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The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1885-06-24

The following various branches of business Will
enable the public on the Islands and from abroad
TO gain general information on all matters in the
following departments:
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THE NATIONAL GAME

MORRILL, has been a member OF the Boston
club for ten consecutive seasons. 1
PITCHER CoRcoEAN is the only player not
reserved by the New York club.
BALTIMORE wants to desert the American
association and 60 into the league
The directors of the Canadian league have
resolved to further the international league
scheme.
PROBABLY one or two Of the New York
players will go to New Orleans to play this
winter. =,
The St Louis League club has signed Ca
hill and Bauer, the strongest men OF the Az
lanta club.
THE best batting club in the Eestern league
was the National team; the Waterburys were
the best fielders.
MCCORMICK, the pitcher, who did such good
work for the Chicago club, refuses to sign,
and says he will not play next season.
The big fish are after the little fish as
usual. The mikados Of the League and Amer1-
can association are busily engaged helping
the players of the minor organizations break
their contracts and reservations.
A SANE of baseball on roller skates was
played in a Cleveland rink the other day. 1t
is exciting and funny-to the spectators 10
ths players it is bruising, exhilarating and
acrobatic. The trick is to stand still, and no
one can do the trick. Men fall when they
throw the ball, fall when they make a catch
or a pickup, and fall when they want to stop
on q base.
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NEWSY GLEANINGs.

TURKEY is the only state in Europe that Is
not Christian.
In finishing Cologne cathedral s5,ooo,oOo
has been spent
FREIGHT trains In England run at twenty
five miles an hour.
DRuMMERs' licenses in North Carolina
amount to $1,000 a year.
AN apple tree at Java, N. Y, produced
fifty bushels of good fruit this year.
An engineer running a train near Reno
killed forty sheep out Of a flock OF seven nun
dred.
FLORIDA hotel keepers expect to accommo-
date two hundred thousand Northerners this
winter.
FOREST culture in Dakota has led to the
appearance Of birds that were never before
seen there.
THE Gillian miners are said to be the
strongest men in the world. They live prlncl'
pally on lentils.
SIXTY million people speak the German
language, 45, O0O,0 OO the French and l00,O00,-
900 the English.
A COLONY of wine-producers will leave
Franco about the 1st Of January to settle III
Greenville county, S. G.
THE first Michigan sawmill was built fifty
years ago, ana the cuC si'lee 1neh n"' "
aged 800, 0OO, 600 feet q year.
NINE million acres Of land in Germany are
devoted to the cultivation Of the potato. The
product last year amounted to 23,ooo'ooo
tons.
A SCHEME is afoot in France to convert
Paris into a seaport town. 1t IS proposed TO
uild a ship canal from the seacoast TO the
apital.
THE number Of Christians murdered last
summer in Tonuuin, Anam and Cochin
China, is estimated at 2 ,000. Seven or eight
thousand escaped.
THE lumber operators Of Maine, with one
or two exceptions, have agreed to employ, no
man in the woods during the winter unless
he has recently been ~vaccinated.
THERE are now more than SOC, 900 persons
in England who uss the bicycle and tricycle.,
and the capital invested in the manufacture
of these machines is SIS, 00O, 900, employing
1O,000 men.
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English metropolis. Tie jury Tound Mr.
Stead and a Mrs. Jarrett guilty and acquit-
tod the others. Great crowds thronged the
court room and adjacent streets during the
progress Of the trial.
A WINNIPEG (Manitoba) dispatch reports
that the magnificent iron clad steamer Al
gonna, Of the Canadian. Pacific railroad, was
wrecked in Lake Superior, of Port Arthur,
and probably thirty-three lives were lost
Another steamer found thirteen Of the crew
Of the Algoma and two passengers Oh an
island. and rescued them. The Algoma cost
$3.50, 900, and was as luxuriously furnished as
an ocean steamer.
REL, the Manitoba rebel leader, sentenced
to be hanged on the 10th, was respitei to the
10th. Many petitions for a Communication OF
mis- sentence to life Imprisonment were sent
to the Canadian government.
KING THEBAw, Of Burmah, defes the Brit
ish, and an expedition has been sent against
him across the frontier from India.
The trial of Editor Stead and his fellow
defendants in the Eliza Armstrong abduc-
ton case was resumed in London upon the
count of another indictment, and they were
found guilty and sentenced as follows: MIR.
Stead, three months; Rebacca Jarrett. sly
months, and Sampson Jacques, one month,
all without hard labor, and Nine. Mourey.
six months. with hard labor.
A I interchange of shots is going on
among the Bulgarian and Servian patrols on
the frontier.
A GLASGOW dispatch says that there is
great depression in the Clyde shipbuilding
trade. and that the families Of many men
thrown out Of employment are beginning tc
suffer.
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QUEER HAPPENINGS.

