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The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1886-04-13
The Press in Mexico.


On Sundays the Mexican dailies put on
their gayest and brightest face, and de.
vote columns to "chats" on theatrical and
social topics. RELOCATING the political po-
lemical article to the background. On
that day the much enduring government
gets a rest The Monitor relaXes itself,
and turns from the administration to the
ladies, whom it surfeits with poetry and
chit chat. Other papers come out III illus
trated form. and are sunny and lively, as
a Mexican Sunday is sure to be.
The Mexican press is, as a rule. well
written. l was going to say too we'll
written, for more stress is placed on
STYLE than upon news. The press lacks
promptness in securing the latest happen
ings, and has a queer way of hiding very
important items in obscure corners with
very modest heads Where an Ameri-
can newspaper editor would take
a piece of good news, put head on
it. " and display the matter at the top OF
a column, so that none but the blind
might miss it, the Mexican editor will
seem to try to hide the news, making the
reading of Mexican daily paper mat
ter very much like a game of hide and
seek.
The Spanish language lends itself with
almost fatal facility to sonorOus declama-
ton The eldest daughter Of virile Latin
tongue, the Spanish is Il strong and 70
bust idiom 1t is so easy to fall Into
defamation in writing Spanish that news
paper euitors often lose themselves IN
working out theme, and in the ardor CT
pompous phrase making forget what they
are writing about The language has moi
vet become adapted to the terse, modern
newspaper style. But it can be, for lew
languages are capable of more sententiouS
expressions.
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esprit Of the Times Futurity Stakes.

The New York Esprit OF the
Times" recently announced the Flu
turity Stakes for trotting three-year-
olds, payable by subscriptions OF $40
each, with nomination February 20,
1886. for mares covered in 1885, and $l5
each for the produce OF such mares, pay
able January 8, 1887, and 800 each,
PAYABLE July l, 1889. Race to be mile
heats, best three in five, in harness, and
to be trotted between August 1st and Dc
tober Is, 1889, over a mile track, to be
selected by a majority of the nomi-
majors or owners making final payment.
The winner to receive a cup OF the value
of 81 900, to be given by the esprit OF
the Tines and the stakes and the
money added by the track over which
the race is trotted shall be divided as
follows: Seventy per cent to winner !;
/ twenty per cent to second horse, and ten
per cent to third horse.
This caught the eye of Mr.. Frank
/ Brown, and he forwarded his entry OF
the bav mare Jennie. The latter foaled
a bay FLY, with black points, by Ven
ture. on March Both. Venture is well
known in this city and owned by Mr.. G..
/ B. Miles. In its issue of March 18th,
the esprit of the Times" has the fol-
lowing about Mr. Browns entry:
eve claim a distinction for The
Spirits Futurity Stakes which has never
before been accorded an American event,
either on the running or trOtting turf,
and that is an entry from without the
confines of the continent. Under date OF
February 18th, and postmarked the same
dav at Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands, Mr.
Frank Brown forwards his entry OF the
bav mare Jennie, by Whipple's HANDLE
tonian, dam Fly, by Speculation, bred
April %, 1885, to Venture. Venture has
record of :2714; got by Williamson
Belmont, son of American Boy; dam
Miss Mostyn, by American Boy, Jr. The
letter reached San Francisco March I'd
and our hands Wednesday morning last
having travelled the six thousand miles
which separate US from the chief of the
Hawaiian group in nineteen days.
'The Occident never paid the Orien
a higher compliment than this reeognl
ton of the character and influence o
The Spirits Futurity Stakes. The re
, ception of an entry from a mid-Paclti
isle, where a century ago civilization ha'
not brought its blessings, and, alas, 1t
| evils, is an eloquent testimonial OF tn
estimation in which the American trot
ting horse is held. Mr.. Browns entr
brings the grand total up to two hundre
and ninety-six mares and one hundre
and thirty-eight stations"
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California Lotus Eaters.

