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The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1856-1888, 1882-04-22
Waikiki Correspondence.
APRIL IA.

WAILUKU, APRIL IA.
On Tuesday night thieves got into the Railway
Depot, at Wailuku. They effected an entry by
digging a hole under the wall, and then lifting up
some Of the hoor-boards. They took a case Of
liquor, and were making off with itsEhen the sud
den appearance of a native, who wsAIooking after
his horse, made them drop the case, which was
picked up by the man and returned to the depot
in the morning.
All the mills are in full blast, and the weather is
l~ovely-just the thing for cutting and hauling cane
and sugar. Yesterday afternoon we had quite a
refreshing rain from the south, lasting a few hours
only-just enough to lay the dust everything
bright and lovely this morning.
Captain Hobron's railroad is very busy-often
making three trips a day to Wailuku, and convey
ing as many as eighteen cars of sugar at a time
from there to Kahului.
Chinaman Is putting up a restaurant and coffee
saloon nearly opposite the depot; and a neat cottage
has just been finished on the Roman Catholic Mis-
sion premises, where great preparations are being
made for the reception of the Bishop of Olba, who
is expected from Lahaina next week.
PlOver are plentiful on the Twas out
shooting a couple Of days ago, and shot some, which
were miracles Of fairness.
We have two deaths to chronicle this morning,
viz. Z. +. Lordon, for some time schoolmaster of
the Mission he was a native of Ireland, and died
Of consumption. The other an old native, well
known in Wailuku as a fish vendor.
No news in Kahului, except that the Rosario
leaves tomorrow for San Francisco, loaded with
sugar from the Spreckels Mills.
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1856-1888, 1882-04-22
Death of Sir Wyville Thomson.

We regret to record the death of this distin-
guished savant. so well and favorably known
to this community during the visit of the Chal-
lenger.
OBITUARY. Sir Charles Wyville Thomson
died on the 18th of March, at the age of fifty.
two. He was born at Bonsyde, Linlithgowshire,
on the 9Th of March, 1880. His exploring ex-
petitions in the Lightning, Porcupine and Chal-
lenger, in which the "depths of the sea" in the
Atlantic and around the world were investigated
with remarkable success, and multitudes of new
discoveries, have made his name familiar to the
people of all civilized lands. The publications
of his last expedition are still in progress. After
graduating at the University of Edinburgh, he
was appointed, in 1850, Lecturer on Botany in
Kings College, Aberdeen, and in 1870. Regius
Professor of Natural History in the University
of Edinburgh. His so early departure is greatly
to be deplored.-Americdn Journal Of Science.
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1856-1888, 1882-04-22
There is not a day,

lnQuence OIL the moon must aleO De GcSdrUeu as
dangerous
There is not q day,
The longest. not the twenty-hrst of June,
Secs half the business in a wicked way.
on which three single hours Of moonshtne smile
II seems, however, that there are more capabali-
ties of mischief in the moon than even the poets
have dreamed of. Notwithstanding our long ac-
quaintance with her, it is only now that we are
beginning to ind her out. For some ages past
the moon has been taking unsupported liberties
with the length of the terrestrial day. A few
million years ago, according to DR.. Ball, the
Astronomer Royal for Ireland, the moon was only
40, 900 miles on, the day was three hours long,
and the tides rose and fell FROM 500 to 1000 feet.
The advantage of this arrangement was that q
great deal of geological work could be got through
in a short space of time. Since then the moon
has retreated a distance of 240 600 miles, and
her attraction has slowed down The earth to one
rotation in twenty-iour hours. So far there is
nothing to complain Of. On the contrary, the
moon service to the cause of religion in short
ening the geologic milenuiums must be held to
entitle her to our gratitude. Unfortunately, she
is not willing to let well alone. DR.. Ball an
nounces that that the ''inconstant moon" is still
retiring and that consequently the earth will by
and-by be reduced TO a rotation once in 400
hours. IL is open TO any person Of a speculative
turn Of mind to think out the effects of this dis
astrous change. DIR. Balls own speculations re-
%specting the consequences Of lunar Inconsistency
are of a peculiarly novel and startling kind. 1t
seems that the moon is opposed to the eight hour
system of labor. The doctor thus expounds his
view Of the matter
{" We have heard q great deal about the neces-
sity Of shortening the hours Of labor. | wish to
point out that the social reformers who are striv-
ing to thorten the honrs of labor are pulling one
way, while the moon is pulling the other. The
moon is increasing the length of the day. The
change will be very gradual, but nevertheless 1t
is inevitable. Where will the nine hours move
ment be when the day has increased to 400
hours? This is a very serious matter"
4 serious matter it undoubtedly is, particularly
SO if, as DR.. Ball goes on to suggest, evolution
compels the much-enduring human race to adapt
itself to the new conditions. With the sun above
the horizon for 700 consecutive hours, and below
it for an equal space, and with the temperature
during each day touching the extremes of the
pole and the equator, the earth it may be con-
%jectured, will hardly be any longer a desirable
place of residence. Yet DR.. Ball supposes that
men may still 60 on living. A race may be de-
yeloped adapted to the situation, and if so, the
working man of the far future will toll for four
or Eve hundred hours at a stretch. There is one
way however, in which this outlook, so dis
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1856-1888, 1882-04-22

