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The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1885-07-27
Henry Clay as a Whist Player.

A story about Clay, so well authenticated
that it comes almost directly from Henry
Claws mouth, relates an adventure of his
with old Throckmorton, noted hotel keeper
. at Louisville in Clay's day. Throckmorton
was one of Mr.. Clay's most intimate Ken
lucky friends In their latter days the two
were almost inseparable and they often
Joined hands over tie whist table. Throck-
morton was fine whist player, and nothing
irritated him more than to have his gsEne in
terrupted or spoiled by talking. Throck-
morton generally beat Clay, but Clay got
ahead of him at a whist party in Louisville
when he and Throckmorton were partners.
The stakes were NOMINAL dollar a game,
Ithink-and as soon as the party sat down
at the table Clay began to tell stories
The result was that be paid no at
tention to his hand, and through his blum
ders trick after trick was lost. Throckmor
ton protested from time to time, finally say
II = Really, Mr.. Clay, for a man Of your
q Iity, education and reputation, you are
the poorest whist player have ever known.
The play continued in the same way, and
Throckmorton grew more and more angry.
At last Clay said, ''You are making more
fuss by your Directing than am by my
stories. Now" and he here pulled out a
SO gold piece, "we will each lay SO on the
ia Dle, and the man who talks first shall lose
his money"
To this Throckmorton consented, and the
e20 were laid besiIe the stakes of a dollar a
side In the middle of the table Clay then
began to play worse than ever He trumped
Throckmortol's aces and threw away his
own suit until Throckmorton. who for some
time had been gritting his teeth, rose. and
pushing the money at Clay, said, Here,
take your $50. I am not going to let $50
stand in the way of my telling any such
cartl-play ing idiot as you are showing your
self to be what l think OF him" He then
went over Clay roughshod. Clay laughed
as e put the two gold pieces in his pocket,
and the company laughed with him when he
said that he had been trying for years TO
beat Mr.. Throckmorton, and he was glad to
feel that he had done so for once
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1885-07-27
Expenses of business.
lScientif Americ MI

iCclSnClH AInor1c IN.
A. we'll informed merchant of Boston
recently said to representative of Bos-
ton newspaper that he had been looking
back over his accounts, and was surprised
to find that since the close of the war there
had been a steady increase in the ordinary
expenses of carrying on business That
this increase OF business expenses extends
beyond the merchant to the manufacturer
and most other kinds of business is a fact
patent to most employers Mere office
work costs great deal more now than it
it did in 1865; more clerks are needed.
and. on the whole, each of these receive
higher pay. Assistance is required in the
receiving end delivering departments to
an extent and of a character that would
not have been dreamed of two dacades
ago Then there are variety of inciden-
tai expenses that now enter into the COM
putation. There are telephone charges,
printing, the expense of solicitors, tie
whole making up an amount sufficiently
large to eat up all that would have been
considered fair profits a quarter of cen
fury ago.
1t is probable that the experience in
different trades varies. and yet we fancy
that in most lines of business statements
somewhat similar to the above might be
made, The tendency. all the time going
on, to lessen the hours of service, both in
offices and workshops, of itself makes the
cost OF business proportionately higher.
twenty years ago. and prices are so much
reduced in most commodities which enter
into the necessities of a household, that
mechanics. clerks, and others are enabled
to live much better now than it was posi-.
bic for them to do ten or twenty years
ago, when their wages were less and the
cost of living was greater.
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1885-07-27
Last Hours of Yankee Sullivan.
Washington Hatchet.l


I was very much pleased to meet last
week with Judge MCGOWAN, one of the
Argonauts who in 1S49 discovered the
golden fleece, which has-to coin term
royaliZed California. In the course of ouI
conversation the judge told me the con.
crete history of the famous prize fighter,
Yankee Sullivan.
Sullivan, whose real name was Am
brose Murray, was arrested and inn.
prisoned He feared that the vigilantes
would put him to death, though, as judge
MCGOWAN tells me, his apprehensions
were unfounded. The purpose of that
body was to ship him back to Australia
on the first clipper ship that sailed to
Melbourne, it having been definitely
understood that Sullivan, or Murray. was
an escaped convict The poor devil
however, was so affrighted that he took
no stock in the hope of escape from the
harsh business of Judge Lynch. He
called eagerly from his prison windows
fOl priest, feeling that death was set.
ting close around him, but was answered
by ieers from the mob without Finally.
in sheer desperation, he opened the veins
of his left arm with a caseknife aud bIed
himself to death.
Yankee Sullivan was one of the finest
prize fighters in the records.
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1885-07-27
Divine Asks an Impressive Question.
Boston Globe

