Saturday press. [volume] (Honolulu, H.I.) 1880-1885, 1883-12-08

| The German Minister Of War is making a
tour of inspection of the deienses in Alsace.
Lorraine, and has ordered an increase in the
number of guns at Metz.
China has informed France that an attack
on Bacnnh will be considered a can5is brlH.
1t is reported that French troops in Tonquin
are suffering from dysentcry.
George j. Parsons, late editor Of the Sac.
ramento Record Union-stil the best edited
newspaper west Of the Mississippi-has an
nounced his belief in spiritualism.
| The original trust deed Of Shakespeare
Black Friars' estate, with a hitherto unknown
family settlement of 1896, has been added to
the Shakespeare Museum, near Brighton.
The Chinese Minister at Washington in.
forms Secretary Freinghuysen that his Govern.
ment is ready TO meet France halfway in the
matter of compromising the Tonquin difficulty.
AT the Industrial Exhibition" recently
held in Portland, Oregon, the "Skidegate
(Lubricating) Oil " was severely tested for
ten days and pronounced by the judges /" the
best oil they ever used.
The patronage accorded Santa Claus
Headquarters by the little folks and their
guardians has been very fattering since the
recent opening. Further "opcning of
packing cases-has to be of almost daily re.
curTance.
" HIark the drummei's on his rounds.
How his lusiry voice resoundsi
He will tell You where they sell
.Sneh lot Of good things, tell
Where the cheapest bargains lie,
Where the finest you may buy
In most airofi0AS pc .et-ry."
The conqueror is regarded with awe the
wise man commands our esteem but il is the
benevolent man who wins our affections. 4"
Said the late Professor Plato, of Athens. The
truly benevolent man is he who makes two
blades of (edible) grass to grow where only one
grew beforer.' "a quotation popularity
credited to the late Dean Swift, but attributed
by Sir Claus Spreckels to the Bible). To
make two blades of sugar cane grow where
only one grew before, employ the Dillingham;
pillow, now IN stock at the store and several of
the corpulent warehouses of b. +. Dillingham;
& Co.
There are only four nations in the world to.
day that are paying their way. England
generally manages to make ends meet and
show trning surplus of $4,000, 600 or
100000 10 be applied to the reduction of
its enormous national debt the United
States, in spite of congressional extravaganza,
puts by nearly fifty times as much and Hol.'
land and Belgium keep about even. In the
meanwhile Messrs. Lycan & Co. are going
out OF the toy business, at cost. And to get
nd of their large and taking stock ranging
from the drum-payng rabbit to the mule.
heeled savings bank-will keep open evenings
until New Years, beginning next Monday
Down in Tama county last week cat
was born with two heads. II is lively and
healthy, and can yowl with one mouth and
waul with the other. II this breed of cats be.
comes common it will Just Sc, the millennium
back about four thousand years" Says the
Burlington Hawkeye. To this the drummer
man says; "The best way to secure the mil.
lennium is to make the children happy" lie
says he is father and knows how it is him.
self. To give your children genuine nickel
plated, old-gold, copper pasteded. shrimp
pink, so as you'd better believe l know how
SORT Of happiness visit NJ. J. T. Warehouses;
Whitaker's patent "Little Jockeys" As the
old Romans had it Nufsanuf."
San Francisco Wasp; "a school mistress
at Vreka, while on her way to school was at
tackled by an in furiated steer. She seized the
animal by the horns and held him until help
came. The next day She saw a rat in the
schoo-room, when she hastily gathered her
skirts about her. jumped on a desk and yelled
murder" Several Honolulu ladies uttered es-
carnations this week bu, not Of alarm. 1,
was unanimous delight they voiced, in admira.
ton Of what Mr.. Sptoul Of c. w, Macfarlane
X Co. was showing them. He had just
opened a small case OF silver jewelry, manu-
featured in marvellous stimulation Of silver set
diamonds. Besides its singalariiy Of manu-.
faclufe, It is Of eseentric design, representing
binds, flowers, insects and animals, moreover,
despite It's beauty and singulariiy, ii is cheap
fG,as comes bat year"
sad the sweetheart 70 himself,
I'm unlock my boarded peif
Aud hay ose.gii, fos my dear"
Having once made up his mind the young man
made bee line for Dillingham's For, street
store, - want to see some Of thai new
silyersare," he said. The handsome, sad.
eyed clerk opened his crystal cupboard and
showed a bewilderment Of pretty things
cake baskets and nu, bowls on wecls, crackIe-
ware toilet sets, ink stands, ice pitchers,
trays and a ''sinuous wriggle Of eicetera -
as Wali Whitman hath II that would take
a eolum to tell about. The young man bought
his sweetheart salad bowl Of psychological
design and found il was so cheap that he went
over The street 10 Ro,hs and ordered new
coat.
Arrived at Sydney. November ,9,h. the zea-