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The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1885-03-14
Arrested Civilization.
-Edinburg Review.l

If we ask why the Chinese have re-
manned in q strange immovable condition
for so many centuries, the answer is clear,
though it may seem at first little made
Quate. The Chinese have no imagination.
People without imagination never change.
The Chinese are clever, cultivated, skill
full craftsmen, admirable imitators, but
they have no imagination, and that ex-
plains everything. They are perfectly
satisfied with the dull routine Of monot
onous laborious life so long as they have
enough, to eat and to buy opium, and to
gamble away few cash now and then
with the dice or dominoes, or over the
glorious combats of two valiant crickets.
They are a practical folk, and so long as
things are pretty comfortable they do not
see the use of vain aspirations.
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1885-03-14
Lamb Wine.
cincinnati Enquirer. !

The Mantchoos. who conquered China,
make kind of drink from the flesh of
lambs. either by fermenting it, reduced to
domestic animals, or bruising it to pulpy
substanc- with rice. When matured it is
put into jars ard drawn off as needed.
Gerbillon says that the rich Mongols
leave mutton to ferment with their sour
milk before they distill it This is I'M
doubleday the spirit said to be made from
the flesh of the sheep by the Tartars in
China. of which the emperors were so
fond
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1885-03-14
A Reasonable Document.

Herr Kreutzhuber is a member of the
secret police Being on his way home
after midnight he observes on the street
lamp a placard. "Hal these scoundrels
of Socialists have posted a placaro de-
nouncing his majesty, said Kreutzhuber
to himself Being determined to destroy
the placard he painfully climbs up the
lamp-post, and, having secured the treas.
enable document, he reads, "Fresh Paint. "
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1885-03-14
G.. BIRKS & CO..
Oh HIGH STREET.
Peckham, London, 3. Z.
Colonial Merchants.

Indents executed for all kinds of English
and Continental Goods, against Bank
Credits or Produce facilities for drawing
against the latter. Agencies accepted at 90
per cent on net amount of manufacturer s
invoices, including cash discounts varying
from L to per cent. Purchases in i'm
or ter's own name.
Twenty years buying experience for
export.
Reference: Continental Bank, 70 Lomb bard
Street, E. c. 465ap2
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1885-03-14

A soup made Of black beans and sherry
is one of the latest epicurean novelties.
It is said to be of Norwegian origin.
The Middlebury register and Addison County journal. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1883-1885, 1885-09-04
Tie ChinchilIa.

The chinchilla is an odd-looking little
animal, and its fur is much priced, it is
so fine. The rounded head, broad cars,
long whiskers, and bright eyes of the
chinchilla give it something of the look
of a large mouse. These little creatures
keep together in troops, and feed on the
roots of the plants that grow near their
abodes, They are mild and timid.
When taken up, they neither bite nor
try to escape, but stay in the captor's
bosom as in their own nest. The chin
chilla is clearly in its habits, and may
he safely caressed or made Il pet of, for
it has no bad odor. 1t is a native of
South America, where great numbers are
caught by boys with dogs. 1t abounds
in Chill and Peru. The two short, strong
fore limbs of the animal, armed with
strong claws, help it to dig in the
ground; its hind legs are much longer.
The ancient Peruvians used to make COW
cTi5t5 for their beds out of It's fur.
The Middlebury register and Addison County journal. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1883-1885, 1885-09-04
WISE WORDS.

If you have built air. castles, put
foundations under them.
Enjoy present pleasure in such a way
as not to i%njure future ones.
Give what you have. To some it may
be better than you dare to think.
Pitch upon the best course in life, and
custom will render it the most easy.
He who loves to read and knows how
to reflect has laid by a perpetual feast
for his old age.
Thrice fortunate he, to whom circum-
stance is made easy; whom fate visits
with gentle trial, and kindly heaven keeps
out of temptation.
Necessity, %oftener han facility, has
been the mother of invention; and the
most prolific school of all has been the
school of difficulty.
Few things require more of q calm,
sweet, wholesome discipline than the
manner with which we bear with dis
appointment so we are masters of our
selves.
The man who exercises largely every
dav, who lives out of doors, who works
at a hearty manual craft under healthy
conditions, will, if in \ good state of
health, probably find himself able to di-
gest and assimulate pretty well any kind
of food not taken in excess. The man
who follows a sedentary calling must,
even if in good health, take far more
care of himself.
The Middlebury register and Addison County journal. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1883-1885, 1885-09-04