Ross Valley Cor. Alta California;
The valley seems at times under some
strange enchantment A torpor seems to
pervade the entire region The sun, send
ing its first rays over the low eastern hills
in the morning, swings laZily along its
course, bathing the valley in sunlight,
finally sinking behind the western hills,
when a long twilight intervenes, until
darkness and silence descend upon the
earth One may ride the whole length OF
the valley without catching a glimpse OF
one of its inhabitants
Occasionally a summer visitor from
San Rafael, possessing more than the
average degree of enterprise, trundles
lazily along the road, counting the gables
and chimney tops prOtrudiDg from the
trees: = or a city man in the search of a
residence site and unused to the quietude
of the region drives past at a rafting
pace But the hired hands who move
about the places. trimming shrubJeFy,
laying out grounds or repairing fences,
move softly and indolently, or, hammer
in hand. wake the echoes from the hill
sides with an apologize air.
The same sense of quiet and repOse per
vades the households. Unvexed by the
recognition of any social obligation, un-
rutfed by petty ambitions to vaunt their
mental or physical powers the feminine
residents of Ross Valley neither walk,
ride. study nor think to any alarming eX-
tent. But under the outward placidity
and inertia of these faithful wives and
mothers and fair young daughters pure
and wholesome womanhood reposes,
whose strength will be the more irresisti-
BILE in the day that it is called into eNer-
else, because it has been spared the ener
waiting influences of life of busting &C
fiUifv
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LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Chinaman was arrested yesterday for
chicken stealing.
The steamer Kinau leaves at O'Clock
this afternoon for Maui and Hawaii
The Supreme Court will hear demurrers
and motions at 10 o'clock this morning.
The book Of the season. THE HoNoLULU
ALMANAC AND DIRECTORY FOB 1885. Price,
80 cents
The breach Of promise case OF Singer vs..
Ryan has been continued to the next term
OF court
meeting OF the g. A. r. will be held
this evening at their hall on King street, at
7:3O o'clock
The Union Company Royal Mail steam
ship Mararoa is due on Saturday from San
Francisco with two weeks later news,
The barkentine Ella, which arrived from
San Francisco yesterday, brought $4,000
in gold coin for Messrs. Bishop & Co.
The box plan for the Campobello con-
cert season opens at 9 O'Clock tomorrow
morning at the Office Of J. +. Wiseman.
Alto O'Clock this morning Messrs. f. P.
Adams 4 Co., sell the household furniture
at the residence of Mr.. l. Moore, 132
Nuuanu street.
: The lease OF the Old Corner restaurant,
with fixtures, etc, will be sold at 10 o'clock
this morning by Mr.. Lewis J. Levey, by
order of Mr.. J. f. Wiseman, assignee OF
Hop Lee.
No book ever published contains SO much
reliable and valuable information regard
ing the Hawaiian Islands in such small
compass as the Honolulu ALMANAC AND
DIRECTORY, 1886. Price, 30 cents.
Under date March 5th, the following
item is published regarding the sugar out
look in Mauritius: General accounts of
the crops are more favorable, late rains
having had a beneficial effect. The stock
of sugar on hand is 5 800 tons"
Mr.. J. Welch, proprietor of the CONNER
cial Hotel, offers Boca beer on draught and
iced at 1917 cents, fine cold lunch at any
hour, and on Saturday evenings hot lunch
with the best of liquors. Give him trials
The regular quarterly meeting of the
teachers of the Sunday-school connected
with the second congregation OF St.
Andrews Cathedral will be held at 7:30
o'clock this evening at the residence OF
Rev. George Wallace, Nuuanu Valley.
/ Wing Wo Chan & Co. call attention to a
/ very superior lot of Manila cigars in boxes
! containing 90 to 100. 1t is the best cigar
/ ever imported here and will be sold at a
very reasonable price. Smokers of the
/ fragrant weed are invited to call and try
! them.
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Rainbow-Hued Comns


While riding with friend through a
town in Lincoln county not long ago we
came upon a small shop curiously deco
rated with waves of paint of different
colors. The front looked as though the
occupant of the shop, whenever he wished
to test newly mixed color dipped his
brush into it and then wiped the brush
on the outside of the building. In this
way or some other he had produced
rude rainbow. the hues dissolving into
each other where one brushful of paint
had encroached upon the margin of its
predecessor.
That is an undertaker's shop said
my friend, land those are the colors in
which he paints his collins. He splashes
those samples on the outside of the build
in order thai he may see how they look
himself, and also that the friends of the
departed may pick out the colo they
want
What"
Yes. Nearly all the people in this
town who have died during the past ten
years have been buried in colored collins.
Light blue is the favorite tint. here, for
children, and orange the prevailing shade
for old people. You see this is one of the
most retired villages in the state and he is
the only undertaken anywhere near here.
The people have got used to his notions
and now they rather like the painted cof-
fins
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y -sels Expected from Foreign Ports.