PoLYNEsAN SMARTNEss. - One of our Fijian
contemporaries has the following Decidedly the
unsophisticated Polynesian is hard to beat, as
witness the following: A gentleman who, for
reasons he deemed all-suf6cient, had not the most
implicit faith in his hOuseboy's honesty, hit upon
the very sensible plan of locking up in a chest
any garments the pockets Of which contained
money, and hiding the keys previous to leaving
the boy master of the premises. One morning
lately be forgot this precautionary measure, and
left a certain article ~ofattiro hanging up in which
was a considerable sum, consisting OF gold, silver,
and notes. Some hours after, on discovering
what he had done, he posted back to make all Sc
cure, but to his CONSERVATION found the garment
had disappeared. After a hurried and unsuc-
cessful search, he called the boy, and sternly de-
manded. Where is that pair of trousers | left
hanging up here?' The trousers?' was the calm
reply. oh, the one with the money in. 1 put
it in the box and locked it up, and l hid the key
away in the same place where you always hide it
when you lock up the box. Here it is The
employer has determined to raise the boys wages
and find him another master"
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couraging to the working classes, may be altered
Saws DIR Ball

couraging to the working classes, may be altered.
Says DR.. Ball
"The question Is one Tor engineers rather than
astronomers; but | cannot help throwing out a
suggestion. Anchor the moon and keep her from
going further out. If you can do this, if you
can also provide a brake by which the speed Of
the moon can be controlled, then you will still be
able to revel in the enjoyment Of a twenty-four
hours day. Should this engineering feat never
be accomplished, you will have only the 400
hours day to look forward to-
commend the subject to the consideration Of
our two local claimants for the honor of being
- the founder Of the eight hours system" Both
gentlemen are believed 10 be under lunar in
huences. They should meet and confer on the
problem - how to anchor the moon.-Civis,
in the OtagO Witness.
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The Moon and the Day.

That the " devils in the moon for mischief -
we know on good poetic authority. The moon
is tile efficient cause of lunacy, bad weather,
floods, tides, deficient harvests, eclipses and
epileptic fits. From a moral point of view, the
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1882-10-26
FAGTs ANp FIGURES.


