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The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1856-1888, 1870-12-10
A Remarkable Surgical Operation.

For some ten months past Gen. Fitzpatrick, late
Minister to Chill, has been suffering from an
erectile tumor in his throat, which at the time of
the operation, protuding outwardly as large as a
hens egg. Inwardly it was much larger, crowd
ing the windpipe half an inch over to the left,
making the effort to talk and eat very difficult and
painful. A successful operation has been per-
formed and is .hus described
Gen. Fitzpatrick was placed under the influence
of ether. Four large-sized darning-needles were
then inserted in the tumor. Some idea can be
formed Of the stubbOrnness of the tumOr by the
fact that it required all the strength that a strong
man possessed to force the needles into it. The
fact that it vas near the jugular vein increased
the difficulty. An unusually powerful battery
was then applied 20 the needles, the full force of
the battery being given.
Notwithstanding the influence of the ether, the
electricity had such an effect upon the patient
that two powerful men had as much as they could
do to keep him upon the bed. The needles were
removed. The patient lay quiet under the infu-
ence of ether. In thirty minutes exactly the out
ward swelling began to go down, and soon disap-
peared altogether. The General lay unconscious
for two hours.
AS he gradually cam to his senses, he began
to complain of excruciating pains, and a torturing
burning in the throat and neck but these dis
tressing sensations were quickly mingled with
surprise and delight. His w~indpipe had straight
ened and resumed it's natural position, and the
IS great lump - which he had complained Of so
much for ten months past had disappeared. OF
course the General was left in a terrible weak
but although instructed to keep his
room and bed, is looking exceedingly well.
DIR. Lincoln says that the amount of electricity
thrown into Gen. Kilpatrick's system by the OPP
Grafton. if concentrated, would transform a piece
of the hardest kind of coal the size of a marble
into q coal of fire.
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1856-1888, 1870-12-10
Scraps from Josh Billings Farmers ALL
minax.

Whenever WI see a fox ov geese all standing
on one leg, except the old gander, and he chaw-
ing hiz cud, look out for a southwest wind tew-
morrow, or the next day, or the day after, or at
sum fewter time. Whenever dogs are seen trav-
cling around with nothing to do and old maids
refuse their tea, and hop vines won't klimb, and
grind stones won't grind, then yu may expekt a
little crop oV oats, and beans won't pay for
harvesting.
Wanted. several fust class yung men, with
mustach, tew hang around the vestibules oy
different churches in America and stare at the
females as they pass out. Yung men who under
stand the use ov tobacco preferred. No yung
man accepted who kant stare the brass buttons
Oph from a military coat at twenty PAGES. This
il a rare chance for yung men Ov real genius.
Salary payable weekly. References exchanged.
The cockroach IL a bug at large. He il one
oy the luxurys ov civilizashun. The cockroach
il born on the fust ov May, and the fust ov
November semi annually, and liz ready for use in
fifteen days from date. They are born four from
each egg, and consequently they are all twins
there IL no SIGH thing in the annals of nature az a
single cockroach. Their food seems to consist,
not SO much ov what they eat, as what they kan
git into, and often finding them ded in the soup
AT mi boarding-house 1 have cum tew the pain
full conclushun that the cockroach kant swim,
but that he kan float for a long time.
To make good sharp pickles, white oph both
ENDS ov them tew a pint.
Blessed are they who hav no eye for a key hole.
lew freshen a salt mackerel, tow him one
summer behind a steam bote.
1t il human to err, but devlish to brag on it.
A gentleman il a gentleman the world over it
IL only the loafers that differ.
To learn a dog tew follow well, tie him tew
the hind end ov an express train.
lew get rid of cockroaches- sell yure house
and lot, and flee to the mountains.
A dog is the only thing on this earth that luvs
yu more than he luvs himself.
Oplnyuns are like turnins. worth what thew
will fetch.
Courage without discreshun IL like a ram with
horns on both ends-he will hav more fights on
hand than he kan do justiss to.
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1856-1888, 1870-12-10
The Satan Rocket.

