The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1856-1888, 1873-01-18
Foreign Items.


San Francisco makes and exports more Havana
cigars than Cnba-
Chicago claims 10 have gained nearly fifty thou.
sand "a population during the past Summer
One or 'EN.-One Of the pleasures Of life Is
taking off new boots and putting old slippers.
A Republican at Sharon, Pa, won ON the
elections $4,000 in cash, eleven suits Of clothes
and two hundred kegs Of nails.
Four years ago Atlanta, Ia, hadn't single
house or Inhabitant. Now IL has population Ol
100, and Is a county seat.
II EAIS.-It IL in vain that n man has the
means Of happiness without, If he has not the
capacity OF happiness within himself.
President Thiers has been selected rs an arbiter
on a colonial question which has arisen between
England and Portugal.
Constantinope has at last started a newspaper
devoted 10 social reform. IL must be n - haTem
scare-'ern +" kInd Of sheet, then.
CHEAP.-Fineen cents bushel, with n down
ward tendency, is the latest quotation Of those
Arizona diamonds.
Revenue Assessor. asking the usual questions
inquired - Did your wife have any incOme last
ye'r2'' The reply was, - Yes sir, both girls
Be GLAD.-A gentleman who had been arguing
with an IgnorHmus until his patience was ex-
hausted, said lie didn't wish him dead, but lie
would be glad 70 see hIm kHotg
Nor A FAIR CHANcE.-The % oldest inlabitant''
has been reading series Of articles on the adul-
teratiOn Of liquors, and has arrived at n some
CHAT singular conclusion. The analysis Of those
liquors showed average of about sixty-fiie of
wafer TO thirty-fve of spirits. They don't give
spirits fair chance says the aged bacchanal
they II keep on fOoing with till it depop-
ulates the earth again"
\ suit brought against Thomas II. Dudley, T.
"rul &C Liverpool, by named AlcOtt,
n listed n A Ia
for compensation for his detention at LIy-
AMERJl as a witness, by order of Mr.. Dudley, at
time the Alabama sailed, has just been
ought To a conclusion in England and resulted
Adversely to the plaintiff. The court decided that
wohe Geneva Tribunal had settled all questions
10 connected with the Alabama case, and directed
verdict to be entered for the defendant.
>. The reported discovery of diamonds in Arizona
and Colorado appears to be now quite we'll authen-
AJtIcated. Several packages Of stone have been
tested in San Francisco, and prove to be diamonds
n Of the first water. Denver II naturally ablaZe
with excitement on the subject. company of
one hundred men is nearly organized there to 60
TO the spot fully equipped, and others will doubt
less follow, a. new discoveries reported nearly
every day. Some go far enough to think that the
diamond fields Of Colorado will eclipse even her
wealth in silver and gold
Dr. o. W Holmes - The Autocrat Of the Break
fast Table a." has in his recent work-Tbe Poet at
the Breakfast Tabe-entered INTO physiological
examination Of sin. He considers that - SIN, like
disease, Is "a vital process. IL il n function not
entity'f Take that one word SiH; all those who
have studied the subject from nature and not from
books, know perfectly we'll that certain fraction
OF what is called Is nothing more OF less than
n symptom of hysteria; that another fraction Is
ne index Of a limited degree of insanity; that
still another Is the result of cOngental tendency
which the act we sit in Judgment upon
from the sphere OF seli-determInaton, If not
tirely, least to such extent that the subject
ha hua
standard"
A Pittsburg clOthier teIegraphed to President
Grant. on election day. Offering him a suit Of
clothes. The answer be got was from Gen. Horace
Porter, and j. given in the Pittsburg Gazette, as
follows The President will have, and very
reluctantly, too, TO decline your generous offer
OF one Of yOur best suits, to be worn at his in
augural next March not but that he believes
they are the best clothes made, but were be TO
accept, Senators Sumner, SchuTz, Trumbull and
others would be very jealous, and would, no
doubt, demand suits for themselves, and, II re-
fused, would ask for an Investigating Committee,
thereby costing the Government thousands of
dollars with tie usual results"
This m0urnfuI story comes from Idaho. " There
a sound Of mourning IN Boise City recently.
a widow wept for her dear departed and provided
\ magnificent funeral u sOOthe her grief. In the
church, just before the coffin closed. last
opportunity was given to see the corpse. As the
widow nerving herself for the painful JOY,
she became aware Of procession of women,
some twenty IN number, who advanced to the
coffin and one after another kissed the corpse.
Not one Of the intruders was known To the weep
ing relict; the sound Of mourning ceased The
congregation was electrified by the words Tn
I'll within a few moments had supposed that the
cold form IN this coin was once my husband
but the kisses and tears OF the, to me. strangers
whO have just paraded before the audience, have
convinced me that be belonged to others good
deal more than he did to me. Nv part in this
funeral Is finished She departed forthwith, and
0when the procession moved from the church to
SSeoI'he cemetery the chief mOurner's carriage
empty"
a LIVELY SALUTAToRT.-The following saluta-
tory appeared in weekly paper recently started
in Bath county, Ky.: % We would expect
rs TO suppose that we shall please everybody.
No doubt, In the course Of human events, we
shall realize those pleasant little editorial episodes
IN which indignant readers find no other soothing
syrup Of their wounded feelings than by attempt
ing TO put a head on the editor paint mourn
fuI expression over his eye or, without consulting
him to whether he wants to be angel, and
with the angels stand, endeavor to send him to
that bourne ION dead head tieket) rom whence
no editor returns. We stand six feet IT our
stockings in the winter time-fve feet eleven
inches and a half without socks in the summer
season. Our principal amusement when boy,
was throw One-hundred pound anvils over
head. hold barrel OF -four p arms length and
practice other muscular deyel z-nts- Aided by
early education in the manly art, we shall
endeavOr To hoe our own row, paddle our own
canoe and bold a full hand in the editorial game