The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1856-1888, 1883-04-28

for the drug market" Perhaps the pests might
be got rid Of readily If il were profitable to catcl
them that they might be used for medical Pur-
poses.
We publish to-day, for the first time, a descrip-
ton Of the - house flags a" used by vessels be-
longing TO the different shipping firms in Homo
lulu. This list will form a standing feature IN
the shipping column OF the DAILY PACIFIC Con-
MEKCIAL ADVERTISER, and we would be pleased
TO receive notice Of any additions or alterations
that may be needed to render 1t accurate and
full at all times.
In Mondays Bulletin (outside) there is an
ancient story entitled A Soft Bet, which has
been revamped and located last Saturday = in
. the Park Not only has the story been thus
flched, but has been garbled. As the story goes,
a policeman stopped a man who was driving q
horse and wagon furiOusly, and the driver bet
$50 the policeman wouldn: take him and his
wagon TO the station house. He then, according
TO the Bulletin version, announced that he had
two csrpses of the victims to small pox in the
wagon, and the policeman fed. 1t should have
been that " the policeman dubbed the driver
until he was senseless took all his valuables,
threw him on the '%stIff's,' drove around to the
nearest hospital, sold all three for SO each, and
then returned the horse and wagon to the station
house and claimed a reward for the find"
Some little time ago a correspondent inquired
as To whether the cost of using the Odorless Ex-
cavator could not be reduced. We have made
inquiry, ana are most Oeclueuiy OF the OplnlOu
that it cannot. The charge in other places for
such work as the machine does is, New York
$4,000, Philadelphia and Baltimore $500, and
nowhere that we can learn as low as 1t Is here,
while the cost here of doing the work is greater
than IN any of the places mentioned. Repairs
to the machine, which are not unfrequent, are
expensive, and we think that $1,000 is quite as
little as one can expect for the work. There has
been no complaint, we are Informed OF the cost
in any of the four hundred instances where it
has been used.
The 1irst number of the Hauodiian Chinese Netos
is before US. geographically it presents a very
creditable appearance. The sheet on which 1t Is
printed is a little smaller than the DAILY PACIFIC
COMMERCIAL ADVERTISER, and the outside pages
are covered with advertisements. The inside Is
entirely devoted to news. We are glad to note
that our business men have so literally patron
lied our young contemporary, and pleased to
know that the circulation already reaches above
the number of two hundred and fifty. Saturday
morning the managers issued n supplement IN
reference to the attempted riot of the immigrants
at the immigration Depot. This shows a degree
of Ell erprise which is quite certain of success.
The Chinese paper will doubtless be of much
advantage to those who are able to read it, and
we believe it will be conducted with intelligence
and ability by those who now have it in hand.
The telephone seems to promise TO supersede
the telegraph altogether. a wire between New
York city and Cleveland, Ohio, has been put up
and connected with telephone instruments. The
distance is something over seven hundred and fifty
miles, and it is said that the sound is commune
Gated as loudly and distinctly as il is on shorter
lines. Some modification has been made in the
instruments used to convey the sound immedi-
ately TO the ear, so that all the Earring vibrations
which sometimes interfere with the clearness of
the words to such an extent, that they cannot be
readily understood, are avoided. 1t is by no
means improbable that in time, telephone COM
munications will be constructed across the
whole continent of America, and friends or
business men can hold conversation when Sc
perated by the great distance of two or three
thousand miles. Neither is it impossible that
means will be discovered to use the telephone
with cables, and in the course of events, the
people of Honolulu may be able to hold CONVEX
sations with the citizens OF all parts of the
world.
Mr.. Cruzan's short lecture last Sunday eve
ming on the subject of THE Workingman's
Friends was an interesting discussion of an
interesting subject. The speaker dwelt at some
length upon the euhuEcvd value within the
present century Uf mechanical skill, and the
bettered condition of the mechanics houses and
surroundings, as being largely due to modern
The wonderful appliances with
which manual labor was made lighter for all,
though many of them were looked upon with
dread by the workingman when they were first
introduced, had proved to be their best friends
and to-day, skilled labor is in great demand, and
is better paid for than ever before. Temperance
and the exercise OF n reasonable frugallty or
economy was spoken of as being two great
friends of the workingman, aud a little calcula-
ton of the cost of liquor aud tobacco to the
'' moderate I" user of these two unnecessary arti-
cles was shown to be sufficient to keep q man
poor. The influence of Christianity was the
great safeguard for the mechanic, as indeed, it
is of all. Christ, the carpenter, had lived n life
of toll and his sympathies are with those that
- labor and are heavy laden" The lecture was
one that could not fail to impress itself upon
the minds OF those who heard it, and We hope to
hear the sam subject dealt with again by Mr.. |
Cruzan in IL more familiar way.
A great interest is manifested on all of these
Islands by people of taste and refinement in
flowers and hower-growing. Avegetable garden |
namen too, for whatever Is beautiful and
creates fine Impressions on the senses generally |
has the useful effect of eievating the minds or
purifying the thoughts of mon. There are some |
plants that will not flourish on the Islands, |
but they are few. All the more rare and lovely |
species will grow in most places here if carefully |
cultivated. The ta~ll-growing amaranthus and
coleus, when they are planted on the windward
side of any of the islands, ought to be staked
when they are very small. Even then, unless |
they are we'll tied or sheltered, they are very liable |
to be SNAPPED by the wind. And so it is with a
great many shrubs and plants. The gardener often
neglects to erect supports or shelter, and the
result is that the finest imported plants are often
when they are first brought here. The /
latest novelty that has come into fashion for
purposes of ornamentatiOn is the foliage of
Dell's crimson or purple beet. If well grown
and tastefully intsrlaced with flowers and other
foliage, it has an enthusiastically fine effect. In
the arrangement of bouquets and in collections
Of plants we seldom have a sufficient number of
such a sort of massive aspect, and the beet
leaves supply this want very nicely.
On Sunday last the President of the Board of
Health visited the Branch Hospital and subse-
Iuently the Quarantine Station on the reef. He
examined carefully, under guidance of the De-
putty Marshal Dayton, the Chinese coolies per
now in quarantine. They all appeared
healthy and in good spirits, and presented a
kindly and frank expression of good nature as
hey walked among them, and examined their
odging places, preparation of their food and
heir own physical appearance. There are Cos
IF the passengers of the Coptic in the
Station. About a dozen women accompany
his lot of coolies, and among them are several
bright pleasant faces well calculated to in
;pire an interest and a hope that efforts may be
made, that more of the respectable young wo-
men of China may be induced to come here and
T.