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Eggs and Cats in Law.

There is a famous case on the books of Nor
man hotel keeper and the customer who or
dered a siX-egg omelette prepared but went
away in a hurry without paying for it, and
when he returned Is years later offered the
landlord six francs, being for the original cost
Of the eggs and the interest thereon COM
pounded. The landlord claimed a fabulous sum,
alleging that the six eggs would have produced
so many chicks from which would have issued
SO many hens; that with the product Of these
innumerable fowls he would have bought a
farm, which in so many years would have
yielded so much money, which being investi-
gated, etc. The court, however, non-Suited the
landlord because the eggs had been broken for
the omelette, and so could not have been
Matched.
The case has been outdone in an Indian court
A, B, C and buy cotton In partnership and
store 1t in warehouse which Is infested with
rats To discourage these vermin they buy a
cat, of which each Is to own a leg. The cat
breaks that one Of her legs which is owned by
A, who binds it up with cotton soaked In Oil.
The cotton takes fire, the cat takes refuge in
the midst Of the cotton bales and the whole
property is destroyed; whereupOn B, C and ID
sue A, alleging that it was his leg which caused
the conflagration. The court promptly decides
against them with COSTS and orders them to
pay for his cotton and bear their own losses,
on the ground that the cat couldn't walk on the
broken leg so that 1t was the three sound legs
which carried her into the cotton.J[PariS FL
OdTO,
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THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA,
An Interesting History.
BY ARROYO.

BY ARROYO.
By the act of May 6, 1896, q statutes, 461) the
commissioners were authorized, under the dlrec-
ton of the President, to borrow, from time to
time such sums as the President might direct,
not exceeding three hundred thousand dollars in
the whole, and not exceeding two hundred thous-
sand dollars in any one year. All the lots except
those appropriated for public uSe) which had
been vested in the commissioners were made
chargeable with the repayment OF the money
borrowed under this act, and in the event OF
deficiency, Its repay was guaranteed by the
United.StateS. principal and interest. Attempts
had been made by the commissioners prior to
the passage OF this act to borrow the money in
England and subsequently from Holland through
Wilhelm and Jan Willink, bankers OF the United
States government In Amsterdam. 1t Is appa-
rent from the following correspondence that
nothing could be obtained from these sources:
WASHINGTON, Nov 5, 1882
on the 24th of December, 1898. the then Com
miSSionerS. MeSSrS. johnson, Stuart and Carroll,
entered into contract with Mr.. Greenleaf for
the loan OF e12,0O0, Maryland currency, and
agreed to pledge $50 lots for securing the repay
ment of that sum. On the 9th of July. 1894, the
same Commissioners agreed with Mr.. Greeaeaf
to negotiate a sum In Holland to the amount Of
one hundred thousand pounds, like currency,
and conveyed to him one thousand lots to enable
him to pledge the same as a security for the re-
payment OF the sum borrowed. The papers rep
resenting this transaction went through the
hands OF Mr.. Randolph then Secretary OF State,
ton to this business.
On the Goth OF January, 1875, the Commission
ers, Messrs Carroll, Scott and Thornton recon-
mended to the President the obtaining loan to
be secured by mortgage on city lots
On the 18th of February, thereafter, Mr. Ran
dOlph writes that the subject had been submit
ted by him to the President, and the President
judged it advisable that one OF the Commission
ers should Immediately repair to Philadelphia to
concert measures under his direction. for raising
the necessary sums. Doctor Thornton accord
inply went tlithpr and the result
of attorney was drawn under the inspection of
Mr.. Bradford, then Attorney General, and sub
mitted to Mr.. Randolph, from the Commission
erS to William Allen DeaS Samuel Bayard,
Joshua johnson and William Murdoch, then
resident in England authorizing them to negOti-
ate loan for 9300 900 sterling, and to secure the
same by mortgage on three thousand city lots.
We are &C.,
G. SCOTT,
w. THORNTON,
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IFoR THE EVENING STAB.
Thanksgiving Day.