We give the following detailed account of this
invention from La France:
M. L, the distinguished civil engineer and
chemist, of the rue de Londres, Paris, has in
vented a rocket which will be u formidable engine
of defence. He has christened it the fusee Satan.
We have seen this rocket made and we will en-
deavor to describe it to our readers. To the end
of an ordinary rocket is attached a very slight
receptacle of tin, having exactly the shape OF a
conical bullet. In this receptacle is arranged a
chamber filled with a composition based, we be-
lieve, upon s%ulpheret of carbon, which compost
ton once lighted, gives out considerable heat. A
fuse communicates from this chamber with the
top of the rocket. The tin bullet is filed, just be-
fore being used, with petroleum oil. The lighted
rocket rises in the air and trayerses the space
necessary to arrive over a certain spot. Arrived
above its object, the rocket sets fire to the fusee,
the composition in the chamber of the bullet
takes light, burst its envelope, and at the same
time fires the petroleum, which falls like a sheet
of flames and continues burning. This sheet of
flames fills a space of 10 to "a square metres, ac-
cording to the size of the rocket. No. ] throws
one Htre of petroleum, No. 2 two litres and No.
3 three litres. They can be thrown a distance of
six Kilometres, and aimed with great precision,
being balanced by means of n long stick attached
to each rocket, which maintains the elevation
given to it at the time of discharge. Some inter-
esting experiments were made with this weapon
at st. Cloud on the 10th OF last month. In less
than ten minutes a considerable space Of ground
was covered with a sea of fire. A committee,
composed of superior officers of artillery, presided
over the experiments, and the general at their
head was appalled, by the terrible nature of this
engine of destruction.
Just imagine this sea of fire falling upon the
Prussian masses, burning everything, setting
light to the cartridges in the soldiers pouches and
to the ammunition vans of the artillery. Their
rout would be complete. The committee, in its
report, has declared in its opinion no civilized
nation o0nld NAL a Of fbaca rooGotc avoarf for
reprisals and it would be only in case Of the
Prussians firing upon us with petroleum bombs,
such as they used at Strasbourg, that we should
be entitled to ~retaliate with the new rocket.
this may be, the Committee of National
Defence has given the inventor a large building
on the Batignolle formerly a girls school,) and
has ordered the immediate manufacture, on a
large scale, of Satan rockets. From day to day
200 workmen will be actively employed and
within a few days we shall have a sufficient stock
to enable us to repay the Prussians in their own
coin, if, as at Strasbourg, they make use of UNI
lawful weapons.
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1856-1888, 1870-12-10
Miscellaneous.

The n. Y. Post prints the following news item {:
s. Young Ladies' should not go rowing with gentle
men unless they are capable of managing a boat.
A lady was upset in the water recently, and a dress
costing 800 a yard was completely ruined. The
lady was drowned.'
Patience is eXemplifed in the man who left his
wagon while bis horse baked, sat on a stump and
read the war kilograms till the horse was hungry
enough to go home.
Young girls with ideas clear up to the top of the
scale are requested to take notice that the most
fashionable marriages now are those conducted
with the greatest simplicity.
another" said Ike Darlington, " did you know
that the iron horse had but one ear One ear !
Merciful gracious, child, what do you mean -
" Why, the engineer, of course"
A young man in a Western city is in the habit of
placiaG billet-doux in the gate post in front OF a
young lady's house, evenings, and his rival, watch
ing across the street, bears them off and reads them.
The neighbors think there1l be a schutzenfestw when
those two fellows meet
They have found a puddle in Connecticut which
contains iron, sodium, calcium, carbonic acid gas,
hydrO-sulphuric gas, oxygen ard nitrogen gases,
AID organic matter. They think it tastes nasty
enough, so they are going to start a Saratoga.
An Ohio lady seeks a divorce on the ground Of
a want of tenderness on her husbands part. He
hammered her with an axe-helve for over three
quarters of an hour, and then sardonically enquired
of her, "How's that for hight"
"Dey say Town in Georgia dey makes poor mig
gar work twenty-five hours e6bery day. Now.
locke hea, rs been told dat de day hadn't no
more'n twenty-four hours, an L want you, Mr.. JON
sing. to 'splain how dey make 'em work twenty
five hours" "Golly, what ignoramus nigga you
is. ScipoI Why, way down dere dey make poor
nigga get up an hour fore day dosent dat make
en- twenty-Gve?"
A Louisville barkeeper is in Jail for murder. He
says. while chasing a man out of his wife's bed
room with a carving-knife. he was taken with a ft
of temporary insanity, and the man died.
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1856-1888, 1870-12-10
The Fourteen Sieges of Paris.