vermont has sixteen savings banks
and 42,5S3 depositors, with S12, ,675,-
I260.71 to their credit ssrgs hus ss
The New Y orlz State Fair receipts
at Utioa this year were Sl5, $40, being
the largest SUM on. record for. seven
years, ~
s The maximum rate per mile for
passengers over railroads in California
has been fixed by the State Board of
Railroad Commissioners at 4 cents, a
reduction in some cases of about 40 per
cent.
President Barrios, OF Guatemala,
receives a salary of $1,000 a month.
He has been in Office twelve years, and
is worth S., 000, ,O00 The debt of his
country is $9,000,000, and growing.
N. Y. San.
The Pennsylvania Steel Association
held its annual meeting at Philadelphia
recently. The Secretary's report
showed that in ten years the produc-
ton. of steel increased from 160, 108
'ons to 1,778,9I2 tons,
"A man in Delaware County, Pa.
has COO hens which produce $4,000
. chicken buds per annum-an aver
age lay of 105 eggs each. His profits
amount to about 81, 900 a year on eggs
alone. philadelphia Press.
The demand or.high-grade glass
ware of domestic manufacture has
greatly increased in the United States
of late years. Not ten years ago the
supply was obtained almost entirely
from France and Bohemia.
John Rapp, residing near Glass
boro, N. j., has 1000 cherry trees, a.
900 apple trees.s 5000 peach trees,
1000 pear trees, 10 acres of grapes, ID
Of raspberries and IA of blackberries
The farm consists of 220 acres.
I'm the last fiscal year 10, 989 letters
with money, "a, ,575 with drafts, checks,
etc, 80. 242 with photographs, 50, 463
with po tage stamps, and 90, ,842 packa-
ges of merchandise brought up at the
Dead Letter Office. Detroit Free Press.
Among remarkable p oductions re-
Gently mentioned by local papers of
Nebraska G; Three oat-hsads carry
ing respectively 158, 222 and 254 grains;
a peach II inches in circumference and
weighing 10 ounces; a stalk of corn over
IA f, ct high and inches in diameter at
the thickest part, and an ther Is feet in
length nd carrying 9 ears.
The St. Louis RepubitcG1 says that
the wheat crop of Missouri this year
VIII DC 6DOQu fOsOOOsOOO DuSnClSp Edlo6Q
on 100000 acres of land In the best
counties farms are held at from S25 to
$50 per ac e, but in others from $12 to
$18 per acre. By this it will e-seen
that the wheat crop of the State is
worth as much as the land it is grown
on.
.--One of the most extensive tree
planters in the world is declared by the
| English journal LGaad to be the Duke
of Athole. Every year. it says, be
plants from GOO, 900 to 1000, 600 trees.
During the present season he has COW
| cred with trees a plantation of some
1900 acres. By the gale which de-
st Dyed the Tay bridge his plantations
were denuded of 80, 900 trees. One of
the Dukes of Athole is still known as
| the Planter Duke. IN the year 1774,
his DunKeld hills were almost entirely
bare, and he began 10 plant on a large
scale Before he died he nd planted
27, 200, 900 treeso which covered $4,000
acres. sarrsa ~ e- .-I
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1882-10-26
WIT AND WISDOM.

Virtue is its own reward, and
health and happiness is Fay enough for
being good
Many in this world run after felicity
like an absent-minded man running
after his hat, while all the time it is on
his head or in his hand. Sydney Smith.
When a real shrewd Virginia farm
er wants big tree chopped down and
cut up, he tells the neighbors that
there's a coon in it, and they'll have it
down in ten minutes. Boston Post.
The Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul
Road has put on a ballroom car to
dance in. Next viii be an ice cream
car, and then the boys will walk when
they want to go West Chicago Herald.
Medical intelligence is more large
lY diffHsed than any other information.
There is hardly a house in town where
a man can complain of q sore throat or
a pain in the head that somebody will
not tell him what will cure it.
Pa, TIL be right sorry when you
get WE'LL said little Austin boy to his
sick parent Why, my son?' 50 Be-
cause won't get any more empty
medicine bottles to SELL / sen 'em for
five cents piece to the drug store. -
TeTGs SiftiRgs.
-' Eh, bien'' exclaimed Miss Kate to
the tradesman. what is the price of
your gneiss peaches?" Turfa," he
replied laconically.. That's schist
what / want. Give me two quartz
strata way. | want to catch mica A
doleryte? ?'' And siicate bounced out
of the store without paying atolL-
Yale Record -...+
go" NY dear" said a very meek and
henpecked music teacher to his buxom
wife. @don' { you think you have spanked
Johnny long enough? His cries annoy
me exceedingly.'1 Z" just one passage
1nore,'a said the exhIarated mother.
shifting the animated key board to the
other knee, and blowing upon her con-
oested palm. 1--WE viii close with an
idyI for the left hand -B1claHge.
"A Suspicious Character: A prom
inent Austin politician woke up his
colored man a few nights ago and told
him to search the house, as he WAS sure
there was a burglar on the premises.
The darkey hunted the house all over
and reported as follows: Colonel,
has hunted from top to bottom, and ct
dar is any splshous character 'ceptin'
you in dc house, can't find him.a -
Teas S5fttngS. hn
A scholar IN one of Binghamton's
public schools, who had been over tho
map of Asia, was reviewed by his teach
er, with the following result: What is
geography?'' "a big book" What Is
the earth composed Of 7'' Mud. I"
No; land and wateF.'' sWeli, that
makes mud, dom { ita'' 'What is the
shape of the earih?'' 'sFlat.' IF
should dig hole through the earth,
where should / come out atp' ''Out Of
the hole. IN T. Herald.
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1882-10-26
CONDENSED TEIEGRAMs.

