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Evening capital. (Annapolis, Md.) 1884-1910, 1885-01-30
Hereditary Crime.


In one of his recent New York
letters to the Detroit Free Press,
Casper says: Some years ago q re
markable little book was written to
show that a tendency toward c.ime
may run In the blood, like the passion
Tor liquor or predisposition to iEsan-
ity. The work was clever and itlcon-
tanned good deal of truth. too. The
thesis laid down in it has an illl5tra-
tion in New York at the present
moment. One of our most incorrigible
criminals is a man named Abraham
Leslie. known to the police as "Gen.
Greenthal," and now pretty well on in
years--threescore and ten, in fact.
General has been in the hands IF the
police many times. In May last he
was pardoned out of the state prison
after he had served six out of twenty
years Imprisonment for robbery. The
police now have him in hand again for
poclet-picking. There is no&hing
strange In even an old man continuing
in career of crime, but in this case all
the old mans family work in the|same
line. He has three daughters and one
son. Two of the daughters are habit
ual pick-pockets, constantly under the
eyes Of the detectives. The third
daughter is the wife Of mar who
keeps "saloon" in the Bowery;-and
I don't know of any saloon in the
Bowery that bears good name. The
son, TO keep up the family reputation,
took to criminal ways long since and
is now serving q fifteen years term in
the prison from which his father was
90 lately released. If this is not case
of hereditary crime, the article would
be pretty hard to find. The Greenthals
or Leslies. are quite so coarse in
their criminal tendencies as the Jukes
(the subjects of the little book referred
to) but the inclination is abOst the
same And the police could Sell of
many families with the same bent
each member. from parents down to
boys and girls Of six or sewers years,
being thief or moral outlaw Of some
kind. It win probably take long
time to ind sure cure for this sort Of
disease.
Evening capital. (Annapolis, Md.) 1884-1910, 1885-01-30
Living in Washington.

..ates for living were never higher
ia washington than they are npw. A
senator who has to live upon his salary
went to one Of the uptown nosels and
asked FOR rates for himself. wife and
daughter. He wanted q sittiAg room
and two bed rooms. The amiaole hotel
proprietor said he could Accommodate
him with the room and board desired
upon the nth door for $40 4 week.
But that i more than my salary.
Il cant help that. said the landlord.
I'VE have 40 trouble IN gettiNg these
figures" The same senator sried for
rooms il fashionable ilat. ard found
thnf a tie top door be could ct -four
small rooms Cor $3.50 MONTH Til.
ola MOT Include board.
Evening capital. (Annapolis, Md.) 1884-1910, 1885-01-30

A young woman in California recently
sued the young. man she had been en-
gagged to for breach of promise. Every
thing went on well. Her attorney showed
the usual letters; read the gush for the
amusement of the audience in the court
room; gave the amatorv statistics the
number of times he used darling" the
number of times ne . wanted TO kiss
her, y g look in her dear eyes and "hold
her in his arms in fond embrace" The
lawyer was sure that he had "caught
on y to every man on the jury. The de-
PENDANT was an amateur photographers.
His sole response was q photograph of
the young woman sitting on sofa with
another fellows arm around her waist
This was unexpected. The amateur
photographer, suspecting all was not
right. pretended to 60 out of town one
evening. leaving his instrument properly
arranged with clock-work for taking a
picture in the girls house. Verdict for
the defendant.
Evening capital. (Annapolis, Md.) 1884-1910, 1885-01-30

They laid out a new town in Dakota
last fall, and called it Golden City. A
Chicago speculator who was out there,
took 500 lots at SIS, and in thirty days
the price of city lots had gone to $25
each. Some one built and opened sa-
loon. and the figures jumped to $50. A
second saloon went up, and the city lots
changed hands at $75 apiece. The
Chicago man was advised to sell, but he
concluded to hang on for more saloons.
The snow came, and it was with diff
Guilty the Chicago man agent could get
through the drift to find the place de-
serted by human beings, but on tree
was sign reading: "Sell you the whole
city for 80.
Evening capital. (Annapolis, Md.) 1884-1910, 1885-01-30