low countrymen-"Go it, FOrdhaml" I
once heard an encouraging Chinese lad
shout-the mafoos, as they ''inish" up
their Walpurgis ride, wild with excite
ment, seem to have lost still further their
semblance 10 humanity, and to be trans
formed into distorted -visaged, horribly
frenzied demons. The race over. how
they struttcd about in all the pride of
jockey caps and jackets, and how they
chung to their costume to the last posi-
bic moment2
The tenants Of the numerous mat-fash-
Toned grand stands belonging to the
higher class natives have become very
lubllant and vivacious in consequence of
the above described race, and | avail
myself of an opportunity to enter one
tcnanted chiefly by Chinese and Japan.
csc ladies. | must confess that my bash
fllness compelled me to retreat after n
very few moments from the battery of
their half T. wondering. half scornful
glances at the European intruder, but not
before l had time TO remark that their
faces were flushed all over with skilfully
applied pink tints, excepting in patches,
which revealed disagreeably even and in
tensely Opaque whiteness. Theireyebrows
were pcnciled into narrow stiff arches;
their headdress, vests and trousers-for
in China all the women wear large, loose
trousers-were of %variegatcd colors,
quite ingenious in their contrasts and
brightness; their black hair was dragged
back into lumpy, Shiny rolls like jelly
hsh; their stature was ugly and stunted,
and their feet, their extraordinary feet,
in many cases had been contracted since
childhood into mere deformed knobs,
hideous to look at, on which they pain
fully tottered for a few yards.
a wide detour round a ditch brings us
the very thick of China race course
dregs. Gambling booths for large sums,
gambling booths for small sums, gam
b ing booths for nick. nacks, gambling
booths for high-rriced drinkables, gam
bling booths for low priced carbon; each
booth with an eager throng of both sexes
and of all ages around it, which renders
circulation difficult.
What is this fragrant and yet some
what sickly smell, a mixture of burning
spills ana sandal wood, |emanating from
of the closed chairs conveying home
the Chinese ladics2 1t is due TO the loss
in consuming which they utilize
their leisure moments, an exercise which
they consider as equivalent to an act of
worship.
Rapidly, yet steadily, the pedestrian,
the sedan chair, and the rickshaw lines
of wayfarers stream into the ordinary,
quiet town, just beginning to glitter
with gas jets from the English lamp posts
ubiquitous lamp posts which, in
common with the gallows, may now be
regarded as the symbol of advancing
- 0adon C0rahiI.
The Middlebury register and Addison County journal. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1883-1885, 1885-09-04
Greenbacks.

cold Greenbacks, was the soubriquet
given to Secretary Chase in the army,
from the green ink with which the backs
of the United States paper money was
printed. This ink was invented By Stacy
J. Edison, and patented in 1857, as anti
Photographic. 1t could not be photo
graphed on account of its color, and
could not be d~islodged by alkalies by the
counterfeiters to get a complete fac
smile of the bills. and as it was a secret
known only by the American Bank Note
company and the inventor, it was i'm
possible to counterfeit the ereenback
money. 1t was used by many banks be-
fore the war, but was never a leading
feature in the bill; but even if the com
position of the ink had been known. it
would have been of no use, as the work
could not be copied from the genuine
bills with any kind of ink. The date of
the patent could be seen on all the bills,
IN small print. Old General Spinner
wanted to have Congress enact a law
making the counterfeiting of national
notes a capital offence, as was oHCo the
case in Great Britain, and to have them
bear the legend which had been on the
bills then issued by the Bank of Eng
land $50 Counterfeit is Death. ~ Ben:
PerLey PORE.
The Middlebury register and Addison County journal. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1883-1885, 1885-09-04
A Story About Ferdinand Ward.