The French correspondent of the N. Y. EUen-
ing Post writes from Rouen, whittier he has been
forced to go from Paris:
The French capital is standing its fourteenth
siege, according to a paper published in the
Votontaire under the title FHuctuat nee Mergitur.
The first of these on record was in the year So
B. c., when Lutetia, then confined to an island
in the Seine, was attacked by the Roman Consul,
Labienus, and the inhabitants, abandoning the
defence of the town, burned their houses and re-
tired to the neighboring hills, where they were
finally vanquished by the superior tactics of the
legions.
In A. D.. 463, Childeric l., son of Meroveno,
drove out the Romans, after an obstinate siege.
In 845 the city was taken and pillaged by the
Normans, enticed thither by the riches of the
capital.
In $50 they again attacked Paris, which was
burned by its inhabitants.
Five years later there was another incursion by
the freebooters, who, however, found nothing
worth taking.
After this the Parisians decided upon fortifying
their town, but before the walls were completed
sc, 900 NOrmans campo before them. The
citizens, however, defended themselves manfully
for more than a year, and the invaders were
about to raise the siege when Charles the First
hoisted a white flag and capitulated, signing a
disgraceful peace which cost him his throne.
In 1853 the Dauphin laid siege to the town,
but was unsuccessful as was the King of Eng
land in 1859.
In 1920 the English took Paris by assault, and
held it for sixteen years. During this time it
was attacked, in 1927, by Charles VII, who was
repulsed by the garrison.
In 1869 the Duke of Burgundy ravaged the
country up to the very walls.
In 1854 the Count of Charolais invested the
city and was defeated in several assaults. Alike
unsuccessful was the army of Charles ", in 1886.
Under Henry Ill. and Henry ~. the city sps-
tanned an ever memorable siege, captivating,
however, to the soldier of Navarro, after he had
abjured Professionalism.
Lastly, in 1914, it was given up, after a brief
but gallant defence, to the allies. Then, as in
every preceding instance, treason had much to do
with the surrender of the capital and this trea-
son seems to have been confined exclusively to
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1856-1888, 1870-12-10
PACIFIC COMMERCIAL ADVERTISER SLPPLEMENT-Dec 10,

Farewell to you " said Beethoven, pushed
back his chair and going towards the door.
" Farewell to you!"
You viii come again?' asked they both in
one breath.
He paused and looked eompassionately, almost
tenderly, at the face of the blind girl. eyes,
yes he said hurriediy :" will come again and
give the Fraulein some lessons. Farewell l will
come soon again"
They followed us in silence more eloquent than
words, and stood at their door till we were out of
sight and hearing.
L us now make haste back, - said Beethoven
&c that l may write out the sonata while l can re-
member it,"
We did so and he sat over it till long past
day dawn. And this was the origin of that Moon
light Sonata, with which We are all fondly &C
ouainted.
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1856-1888, 1870-12-10

the middle and upper classes, who contended
with each other for the honor of paying court
and homage to the conquerors. The papers of
1914 tell of the gallantry of the workmen and
the students at the Barriere de Cliehy, and of
their sad silence as the foreigners marched in
triumph through the streets but they also tell
bow ribbons and flowers were showered down
upon them in the wealthy quarters of the town,
and how the women ran forward to kiss the hus-
sars and the Cossaeks.
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1856-1888, 1870-12-10
Little Lips.

Little lips, so gently pressing,
Little fingers, soft caressing
Oh. the bosom Of a mother
Knows more joy than any otherI
DUfle feet, so early straying,
Little wills soon disobeying I;
Oh, the bosom Of a mother
Knows more care than any other
Little knees. our stiff knees shaming,
Little lisps, the father naming
Oh this fathers heart a mother
Knows more truly than another
Oh, the love links Of a mother,
Stronger { r than any other
God has welded every chain
In the infants heart and brain Selected.
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1856-1888, 1870-12-10
Notaries Public.
HonoiaiH-J. ii. Patty, Thomas Brown, Frank Harris.
UnderXriters.
Rrsm,n. Drssqn. Yfenna. Board Of AGENT. E. A. schaefs