teOh. Ct0Ckmar, you are not couf1eEs II
you were courtier you would have said
sOh, your majesty, at least to twenty pen
cent above par"
The great silver brick among the ex,
hibits at the New Orleans Exposition
comes from one of the most famous
mines in Mexico. The Santa Eualia has
been one of the most prolific finds in
that great silver producing republic.
For hundreds of years it has been worked
and is probably as rich to-day as ever.
It lies just beyond the city Of Chihuahus
in beautiful range of hills A noun
tain of snag taken out, years and years
ago, and thrown away under the slip
shod mining methods of an ancient civil,
ization. is now being worked over, and
is said to be producing about twenty pei
cent. of pure silver. 1t is
said in Chihuahua that when
these mines were worked by the church
over $500. 900, 900 was taken out of the
Santa Eaulia and poured into the Golfers
of the priesthood. 1t built the magnifi-
cent cathredal in the city of Chihuahua,
which it took twenty-seveu years to build.
A two ton silver brick worth $500, 900 is
indeed curiosity; but when one con-
siders the vast yield of many of these sill
yer mines of Mexico it does not seem so
strange that in these days of of improved
machinery a single piece of silver worth
large fortune should be mined in a
short time and sent to this exposition as
simple reminder of the enormous
wealth of that curious country to the
south of US.
The London Globe, in an article enti-
tied Nationality in Voice." says that
America is unQuestionably taking, in the
production of singers the part that used
to be indisputably held by Italy. The
comparative dryness and brill:ancy of
the climate may, of course, have some
thing to do with this; but it will not
account fer tie fact that Italy, with pre-
cisely the same climate that produced
those competent to deal with Rossini. is
now comparatively unproductive. The
journal adds that another theory has
been suggested. which says that sex
treme voices are the characteristic OF
young races, where energy and impulse
have not been moderated by generations
of thought and culture. AS the Italian
peasant learns to read and write, to be-
come citizen in political sense, his
fine tenor settles down and his uncom-
promising bass rises, till they meet in a
compromise. In short, the extreme reg
listers denote sort of impulsive barba-
rism, the middle, civilization and reason
There Is at any rate, much truth in the
notion that the unframed voice is apt to
scream or growl, and America NAV feel
complimented on this testimony to her
youthful vigor at the expense of her cul-
ture, while we may, with equal satisfac-
ton, look at things the other wav round
In any case, it is remarkable that the
voice of the North American who is
seldom of Southern descent. should be
so transformed from the vocal character
of his or her Northern ancestors, and
tend, like the physique generally, to ex-
tremes.r
Evening capital. (Annapolis, Md.) 1884-1910, 1885-01-30

peror replied. in his own humorous way.
ssOh, EtOckmar, you are not a courier; Il
you were courtier you would have said.
oh, your majesty, at least to twenty pei
cent. above par"
Evening capital. (Annapolis, Md.) 1884-1910, 1885-01-30

The largest check ever drawn upprob-
ably in this country, and certainly in
this city, has been framed and hung up
in the treasurers office of the Pennsyl-
vania Railroad company, Philadelphia.
The sum is $14, $40. O52, aud the institu-
ton cash;ng it was the National Bank of
Commerce, New York city. 1t is drawn
in favor of Kidder. Peabody s. Co., of
that city, and is in full settlement of the
large block of shares which that firm
procured for the Pennsylvania Railroad
company in order that it might obtain a
controlling interest in the Philadelphia.
Wilmington and Baltimore railroad COM
pany. The date is June z, 1881. The
check was paid one week ahead of the
time it was due.
Evening capital. (Annapolis, Md.) 1884-1910, 1885-01-30

The total yield of wheat and corn in
the United States for 1884 exceeds the
yield of any previous year. The yield of
wheat is put down at SO, 600, 900 bush
els. The largest previous yield was that
of 1883, which amounted to nearly SOB,
900, 900 bushels. The yield of corn for
1884 is 2, 500, 000, 900; largest previous
yield 3, 1877, SO3, 00O bushels, in 1878. The
amount of wheat required for domestic
consumption and for seed during the
year is estimated at 325, 900, 900 bushels,
leaving an estimated surplus of 1S5, OOO.
900 bushels.
Evening capital. (Annapolis, Md.) 1884-1910, 1885-01-30