FIVE of the Eastman (Ga.) rioters
Powell, Simon o. Quinn, Joe King, Boh
Donnelson and Ella Moore, all colored-
were hanged on the 20th. <
ALICE FIELD, pretty girl of fifteen,
was drugged and assaulted by James Car
penter and Wm.s McNIurry, at Hasling,
Mich, on the goth, and died within few
hours.
II. o. SToRRs & Co., manufacturers
OF woolens at Dedham, Mass, have failed.
Liabilities, $3.50, 900; nominal assets, 1925,
600.
SMALL-POxsis is raging at Paterson, N.
j., in spite of Wholesale VACCINATION. 1t is
charged that theyirus obtained is useless.
JOHN WHINSING, aged 1s, was fatally
iniRred by the occidental discharge of his
gun while hunting near Newburg, W. Va,
on The 18th.
THE Secretary-of War has submitted
to the Judgel Advocate 6 enerssi for his opin.
ion the Question whethere persistent refusal
on the part OF an officer OF the army to pay
Just debts does not make him liable to trial
by court martisl upon charges unbeeomina
an oficer ana gen neeman.
q FREIGHT TRAIN on the Charlotte &
Augusta road, was thrown from the track
near Columbia, S. O., ,-early the other mora.
ing, -obstructions having been placed in q
gravel pit. The engine, tender and five
box cars were wrecked. The engineer was
badly sealded. The fireman was slightly
wounded, and brakeman named Tom
Mitchell was killed by the tender rolling on
him.a
WM. GIBSON, City Marshall of Hori-
con, Wis, was shot and seriously injured
the other night BY a drunken man whom he
tried to arrest.
The explosion Of q three-gallon can
OF benzine- demolished brick house in
Frankford, Pa. the other day. Mrs. Hen
was badly injured.
A DESPERATE fight between Mexican
Custom house officers and fifteen SNUG
glers Is saidsto have occurred on the road
between Lampasas and Milmos Mountains .
Mex. Four of the smugglers were killed
outright and four more captured and taken
prisoners to Monterey, seven escaping.
The goods found in possession Of the sfnug--
glerss consisted OF American prints, and
were confscated. 49,
HARRY and Estella Fancher, aged
about a5 and 45 years respectively, claiming
to De Brother and sister, have been arrested
in Detroit, Mich, for obtaining money un-
der false pretenses in Buffalo, n. Y. They
took rooms, advertised for young ladies
wanting employment at $50 per month, Sc
cured an advance OF 50 from about 15) vic
Tins and emigrated. They were preparing
TO victimize Michigan girls by similar en-
terprise.
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THE GARREF PARTY.

y 4ssay, gramma, can't aud Chris and
DOde 20 a-chestnutting on Pine Hill?
We can, caA't we? 4 know you'll let
us. fat
Grandma Rand looked up at the sky
where dark clouds were gathering. then
down to the anxious, upturued faces Of
her three little granddaughters.
I'm most afraid it is going to
rain,'' she said. - think YOU had bet
ter ask Aunt Jane what she thinks
about it.
Oh deari ] know she won't let us
gor' cried Katy, wofully. 81 should
pnse gramma was old enough TO
know something's without asking Aunt
Jane. shouIdn' you, ChrisP''
:. Mamma said we must be good. -
said Chris, ''and do as Aunt Jane
thought best. Come on, let's 90 and
ask her; may be she'll let us go. "
They found Aunt Jane in the kitchen
baking, and en-they came in she put
something into the oven very quickly
and shut the door; and 70 Chris eager
question she answered, shortly. %
ctesfnuttf11gi Why, 20, indeed! II
looks as If it would rain every minute.
Il knew she wouldn' { let ns, sighed
Katy, to her younger sisters, as they
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1882-10-26
SIeepIessness.