George p. Lathrop tells in the st. Louis
Post Dispatch the following story about
Ward, the notorious New York ~financier.
now an inmate of Ludlow street Jail in
that city:
A wealthy resident of some prosperous
New England city called on Ward one
day with a note of introduction from a
mutual friend. In the course of CONVEX
sation he remarked that he had some
money to invest, and asked Ward if he
couldn't tell him of some chance to put
it where it would bring a good margin
of profit.
Ward said that he didn't know of any
thing just then. lie himself had more
money than he knew what to do with,
and beside, he was too busy with some
big scheme of his w to 90 into anv
outside speculation. OF course, this only
whetted the New England mans appe
ute for investment, and in the course of
half an hour he induced the famous finan-
cier TO accept his check for $JS, 900, to
be used in one of the ''blind pools" of
which Grant & Ward made a speciality.
Three or four months later the
New England man appeared again.
BY that time Ward had entirely for
gotten him and his check and it was with
great difficulty that he could recall his
name and the moun Of his investment.
81 believe there's something due youl"
he said, after a brief converation. TAX
ing down a large ledger he made some
brief calculations, and then observed
with a pleasant smile: "The amount
credited to you on our books is Sl02,-
764." Then to the bookkeeper: "Mr.
Jones, will you kindly draw a check to
Mr.. Perkins order for $l02, 754?'
Ward calmly turned to his work again,
while his visitor sat gasping for breath.
In the language of the day the visitor
was ''paralyzed." 1t was some time be.
fore he could control himself sufficiently
to ask if there wasn't any chance for him
to reinvest his money and double it
again; but Ward didn't seem anxious,
and at last the stranger took his depar-
ture, got his check certified at the Marine
bank, and returned to lis native town.
Three days after ne walked into Wards
office in company with four of the
wealthiest of his townsmen. lie had his
certified check-the same one Ward had
given HMM his pocket, and his friends
were supplied with checks of their own.
They succeeded in inducing the tinan-
cier to accept about $3.50, 900 for in
vcstment in another 'blind pool" That
was exactly one week before the failure
of Grant q Ward.
The Middlebury register and Addison County journal. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1883-1885, 1885-09-04

During the summer of 1884 a Young
man splendidly built, called on me, hav-
ing previously demanded an appoint
ment, explaining that he had my advice
to ask in a matter of paramount import
ance to him. He asked me what he
should do under the following circum-
stances: He was the happy possessor of
q very sweet tenor voice. of which he
gave IN instant proof. lie was recon-
mended to 60 to a certain Italian sing
ing-master for the purpose of developing
the strength of his voice. This gentle.
man rec commended him to take hold of
the back OF a chair with both his hands,
and then, pressing on it as hard as he
could, to shout with all his might. Did
l think that was the right way to go to
work. l replied that if his object was t o
break his voice he would undoubtedly
reach that object by so doing, otherwise
! could not imagine any good it could
do. Such murderous ignorance | really
think ought to be brought before the
court, because either Intentionally or I'M
Intentionally that young man would
nave been deprived of what he had to
make a living frcm. He is now engaged
and sings at a theatre of not too big
proportions in the sweetest way possible,
and would certainly not have a tone left
in his throat had he followed the advice
above indicated. And perhaps l may
be allowed at this opportunity to tender
the advice of my long experience TO
those who begin singing. Before all, let
a competent master tell them what sort
of a voice they have got. To treat a
mezzo-soprano as Il contralto can be as
hurtful to 1t as to treat it like % high So
prano. The tessitura-that is, the prin-
cipal position in which the voice moves
is of decisive importance for the
singer, and it is a well known fact that
keeping the voice in exercises of prop
or limits will extend the faculty of
singing lower or higher notes, which
can only be gained by well-calculated
study.-Zemple Bur.
The Middlebury register and Addison County journal. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1883-1885, 1885-09-04

..H-None genuine without a bunch of green
Hops on the white label. Shun all the vile,
poisonous stuff with Hop" or Hops in their
name.
The Middlebury register and Addison County journal. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1883-1885, 1885-09-04

lr is AMAZING that any human being
should continue to suffer from bilious
ness, nervous headache, indigestion, or
general weakness, when it is as notorious
as that the sun is the source of light that
VINEGAR BITTEEs inevitably cures these
complaints. This medicine is sold every
where, taken everywhere, and cures
everywhere. Reader, it will cure you.
The Middlebury register and Addison County journal. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1883-1885, 1885-09-04

lowa's scandinavian vote is about four
teen thousand its German vote about
thirty thousand.
The Middlebury register and Addison County journal. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1883-1885, 1885-09-04
He Kept the Whole House Awake.

WASHINGTON, d. C.-Mrs. F. O. Nc
Clcary, a prominent solicitor of patents
of this city, was troubled for several
weeks with a severe cough, which not
only deprived him of sleep but annoyed
others. The only thing which did him
any good, he says, was the new prepare
ton Red Star Cough Cure, a purely
vegetable compound, free from opiates,
narcotics or p~oisons of any kind.
The Middlebury register and Addison County journal. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1883-1885, 1885-09-04
Kidney and Bladder Complaints,

Urinary and Womb Diseases. Gravel. Diabetes, Drop
s., S~toppags Of Water. Incontinence of Urine,
Bright 5 Disease, Albuminpria. and all cases where
thore are brics-dust deposits. or the water is thick.
cloudy, or mixed with substance like the white OF an
egg, or there is a morbid, dark. bilious appearance
and white bone-dust deposits. and where there is .
%priclling. burning sensation when RAISING water,
and pain in the small of the back and along the loins.
The Middlebury register and Addison County journal. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1883-1885, 1885-09-04
Did She Die!