Golden weddings are events of rare oc-
currencc, but diamond weddings, as they
are called in Germany, which are cele-
brated after sixty years of married life,
excite national interest even in q coun-
try where an Emperor at eighty seven is
able to sit for three hours in the saddle,
and where . minister in his SEVENTEEN
year delights in keeping the whole di-
plomatic world on tenter hooks from one
end OF the year to the other The Ger
man papers give an account of the dia-
mond wedding Of General Stockmar (no
relation of Baron Stockmar), which
recently took place at Dessau. Stock
mar is In his ninety-first year, and both
he and his wife are said to be il the en-
ioyment of perfect health He is one of
the oldest friends OF the German emperor.
They met for the first time Is mere bows
at the hattie of Jena, in 1906. AT one
Of their more recent meetings, when the
General expressed hore that his majesty
paight bring his share up to pnr. the en-
Evening capital. (Annapolis, Md.) 1884-1910, 1885-01-30

If science keeps on it will eventually
leave us nothing to idolize, aud will rob
life of all its poetry. 1t was pleasant to
think of the lark as an early riser, but it
seems this also was an illusion, as Pro-
fessor Swindhurst states that it is the
very la'est of the birds to rise in the
morning. The crow and the quail are,
the same authority AYERS. the birds who
catch the early worm. The owl, how
ever, gets the start of these. but in or
der to do so he remains up all night.
Evening capital. (Annapolis, Md.) 1884-1910, 1885-01-30

Paris has society called IA Mouth
full of Bread" whose object is TO render
temporary assistance TO those who are
out Of work. A lump of bread and q
glass of water are given to all who ask
for relief. New York has 'sTramp's
Delmonico." where the highest price
dish lham and eggs costs only ten cents.
The are twenty nine articles on the bill
of fare, the prices of which range from
one to tive cents each.
Evening capital. (Annapolis, Md.) 1884-1910, 1885-01-30

Mulhall. the English statistician, says
that, while England has doubled her
wealth since 1845, France has doubled
hers since 1856, and the United States
have doubled theirs since 1864 The
wealth of England was SO, 800, 600, 600
in 1880, and $45, 800, 900, 900 in 1884;
the wealth of France increased from
$40, 656, 900, 900 to Sal, 700, 900, 900 dur
ing the same PERIOD while the wealth
of the United States increased from
So. 400. 600, 900 in 1850 to SOL, go, 600,
900 in 1884.
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TIMELY TOPICS

A red-cheeked boy named David
Saltzman, an interpreter at Castle Gar
den. New York, where the emigrants are
landed, only thirteen years of age, speaks
six languages-English, Polish, Hun
garian, Bohemian, German and Russian.
He crossed the Atlantic alone two years
ago, and secured his present position
soon after his arrival.
The Daily bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Hawaii]) 1882-1895, 1885-07-22

the aids Of the art will never GO back
to the slow-coach method of taking
down testimony in longhand. 1t is
only a matter of time when there
will be call for stenographers in
the Legislature, courts, and business
houses of this kingdom. Therefore,
if persons of the requisite skill cam
not be had for the service here they
will have to he imported. To put
some of our own young people in the
way of being first in the field, is the
object of this article. BY person
of the necessary talent, the art can
be sclf-taught, requiring but patience
and perseverance, to attain expert
ness. An emphatic recommendation
of the requirement is that ii is of
great utility i'll any profession, be-
sides its value rs distinct means of
livelihood.
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WORK OF SHORTHAND REPORTING.

els it an exceedingly difficult
matter to learn stenography?" asked
a reporter of court stenographer
the other day.
"Well, rather. TO become a
practical shorthand reporter re-
quires far more than a mere knowl-
edge of shorthand characters.
There are ways by which person
may in few weeks time attain
speed in shorthand writing, per-
haps, twice as rapidly as good
long-hand writer. To be first
class reporter one must be able to
write 200 words per minute or more,
and to read it like print"
How about general education?"
GA good stenographer must be
able to take medical expert who
talks of the anterior, superior spin
Gus processes of the lilac and treat
it like a matter of course"
I" What is the difference between
taking testimony and taking die
tated letter, or rather court and
office reporting?'
Very considerable. Court-work
requires average work of 200 words
minute, whereas dictation and
office work is generally given at a
snail S pace, comparatively speaking.
There are probably several hundred
estimable young people in the city
who have taken lessons and are
capable of taking down matter twice
as rapidly as good long-hand re-
porter, but as for their doing court
work, convention work, or political
mass meeting speeches, they couldn't t
keep up with the talker for an entire
minute. Ability to write 100 words
a minute is of no earthly use in
court reporting whereas in office
work one can get along fairly well
at that rate of speed"
"Who make the best steno-
graphers?'
"To become really an expert one
must begin young. The exceptions
only prove the general rule. The
necessary requirements at the start
are a good English education, vast
amount of perseverance and a good
constitution. When a stenographer
has reported all day he feels more
tired out than anyone else can, ex'
cept newspaper man who has
worked all night. Then, when cour'
adjourns, the shorthand writer il
perhaps asked to write out hall
what he has taken during the day
and he sits up with an amanuensi'
until or O'Clock in the morning
For all this he is paid, and pait
pretty well, but it is killing work
and requires constant care, skill
and good judgment"
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HONOLULU LIBRARY
- AND -
READING ROOM ASSOCIATION.

