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PACIFIC COMMERCIAL ADVERTISER, SEPTEMBER 22, 188?.
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MISCELLANEOUS."
Do not put too much trust in the
man who praises you. Texas Sifting 8.
At a recent dinner in Washington,
given by Mrs. Stockton, each guest was
presented with a little cage containing
a canary bird. Chicago Herald.
A suburban justice recently settled
a case in which a boy committed an as
sault with a pistol, by committing the
lad and ordering the pistol to be dis
charged. Little Giant.
The Ki njr of the Sandwich Island.
lias decorated King Malietoa of Samoa
with the 'rrand cross of the roval order
of the Star of Oceana. Owing to his
general lack of costume the latter mon
arch doesn't know how to pin it on.
Chicago News.
An eighteen-vo.ar-oM young man
of Ritchie County. Ind., fell ill with
measles. His grandmother, anxious to
effect a speedy cure and "bring them
out," placed him between two ticks of
feathers, with hot stones at his feet and
a live sheep alongside him. lie died.
An extremely useful cement for ex
perimental use is made from equal
quantities-of gutta-percha and white
pine pitch melted together. The com
pound should be without lumps. It im
proves by remelting, and softens at
about the temperature of boiling water.
Boston Budget.
Deer in the far West are fast going
the way of the buffalo. One dealer in
Jacksonville, Ore., in two months
bought 1,300 deer skins, and other deal
ers in Southern Oregon have bought as
manv. These were all killed for their
.skins only, contrary to law. Spring
field (O.)' Times.
An explorer of prehistoric mounds
in Ohio has found carefully wrought
hatchets of soft coal associated with
human skeletons and bronze ornaments.
From the character of the material it is
evident that these were meant to simu
lato axes of Hint, and were of no use
excepting in burials. Golden Rule.
It is estimated that there ic at least
f-5,000,0( 0 invested in fast horses in New
York City, exclusive of the animals kept
for racing purposes. The claim is made
that the owners of these fine creatures
are entitled to special consideration
from the city authorities, who are asked
to lay out Jerome avenue aa a finished
driveway. Boston Transcript.
A dispatch from Algeria announces
the deatli of the greatest lion slayer that
the world has ever seen. Ahmed-ben-Ahmar,
who was last year made a
Knight of the Legion of Honor. He
killed eighty lions and as many pan
thers from the time he learned to shoot
until his departure for the happy hunt
ing grounds.
The total consumption of cocoa is
80,000,000 pounds per annum, supplied
mainly by the West Indies and South
America. France heads the list with
26,000,000 pounds; Spain come3 next
with 10,000,000 pounds; then follow
England, 14,000,000 pounds; and the
United States, 8,500,000 pounds. N. Y.
Fost.
A citizen of Little Falls, N. Y., who
has carefully measured the snowfull
there last winter, says that he makes it
fourteen feet and nine inches, an un
precedented depth. The spot where the
.snow was measured was in a cedar
swamp surrounded by trees, which was
protected in such a manner that no
snow blew in or.out, and the figures are
supposed to be accurate.
At a recent meeting in Baltimore
f the Freedman's Aid Society, an or
ganization for the education of Meth
odist ministers anion": the negroes of
the South, Secretary T. C. Hartzell said
that the colored people are increasing
more by births than the whites are by
births and immigration combined. Five
hundred colored babies are born every
twenty-four hours. X. Y. Sun.
A double chicken of the Siamese
twin pattern absorbs the attention of
the people of Rochefort, Me. It has
two heads and two pairs of legs, but
these several members do not agree
when the chicken takes its, or their,
walks abroad one head and pair of
legs trying to shape their course to the
right, and the balance as persistently
working for a larboard course. Boston
Transcript.
The other day, at Buffalo, N. Y.,
while a steam boiler was being severelv
tested, a terrific explosion occurred,
and the boiler was hurled several hun
dred feet into the air. In coming down
it struck the side of a brick building
and tore a huge hole in it. What was
veiy singular was that the boiler was
not broken or shattered, but went up
and came down whole, and nobody was
injured by the explosion. A". II Ledger.
What is the origin of the name
"Rocky Mountains?" I find it in the
narrative of Pierre Gaultier de Varen
ii ess. sieur de la Verandrve, whose
three sons, the 1st January, 1743, first
sighted the magnificent range. They
called it "Montagnes de Fierrcs Brilli
antes," from the sparkling of the sum
mits in the sunshine. Then came the
more prosaic name, 'Montagnes Ro
cheuses" or "Rockv Mountains," and
our still more prosaic, "Rockies."
Montreal Gazette.
The Louisville Jockey club has com
pleted arrangements whereby in the
spring of 1889 there will be run at the
course a race of a mile and quarter for
a stake of $50,000, called the West Ken
tucky stake, perhaps the richest ever
run in America. The summary is as
follows: Fifty thousand dollars for
yearlings, two and throe-year-olds on
January 1, 1836; 40,000 to the winner,
$4,000 to second, and $2,500 to the third.
