The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1856-1888, 1875-02-20
Foreign Items.

burnt district Of 1872 now remain vacant.
Two Of Robert Bruce's bones were sold in Edin-
burgh for E5. and enc Of the vertebrR o. William
the Lion tor e los.
Eight hundred and thirty young girls applied at
the Grand Opera House, New York. in answer 10
an advertisement for 100 young ladies TO dance in
the kailet
Oleomsrgarine.n or beef batter is superseded
now by the Invention OF = French chemist who
makes butter By 3 chemical process, without using
any fatty matter whatever.
Il Is said that cork trees grow very rapidly
among the foothills OF California and that in some
localities trees three or four years old have bark
enough for an ordinary cork.
Ex President Andrew johnson has taken up his
headquarters in Nashville, aud intends to make
a desperate Sight for the United States Senatorship
after all.
The Salt Lake Tribune says Rumor says
the repeal OF the Poland bill. This four-p ply celes-
iializer might have taken the above amount of
lubricating material. but we doubt it."
In Queen Victoria's crown there are 1868 brilliant
diamonds. 1873 rose diamonds and l4T table dia-
monds. l large ruby, Il sapphires. IL emerslds, 4
small rubies and 2lT pearls-a total Of 2.ls6 preci-
Gus stones.
The news from China announces that Professor
Watson, bead of the American party in Pekin for
the observation of the transit of Venus, discovered
October 8 a new asterOid OF the eleventh magni-
tude.
The London correspondent of the Scotsman
states that rumors are about that &" before long q
policy OF confederation. similar TO that which was
adopted in Canada. will be carried ont at the Cape.
IL these reports should prove correct, we may look
for a Dominion Of South Africa, in that quarter.
The vast network OF railways now projected is
said 10 have a definite political object in view"
An important extension of the application of
electricity as an Illuminating agent is about TO be
made by the Trinity board. London. The two
lighthouses on the Lizard Point are to be fitted
with the requisite apparatus for the production of
the electric light. The penetrating power of this
light will be of the utmost value at this, the first
point of land made by homeward-bound ships.
ECoNoMIzING CALIco.-It is estimated that of l2,-
600, 600 women in America, IL, 200. 900 wear calico
dresses more or less that the spirit of economy
has, during the past year, induced them to forego
one dress u piece from their outlay that The
average calico dress contains eleven yards, and
that, Consequently. there has been a loss to the
trade by this retrenchment OF l2l 900, 900 yards.
This is nearly the entire product of all the mills in
Massachusetts for a year.
The Connecticut Mutual Life Insurance Company
resisted the payment of a policy, on the ground
that the insured had violated his agreement by the
excessive use of spirits, thereby Fastening his
death. Suit was brought in the United States
Court at Chicago, and it was proven that the in
sured at one time drank brandy at the average
rate of a bottle in a day and a half, besides large
quantities Of wine aud other light drinks. The
Jury gave a verdict for the plaintiff and the CON-
pany moved for a new trial.
Elder Frederick W. Evans, of the Mount
Lebanon Shakers, says there are in the United
States about 5000 Shakers, forming eighteen soeie-
ties. Each society has sixty families or communi-
ties There. are four societies in New YORK. fonr
in Ohio, two each in Massachusetts. New Hamp-
shire, Maine and Kentucky. etc. He says they
are all spiritUalists, and that they held spiritual
manifestations four years before the Rochester rap
pings.
A tax e. fa- was presented to an old negro in Geor-
gia a few days ago. and he was politely informed by
the officer that if it was not paid very soon his pros
perty would be sold. The old man became very in-
dignant, and said. 81 amt gwine to pay no more
taxes. Yves all gwine to leave dis country any way,
and go where dey amt no white folks.'' When ask
ed where they were going, he replied, We's gwine
where de amt no white folks, l tell yer to Rome,
or sumwhar.''
In three years the carpet-bag and negro State
printing in South Carolina cost over 100000.
This, remarks tho Cincinnati Enquirer, 10 moro thau
TIE WHOLE debt of the State of Ohio contracted for
canals and other internal improvements. Before the
war, and before the thieves came into power, all the
expenses of South Carolina we're less than half a
million dollars q year. Is ii any wonder that the
State debt of South Carolina can't be paid-thst its
interest is not met-that one-third of its real property
is advertised for sale, and that there is general
beggary and restitution ?
In the new Swiss penal code, capital punishment
is entirely abolished. Voluntary homicide only is
classed as murder aud punishable with ten or
twenty years solitary confinement. Premeditated
murder is classed as assassination and punishable
with solitary confinement for life. Poisoning is
punished with the latter penalty whether death
is caused at once or by slow poison. If death does
not result from the poison, the penalty ia ten to
twenty years solitary confinement. From three to
Eve years solitary confinement is the penalty for
infanticide.
When the son of a king dies, or is born, on the
other side of the water. there is a great tumnlt
about 1t. So there would be here probably in any
other city. but Chicago Is too full of sensation to
mind such little things. a son of Old George III.
whom Americans are popularity supposed to par
ticularly detest, died in this city a few days ago,
aged 8s years. and nobody paid any attention to
- IL ms haua haaD unEaalinO hut ~ chnuc hnuv
intensely busy and how awfully independent we
are.-ChicdgO Inter Ocean.
THE QUADRCPIEx TELEGRAPHIe MAcHINE.-The
new Geographic apparatus, called the "Quadru-
pick" by which two messages are sent Ia the same
direction, and two other messages in opposite di-
rection upon one wire, at the same time, is now
working successfully on q direct circuit between
New York and Chicago. Should its ability to
work through long circuits be demonstrated
(thereby increasing the capacity of wires with
only a slight additional expens"), there is a prob
ability that Its general application and a material
reduction of tolls will eventually be brought
about.
A MARVELLOUS C4sE.-Thsre Is severe but unin-
tended satire In the language used by a Massachu-
setts nominee for Congress in a letter declining to
be a candidate. when I recall. , he says, the
many instance of lives mutilated and blighted by
discomfort and restlessness engendered by the
destinations of the Capitol. | shrink from the haz-
ard. l dread its power of incapacitating those
who come within its charmed precincts for the
quiet pleasures and the ordinary enjoyments and
associations of life. l therefore with great reluc-
lance, but with well-weigbed resolution, decline to
be a candidate for the Office named"
JOLLY BoURBoNs.-The recent Democratic victory
has given rise to some extraordinary rhetoric. A
Mississippi editor proclaims: Once more the
children of the conqueror aud the defendants of
Alfred and Edward glory in their ancestry, and
fling the standards of white supremacy to the
fragrant breezes of the southland, and the shouts
of the victorious and uncomfortable Caucasian
ascend in a grand diapasOn 10 the eternal throne
of liberty" And a Missourian, mighty of quill.
exclaims: Now will come that hosry-headed old
political sneak thief, the st. Louis Republican, try
ing to worm its vile carcass under the edges of the
grand Democratic circus-tent. Spit the blue vitriol
of truth in its eyes, and toss it to the Bengal tigers
Of the glorious caravan"