THIS INSTITUTION is located on
streets, directly opposite the building of
the Y. M. c. A.. and is open every day
and evening, Sundays included.
The Reading Room is supplied with
all the local journals. as well as nearly
fifty of the leading foreign papers and
magazines.
The Circulating Library consists of
over 5000 volumes, and is constantly
increasing.
The Reference Library contains
valuable line of cyclopedias, dietion-
aries, and works of similar character.
A handsome parlor is provided for
conversation and games.
The Circulating Department is closed
on Sundays.
Terms of bership: Signing the
roll and paying the regular dues, nifty
cents month, quarterly in advance.
Strangers from foreign countries and
visitors from other islands are welcome
TO the rooms at all times, but as the
Association has no other regular means
of support except the dues OF members,
il is expected that residents of Honolulu
who desire TO avail themselves of its
privileges, and all who feel an interest
in maintaining an institution of this
kind in our community, will join the
Association and pay the regular dues.
5. B. DOLE. E.................Pr President
M. M. SCOTT.....,... .Vice-P President
Ii. A. PARMELEE.. 80. Secretary
A. l.. SMITH......... Treasurer
q. T. RODGERS, M. d., Chairman Hall
and Library Committee. 77tf
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LAZYB0NES DEMURS.

EDITOR BULLETIN:-In the lam
guage of the newspapers, you do
me q great injustice. You credit
me with saying or believing that
"everything is lovely and the goose
hangs high" You are wrong, sir.
| said nothing whatever about the
goose. In fact, didn't know there
was any goose hanging around any
where within reach or sight. Was
well aware that they are quite
numerous in locomotive condition.
So how could l have said that "the
goose hangs high?" 1t is highly
probable that if l had had the re-
motest suspicion that the goose was
anywhere come-at-able should have
yielded to natural impulse to have
appropriated it for the requirements
of my own stomach.
Neither did l say that my "indo-
lent bliss" would be "complete" by
"an entirely native Cabinet ruling
the roast" l did intimate an OBJ
lection to an entirely foreign
Cabinet "ruling the roast" But
an ''entirely native Cabinet is not
the only alternative to an "entirely
foreign Cabiuet." There are many
degrees between freezing and boil
ing points. / have no wish either
to be cooked or frozen to death, and
have hitherto escaped both, although
coming within a few degrees of the
former during the last week or two.
Nor have l petitioned to have ''all
foreigners debarred from citizen
ship" Every foreigner in the
country, barring the biped who sus-
pends tail from the back of his
skull, might be admitted to citizen
ship at once without ruflling me in
the slightest. l am quite aware.
however, that many foreigners, long
resident in the country, remain
denizens from choice, and among
them are some who clamor loudest
for reform.
| | don't want to 'muzzle" the
press, nor hobble it either. Would
be glad to see it become decent
dignified, impartial, fair and truth
full. When the press acquires the
habit of going off at half cock
when its degeneracy becomes 81
complete that it cannot discuss pub
lie questions with calmness, or pub
lie men without abuse-when i
jumps at conclusions and herald
them as gospel without thorough in
vestigation-when one section of i
indiscriminately praises everything
emanating from the side of its sym
pathies and another section as indis
criminately censures-then, say
the press prostitutes it's functions
becomes public nuisance, n dis
turber of the peace, a false guide
To "muzzle" it would be a partia
good, to commit it to the flames O
destruction would be 4 universe
blessing. | vote for the latter:
do indeed!
You are just as much at sea abou
the "heiaus, hula and last election.
The Bethel is good enough for me
The native hula is as bad as tn
foreign article, and both have
decidedly immoral tendency: i hol'
up both hands to abolish both.
had no stock in the last election
wouldn't take stock at gift. Mos
things that come to my net are fish
but there was no fish in that farce
Now, Mr.. Editor, that scrawl O
mine that excited you to make m
say what did not say, was not a
attempt to put any body right, bu
a feeble effort to indicate wher
many people are wrong.
: LAzYBONEs.
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SOUTH AMERICA.

