The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1856-1888, 1882-01-14
Miscellaneous Items.

lUE mountain torrents IN the vicinity OF the
St Gothard Tunnel are going to be utilized
motive power ioT lighting the tunnel with the
electric light.
man may travel IL $50 miles in an almost
straight line 10 Russia, ), 700 by steam, 1900 by
raIl, and the remaining 200 on horseback.
THERE was. perhaps, never a more extraordinary
suicide than that OF police employee in the
Prussiau village Of HobemOlsen, who, a few
weeks ago, drove three inch nail into his lore
head with a curtain rod The surgeons had diff
Guilty, with the exertion Of their whole strength.
in getting tina nail out.
ONE of the modern attempts at reyiging an old
fashion il TO pass, after the dinner, large silver
OF gold dish filed with rose water, in which
each guest dips his napkin. and thus cleanses
lips and fingers-
EMINENT oculists, having pronounced the read
ing of German text TO be injurious to the eyes,
the SWiss Government has resolved to discontinue
it, "a much possible, and all their official
announcements will hencelorth be printed exclU-
sively IN Roman characters.
\ CLERGYMAN az the Worcester Assizes, in the
trial OF a case that related 10 the sOundness Of a
hOase. was asked by q brow-beating barrlster
e Pay. SIR, Do You know the difference between
a hOrse and n COW - - / know, sir the
reply the difference between a bull and bully
the one has horns and the other with bow to
the barrister), luckily for me. has none"
IT i related Of Bernadotte that when he was a
corporal in the French army he proposed mar
rage 10 peasant girl, who, by the advice of her
friends rejected him because he n poor
soldier After he became King of Sweden she
wrote 90 him and asked for the washing Of the
palace, which he granted.
AMONGST the races set down at the recent race
meeting ut Geneva was one for mounted officers
Of the Swiss army. But shortly before the time
fixed for the race terrible discovery was made,
viz that there is only mounted officer IN the
Federal army-the General commanding-and
that at the moment he was on leave at Aix-les-
Blins. and had taken his horse with him 10 use
as n beast of burden to convey his numerous
family to all the points Of interest near AK.
- Au peaeeable man. said the intruder,
grasping his club with both his hands 4" but II
you dsn't come down with seventeen dollars fifty
damages for my lacerated feelings, the bonn
bardment will begin at once. The owner Of the |
dog paid the money, as he was afraid the other |
fellow would exasperate him if he hit him with
club Of that size The owner of the dog also said
that ne was sorry that the dog had bitten the |
intruder's son. - Why, he ain my son : said |
the intruder. - Whose is he, then - asked |
the astonished owner Of the dog - He is the |
son of a friend Of mine who owed me seventeen |
dollars fifty cents but he is poor, and the only
avaIlabe assets lie had these dog bites on his
boy. which he turned over to me for Collection -
.. Well Ill be shOti'' - Oh, you needn COM |
PLAIN you are getting off dog cheap l ought |
to make you pay in advance for the next time |
that boy L. going to be bit
S,SDw1cu ISLAND SrGAR-RAIsING-Th great |
industry Is sugar raising, and this has risen from
n very modest beginning to immense proportions. |
\ few years ago a German named Claus Spreckels |
came here, and after looking around for a suit /
able place 20 settle upon, he made an offer to |
rent large tract of land ut the foot Of ex- !
tensIye volcano. lie well laughed at, for |
the ground composed OF scOria from the |
volcano, which the action Of the elements had |
ground into the finest dust. y slight crust had
-. N-aN. .ksW..F
valuable Tor agricultural purposes as a iagstone
walk. Spreckels, however, succeeded IN leasing
n tract ct 10 600 acres for fifty years the rate
OF ten cents per acre He then broke up the
crust mixed the dust with a small quantity OF |
vegetable mold. thoroughly irrigated the soil
thus formed. and planted sugar cane. To-day he
il "A millionaire and the richest person upon the |
island. The sugar made from cane grown here is
Of a very superior quality At krst the Custom
officers refused % allow the unrefined sugar to be
admitted duty free, 10 the United States, claim
ing that IL was refined. clear and pure is its
quality. The cane fields many Of them worked
by the PJrtuguese.-HOHOiEiU Corr, Albany
4rgtEs-
DE1N SrNNLEY-s CJNGREGATtJS---AlthOugh q
clergyman, Stanley never held Of sOuis.
His dock. peut in no single fold, embraced the
manv Of various classes and characters. who
found in him a helpful and intelligent sympathy
they found m no other. That word recurs often
"a We sneak Of him-fOr no other describes his
into which no trace Of circumstances or of
oficaIism ever iutruded- His congregation was
that eclectic multitude that Sunday after Sunday
througed the Abbey, and listened to the
tremulous yet penetrating voice with its rhythmic
cadeuces, which always uttered message of
high religious purpose, Of peace and recOncilIa-
tiou and any public crisis, after any na-
tiOnal loss enforced with perfect grace and wise
moderation, the proper lesson, paid the fitting
tribute OF pointed the essential moral. In listen
20 mi m her ygas ouP
ing place which socially, enthusiastically, in
teIlectualIy. was a cOign of vantage unequaled IN
EngIand It not in Chri@tendOm, who had an
open mind and unbiaseu Judgment for every new
speculation, project interest that affected the
thoughts Of his cOuntrymen, and whose great de-
sire to bring all these into harmony not
with ecclesiastical or dOgmatic system, but
with the essentials Of the Chritian faith. With
this faith his conviction that all scientific
and historic truth could be, and would yet be,
reconciled.-R. II. Story, ID. d., an Good
HOrds.