The nominator of the winner to receive
$2,000; the nominator of the second to
receive $1,000, and nominator of the
third horse to receive $500. by subscrip
tion of fifty dollars each; 300 entries to
fill or the race to be declared void at
the option of the club. St. Louis, Republican.
BILL NYE'S ADVICE.
Wholodome Admonition to One Contem
plating: h Career of Crime.
IlKBErt, Ark. Bill Nye, Asherille, N. C. : Dear
Colon El Can you tell me if there is a pxJ
openin.? where you are tor a live, go-ahead train
robber, fourteen hands high and of good pedi
gree? The industry hsv been greatly overdone
here. When train robbing is let out to the low
est bidder the profits are bound to be small. It
might not pay in your immediate vicinity, as I
am told that you are at a health resort, and I
have noticed that where good health runs riot
there is very little of any thing else, but per
haps you know a locality where it would pay. I
own eighty acres of the finest dornicks you ever
saw, and I want you to tell me in bold-faced
type what is be3t for me to do. If you say so,
I'll stick to the dornicks until the cows return
to their domicile. The chattel mort?ase of
fate, however, is hard to raise on a flagstone
soil. Yours truly, M. R. White.
Do not murmur or repine over your
hard, macadamized lot, Mr. White, or
seek to become suddenly wealthy by
robbing1 trains.
If you are determined to go into the
train robbing industry, however, do not
come here. This is no place for a train
robber. You would not wish to rob an
invalid on his way here for his health
and just barely alive; and I am sure
you would not care to rob him on his
way back, when he is strong and well,
but penniless.
That is not the worst drawback about
train robbing here, however. It is the
running time of the trains that inter
feres with your trade. A band of train
robbers from Missouri came here five
vears aro, hoping to establish a branch
of their great co-operative train wreck
ing and robbing emporium; but they
were not successf ul.
It is said that they established them
selves up near Round Knob, armed to
the teeth and awaited the arrival of the
train.
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Time passed on.
At first they were not very hungry
Biid did not think it advisable to devour
any of their number, but at last starva
tion overpowered good resolutions and
reason; so one after another of the
younger and weaker of the band yielded
to the frenzied and famine-stricken frag
ment of the once buoyant and self-reliant
company.
At last one night, just aa the moon
dumb the picturesque step-ladder of
stars and looked down upon the wild
and beautiful pictaie of glorified moun
tain and comber valley, as the last col
ored loiterer had returned from the
distant revival, softly humming to him
self, while a pair of Plymouth rocks
sleepily peered from the pockets of his
army overcoat into the glorious night,
as the ever-regretful pine of the Old
North State gave back to the night wind
a hopeless whisper in answer to
its light caress, the last of the lusty rob
bers yielded to long exposure, famine
and the sharp, remorseless tooth of time.
His latest fluttering breath wont out
upon the bosom of the mountain zephyr
as a shrill whistle sounded from beyond
the --trussel," and in les3 than two
hours, almost before hi3 body had be
come cold and rigid in death, the train
with a muffled rumble and grumble and
roar, with a mad shriek and a hot box,
passed him in its resistless flight.
So you see, Mr. White, that this is no
place to rob trains. It is too uncertain.
This is a good place for health, but it
is no place to rob trains. I can tell you
where there are some good, robust
chickens, or at least where they were
an hour ago; but until the road here has
more respect for its time-table, I would
not advise a train-robber in whom I felt
an interest to come here.
I know that at times your dornick
farm will look bleak and desolate to
you, and you will madly yearn for
more soil, but it is better than the
enervating toil of sitting night after
night in a cold culvert, wearing a set of
false whiskers, a size too large for you,
and waiting for a train that may never
come.
That is not all, friend White. Train
robbing is not now what it was fifteen
or twenty years ago. More people go
'heeled" now than formerlv. And
those who do not go heeled have no
money.
In riding through Nebraska some
years ago, I was awakened one night
while in an upper berth by a train rob
ber who was a total stranger to me.
He did not move in our set. His weapon
wobbled so, owing to his excitement,
that I caught hold of it to keep it
steady, and also in such a position that
if it happened to get itself discharged
the contents would go through a medical
student who occupied the lower berth.
The train robber seemed to think I
wanted to steal his nice new revolver,
which he had no doubt secured by pro
curing two fresh subscribers for a child's
paper, arid so he resisted. We struggled
there for half an hour, I presume, be
fore I succeeded in robbing him.
A band of robbers, it is said, tried to
rob a train bound north from Florida
three years ago, and though they met
with some resistance that was about all
they did meet with.
One robber got a package of flea
powder, a set of false teeth and a chest
nut bell.
Another secured a white vest, a buf
falo overcoat and a small wet alligator.
He did not know that he had seemed
the alligator until two hours afterward,
when a look of pain came over his face,
:id one of his companions removed
him from the small alligator which, it
seems, had become very much attached
to the robber by means of the brow of
his pants.
