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The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1886-12-04

a hunt bail is no. very different from
other large country house entertainments
The grand hall is devoted to dancing,
well as one or two of the drawing room
The music is not often elaborate; on raj
occasions banG is brought down from
London, but usually there are only the,
or four pieces from a neighboring town
Few decorations are added to the Ordin
airy ornaments, but the house is ablaz
with thousands of candles, shedding "
soft luster on the complexion and dron
ping compensatory stains on the costume
The women are in customary ball dress
but the men who have hunted that dH
may wear dress coats of pink" and IT,
same crowd of gay and radiant, anxiOHs
weary, happy, disappointed people tina,
seen at other balls, goes through its rou .
of dancing, feasting, love making, man
uuvring. scandal ngering, JEALOUSY
spite, triumph and revenge, just as /.
any other land.-Adam Badeau's Letter
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Gnssin About Diamonds.

ayes, there is difference between a
gem and diamond" said a State street
jeweler; "a gem is perfect diamond, or Il
perfect precious stone of any kind. When
a diamond merchant speaks of gem he
means something in which there is no
fault or flaw, no mperfeCtiOn of color,
shape or cut. The difference between a
gem and a diamond may be as wide as
that between a plug horse and a through
bred racer. One stone may be worth $50.
and another of exactly the same size may
be worth 800, or even more. Not one
person in 1000 can tell a gem from a
fairly good stone. The weight, also is
small index to the size of diamond as it
appears in a setting. A karat stone may
appear as small at this-o-or it may be
nearly twice as great in circumference,
like this-O a gem must be cut so cor
rectly that hairs breath is far too wide
to measure the plane of the different
facets by. Every facet must be of pre-
cisely the same size as every other facet of
like position. Its angle, too, must be
geometrically correct. The glory of a dia-
mOnd is it's retroactive power. Without
light the diamond is IS useless as pretty
picture, though it is a very common belief
among people who have never handled
diamonds that the stones have light in
themselves making them brilliant even
in complete darkness. Chicago Herald
Tutpr.,jpv
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The Fancy Fair.

The arrangements for holding the
fancy fair to-day at St Andrews Priory
in aid Of the Cathedral building fund are
very complete The schoolroom in
which it is to be held has a very attrac-
tive appearance and contains an infinite
variety of articles for sale, in the selec
ton of which considerable taste has been
displayed The following are the tables
with the ladies presiding at them :
Clothing table, Mrs. a. Willis and Mrs
Buchanan; Hawaiian table, Mrs. A
Macintosh, Misses Louisa Brickwood,
Stella Keomailani and Kapoi; fancy
table, Mrs. F. P. Tasting and Mrs. Geo.
G. Beckley; fancy table No. >, Mrs.
Malcolm Brown and Mrs.J w Robertson :;
paintings table, Mrs. NJ. d. Monsarrat
and Mrs. q. d. Freeth; glass and china
table, Mrs. Mclean and Miss Hattie
Boyd flower table, Miss Rose Makee :;
children's table, Misses Won Holt and
Grace Robertson; candy table, Misses
Bath and CrOzier; ice cream table, Mrs.
Kellett, Mrs. A. Clark, Mrs H. Smith
anu OlItTS.
Her Royal Highness Princess Likelike
has promised to have a table with Ha-
waiian dishes such as pig, poi, etc. She
will be assisted by Miss Lucy Peabody
and Miss Grace Kahoalii. In the field
adjoining the scEOOlroom six large tents,
kindly lent by His Majesty the King,
have been etched and decorated under
the direction IL Major Hay,sy. Thy
viii be- used 5Or refreshments, aud there
= ,lso LANAI for nnCh. Tie fair opens
a. 10 a. II. and c'oses at ; p. m, and
promises TO be Il brilliant success. The
..ers have worked hard for it and they
bass; had no trouble whatever in getting
assistance to furnish articles for the fair.
!s;. result is that the schoClraom is liter
ASS yrtlained with the most beauiiiu!
articles, ali marked at prices suitable to
anyone's purse. The RefOrmatOry
School band will furnish music during
the afternoon. Admission will be:
Adults 80 cents, children % cents.
An noon an excellent lunch will be
served, to which all business men, both
young and G are invited to partake at
nominal charge.
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LOCAL AND GENERAL.

