The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1901-03-25

were DIMINISHING.
Among the Victoria Crosses recently
awarded for gallantry in South Africa
two went to boys from the truant schoo
at Merthyr Tydwil.
Queen Victoria's death will bring abou
changes in 1900 postage stamps, issued
by sixty-four States and colonies thai
are ruled by Great Britain.
Athletic sports are taking strong hole
in the European universities. The foot.
ball team or "equipe" of Louvain Uni.
yersity has recently defeated the teams
of Liege and of Brussels.
/ Mr.. John owen, who six years ago was
a millhand at Oldham, has been made g
Fellow of Pembroke College Oxford He
studied at Bailiol College, taking his
bachelors degree with first-class honors
in history, two years ago.
Giovanni Andrea Scartazzini the well.
known Dante scholar, died recently a,
the age of 60 years at Fahrwangen il
Switzerland, where he had been the vii
lage pastor for thirteen years. He was
a Swiss-Italian, native of the Grisons
Another piece of the great plan of The
city of Rome in marble, the "Forma Ur-
bis of the time of Sulpicius Severus has
been discovered in the Roman Forum
where it was used to stop a drain II
has engraved on it the plan of the great
er part of the Baths of Agrippa together
with the Pantheon.
Austria and Mexico have resumed inter
course for the first time since the execu-
| ton of Emperor Maximillian. Emperor
Francis Joseph has appointed Prince
Khevenhueller- Metsch to represent him
at the dedication of memorial chapel to
his brother on the spot at Queretaro,
where Macmillan was shot in 1867.
Four first-class battleshps are to be
launched on the same day, March ), in
/ England; the Montague at Devonport,
, the Albemarle at Chatham, the Kent at
Portsmouth and the Drake at Pembroke.
Another ship of the Admiral class, he
Russell, was launched two weeks ago.
being the first battleship launched in The
reign of King Edward VII
A Roman mob unveiled a new bronze
fountain in the Villa Nazionale by force
recently. An injunction had been OBJ
tanned against the exhibition of the
fountain. on the ground that the naked
figures of Maids that adorned 1t were
immoral. A crowd armed with .ools
marched to the place and tore down the
boards that enclosed the fountain.
A new province is to be formed in
India by placing the four districts of the
Punjab that lie beyond the Indus under
a government of their own They are
the extreme northwest districts that
have been the scenes of the recent pet
ty wars, Peshawur, Kohat, Bannu and
bclci Will the
agencies of Dir, Swat, Chitral, the Khai-
bar, the Kuram, Tochi and Wanna.
/ Bavaria mas resumed relations with
Greece for the first time since the Athen-
ians drove out the late King Otto. AS
one result Prof. Furtwaengler, director
of the Munich Glyptothek, will go to
Aegina next summer to excavate the
site where the Aeginetan statues of the
Munich museum were found, in the hope
of discovering evidence that may decide
what is the relative position of the
groups to each other.
Bangor in North Wales has a Univer-
sity College where coeducation recently
caused a row. The students held an Els
teddfod which seems to be the Welsh
for glee club concert, and after that
there was Irritation and disregard of the
chaperons' seedlings. For this, one
young woman was rustcated, when the
rest of the students threatened to cut
recitations in a body, but after a few
days thought better of 1t and submitted
Off Cerigo, the island at the southern
end of Greece, divers are bringing UP
art treasures that were sunk 200 years
before Christ. Lucian tells of a ship
laden with art spoils that went down on
the voyage from Athens to Rome, and
it is believed that the wreck has been
found now, Besides many bronze statu-
cites life-size bronze statue resembling
the Hermes of Praxiteles, has been
brought up. Some objects are excellent
ly preserved, but others are corroded
An amazing exhibition of consideration
for witnesses on the part of the bench
was made in a recent libel case in Eng.
land. The defendant. church rector
pleaded justification for making charges
of immortality. against a former curate
and three women parishioners gave tes-
tfmony. The court permitted their
three days they were. on the stand nc
names We're used, but the women were
designated as the elder sister, the
younger sister and ''the married lady
Signor Matteucci, who has been study
ing Vesuyius for many years, recently
made d report on the activity of the vol
cano. From July, 1885, it kept constantly
active for more than four years, the flow
of lava ceasing September 1899. The
depth of the crater was then over GOO
feet. Last April the lava rose to within
2f0 feet of the top, when a series of
explosions within the crater began. Some
blocks of lava were projected 1900 feet
perpendicularly into the air. One block
weighed thirty. tons and Signor Matteucci
estimates that it took $4,000 horsepower
to eject 1t; 100000 cubic yards of lava
and ashes were beIched forth in April
and May. The crater is thirty feet high
er than before, so that Vesuvius rises
now 1890 feet above sea level
While on their journey to Australia the
Duke and Duchess of Cornwall and York
will be escorted all the way by British
fleets. The Channel Squadron will ac-
company them from Portsmouth to Gil
braltar; from there one division of the
Mediterranean fleet will guard them to
Malta and the other division from Malta
, to Port Said. Six torpedo boat destroy
ers will form the escort through the
oil krry- -.
them to the entrance of the Red Sea-
There they will be taken up by the East
Indies Squadron, which will accompany
them all the way to New Guinea. and
then hand them over to the Australian
Squadron, which will convey them to
Sydney. The voyage from Australia to
Vancouver on their way back through
Canada is likely to be less formal.