No
She fingered and suffered along, pining
away all the time for years.
1.-The doctors doing her no good"
" And at last was cured by this Hop Bitter5
the papers say so much about"
Indeed Indeed ~
How thankful we should be for hat - ID
icine."
The Middlebury register and Addison County journal. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1883-1885, 1885-09-04
A Daughters Misery.

eleven years our daughter suffered on a
bed of misery,
From a complication of kidney, liver,
rheumatic trouble and Nervous debility,
Under the care of the best physicians,
Who gave her disease various names,
" But no relief,
And now. she is restored to us in good
health by as simple a remedy as Hop B%itters,
that we had Stunned for years before using
it. THE PARENTS.
The Middlebury register and Addison County journal. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1883-1885, 1885-09-04

There are fifteen million horses in this
country, and it requires one million new
ones each year to keep up with the de-
mand.
The Middlebury register and Addison County journal. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1883-1885, 1885-09-04
Advertising Cheats ~!

" IL has become so common to begin an
article in an elegant, interesting style,
Then run it into some advertisement, that
we avoid all such,
And simply call attention to the merits Of
Hop Bitters in as plain, honest terms as pos
;ibie,
To induce people
" To give them one trial, which so proves
slse.n
THE REMEDY so favorably noticed in all
the papers.
Religious and secular, is
Having a large sale, and Is supplanting
all other medicines.
There is no denying the virtues of the
Hop plant, and the proprietors of Hop Bitters
have shown great shrewdness and ability y
In compromising a medicine whose virtues
are SO palpable to every ones observation"
The Valley Virginian. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1865-1895, 1885-09-24
Wise and Temple.
Correspondence ofthe Richmond Dispatch.l

Correspondence of the Richmond Dispatch. ]
DANvILLE, VA, Sept. Is, 1886.
The reporter is at liberty this morning
to speak of the interview which took place
between DIR. T.. B. Temple, of this place
ton Hotel here on Sunday night last. The
truth of the matter, so far as it can be
learned without any statement from DR..
Temple, who has declined to give any,
seems to be that at that time Mr.. Wise
came to Danville on his way to Martins
vile and went to the Arlington Hotel.
While he was there, and as it was some
what off to one side, DR.. Temple came in,
walked up to him, and said to him - our
name is John S. Wise p'' and when Mr..
Wise assented DR.. Temple added substan-
TALLY my name is Temple. l am one of
those whom you haye been denouncing as
towards and murderers, and want this
thing settled and stopped, and if you say
so we will settle it. To this Mr.. Wise Is
understood to have replied II have no
friends here and / am not prepared for any
such business" DR.. Temple then re-
public disturbance. You have room
here. II YOU will go off with me, we can
lock the door, and settle it there to our
selves" Mr.. Wise's answer was, it Is un-
derstood, this, and have it secondhand
from one of his friends: lam a candidate
for Governor, and decline to meet you !"
and others say he added II cannot at
tend to this business now but if you do
not press me the matter can be arranged
to your satisfaction
With that the interview ended. Mr..
Wise paid his bill at the hotel and went
up to spend the night, am told, with Mr..
John Henry Johnson. It is said that he
sat up nearly all that night reading the
Life of John Randolph, and slept nearly
all the way to Martinsville the next day.
But have not been able to learn that any
body knew Of DR.. Temples determination
to call Mr.. Wise to account nor is there
any information that there has been any
other communication. direct or indirect,
between the parties. ALPHA.
The Valley Virginian. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1865-1895, 1885-09-24
Death of Judge.Rives.