Peace negotiations with Caceres,
head of the revolt in Peru, have
broken down completely. Mas,
commander of the Government for
ces, has ordered the army to con-
centrate toward the capital.
A second dredge for the Panama
Canal has been sent from New
York, where built, and third one
is to follow shortly. These dredges
are the largest ever built, are de-
signed to exeavate thirty-two feet
below the surface, and will cost
nearly 500, 900.
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"Johnny, it would be good thing
for you to remember in life that we
never get anything in this world if
we don't ask for it," eyes, we do,
pa" answered Johnny, promptly {;
81 got a licking in school to-day,
and you can bet / didn't ask for it. I"
"My son." said father, gravely,
handing the youth some money, "do
you know why SlO-bill is like car
rier pigeon?" Certainly, father"
replied the youth, pocketing the
moneys; lit flies so fast after it is
once broken"
The small boy learning the
alphabet is like postage stamp-he
gets stuck on the letters.
The Daily bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Hawaii]) 1882-1895, 1885-07-22
AN IMMIGRATION SCHEME.

Count Esterhazy, who proposes to
settle 10000 Hungarians in the Ca
madam Pacific Railway belt in the
Northwest, has had an interview
with the Government regarding his
scheme. The Ministers expressed
themselves satisfied with the terms
of settlement proposed by the Count
and promised to arrange the matter
as speedily as possible.
The Daily bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Hawaii]) 1882-1895, 1885-07-22
FOREIGN EWS.
UNITED STATES.
GENERAL GRANT.

AT last accounts, Gen. Grant was
in about the same condition as at
last previous report. He was sub
ject to rheumatic pains, but takes
nourishment and sleep regularly.
AN INVITATION.
The Belgian Government has in
yited the American Government to
send delegates to the international
Congress of Botany and Horticul-
ture at Antwerp from the lst to the
10th of August.
DIsCoURAG1NG SILK CULTURE.
The New York Tribune says edi-
torially: The raising of silkworms
is pretty harassing, exhausting and
degradation of labor, and is fit
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THE REASON WHY.

A paragraph in the telegraphic
news of the S. f. Bulletin reads:
at is now said that Blaine was not
invited to the G.. A. r. Encampment
at Portland, Me. because he abused
the invitation to address the soldiers
by making political speech at the
encampment ut Old Orchard, Me-, IL,
last year" -Sr
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THE UNITED KINGDOM.
HEAVY BANK FAILURE.

The Munster Bank, Dublin, sus-
pended payment July l4th, with
liabilities of So, 100000. The catas-
trophe, which will make much suf-
fering in the South of Ireland, was
precipitated by the Bank of Ireland
stopping supplies, owing to the
large unsecured Indebtedness of the
Munster Bank. Directors of the
latter claim that by careful realiza-
tion the assets will be ample.
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A SOCIAL SENSATION.

A tremendous sensation was caus-
ed by the Pail NAL Gazette Of
July 9th devoting five pages of its
space to showing that the trade in
young girls for immoral purposes
has increased alarmingly Of late
The Daily bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Hawaii]) 1882-1895, 1885-07-22
Cana ADA.
A DOUBLE TRAGEDY.

Edward Withers, Custom House
clerk at Halifax, on July 18th shot
his daughter aged 1S, and then him
self, both dying. For some time
past he had not been considered of
sound mind.
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NOTICE.

fEHE annual meeting of stockholders
l. in the Waimea Sugar Mill Co. will
be held at the office of Ed. Hotischlaeger
q Co., on Friday, July oath, at 10 am.
Per Order, ED. HUTTON, secy.
Honolulu, July %, 1885. 1881
The Daily bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Hawaii]) 1882-1895, 1885-07-22

only for poems or half-animal pea
SAINTS. There is not much probabi-
lity that the industry can ever be
raised into any Importance in this
country. 1t would not be good for
the people of the country if it could
be forced into temporary success.
The Daily bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Hawaii]) 1882-1895, 1885-07-22
TIE IRISH LEAGUE.

The Montreal Branch of the Irish
National League will issue mani
festo to the Irishmen of Canada,
calling for support and subscription
toward the National Parliamentary
fund, for the payment of Irish men,
bers in Parliament, and to defray
their expenses in the coming election.