(NovEMBER 27, 1879

(NovEMBER u, 1871
The air il almost mild as in the Spring;
The sun hatters the bare trees that they,
Half -dreaming, deem they feel the breath Of
May;
But though the crows cav loud, no birds now sing,
Save one, who, with exultant carolling-
The mocking- wren-extols the glorious day,
Whose sky wears not November's wonted gray
Blue from the zenith to the horizons ring.
With lingering steps, in reverent mood stroll
Through the long afsles of the illumined wood.
And grateful thoughts throng in upon my soul,
OF Natures Lord. the giver of every good
Along the arched boughs the winds grave anthems
roll,
And sermons preach the leaves around me
strewed.
GEORGETOWN. D. G. w. L. SHOEMAKER.
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II T. WALKER SONS, 2O6 10TH ST: N.W-Lme,
Dry Felt. Carpet Felt, Rosin Sized Felt Charcoal
and Chimney Crock. 1eZo
TOUGHS NEGLECTED LEAD TO CONSQMP-
the fee charged BY DR.. MOORE. 1924 Pennsyiya-
mia ave. NV. noNo
OATARRH AND THROAT AFFECT1ONS.=O
4 fonsive Rreafh and Discharges from the Head
and Ears Permanently cured by using s.DR. HART
LEY'S GREAT REMEDY FOR CATARRH." Sold
by al druggists. nov12-3m
TTTsSEIIjs ICE CREAM THE BEST.
DEHICIOUS CHARLOTTE DE Russo,
M cents per dozen. Wedding Cakes, specially
1877 New York avenue oct25-1m
DRIVERS Rye CORDIAL
~ WAS AWARDED
FIRST PREMIUM AT NATIONAL FAIR
And u the finest preparation Of
ROCK CANDY AND BYE WHISKY
whore. nov23-lm
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SERKY'S TEA,

Guaranteed to preserve and promote the beauty
and freshness Of youth TO the rPest age Y purnes
complexion and removes pimples and eruptions
increases the appetite, and s certain for dys-
repsia, 1t is recommended by the Medical Faculty
and is used by the elite of London Paris, New York
and Philadelphia. It has been known In the Orient
for sig centuries. It is made like Ordinary Tea;
costs cents day. Annie Pxley uses it constanty
SO do hosts Of others.
trade. SERKY'S TEAsCO.,
novS eoSm 500 Arch Sc, RhiI0.
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DYRON'S WASHING FLUD-Our customers
ID and the public win be waited ON promptly By ,
sending postal card to BYRON b MAY, corner 7th
III The Cheapest and best preparation extant.
N.B.-6tores supplied ct half price. ooy8-Ims
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r1ety is prOpogated by layers; the others by
seeds or offsets; the latter mode is adopted in
making hedges and screens. The berberry is
very ornamental plant, both in flower and
fruit: 1t Is hardy, quick grower is lOng-lived,
easily tranSplanted, and stands cutting very
Well-makes handsome hedge and garden en-
closure"
PEACH YELLows.
A writer in Peach culture, useful magazine,
thinks that the yello,us in peach trees may be
called arb0, consumption, arising from def
cheney of tree nOurishment in the soil, in either
quantity or quality, as we'll as by exhaustion in
oyerbearing; and that, probably, supplying the
deficient and needed alkalfeS and phOSphateS to
the soil, after thoroughly digging about the
roots and nursing these fertilizers In the earth
around them, would restore health and fruit
or little OF each of them are useful, forked In
around each tree with liberal dose OF pig or
chicken droppings; it is thought this course Will
remove the disease from trees, as well as general
enr1ching of the ground.
In the proceedings of the South Haven (Mich.)
genealogical society, as reported In the Michigan
..Yeilows in Peach Trees from Which oI take axe
"Mr Voorhees.-I know when peach tree
has the yelloWs, but l don't think can tell
when 1t Is going to develop. II we knew to
certainty what trees would be attacked with
the disease next year 1t would be very desirable,
for the trees could be removed this fall and an
other put In its place next spring, thereby gain
ing one years growth on the new tree.
