The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1856-1888, 1876-11-04

IL IS estimated that at least 1000 people left
Savannah since the setting in of the yellow fever
panic
The fastest time on record was lately made by
the :. ;. GermaCic. She ran from New York to
Queenstown in : day. Is hours, Il minutes, being
an average Of IS s knots per hour
TIE namber Of vessels on the registers Of the
British Empire in 1875 was S1.lS6, Of T,744,2S1
tons. and worked by 42,335 seamen. The increase
over 1874 was pol vessels.
The Rev. Mr. Fitchett says, truly enough. that
tue process OF progression requires the Creators
presence, and n believer in evolution Is not neces-
sarily an infdel.
Henry Ward Beecher says Of dancing: Bad com
pany, untimely hours, evil dances, make the ex-
ercise evil: good company. wholesome hours. and
home influence, make it 4 very great benefit
1t is stated that an infusion Of The fresh leaves Of
the tomato vine s%prinkled on roses and other plants
Will drive away the insects that infest them. 1t is
a simple remedy and worth trying.-SPFinGfeld
Republican.
Instead of carrying q light in her rigging a. night,
the Transatlantic Company's steamer Amerique
has an iron Lighthouse built forward, from which is
shown 4 powerful electric light. By this plan the
horizon is lit mp all round.
During the last century the population Of the
United States has increased eleven fold and
lhe churches tbirty-seVen fold. The most remark
able has been among the Methodists and the Roman
Catholics.
At the grand illumination in honour of the
Prince Of Wales in Madras, one man displayed The
motto, God bless the Prince of Wales, direct i'm
porter Of marmalade, jams. English stores, ale,
wines, spirits, and boots and shoes"
The American team won the International match
a. Creedmoor, lasting two days. by this score:
Americans. 3.l2G; irish. 3,l04; Scotch, 3.06S:
Australian, 3.062; Canadian, 1928. The best
American shooting was at the 900 yard range.
O'Donoyan Rosa has collected, according to his
acknowledgement in the Irish World, over $4,000
for the : skirmishing fund" with which the cost of
secret assaults on England is to be paid. OF course
he cannot reveal how the money is to be expended,
for that would defeat the object but in the same
number Of the Irish World appear elaborated direc-
tons for making dynamite, gun cotton, and Greek
fire. Not content with that, the following awful in
timation is made There are several other explo-
sives, relatively far more powerful, which can be
easily manufactured and safely handled by q cool,
intelligent man.
The triumph achieved by the American rifemen at
Creedmoor is generously acknowledged by all their
opponents, who feel that it is no loss of honor to be
overcome by such competitors. But there are in
diyidual laurels for the other teams also. One of
the finest performances of the match was that Of
Miner, Of the Irish team, who on the second day hit
the b~ull's-eye fifteen successive times at l 900 yards,
making the highest possible score at that range, and
the highest ever achieved at Creedmoor. johnson,
Of the same team, had done the same thing at 800
yards the day previous. Mitchell, of the Scotch
team, with his seyenty-three points and fourteen
bull's-eyes, at 900 yards, on the first day, received
merited praise, and McVitte made the highest total
single days score of the match. In fact, each team
has individual records of which it can well be
proud.
New YORK, and several other large cities, have
swimming schools for women, which are we'll patro-
nized, supplying as they do q means of physical
education of which many sensibly avail themselves.
Every city should have at least one establishment of
this kind, since no facilities for INDUCING in natatory
exercises are afforded females living in towns. The
boys have the advantage over the girls in this respect,
and have no difficulty in finding opportunities of lear
ming this graceful, celebrating and health-giying,
n . ,uall 90 hirb1u rcafn1 avapntSa TIoro - almost
as many reasons why women should learn to swim
as men. Persons who possess this requirement have
o great advantage over those who do not have it,
and, when on the water, are comparatively calm in
the presence of danger, knowing that they have
power of riding in safety on an element which mer-
cilessly ~engulphs others who have never learned to
breast its waves.
y CURIOUS DIFFERENCE.-Jennie June says:
There is q curious difference sometimes in the
tastes of men and women who are legally one.
a married lady in New York has lived twenty
years without once having ridden behind her hus-
bands magnificent horses, of which he is very
proud. He would give anything if he could get
her to let him drive her up through the Park and
out on the Bloomingdale road But she will not,
she says she cannot, dare not-his driving makes
her so nervous To his entreaties, she replies:
"No dear; take the prettiest woman you know,
but don't ask me-" And with the natural per-
versity ofman's nature, because he can, he won't,
and goes off, saying: "My dear, you are the pref
licSI NOuldu l. huOW ksIc 3 I pretty Il DlG1.
''and if l can't take you l won't take any other
woman" Now if had such a husband as that,
l should drive out with him if [ knew l was go
ing to be torn to pieces under the horses feet.
FLoATING.-Men are drowned by raising their
arms above water, the unbuoyed weight of which
depresses the head. Other unimals have neither
motion nor ability to act in n similar manner,
and therefore swim naturally. When n man
falls into deep water he will rise to the surface
on1 oAnfinpo fhnrO IF ha docs MOI oiouafa Ifa
hands. If he moves his hand under water any
way he pleases, his head will rise SO high as
to give him full liberty to breathe; and if he
will use his legs as in the act of walking,
Cor rather walking upstairs) his shoulders will
rise above the water, so that he may use the
lees e~xertions with his hands, or apply them
to other purpose. These plain directions are
recommended to the recollection of those who
have not learned to swim in their youth, rs
they may be found highly advantageous in some
cases.
The new Sultan Of Turkey will be known as
Abdul Hamid H., the first Turkish ruler of that
name having reigned from IVA to 1889. He is
the thirty-fourth Sultan of the line OF Osman, and
the thirty-frst ruler OF Turkey since the capture
of Constantinople. lie is represented as taking
q deep interest in the working classes and their
condition; is said to be measurably free from the
special vices of Turkish princes is neither n
drunkard nor a spendthrift, and lives a quiet, do
nestle lie, with his one
in accordance with the tenets of his religion, he
owns a number of female slaves, or odalesques,
as they are called. lie inherited from his father
a mall palace at Kiabat-Hane--also on the
Sweet waters-and there he lives with his wife
and two children, a boy of six and q girl of three
years old, quite contentedly eating at the same
table with them, and playing with the little ones
like a decent Christian gentleman. He has q
fondness for tame animals, as well as for stuffed
ones, and has devoted much time and money to
the collection of a choice assortment of handsome
weapons. He is an orthodox Turk, and a reso-