The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1856-1888, 1880-08-07

THE PACIFIC
Commercial AObert1ser !.
SATURDAY. AUGUST 7.
BRIEF MENTION.
~ Confidence men-the Ministry.
81 Was it in a merinO skin that the wolf wa,
clothed?
81 The Ho Chung may be only a flying Dutch
man after all.
q Hawaiian banana skins have supplanted the
apple in the fall of man.
= The Tax Assessors should receive explicit in
strucfions TO count the noses of the male Chinese.
. The Nsaiehu plantation was purchased at
anction on Saturday of last week by Messrs.
Irwin l. Co. The price given was 225,oOo.
@- Nitrate of amyl is now drawing attention in
Europe and America a. a remedy in sea sickness.
The dose is from three to five drops.
= Is it true that one of our solons asked the
question ''whether the ocean did not affect the water
from the srtesisn wells p
Advocates of temperance should assist in the
introduction of bicycles into the Kingdom. No ine-
briate man can ride one.
- The capitalist Bohemian :" who arrived in
the Spreckels should divide the names as they do not
assimilate; we are Bohemian, but nary a capitalist.
Gs- The British bark Spirit of the Age was load
ing at Hong Kong during the latter part of June, she
viii be due here in all August.
q The good Shepherd knows his Sheep -
but a certain other Shepherd made q mistake in
his-the other day.
e Ploughs are useful articles of agriculture.
but we are not aware that 1t is the Intention of
turning up burrows at the corner of King and
Fort Streets. This is not an Advt.
- Fl. NJ. S. Pelican hauled alongside the
steamboa wharf on Thursday last to coal She
leaves her moorings to-day for a trip to Kauai
and back.
- The debate on the vote of : Wan of Con-
fdence lasted six hours and a half, and result
ed in a victory for the Ministry by a majority Of
% votes.
81 Captain Jordan of the ~. II. Meyer, Cap
tain Freeman of the Fl. ". .Aimy and Messrs.
Whitney & Robertson will accept our thanks for
late papers.
- Good round reasons have again presented
themselves which,, combined with the powerful inhu-
ence OF vinum hordium, have resulted in accomplish
ing desired ends, but happily only pro TEN.
70 The Japanese training ship Tsukubs, Captain
Aura, now at San Frrncisco, is reported as being
liable to pay this port a visit on the homeward voy-
age. She was to leave San Francisco on or about
the 31st ult.
- A. w. Bush. the grocer on Fort Street, favor
ed us with O sample of Wailuku grapes, which be
keeps on hand, and we were we'll pleased with the
flavor. and like Oliver Twist we are apt to cry ''some
more"
% Alexander Nicholas George, a youthful aspir-
ant for Jack Sheppard fame, was sentenced on Tues
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Hotel de F., for stealing a number of locks, the pro-
perty of Dillingham; & Co.
The Friend believes in free rum, and was
= very sorry that Mr.. Preston's bill was rejected
by the Assembly, That was prior to its resusci-
tation now it is passed, and We suppose the Friend
will be very glad"
NJ s. G. Dwight. for many years a missionary
on Molokai, and for several years past, a respect
ed resident of Honolulu. died suddenly on Monday
evening. His funeral was attended on Tuesday
afternoon" -GGSette.
- The general public have confidence in the
ability of the members of the Legislature to do
more political sommersaulting in a given space of
time than any other Legislative body on the lace of
the globe.
e. There will be a special meeting of Hawaii
an Lodge, F. g. A. NJ, at the Masonic Hall corner
of Fort and Queen streets, on Monday evening
next. August 8, 1880. Visiting brethren are in
vited to attend.
- 1t is said, that moreno wool pulled over the
eyes, is wonderfully effective in producing changes
of vision. But the effect il greatly enhanced by
the proximity of certain metals, and when the
patient is also subjected to the influence of certain
fluids.
- Colored Eyeglasses have lately come into
favor as a pretty fashion among the young people
of Honolulu. Different people have different ideas
as to the appropriateness of this novel adOrnment.
10 n - n Ia ~ nf untnOn
ladies.
- Three useful bills were introduced into the
Assembly last week by the Minister Of the Interior
relating to vehicles. The passage of these bills, and
the proper enactment of the law, will tend to protect
the public from accidents which frequently arise
from furious driving and want of lights at night.
~ 1t is estimated as probable, that the total
population of San Francisco. is about 240, 900; and
that the Chinese in the city number about 5000.
giving a proportion of about one in ten. Tue
census returns had not been classified at last ac-
counts; but the above is supposed to be a close
approximation.
During the past week a Humber OF dead
animals have been noticed in the streets Of various
parts of the town; rats and chickens in particular
and it is needless to say they are Objectionable;
but people who max" a practice of throwing such
things into the streets, should emrmber that they
are liable to heavy fne if eaught.
- Italians are prOverbial lovers of music,
many expatiated counts obtaining their living in
Eastern cities by dealing forth dulcet, though not at
all times soothing strains from the hand organ. In
this country however, the diaphragm of the body is
used as the motive power, which the mental capabili-
ties resolve into a very unpopular sort of (chin) mu-
sic mostly on Chinese subjects.
81 Our contemporary, who has long been I" on
the fence - in regard to the Chinese question as ap-
pertaining to this Kingdom, has at last. after first
feeling we'll the public pulse, resolved to Gene
down. Formerly the Gazette was q rabid exponent
Of Chinese interests. and this fact may have delay
ed the execution of its resolve to adopt a new
line of policy.
q At a meeting of Oahu Lodge, x. of P.