Brem'n, DTesdH, YisHnd, Board of, Agent, F. A schaefer.
NeU York ..--..-.....-- " A. ]. Cartwright.
Boston. ...........-... 4" " c. Brewer g. Co.
LiUeTDOoI .--........... " R. G. JaniOn.
LOyds, London..--.---.. " X. c Janion-
san FToncLscO------.- " H. Hackfeld 81 Co.
Northern Assurance Company, Thee. ii. Davies.
British and Foreign Marine In. Co., Theo. ii. Davies.
Imperial Fire Insurance Company, " Walker a. Allen.
HGmbuTg-BTemen Fire IHsHr. Co, " +. A Schaefer q Co
California InsurGnce Company, " IL. Hackfeld a. Go.
Merchants Nut. Mar. IRsHT. Co., " Walker 81 Allen.
NetC England But- Life IHs. Co., " Castle 81 Cooke
Mut. LIE fHS. Co, Of Mem York, " Adams 81 Wilder
Connecticut Nut. Life ms. Co., " II. VI. Whitney.
Pacific Insurance Co, " Bishop a. Co.
Manhattan Life Insurance Co., " Bishop a. Co.
United States Life ms. Co, Walker & Allen.
World Life Insurance Company, " w. G. lrwin-
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1856-1888, 1870-12-10

Lodges.
lie Progress de POcedHie, A.. r. & Il. NJ, Lodge meets on
King street, last Monday IN each month.
HatCGiiaR, No. q, r. & a. NJ, Lodge meets in Makes Block
first Monday in each month";
ErceLsiOr No. i, !. O. Of o. F. Lodge meets in the Hall OF
the Odd Fellows Building, Fort street.
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1856-1888, 1870-12-10

u.rr Izaumg Liz insurance companies lis average ratio OF
expenses to income has, through its entire history, been the
lowest Of any.
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1856-1888, 1870-12-10
Ec1Ipses for the Year 1871.

In the year 1871 there will be -Four Eclipses: Two Of the Sun
and Two of the Moon
IA Partial Eclipse of The Moon, Jan. 9th invisible here,
LLAMA nnuIar Eclipse Of the Sun, June 18th, invisible here,
visible in New Zealand, Australia and the East Indian Archi-
peiago-
n1-A Partial Eclipse of the Moon, July 2nd, visible here,
beginning at In So I'm A. N. and ending at 3h SO 6m A. N.
IVA Total Eclipse Of the Sun, December 1lth, invisible
here, visible in South Eastern Asia and Australia
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1856-1888, 1870-12-10

attend the Circuit Courts on Kauai Man; and Hawaji
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1856-1888, 1870-12-10

mtN sure VI uOmesrIg IIe, we cannot
: fb0ut saying that the California women made
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1856-1888, 1870-12-10

Ruinart Pere q Fills Champagne, quarts, warranted
0eDuine-
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U1lces TO Let.

rwo vruv Cool. .ND NT
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Thule Lodge, No. 1. Meet at Hall on King street.
queen Emma Lodge, No. 2. Meet at Hall on King street.
4 G5hHnGnW Lodge, No. 3, Waialua-
TOIani Lodge, No 4, Waikiki, Maui.
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1856-1888, 1870-12-10
Oahu College

Located at Funahou, two miles east of Honolulu
President, w d.. Alexander. Professor, E. +. Church.
Treasurer, > ". Castle.
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PTeS- His Majesty the King. Tice Pres, Hon. E. II. Allen.
Secretary, F. A Schaefer. Treasurer, c. r. Bishop.
Physician, w. Hinebrand, MD. asst. r. MKibbin-Jr., MD.
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1856-1888, 1870-12-10

PTFsIdsW, :" r. NJ. COmmissi0ner, MAYOR J. IT.. WOdehous'
Pfce IrsSio Al. W. L.. Green. Secretary, Theo. II. Davies
Treasurer, - s. CleghOrn-
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Queens

U. 8. Marine Hospital.
Punchbowl street.
DIR. John s. McGreW.
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American Relief Fun
PrevidsHf, A. J. Cartwright Pice Pres, Rev. 3. G.
Secretary. VI RaPlee, Treasurer, H. A P {
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German Benevolent Society.
PresSGear. n C. Consul. Secretary, H. Brautlecht.
7TeGsErer, a. Schmidt
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Anniversaries
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Sailors Home Society.
Prssife.s $. \. Castle. Yice-President, DAM. Smith
Treasurer, Chas. R. Bishop. Secretary, P. &. Jones.
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Foreign Consuls-

