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The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1885-07-17
Promoting Small Farms.
London Correspondence


The schemes of Small Farm Com
pany" in England is already assuming
definite shape. The general scope of the
company will be to buy up land and to
re sell it in small parcels by a system Of
annual payments. In so doing the com
pany will, it is hoped, meet the particular
wants OF several classes of people-such.
for instance, as the following: a Com.
munities of agricultural laborers, each of
whom would own separate plots, but who
would be able to use horses, plows, etc
in common. ~ Small farmers, willing
to farm holdings of not more than thirty
acres. 81 Tradesmen and other immi-
grants from neighboring towns wishing to
add to their resources by various kinds of
keeping, poultry breeding, and the like.
1t is an excellent scheme, and its progress
deserves to be watched with close and
practical interest.
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1885-07-17
A Plea for the Goldfish.
[Cor. Chicago News ]


If woman has pet goldfish, it is her
most affectionate indulgence to take it
from its miniature aquarium and fondle
it. Frequently the fish falls to the floor.
The trouble is that the lady who handles
her dainty canary or goldfish does not
realize that she is needlessly inficting
pain. wonder how one of these sensi-
and fondled by the trunk of an elephant.
or plunged into the water-which is as
little her element as the floor is that of
the goldfsh-by some megatherium.
True, when you intercede in behalf of
these mute creatures, the ladies will tell
you that the little goldfish and the little
canary bird, given their freedom, one in
the open air, the other in the uncontned
water. would surely perish. But they
forget that the refined barbarism have
described reduced these creatures to this
state of dependence.
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1885-07-17
THE CHOLERA IN NAPLES.
An English Physicians Account of Its
HorrOrs-Heroic King UmbertO.
youths Companion. ]

HorrOrs-Heroic King UmbertO.
youths Companionl
: How like chapter out of the history of
the Republic of Brutus reads this account,
given by an English physician at Naples,
of last years cholera. and the visit to
| Naples Of King Umberto during that reign
of terrorl
In the first place, something is to be
said for the English doctor himself He
had gone home to London on q visit
which was to last through the gay.
pleasant London season, but he had
been In England not quite three weeks
when news came that cholera was raging
at Naples, and back Travelled this slight,
pale-faced, mild looking English gentle
man, by night and day. as fast as steam
would carry him, to do his duty at what
ever peril He went at once to the cholera
hospital and labored there faithfully till
the need was over
you have no idea, he said, of the
state of Naples at that time 1t was kept
out of the papers, but the people turned
brutal in their terror The cholera was
confined to the lowest and poorest parts of
the town, and because of this very fact;
mad rage took possession of the plague
stricken populace.
ANY person of better fortunes who
went down among them from the better
part of the town, did so almost at the
peril of his life. They resented the very
prosperity that strove to help them. For
instance; there was Greek, with long
purse and a kind heart, who drove down
among them every day, carrying broths
and wine and medicines for the sick; and
he actually had to hire them to take these
things which his pity had provided.
FINALLY, they grew so mad and desper-
ate in their misery that the very thought
that he was able to come and bring them
succor enraged them. and they fell upon
him one day and mobbed him, and killed
his horses and broke his carriage to pieces,
and he barely escaped with his life.
Then the people began to threaten hor-
rible things Why should those grand
folks up on the hill go free?' they cried
out. They would see how the fine people
whom cholera had not touched liked to
take their turn. They would carry their
dead and lay them inside the doors of the
reigned, and then they would laugh when
they heard these others crying in turn
over their dead.
These were no idle threats. It took
the constant vigilance of the government
to prevent their being carried out, and
even this babe fair to fail at last A riot
was imminent, and Naples would have
been given over to unutterable horrors
but for the visit just then of King Um-
berto.
But why did they not mob him, as
they did the Greek?" asked a nearer.
He, too. was prosperous and we'll and
rich. "
Yes, but he came among them as one
of themselves. He shared their dangers
He spent his days in their poor novels.
He spoke to them in their own Neapol-
tan patois. He nursed their sick. He held
them in his arms when they were dying.
He went nVnr them whom thew NUnro Hoo6
He was their brother In their sorrow, and
the bitterness melted out of their hearts,
and they were ready to do his bidding like
little children.
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1885-07-17
Naval Service in Shallow Streams.

