The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1908-01-22
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The ex-Empress Eugene of France
has sailed for Colombo.
War has been declared in London
and Paris against women's hats in
theaters.
The legislature of Nevada was call
ed in special session at Carson City
on January Is.
Forty thousand socialists lately
made a demonstration in Berlin to
voice their demand for universal suf-
frage.
Chicago a week ago was the center
of a blizzard that paralyzed the tele-
graph and telephone systems for
hundred miles in every direction.
Vice President Harris of the Amer
lean Tobacco Company says that pipe
smokers consume more than half the
tobacco crop of America.
Examinations in Picking show that
Chinese educated in America prove
themselves superior to those educated
in China, Japan, or Europe.
Mark Twain had $51,199 in The
Knickerbocker Trust Company when
that institution closed it's doors and
precipitated the october panic.
Henry Farnam, a French aeronaut,
won the Deutsche Deacon prize of $780,
600 January 10, by making a circular
kilometer in an airship heavier than
air.
Mrs. Harry Cowden, daughter Of
Ambrose Bferce, is showed in III
cabin in the Sierra mountains in New
ada with only a small amount of pro-
visions.
The socialist members assisted by
the enemies of Governor Dunsmuir in
the British Columbia Provincial Par
lament are after the scalp of the Gov
ernor on account of his stand on the
japanese question.
So grave is the problem that con-
fronts the City of Seattle with regard
to caring for the deserving unempioy-
ed, that the chief of police is max
ing arrangements to rent some large
buildings to serve as sleeping quarters.
The leading officials of London are
planning a great pageant to be given
in the streets of London next July.
More than 10000 people will take part.
Not only historical characters but all
phases of the national life will be rep
resented.
American sailors from the torpedo
t1otilla while on shore leave in Per-
nambuco got into a fight among them
+. selves and with the police January Il,
and a large number of them were IN
iured. Twenty were arrested for
drunkenness.
Mrs. Marianne Torres, the Oldest
native daughter of California, recently
died in Alameda, aged eighty-tWo
years. She was born in the San Fran
cisco Preside of which her grand
father was commandant in the Old
! Mexican days.
DR.. Melbourne P. Boynton, pastor OF
the Lexington Avenue Baptist church
| of Chicago, in a sermon denounced the
lean year legend, saying: Leap year
most vicious joke is the degradation
| of women. It is law Of God that
the initiative resides in the male and
not in the female"
| The Pope plans TO reduce the num-
| Der of employees in the Vatican ano
to increase the salaries of the remand
err. This action is prompted by a de-
sire to put a stop to the alleged prac-
tise in some of the departments o.
obtaining audiences with the Pope fo1
foreigners in return for financial con
tributfons to the attendants.
Lieutenant Commander Cleland Da
Wis of the United States Navy has in
vented a method of tempering armo
plate by electricity that excels tn
present methods of annealing, the pa
tents for which are owned by tn
Krupps and Harvey. The patent 70
Davis invention has been assigned t
the Carnegie Company at Pittsburg.
The Washington Star quotes an IN
named army officer as saying that tn
hospital ship Relief about the com
mand of which the controversy be
tween the President and Admir-;
> Brownson arose, is unseaworthy, an
E liable to turn turtle at any time. +
e says she was built for the insi6
= course between New York and Por
land and that she does not draw wat'
= enough to go to sea.