=
Am bktne Nellie NJ slade, from New York,
due April $3.50
due May 20-3l -.
due March 1871
German bark Furst Bismarck, from Bremen.
due June l-20 o.
Am bktne Malay, from sydney. due April 2O-$O
HBA Heroine, from CalIaO, > A, due April
1881
1881 -,
Brit bE Burn,ah, Jenns, from Glasgow, due
June $3.50
RIM AIararOa (Brip, James Eddie, from San
Francisco en- route to Auckland and sydney, due
Havy Miss steam-bktne Morning star Bray,
from JaIuit, ) 5 1, via HilO, Hawaii, due April
7-I5
Am bktne w IL Dimond. II Houdlette, from
san Francisco. due April $3.50
Al bktne Uncle sam, from Newcastle, = W
due April 1880
Steamship Rio de Janeiro, II c Dearborn, from
San Francisco, en- route to HOngkong, due April
2I-22
British ship Kate Davenport, from Newcastle.
" w, due April 1920 -
An slip Excelsior, from Newcastle n W.
due April 1880
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Danger of Licking Letter Envelopes

'HnYS!cl3n' IN boston transcript
A peculiar case occurred in London,
England. short while since, which illus
trates the dangers from this source. The
recipient of a letter, after perusing its
contents, reclosed it, for one reason or
another, by licking the gum which had
been previously moistened with the saliva
OF man who daily took large doses of
morphia hypodermically. The result was
a severe attack of illness, with symptoms
of opium poisoning. The simple contact
of the tongue of a subject addicted to
morphine had rendered the mucilage
potent for mischief
And only last week a person consulted
me who had an ulcer on the tongue, which
he ascribed to licking the gum on an en- :
velope At first l thought the patient
mistaken, but subsequently concurred in
his opinion The communicability of
disease by an act so harmless in appear
ance may seem incredible to many, but to
the physician it is beyond doubt, and but
too frequently verified. The reason so
many escape infection is due to the fact
hat the mucous membrane of the mouth
is generally intact, which pr'vents alb
SOrDtiOn
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CIVIL CASES.
Denth of Mrs. woohBurm.

On March 14th the wife of Congress
man WOODBURY. OF Navjl died at Wash
ington, d. c. The remains were en-
baImed and will be finally inferred in
San Francisco. The Virginia City
New Weekly Chronicle" of March
18th. saws: "The late Mrs. Woodburn
was born in Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands,
in 1856 Her death was totally unex-
pected."
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Ger bark Appclo, II Groth. from Callao, :
Am blk Chas Kenney,H NJ Dahier, from
Newcastle, = w
Am bktne Katie Flickinger, Young, from New
castle n ) w
Am bktue Ella f 81 Howe, from san Francisco
Am bark James Stone, + Barstow, from
Boston
Am bark Sonoma, b Howes, from Newcastle
y - W
Brit bark Natuna, II GRAIN, from Glasgow
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HARRY BYNG'S
The Academic School
FOR GIRLS.

TNHIS SCHOOL OFFERS THE BEST ADNAN-
i tages to the daughters of residents of the
Hawaiian Islands.
The course of study Is modelled from that Of
the best girls schools in the Eastern States
The teachers are MRS. r. E. c. WALLACE
and REV. GEO. WALLACE. Both are gradu-
ates of fine schools and trained and expert
enced educators.
Girls from ten years upward are admitted.
To all who complete the course, and pass salts
factory examinations. 4 certificate of graduation
will be presented.
The best instruction in French and Latin is
without extra charge added To that in English.
\ few boarding pupils received. These en-
JOY all the advantages of superior boarding
school. Its the aim Of the school 10 train Gull
tured and refined women.
The Summer Term begins Monday, April Goth.
By permission reference is made TO Messrs. L.
H. Davies T. r. Walker, J. 3. Castle, Prof. NJ. NJ.
Scott, Major A. Rosa. l3S-ap30
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Length OF Legislative Sessions.

