The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1856-1888, 1876-11-25
THE PACIFIC
SATURDAY. %.
FOREIGN ITEMS.


There is at present in the United States, one mile
Of railway FOR every 54 persons
In Italy all religious professions are abolished,
except funerals.
OF the 295 Congregational Churches in Connect
icut. lS2 are over a hundred years old. A great
many have exceedingly venerable buildings
The Paris Protestants have refused 10 be bur
dened with the entertainment OF the delegates. 90
the next Worlds Conference OF the EFangeAeal
Alliance will have to be held elsewhere.
The health of Count Won Moltke is d declining. He
caught q severe cold, which turned to influenza,
while on the excarsion Of the General staff q short
time since. He is now in his 18th year.
A species of trade tyranny. the custom Of a. stand
ing a footing" still prevails in England AT a
London police court some plumbers were arraigned
recently for half hanging q fellow workman who
steadfastly refused to stand a gallon Of beer.
Military manauvers do not fatigue Emperor
William, who, after reviewing his Guards and the
different army corps of Prussia at q dozen different
places in the course Of this month, viii proceed to
Wurtemberg and to Alsace-Lorraine for 4 Ike
purpose
Rev. Edward Hitchcock of the American Chap
81 in Paris. says there are 100000 Protestants TO
81. 900, 900 Catholics in France. Last year nearly
half a million dollars Were expended In the coun-
try for Sunday-schOol, tract and missionary pur-
pnseS.
The London .ye,oish Heraied saws the return of
~ vs. ~ " 80 Prh@' ~ 49, "SHAN
the last four or five years has been unprecedented.
The Hebrew population OF the Holy City is now
double what it was ten years ago. The migration
from Russia has been especially large.
Cosr OF THE CRUISE The cost of the cruise of the
Training+ship jamestown is given by commander
Glass in a communication 10 the Board of Super
visors. He drew from the treasury on July 9Th,
S2,255. The disbursements during the cruise a.
mounted to $2,25l 20. and are thus itemized Pay
for offceres and men for July, S84l 30; pay for
off es and men for August, $3.50 OIL provisions in
port, sos IS stores and repairs. SCI 20 tonnage
and pilotage in Honolulu, S164 90. The balance,
80 80, has been paid into the treasury.-S. +. Call
Or. GEO. b. WENsHIP, who was known a few
years ago as a travelling Hercules who could lift
one side of a locomotive engine and ont pull a
horse, died in Boston on Tuesday last at the early
age of forty-two. probably a victim to excessive
atheism. 1t is impossible for a man to make enor-
nous expenditures Of vitality through his muscles
and still have a reasonable quantity kept for his
thinking, digestion, and the proper working of his
lungs and heart. Men who are exclusively ath-
letes generally die of affections of the heart or
lungs; they do not live long; longevity is reserved
for those who do most of their work in their brains,
and exercise only moderately. Tho muscular man
is by no means the strongest; on the contrary, he
is often the weakest.
ODD FELLowsIP.-The report of the Grand Sec
rotary, submitted to the Grand Lodge of Odd
Fellows at its recent session in Philadelphia, shows
the Order to be in a prosperous and hourishing
condition. 1t has greatly extended the field OF its
operations, and new Lodges are Instituted in
Australasia, several countries in Europe, Chile,
Peru, the Sandwich Islands, Turkey, etc. The
membership in some of the leading countries is
stated as follows!: England, 4l6,120; Scotland.
IL ,239; Wales, 80 1851; Australasia, 36,03S. All
these are under what is known as the " Manchester
Unity" which also has jurisdiction over the
Lodges in Buenos Ayres. Gibraltar, Malta, Turkey,
the West Indies, Africa, etc, In the United States
the membership is stated at 40, 9l6. The total
number of members of the Order in the world is
given at 6 1929. of which sos, 0l5 are under the
Manchester Unity, and 400, Ala under the Grand
Lodge of the United States. The Order has been
recently established at Amsterdam, in Holland,
under the jurisdiction of the Grand Lodge of the
United States.