The Kinau will he due this morning
from wiudwa.d.
Its reported that c. X. Miller is rum
ming grocery store in San Francisco.
Mr.. Lewis ). Levey will hold his two
mortgage sales at his saIe-room at noon
to-day.
High Mass at Ioa. IN. and VeSpers at
4 % at the Roman Catholic Cathedral to-
morrow.
A great many gentlemen are going to
take their lunch at st Andrew : Priory
Fair to-day.
A meeting OF the Hawaiian Rife Asso-
citation viii be held this evening at 30
o'clock at the Mutual Telephone building
The meeting OF the Honolulu Yacht
and Boat Club, announced for last night,
was adjourned until next Tuesday even
ing.
Z Mr.. James Bright, South Kohala, and
Mr.. 5 L. kaweio, Hilo, Hawaii, nave
been appointed agents to grant marriage
licenses.
The Royal school Cadets had a drill last
evening in the lanai in the Palace grounds.
The little fellows acquitted themselves
wonderfully we'll.
a native boy was arrested last night for
the larceny OF 81 and gold ring from a
japanese, and a native woman for the
larceny OF breastpin. ~
Mr. Williams, the photographer, was
very successful yesterday in oetaining fine
pictures OF the gifts received 10y His Maj
esty the King This Will be splendid ad-
dition t. the Jubilee series of photographs
made by Mr.. Williams.
As several people seem to be in doubt as
to where 81. Andrews PriOry is, We would
say that it adjoins St. Andrews pro-Ca-
thedral, and can be reached from Bere-
tania street or Emma Square. 1t is where
the fair Is going to be held to-day.
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The composing room of The Picayune is
situated in the upper story of it's publication
house, just under the roof, and in summer is
extremely hot. An inspiration seemed TO
have come to one of the oppressed occupants,
and, in accordance with it, a vertical wooden
box was constructed in the corner of the
room, with openings at the floor and ceiling.
and furnished with a pipe for supplying
water at the top, and pan and drain at the
bottom for receiving the flow and carrying it
safely away The supply pipe was bent over
the upper end of the shaft, and fitted with
nose like that of watering pot, as to deliver
a shower of spray instead of a solid stream. On
connecting il with the service pipe the move
ment of the water was 70 md TO cause an ac-
tive circulation of the air in that part of the
room, which was drawn in at the upper open
ing of the shaft and issued again cool and
fresh at the floor level
The most surprising thing about the expert
ment seems to have been the effect of the
water in cooling the air to degree much be-
low its own temperature. With Mississippi
water, which when drawn from the service
pipe indicated temperature of 81 dogs, the
air of the room in which the thermometer
at the beginning of the trial stood at 90 degs.
was cooled in passing through the length of
the shaft to "a dogs, or about 20 degs below
the temperature at which it entered and 10
tiegs below that of the water which was used
to cool it. OF course the absorption of heat
by the evaporation of portion of the water
accounts for its refrigerating effect, but the
result seems to have been so easily and mex
pensively attained that the experiment would
be we'll worth repeating in other cases New
Orleans Picaylne.
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To Young Men Particularly.

Tomorrow evening at st. Andrews
Cathedral at the o'clock service Mr..
Herbert i Gowan will deliver an ad-
dress This gentleman has only re-
Gently arrived from st. Augustine's Col
lege, Canterbury, and will be ordained
to the deaconate at Christmas. He is
a powerful speaker, and last Sunday
evening, in speaking on the season of
Advent, held the congregation spell
bound. Young men are particularly in
vited to attend this service. All seats
are free.
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FURNISHINGS Obituary Poetry.

Another business that is heard OF now and
successful in the hands Of man who lives
soInev here on the east side. He watches the
papers for death notices, and, having chosen
one that long experience has taught him Is
apt to be available for his purpose, he goes to
the bereavod locality, inspects the house, asks
what questions about the family he can of
the neight0rS. 3ud then goes home and writes
u poem apr priat- to the occasion. A day
or two after the funeral he calls upon the
relatives, and, expressing sympathy for their
atflictiOn, claims to have been / friend of the
departed and, moved by the termination of
his or her career, has written this little
tribute" which he delicately offers for a rea-
souahe sum. 1t is said that his price is
usually s., and that he mai - from so to SIS
a week from his literary efforts.
There is another sort OF people who make
a practice of inspecting the death notices for
business The attention of these persons is
limited to the deceaSe of wives. Nhey are
women of rather uncertain repute, and their
object is to get engagement as house
keeper Tor the widower. Their method Of
operation is much Che same as that employed
by the obituary poet. But they sometimes
go further l heard of man who had lost
his wife and at the funeral was surprised to
see several strange women. Hardly was the
burial over before he received six applica-
tions for the position of hOusekeeper each
one of the applicants having been seen at the
funeral. -"Uucle Bill'sn New York Letter.
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II. Anhrems CathenraI.

