The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1889-11-11
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FOREIGN GOSSIP.

known thieves over sixteen years of
age in England,
The Car of Russia, according to
an English traveller, wears a silk
strap around his waist in place of sus-
penders.
I'm China people in easy circum-
stances buy their collins long before
they need them, and exhibit them as
ornamental pieces of furniture.
I'm the County of London there are
sixty-fve theaters and five hundred
music-halls, aud they provide accom-
mediation for 325, 900 persons.
Seeds of the most valuable varie-
ties of cinchona bring thousand dol
lars per ounce in Ceylon. There are
nearly one hundred thousand in an
ounce.
The old rule that no divorced
woman could be presented at the En-
glish court has been rescinded. Any
divorced woman with whom no fault
rested is admitted by special permits
sion from the Queen. after Her Majesty
has satisfied herself that the applicant
was free from blame.
"A new clock just placed in the
tower of Glasgow University is ire
mendous affair. The main wheels of
the striking and quarter trains are
twenty inches in diameter, and the
weight of the hammer that strikes the
hours is 120 pounds. The bob of the
pendulum weighs 800 pounds.
In England, cruelties to children
by women engaged in ''baby-farming'
that is, taking care of children
whose friends want to get rid of them
have been exposed which excite the
Indignation of the medical profession
and the wrath of the public; and yet,
so cunning are the t1endish perpetra-
tors of the cruelties that no lawful way
has been found to convict and punish
them.
AT recent meeting at the Marl-
borough House. the Prince of Wales
presiding, it was resolved to erect
memorial to the late Father Damien,
who devoted the last years of his life to
the care Of the lepers of the Sandwich
Islands The memorial will be erected
at Molokai 1t was also decided to
construct leper ward in London,
| where the study of leprosy Will be en-
couraged.
"A traveller, recently returned from
| Turkey, says that the dress OF the
ladies of Constantinople has become so
much like that of their ''infidel' sisters
that wife of the Sultan would attract
very little attention in an American
street. The fertile" the large shroud-
ing mantle, is shaped almost like a
dolman, and its flap at the back has
diminished to a collar, which is fast
ened by knot of ribbons in front, and
| is sometimes trimmed with lace. The
..yashmak," or vail, is very thin, and
long gloves are worn.
-Plums are the most important
product of Bosnia, and the fruit in q
dried state is the chief article of ex-
port. The poorest peasant has few
plum trees by his howell; wealthy land
owners never think of planting any
other kind of tree by their country
houses, and in CONSCIENCE the well-being
of the agricultural population depends
on plums more than on any thing else.
In good season about forty thousand
tons of the dried fruit, valued at more
than one million dollars, are exported.
Nicolas of Montenegro governs
his subjects in old-fashioned paternal
style. He recently caught his Minister
of Public Instruction stealing some
state archives, and he had him laid
across block in the courtyard of the
palace and publicly whipped, and after
fifty strokes with birch rod, sent
him to prison for twelve months.
Nicolas holds court every week, and
offenders are birched in his presence,
but he is always ready to remit a cer-
tain number of the blows for cash.
Australia is to have transconti-
mental railroad. A line 800 miles in
length starting from Perth in Western
Australia, and connecting at Eucla with
roads to Adelaide, Melbourne, Sydney
and Brisbane, has been contracted
for. the government to pay tie con.
tractors the sum of $4,000 acres pei
mile. The road will traverse the hith.
erto unexplored region of Nuyt's Land
on the Australian Blight, and bind to.
gether cities more than two thousand
miles apart.