Z" Mr.. ChesebOro.-I think there is something
In the curl Of the leaf that indicates the pres
ence OF the disease. We marked some trees In
ID. G. Wr1ghts orchard year ago, and they all
had the yellowS the next year except one.
ID. Z. LOveday.-I marked a number Of trees
last fall that had my suspicious OF, and every
one came out with the yellOws this spring. 1
nave one Tree near the house which came out
pretty full with fungus growth last spring and
my wife desired to save 1t. She slit the bark
with knife and rubbed in sulphur and sat-
The fungus growth disappeared and the tree
rpened all its fruit at the proper time in per-
lection. l think the tree Is permanently cured
but next year will determine"
1t has been found nn some instances, that dig
ging soil from the roots and putting In a little
salt and sulphur cured the yellows; the soil was
put back to the roots
BARREN PLUM TREES.
Canadian magazine remarks that sit is well
known the wood-producing forces are In some
degree opposite to the fruitproducing forces;
hence, when tree Is rapidly making wood, it is
not in a condition to bear much fruit Plum
trees, and others, which grow rapidly and do not
bear FRUIT should not be fortified, but should be
dug round few feet from the trunk, and have
portion OF the roots pruned or cut on so that
the luxurtance of wood win be reduced, and then
the tendency to fruit win be increased" This Is
general principle In vegetable life.
REBgcCA 0RAPRR
The Country Gentleman, OF Albany, N. 7.
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has proved satisfactory, although the wages paid
them in those countries is less than half the
amount which we propose to pay. In Queens
land the rate is $3.50 per month in FIJI and
Samoa it il 81 per month; while here we are
to give s. per month for the first year, 50
for the second, and 81 for the third year.
Besides which we bring their women and child
rem with the male laborers, while the Colonists
desire only the latter. They undertake to return
the laborer to his island at the expiration Of
his term Of service, and SO do we; but we hope
to make him so contented here that be will prefer
to remain and become q Hawaiian. But the ex-
perience has been at FL and elsewhere, that those
who do return TO their native islands are very
ready to re-engage. At all events, they do not,
like the Chinese, hoard their earnings in gold
coin and send or carry them out Of the country,
but they spend them in the place where they
are employed. Some of the Polynesians en-
ployed in the British colonies are not exactly n
cognate race with the Hawaiians, especially those
from the New Hebrides and some other groups,
having woody heads, but they make excellent
field hands in a tropical climate.
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ASSENGER

Prom Guano IsIands-Per Joseph woolley. June Is
CAPT Hobert brl8s-, S4Pt hiram CISss a ma NJ M -
For winduard Ports-Per LfkeHke. June 1s-J c
Glade. Z Bailey, Rev Z Bond and daughter. Mrs Seye-
rance, L Severance. Miss Wilfong. Capt Makee, Mrs +
Hitchcock, Z smith, Miss Alice MAkee, Miss Wetmore,
W GoOdale, Miss l. Lyons, 7 \ ShAefer, Miss r Lyman,
Fred Lyman, Frank Lyman. F Armstrong. J W Austin. b
II Austin, ] j MArchant. John Baker. Patrick Logan, =
Spencer. @ x Ayan and wife. Miss II hAhth, Mrs Sander
son, Miss Z Whitney. Miss J Alexander. Capt T Spencer.
Mr. stone. AshwOod Spencer. Z A Pearee, T Forsyth. L
Jones. II Turton and wife, " II Cornwell, wife and child,
Miss WfddifeId, B W Child and wife, c Lehman, and
about % deck
From San Francisco. par James Makee, June 1G-F p
Mackenzie. Fred Wagman.
