The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1892-12-13

tI4s GC4lc ocean II VIII open up
a great country.
The Senate immigration Com
mittee az its session in New York
favored the suspenion for one year
from March next Of ali immigra-
ton, except from North and South
American countries.
The cratic comet which has
caused such a great amount of
speculation has been at last tagged
and catalogued. Professor Charles
A Young Of Princeton College says
that the comets orbit has now
been computed, and that he could
state positively that the Holmes
comet is entirely new. It has never
been observed before and has never
approached the sun nearer than
the orbit of the planet Mars. Dur
ing the present observations it has
never been nearer the eakth than
100, 100000 miles. It is rapidly
receding and is to-day 100000
miles distant. 1T is one Of the
largest comets ever observed, said
Professor Young. 'Its diameter Is
not less than $4,000 miles and ii
has no connection whatever with
Biela's comet. It accidentally
happened TO appear in that part of
the heavens where Biela's comet
was due. This makes the eighth
comet Of the year"
Tacoma, Washington, has an e.
evated electric railroad which is q
success. 1t is claimed the system
can attain a speed of 200 miles per
hour. The system consists Of top
and side stringers attached to
twelye-foot posts. The cars run in
opposite directions on the side of
these stringers. The upper stringer
supports the power and affords a
track for a small wheel which re-
tains the car on the track.
The annual report of the Urea
surer of the United States has been
submitted. The net ordinary reve-
nues Of the Government for the fs-
cal year were 1854, 937, 7S4, a de-
crease of s37, 674.63. The net
ordinary expenditures were s345,-
023, $50, a decrease of S10,349, 354.
The surplus of revenues was thus
cut down to s9,914,453. The total
receipts for the year were $780,
401, 296. and the expenditures
s6s4,019,2S
In one night seven safes were
successfully cracked within one
block of police headquarters in
Chicago. The police are paralyzed.
Lizzie Borden, who is accused of
brutally numbering her father and
mother at Fall River, Mass, has
been indicted. Her friends claim
she is innocent, but the State has a
very strong case against her.
Congress convened On December
5, with no special feature of inter
est.
VIM. NJ. Hoyt, Ex-Governor of
Pennsylvania, died on December 1.
Capt. Lorimer and twenty-three
of the crew of the British steamer
Lunedale, were rescued from the
vessel when she was sinking In
mid-ocean. The steamer left Phila-
delphia on Oct. 2l, loaded with
wheat.
The United States Government
has sent a corps of trained physi-
clans to European ports to inau-
gurate protective measures there to
prevent cholera suspects, etc, being
shipped to this country. The physi-
clans will investigate thoroughly
cases of spread of cholera, the sani-
tary conditions of various towns
and cities which they visit, and
particularly note the accommeda-
tons made for emigrants destined
for the United States, and the pre-
cautions taken for their disinfec-
ton and isolation. They will be in
close consultation with American
Consuls, who are instructed to CO.
operate with the surgeons in every
possible way.
The Navy Department has au-
thorized Irving NJ. Scott to make
the Monterey's trial trip in the bay
at early date. Her turrets will
be boarded over with oak, and she
will 60 into commission without
her turret armor. Mr.. Scott says
be believes her armor viii not be
ready for six months.
The old ship Ericsson was
wrecked on Vancouver Island re-
Gently. This vessel was the one in
which John Ericsson tried his mo-
tor many years ago. She had been
in the Coast lumber trade for many
years.
Foreign News.
The downfall of the French Cabi-
net resulted in the appointment of
NJ. Brisson, Premier. but he is I'M
able to form a Ministry. It is
thought that De Freceynet, the
present War Minister, will have to
take the matter in hand.
A Paris correspondent gives the
list of the sums Of money paid to
newspapers by the Panama Canal
Company by Rossignol. former
Auditor IN Ra0krI90fcv as fellows