Of the thirty three legislatures which
were in session in January last those of
Idaho, Oregon, Nebraska, Alabama. and
West Virginia adjourned in February;
those of Kansas, California Nevada,
lorida, Minnesota, North Carolina, Ar
kansas, Montana, Utah. Dakota, Missouri.
Maine, and Arizona in March; those of
In Llama with an extra SESSION., Texas.
dorado, Delaware, Connecticut. New
'ersey, and Wisconsin in April; those of
Tennessee with extra, Ohio, New York
with extra, and Rhode Island first SEES
sion in May; and those of Pennsylvania,
Michigan, Massachusetts, and Illinois in
me
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German military Pigeons.
foreign letter.

The German Military Pigeon depart
ment, now employing 1900 birds in the
different fortresses, is about to be en-
largcd The pigeons are taught not to
ght on the dove cot, but to push against
a wire wicket which admits them and
sounds an alarm The messages, carried
in uills, contain. in micro Photographic
reduction, about eight pages (octavo) of
writing. which. by the hydro oxygen gas
mic oscope, are reproduced in natural
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ZINC WORKS on the Vesdre.

The largest zinc works in the world are
located in the valley of the Meuse, at the
mouth of the Vesdre. about three miles
from Tiege From France, from Ger
many, from Algeria, Spain and Sardinia
comes the ore supply for these enormous
works The company have bought mines
in all these countries, and employ. incl uu6d
ing, of course, the miners, nearly V,VvV
workers
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Date of Shooting to be Published
Hereafter.
NOTICE.

UNDER THE FIRM NAME OF TONG
l SHIN CO., the undersigned have started
business as CARPENTERS AND PAINTERS,
No "a King street. They are prepared TO take
works under contract; will do all work intrusted
To them neatly and at moderate charges. Ready
made Furniture always Oh hand.
All HEE,
All WAL,
WONG. SEU.
All orders promptly attended to by SO Young,
Manager. l51-1eo
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VesseIs leaving To-Day.

stmr Rinau, King, for Hawaii aud Maui, at
4pm
Stnr Mokoli McGregor, for MOloKaI, At 4 NJ
Stmr Iwalani Freeman, for Kauai, at p m
Schr Mary r Foster, for Kauai
Brit bk Lady I4ampsou, Marston, for san
Francisco
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DEPARTURES.

MoSDAY, April y.
stmr Lehua Davies, for Hamakua, Hawaii, at
pm
Stmr Kapiolani, for Hanalei
Stmr James AIakee, Weir, for Kepaa' via Wal
amaze
Schr ManuOkawai, for KoOau
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Man hardly hath a richer thing
Than honest mirth, the which well-spring
Watereth the roots Of rejoicing,
Feeding the flowers Of hourishing;
Be merry friendsl
-[John Haywood
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PASSE NGERS.
ARRIVALS.

ARRIVALS.
From Boston, per bark james Stone, April
IZth-C IL Lunt
DEPARTURES.
Par L1haina per steamer Lehua, April 18th
Hon f III HayseIden and family, G Makee, and
about 40 deck passengers.
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winsl 1t always wins.

Pluck winsl 1t always wins. Though days
be slow
And nights be dark 'twixt days that come
and go,
Still pluck will win Its average is sure.
He gains the prize who can most end
Who faces issues, he who never shtrRs,
Who waits, and watches, and who al ways
works Toronto Mall.
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MOSAlcs.

For virtues self may too much zsal be had;
The worst Of madmen is a saint run mad.
-TPODe.
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Live obedient to the law, in trust
That what viii coma, and must come, shall
come well flight Of Asia"
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LEVI STRAUSS & CO.,
IA and IL Battery street, san Francisco, Cal.