[China Cor. Globe Democrat
The naval service of the delta, with its
many hundred miles of shallow channel,
is done by seven or eight small gunboats
of peculiar pattern and half dozen steam
launches. each carrying a Hotchkiss
six or eight sailors. The gunboats are
called cannoniers. They are nearly all of
them Of the same pattern, broad fiat bot
toned, and not drawing more than three
feet of water, even when heavily loaded.
The idea is a peculiarly American one,
borrowed entirely from the little shallow
steamers that have for the last half CEN
fury nearly been running on the upper
waters of the Ohio, Mississippi, and Mis-
souri,, and more directly from the tin-clads
that did such excellent service during the
rebellion.
The boilers are in front, protected by
thin steel plating sufficient to turn any
fire to be expected from hostile forces in
the delta. The gines are aft, and SINH
larly protected The quarters of the Off
GERS are amidships, or, if the pattern is
varied, wherever convenience dictates
The armament is usually two medium
steel guns forward on a revolving plat
form, with'a range of two miles, the gun
ners being protected by semi circular steel
plates at the edges of the platform, and
two or three Hotchkiss guns at the sides
or on a mast guarded in similar fashion
The wheels at the stern are sometimes
masked by broad plates of steel, a contin-
uation Of the plating of the sides The
small-arm is the Mauser rifle, a heavy
weapon, but considered by the French
the most efficient These vessels are all
painted gray. They were built in France,
brought out in pieces. and put together
either at Saigon or Haiphong.
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1885-07-17


The appointment of Mr.. Lothrop to the
Russia is a well-deserved tribute to one of
the most conscientious lawyers Of the great
northwest, and at present one of the leaders
of the Michigan bar. He was born In Mas
sachusetts about 90 years ago, and was
graduated from Brown university and the
Harvard Law school. Among his classmates
in the law school were William NJ. Evarts,
z. lockwood Hoar, James Russell Lowell
and ". w. Story. Mr.. LothrOp settled in
Detroit in 1874, where he has since followed
his profession. He was attorney general
Of the state in 1854, but never held other
political Office. He is a lifelong Demo
Crat. In 1860 he a delegate to
the National convention at Charles
ton, and in the split of the party he followed
the lead of Douglas He was strong Union
man during the war. Mr.. LothrOp is over
ak feet tall and IS slightly bald, and has
gray hair and beard. He is a man Of polished
manners and courtly in his bearing. Presi-
dent Cleveland first met Mr.. Lothrop in
Buffalo after the election, and was much
pleased with him.
Mr.. Lothrop's home is in Detroit. He has
large family and property worth a million.
An instance of his scrupulOus honesty is told,
that when a son Of his was prominently
mentioned in connection with the commits
sionership of patents, the father wrote to
President Cleveland informing him that his
son was an attorney, and as a lawyer had
become interested in matters pending at the
patent Office, and for this reason he thought
the appointment should not be made.
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1885-07-17
THE LOST LAND.

ELLA Wheeler Wilcox in New York SUM-
There is a story of beautiful land,
Where fields were fertile and where flowers
were bright,
Where tall towers glistened in the morning
light,
Where happy children wandered hand in
hand,
Where lovers wrote their names upon the
sand
They say it vanished from all human sight;
The hungry sea devoured it in a night.
You doubt the tale? All! you viii under
stand;
For, as men muse upon that fable old
They give sad credence always at the last,
However they have caviled at its truth,
When with a tear-dimned vision they be-
hold
Swift sinking in the ocean of the Past
The lovely lost Atlantis Of their Youth.
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1885-07-17
Where There's a VIII There's a Way.
[Danielsonville Comm Transcript