United Skqtrs, r. Perkins, Acting, Honolulu.
- II. II. ~HOughtOn, Lahaina.
= J. Worth, HilO.
North German Confederation, T. e. Heuck, Honolulu.
Austria, Ed. Hoffman,, Honolulu
Peru. A. J. cartwright Acting, Honolulu
SredsH aud NoTray, J. q. Pnuger, Honolulu.
chile, ID q. WaterwRn, Honolulu.
Rn.sia, J. C. PhugY, Vice Consul, Honolulu
DENIM Gk. Theodore C. Heuck, Honolulu
NSthsrI1Hds and Belgium, F. Banning, Honolulu
Ealg, r. A. Schaefer, Honolulu
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st. Georges Benevolent So

terf ". LouissOn- PLGe President, Il. Furstenar
= asA TreasHTer, w. LOewenburg.
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Fire Denartment.

President, P. -. Jones, Jr. Vice President, A. c. Smith.
Seerefaru, :. Brown. Treasurer, H.. Schmidt.
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Strangers Friend Society.
President Mrs. 5. e. Damon. Vice-PresideHt, Mrs. :. Peck.
Secretary, Mrs Lowell Smith. Treasurer, Mrs j. D. Carter.
Ladies' Benevolent Society of Fort st. Church.
President, Mrs. G. P. Judd. Secretary, Miss Helen 5. Judd.
Treasurer, Mrs. =. c. Jones, Jr.
Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1870-08-26

1@-The Mineral Point Tribune attempts
to justify the action of itself and chairman
of the county committee, in changing the
basis Of representation in the Convention,
on the ground that we desire to stir up
sectional strife. Sectional strife, coming
from the source of the Tribune is no terror
to anybody, for it has been laboring in a
state of frantic sectional strife with every
thing and everybody for the past two
months. 1t has attacked almost every
prominent man in this congressional dis
trict, and vilifed almost every Republican
editor in the district, until it has. finally
received threat which, if put in execu
ton, viii "str up sectional strife" which
perhaps, will not be congenial to its ed
tors proboscis.
The Tribune and chairman of the com
mittee will be informed by the convention
that its delegates are not so fearful oil
strife as to submit to gross wrong and in
justice. The basis of representation is
different from that Of any other convention
within the past six years. and how is the
Tribune to justify this
Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1870-08-26
The Test.

Before the next issue of cur paper, the
various elements which are now corroding
the public mind, will have ceased their
strife. The question as to our candidate
for Congress will be settled, and the active
spirits will troop home, some to admins
ter antidotes to their disappointments, and
others to he congratulated on their SUE.
cess.
This will be the test to discover the
pure metal; this will be the refining fire
This will show the great strength or
weakness Of the Republican.party or its
leaders. If the disappointed delegates and
candidates return from this convention
shouting for joy over their own defeat ,and
pledging themselves afresh to devote Their
time and energies to the cause in which
they have been so gloriously defeated, ther
we can say that Republican leaders are
great in their greatest weakness. Blu
should there follow this first blush of en-
thusiasm still, deep heart-burning and
unerring consciousness of having been the
victim of any system of intrigues or injus
tice, it will present serious question fol
solution by the Republican party.
The Republican party would betray
great weakness in doubling the integrity
of its own delegate representation, except
upon the most convincing proof that they
have prostituted their trust, and Joined a
conspiracy to wrest from the public their
own free sentiments, and substitute one
manufactured for the occasion.
The Republican party is strong when il
is conscious of being right, but good
deal stronger when it Acknowledges and
repairs its wrongs. Let us so demean the
interests Of the party as to have no wrong
to repair, or any heart-burnings from in
justice.
Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1870-08-26

fW-Thc Republican County Conven,
ton meets in this village to-day, for the
purpose Of electing six delegates to attend
the Congressional Convention, which meets
at Spring Green on Tuesday next The
convention will be OF so little Importance
as not to require the publication of its pro-
ceeding at an expense of delay of one
day in our usual publication day. Next
week we will give full proceedings of the
Congressional Convention the next day
after it occurs.