a distinguished Boston divine, of unus-
ually solemn and impressive appearance,
went out TO country town not long ago to
lecture. He arrived early in the afternoon,
and all the town, of course, spotted" him
within five minutes as a very great and very
sanity man.
He went into a drug store and, in tones
that froze the young blood of the clerk be-
hind the counter, said:
''Young-m an-do-you-smoke!"
Yves, sir, said the trembling clerk;
I'm sorry, but I learned the habit young
and haven't been able to quit it yet"
Them said the great divine, without the
movement of a muscle or the Abatement of
a shade of the awful solemnity of his voice,
lean you tell me where 1 can get good
cigarl"
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1885-07-27
The Honest Farmer.

''yes.'' said the honest farmer. II know
there are people what always puts the big
apples at the top of the bar'l, but 1 don't"
That's right" exclaimed the deacon adj
miringly. II have always tried to con-
vince folks that that sort o. thing doesn't
pay in the long run"
eff they'd go to the city once in while
they'd learn something. always put my
big apples at the bottom of the bari"
''Thats the way"
eyes; you see people has got go suspicious
that they most always open the bar'l at the
bottom nowadays"
Modern Arithmetic
@Banish the devil of modern arithmetic
from our public schools, said Hon.
Henry G. Robinson in a speech on public
education in Hartford the other day at
assaults the brain and imperiIs the life.
It develops precocity, and precocity Is Un-
nature, and immature is q monster.
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1885-07-27
PRoos AGAINST LYE IN ANY FORM.
A Truthful Gas Company Collectors Ex-
perien,s N an Alkali Flat.
F-+ PauI Herald


A Truthful Gas Company Collectors Ex-
periencs II an AIkali Flat.
[st Paul Herald
A little knot of choice spirits were assem-
5led In the back parlor of the gas office re-
eant,v, listening - a narrative OF wild and
drilling adventures from the lips OF Mr..
Curry Combs. tie vivacious and truthful
collector Of tne company.
-'WslL 1t was just as was telling you,
continued Currv Il was driving along
l-oa Livingston to Miles City, in two
Ecrss buggy au. was having an elegant
trlp Weather lovely, game plenty and
lads good. Bu on the third day out. just
a1 5usk. I noticed a little nlarshy spot ahead,
1-. thought no. ing of it Pretty soon l
tasgd the sriAsI ng of the horses feet in
7ra5sr. but FL Iidn't seem to be deep
and Kept on Then it seemed to me
hat the horses weren't as tall as they
had been and 7 wondered if they were
sinking. but no their motion was free
ard uuinpeI-d and the water wasn't
over three inches deep. Then noticed that
the buggy was citing pretty close to the
round AL Of q sudden it occurred to me
What mad happened. l had driven into an
alkal overflow. md the I've was so strong
iirat il ha6 eaten off about two feet of the
horses lees and eaten the tires and felloes
from the bugs wheels, and they were run
mug On The enc of the spokes. In minute
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1885-07-27

The tye mad eaten off about tUco feet Of the
horses legs
more we struck deep place. The horses
went UP to their necks and the buggy afoat.
In another second the horses and buggy were
disintegrated and mingled with the alkali
water, and [ was left swimming alone
Then my clothes commenced to drop off,
and when l reached the shore hadn't rag
left on me-"
''Why didn't the I've eat you tooY" asked
an interested listener.
''Oh, I'm proof against I've in any FORM"
replied the veracious Mr.. Combs, as he shifted
his quid and led the way out
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1885-07-27
A Kaelv Motor Iaean.

Now, Mary" said father to his daugh-
ter, who had lover of the never-go-home-
st-a-6ecent-time-of-nig kind, 81 have no
objection to your bringing company to he
house, but I don't want to see that Keely
motor beau Of yours here again; that's flat -"
''My what beauT'
Your Keely motor beau
''Why do you call him by such manner
Because he is one of those chaps that
won't Ro.n
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1885-07-27
How is that for Eye?
The Judge.