In corner of Windham county there
lived some years ago a man of consider
BILE wealth. He knew he was near his
death, and sent for lawyer to make his
will. His wife and daughter were pres
ent, and gTeedily watched the proceed
ings. After most generously providing
for them, the sick man directed the law
yer to designate $500 to his aged sister.
who was needy. The wife and daughter
demonstrated angrily. Quietly the sick
ter" Another protest from the vuitures
Make it 81. 500, squire, coolly said the
legator. "You shall notl" shouted the
sweet-souled females. make it So. 600, ="
said the wilI-maker serenely, and here the
selfish fools concluded it was policy to
hold their tongues The lawyer has kept
the secret for years, but somehow it has
leaked out
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1885-07-17
An old Religious Document.
Foreign Letter. ]

The famous "Codex Argenteus, " the
four gospels translated by Bishop UP
hilas. is preserved in the University of
Upsala. It is written on 1872 leaves of
parchment in letters of silver on a ground
of faded purple. 1t is kept in glass case
and under lock and key. 1t dates back to
and, besides being of value to the religi-
GUS world, it gives the secular world all
the knowledge it now possesses of the
early Gothic, the parent of all the Ger
Gaanic tongues.
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1885-07-17
The " Age Of Horn"

A variety of prehistoric objects in horn.
such as amulets, cups, knives, daggers,
rings. buttons, bracelets, etc., have been
found in stratum, existing at depth of
about five feet in the mud of Lake
Neuenburg, Switzerland The finder.
Herr G. kaiser, believes them to be older
than the stone and bronze implements of
the same locality, and he proposes to call
the period to which they belong =" the age
of horn
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1885-07-17

A recent news paragraph stated that Mr..
David Bruce, 50 years old, fell in front Of
his residence in Williamsburg, N. Y, and
broke his leg. Seven years ago Mr.. Bruce
broke the other leg in the same manner" 1t
was brief notice. but it refers to the inven-
tor Of the type casting machine, one of the
very valuable inventions of the present CEN
fury. Valuable not only fl ON the fact that
it Is one of the aids in the distribution of in
telligence, but it IS one of the very few inven-
lions that, producing better and cheaper
article, has resulted in increasing the work
mans wages and rendered their occupation
more healthful.
The history Of the progress of type
making, from the time it was found
that type could be cast until Mr.
Bruce gave his attention to the matter
was constant endeavor in the wrong direc-
ton. 1t was perfectly natural to suppose
that If type could be cast singly it would be
eIpediting matters TO cast number at time
and simply saw them apart. Yet this is just
what for half century inventors were striv-
ing TO do with no success. Just why this is
impractic, bic would require too much space
TO state But David Bruce, early recogniz-
ing the difficulties of casting in quantity,
gave his whole energy for years to the con-
stTuction of machine that would cut e ly
a perfect type, and the result was that in
1888 he patented the
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1885-07-17
Fall River NNvance.l

1t does not require so much heroism to get
out of bed now as it did three months ago,
and man has not to pretend to snore like q
blast engine while his wife is freezingly
fighting with damp frewood and an in
tractable stove
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1885-07-17
advertisements.
CASTLE q COOKF~
HAVE RECEIVED FOR SALE
Elk. MENDOZA" and Other Lato 4,
From New York and San Francisco As,u
Plantations, Country Stores and Fam;r
CONSISTING IN PART o.


Kerosene Oi-he highest oil market Vulcan ,
Oil barrels
Pumbago, Galvanized
Wire, and udCs
Galvanized Wire Cloth, Centrifugal Wire @
Blake Pump Company Patent Rubber Valves SPRINGS Sq
inch inch, and ply Steam Packing round =" Dos
styles Anvi Vises Hydraulic Screws Steel
Mols Furrowing Breaking all sizes
Hoes, Gang Flows, Planters Hoes make inch Goo y
Planters Hoes Shovels Spades Rakes Forks, scy
Cane Knives make superior quality; Mowers P
Cart Axles, Fairbanks Scales Grindstone sizes A.
Pick "a
lengths, full and Shelf Hardware, Hardware
Locks Buts Screws Hinges, Staples Tacks Bads etc. Planes 90
Baley's Patents, kinds Hammers M &
and 1"As@
White Lead and Zinc Rubber Paint Boiled Valentines w.
Tupentne Patent Dryers variety paints
Lanterns, variety Stationery Hollow Ware
BLUE DENNIS, 8, al rates.
FINE RED SALMON, in
BENICIA Family Flour
CRUSHED and GRADUATED SUGAR, in half bo,rJ.
GIANT POWDER. GELATINE POWDER v,va
Expected per Steamship Alameda
BLAKE BOILER, FEED, LIGHT SERVICE VACUUM PUMPS TX
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1885-07-17
STEAMER MOKOLIl,
tMcGregor, Commander,