W. E. BERGEN, Of Cranberry, N. j., has q
horse that within a short time has changed
his color from a dark brown to a dapple gray.
A SWARM of bees, attracted by boxes OF
honey, captured a store in Newton. and it be-
came necessary to use sulphur to dislodge
them.
The four-year-old son of 8. Darlington, OF
Centralia, Iowa, was romping with what was
thought to be 6 dog. 1t was a bear. After
discovery the bear started for the woods, but
Mr.. Darlington managed to kill it.
WHILE horseback riding, Owen Roberts, Of
Mill Creek, Wis, filled his pipe and began
smoking. Suddenly there vas an explosion,
and Roberts lay in the road with q damaged
Jaw. A small cartridge was in the tobacco.
A PENNSYLVANIA young lady was feeble
and vent to Elwood, N. j., as a last resort.
There she was so bitten oil over by mosqui.
toes, that a painful illness followed. When
this disappeared she rapidly recovered from
the former disease to the enjoyment OF per-
feet health.
A NEWRY, Me-, farmer was attacked by 8
bear while in the mountains with a yoke OF
oxen. It was q stern chase between the
cattle and the bear. The farmer jumped for
the plug in the yoke, and dangled there until
the oxen had carried him out OF reach. The
bear tore the oxen fearfully, but could not
reach the farmer.
A ARK from a locomotive set the wagon
of Martin Burns on fire as it stood On the
Westminster Street bridge, st. Paul: The
wagon, being covered with oil, burned fierce
" and set the horse on fire, and he ran away.
Before getting of the bridge be stumbled and
tore a leg of. Then the cart set the bridge
on fire. Burns fourteen-year-old son was
severely burned and the horse died.
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NEWS SUMMARY
Eastern and Middle states.

STEPHEN B. WALMSLEY, ffty-nine years old.
chief clerk in the New York bureau of cleo.
tons, has committed suicide by shooting.
He had been made sick by overwork.
FULL returns put Hills majority for gov
ernor Of New York at 1l,0oO, and Jones ma
jority for Acknowledgements at 1900.
Two young men in a small boat got into
the rapid current at the Niagara Falls, and
were carried over the great cataract
JOHN MCCULLOUGH, the eminent Ameri-
can actor, died suddenly a few days since at
his home in Philadelphia, to which he had
been removed recently from a New York in
sane asylum. He was born in Ireland in
1887, and for many years acted with Forrest,
the tragedian.
A SLEEPING car was wrecked by an acct
dent to a train near Canajoharie, N. Y, and
the wife of Assemblyman Charles R. Pratt,
OF Rochester, was killed. Mr.. Pratt was
seriously, if not fatally, hurt, and other pas
sengers were also more or less injured
WORK has started up again at the ship
yard of John Roach, Chester, Penn.
THE postmaster-general of Japan and a
party of prominent Japanese officials arrived
in New York, the other day, from a tour Of
inspection of the postal service in Europe
and proceeded to Washington.
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PROMINENT PEOPLE,;

SECRETARY BAYARD's inherited deafness
Is said to be increasing.
WILLIAM BLACK, the English novelist,
makes about $40, 0JU a year from his novels.
DIR. NOAH PORTER, who has just resigned
the presidency of Yale college, is in his 74th
year.
PRESIDENT ELIOT, OF Harvard university,
and the chef in the Parker house restaurant,
Boston, receive each a salary Of $4,000.
THE Earl of Fife, a young Scotch noble
man. is the coming literary orator OF his
order. He is very rich and muniicent.
BEACoSsFIELD talked in a soft, low voice.
Gladstone talks distinctly in medium tones,
and Lord Salisbury loudly, often bolster
ously.
-Ex.PREs1DENT ARTHUR told q correspond
mt in New York that he had not saved q
dollar Of the 100000 that he received Tor
President.
Mons. A. BARrHoLDI, the sculptor who
made the statue of liberty given by France
TO America, arrived in New York a few days
ago from France.
THE most remunerative professorship in
the world is that Of Professor Turner, the
distinguished anatomist of Edinburgh, which
yields him $40, 900 a year.
UNITED STATES SENATOR SAWYER has
given Sl5, 900 to the Young Mems Christian
association of that Michigan town with the
mellihuous NAME, Oshkosh.
DR., OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES. having
attained the age of threescore and sixteen,
facetiously remarks that he is "e. Revolution
ary patriot-one Of the men Of IT,"
ADIRONDACK MURRAY said, at the close OF
q recent lecture. the six years that have
passed since he left tho ministry. had been
spent in graduating for another life.
UNLIKE his predecessor, MIR. Arthur, Mr.
Cleveland cares little for the relaxation to be
found at the theatre. A good walk In the
open air or q drive behind msttled horses
pleases him better.
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THE CROPS
November Returns to the Department
of Agriculture.

