The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1856-1888, 1883-05-19

ment Survey. 1t is on u scale of 1000 feet to 1
inch, and Is indeed q very interesting and salts
factory deliniation of this part Of the island.
His Majesty has received from R.. A. Macfe,
Esq, through Colonel Macfarlane, a very hand
some Photographic portrait of Queen Victoria.
The portrait was taken at the celebrated Bassano
Gallery, and IS Il full cabinet size, elegantly
framed.
A passenger ia tran IT for Sau Francisco by
the City of New York found himself in an un-
familiar quarter Of the town, and SO he asked Il
passer-by: Il say how far is it to the City of
New York;? - and was puzzled by being an
swered, About six thousand miles"
We hope to see amongst the other pretty -1-
hibits that will undoubtedly be displayed at the
approaching show of the Agricultural Society, a
g bench of Canary birds. These pretty
sOngsters are the ornament and delight of many
a home here, and there is nc reason why they
should not be brought forward TO compete for a
prize.
The blasting operations going on Oh Nuuanu
street. below King, are conducted in q quiet but
effective manner. Large masses Of the sandy
rock are d~islOdged by the firing Of the charges.
y heavy chain laid on top of the mass to be
broken up prevents pieces from flying, and the
rePort-as ia all effective blasts-is hardly
heard.
A term IA boy by the name OF DudrOw, who
recently arrived IN this country on the steamer
Ehrenfels, had his hand badly crushed Wedues-
day by the cars used for the transportation of
came GU MIR. Richardson's plantation at Waianae.
He was Immediately brought TO this city, and
taken to the Queens Hospital. The fingers of
the hand were 50 badly crushed that amputation
was necessary.
The MuStrjrten Zeitung of Leipslg contains
a full page picture of the coronation of His
Majesty kalakaua, copied from one of the pho
F.vr. faIan h- NJ W,ll..ra. H. -,
is well and carefully drawn, but the Queen and
her throne is, omitted probably because in the
photo-the Queen stood i'll a deep shadow. The
Rev. Mr.. Macintosh is decked off with a turban,
his flowing ministerial robes having given the
German artists the idea that he was a Hindoo
dignitary-probably.
The careless practice of throwing the skins OF
bananas, oranges and mangoes upon the side
walks should be stopped. Any one that has
trodden upon one of these slippery things will
agree with Us in declaring them to be very dan
gerous, and an unmiiigated nuisance. 1t is
within the province Of the Deputy Marshal to
instruct the police 10 keep the sidewalks clear
of everything endanSering life or limb, and those
stationed near the fruit stands should be
especially enjoiued to warn consumers of the
fruits we have mentioned to not throw the peels
upon the sidewalks.
Abs Tuesday a match game OF lawn ten
mis- was played on Dr. Mckibbon's grounds.
Prizes were given by Mr.. j. II. Ulman, of Balti-
more. They were, for the first prize, a silver
bracelet, suitably inscribed, ID, for the second
prize, a Mexican belt. Tue contestants were
the Misses Dora Dowsett, Wodehouse, Mist,
Green, Widemann, Adams, Phoebe and Mary
Dowsett. Miss G.. NJ. Mist W III the first prize
and Miss Dora Dowsett the second. The prizes
were presented by Her Majesty the Queen
Dowager Emma.
A correspondent says; Talk is cheap"
= Let those who are ready 10 tell how a thing
osght not to be done, step forward and tell us
of that more excellent way OF which we have
thus fan seen nothing Certainly we are
always ready Ia tell how "a thing ought not TO be
done, because We are always ready with a better
plan. In reference to the management Of the
Employment Committee Of the y. NJ. c.. A, We
suggest the employment of q paid secretary,
whose sole business it will De TO receive and dis
pose of applicants for employment. We under
stand that this Is the course intended to be taken
by the Y. NJ. c. A., but the idea originated
with us. aud we now make it public because the
proper time has come for us to do so.
He considered himself inst as good as any
body, and this of course, he had a perfect right
10 do. He did not pretend to be n prophet, bnt
then he could foresee events with almost mira
culous accuracy and had an infallible knowledge
of human character so he wanted US to say that
affairs in this country were in an awful condi-
ton, and ruin was certainly inevitable If some
thing was not done orthwith. We asked him
what the matter was, and what should be done,
and he delicately insinuated that the great diff
Guilty laid in the circumstance that his friends
were not in office, and that the dreadful state of
affairs would be remedied at once by giving
them official appointments We remarked that
he ought TO save the public from this alleged
impending ruin, and the reply was that, = He
would If he could
The Bulletin of q few days ago gave room in
its editorial column to a reply to an article of
ours auent the methods pursued by the employ
ment committee OF the \. NJ. c. a. The 'reply''
was TO the effect that the ''IecOrds'' of the
members of the Z. c.. Of the Y. NJ. c. A, was so
infinitely better than that Of the literary staff Of
the ADVERTISER, that the said literary staff had
no business to critlclSe the acts or methods of
the &c. Of the Y.M.C.A. And then, while the
said literary staff was staggering under the force,
fairness and uptness Of this argument, the
Gazette gets out its club and threatens, il we
don't let the Teachers Association alone they
will have matters in the past h story of the sus-
pected writer of ''Educaiionar' articles ire
hashed" To- his-the supposed writer's, hearts
content. These threats OF proving a mans
prcsent want OF Judgment by a ''rehash" of his
past record may be awe-inspiring, even as
are the gyrations of the boomerang; but, like
the evolutIons of that instrument one is not al
WAYS certain they will hit the right person, or
recoil on the thrOwer-
The publisher OF the PoDuin !Scieace .NtUs
claims to have manufactured the first nitro
glycerine ever made in the United States, twenty
years ago, and in so doing had perilous expert
. ences with the compound which are unpleasant
to recall. He describes dynamite as "a mixture
of innocent polishing powder and sweet bland
glycerIns after 1t has been acted upon by nitric
acid This compound is a pasty black mass,
almost perfectly safe to handle, of which enough
can be carried III a side pocket to destroy the
lives Of a hundred men, or shatter a building as
could be done with half a barrel uf gunpowder
placed under it. The publication referred to
SAYS
The advantage Of dynamite to the Nihilist
and the political assassin is, that II does not
need confinement Il window can be broken III
any building, IA cartridge thrown in, and the
explosive effects are as widespread and disas-
trous as they would be if the substance were
confined in a narrow space with walls which
would afford resistance to the expanding gases.
a dynamite cartridge may be placed against 8
building upon the outside, on a sidewalk, and
explosion will cause extensive injury
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