Priest-Tell me, Murphy, how came you
by that black eye! Were you fighting, Ell?
Murphy-Well, indade, / won't deceive
yer reverence. Mick O'F1aherty and myself
hal a little difference; but sure, if yer
reverence only seen Mick's eye, now, throth
you'd say there was nothin' wrong with mine
at all, at all.
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1885-07-27
advertisements.
CASTLE & COOKP>
HAVE RECEIVED FOR SALE
Elk. MENDOZA and Other Late A..
and San Francisco a andy Varied
Merchandise, 70 ''ufnd
Plantations, Country Stores and Famn.
IN PART q

OF
Oi-he highest
Oil in barrels Cylinder Oil
Plain Iron and Basket Fence Wire and
Galvanized Wire Cloth, Centrifugal Wire Cloths CentrnI D
Blake Pump Company Patent Rubber and Snn SS
q inch, and ply. Packing round Co., &c.
boss pillow YETI Mol Furrowng and Breaking Plows sizes
Hoes, Gang Plows Planters Hoes, make a inch C
Planters Hoes Shovels, Spades Rake
Cane Knives, make quality Mowers
Pick and AK Mattocks Pick Axes Horse Shoes Bolts
lengths full line of Shelf
Hinges, Staples,
Bae etc.. of al kinds Hammers ~
and Glass. ~N
White Lead Zinc Rubber Boiled Oil yaIei,r
Turpenn Patent Dryers large variety paints Oils
variety, Stationery Hollow w
BLUE DENNIS, 8, and OF a
FINE RED SALMON, in barrels.
BENICIA MILLS Family Flour.
CRUSHED md GRADUATED SUGAR in half bsrd.
GIANT POWDER. GEI.ATINE POWDER VAR j..
Goods Expected Steamship Alameda
BLAKE BOILER FEED, LIGHT SERVICE VACUUM PUMPS N
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1885-07-27

There was a crash all about the room, as
books, cases. plaster-of-paris Dan Webster,
and other articles dear to the editor came
laundering to the floor. Bill lay there for
moment among the ruins. He then arose
and walked around the room, With his hand
rubbing the back of his neck, and his body
writhing and twisting in every indication Of
agony The devil was filed with horror, and
asked in an anxious, sympathetic voice:
bill, are you hurt!'
''Yes, by gum; I've broke my gol-darned
neck"
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1885-07-27
STEAMER MOKOLIl,
tMcGregor, Commander.

Leaves Honolulu each Monday at 5 p. m. for
Kaunakakai. Kamalo. PukoO, Lahaina, MOanui,
Halawa, Wailan, Pelekunu and Kalaupapa. Re-
turning leaves Pul1oo Friday a. M for Honolulu
arriving Saturday morning.
D8r The Company win not be responsible for
any freight or packages unless roceipted for, nor
for personal baggage unless plainly marked. Not
Responsible for money or jewelry unless placed in
charge Of the Purser
All possible care win be taken of Live Stock but
the Company VIII not assume any risk of accident
SAMTa. q. WILDER, President.
8. B. ROSE, Secretary.
oFFTCEzaCOrner Fort and queen streets.
23-1y Mar 80
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1885-07-27
The Revised version.
Life

Mrs. Spriggins remarks that she bought
one Of those reversed editions with the para
BILE columns shown just where the AK had
Teen altered
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1885-07-27
More Convenient.
IChicago Rambler.1

do you ever sweep under the bed?" in
qlfiEed a fond mother of her eldest, whose
room at college she was looking over "Oh,
yes, often. It's so much easier than q dust
pan, you know" replied the hopeful.
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1885-07-27
STEAMER LEHUA,
Davies, Commander,

Leaves Honolulu every Monday at P N for
"kSunakakai, Kahului every week: Huelo, Hama
and k1pahulu. Keanae, Mokulau and Nun every
other week. Returning, will stop at the above
ports, arriving back Saturday mornings
=" For mails and passengers only.
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1885-07-27
STEAMER KILAUEA HOU,
(Weisbarth, Commander

WIN leave regularly for Paauhau. KoholaleIe
Ookala, Kukaiau, Honohina, Lanpahoehoe, Hska
lau and Onomea
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1885-07-27
ARTIFICIAL Ivory.

