The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1856-1888, 1871-03-18

J Perry, Iohn Ritson. :
Ira Richardson, Henry Waterhouse,
Joseph Piektori, rs WIN Bennett,
GeoTge Emmes, J Hitler,
CT fnpger, SIN Damon, &
MARROW EscAPE-Last Saturday afternoon. a
party of young men, obtaining the use of the yacht
boat King Philip, started out for a sail. The wind
was blowing % a doubIe-reef topsail breeze " at the
time; Everything, however. went merrily until on
the return from outside, when in a squall, the boat
took in a sea.-and she wouldn't tack-and the
sheets got foul.-and the halyards got unrove,-
and in trying to get ahead with oars, one, of the
only two thole pins broke,-and night was coming
on-and some of the boys (there were ten in alb
got seared-and the boat was drifting rapidly in
the direction of the Pacific ocean-and it was a
pretty bad situation generally. But luckily. they
fetched alongside the Helen Maud, at anchor out
side, where they remained until a boat came from
shore to their assistance. The boys got a wettug,
a scare.a and some boat-saihng experience, but it
was a narrow escape.
SHARP PRAcTTCE.-There is no use in denying that
the children of the Celestial Empire improve-in GER
tain respects-by contact with outside barbarians.
Here is an instance that we heard of yesterday. A
Chinaman bought some dry goods, denims, etc.. at
auction. In a few days he turns them into auction
again and sells them for less than he originally paid,
and yet makes money. The way it was done was by
skillfully altering the figures representing the num-
Der of yards, and in some instances abstracting q
few yards from the inside of the piece. Truly,
ssFor ways that are dark
And for tricks that are vain,
The heather Chinee is peculiar"
Some of the restaurant keepers on Nuuanu street
also have a peculiar way of getting their supplies of
frewood. 1t seems that they take toll of the loaded
drays going up town, and thus save time, expense
and trouble, getting their wood already sawed. To
quote Truthful James again
" We are ruined by Chinese cheap labor"
CASTOR on BEANs.-From a recent California
paper we clip the following: Last week a Santa
Barbara farmer sold to the oil works of San Fran
cisco the castor beans raised on FIVE acres of land.
The crop yielded a clear profit of 1925 S." The
question may be asked-why cannot the exporta-
ton of castor beans be made a business here? On
all the islands, the plant grows abundantly and
spontaneously. 1t is extremely hardy, but little
affected by either drouth or the opposite, and bears
all the year round, besides being perennial. There
are, however, several kinds. the most valuable for
manufacturing purposes being the small red sort,
from which the medicinal oil is obtained. The
other sorts produce a valuable oil for tanning and
other purposes. Castor beans are quotable in the
San Francisco market at 4 to 5 cents per pound,
and the duty, by the tariff of 1870, is half a cent
per pound. The freight and charges ought not to
exceed half a cent more.
WHO WAS SHE ?-That is the first question that a
cynic friend OF ours invariably asks when he hears
OF two men quarreling. He assumes it for granted
that in such cases there must be women as the
prime cause. Taking a solitary ride over the plain
at the east of the town a day or two since, our
friend espied in the distance, two men, who from
their actions he judged were having a jolly good
skylark. all to themselves, but on getting up to
them the affair developed into a f~rstclass set-to
between a kanaka and a Portuguese. The kanaka
was on top, in which position he was held by his
antagonist. who for that evident purpose had a
good hold where the hair was not short. On the
appearance of cynic, the struggle ceased, and he
asked. " Who is she ~ The answer came innocently
enough from him who had the strong hold on hair,
My wife SIR" Cynic commenced a lecture on
the folly of quarreling about a woman, when the
combatants disappeared, leaving him talking to the
winds. -
A BLUFF GAME OF ONIoNs.-There are various
ways of gambling besides playing with cards or dice.
Buying at auction IS o~ftentimes something of a game
of chance, and has it's settlements. We saw a nice
little game of bluff the other day between two native
marketmen, in which the stake was a bag of onions.
The owner g Odoriferous eseulents. was a leper,
who bad I'D Eat re station house from
another ISLAND, % the hospital, and they
Were his only pnOpe for Ia tso green
grocery men began to saga asst each otLerA for the
bag of onions. First, O Is four Dits-about the |
worth-and put down the money before the owner,
whereupOn the other +" saw = trs fOnr bits. and wen.
two :. better" Down eomef ~ / with = dollar. |
and No 2 Immediately As ouss and .
quarter. And so they went on, 1shapir .1n0ther's
bid, all the time gesticulating and loudly declaring
that the onions were not worth a fraction of the
money, but that they were actuated by sympathy for
the poor leper alone, until thu respective piles
amounted to seven dollars each. The owner of the
bag meantime, sat apparently unconcerned, while
the two buffers were thus philanthropicaIly running
themselves for his benefit. The bidders stood at 81
for some time, each b~antering I1e other to advance,
until at length, with a grand flourish, No. l, planked
four bits more, and No. 2, his pile being diversified
thereby, picked up his bid and sneaked away amid
the jeers of the crowd that had gathered to witness
this novel game Of bluff.
A REGULATION WANTED-Everybody knows that
the hsh market of Honolulu on Saturday after
noon is an institution. There congregate the dusky
fair, old and young, decked ont in silks and satins,
one is at a loss to conceive why the
of a fish market should be the especial
theatre for the exhibition of SO much Hnery. Per
haps it Is for the reason that unlike other large
towns or cities in other countries there is no park
or public promenade ; but one. thing is certain,
that from the hours of four TO sunset of a Saturday
no other part of Honolulu can exhibit so
dense a crowd of men, women and children and
this brings us to the gist of our subject. We have
often been struck with the improperly and danger
of men on horseback and in carriages forcing their
way through the dense crowds Of people, at the
risk of trampling on them. An instance
on last Saturday p. NJ. Two young men
in a buggy with a span of horses, one white and
the other bay, were endeaVoring to force their way
The massas uhan tha har horao toll |