November Returns to the Department
Of Agriculture.
The November crop report Of the depart
ment of agriculture says: The present crop
of corn is the first full average in rate of
yield since 1880, which was the last Of a series
Of six full crops Of twenty-six to twenty
eight bushels per acre. The present crop,
grown on an area Of fifty three to ffty-four
million acres, is slightly above an average
for a period Of ten years, or twenty.six and
a quarter bushels per acre. The highest rate
OF Weld is thirty-si1 and ope-half bushels, in
Nebraska and Ohio. The three corn-grow-
ing States which pro luce four-tenths o. the
entire crop-lllinois, iowa and Missouri
each average several bushels per acre less
than in the census year. .
The cotton returns of November are local
estimates Of yield per acre. They are some
what higher Than those Of the last two years,
but materially lower than those Of 1880 and
1882. The increase over the yield OF last
year is most marked in Texas and Georgia.
The potato crop is smaller than that OF
1884, in consequence Of injury from rot.
The reported yield of hay per acre averages
one and a quarter tons, and indicates a crop
of over 47,0M,000 tons, nearly as large as
that Of last year.
The buckwheat crop will be large. Tho
average yield will exceed fourteen b4sAels
per acre.
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MUSICAL AND DRAMATIC

THE Southwest Is being overdone by min
strel troupes, good, bad and Indifferent
THERE are only two ladies in the cast OF
"Saints and Sinners" and two only in I'm
His Power"
ADAM FoREPAUGH, the circus manager,
has mad six railroad smashups during the
past season.
JOHANN STRAUSS has produced his new
opera, "The Gypsy Baron" at Vienna: It is
the best he has written, and has achieved q
great success.
JOHN McCULLoUGH's costumes, properties,
prompt books and plays have been sold at
auction in New York. The entire outfit re-
allied about $500.
A "HIGH NovELTY' in Milan is a whistling
performance of Bellini's Norma" The
whole opera is whistled through, the chorus
being executed by si1tesn whistlers.
THE French papers state that in Memphis
there lave recently been discovered a num-
ancient flutes, drums, trumpets and balls.
Miss MINNIE HAUK, who is to be Colonel
Mapleson's strongest operatic attraction in
America this season, now wears a decoration.
The emperor Of Russia has conferred upon
her the cross of the order Of st. Anne.
A BEAUTIFUL commemorative building has
lust been completed on the site Of the Ring
theatre, Vienna, burnt in 1881. The num-
Der Of spectators who lost their lives in that
terrible fire has never been accurately ascer-
tanned, but 800 is the lowest estimate.
Mrs. SARA ALTHEA HILL, who has been
made notorious by her litigation with the
California millionaire, Sharon, will follow
the course which has become popular OF late
years with the female participants in public
scandals. She is going to become an actress
"a star.
CoToGN1, the famous baritone, has been
highly complimented in Spain. The people
to whom he had sung in the Badia Theatre
visited his hotel to serenade him; the police
tried to disperse the crowd; the crowd re-
sisted; the soldiers were called out; anil for
an hour the singer witnessed a free Sight in
his honor.
ACCORDING to the United Service Gazette,
a new use has been discovered for tho bag
pipes. Last year, it seems, a Spanish SOL
dier was brought to the military hospital at
Havana in a state Of catalepsy, and for tf-
teen months hs showed no signs of improving
health. At last the doctors ordered the bag
pipes to be played near his bed, whereupon
the man promptly recovered consciousness,
and is now able to articulate.
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Preserving Eggs.