The causes that produce this serious
trouble are various. Not infrequen ntly
the tendency TO it is inherited with a
delicate nervous organization, and over
work will increase IT, It is difficult for
the sufferer to know Just how much
work, mental and physical, may be ac-
complislfed without producing the un-
pleasant result For one so constituted
most watchful care becomes impor-
tant, and the most interesting employ
ment must be turned away from at the
first sense of weariness.
An earnest conversation with friend
exciting your sympathy, the demand
upon your strength made by an invalid,
reading an article that stimulates the
mind TO intense thinking, may, any Of
them, cause you to spend weary wake
full hours and lead to severe exhaustion
on the morrow.
By watchfulness you may learn TO
spare yourself the over-faigue, MS n
duty which others may not understand
the reason for. You may avoid the con
yersation and the book ut evening, seek
ing them at an earlier hOur when the
choice lies with you. But with every
care you are liable TO suffer from
causes you can neither foresee nor pre-
vent.
Sometimes indigestion viii awaken
you at the small hours, and take re-
venge for some very slight departure
from the careful diet yOu uniformly
adopt. Recently it has been discovered
that many persons lose hours Of sleep
because they are in need OF nourisK-
ment. That the fast is too long Chat
continues from supper time az six
o clock until six or eight o clock the next
morning
Physicians who used TO prescribe bro
mide Of soda or potassium for sleepless-
ness now urge their patients 10 take
beef tea instead. The writer, after try
ing various prescriptions with little ben
eiik was at length so fortunate ms 10 re-
ceiye such advice. Al firstDecf tea~Vas
used with some light bread or biscuit
broken in ii, slipped from spoon rs
warm as 10 could be taken. Afterwards,
milk just scalded, not boiled, was sub
stituted, and TO make It more easy Of
digestion tablespoonful Of lime water
was added TO a half tumbler of milk
TO facilitate matters apocket-stOFe with
an alcohol lamp or an arrangeTnent for
the gas fixture should be a. hanh. IL
neither beef tea nor milk can be easily
procured, hot water with an infusion of
hops or mint may be substituted, or
even hot water alone will quiet restless
ness and induce sleep. A darkened
room that the mOonbeans cannot enteTs
little fresh air from an open fireplace
or window, are valuable assistants IN
making the sleep continuous.
When once the habit OF wakeiuinesS
is broken up. the beef tea Or milk may
be taken cold. but not iced. III y8u are
always a poor sleeper il will be Weh 10
continue this late supper as a perma-
nent thing in your daily life.
Provide for 1t in the case OF aged and
delicate persons who may be under your
roof; and as the troubles OF life appear
most weiehuy when scanned in the mid
night hours. you may be able IN ighten
the load for the rest of their journey
Christian Union.
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1882-10-26
Matrimonial item.

The most candid youngman in Austin
is Nicodemus Murphy. Hecalled at the
Office OF a wealthy citizen, and came
right ont and said; ~H as
Il want to marry your daughter. 1
cam { I'VE without her"
Are you acquainted with my daugh-
ter?''
/" Not in the leastE''
How then do yoa know you can { live
without her2'
''Well. / heard you were going to
g,ve her lots Of money when She mar
ried, and my personal expenses are so
heavy / can live without her-Or
some other woman who has got money
70 support husband 49, Tebqs Sttttngs.
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1882-10-26
Andrew ]. Carter, Of Cincinnati

Andrew ]. Carter, Of Cincinnati,
a year or two ago bought q vessel hulk
from James Mack and others, taking a.
guaranty against ''all Just liens. upon
it. Having rebuilt the boat, Carter was
sued by several persons claiming liens
against the hulk, but the verdict in each
case was in his favor. Then Carter, to
make himself whole, brought suit against
Mack ct al. upon the guaranty, but the
defendants set up the plea, which was
sustained, that they guaranteed Carter
only against just claims, whereas the
verdicts in the suits brought against him
established the fact that the claims were
unjust Chicago Times.