Mrs Gibson. Misses Coney. II A WideInanns Mrs MI
Wood, c Lehman and wife, Miss WidemAnn, Mary Leh-
bailey. Jas q Fair. Jas Day. J q Fair Jr, Otto Frinsch,
Mary Frnseh, Z Rehse. Mrs 4 L Gushing. Mrs e X
derson and wife. Msry HOuld. J Knell, Jas CanP6ell and
wife. Mrs II Turton. L Godfrisd, Col Q n Judd Mrs AIss
Pearson. Z BoTisss n ii Briggs. N Ashley. H " o Mel
A Tnns and wife. AIRS Capt Cobb. c II Eldridge, John
NJ Morton and wife, Mary Morton, Henry Morton,
Jane Brown, Mr. Anthem, Mary cOrnwell, Kate
coTnwen. Elizabeth Mccormick. Margaret Sullivan,
Mary smith, J ) Bishop, Allen Ramsay. Vim Burt, VIM
Frank Tibbeuts. Antonio George, otto FriedIander, J BIainey,
Jno Davis, Jas Moore, VIM Match, L A BeawOOin. Geo Chap
HoUes, Robt Higgins, 81 7 Sullivan, Jno Adams, Harry Fried
lander, Jno Clark, James DALEY, James Hogan, Chas DonO-
Eliza oIIey, Mrs Kel.haw. Henry KeIshaw. E KeIsha~ Mrs
Della Frazier, Mary Frazier, Helen Frazier. Frank Frazier,
Jas Silva, ThOs Moon, IS Chinese, and 50 passengers in
traHstu.
From San FraneiseO-Per Eureka, June 16-Chas Kamar,
wife and child, Martin Anderson. Henry Forster, Benjamin
Wilcox, Henry GoIdstein, John Hopper, 50 males. one female
and three children, Chinese.
For sydney-Per City OF New York. June IA Jouvinne,
For San Franciseo-Per W II Almy, June ls-G J Lansing,
For San FranciseO-Per Moro Castle, June 2I-J N
wiskotsehfl.
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MEMORANDA.

Report n .rbaaner Jo-rrh wooIey. b L HemTs'ead
Mastcr-saiIeI from Honolulu April 9Th, for Baker
Island. aud arrived there ca the 10Th Left there on tMe
10th Tor H1xIand-s Island. and arrived on the 2ist- Len
again on the - Tor Baker, Island. and arrived on tAe
24th. Left there -amc day for Jarvis leland AMI arrived
on the sJth 81 Nay. Lett Jarvis Island June 1t Tor Ho-
uoiuIu. and arrived on the 18th.
san Frnuei-ro. nrrfvei-May3 81. Am bktne Ella. hence
May .. June I. Pr bk AIphonsine Zelie. hence Aay To-
June 4. Am schr " n Meyer. hence Nay %
astoria. suived-June !. Am bktne J a Falkinburs'
hence Say .
Elr,ts. arrivei-Slsy %. Am bgtue Hesrsrian, hence
May :.
Port Gamble. srrfved-June >. Am bk Jenny Pitts.
hence May y. Am bk jas Chezt1u, hence May :; June
8, Am bk Camden. hence May Il.
yiet0ra. Il G.. s~rnved-June :. Ana bktHe sngnon,
hence May 10
Manila. srHvei-AprI q. An TX Amethyst, heHre
February g.
on Dovsr-May %. Haw bk p C wyIie FOR this port.
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the law the King in Privy Council is autho-
rised to adopt such a rule. If there are any
legal means whereby this tide Of only male
Chinese can be checked and the native race be
saved from speedy extinction, it is the duty oil
those in authority to search them out and
apply them, before it is too late. If a ship ar
rives here with some contagious disease on
board, We at once forbid her passengers from
coming on shore and mingling with our people.
But here Is n moral pestilence, by which the
existence of the Hawiian race is threatened /;
yet We ~passiyely look on while it is flooding
the land. AT the present rate of Chinese i'm
migration between two and three thousand
per annum-how long will it be before they
shall outnumber all other races in these
Islands? And what then?
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ENFORCING THE SUNDAY LAW.

We understand that the proprietOrs OF barber
shops in this city have been notified by the
authorities during the present week, that the law
in regard to violation of the Sabbath will here
after be strictly enforced in the case Of such
shops. The law is as ~follows-(section 2, Chap.
