The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1856-1888, 1883-03-03
Miscellaneous Items.

A NEWSPAPER DoG.-" Don't you want to
buy u dog ?" said a dilapidated individual drag
ging an ungainly and unwilling cur into the Office
with a rope. Don't say no, now, until l tell
you something about this fellow. He's a born
newspaper dog. He don't want nothin' better
than to lay around a newspaper Office and nip
the leg of q printer that he catches soldering.
He hates book agents, pedlars, vnd poetesses, and
he can tell EN- on sight. AS for ieedin' him it
won't cost you q cent. He's never had much
experience in eating, and if you'll just chuck him
a roll OF rejected manuscripts, with n little poetry
thrown in for dessert, it IL satisfy him just as If
you'd given him a bone. He used to belong to q
friend Of mine that run a little newspaper up the
country a piece. One day the dog was left in
the Office with the weeks papers just after they
had been run off the press. The dog was pretty
hungry he hadn't had anything to eat for two
or three days, and although he had always been
perfectly trustworthy before, his appetite got the
better OF him, and he eat the whole circulation
before my friend got back, and that's the way l
came to get him, for my friend turned him over
to me on the spot. Don't want him? All right,
you'll be sorry for this. Here, Typoi" But
Typo didn't 60. While his master was talking
he had eaten a copy of the Meriden Recorder, and
it killed him.
The New MISUNDERSTANDING SLoPE.-Some
striking facts concerning the development of the
New Northwest are presented in an annual re-
port of the st. Paul (MInn) Chamber of Com
lL 4OO1s Lux NlJ "a oOOos
acres of land, surveyed into lots. and has a river
front of three miles. 1t has a population of about
Ga, 900. In 1881, 1161 new buildings were
erected at a cost of $4,57l 700. The bank de-
posits have arisen from So, 500 ,23l in 1880, to
81, 112, 074 in 1881. In 1870, the sales in the
wholesale trade amounted to the sum of s 9.8l3,-
600; in 1873, to $31 .9l3 800 in 1881. to
Sol ,232, 047. In 1873, the number of employees
in the wholesale trade was 1925 in 1881, 5000.
In 1873, there were 233 manufacturing estab-
lishments, employing BIT persons, with Sc, $50
900 aggregate value. In 1881, there were 1872
establishments. 1887 employees. and an annual
production to the extent of Sl6,O7l ,535. There
were employed in the business represented by st.
Paul firms, 1873 men. During the year, $685.
Sl6 were disbursed for public improvements.
The BRITISH SOLDIERS SToMAcH.-The
naval officers who visited the camps be-
tween lsmailia and Kassassin have been
filled with a profound and plying convic-
ton that some most distinguished corps are
not fit to take care of themselves in regard
to food and supplies. 1t is certain that the
British stomach, when borne on a soldiers
legs, needs a deal of looking after. If the
owner fills it, he never thinks it can be
empty again. and filings away his extra pro-
Want. Sometimes he puts two days rations
into it sometimes he uses only one days
ration, and, feeling pretty comfortable,
throws the next days supply away. and
then, being hungry, ds the Comissariat
and Transport.-Arnly and Navy Gazette.
In London recently, Mr.. Justice Hawkins
delivered Judgment in an action brought by
a betting agent. to recover tl75 which he
had paid IN bets, lost for the defendant who
had sent him instructions by telegraph to
make the bets. He had afterwards by let
ter refused to acknowledge the bets, and al
- Il. / II .Lk l. H.
SO, as he had not received a return telegram
sent within a quarter of an hour of the con-
clusion of the race. Mr.. Justice Hawkins
decided against such a custom, and gave
judgment for the mount.
The New York Shipping List estimates
that since the general extension of the life
saving service to all portions of the Atlantic
coast in 1876, the loss of life from marine
disasters has been reduced nearly IS per
cent; that is, that while in 1876, and prior
to that time, one person was lost in every %
on board vessels suffering disaster, there has
been q constant decrease until now there is
but one person lost out of every lib and
the result is shown to be almost entirely due
to the agency of the life-saving stations.
A Michigan numbering company is making
barrels by cutting a log into barrel lengths,
softening them by a steanlng process and
then shaving each piece into a long sheet,
unrolled like a carpet. Each sheet is then
crosscut into such a length that when the
two ends are brought together it is given the
size and form of a barrel, without heads. the
whole being done by machinery. This has
proved a great improvement over the stave
barrel in cost of manufacturing as we'll as in
merits for use. The only drawback is that
clear timber is required, all the knotty tim
Der being rejected.