The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1856-1888, 1879-06-28
FOREIGN NEWS ITEMS.
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Already three claims to the SI5 bounty offered
by the Princess Louise for triplets have been
made 10 Canada.
On June 30, 1876, the public debt Of Victoria,
Australia, was $50, 535 900 population, 500,
Col King. a Texas cattle man. has a fence 70
miles long, enclosing about 81 square miles, on
which range 10000 beasts.
Potter and Strouach, the chief conspirators in
the Glasgow Bank frauds, arc engaged in knit
ting stockings at the Church Penitentiary.
Queen Victoria, it is rumored, has expressed a
strong wish to see Canada, and the Prince OF
Wales Is encouraging her TO VISIT both that
country and the United States.
Professor jaeger, Of Stuttgart, asserts that he
has discovered the soul, which consists according
20 him, Of q chemical composition Of albumen,
called - neryina-'
\ committee has been appointed in Sydney to
arrange grand aquatic and turf events Tor the
Exhibition season. Two fOur-Oared crews are
expected from England, one from America, and
one from each OF several OF the Colonies.
The latest triumph achieved by electricity is
tie lifting Of an elevator in San Francisco, with
over two tons Of coal on 1t, by means Of a
Siemens machine.
There IS likely to be a great lawsuit about the
property Of the late Brigham Young He left
the bulk Of il to the church, and his heirs are
putting in their claims.
Jules Perry has introduced into the French
Chamber Of Deputies an Educational bill that
will, # passed, exclude from the right Of teach
ing all the Jesuit Fathers now engaged IN educa-
tiOuai work
The late Mrs. Sarah Josepha Hale was active in
many excellent public undertakings. She had
much 10 do with the completion Of the Bunker
Hill Monument for thirty years she labored TO
have Thanksgiving Day made a National holt
day and she greatly Influenced her old friend,
Matthew Vassar, in the organization Of Yassar
College.
The Board Of Health of Carlsruhe, Baden,
publishes a notice stating that chemical analysis
shows that the outer portions Of the packages of
American canned beef, which have been in con-
tact with tie. tin Of tho2eaas, are ~fmpregnated
with lead and are Injurious to the health. Con-
sumers are advised to cut off n thin pairing on all
sides-of the package before using the meat.
Edison has been quietly perlecting a telephone
which surpasses all the instruments now in use
lie has discovered that chalk possesses wonderful
powers Of transmitting sound.
The Niagara Fall Prospect Park Company have
contracted for an electric-light machine, and in
tend to locate the lights in such positions as will
enable them to illuminate the great cataract on
a magnificent scale.
Mechanics get $50 a day, and common labor
ers $l5 a day, in Buenos Ayers. Bookkeepers
get $4,000 a year, and extra zeal as a manager
brings S75 600. The paper dollar is worth three
cents in gold. loaf of bread costs So.
It requires 300 900 cubic feet of the fin est
quality Of pine lumber to make. the yearly supply
Of lucifer matches for the United States, and it
takes 100 900 cords of fine hard wood to make
our s~hoepegs. IL takes 40, 000, 000ties to supply
our 90 200 miles of railroad.
The. Scientific American recommends potato
water as n wash for animals afflicted with lice.
One application of water in which potatoes have
been boiled is said to be sufficient.
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Tho Boston. TrareIer says that " Gen. Butler is
/ known to be a strong Grant man and in the event
Of tie latter's nomination for the presidency
would almost certainly giyehim a warm and ac-
tive support.
Robert Held elOped with Il widow and his own
wife assisted him in the exploit. The object of
the Held5 was to get the widows $1,000. and
after doing that Helds deserted the widow and
returned home.
Four thousand nine hundred and ffty-three per
sons were killed. during the last wear in the north
west provinces CT India andFUude BY wild beasts
and snakes, and Ofthese 37Sl owed their deaths to
snakes-bitcs.
lis ANILL. VIVID, ETC.-It is sand that the ex-
t~ensiye s~hip-Owners of California are taking of
I having their vessels registered In Washington
Territory and paying the taxes on them there,
thus avoiding the onerous taxation which ensues
upon the adOption7OCth new Constitutihn Of that
State.-PoriLaHd Standard
VICE ADMIRAL SEYMOUR, OF the British Navy,
/ III lApIIdSiT 1N3s says ~ ldCNS tOuCGEu-
ING the recent naval engo snt of the Peruvian
coast are that the Perd 5ironclad turret ship
Huascar sunk the Chilean wooden ship ESmeraE-
ia, and the Peruvian armor-plated ship IndePen-
deHad, in pursuing the Chilean wooden ship
CaraTdOHga, ran on a reef and was wrecked.
Freeman, the Massachusetts, man who killed
his little daughter as an Offering to God. has
been found guilty Of homicide. He still
maintains that nc will be justified by God. and
promises another astonishing revelation May
Dist. His wife is less confident, and evidently
begins to fear that she has committed a crime.
Some Of the other Adyentists have been warned
by the citizens to leave the place.
The Russian Government is determined that Its
rebelIiOus subjects shall not be long in suspense
rs to their fate. The Car has given orders tina
all persons must be tried and convicted within
% hours, and that sentence must be executed
within the same length Of time after conviction
This may be called prompt justice by some, but
il looks as though the Gar was acting on o pro-
verb " Dead men give no trouble"
DIR. Mellor, a popular preacher at Halifax
England, recently had his sermon delivered by
telephone rs it was uttered to an audience a
Manchester, SO miles away. Not only was the
4 preaching thus overheard, but the singing of
hymn was reproduced almost perfectly, thu
sOuorouS voice of DIR. Mellor being heard allow
that Of the congregation. The prayer and usua
lessons were also heard. The chief defect in tin,
transmission arose from the Interference of tn,
ordinary messages as they passed through thu
connected wires.
The production Of salmon cannerics Of tn
Pacific coast last year was Ssh 900 cans, or %
052, 600 pounds. Specimens weighing 90 to Il
pounds were caught by the fishe men. y pecul
iarity Of the Oregon salmon is their contempt 70
all the anglers lures. There is no salmon an
Cling on the Oregon rivers. They are sometime
caught by trolling at the mouths of the rivers
but they never take the anglers fly.
a Salt Lake dispatch Of the ID instant states
The motion for a new trial in the Miles ~polygam,
u case was denied to-day by Judge Emerson, VIII
sentenced the criminal to five years imprison
ment in the Nebraska Penitentiary and a fine @
{ 800. Notice OF appeal was given and as tn
Supreme Court of the Territory is now in session
here, the case will probably be disposed OF thi
week. Miles was defar when sentence wa
: Pronounced.