80 Penal Code): 1.-The Lords day is taboo {:
All worldly business, amusements and recreation
are forbidden on that day and whoever shall
keep open his shop, store, warehouse, or work
shop, or shall do any manner of labor, business
or work, except only works of necessity and char
ity, : shall be punished by q fine not
exceeding ten dollars" We have often thought
other considerations aPart-that it was rather
hard on the BARRIERS to be deprived of the day of
rest so welcome to everybody else, through the
operation of tyrant custom, and we doubt if our
Honolulu BARRIERS will chafe much at the pro-
posed enforcement OF the law. But it occurs to us
that there are other occupations pursued on the
Sabbath that are nei Their works of necessity nor Of
charity. The delivery of milk may rightly
be considered as coming under one of these heads,
as the article will not keep sweet over 4 day; but
supplies OF butchers meat and vegetables can be
laid in on Saturday evening, and it is not really
q necessity that the fish market should be kept open
on Sunday mornings. Yet after all, there are
wide differences of opinion in every community
as to the mode Of observing Sunday, and the ten
dency of the age is in the direction of n consider
able degree OF latitudinarianism that would shock
the good Puritans of a hundred years ago, and
does now shock some of their descendants.
While We deprecate the straight-laced mode OF
keeping the day that was prevalent in New Eng
land fifty years since, we insist that human
experience proves the utility, and indeed the
necessity of a day of rest one day in seven. If it
is commended that every man should decide for
himself as to how he will spend Sunday, so long
as he does not interfere with the like liberty in
others, then let those who desire this larger lib
crty pursue the Legitimate course of procuring an
amendment OF the statute. But the nor enforce
tempt upon all law.
This same question of the Sunday observance
has recently been agitated in Chicago, and the
Interior Of that city expresses itself as deeply
grieved to see that the Common Council 80 instead
of doing something to stay the ownward democrat
izing tendency of the Sunday saloons and theatres,
has recently decided, by n vote of twenty to four
teen, that nothing shall be done in that direction,
but that this fearful manufacture OF evil shall 60
on with it's sad work, in violation of law, as
hitherto existing, and in defiance of the public
opinion of the virtuous and intelligent classes.
The Inferior considers it &" fearful responsible
ity for the representative heads and rulers of n
great Christian city to take" and predicts that
the decision will soon be reversed.
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The Problem Solved.

Perhaps the most notable event Of the year 1873
has been the discovery Of the lOng-sOught northeast
passage from the Atlantic to the Pacific, which the
telegraph informs US has been accomplished by the
daring Swedish explorer, Nordenskjold. Many
lives and much treasure have been sacrificed in the
past in the vain endeavor to solve the problem. of
questionable utility when solved, which the Professor
in the little Yegd has now demonstrated.
He left the Swedish port of Gottenburg on the 4th
of last July, and by the 4th of August had skirted
the northern coast of Norway, Sweden and Lsplaud,
passed Nova Zembla and crossed the Kara Sea. On
the 9th Of August he reached the mouth of the
Lena River, thus, in less than two months, demon
strating the feasibility of his enterprise, for that
point had been frequently reached from the Pacific
Ocean by former explorers. Subsequently, he
reached Kellett Land, lying a considerable distance
to the southwest of Behring Straits, and was there
blOckaded by the ice and compelled to remain for
the winter. On the Sd Of May be entered Behring
Straits, entirely beyond the reach OF danger. and
cast anchor until June Sd, on which date he de-
signed to sail into the Pacific and set out for home
by way of Suez. In view of the innumerable at
tempts to find a northeast passage, his achievement
is one Of the most extraordinary of the century.
His theory at the outset was. that the entire passage
could be made in the summer months.
The New York Herald of May %, has q large
map. slowing the route followed by the Vega
through the Arctic Seas, and also the precise spot
at which the expedition passed the winter. The N.