Now is the time the egg prcscrver may
get in his work. In many towns, both
east and west, shrewd men are packing
eggs by the thousands at a cost of less
than one cent each. Next winter they
will sell at two cents each, when fresh
eggs are fifty per cent. higher. Eggs
packed and treated as follows can be
kept three months, and seem and look
like fresh eggs.
Take a common box, such Us is used
for packing canned tomatoes; upon a
two-inch layer of fresh, c'ean oats place
the eggs, large end down, and leave
space of at least a4ainch between the
eggs; cover with a3fayer of oats and
then place another layer of eggs as be-
fore, until the box is nearly full; fill it
with oats, packing the grain in neatly
and screw on the top; place your box in
q cool cellar. and turn it upside down
every other iay. Ii strictly fresh eggs
are used, and the turning is attended to
as directed, few persons will know them
from fresh eggs, and they will certainly
be much superior to lined or picked
eggs.--National Stockman.
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A CELEBRATED CASE.
A KanSay Mayors Young Wife
CHARGED with Poisoning Him.

A KanSay young WHO
Charged with Poisoning Him.
The acquittal Of Mrs. Walkup, on trial for
the murder Of her husband, the mayor Of
Emporia, Kan, terminates a case which has
attracted unusual attention and interest. The
accused is a beautiful Southern girl, who met
and married Walkup, u man of forty nine,
in New Orleans, she being then but sixteen.
Within a month after tho wedding the
bridegroom died sudde,iy, under circum-
stances which led :. the arrest Of the young
wife OH a charge of poisoning. The deceased
had families by two previous wives, and these
Joined il .'-Sing the prosecution, they having
bitterly resented his third marriage, and
being persuaded that Minnie Wallace &C
copied him only to get possession OF his
property, which was considerable. An autopsy
revealed the presence of arsenic in the
dead mans stomach; it was shown that the
defendant had purchased both that poison
and s%trychnine about the time her husband
was taken ill; and the case against her looked
black. On the trial, however, strong evil
dence was adduced showing that the dead
mai had been in the habit of taking arsenic
incidentally for years, and it was further
demonstrated that his constitution was SO I'm.
paired as torender possible almost any kind
Of collapse, independent Of the action Of the
poison taken into his system.
The evidence, says the New York Tribune,
established a presumption favorable to the
prisoner, but taken alone it probably would
not have acquitted her. The fact that she
had bought poison just at the time when her
husband was seized with his fatal illness,
would, in the average mind, when placed in
connection with the discrepancy IN their ages,
her frankly expressed indifference to him, and
the temptation offered by his property to a
poor girl, have created the conviction that
the defence was able to bring forward ex-
c%ulpatory evidence. 1t was shown that she
had bought the strychnine to clean a dress
with, and the arsenic for her own use, to re-
move certain disfguring blotches from her
face. This testimony, if not wholly
convincing, at least strengthened thu
the defence as nothing else could
have done, while the medical evidence
as to the condition Of the deceased mans
heath, and his habit of arsenic eating, no
doubt turned the scale in the prisoners favor.
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LATER NEWS.

CHARLES J. OSBORN, a prominent New
York broker, has just died. leaving a fortune
of about 100000.
CHARLES H. BARKER, a single young man
residing in Newburyport, Mass, has fallen
heir 10 $500, 900, loft him by an u in
London.
THE New American exposition-an cut
growth or continuation Of the recent Worlds
Industrial exposition-Eas been opened in
New Orleans with imposing ceremonies. The
exhibits are from all parts of North, Con-
trail and South America.
FURTHER app ailments by the President:
Leverett Saltonstall, collector Of customs at
Boston; Colonel Robert McKinstrey, to be
pension agent at Detroit, Mich. Don Carlos
Buell., to be pension agent at Louisville, KY. !;
John B. McClane, of Oregon, to be Indian
agent; Dr.. John g.. Lee, Of Philadelphia, to
be secretary Of legation at Constantinop!e,
Turkey: General Joseph J. Bartlett, Of New
York city, to be second deputy commissions
Of pensions; William H. Morgan, Of Nash
vile, Tenn, to be a member Of the board OF
Indian commissioners.
A MONTREAL cat caught the smallpox.
Ex-PRIME MINISTER GLADSTONE is making
political eeches in Scotland, and attracting
great assemblages.
WHILE working at tha ceiling Of a public
building in Montreal six painters fell a dis
tance OF fifty feet. Three were killed and
the others seriously hurt.
A PASSENGER train was thrown from the
track near Connellsville, Penn. and the sleep
ing car rolled into the Youghiogheny river.
Twenty-one persons, including Hon. c. E.
Boyle, member of Congress from the twenty
first Pennsylvania district, were In
jured in different degrees of severity
THE annual report Of the commissioners OF
customs shows that during the past fiscal
year there was paid into the treasury from
various sources, the accounts Of which were
settled in his Office, the sum of $1S3, 2O7, 9o8.
The amount paid out was s27, 1885, 1913.
DURING the past fiscal year the 1856 money
order offices of the country issued orders
amounting to about Sl2O, 100, coo.
FURTHER appointments by the President:
Frederick F. Mansfield, Of Texas, to be secre-
tary of the legation to Japan; George W.
Click to be pension agent at Topeka, Kansas;
Erastus Redman to be collector OF customs at
Frenchman's Bay, Me. Presidential post
masters: J. c. Roney, at Americas, Ca; K.
j. Harrison, at Toledo, Iowa; L. F. Ohliger'
at Wooster, Ohio; Leonard Dozier, at Ocala,
Fla.
The court martial at Fort Myor, near
Washington, which tried eighteen signal ser.
vice men on charges of characterization found
all guilty and sentenced them to be publicly
reprimanded by the chief signal officer.
MANCHESTER, England, has had a S5Oo,oo
fire, two blocks Of warehouses being Quilted.
A SHARP shock of earthquake has just been
felt in a portion of France.
Mr.. PENDLEToN, the Unitel States MIMI
ter at Berlin, has protested to the German
government against tho expulsion OF hVe
German. Americans from the island of Foeh:
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AStrOlOgy.