The manufacture of artificial ivory
from bones and scraps of sheepskin is a
n i industry
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1885-07-27
WILDER'S STEAMSHIP CO.,
Limited.
STEAMER KINAU,
(King, Commander),

Leaves Honolulu per following schedule,
touching at Lahaina, Maalaea, Makena, AIahu.
kOna, KawaIhae LaupRhoehoe, Hilo and Reauhou:
Tuesday, June %, Volcano and way ports
Tuesday, June 30, Hilo and way ports
Tuesday, July 7, Hilo and way ports
Tuesday, July IA, Volcano and way ports
Tuesday, July 81, Hilo and way ports.
Tuesday, July %, Volcano and way ports
Tuesday, August 4, Hilo and way ports
Tuesday, August H. Volcano and way ports
Tuesday, August 10, Hilo and way ports
Tuesday, August 25, Volcano and way ports
Tuesday, September 1, Hilo and way ports
Tuesday, September 8, Volcano and way ports
Tuesday, September Is, Hilo and way ports
Tuesday, September %, Volcano and way ports
= Tuesday, September %, Hilo and way ports
PASSENGER TRAINS will connect with the
kinau at MahukOna.
The Kinau WILL TOUCH at Honokaia and
Paauhau on down trips from Hilo for Passengers
II signal is made from the shore.
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1885-07-27
Better Than Wheat.
WAL Street News.

Dear me, she said, as she fidgeted
around in the seat, but l wish had a
little more nerve, Yesterday drew $500
from the bank to put into wheat but
when l thought of wheat going way up
and somebody else losing and of wheat
going way down and my money vanish.
ing away, couldn't have the courage to
place an order +"
And you took the money baek?"
"Oh, no. no. / used it to buy me
poodle. The poodle market is very firm.
with no danger of break ahead, and ma
says l showed great financial sense Are
you long or short of poodles?"
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1885-07-27
Getting the Better of His Washwonan
[Arkansaw Traveler.l

Belkins to his friend Cobbleton: s'Say. /
hear that you have married your washer
woman" Cobbleton: Eyes" B.: ''What
on earth prompted you to so lower your
self?" c.: ''Wel, it was this way: owed
her for washing. Said that if / didn't pay
her she would sue me- Married her to pre-
vent litigation. Now she'll never get a
cent -
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1885-07-27

The following various branches of business viii
enable the public on the Islands and from abroad
to gain general Information on all matters in the
following departments:
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1885-07-27
Real Estate Department

Buys and sells Real Estate IN all parts of the
Kingdom.
Values Real Estate and Property IN city and
suburbs.
Rents and leases Houses, Cottages, Rooms and
Lands
Attends TO Insurance, Taxes, Repairing ana
Collecting of Rentals
Draws legal papers of every nature-Searches
Titles, Records, Etc.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-10-28
The Base Ball situation.

Philadelphia Record
The two leading base ball associations which,
by the simple plan of paying larger salaries than
any others, control the movements of leading
players have now joined together in compact
which emphasizes and renders final the complete
transfer of this game from it's position as a ma
tional sport to place among the long line of
money making institutions which in Anne RIGA are
dignifed with the name of sport. Ten years ago
base ball managers and club directors were either
sporting enthusiasts or desperate gamblers; now
they are respectable and hard-headed men of
business, who 60 about the affair of winning a
championship pennant with methodical calcula-
ton and old-blooded disregard for anything
beyond the gate receipts. The advantage of this
new order of things is that it entirely eliminates
from the games played under such auspices all
suspicion OF corrupt connivance or collision. If
there is no enthusiasm among the hired players,
neither is there any temptation to dishonest
play. Thus it has been made possible to place
games IF base ball upon a high plane of public
interest, and assure at the same time that per-
manence of patronage which is essential to an
exhibition Of 80 costly q character. With the
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-10-28
To-day: In consultation.
Superior Court.


