The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1856-1888, 1879-02-15
FOREIGN NEWS ITEMS.

morning peTiormaEces-
Already three claims T. the So bounty offered
by the Princes Louise Tor tEplets have been
made % Canada
On June 30, 1870, the public debt % Victoria,
Australia, was 8 ,53j,O0j population, 500,
600.
Col. King. Iczls cattle man. has a fence -
miles long, enclosing about sa. -guary miles, on
which range 10000 beasts.
Potter and Strouach, the chief conspirators IN
the Glasgow Bank frauds, are engaged IN knit
ting stockings at the Church PenItentiary.
Queen Victoria, il Is rumored, has expressed n
strong wish 70 see Canada, and the Prince OF
Wales Is encouraging her % Yisit both that
country and the United States
Professor lager, e Stuttgart, asserts that he
has discovered the soul, which consists according
% him, Of q chemical composition Of a%lbuneu,
called " neryina.
\ committee has been appointed in sydney to
arrange grand aquatic and turf events for the
Exhibition season. Two fJur-0arcd 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. - means Of a
-SiemeBs 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 bis heirs are
putting in their claims.
jules Ferry has introduced into the French
Chamber Of Deputies an Educational bill that
viii, If passed, exclude from the right Of teach
ing all the jesuit Fathers now engaged IN educa-
tiJnai work
The late Mrs. Sarah JosepLa Hale was active III
many excellent public undertakings. She had
much 90 d. with the completion O! the Bunker
Hill Monument for thirty years She labored to
have Thanksgiving Day made q National holt
day and she greatly influenced her old friend,
Matthew Fassar, in the organization Of Nassar
College.
The Board OF Health Of CarlsruLe, Baden,
publishes a notice stating that chemical analysis
shows that the outer portions Of the packages Of
American carmel beef, which have been in con-
tact with tie tiT Of thSz eans, arc ~fmpregnated
with lead and arc Injurious TO the health. Con-
sumers are advised to cut of n thin pairing on all
sides-OG the package before using the meat.
Edison has been quietly perlecting a telephone
which surpasscs 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 clectric-light machine, and in
tend 10 locate the lights in such positions as will
enable them % illuminate the great cataract on
a magnificent scale.
Mechanics get $50 4 day, and common labor
e-s Sl5 a day, in Buenos Ayers. BOokkeepers
get S2O,OOO a year, and extra zeal as a manager
brings SIS, 1000. The paper dollar is worth three
cents in gold. Aloai Of bead costs So.
It requires 300, 900 cubic feet OF the fin est
quality Of pine lumber b make the yearly supply
OF lucifeT matches for the United States, and it
takes 100 900 cords Of fine hard wood to make
our shOepegs. IL takes 40, 900, 200 ties 70 supply
our 10000 miles Of railroad.
The Scientific American recommends potato
water ne n wash for animals afflicted with lice.
One application Of water ~ which potatoes have
been boiled - said to be sufficient.
The Boston JrGreier says that " Gen. Butler is
known 70 be n strong Grant man aud in the event
OF tie latter's nomination for the presidency
would almost certainly giyebim a warm and ac-
tive support.
Robert Held eIoped with Il widow and his own
wife assisted him in the exploit. The object of
the Helds was to get the widows $1,000, and
after doing that Hclds deserted the widow and
returned home.
-Four thousand nine hundred and ffty-thrce per-
sons were killed during the last wear in the north
west provinces Ct India andsUudc by wild beasts
and snakes, and Ofthese 37Sl owed their deaths to
snakes-bitcs.
lis MIL VIVID, ErC.-It Is said that the ex-
tensivc s~hip-Owners Of California are talking Of
having their vessels registered in Washington
Territory and paying the taxes on them there,
thus avoiding the onerous taxation which ensues
upon headOption7OIthe new Constitution of that
State.-POrtiaHd Standard.
VICE ADNmAL SEYMOUR, OF the British Navy,
IN the Morning Pcs, says The facts concern
ing the recent naval engagement off the Peruvian
coast are that the Peruvian ironclad turret ship
HuaScdr sunk the Chilean wooden ship ESmerdi-
da, and the Peruvian armor-plated ship Indcpeu-
deHad, in pursuing the Chilean wooden ship
CdrardoHga, 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 Il crime.
Somc Of the other Adventists have been warned
by the citizens to leave the place.
The Russian Government is determined that its
I Tebellious subjects shall not be long in suspense
rs to their fate. The Car has given orders that
all persons must be tried and convicted within
/ 24 hours, and that sentence must be executed
within the same length Of time after Conviction
This may be called prompt justice by some, but
4! it looks as though the Gar was acting on n pro
verb " Dead men give no trouble
DIR. Mellor, a popular preacher at Halifax
England, recently had his sermon delivered by
telephone as 1t was uttered to an audience a
Manchester, So miles away. Not only was the
/ preaching thus overheard, but the singing of {
hymn was reproduced almost perfectly, the
s0norOus voice Of DR.. MellOr being heard above
that Of the congregation The. prayer and usua
lessons were also heard. The chief defect In tin,
transmission arose from the interference Of tht
ordinary messages as they passed through the
connected wires.
The production Of salmon c~annerics Of thu
Pacific coast last year was $4,000 cans, or %
O32, 600 pounds. Specimens weighing go to Il
pounds were caught by the fishermen. 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
enught by trolling at the mouths of the rivers
but they never take the anglers fly.
y salt Lake dispatch Of the ID instant states
The motion for a new trial in the Miles polygam,
case was denied to-day by Judge Emerson, VIII
sentenced the criminal to five years imprison
ment in then Nebraska Penitentiary and a fine O
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
Heek. Miles Mas defant when scntence wa