Importers of Foreign and Domestic DrygoOds,
Hosiery. Ladies and Gents Furnishing Goods
sole Proprietors and Manufacturers of the ceIe-
barted PATENT RIVETED CLOTHING.
479 JANIS 81
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Prize Shooting Match!
OPEN TO ALL COMPETITORS. e

To take place at the Fort-street Shooting Gal
Iery, now building near the Pantheon Stables.
The following prizes will be given;
First Prize. For highest score, a bronze plaster
bust of KalaBaua.
Second Prize. For next highest score, Kane
hameha statue, three feet high, carved from Ha-
wall wood
Third Prize. For the third best score. plaster
bust Of the late Queen Emma.
Fourth Prize. For the lowest score, plaster
statue of Kamehameha.
The prizes are on exhibition al the shop of <. n.
Otremba, No. 1870 Fort street, next door to Lane $
marble shop, where competitors can register their
names.
Date of Shooting to be Published
Hereafter.
one sighting shot and five ''ScOre" shots will
be allowed each competitor.
Professional shots will be handicapped ard put
on par with amateurs.
Mr.. T. Fl. Bohme Will canvass for competitors
names, and is authorized to receive fees and
monies on my account.
mch24u F. y OTREMBA, Manager.
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Police Court.
BEFORE POLICE JUSTICE BTCKERToN.

MONDAY, April 18th.
Kahololio was fined So and 81 costs for
drunkenness.
III. Aea, charged with disorderly con-
duet, remanded to the 18th.
Ga You was sent on the reef for
twenty days for vagrancy. Costs, So 20.
All Hee was fined $50, with thirty
days at hard labar, and Leong Hoon $50,
with twenty days, for having opium in
possession. Four other Chinese, charged
with the same offense, were discharged.
J. Johnson forfeited bail of SO for dis
turbing quiet of the night, and d. Mar
ton and L. Williams were each fined s.
for the same ofense.
CIVIL CASES.
Geo. H. Luce, Tax Collector, VS.. Ka-
mala. 1t appears that judgment
was entered against the defendant on
March 18th for IS 80, Government taxes
for 1885, which said judgment and costs
has not been paid Defendant is SEN
fenced to imprisonment at hard labor
until he discharges the amount OF his
tax and costs, viz, IS 80, at the rate OF
% cents per day.
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AapFrtiSfnlRntg.

Aapertisements.
PACIFIC
Commercial Advertiser
STEAM BOOK AND JOB
PRINTING OFFICE
Is prepared to do all kinds of
Commercial & Legal Work
CORRECTLY AND WITH DISPATCH.
Having just Received Complete and New
Assortment of
job Types and Ornaments
OF tie Latest STYLES, from the most Cele
bra teI Foundries OF the United States.
and employing only Experienced
md Tasty Workmen, we are
prepared 10 turn out
letter Heads.
Biu Heads.
Circulars.
Note Heads.
Statements.
Bills of LndiR&,
Contracts.
Mortgage Blanks.
Leases,
Shipping Contracts,
In Hawaiian & Englishi
Calendars.
Blank Checks.
ssa.i..
SIX Certificates.
| business Cards.
EeaI Checks.
MIX Tickets.
Bank Checks,
| 9fT.Eev-..
Receipts.
Marriage Certificates.
Diplomas.
Catalogues,
! RIOtfing Pad =
Druggists Labels,
Envelopes.
Shipping Receipts.
Bali Programmes,
Theatre Programmes
Aad in fact everything a0hich a First
Class Office can do.
P. c, A. Job Printing Office
Morning journal and courier., 1886-03-01
2 REDUCTIONS.

Brocade Velvets $5 to $3, $4 to $2.5o, 5. 50 to $1.75, SIPS to $1. Silk Velvets, $o.5o to $5.5o, $5.5o to $4. 25, $4.5o to $3.5o, $4 to $3'25, $3.5o to $3, $2.5o to $2, $2 to $I.75, $1.75 to $1.5o, $1.5o to $1.25. Lyons Cloaking Velvet $12 to $50. Black Silks goo to 75c, SIPS to $1, $1.5o to 1.25, $1.75 to 1.5o, $2 to 1.75, $2'5o to 1.87H, $3 to 2.5o, $3.25 to 2.75. All-Silk Rha- danes $2.5o for 400, $2.25 for 1.75, $I.75 for 1.25, $1.25 for 100. Armure Silks $2.25 for 1.75, $1.75 for 1.25, SIPS for
 100. Colored Silks 1.25 for o5c, 100 for 75c, 85c for soc. Pushes and Velveteens reduced in like proportion. Remnants of Black Silks, Colored Silks, Brocaded Silks, China Silks and Fancy Velvets very cheap.