The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1856-1888, 1873-07-19
Foreign Items.

Information comes from Rome that the Pope
intends matchmaking the Italian Government,
and all who have favored the wrestling from the
church of property hitherto held by it as convent
grounds.
Earl Russell has just made a speech on educa-
ton. i'm which he said that E. they could have no
good schools unless they had religion in them -
that the teaching of the Bible was the best teach-
ing which could be given, and that he trusted it
weuld continue TO prosper in England.
\ Young man in n suburban town sent on his
first postal card. After writing a message on the
back he enclosed it in an envelope, clapped on a
three-cent stamp, and dropped it into the Post
Office, Temarking that it was 4 very handy arrange
ment. and should have been introduced years ago.
Under the new military law of Italy, King Victor
Emmanuel will soon have 4 regular army of three
hundred thousand men of all arms. and a mobile
militia of two hundred and fifty thousand. of which
II is expected two hundred thousand will be
effective. This will give him half a million Gght-
ing men for service, with over one thousand pieces
OF field artillery.
Mark Twain has been the most successful hu-
mOrist. in a monetary point of view at least, in
sworn to by him in New York, he estimates the
annual returns from his books at $50, 900, and
places the small figure over one published volume
Of sketches of $25 900.
The origin OF postal cards dates from the Franco
Prussian war. The difficulty of soldiers in secur-
ing pens and paper upon which TO write home
induced the German authorities to issue bits of
paste board to the soldiers for this purpose, and
they were largely availed of. the messages being
written in pencil. Their use was continued there
after in time OF peace. and has since been adopted
in England and the United States.
The Cincinnati Enquirer says: As Is we'll
known. Captain c.. F. Hall, the distinguished Arctic
explorer died, leaving his family in 4 state of
penury. At the time of his death he was in COM
mand Of a government vessel, under an appropri-
alton sanctioned by Congress, for the purpose of
the expedition. He therefore fell in a national
cause, as much so as if he had persisted in battle.
His widow should receive a pension equal to that
given to a colonel in the regular army"
Southern politics must have assumed a very
novel phrase when we find such a veteran Democrat
as Henry \. Wise taking a prominent place among
the candidates for Governor of Virginia. backed,
rs it is asserted. by q Republic an national admins
tration. The Herald says that there Is but little
doubt that there is a friendly feeling in Washington
toward the venerable N~irginian politician, in con-
sequence of the course he took during the late
Presidential contest, and it would not be 4 matter
of very great surprise to see him taking the reins
of the State government OF Virginia again in his
hands. This is 4 good way of establishing recon-
struction without misconstructiOn.
Summer home travel is likely to be lively this
season, notwithstanding the crowds speeding away
to Europe. When one has the time on hand to
dispose Of. and the money too, its all right. but
Susan Coolidge says. in Scribner'S Monthly, that
the California tourist must make up his mind TO
be we'll Heeced-almost as well as if he had gone
TO Vienna. She estimates the general expenses of
a tour to California, including two months travel,
to vary from 500 to $500 gold. This does not
include the larger eXcursions-South California.
Columbia river. Puget Sound and the Sandwich