The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1856-1888, 1876-11-11
THE PACIFIC
SATURDAY. NOVEMBER IL.
Foreign SUM mary.

The World saws the venue Of the Moulton-B Beech
er case ought at once TO be changed not to North
err New York, but 10 Japan. The people there
are intelligent, have neither formed nor expressed
Of it,
One of the most sensible items in the new postal
law. and one which everybody will appreciate, is
that which allows 4 person TO write his or her name
on the wrapper and also the word - from, to let
the party receiving ii know who 1t Is from, with
ont violating the law.
Lieutenant Commander James D. Graham lately
commanding the ironclad Mahopac, and-who ac-
compained King Kalakaua during his visit to this
country, has removed with his family TO Brookville,
Montgomery county, Maryland. He Is one OF the
.Hmrlough" victims OF the reduced appropriations
shrewd business firm in Springfield, Massachu-
sets. make it a point 10 keep a sharp lookout
on the manner in which their clerks live, and If
they End n young man whose expenses tar exceed
what they know TO be his regular income, as Is too
often the case with clerks. that young man Is
quietly discharged, and no questions asked. In
one instance five clerks were turned OF together,
for getting a swell party that was known TO be
indefinitely beyond their means
The Somerset IN. j. Unionist says Some idea
of the intense heat of the present season may be
gathered from the fact that the fish IN many OF the
streams have died in consequence OF the warmth
oil the water. Especially has this been the case
in the South Branch stream, where suckers, catfish
and cells of the largest size and in great numbers
have been found floating upon the surface OF the
water, dead. Such an instance has never before
occurred within the memory OF the Oldest lnhao-
liant
At the recent distribution of the prizes by the
University of France, where the students of the
chief colleges in the country compete in common,
the eight chief prizes were carried of by q lad
named Reinach, q Partisan bankers son and aged
about 6fteen. This extraordinary event has not
occurred for over two centuries. He beat COM
p~etitors three years his seniors. and he looks as in
nocent as he is unassuming. He almost tainted
with emotion when the spectators and students
rose up en- masse to applaud the young genius.
He has a brother proportionately clever.
Owing to the great numbers of single young
women emigrating to America, there IS a dearth OF
domestic servants in England, especially IN the
North. No sooner does it become known that a
decent cook or housemaid is likely to be at liberty
than there is a regular hue and cry after her. Wa
ges have risen to such a pitch that people with
moderate means are feeling the pinch severely.
Mistresses are afraid to say a word in their own
kitchen. The other day. a cook with go q year,
give warning because the family ventured to invite
two or three friends to dinner.
The Sub-Inspector of English Factories gives
many stricking particulars of the hostility on the
part of the working classes to the educational pro-
visions now made for their children. = Is this your
skule board ~ asked a woman; " wish my mals-
ter had dropped down dead before he'd gone to
vote for it." MAY my arms drop off, y said a man,
" if / ever vote at any kind of an election again"
Another remarked Z" Talk about England being a
free country, when a man can't do as he's a mind
wi his own children - 81 In a parish of $4,000, y
asserts the government inspector, 90 if the question
OF SclOOl BOARD or no ScnOOl DOaru cOuiO again De
put, there would not be 800 votes in favor OF a
board"
The defences of London on the Thames are fast
approaching completion. Heavy guns are being
continually shipped from Woolwich Arsenal, and
Tilbury and other forts ere armed with twenty
five ton guns. throwing projectiles OF 600 pounds.
Shornmeade Fort and Court House Point, opposite,
render the river impregnable through their cross
fire; but even lower down an enemy's fleet would
have to run the gauntlet of Garrison Fort Sheer
ness, the Isle of Grain, and Shoeburyness. Most
of all, however, the government relies for the
safety of London on the new torpedo system,
which has been elaborated with great secrecy and
at an enormous expense.
THE Ex-EMPREss LOSING HER BEAUTY.-A cores
! pondent who lately saw the Empress Eugene says
she has broken sadly in the last year or two, and
has lost nearly every vestige of her beauty. She
has grown very stout, dyes her hair and covers
her face with powder, while the slight lameneSs
which she used to dissimulate so skillfully has be-
come very apparent in her gait. Her stately bear
ing and tie noble carriage of her head and shout
ders are still very remarkable. She looks like one
accustomed to wear a crown. 1t is o significant
fact that all the photographs of her now offered
for sale in the Partisan shops were taken two OF
three years ago, so apparently that she has not
cared to sit for any later ones.
The formal report of NJ. Roudaire, made recently
seems to set at rest any doubt of the feasibility OF
engulfng the desert of Algiers in the waters of
the Mediterranean sea. NJ. Roudaire, who is a
Captain on the French staff has made a ~life-study
of the geography and commercial development of
Algiers. After an exhaustive exploration of the
old basin, he became satisfied that the inland sea
or gulf which existed some twenty centuries ago
+ can be restored, and that by turning the waters of
the sea upon the desert the result would exert no
inconsiderable influence upon the m of the
civilized world. The bed of the proposed gulf is
$50 kilometers in length by 60 in breadth, or 210
by sc miles, neatly the size of the Lake Michigan.
The expense would be from $1,000, 900 to 100 600,
600 francs, of which the Tunisian Government is
willing TO bear its share.
FRANCE at the time of the reign of Louis XIV.
was greatly depressed financially, commercially and
otherwise. Her Industries were lying, as it were,
under o ban, and vast numbers of skilled and I'M
skilled laborers, were unable to find employment; to
stimulate into new life the waning industries the
Finance Minister, Mr.. Colbert, pursued o line of
policy entirely consistent with political economy. 1t
is q well established fact that the more a nations in
dustries are taxed the higher becomes the cost Of
living as also Of production, and the greater the diff
fculty Of exporting with a profit; when that becomes
the case it is only q question of time when trade,
commerce and all internal industries become paraly-
zed and laborers thrown out of employment. Mr..
Colbert, recognizing these facts repealed many impost
duties, reducing the expenditures Of government in
every conceivable way, but principally by reducing
the number Of officials, and introduced honesty in all
departments Of state. With what results history
tells. The hum OF machinery was soon heard; agri-
trade and commerce sprung new born into O vigorous
existence lsborers finding employment had their
wants met, and Colbert's name is handed down to
posterity as an example worthy the study Of all
Statement, and one whose example is deserving of
following at the present day.
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