The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1890-02-07
News Items.

The Americans IN London are to
give a banquet to Stanley at which
Minister Lincoln will preside and
present the famous explorer with a
medal and an American flag.
When you get ala grippe stay at
home, keep warm, feed lightly, send
for the doctor and keep calm. You
have had worse things many time
and were not scared, because the
papers did not scare you by sensa-
tional reports about your disease.
The influenza is a very ancient
malady. 1t was known to the Greeks
APO years B. c., and has run its
course as an epidemic every century
since. 1t has no regard for rank or
caste, but enters with equal sneeze
the novels of paupers and the palaces
of kings.
Fopseca, the present head of the
provisional government in Brazil, is
said to be dying. He was the chief
spirit in the movement which brought
the Empire to its end, and his de-
cease may cause some very ugly COM
plications to arise in the unsettled
state of the country.
Gladstone and Blaine have tilt
over the tariff question in the Jan
nary number of the North American
Review. The world will watch with
interest the bout between these two
intellectual giants. We have entire
faith in our American champion and
in the cause of protection he is to
uphold and defend.
A japanese paper reports battle
Of butterflies which took place on
the Goth and 21st of August, near
Nojima. 1t took place above a uar-
row road, and was witnessed by
many of the villagers. The fight
was finished before noon on the Dist
and the adjoining fields we're GOV
cred by the bodies of the slain.
The Barberton Times announces
the discovery of quicksilver in South
Africa. The new and valuable FIND
is situated below the Bis Buffalo de
Kaap) gold mines, in Lebombo. II
Is showing itself to be marvelously
rich in places, so much so that free
quicksilver is even found Samples
worked average at the rate of one
ounce of pure quicksilver from {
little over four pounds OF rock.
Robert Bonner returned home
after spending pleasant fortnight
with the great horsemen of Cali
fornia He declared that California
has the best climatic conditions il
the country for developing the per
feet horse. Before leaving San Fran
cisco be let the secret out of tn,
price be paid for Sunol 1t wa
$4,000, less than half the extrava
giant figure rumored when the sal
was first announced.
Professor Bryce of London ha
delivered his defense in the sui
brought against him by Oakley Hall
, In his american Commonwealth
Professor Bryce classed Hall as on
of the Tweed Ring of New York. III
justities his course, saying he wa
privileged to make fair common
on the corruption which pervade'
the New York Government wher
Hall was Mayor and Tweed Bos:
and that what he said was true i
substance and in fact. and necessar
} in the interests of historical truth
Mr. Bryce will be defended BY ST
t Charles Russell.
= The orders for the four monste
battle ships intended to be construc
ed for the British Royal Navy, hav
been lately given TO three firm,
: These vessels are expected to tax
0 three and a half years in bulldin
, and will be the largest men-of-wa
:. ever constructed in England, til
displacement being ALSO tons. {
: 1000 tons more than the largest shi
n now on the list of the British Nav
the Nile and Trafalgar.