The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1856-1888, 1879-10-25
Foreign News Items.

Nearly all the pawnbrokers of France are wo-
men.
A. Fl. Stephens says be has received S35 900
royalty on his book, Z" The War between the
States"
The number of immigrants arriving in New
York for the year ending July 81, 1879, was lO3.-
245 previous year, T4,l39-
Committees are forming in New York to col
lect funds for Cubans who propose renewing their
struggle for Independence.
The proposal to re establish capital punishment
in Switzerland has been ubmitted to the people,
and approved by l9I,l97 against III ,263 votes.
Mrs. Langtry does her own millinery. A
strange original and becoming that which she
wore at the French fete was made by herself frem
one of her grandmother's old leghorn straws.
Steamship agents in New York say that
= . potatoes for Ireland are the commonest things
in the world :" and oatmeal is frequently ship
ped to Glasgow.
at II, 900 to ID 900, and are already taxed to the
extent of E2 l8s per head upon their rice and
opium.
That excellent lady, the Baroness Burdett
Coutts, placed FL 900 for the sick and wounded
in the hands of Sir Garnet Wolseley before he
sailed for South Africa.
The fire department of New York has in daily
use AZ steam fire engines, besides the steam fire
boat w. f. Havemeyer. Six of the engines are
self-propellers.
The number of vessels employed in the macker-
ell fishery hailing from Massachusetts alone is
over one thousand. Over 5000 people are en-
ployed in catching and curing the fish.
So disgusting was the evidence in several OF
the divorce cases lately heard in Sydney, that its
publication was disallowed by the court. Busi-
ness in this court has greatly increased of late.
ESQ, T33 was taken at the Melbourne Custom
House on the 5th August, in anticipation Of
tariff changes. This is the largest sum ever re-
ceived in one day.
Mr.. w. Woolls, F. L. S., describes. in a
Sydney paper, So species of the Eucalyptus in
digenous to New South Wales. He follows Prof.
Muller's classification.
Hanlon's easy defeat of William Elliott for the
English championship is a source OF wonderment
to the English watermen. He beat his opponent
by over 100 yards in 81 minutes l second.
Colonel Mure, Mp, addressed a meeting of
his constituents at Barrhead, Scotland, and IN the
course of his address, he denounced the Afghan
and Zulu wars as unjust, unnecessary, and cruel.
The Alloa, Clackmannanshire, Cooperative
Society reports a membership of 1925, and sales
for the past quarter amounting to &c, COS rs Sd.
The share capital is f13 ,667 lis Sd.
TalDage's presence in England has created
quite a furOre. Press csmments deal with BIN
daily from various points of view, as preacher
or lecturer, but all admit his power and original
ity.
New South Wales has opened and has under
contract about 1000 miles of railways, and is
about to construct additional lines. Victoria has
ITO miles of railways opened, with several lines
nearly completed.
A somewhat prominent native of japan at
Yokohama, has been condemned to ten years
penal servitude for the offence of lending a room
to Cinnamon for the purpose of smoking opium
therein.
The best New York fire steamers can throw a
horizontal stream $50 feet. The extreme height
to which water has been thrown is $50 feet.
The average height to which the stream is thrown
on ordinary duty is 60 feet.
The Board of Education of Springfeld, Illinois,
have adopted a spelling reform resolution to the
effect that the irregular spelling of the English
language is a serious hindrance in learning to
read and write.
A life of DIR. Livingstone is in preparation,
under the supervision of his family, and has
special reference to his personal and domestic
character, and his work as missionary. Pro-
fessor Blaikie, of Edinburgh, has it in hand.
Controversy runs high in New South Wales
between Catholics and Professionals, anent Arch
bishop Vaughan's Pastoral denouncing and
threatening Catholics who send their children to
the State Schools.
The moon is always just the same, y he said
languidly, 4" and yet | always find same new
beauty in it, Its just so with the circus"
she answered. He took the hint and bought
tickets for two.
The Haytian Insurgents continue to burn
towns and destroy property with that industry
peculiar to men who live by theft and have moth
ing to lose but what they may have stolen from
some one else.
The depression in the lumber business IS severe
ly felt at Puget Sc and. There are over so ,000,-
900 feet of saw logs in the water. Five of the
saw-mills have closed, awaiting an improvement
in the trade.
As good a plan as any to break up sitting hens
is to place them in a barrel containing three or
four Inches of cold water. Let them remain
standing in the water part of a day and generally
it will be found hat one or two such lessons will
cure them OF their sitting propensities.
The acquital of the Gullys on the charge of
numbering the Chisholms in Mississippi is one of
those curlosities of trial by jury which puzzle tho
admirers of that institution. By the light of this
verdict we may, however, interpret the indiffer-
ence of representative MlssissippIans when asked
if they approve the Yazoo plan.
The Negro Exodus, as viewed by Fred Doug
lass, is a simple and effective plan for teaching
the value of the = : despised and hated negro =" to
the South. 1t puts it to the chivalry whether
they will share hog and hominy with the black or
give up whiting and take up the shovel and the
hoe themselves.
There are undoubtedly very serious trade dis
turbances in Great Britain. In Scotland all the
manufacturing interests are langulshing, with the
single exception of the iron business. 10 other
branches of industry the ssagnation is such that
over 80. 900 men are said to be thrown out of en-
ployment.
The telegraph brings intelligence that the
Spanish Government is embarrassed over the in
creasing agitation in Cuba, but all consideration
of the question will be deferred until after the
marriage of Alfonso. Alfonso had better expe-
dite matters, or the 'Ever Faithful Isle - may
get a nice little rebellion under Roadway before
the marriage bells are done ringing.
The will of one Moses O'Conor, fled recently
for probate in San Francisco, provides for the
disposal of his estate, valued at S2S 900 as fol
each. to his wife, $4,000, and $40. 900 for a per-
petual daily mass for his soul. That doesn't
leave the devil a ghost of a show in his case.
Now the question arises, won't the Old Boy try
to get even on some of US poor fellows that hav-
emf any coin to put up?