Room lion. N. b. Taylor Judge.
neutrality-suspicious. Joachim eJ al. vs.
Richard Lego ct al; account. Dismissed.
To-day-NO special call.
Room No. 2-Hon. D. W. Howe. Judge.
Yesterday-McCarty vs. u S. Encaustic Tile
Co. ct AL; trial
To-day-Calls: 34439, Emma l.. Shaw VS. Grin
F. Shaw 34454 Emma Leota Redding vs. James
Redding; 34232. Albert Long VS.. Emma Long.
Room 3-Hon. Lewis G. Walker. Judge.
Observation-Disclosures Natner VS.. Indianapolis
Social Turnverien; account. Finding for de-
PENDANT.
Nordyke & Ma rman Company vs. Charles E.
Hill ct al; note. Dismissed and costs paid.
Martha E. Burt VS.. Charles II JENNIE ct al;
foreclosure. On trial by the court.
To-day-Same cause continues.
NEW SUITS.
Room 1-34636. Nicholas McCarty VS.. Ellen
Kendrck ct al; foreclosure mortgage. 1859, W.
J. Turner vs. j., M. & I. Railroad Company;
damages.
Room 2-34637, Citizens Bank of Mobiles
vile. VS.. d. NJ Bradbury.
Room 3-34635 Charles M. A. Hess w. Chas
E. Hall ct al; account. 3463S, Eliza Ann Sui
grove VS.. John c. Sulgrove; divorce
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-10-28
THE SUNDAY JOURNAL

Is a twelve-page paper, and is sold in every
town and city of the State of Indiana and sur
rounding territory The price of the paper is
FIVE CENTS. The columns of the SUN
DAY JOURNAL are full of the best litera
ture of the day. from the leading writer's Of
the world. All of the best writers of Indiana
contribute to its columns. We have also ar
ranged for the Sunday Journal for series of
original stories from tho pens of the most
noted writers in the world We have already
printed stories written by "Ouida," William
Black, Mrs. Oliphant, Joseph Hatton, Miss
M. E. Braddon, Hugh Conway and Wilkie
Collins. We are now printing one by the emil
nent author, Thomas Hardy entitled "a
MERE INTERLUDE.." This feature will con-
tinue in the SUNDAY JOURNAL through
out the year 1885.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-10-28
Big Four Annual Meeting.

The c., l., st. l.. & G. stockholders yesterday
held their annual meeting in this city and elect
ed as directors G. P. Huntington, George Bliss,
Joseph s. Fay, r. r. Gable, E. r. Jeffrey,
Thomas A Morris. A. M. Fletcher, NJ E. In
gals, George Hoadly S. J. Broadwell, George
Wiltshire. b. +. Evans, Larz Anderson. The
only change was substituting E. It. Jeffery of
ths Iilinof Central road, as a director, in place
of Henry Lewis, of Cincinnati There were AZ.
GA votes cast President Ingallss annual re-
port was published in the Journal some DAYS
since, and the fact that their floating debt was
wiped out and that the property, both financial
-1y and physically, is in No. l condition One of
the directors said yesterday: Should there be a
henvy fail business. and reasonable rates for
carrying such business. doubtless a dividend
would be declared in January, 1886" The stock
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-10-28

THE WEEKLY INDIANA STATE JOURNAL
Is the best Weekly in Indiana for the farmers
and country readers. All the best features of
the Daily and Sunday Journal are transferred
to its columns, and it has, specially prepared
by competent editor, a review of the news Of
the week, and complete Farm and House.
hold department. The price of the Weekly is
ONE DOLLAR A YEAR. Special terms to
agents. For terms of subscription and adver
Using for any of the issues Of the Journal.
address JNO. C. NEW e. son,
Publishers TIE Journal,
Corner Market and Pennsylvania streets, In.
dianapolis, Ind
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-10-28
The Best Internal Ramadv.

Brandreth's Pills. the best medicine known for
all diseases They are purely vegetable. The
same dose always produces the same effect other
purgatives require increased doses and finally
cease acting. They purify the blood. They in
vigorate the digestion and cleanse the stomach
and bowels. They stimulate the liver and carry
off vitiated bile and other depraved secretons
The first two or three doses tells the story The
skin becomes clear, the eye bright, the mind
active, digestion is restored, costiveness cured,
the animal vigor is recruited, and all decay ar
rested.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-10-28

National League and American Association
banded together as at present the future of
base ball as field for remunerative investment
seems to be we'll assured, Nothing can defeat
the intent of the managers except widespread
revolt on the part of the players, backed by
large capital In each city where League or As
ISOLATION club exists