The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1856-1888, 1883-01-13
MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS.

lately sold a table service OF SaxoE porcelain dated
1920. and consisting Of l5S pieces, for 500 .OO0f.
Messrs. George Bell and sons have ready for
Immediate publication a The History OF Wood
Engraving IN America. by W ). Linton, WIN
one hundred specimens. Z
A trial has been made Of a Sicmens and
tIalsSe-s telephone, laid underground between
Cologne aud Elberield, with very favorable re-
suits. eyers word being distinct.
A beautiful " Alteration OF the Shepherds, =
by Leonardo da Ninei, has been discovered IN the
workshop Of a tailor at Turin. The picture bears
Leonnrdo's monogram in The corner, and measures
3 feet by 2 feet 81 inches.
A mn threatened to shoot his wife st
Saco, Me. If she didn't confess a fault OF
which he had accused her, and then shot
her because she did.
Miss Braddon's next issue Of the : Misel-
toe Bough,'' will consist OF one complete
story, written by herself. IL will be illus
trated by Mr.. Henry French.
IL is shown by statistics just issued that
last year there were 1921 known thieves
Mt large ia England, of whom 26O were
in the city of London.
Words are butt Kings. and a small drop OF
ink falling, like dew, upon a thought, pro-
duces that which makes thousands, perhaps
millions, think.
Workmen while digging in Upper Han
over township, Montgomery county. Pa.
recently exhumed the bones Of g human
body, which are supposed TO be those OF an
Indian chief named Chooroorah. There is
a tradition in the Perkiomen Valley that
Chooroorah was killed 239 years ago by
his own people while defending the home
of a very pretty white girl TO whom he was
engaged TO be married.
The experiment which has been made by
some of the branch free Libraries in Man
chester Of opening evening reading-Tooms
for boys has, we learn, been very successful.
Works Of fiction of a healthy tone are
perused with avidity by the youthful readers.
The cheap serial sensational literature Is
carefully excluded. Considerably more than
a hundred boys may frequently be seen on
Sunday evenings engaged in reading at some
of these rooms.
Edward King says that the only great
reform accomplished by the French Repub-
lie in its seven year is the Compulsory Edu-
cation Law.
Only works of necessity are now permit.
ted in New York on Sunday. IL is a ques-
ton among some of the people whether ali
of the sermons delivered on that day come
legimately under that head.
The following Is told Of Saphir, a de.
formed Jew, who lived centuries ago ia
Germany. He was travelling ia a stage
coach in company with two Jesuits, who
made illusions TO the personal appearance
of Saphir. and were disposed to make fun
of him generally. lie put up with il for
some time, but finally he asked, Z" who are
you two fellows, anyhow ?" We belong
to the Society of Jesus" Which society
of Jesus7,-his first or his lastl' : What do
you mean q +" Well, his first society were
donkeys in the m niger, end his last were
4b,ov1. 80 A1u,,t r.l,,, NJ, ~.As
know to which of those societies you be-
long?'
The Countesse de c., who regrets her
young days, conceals her age as much as
possible. Not only does she have recourse
TO all the co .trivanccs Of art, but each win
ter she calls herself one year younger than
the preceding year. She betrayed herself,
however. at the opera the other evening by
one of those expressions which are so COM
mon. Meeting Madame b.. the countrsse
said to her, "Ah, how are you IL Is a
century since | have seen you 7 :" You see,"
said one of her friends to another in a low
tone, "she acknowledges her age now r
A Pair of Them.-The Governor--."N Now
Tom, this won't do. | come in at IL and
you are not home yet: | come in at / and
still you have not arrived. 1t is too bad
your mother don't like it. Tom Never
mind. dad, I'll take your part with the old
lady"
They were talking one day before M.
Mignet, the perpetual secretary of the Aca-
denny of Moral and Political Sciences,
about the merits of a candidate. "Oh,"
said NJ. Mignet, 81 shall vote for him be-
cause he has some unquestionable merits.
To begin with, he is decorated Thea he is
very polite, he appears well, and does not
parade his opinions. You will say that he
has written some books. Well. who of us
not his faults 2"
The King Of Italy has signed a decree for O
gallery Of modern art at Rome. IL will be
situated IN the cloister Of Michael Angelo, IN the
Baths OF Diocletian, and will DO opened next
There will be 100. 000f. annually Ia the
budget for the purchase of works by contem-
porary artists.
A Chinese teacher in Hongkong has
completed a present. which he intended for
the Royal Princess. Ii consists of a st
of poetry, composed by the teacher himself
and contains thirty-three distinct and WE'LL
Chinese characters written out in
the full style without any contractions, on
grain of unhulled rice. The grain of
paddy is enclosed, under a msgnifying
glass, in a silver locket. Another China
man has in-crib-d sixty Chinese characters
on a single Sesamum seed.
Charles Williams, of Twickenham, who
served in the ship Bellerophon at the battle
of Trafalgar, has just died at Legion, Essex,
in his l0lst year.
Mirrors forty-fve by ffty-two feet, and
weighing from twelve hundred to sixteen
hundred pounds. have been lately placed in
the Paris Opera House.
Crazed by the misconduct Of her two
d lighters. a woman chopped off one of her
at ParkviIle, Conn, striking not less
than a dozen blows with a Ratchet.
The London Times, in an article on the
Suez Canal, says that England cannot allow
the Suez Canal Company to arrogate to
such extensive powers as it claims.
A steam whistle has Just been finished at
Bridgeport of which the sound can be heard