.
The New York Herald recently prcfaoed It's mar.
riage notices with an engagement" advertisement.
The publication Of engagements is a somewhat novel
feature of social life, but when IL becomes a general
custom n VIII reconcile or, at least. set NJ rest many
absurd tancies and disappointed hopes. besides np
peasing a craving curiosity TO know the actual re-.
lations existing between certain couples. To name
the surprises, delightful and otherwise. IL will give
rise to, would be- impossible. This il the notice la
full On sunday. June 1. Joseph Autler OF New
York. 10 Charlotte Heidelberg, of Staten Island.
Detroit merchants combine business and grief
y wife OF one OF this class dying the other day. a
life insurance company received the following no.
tice Dear Sir-l take my pen in hand "a let you
know that | am we'll. hut that my dear wife. insured
iof i've thousand dollars In your company. IL no
more She died to-day. HeC policy is No. -
/ can truly say that she WAS "A fond wife aud "a good
mother. | have the doctors certificate. ~ thai
there will be- no trouble about the policy. She was
sick only a short time, but suffered much. DO you
give n check in advance, or must ! wait sixty days
Tor the money -
The most hopeful man we now know at IL one W.
Il. Jewell, who proposes TO p0blish "a monthly
pamphlet. called the Seige, at Lafayette, Ind. lie
proposes to stop the Importation and manufacture.
as well as the sale and use OF liquor Ia break down
all monopolies bring about the repeal Of lax di.
vorce laws regain for the family the healthiul In
huence it should exert in our social system sub
stltute arbitration Tor war promote universal love;
strengthen the moral attributes of the government;
enforce home economy; establish n non-secLarinn
school system suppress political partisanship
snpesede SELFISH political economy by n more phi
lanthropic plan, and defend labor against capital.
This Is all TO be attempted for one dollar a year.
THE SIR BARTLE FRERE MIssIoN.-Th India cor.
respondent of the Pal Nal Gazette delivers the
following home thrust germane 20 the Sir Bartle
Frere mission If England is resolved 10 put
down slavery. she might look nearer home than
Ii fonrishes 10 this day IN the protected
hill States OF the Himalayas. Women are habitn-
ally bought and sold within the jurisdiction OF the
British Deputy Commissioners ut Simla. the summer
of the Supreme government. IL
indeed, the recognized mode of concubinage,
tut uAeu price lot n woman DclnR seven POUNDS.
No limit appears TO exist as to the number of times
she can be transferred from one man 10 another
and in more than one case English families have
found this the most convenient mode of obtaining
nurse. One of the papers says that such gmnles
could be bought at a fair held last week within six
miles of this station.
A MISGUIDED youth in Alexandria, Va, in imita-
OF Sergeant Bates. proposes to proceed 10 Bos-
ton for the purpose of starting from Bunker Hill
on a tour through the Northern States, carrying
with him the rebel flag unfnrled. We are inclined
TO regard this as a foolish as well as hazardous nm
Not that the flag bearer Is in danger Of
personal violence from northern Union soldiers.
but it is calculated 10 arouse memories OF such
places as Andersonville. that might as well be
Moreover, this Alexandria adventurcr
should emember that his case and that of Sergeant
Bates are slightly different. While he iS carrying
a flag that constitutes no national emblem, and
travels through a region that claims TO be the con
1ueror, Bates carried the victorious American
the emblem of q powerful nation, through
defeated section Of the country aud among a sub
lued. If not n subjugated. people. and hence not
likely 10 be insulted. However, the whole affair IL
a humbug OF the first water, and when the rebel
-bearer gets within the shadow OF the shaft on
Hill he will probably think better Of his
venture aud abandon IL altogether.
A new press law il proposed in Germany, which
IS described as IA freedom OF the press tempered
with the gallows. 1t imposes two years imprison-
nent on editors for publishing anything opposed
% the principles Of political order" which sim
ply means to the powers that be and the statu quo.
fhe press has a hard time of il on the continent.
md the military d%espotism 10 which the people
ave allowed themselves 10 be subjected, forms q
power against which II seems almost useless 10
contend. There is little il any more liberty in
feTmany now than there was in the days OF the
treat Frederick. The journals thought the old
Iress law severe enough. but now they think IL Of
Ingellc mildness as compared with the new one.
While the German government is thus coerciDg
he press, the new administration in France is
'uying it. a circular has been issued TO the de-
'artment projects instructing them 10 ascertain
What papers can be bought mp. When the matter
vas brought up in the Assembly, the ministry de
ended their course. The Republic will moi last
in France If this kind Of thing is permitted 10
Ontinue.
Seeing is believing, says the old proverb, aud a
arty of English capitalists propose 10 convert the
Emperor OF China TO their railroad schemes by
hitting Il road Of ten miles into perfect operation
Omewhere within the Flowery Kingdom. They
hink that a trip at the rate Of sixty miles an hour
1Ould efiectually draw bis objections, and n stately
Xcursion in a palace car would completely trans
Ot this elder Brother Of the Sun. The thing il
lansible, and the grounds Of il are obvious. The
trade with China exceeds that OF all other
Jreign nations put together. Indeed, IL the state
recently made by the British Secretary OF Le-
alton at Pekin is correct. eightninths of the for
trade Of China in 1871 was with Great Britain
nd her colonies. A network Of railways through
hina would shortly quadruple the exports and i'm
orts of the Empire, and give her people a new i'm
ulse towards civilization. Taken in connection
nth the magnificent railway projects Of Baron
euter in Persia, this scheme of the English CAPT
llists is highly important, and may lead TO vast
psuls.
Sir Samuel Baker is safe at Khartoum and re-
that his expedition has accomplished all it
ought, and more. A new province has been an
exed to Egypt, and a connecting chain OF posts
as been formed reaching from Nubia to Nyanza.
ut the most astonishing fact in the records of the
is the discovery that Lakes TaDganyika
nd Albert NyanZa are one and the same sheet Of
-ater. It is a magnificent inland sea, seven hun
miles in ~length-the largest in the world. Our
hide their diminished heads before this
lightly sheet of water. and henceforth must be con
mt to stand in the second rank. Moreover, this
.frican sea is said TO be navigable from Murchi-
falls to Ujji, a~dOrding every means OF com
ortant news, and ought to be verified at once.
fter Professor Wise has crossed the Atlantic, we
ay send bin by balloon % Viii. 70 trace The