The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1856-1888, 1879-11-29
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Mr.. James Gordon Bennett. owner of the Her
aid. is credited with an income of $500 a da,
from his paper.
In San Francisco county court the other DAY
the Judge solemnly presided over the d~ecapita
ting of a chickens head. 4 knife, a blood-be
s%pattered tub and Hopping chicken made a queer
scene IN a courtroom, bat 81 Que. a C~hinaman,
was only taking an oath.
The muniicenee of the Duke Of Norfolk as a
Catholic is wonderful. 1t is calculated that
within the past ten years he has applied over a
million dollars to his religion. He has just un-
dertaken to defray the cost of a new church at
Sheffield, and is about to build another at the
East end OF London.
Religious books have almost as large a sale as
the yellow covered literature. E p. Dutton &
Co. cannot print Canon Farrar's Life of St.
Paul y fast enough to supply the demand. The
first edition was sold before it left the press.
The Saturday ReUielo speaks of Abraham Lin
coin as " a man who owes his eminence rather to
the contrast between his social and his political
rank, between his qualifications and the place in
history which it was his fortune to fill, than to
his personal character or his political capacity
Some British tourists recently visited Long
fellow, saying that as there are no ruins in this
country they thought they would call on him.
They asked him to write his autograph in their
books, and as he was doing so they looked over
his shoulder, and one of them said, " Why, how
plainly he writes hand doesn't shake at all, you
know"
A Leadvllle jury last week, becoming disguised
with the - sass =" administered to themselves as
well as to the lawyers and witnesses by the
Judge, ordered the Sheriff to lock the latter up
for a couple of weeks, IS Just to take some of the
style out of him." as the foreman expressed it.
And, to his HonOr's great evaporation. he was
lugged off to Jail, and is now in durance vile,
while the case is going quietly on with the most
popular bar-keeper in town occupying the judicial
chair.
The Indian Princess Monica. daughter of Spot
ted Tail, the Sioux chief, fell in love with an
army officer at Fort Laramie, and plainly told
him SO. He informed her that he was engaged
to marry a girl in Ohio, but she persistently fol-
lowed him until her father removed her to a dis
tant camp. There she died of grief, after direct
ing that her body be buried on the spot where
she had first met the officer. This story is told
by Chaplain Alexander Wright, who was at the
time on duty at Fort Laramie.
The magnificent diamonds which were present.
ed as a bridal gift to the daughter of General
Sherman by the Khedive of Egypt are kept in
the vault of the United States Treasurer, and
their casket is sealed, so that the Treasurer's clerk
may not be put to the trouble of displaying them
to visitors. The daughter, Mrs. Fitch, lives in
st. Louis. She has three children, the oldest
being a boy of four years.
The sending of troops into Ireland by the Brit
ish government shows that the situation is be-
serious, and that the government is some
what alarmed at the great mass meetings that
have been held. Three hundred tenants in Tip
perary have deliberately refused to pay their
rent, refusing a gradual reduction that was Of
fered. The London Spectator proposes a plan for
relief, including the reclamation of waste lands
on the basis of peasant proprietorship. The Eng
hsh farmers are talking of giving up the c%ultiva-
ton of wheat, and raising something else not
to American competition.
C~ologne's cathedral is to be finished next year,
its first stone having been laid in 1913. 1t took
three centuries to build It's choir alone, and by
that time the enthusiasm for great cathedrals had
died out. Its construction dragged along till
1880, when Frederick William III of Prussia un-
dertook its repair, and the German government
and people have since furnished the means to fin
ish the work. The nave, aisles and transept were
in iS48, the Interior was completed in
1868, and now nothing il to be done but the last
and browning decorations of the stately towers.
The massive caps of stoae-work have to be laid
on, and then on their SUBMITS have to be fixed
the gigantic "foliated cDsses,'' almost 80 feet
high, which are to crown the towers of this mas
of Gothic architecture, -the largest speci-
men of that style of building in the world.