tMcGregor, Commander)
Leaves Honolulu each Monday at 5 p. m. for
Kaunakakai, Kamalo, Pukoo Lahaina, Moanui,
Halawa, WailRu, Pelekunu and Kalaupapa. Re-
turning, leaves Pukoo Friday a. m. for Honolulu,
arriving Saturday morning.
RBr The Company will not be responsible for
any freight or packages unless rcceipted for, nor
for personal baggage unless plainly marked. Not
responsible for money or jewelry unless placed in
charge Of the Purser.
All possible care will be taken Of Live Stock, but
the Company viii not assume any risk OF accident.
SAAdI. q. WILDER, President.
3. B. ROSE, Secretary.
oFFICE-Corner Fort and Queen streets.
23-1y Mar 90
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1885-07-17
A Vague Resnonse.

Atmospherical knowledge is not thor
Oughly distributed in our schools. A boy,
being asked what is mist?" vaguely
responded: "An umbrella. "
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1885-07-17
They Can stand It.
IJud Lafagan.]

Those who are always willing to assist
those in trouble generally get snubbed the
oftenest, but don't know of anybody
that can stand it any better than they can.
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1885-07-17

of which the above is a faithful representa-
ton. This machine is in almost universal
use and has been subject to but few improve
ments. It's working has been thus graphically
described by The American Printer: The
metal Is kept fluid by little furnace under
meath, and is projected into the mold by
pump, the spout of which is in front of the
metal pot. The mold is movable and at
every revolution of the crank in the hand of
the workman it comes up to the spout, re-
ceives charge of metal, and flies back with
a fully formed type in its bosom; the upper
half of the mold lifts, and out jumps type
as lively as a tadpole. Slow work, you say,
one at time9 Well, the world is peopled IN
that fashion, and it fills up fast enough
This machine averages 100 type per minute
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1885-07-17

In New York city, so years ago, the old
brick church on the corner of Beekman and
Nassau streets was pulled down. Shell lime
had been used In making the mortar, and so
firmly was the mass of brick and mortar
knitted together that the walls had to be
picked away bit by bit. 1t took longer to
tear the old building down than it does now
to erect a new ore of the skin contractor
STYLE
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1885-07-17
STEAMER LEHUA,
Davies. Commander

davies, Commander
Leaves Honolulu every Monday at p NJ for
@KSunakakai, Kahului, every week; HueIo, Hama
ana klpahuIu. keanae, Mokulau and Nuu every
otncr 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, 1885-07-17
WILDER'S STEAMSHIP CO.,
Limited.
STEAMER KINAU.,
(King, Commander,

(King, Commander),
Leaves Honolulu as per following schedule,
touching at Lahaina, Maalaea Maizena, Mahu.
kona, Kawalhae Laupahoehoe, Hio and Keauhou:
Tuesday, June %, Volcano and way ports
Tuesday, June 30, HilO and way ports
Tuesday, July z, 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 IL, Volcano and way ports
Tuesday, August IS, HiIo 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 20, 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 shere.
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1885-07-17
STEAMER KILAUEA HOU,

(Weisbarth, Commander,
Will leave regularly for Paauhau, Koholalele.
Ookala, Kukaiau, Honohina, Laupahoehoe, Haka-
lau and Onomea
New Ulm weekly review., 1885-04-01

