The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1856-1888, 1872-12-07
Mr.. Seward 5 life was insured for 600, 600.

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People who advertise only once in three months
forget that most folks can't remember anything
longer than about seven days.
A man who bought n thousand Havana cigars.
on being asked what he had. replied, they were
tickets to n course of lectures to be given by his
wife.
The State Department has It's eye on n new acoui-
sition, the South Shetland Islands, 900 miles from
Cape Horn, a country very little known but valuhbir
as hunting ground for n peculiar kind of seal. The
coasts are very rugged and the government is asked
to make "A marine survey Of them.
An unexpected turn has been given TO affairs
in the Stokes case by the deposition of a new
witness. This deponent says that he saw n pistol
in Fisk's hands at the time of the killing, and
that two shots were fired simultaneously. This
evidence, 1t is explained, has been withheld up
to this time on account Of the witness being
deferred by threats from Fisk's friends.
An ungallant contemporary thus writes: "The
modern woman, when she has a nail to drive,
doesn't wait for her husband to come home. She
catches hold of the nail as she would into the
hair of II recreant son, swings the hammer over
her head, and plunges downward. Then she
ties up her fingers as well as she can, puts on her
best bonnet and goes right over 10 her mothers
for a good cry, and her tea"
A very practical question was taken up by
the State Convention Of the Congregational
Church at Rochester, New York, on Wednesday.
A resolution was passed recommending Monday
instead Of Saturday AZ pay day 10 employers and
employed. There is no doubt that u large amount
Of the temptations which assail the laboring man
on Sunday come from the fact that he has money
to spend and an idle day TO spend il in. The
experiment OF a change of payday is reported to
have worked very satisfactorily wherever IL has
been tried. 1t is pretty certain that it would
have the unanimous approval Of the wives.
IT. o1xo-loA;1- r. Ill I'll ---I--
telegraph line is an important step toward
girdli1g the earth with an electric belt. A tele-
graph message Of twenty words can now be sent
from London TO Queenstown for fifty dollars.
The whole distance which such a message will
travel il IA 900 miles, and will reach its destina-
ton within thirty hours. A cable from San
Francisco TO Sydney would offer better facilities
for the quick transmission Of messages from the
English capital to Australia than the eastern
lines. With civilization retrograding in Japan,
it is not likely that a cable to the island mpire
would pay az well as one connecting the Pacific
coast with the future United States Of Polynesia.
The most audacious and successful forgery upon
a large scale ever perpetrated in England occur
red on May Odd, 1887. A pretended number OF
the London Gazette appeared on that date, with
news Of a startling character designed to affect
the public funds and make a panic in the money
market. The authors of this curious forgery Of
the name, style and general character of a lead
ing LONDON JOurHaI were never clbcOVereu. IL
was the work of Spectators, and had the desired
effect on prices. The officers of the Crown made
every effort to detect the guilty printers, but the
names of the agents of this novel fraud were never
known.
The Hdndd6Lod Of New Batavia, Java, pub
fishes an account of a tree that yields a vegetable
tallow. 1t grows on the west coast of Borneo, in
the Indian Ocean. 1t is called Iingawang, or
butter tree. The natives use the tallow for pre-
pairing their food and for lighting purposes.
Europeans find it very disagreeable when added,
uncooked. to food, as its taste resembles cold
sleeps fat but the Malays use it in pastry and
for their lamps. The tree is large and beautiful,
and the natives carefully cultivate it: The crop
is exceedingly variable, and a good one is only
expected once in three or four years, and after a
heavy rainfall. The general price is f3 per
picuI, or SIS for I33, p0gnds. The tano~ 10 -