The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1856-1888, 1880-09-25
Foreign News items.


Foreign News stems.
The Queen of Siam and her little son are reported
to have been drowned.
Instead of a thousand there are just fifteen hun
dred and five islands in the st. Lawrence river.
Jews are said to number half the university stu
dents. half the barristers, and more than half the
merchants of Vienna.
Judge Supulveda, of Los Angeles, Cal, has deci-
ded that the law of the last legislature forbiddlng
aliens to transact business without a license is void.
Montreal is making an extensive preparation for
the Dominion Exhibition to be held there next month,
when $50, 900 are to be distrib uted in prices.
The late Madame Skobelof. whose death was so
t~ragical, was Wellknown aud heartily liked IN
Paris. where she was one of the leaders OF the Rus
sian colony.
In the Southern States the price of labor ranges
from $12 25 to ST 80 per month. The average cost
of subsisting a laborer in 1880 is 81 IL a month and
| 81 IA in 1876.
AS a proof of the progress of Cyprus, it may be
mentioned that whereas in 1877 the value of the
exports and imports amounted to 6.OOO.O O0
piastres, in 1878 they amounted to 100000
piastres, and in 1879 to 5S. 0 900 p~iastres.
On the German stage. during the winter season.
which closed in April, about $500 persons. exclusive
of persons engaged as chorus singers, &C., found
employment in connection with the stage in the $50
regular theatres of Germany.
The Chinese, apparently, have known how to
manufacture steel from the very earliest ages, and in
the time of the Hau dynasty iron-masters were ap-
pointed in several districts of the old Leangohou to
superintend the iron Two A considerable steel
making industry exists in the present day in China,
on the Upper Yang-tze, whence the steel is sent to
Ten-tsin for shipment and distribution. 1t fetches
much higher prices than the Swedish steel imported
into the country
4 phenomenon, which has attracted q good deal of
attention from French meteorologists lately, is the
difference of temperature of the two stations of the
Puy-de-Dome Observatory. the mountain station be-
inc often lose cold than that of Glarm0nf HOO
metres below.
Turkish papers announce that, during an earth
quake which took place recently. the village of
Heleddi, in the neighborhood of Sinope. was com
pletely swallowed up by the sea. Not q trace re-
mains of its go houses and mosque. The villagers
were all able to save themselves, so that not one
of them suffered any harm.
According to the France, the preliminary work
ings for the tunnel uniting England and France
have had the most satisfactory results. In IL months
they expect to have reached two kilometres under
the channel. and in three or four years to have COM
pleted the task.
The " Palais de Versailles, . with its parks and
dependencies, has been recently valued at 112.00O,-
900 of francs. The Luxembourg. with its immensely
valuable art collections, is set down at 60 600 600
francs. The beautiful Chateau of Fontainebleau is
valued at 80. 1000. 900.
August 14th. at Las vegas. New Mexico, Canoto
Romero. a Mexican, while cutting down @ piece of
bacon, fell from a step ladder. the knife which be
held in his hand piercing his throat and cutting the
jugular vein, killing him.
All those who had anything to do with the late
election in England are well aware, says PANTY
Fair that there was an enor nous amount of BRIDE
ry and corruption of every kind. Most of the small
boroughs We're bought and sold all but openly.
The new Atlantic Cable Company has been regis
tered with a Portuguese concession for q cable from
England to the Azores, and thence to America. A
financial contract has been concluded for laying a
light cable by this route.
Writing to the Republican Committee at New
York City, r~egretting his inability to be present at
the proposed mass meeting. General Grant says
ticket headed by Garfield and Arthur. l have lost
no opportunity of saying what I could in private
conversation in behalf of the ticket, and l shall not"
The extraordinary statement now comes from the
u. s. Treasury that even gold has become a nuisance
In business. and propositions have been submitted
from various quarters that certificates be issued in
exchange for it, upon the principle that covers the
issue of silver certificates.
A telegram from the Russian agent at Peking
| states that the pending local claims have been salts
factorily decided. Chung How was liberated on the
representation of Marquis Tseng.
Mr.. Bell, the inventor of the telephone. is de-
scribed by Gath % as thirty-two years old. Ii is
added that Mr.. Bell " received q large round sum
for his invention, beside shares in the company as
consolidated, and he has a salary of S25 900 q year
as an electrician
Rome is already preparing for an international
exhibition in 1886, but is vexed at the apathy OF
VI ntr mIuuIe CLASSES on tue suOJect. 1uS upper duu
lower classes are willing and eager for the under
taking, but the trades people and the bourgeoisie In
general are more than lukewarm' They shrug their
shoulders and bring forth a host of g buts.''
The finances of Italy are in a deplOrable condition.
The Government owes $3.50, 600, 600 to q bank syndi-
cate. besides a number of other debts, and has to
pay annually STA ,000, 900 for interest. Gold and
silver are entirely lacking, and paper money is the
only currency, at q discount of 10 per cent, with not
even a dim prospect of its being replaced by coin.
M Gladofoua aluaya ioaiSfa nm 4 having aaWen
hours sleep a day. and eight if possible. and sips
tea as a narcotic at 2 O'Clock in the morning, after
his night work is over.
The largest ship yet built on the Pacific coast was
successfully launched at Seabeck, w. T., August I'D. |
She was named Olympus. and will be commanded
by Captain Edwards, formerly of the bark Cassan-
dra Adams. The new schooner Eva, built for parties
in San Francisco, was successfully Launched at the
same place.
The belief is very prevalent among the Chinese
that the reign of the present emperor Is To De q
prosperous one. and that much of the glory OF
of the past Manchu Emperors is TO be revived.
Japan keeps pace with the most civilized nation
in point OF correspondence by post. In the year
ended June 3Oth, 1879, SIS, 775.2 O6 letters and
newspapers passed through the Japanese Post
Office.
A Vienna painter having recently inserted in
an historical picture the head oil an old man.
which was greatly admired. the police applied to
him for the address of his model, aud thus arrest
ed a notorious criminal.
The absurd story of an MS OF the apostle
Peter having been found among the papers Of a
deceased Swedish Jew at Jerusalem, and OF the
British and Foreign Bible Society having vainly
offered $4,000 for it, is denied by the Secretary Of
the Bible Society.
The annual expectation of coffee from the pro-
ducing countries is nearly SO per cent. greater
than it was rs years ago. This is a much larger
increase in proportion than the population.
DR.. Neagle reports that during the Year 1879.
to intemperancr. OF the individuals thus dying,
los were natives of Ireland, "a OF America, IS Of
Germany. 10 of England, 4 OF France. and l Of
Scotland.
Signor Gagliardi anticipates that If care be
taken in quarrying. and facilities of transport be
provided, japan will become the great marble
market for the world. Marble has been known in
Japan Tor centuries. but it was sot much priced,
being considered too difficult to polish.
No fewer than 1887 subjects of the German
Empire. nearly two-thirds beiig males. took ship
last year for foreign ports at Bremen, Hamburg,
StetfiH or Antwerp. By far ~ greater number 20