Newspapers and preachers are dis
,eussing the roller skating craze, for the
lack. of more exciting topics. The Bos-
ton Herald argues that the skating ma
niaimust of necessity be short-lived
one. Sixteen, or. eighteen years ago We
had the >velocipede mania in the same
way, and, ifit had not. been for the fact
that the .outvof-door bicycle was de-
veloped from this old fashioned ma
chine, its existence would now be a
matter merely of history. Unless the
makers of roller skates can invent a
form of skate which can be used for
street travel, they will soon have to
turn their attention to other methods of
money making, and the rink keepers in
any event will find their occupation
gone. It is the novelty Of the thing
that has thus far been it's chief attrac-
ton; hut this is a,feature that is certain
to wear off in a year or two more.
New Ulm weekly review., 1885-04-01
Among many other good things in old
Massachusetts, is Home for Intemper-

Among many other good things in old
\ massachusetts, is Home for Intemper-
at> Women. Itttakes women from the
loc kup and from the criminal courts
and the streets; it takes them madly,
stup. dly. ehronically drunk land so dirty
and d egradedthat the spark of humanity
seems to have gone, out in them; and
vet, by good physical care for from
three to six months, and by lifting
again ten ,derly the bedraggled souls
which are in them, the home puts then
upon an e! utirely new plane of hope
fulness and self~respactlng wom anhood.
The matron in charge reports that they
are constantly coming back. after they
have left her. 70 tell her what debt Of
gratitude they teei that they owe her.
OF 143 patients Who left the home dur
ing the year endi- ag April /. 1884. only
eleven were disc. .arged as hopeless,
while forty-three " ere sent to sitna-
tions procured for the m. and sixty-seven
were returned to their homes or friends.
New Ulm weekly review., 1885-04-01

The: President has before him no
task more difficult than the selection
Of a new Commisisonerof Agriculture.
If efficiency and practical value to the
country are desired. There is needed
man Of wide acquaintance with the
farming and live stock interests of the
!. country, broad-minded with regard to
the .intea-dependent rel&tions of ag-
riculture, manufactures and commerce,
progressive and practical, with well-de-
veloped executive ability. $50 far, no
one possessing these qualifications has
been, suggested.
New Ulm weekly review., 1885-04-01

The annual report of the Controller of
zthe state of Connecticut shows that last
year the politicians paid $4,000 of the
Il sx-payers money. to eighteen Journal
lists and 1t is estimated that within ten
years the state has thus paid $323 1000 to
newspaper reporters, who were amply
sremunerated by the respective news
papers which. they represented. These
compliments" are very COM
mon among Western legislators, and
.some States suffer loss of thousands:at
every session Of their legislatures from
this; foolish and emischievous practice.
New Ulm weekly review., 1885-04-01

The 4ateness Il of the season aat
the south is even more snn-
usual than with us at the north. Snow
has recently fallen in various localities
TO the depth of several inches, and aa
South Carolina dispatch states that veg
etables which are ordinarily ready for
market in March have only just beer
planted, andtfruit trees, which at this
time of the year are generally in full
leaf and. blossom, have not, begun to
bud.
New Ulm weekly review., 1885-04-01

Taxpayers in some of the large cities
are organizing for protection against
e1travagant municipal expenditures. A
very large proportion of the trouble in
the government of cities, regarding
money expenditures, arises from mis-
conception of the functions of municipal
government, and the lack of checks
against the voting of money for purposes
not gernane to local government.
New Ulm weekly review., 1885-04-01

From the reports of medical men at
the bedside Of General Grant, and from
other, sources it is evident that death
may be expected to occur within short
time almost at amy moment thoug b a pos
slbility exists thst life may be prolonged
for while. The death of the foremost
American" whenever it occurs, will
create sensation, of course, and there
will be no end of tributes and honors to
his memory.
New Ulm weekly review., 1885-04-01
Drugs Used In Prescriptions.

According to the Ephemeris. an e1.
animation of 3,726 prescriptions in :
Boston drug store showed that 504
different drugs we're called for by the
doctors. Qninine took the lead by
appearing in 292 prescriptions, NOR.
phine appeared in 172, bromide Of
potassium in III, iodide of potassium
in 155. and muriate of iron in 1874
The whole number of articles in the
pharmacopmla is 994, and Boston
uses more than half of them.