The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1889-06-08
NEWS AND NOTES.

| Paris Exhibition numbers 1OO'O00
daily.
! There are 10000 miles of railroad
in the Australian colonies, including
New Zealand.
The elite of Japan wear the native
dress indoors ard the American
styles on the street.
Gold is at a premium of SO IN the
Argentine Bepublic and the pre-
MUM is increasing.
Boston is said to be the greatest
market in the United States for the
sale of lottery tickets
The sculler Laycock has arrived IN
England and challenges the World
except O'COnnor and SearIe.
The fastest of British cruisers,
the Sheldrake, twenty-one KNOTS
just launched, is a steel twin screw
The Lord Mayor of London's fund
for the Relief of Distress by Famine
in China April l, amounted to t2I,-
7O6.
Russia has recently obtained such
large concessions in Persia that the
latter country's Independence Is
seriously threatened.
Twenty drops of carbolic acid
evaporated from hot shovel will go
far to bauish flies from room,
while piece of camphor gum the
s ze of a walnut held over lamp
till it is consumed will answer the
same purpose.
Pongee silk must be washed In
pid lather; soup must never touch
-, as it makes it harsh; hung to
Z :ain without wringing after being
oil rinsed, then folded while very
damp, rolled in a cloth, and ironed
after twelve hours.
Prince Pierre Saltzkoff, who re-
Gently died in Paris, was a curious
character. He was immensely
wealthy. and spent his entire fortune
IL collecting works of art or curlosl--
ties. Before he died he was obliged
| r. sell his collection in order to keep
| mself from starvation.
Bismarck has never been a favorite
nongst lingo Englishmen; and
London correspondent of a New
| York journal states that ''were the
German Chancellor to appear in
public anywhere In London, he
would meet with a reception similar
TO that accorded to Marshal Haynan
a. generation ago" In other words
he would be insulted by the mob
The Jewish community In London
will, says the Jewish Chronicle,
shortly receive rare guest ia the
person of lady BacF-sr54 OF ATts It
the Bombay University, Miss Marian
Samuel Sic is the daughter Of
Prnssian merchant settled In Bonn
bay, and has obtained her position
at the university solely through pri
vate instruction.
Mr.. John Aitken has recently
submitted to the Royal Society of
Edinburgh, an apparatus for count
ing dust. He calculates that there
are 8S,346,000 dust particles IN
cubic inch of space near the ceiling
of a room; and, if this be so, the
dust breathed by human lungs must
be enormous, and far eyond what
has hitherto been supposed.
The Gar is said to wear always
ring in which is embedded a piece
of the true cross, that was given to
an ancestor of the Gar by a Pope
long ago. The Gar is said to be
superstitious about this ring, and
once. when he started upon long
Journey and had forgotten it, he had
the train held while a messenger
went back upon a locomotive and
fetched it.
The Rev. Hugh Callan, of Glas
Cow, created a sensation at Jerusal-
EN- recently by entering the gates of
the CITY of David on a bicycle. 1t
WAS the first machine of the kind the
inhabitants had seen, and the streets
were thronged with people attracted
bv the novel sight. Mr.. Callan
travelled from Paris to Constant
NOBLE, then crossed Asia Minor to
Alexandria, where he was obliged to
take steamer, as there was no road.
There is excitement in newspaper
] circles over the report that James
!. Gorden Bennett has gone to Khar-
toum on an important mission. He
left Paris three weeks ago, went to
Marseilles. then to Alexandria, and
then to Cairo. Two stories are
cabled in explanation of the singular
Journey. One is that at the Club
Mereton, in Paris, an officer who had
! seen service in the Egyptian Army
said it was impossible for foreigner
to enter Khartoum and depart alive
Bennett offered a heavy wager that
he could do it within six months
The bet was accepted and Bennett
accompanied by a friend, started
The other story is that Bennett re
,eived dispatch from his Cairo
correspondent, stating that he hac
received visit from an envoy of the
Mahdi with important news regard
ing Chinese Gordon; that the latter
was still alive and kept a close pris
oner; that the new Mahdi, by reason
of his reverse at Kordofan and BahI
al-Chazal and the loss Of the grea
Province of Darfur, was willing t
ransom Gordon for 100000 franc:
The next few days Bennett made a
arrangements for the trip and tn
4 payment of the vast sum mentioned
and with friend set out for Egyp