At his home near Charlottesville, on
Thursday last, Judge Alexander Rives died
at the advanced age of 70 years. Judge
Rives was a worthy member of a distin-
guished family, cultivated, thorough
gentleman, a pure and able jurist, a
staunch, true friend-an affectionate
parent and man of the most scrupulous
honor and sterling character. His long and
useful life was filled with good deeds. OF
deep, conscientious convictions and the
courage and manhood at all times to ad-
here to what he believed to be right, he
pressed forward in the path of his duty,
unmindful of popular clamor and with an
eye single to the faithful discharge of his
trust.
Judge Rives was born in Nelson county.
and prior to the war Was pronounced
Wing. AS such he represented his dis.
trict in the Virginia Senate, and was SUBJ
sequently member Of the Virginia Court
OF Appeals. His brother, Hon. VIM. G.
Rives, represented this Government at
the Court of France. and his native state
in the United States Senate. After the
close of hostilities Judge Rives was the
Conservative candidate for the Under.
wood convention. In 1870 he was the Re-
publican candidate for Congress in the old
It'll district, and was defeated by Hon. r.
L. w. Duke. He was afterwards ap-
pointed Judge of the Western District of
Virginia, which position he filled with
distinguished ability until compelled by
advancing years and i'll health to retire.
Hon. Jno. Paul was appointed as his sue
ceSSor.
The Commonwealth had no truer, drawer
son than Alex. Rives, and his death will
be sincerely regretted by many outside of
the circle of his immediate family and
relatives.
The Valley Virginian. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1865-1895, 1885-09-24

The Wytheville Enterprise states that
Mr.. Thomas Breen. of Knowlton, Della
ware county, Pa, has completed the nego-
tiations for the purchase of $4,000 acres of
the Round Mountain property. situated in
Bland CO., Va, This property was secured
for the Breen Steel, Coke and Composite
Brass Manufacturing Company, which will
erect a plant near the mouth of Hunting
Camp creek, the end Of the branch road of
the Virginia and Kentucky Railroad,
which is to be built to that point. The
plant is to be erected at a cost of 81, $780,
600, and will be able to turn out 100000
tons of material annually. Its manufac-
lures will consist Of steel rails, car wheels,
composite brass. &c.
The Valley Virginian. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1865-1895, 1885-09-24

It seems that Georgia is getting tired of
her much talked.of railroad law. Its ar
bitrary provisionsIhave notscontributed to
the construction Of railroads, nor adyer-
tised the enlightened sentiment of the
State. 1t commits to commissioner
the right and duty to regulate railroad
charges, and to that extent is an invasion
of the rights .of the corporations which
have invested money in public improve
ments, as much for the benefit of the peo-
pie and their operatives as the stockholders.
A bill has passed the Senate which repeats
the arbitrary powers of the commission,
and RENTS to the railroads the right to
make their own charges. 1t is now before
the house, where it will evoke prolonged
and exhaustive discussion, Legislation
hostile to corporate rights is not wise or
profitable.
The Valley Virginian. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1865-1895, 1885-09-24
DIED.

or cholera infantum, on Saturday last. Ger.
trude Edna, daughter of VIM. H. and M. M.
Moomaw. aged months. Shenandoah papers
please copy.
At Temple, Texas, Sept. 18th, 8. r. Ferguson,
son Of 8. A. Ferguson. Esq, of Waynesboro'.
On the 18th inst, OF consumption, at the res l.
dence OF his father. near Callaghans. Allegheny
county, Mr.. Chas. Johnson. aged ~ years. son
Of Mr.. Henry Johnson.
The Valley Virginian. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1865-1895, 1885-09-24
MARRIED.

On Thursday, Sept. 18th. at O'Clock P. M, at
the residence Of the BRIDES mother, by Rev
]. 9. Gardner. Capt. James q. Bowes, Of the O..
the late Capt. Henry Peck, OF this city.
On the ed of September, at Harrisonburg,
Va, by Rev. John II. Taylor, assisted by Dr..
James Nelson, Rev. q. F. Fry, OF Augusta coun-
ty. and Miss Clara Il. Devter, OF Rockingham
county.
The Valley Virginian. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1865-1895, 1885-09-24

The coal and coke traffic Of the Chesa-
peake and Ohio railway for the first seven
months ofthis' year weighed 709,637 tons,
compared with ,10a tons for the like
period of 1884; being fan kincrease Of
1871 ,534 tons, or over "a per cent. The In
crease was distributed as follows:
Year. Camel. Gas. Splint. New +. Coke.
1886. 49,. .13,736 2l9,000 88,4l6 3N,5i8 5000
1884, ..... 9.776 1s2.0s7 46,60i 255.i9O s4.440
Increase. 1890 ss.sls 1856 s6s2s 1850
These figures are official, having been
obtained from C. w. Smith, general man
ager, by The VIginias for August.