Y. Epsning Post of May 81 says.
az is too soon even to speculate about the prac-
teal value of his achievement. 1t may seem at
first improbable that valuable vessels Of commerce
will ever undertake the passage to and from Europe
by way of Behring Strait when Nordenskjold has
accomplished it only after eneountering great peril
and after fears had been entertained that he and his
ship were lost. But it must be remembered that his
is the pioneer voyage over this route, and now that
it is established that such a route exists, clear of ice
at certain seasons, future explorations and surveys
may show that the voyage may be made with COM
parative safety. The Jeanette expedition, which
will soon sail from California, will find much en-
couragement in NOrdenskjold's success. and will
probably add greatly to our knowledge of o region
which is now at least open to exploration"
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IMnnnTN-

Prom GuauO IsIands-Per Joseph WOOlley. June u
- Pkgs provisions, sO5 pkgs iron, 6 pkgs tools &C. 90
feet lumber.
Prom San Francisco, Per James Make, june lb-5Z 6
sewing machines. as pkgs groceries, Z rolls leather. ?
shoe machines, - pkgs drugs, so SKIS -four, 30 bbls do
- bs do. . bis paper, l pkg type, l buggy, % SKIS Pota-
toes, 40 bis hay, Il c. dry goods, ! c. bitters and 30 pkgs
Of general merchandise.
From San Francisco. per Eureka, June 1G19 Mules.
z5 bis hay, ? horses, so pkgs hardware. 100 Pkgs pow
der, DO bbls lime, 300 IN bricks, 50 bbls salmon, lso
pkgs groceries, 1O7 pkgs beer. IS Pkgs crackers, : rolls
leather. 81 pkgs furniture, 1898 SKIS barley. 81 SKIS feed,
12 pkgs dry goods, 4 c. boots and shoes. 10 pkgs station
cry. and 81 pkgs miscellaneous merchandise.
From San Francisco. per City Of New York, June l6-G
boxes gold and silver coin (s25,3OOl. 80 tons pig iron. 100
SKIS potatoes, Us pkgs groceries, e5 do hardware. l54 do
do dry goods, 353 do -four. 8 do stationery, 10 do pictures.
1 bx coin specimens, 10 bXs jewelry, 5 ca cigars, ; pks
whiskey, ia pcs iron plates, Is es sewing Machines, %
pkgs furniture. 90 mats rice. II c. saddlery, sos pkgs mis-
celiAneOus mdse and 2GO9j do do in transitu.
From Port Gamble-Per Rainer, July 2O-4so43se Il lumber
100 m shidglez, 5 II laths, 10 bbls salmon, 9 csns fish
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THE
GommertialAOOerti
SATURDAY. JUNE 81.

Oh IA l. v IL
IL ANTICIPATION of the semi-annual exhibit of
domestic exports as prepared by the Collector
General Of Customs, we are enabled to state
that the total of our exports from the first of
January last to the present date have amount
ed in value to the sum Of 81 Geo, 900; and
our imports for the same period to the sum of
81 ,430 900 showing an apparent balance of
trade in our favor of $3.50 900. The value of
the imports from the United States was
81, O57 900, OF which $4,000 was free goods
under the Treaty, and 1915 900 dutiable.
From foreign countries other than the United
States, the value of our imports during the
period under review amounted to the sum of
1913, 900, all dutiable goods. Out Of the
above-stated 81, 43O, 900 of imports, we may
fairly estimate that $4,000 o represents
machinery for sugar mills, agricultural imple-
ments, lumber and other material required for
the development OF the resources of the
country, while the large sum of $4,000 re-
presents our impOrtations of dry goods, cloth
ing, groceries and luxuries.
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Recently in one of the Lowell Baptist Churches,
the telephone apparatus was placed in the pulpit
and the service was heard by people having con-
%nection, not only all over the city, but in Boston,
eighty-ive miles away
If one thing more than another should make
Frenchmen feel that the Republic is now a reality
it is the fact that the 90 Marseillaise 4" is no longer
q prescribed hymn.
1t is proposed to build in the centre of New
York q water tower 300 feet high, with q cistern
on the top capable of holding two million gallons
pumping water into it ard fixing hydrants con-
nected with it, all over the city.