The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1856-1888, 1879-05-03
FoREIcN NEWS ITEMS.

yania Is paying so poorly that there is talk
turning 1t into a popcorn factory.
The Jesuits have sent the Pope a kind Of ult
matum, pointing out the evils resulting from the
exclusion from the Government Of the church.
Americans, by supplying unlimited wheat
England, and manufactures to the rest of I'll
world, are endeayoring both to stuff and starv
John Bull at the same moment.
The London Edinburgh Steamship Company
steamer Albion has been chartered TO convey t
Zanzibar, Africa, Mr.. Henry NJ. Stanley an
party.
The old and absurd practice of dressing il tren
chers, hoods and gowns has been adopted by thu
Senate Of the New Zealand University. Quan
fun IN reJus in0He.
In Scotland, if two acknowledge each other a.
husband and wife, and were understood to be 81
by other people, they are married by Scotch law
The North Wales Slate Quarrymen and the
North Wales Miners Association, offer Ct to
every member who will emigrate to America, and
Gl4 to those who leave for Australia.
An Electric Light Company has been incor-
will. it is said, furnish q better light than gas, at
a cost Of one-fourth the price charged by the COM
p%aDies.
Over 5000 factories are engaged in the manu-
facture-of butter and cheese in the United States,
besides the tens of thousands of private dairies.
One manufacturer in Western New York has over
forty factories.
Professor Watson has been guaranteed by the
citizens of Detroit $50. 900 for the purchase of
the largest and most powerful telescope in the
world, to be located Mt Ann Arbor, Michigan.
A vessel is to leave San Francisco shortly, tax
InU with hor n efeam ianucb and n nap1v invan-
ted rocket for killing whales at thirty fathoms.
The steam and powder will no doubt wake up
some Of the leviathans Of the Arctic.
The latest statistics of the Registrar General in
England prove that they are in that country
nearly n million more females than males.
There is at this moment lying at the Bank of
England the sum of G20, 900 lodged there by
some jealous botanist, as a reward to be given to
the man or woman who shall produce a blue
dahlia.
The first female clerks ever employed in the
national treasury were appointed by Secretary
Chase, in 1869, and now there are more than one
thousand and three hundred women employed in
the departments at Washington.
The excavations at the supposed site of the
hanging gardens of Babylon are said to have ter
minated. They have yielded many tablets from
the time OF Nabonidus to the Parthian era.
The newest thing out is manufactured food for
dogs. 1t is made in the form of hard biscuits,
which, it is said, the CANNES soon take special
delight in gnawing as they would a meat bone.
Six hundred and twenty men are now employ
ed on the Sydney Exhibition Building. The
space applied for by Great Britain and the conti-
nent Of Europe is larger than the entire area.
The Times in its financial summary for 1873,
says: " Industries have been disorganized,
rradit Ghaknu and failures mulfiplipd IN auaru
hand. The failures will be nearly five thousand
more than last year.
The streets of Paris are kept clean in ordinary
by $500 sweepers, publicly paid, and
1000 auxiliary hands at half wages. In very bad
weather 1000 sweepers are ready at n moments
notice to ply their brOOms.
The MasOus in France, who have excluded the
lame Of the Deity from their ceremonials, are
bout to invite the British and American Masons
10 a conference, and will declare themselves indie
pendent if they cannot have their own way.
Krupp guns and Remington rifles are manufac-1
ured by China, at her arsenals. 1t is asserted
hat the military force of the empire is being d.
into cadres, preparatory to being drilled
nd organized on the European plan.
The Governments of Germany, Great Britain,
france, the United States, Italy, Belgium, Spain,
md Portugal, are said to have agreed to the
.doptiOn Of n set Of rules calculated in future to
'revent collisions at sea.
1t was thought that the power of the micro
cope was exhausted; but DIR. Cutter, of Preston,
as exhibited the first one-seventy-ffth objective
yer produced. 1t made n c~orpuscle OF blood
ppear the size of n shilling.
Roger " Castro, alias Tichborne, writes from
is prison cell: dear Onslow-You cannot
ope with the Vaccinations of a mighty govern
nent any more than L could. 1t is no longer
YoI POpUH UOr Del in this country. Vor DizzV
on Del is the order of the day; therefore / must
emain a victim"
The Zulus are found to be armed with the best
reech-loading rifles, are capital marksmen and
ave n supply Of explosive shells Of the latest pat
ern. The Natal authorities are much exercised
yer the question, /" Who arms the Zulus?'' the
redit or blame being generally attributed to the
portuguese Of Delagoa Bay. The Americans and
russians are named in the same connection.
Pope Leo XIII does not countenanco the theo-
Y that all dancing is of the Evil One. To some
ldies who asked his permission to dance during
he late Carnival he said: go, my dears. and
njOy yourselves in an innocent dance, only don't
eep up too late your papas and mammas when
hey want to get home again"
a letter from Ceara, Brazil, gives the details
T the horrible scenes in that province caused by
anime and small pox. The province has been
populated population OF 900 900 has been
sduced to 40O, 900. The survivors are huddled
round the larger cities dependent upon the gov
rnment for seanty ratiOns, and still dying ut
fearful rate. 4 visit to the graveyard near
i~ortaleZa showed that the soil was silicious sand
nth no more disinfectant properties than a pile
{ stone with 20 1000 bodies rotting underneath.
he stencil was ~insupportable. A new disease
allied black small pox has broken out, and AZ is
elieved it is the black plague of Europe and
Isia. Besides awful mortalities in the province
lentioned, it is believed 800 900 people died in
thor famine and disease infected provinces in the
lteriOr.