(The man's pants I mean.)
Another got a diary for '73, an audo
phone and a truss.
Still another got a cigar case, a spec
tacle case and a case of small-pox.
In my opinion a man is a fool who
will sit up nights and lose his rest in
order to rob trains when he can go to
Congress and get in hfs little work on
the surplus. Bill Xrje, in Boston Globe.
An Englishman of fifty-five recently
sued a lady of forty-six for breach of
promise, aud the jury awarded him 27.
.3&fcfrtisr:iifM5.
NEW GOODS! NEW GOODS!
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LEES & CO.
99 Fovt Street,
Have just o?ned a new consignment of
and SEASONABLE GOODS,
j?"Inppection Invited.j?g
CIGARS.
If you want a tine CIGAR, try some of Straiton & Storm', which have ins:
arrived at
II0LLISTER & COS,
109 Fort Street,
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I-I. K. Alclntyre & J3ro.,
IMPORTERS AND DEALERS IN
Crroceries, Provisions and Feed
EAST X)RNEJEl FORT AND KING STREETS.
New Goods rereivpd by every paciiet from the Eastern Htates and Europe, resh California
Produce by every ireamer. All cr.iers faithfully attended to, and Goods delivered to any part of the
ilty free of charge. Island orders solicited. Satisfaction guaranteed. Postoflice Box No. 145
Telephone No. 92 60apl7
1876.
GEO W. LINCOLN.
1886,
BUILDER.
75 and 77 Kino- Street,
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Bell Telephone so. 273.
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Mutttnl Telephone No. 63.
lxvV WINE
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& SPIRIT MERCHANT
MPBELL'S FIBE-PROOF BLOCK,
Merchant Street, Honolulu.
KEEPS THE
Sole Agent of the
Hawaiian Islands for
MILWAUKEE . BEER.
Finest aifl Best Assorted Stock
IN THE MARKET.
Respectfully solicits pati
J. "Solicland JGmriw) (to
SAN FRANCISCO.
NATIONAL BREW1
SAN FRANCISCO.
S. LACHHA1T & CO.'S CALIFORNIA "WINES
A. FENKHAU8EN & CO., WHISKIES
Delmonieo and Veuv
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e Cliquot Champagnes. Xn
I C. PEACOCK & CO.
Wholesale Wine and Spirit Merchants,
t3 X I'VAS V KTHF.ET, 1IOXOI.I I.V, II. I.
Have just received ex CERASTES, HERCULES and other late arrivals direct from Europe,
G. H. Muiimvs "Extra Dry" Champagne,
do tlo "Dry Yerzenay" Champagne.
In Pints and Quarts.
MELCHER'S "ELEPHANT" GIN
la large clear crystal bottles, 5 gallons per case.
CASES J. D. K. & Z. GIN
Euch 20 bottles. 4 4-5 gallons.
J. J. Pellisson's 10-year-old Brandy
Aud a full assortment of the most favorite brands of
ALES, WINES AND LIQUORS,
P. O. BOX 502.
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Wtlcb are offered for sale at lowest rates.
7i,iHf TELEPHONES No. 46.
LEWIS & CO.,
Ill Fort Sret. Importers nntl Dealers iu
Staple and Fancy Groceries.
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FEESH GOODS
Bv every steamer from California, and always on ham!, a full and complete line of
Provisions, Etc- Etc.
61 Satisfaction guaranteed. Telephone No. 240. P. O. Box No. 29?.
aWfrlistmrnts.
PACIFIC HARDWARE CO., L'd,
IRONMONGERS
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lie Oil Stov
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Whic h can bo used on u o nnnon lamp-burner.
NEW LAMP GOODS
At very low prices.
Latest Improved Burners.
A line line of
GLASSWARE
Entirely new to this market.
jGr"Call and examine our novelties.
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M. W. McCHESNET & SONS,
42 and U Queen St..
HONOLULU.
43 Clay Street,
SAN FRANCISCO, CAL
Importers and Wholesale Grocers.
A FULL LINE OF
STAPLE AND FANCY GROCERIES,
COFFEES, TEAS AHSTD SPICES.
Plantation Stores, Salmon, Beef, Pork, Flour. Peans,
Bread, etc.
Freeh arrivals by every steamer and eailing vessel . Special inducements otlered
to Portuguese Traders, in a variety of Fresh Goods especially
suited to their wants.
HIGH EST CASH PRICK PAID FOR
Dry and Green Hides and Goat Skins
LARGEST ASSOIiTED STOCK OF GliOCEKIKS ON THE ISLAND. '
HAY a,iacL GRAIN .
t-i and 44 Queen Nlreet, Honolulu. W-my22 ly
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Stoves, Ranges and Housekeeping G-oOds.
Pluinbing, Tin, Copper and Sheet Iron Worl
I0W READY.
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