On the revival of learning in the four
teenth century, astrology was turned to a
curious purpose, viz, that of forming
science or philosophy of religio>. This
feat was attempted by Peter dc Arbano,
or Albano, a learned physician of Padua,
at the beginning of the fourteenth CEN
fury. He cast the horoscopes OF various
religions, Christianity included, in order
to discover the course of their future de-
velopment. and the length of time they
would endure. The learned gentleman
got into trouble with the inquisition,
but as he died at the age of eighty, be-
fore sentence was passed, that tribunal
had to he satisfied with burning him in
efipy. Jerome Cardan, the celebrated
algebraist. and Jean Bodin, a celebrated
French political author, attempted a
philosophy of history on a like method.
The use of astrology in this fashion has
been praised by a nineteenth century
philosopher, Auguste Comte, who goes
even so far as to say that the rejection of
sstrology was premature, and has tended
to retard the progress of the science of
history. From the fourteenth down to
the end of the seventeenth century
great attention was paid to astrology,
and the science was cultivated and pat
ronized by both mobiles and philosophers.
The last astrologer who had public at
tention paid to him in England was
William Lilly, in the time Of the civil
war between the king and parliament.
Both sides seem to have consulted him,
and he wrote several books on the science
and an amusing autobiography. Lilly
was examined by the privy council in
regard to the causes of the great fire in
London. He is said also to have been
the model for the Sidrophel of Buffers
"Hudibras.' Since the beginning Of
the eighteenth century %astrology has
fallen into disrepute, but has had a sue
cession of votaries up to our W day.
Among what our old writers used to call
s'the vulgar" it is questionable whether
there is a town of any size in Lancashire
or Yorkshire without its professional
astrologer, and the advertisements of
professors of the science turn up in all
sorts of odd corners in the byways Of
literature. So an extensive public must
even yet exist which has not got rid of
all faith in the monitious of the stars
AU the Year Round.
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TREASURY SUITS.
Synopsis Of tho Annual Report Oh
Judge McCues

Synopsis Of tho Annual Report Of
Judge McCue.
Judge McCue, solicitor Of the treasury, in
his annual report to the attorney-general
states that during the fiscal year ended June
80, 1885, 2,9o3 suits were commenced, OF
which eighty were for the recovery OF $685.
SOB from d~efaulting public officers; 1913 were
for the recovery Of 81, O6s, 999 on account Of
violations of the postal laws; 80 were for the
recovery of SIS, 748 on custom house bonds;
1879 were for the recovery of s15,S73 for vio-
lations of customs and navigation laws; S25
were suits against collectors Of customs and
others for refund of duties and taxes, and
1916 were suits involving s. 1901, 766, in which
the United States is a party or is inter.
ested, making a total sued for Of s.,
1886, $50. Or the whole number Of
suits brought, Ito were decided in favor Of
the United States; 43 were adversely decided;
372 were settled and dismissed, and 1918 are
still pending. The entire number Of suits de-
ctded or otherwise disposed Of during the
year was 2, S73; the amount for which judg.
ments were obtained exclusive Of DEGREES lin
REM was 1913, 626. and the entire amount
collected from all sources was S9j2.6S2.