The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1856-1888, 1879-06-07
FoREIcN NEWS ITEMS.
Queen Victoria has some 50, 600, 900 worth
plate in Windsor Castle.

Queen Victoria has some 50, 600 600 worth oil
plate in Windsor Castle.
Robert Bonner is said to pay a veterinary sur
geOn $500 per year TO care fOE the health Of
horses valued at $500, 600.
The Glasgow statue Of Livingstone represents
the explorer with a Bible in one hand and a cap in
the other. This Is the thirteenth statue in
George Square, Glasgow.
SIR. Finney, 4 London dentist, claims to have
found a filed tooth in the jaw Ct an Egyptian
mummy. Dentistry was further advanced 1000
years ago in Egypt than supposed.
Since Rev. Anna Oliver graduated from the
Boston Theological School in 1876, another lady,
Anna T.. Shaw, has also received a diploma,
while still others have nearly completed the course.
DR.. Deems believes in repeating sermons. lie
thinks the preacher should follow the hint of the
actor, who eIectrifes audiences by the recitation
Of familiar sentences.
On and after July the Ist, 1879, there will be
exhibited from Pollock Rip lightship, of Chat
ham, at the east end Of Vineyard Sound, two fixed
red lights, instead Of the single white light now
shown.
In consequence of the introduction of the
English language into the Gaelic Church at Pals
ley, Scotland, on Sunday. the 10th, the congre.
CATION rose in q body and left the church, and
LA~A~ ~ AeNA hgA1E mat AHN Jun
not proceed.
Some time ago CadIual Manning issued an order
fOrbIddIng women to sing IN the choir of w estmin-
ster Diocese, and now Archbishop Fabre of Mon
treal, has proclaimed that after June LIST the
same regulations will be enforced in bis diocese.
The Duchess Of Connaught is to have $500
yearly for her own use, though If she becomes a
widow the allowance bounds up to $50, 900.
With an inducement Of so, 500 a year for her to
become IL widow, the Duke Of Connaught had
better lock out for himselE-LoHdoH Times.
An adept 10 ocean travel urges those who fear
sickness to take n ten-grain blue-pill the night be-
fore sailing, and a dose Of citrate of magnesia the
following morning. Then eat breakfast and 90
on board. He has followed this practice for
several years, and has been entirely free from
qualms. All those who have initiated him have
been equally fortunate.
The capital invested in all the railroads of the
globe exceeds SIS, 500 200, 900. These roads,
according to the statistics of Prof. Neumann-
S~pallsrt, require $4,000 locomotives, 49, 900
passenger carriages and 1900, 900 goods trucks.
Annually L 600 ,000, 900 tons of merchandise and
l 800, 100000 passengers are conveyed by these
means Of transit.
Il. Arlington, of Leeds, England, has offered
the Baptist Missionary Society so, 200 to pro-
vide a steamer for navigating the Congo river as
soon as contemplated operations shall have been
established at San Salvador. The offer has been
accepted, and an expedition will shortly leave
England for the purpose.
Recently in one of the Lowell Baptist churches
the Bell telephone apparatus was placed in the
pulpit on Sunday, and the service was heard dis
tinctly by people having connection with it in all
parts OF the city. The singing, both tune and
words, was heard at Foxboro, So miles distant,
and via Foxboro, in Boston, eighty miles away.
How MUcH CAN A Man REAp.-Suppose a man
to be able to read eight hours a day. No one
can really sustain receptive or critical attention
to written matter for eight hours. But take
eight hours as the outside possibility. Thirty
pages octave is an average hours reading. taking
one book with another. This would make 240
pages per day. 1850 per week, and 81 800 pages
in a year. Taking the average thickness of an
octave volume as 400 pages only, the quantity OF
reading which a ~dIlligent student can get over in
n year Is no more than an amount equal to 220
volumes octave.
FLOWERS FOR THE TABLE.-Sct flowers on your
table-a whole nosegay if you can get it, or but
two or three, or a single tOwer-a rose, n pink,
a daisy, and you have something that reminds
you OF Gods creation. and gives you a link with
the poets that have done it most honor. Flowers
on the morning table are especially suited to them.
They look like the happy Weakening of the crea-
ton they bring the perfume of the breath of
nature into your room they seem the very rep
anu CiuOOOlulGuI VI u very el0lle OIL
your home, the grace of good morrow proofs
that some intellectual beauties are in ourselves or
those about us, some Aurora (if we are so lucky
as to have such 4 companion), helping to strew
our life with sweetness, or In ourselves some mas
culine wilderness not unworthy II possess such a
companion or unlikely to gain her.-Leigh Hunt.
FULL-BLoOD AND THORoUGHBRED.-Again and
again we have been called upon to answer the
question, " What is the difference, if any, be-
tween full-blood and pure-blood, and thorough
bred, rs applied to live stock % and as often we
have answered, There is really no difference. All
these terms are used to denote purity of blood.
When applied to horses, the term thoroughbred
by common consent, has come to be recognized as
the name of a particular breed-the English race
horse-and when We speak of a thoroughbred
horse, 1t Is understood that we refer to a purely
bred animal Of that particular breed. There arc,
perhaps, purely-bred or well-bred or full blood
Clydesdales. England draft horses, Percheron-
Normans, Shetland ponies, etc, but we never
speak of them as thoroughbred. In speaking of
the various breeds of cattle We may say a full
blood Short-horn, a purely-bred Short-horn, or Il
Thoroughbred ShOrt-horn, all meaning one and
the same thing and so of all the other breeds of
cattle, sheep and swine. In some localities an
distinction has been recognized between
thoroughbreds and iull-bloods. Thus, an animal
showing n given number of crosses of n certain
breed Is classed as a full-blOod, although it could
not be recognized as n thoroughbred. But such
distinctions are merely local, and are not generally
rpcuOuizef he brnednrs National -r- SgorE