The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1856-1888, 1876-08-19

plethora of money, have no relish for wildcat
investments.
FOREIGN ITEMS.
THE CHINESE IMMIGRATION During the past
three years SO ,346 Cinnamon arrived in California,
and q ,088 returned to their country, leaving
here 80, 258. The number arriving last year was
Is 1866.
An Arkansas professor says that for SO, 900 he
win drive the Indians out Of the Black Hills in two
weeks with balloons and sharpshooters. A Sioux
once saw q small balloon at 8 circus in st. Paul,
and he fell back and died.
A man was elected from a train on the Pacific
coast recently because he insisted that silver trade
dollars were legal tender for his fare. A suit for
5000 damages will settle the question at issue
The inhabitants of the small towns in California
are so choice in their currency ideas that they refuse
10 work for the silver trade dollar. They barrel
them up and send them back to San Francisco.
The superiority of the white man over the sehesp
Chinee'' has at last been fully INDICATED in San
Francisco, by an ordinance declaring that all priso-
ners, shall have their hair cut within an inch of their
scalps. If there is any more contemplate way Of per-
scouting the Chinese, the San Francisco Supervisors
may be confidently relied on to find it out and to
engraft it on our American system of justice.
The MINISTRY OF BooKs.-Books are a guide
in youth and an entertainment for old age. They
support us under solitude, and keep us from be-
coming q burden to ourselves. They help us to
forget the grossness of men and things, compose
our cares and passions, and lay our disappoint-
ments asleep. When we are weary of the living,
we may repair to the dead, who have nothing of
peevishness, pride, or design in their conversation.
The SrARs.-When L gaze into the stars they
look down upon me with pity from their serene
and silent spaces, like eyes glistening with tears
over the little man. Thousand of generations all
as noisy as our own, have been swallowed up by
time, and there remains no record of them any
more. Yet Arcturus and Orion, Sirius and
Pleiades, are still shining in their bright courses.
clear and young as when the shepherd first noted
them in the plain Of Shinar.-1homas Carlyle.
&" PERPETUAL MOTION "CHEAP.-The following
advertisement recently appeared in the London
Times -" Perpetual Motion. No mechanism of
any sort extremely simple. Any light machin-
cry can be kept in perpetual motion. ESQ re-
quired, for which share will be given, which will
realize a fortune. Upon reference being fur
nished a section of model will be shown, and
every information given" The English Ne
chanic, after quoting the advertisement, remarks:
g We have no doubt that the invention is e-
tremely simple, but not so simple as any one who
will give ESQ for it's
PROPOSED WORLD CoNvENTIoN.-At the annual
meeting of the Chamber of m at New
York, Samuel B. Ruggles, from the Special Com
mittee on Currency, reported, that in view of the
great deterioration in the value of silver, it hay
ing been reduced in market price fully twelve per
cent within twelve years, in consequence of the
recent heavy production of the metal, that the
Chamber of Commerce recommend Congress to
call q Convention of representatives of the world,
to regulate the monetary value of silver coin by
increasing its weight. The report was adop-
ted.
MILK FOR BABEs.-The following bits of scien-
tiic intelligence are not from the " Primer Of
Chemistry, - but from the " Beriehte der Deutsc-
hen Chemisehen Gesellschaft zu Berlin: " Ac-
cording to P. Ebell, when benzoylnaphtylamide
is treated with nitric acid, two isomeric mononi-
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS are formed. By the
action of hydrogen upon these bodies different
products are obtained. One yields monoamidob-
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS, the other anhydrobendozodia-
midonaphtaiene. {. Meinecke finds that when
bromine is allowed to act on benzaanilide, mono
brombenzanilide is produced; and that the latter
when treated with Tuning nitric acid yields mo-
nobrommononitrobenzanilide and also brondini-
trobenZanilide,
Mr. MooDY's MEANS OF SUPPoRT.-The New
York Tribune SAYS: Mr.. Moody has not sufficient
means to bear the expence of travelling or to sup
port his family and himself while giving his
whole time to preaching. For this reason he has
been compelled to accept the free offerings OF such
friends as choose to give him pecuniary assistance
and desire and expect nothing in return but that
he should continue in his work. A great part of
these gift comes to him enclosed in anonymous
letters, thus compelling acceptance. During his
stay in New York all his letters, except those
from his own family, have been opened by the
persons who entertain him as their guest. Mr..
Moody states that during his stay in New York
he has received about $500 in this way, and that
all he has ever received from friends has only
placed him in barely comfortable circumstances.
SAID he to the reporter: 81 have all the money l
want, if it isn't very much. 1 have just bought
a little place To make a nome for my wife and
children; it cost me So 500 and l have been put
ting in some repairs which will cost about as
much more; and / don't think / am ashamed to
look any man in the face and tell him about it,"
There is a nan who is anxious to do some
thing for posterity, and who, like the young gen.
tleman who was fitted in " Locksley Hail." has
''dipt into the future, as far as human eye can
see.'' ga liberal-minded Englishman, +" says the
Ne,c York World, 'who seems to apprehend an
imminent cataclysm, has sent to the Arctic seas
Is, 900 tight-ccrked bottles, each containing a his
tory of the world according to the Mosaic records,
from the Creation to the second primacy of Mr..
Disraeli. They are to be imbedded in separate
parcels in the ice, to the end that if all the exist
ling inscriptions and memorials of the world fail,
a remote posterity between whom and ourselves
the Englishmln doubtless conjectures that a new
being is TO roI, shall have an added chance of
recovering and perusing the antique legends of the
world on which they live. This is a very clever no.
ton indeed, for in an infinitely remote period
these TASKS, now shut in the Businesses of the
polar ice, will, unless the walruses pull the corks
on suspicion of schnapps, be carried by the ocean
currents to every border OF the globe, and 1t Will
fare i'll if, among some of the races OF mankind
then existing, there be not found a Max Muller,
or a Champollion, or a Rawlinson to decipher
their contents, and translate into their own char
acters our archaic Saxon text