The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1856-1888, 1879-10-11
Foreign News items.

ed An American newspaper boasts that tn,
he United States has more schoolmistresses in he
lie schools than soldiers in her army.
n, An attempt to blow up the court where th,
military tribunal is sitting at Kief has been dis
covered and frustrated.
In the japanese market-places fish takes first
place., as 1t naturally would do in a land so sur
rounded and intersected by water as is Japan.
10 The Loo Choo islands have been officially pro-
s claimed a Prefecture of Japan, under the title OF
o Akinaw Ken.
e 1t is estimated that the loss sustained by Rus
STA through the plague is not less than IS 900,
o 600 sterling,
Father Roberts, a nephew of Cardinal Man
ming, has just broken his VOWS of celibacy by
e marrying an English girl.
l A Mr.. M'Veigh has just arrived in SYDNEY
from the g~oldfelds in the far North with 3 ,55I
: ozs of gold. Not a bad haul.
The number of persons now imprisoned at St.
, Petersburg on the charge of completely in Nihi-
list plots is estimated at 10000.
The proposal to re-establish capital punish
ment 10 Switzerland has been submitted to the
people, and approved by l9l. l97 against III,
263 votes.
The American Colony continues to be the life
of Paris-Mrs. Mackey, of silver mine notoriety.
being the accepted queen all she can do, she
cannot run in debt.
Under the sceptre of the Car of Russia live
thirty-eight different nationalities, each speak
ing its own language, which is foreign to all
others.
1t is estimated that the loss in wages occasion
ed by the late strike to Golfers in Durham
amounts to G64O 900, E240, 900 of which was
borne by the men.
The world averages an annual product of
68l, 000, 900 pounds of tea, China producing
600, 000, 900, Japan 10, 900 900, India 81. 600
900, and Java 5000 900.
The London Times is establishing telephone
communication between the House of Commons
and its office. This will enable the reporters to
transmit reports instantaneously.
Gloves with 80 buttons are being worn in
Paris tor full dress, those with Is buttons being
considered fit only for demi-toilet. The husbands
exclaim DEM when they have to pay.
The war expenses In South Africa average
about FAC, 900 a day. The rate per thousand ex-
elusive of natives, is 8 per cent. One hundred
and seventy officers are on the sick list.
His Holiness the Pope has authorised the an
nouneement that a Catholic organ is about to be
issued in seven different languages. 1t will Off
cially represent the opinions of the Holy See.
By his victory, Hanlan becomes Champion
Sculler OF England and America, a title that has
only once before been held by one man-viz.,
when Harry Kelley defeated Hamill on the Tyne,
in 1866.
Texas is SO anxious to secure emigra ton that
she is virtually giving away her public lands.
The head of a family can get 160 acres for the
expense of the survey and patent, which is alto
gether about SIS.
The London T~ramways Company are now use
ing American mules for their cars on the south
side of the Thames. The mules stand Is to 16
hands high, and are said to work admirably.
A monster assemblage was held on the 18th
June, In favor of the movement for a reduction
of the rents, at a place called Midtown, county
Galway, Ireland. About ten thousand people
assembled.
Cinchona rubra, in addition to its value in
curiDn diDsOmapla 10 also a tonic in monu roc
poets superior to quinine. 1t is invaluable in
assisting nature to recuperate after long and
tedious illness. ,
1t is stated in a Ballarat journal that the chin
coma cure for ~inebriety has been put to a severe
test in that district, and the results have borne
out in great part all that was claimed for it. {
The Rev. Orion Clements, brother of Mark
Twain, " has been accommodated from a Pres
byterian church at Keokuk, la his offence be- q
ing heresy in denying the inspiration of the Old !
Testament. U
A lantern combined with a hood to be worn by :
a horse has been patented in America. With
its aid both driver and horse can see the track +,
better than when the lantern is placed on the :
carriage. :
Mdlle. Bernhardt's sculpture reception was a
success. 1t is not on every day that an r
actress can receive Mr.. Gladstone, Sir Frederick a
Leighton, Lord Hougton (Monckton Milnes), and I
countless others of that ilk. Fl
Thirty years ago the first sugar cane was il
planted in Natal. At the present time there are
not less than so, 900 acres under this crop in the 7
colony, yielding sufficient sugar to enable it, af- ii
ter supplying its own wants, to export $50 900 n
annually. Il
Mr.. Jenkins objected, in the House of Com e
mons to the erection off statue to the late Prince t.
Imperial in Westminster Abbey, but Sir S. b
replied that the Government attached tt
no political significance to it. ''
Sarah Bernhardt is simply the most courted II
woman in London. Society that has SO long a.
.gnored French art, has at last gone wild over the IT
charming, graceful, brilliant young actress and q
artist. Vi
The Emperor of Russia has determined upon a
MEASURE giving fresh facilities for an immense 10
Increase Of his army. The six years service in =,
he line is to be reduced to three years, an inno- "
ation which will allow of a much larger number h,
# recruits being enlisted without additional ex- Oh
,ense. -
The cost of the Paris police force for 1878 was at
bout $500 900. There is an effective force of ar
'695 persons employed in the task of maintaining 70
rider. The budget of the municipal police was al
within a fraction OF 956O 900, to which must be tn
dded q sum Of EGO 900 for the inspection of the fe
markets, and a further sum of ECO, 900 for the FRI
ire-brigade. At least SO, 900 persons are en- w
loYed in one way or another by the Prefecture
f Police. DIR
The National of France publishes the details of pc
wonderful astronomical feat performed by two ha
iayti negroes who were recently passing through to
Paris. They bet l000f. that they would eat do
stopping for six hours, and won easily, as
lifting down TO table at noon, and not rising be- WI
ore half past six. In the long interval they sue ap
eeded in consuming eight soles au grain; twelve bl
amb outlets, a joint of roast veal weighing 8 in
bs., three kilogrammes of asparagus, and an tn
melette of twelve eggs, besides a Dutch cheese, tn
2 lbs, of bread, and Is bottles of wine. an
Longfellow has recently written an interesting
etter to a governess at Chicago, which has found tel
Is way into the American papers. Therein he too
avs TO those who ask how | can write so tn
many things that sound as if | were as happy as TIT
boy" please say that there is in this n~eighbor- SAL
God, or neighboring town, Il pear-tree planted by thl
Governor Endicott 200 years, ago and that it still Se
ear fruit not to be distinguished from the young Isl
req favor sunnose the tree makcs nouwoo WI