The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1856-1888, 1877-02-10
FOREIGN ITEMS.

The total value of exports from San Francico to
the Hawaiian Islands thus far In the month of De-
cember is $7e, l59.-Post, Dec. 20.
TIE balance of the trade was in favor of the
United States for the year ending June 80, 1876, to
the extent OF nearly $s,00O,0O0.
John Chapman. one of the last survivors of Ira
falgar, has lust died In Dundee, aged go. He was
a sailor on the Victory. and helped to pick up
Nelson when he fell fatally wounded.
The $50, eco required to construct the tabernacle
for the Moody and Sankey revival, which is to
open at Boston NEXT month, has been pledged, but
$1,000 more is wanted for running expenses.
The Naval Commissioners report on navy yards
a liberal treatment of Mare Island
and says it should be brought up to the standard
of the Brooklyn Navy Yard, being equal in impor-
lance to any in the country.
At Chicago, on Monday, Moondy obtained sub
s~criptions to the amount of $4,000 from the per
sonal friends OF the late P. p. Bliss, who, with his
wife, persisted in the Ashtabula horror. This sum
will be put at interest for the benefit of the sons.
Gov. Kemper of Virginia says that the
debt of that State amounts to $33 eco. 900,
all of which was contracted before the war. 1t
amounts to ~one-tenth of the taxable property
the of State.
4 leading Paris grocer offers for sale small bits
of maccaroni for use in soup, which are stamped
with the image of Napoleon Ill, instead of, as or
dinarly, with the letters of the alphabet. When
the maccaroni swells the features enlarge until the
nose, mustache, and profile of the late Emperor
stand out in startling relief. Republicans COM
plain that having had to swallow the Emperor
during twenty years. it is to much too ask them to
renew the dose.
PRINCE GoRTCHAKoFF.-The Russian Premier, is
noted for his abstemious habits. He never drinks
wine and never smokes. He drinks a cup of coffee
in bed before rising, and eats but two meals a day.
Retiring very early in the evening, he sleeps ten
or twelve hours. His regular habits have kept
his frame in such excellent condition that he does
not feel the infrmities of old age at all. He was
born in 1898, entered upon his diplomatic career
under Count Nesselrode, and became the foreign
Minister of Russia at the close of the Crimean
campaign. .
The little far-off kingdom of Denmark is not
without its troubles. The King and Parliament,
which is largely radical, cannot agree. The latter
in their financial bill have not only stricken ont
or largely reduced every item demanded by the
government, but have incorporated in their report
personal insults against some of the ministers.
The King is advised to dissolve the session, which
would be the third time since the trouble began,
and the radicals urge resistance to the collection
of taxes, by force if necessary.
Elizabeth Cady Stanton and others, on behalf of
the National Women of the United States to petit
ton Congress for an amendment to the %constitu-
ton prohibiting the states from DISTINGUISHING any
citizen on account OF sex. They are at last ad-
dressing the right constituency. Suffrage is a
burden as well as a privilege; so long as most
women dread the burden and do not covet the
privilege the men will not bind it on their
shoulders. Whenever the women want TO vote
they will. But no class yet had suffrage thrust
upon them; and no class ever will.
A computation has been made by an English
savant OF the possible increase of the population
of England at the rate of progress that has marked
it since the year 1901, and the distant future, in
these estimates, shows aggregates that are appal-
ling to contemplate. Fortunately there need be no
occasion for alarm on the part of the country as to
means Of providing fort his expected increase. 1t
has been estimated that the United States could
furnish ample susteinance for the population of six
hundred millions, so that if the increment of the
British race were twice as great as it is. the whole
English-speaking stock could be accommodated in
this Republic and have space for more. Texas
alone could furnish homes for more people than
the British isles now contain, and Florida could
accommodate the whole surplus British population
for generations to come.
The London Times, in speaking of the excessive |
use of midicines, says it would be utterly impos-
sibly to tell how many constitutions have been
impaired, how many digestions ruined, how many |
compilations spoiled, and how many purses
emptied, through medicine. What is that you
say-that a stitch in time saves nine, and that
the right medicine quickly taken averts the dan
ger? Very likely. | quite believe that. But in
ninety-nine cases out of a hundred where is the
danger? Medicine is often the precursor of after
misery, and the poor constitution has 10 paw
dearly for its medicinal flip. The wiser phil
osophy Of the present day is gradually delivering
us from these potent perils. Nature has a self
righting power within her; there is a kind of
ris medicatrir in the physical frame. Treat the
body kindly ; let as much pure air as possible
to the lungs, and as much fresh water as is
needful be applied to the flesh, and as much
healthy exercise as duty permits be given to the
muscles, and as early rising as circumstances will
allow be afforded for the recruitment of the brain,
and then medicine will be an avoidable affair.