The services at this church tomorrow,
conducted by the Bishop Of Honolulu
will be: Holy Communion, $50 a. IN
Morning prayer st 9 i m; morning
prayer. with sermon, at $50 a. m.
J, .ensong, with catecheticai address 10y
Nj. Herbert a. Gowan, at s p. Ii, All
seats are ,iuappropriated. &-
Second Co gregation, Rev. Geo. Wal
lace, pastor: Morning prayer, with
sermon, 1I:I5 Il. m; evening prayer
Hith sermon, 7:30 ?. IN. Sunday school
meets at Id a III. III the Punahou Pre-
paratory School building. Seats free al
al snrNices.
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RnuIancer.s Great rauI..

The great fault which can be brought
against Gen Boulanger-and for this he will
be judged severely by those who pass sentence
on him now or hereafter-is that he has intro
duced politics into the army, Intentionally
and with persistence which it Is difficult to
excuse. This Is the greatest misfortune which
could befall France-a misfortune which she
had hitherto escaped and to which she Is now
on the point of being ondemned. We have
now to reckon with MS new factor which
Gen BOulangeT has reduced into the pub
lie affairs of Franc and perhaps even of
Europe. Lastly, it must be remembered that
when a man 50 ambitious as Gen. Boulanger
is, and in command of the army of great
country, is ridiculed-as he has been by soIIe
newspapers-as "a Bonaparte without vie
tories, " he is melted 10 desire to complete the
resembIance.-P Cor. london Times.
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More Confidence.

Moore-What queer fellow Fibber p! He
just told me that he never told the truth.
Simmons-Did he really tell you thatf
Gle did, for a fact"
"Well, then l have more confidence in J.
vora-ity than l had before. detroit H
Press.
A neatly dressed colored man enUereo Une
gallery of the New York Stock Exchange re-
Gently, to look at the session Of the brokers
below. He leaned over the rail quietly and
made no disturbance; but some of the brok-
e1-s, seeing him, thought it would be funny TO
insult their visitor by letting him understand
that they knew he was black. So a score OF
more Of them, not having anything better to
do began TO sing jubilee songs and mimic the
plantation dances. Their performance was
very poor, but it seemed to amuse the colored
man in the gallery, who stood at his post
without any apparent discontinue, and when
the brokers were tired of singing and dancing,
he gravely put his hand in his pocket and
drew forth 4 ten cent piece, which he threw
TO the brokers as one would pitch penny to
a hand-organ man. Then he left, with tho
laugh decidedly on his side.-The Argonaut,
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The Industrial school.

i short visit to the Industrial School
on Thursday evening last satisfied us
that the ground surrounding that insti
tuition may be turned to profitable ac-
count by an intelligent system of culti-
walton. A start has been made by the
superintendent, Captain Jackson, and a
considerable breadth Of ground has been
levelled, cleared of rubbish and useless
vegetation, and planted with sweet po-
tatOes, which are growing well and
promise a fair crop. Another piece of
land has been cleared and prepared for
onions. This work of cultivation will be
prosecuted until all the land on the city
side of the main carriageway has been
planted with useful and paying crops.
The land has been leveled and perfect
irrigation assured. The dividing fence
cityward has been cleaned up and the
whitewash brush freely used all around,
which gives neae and clearly appear
ance to the place. The class rooms and
dining room at the close OF the days
work were in a clearly and orderly state.
Several OF the boys We're engaged in the
rear OF the school building cult
waiting flower gardens, the use of
small plots OF ground being given to
them For that purpose. The late rains
interfered somewhat with their amateur
gardening, but on the whole the result
was pleasing. The school band is in u
state OF creditable efficiency. The re-
pairs contemplated by the Legislature,
when it appropriated 1000 for that pur
pose, have not been begun. Money may
be very judiciously expended in repairs,
extensions and renewals of buildings.
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HOSPITALITY IN THE HIGHLANDS.
Dean StanIey's Cordiality-An Ola Manor
House-Delightful Drives.

y
House-Delightful Drives.
I was once travelling in a Highland train
when at some obscure little station among
the hills / heard my name, and looking out at
the window ! saw Dean Stanley and his wife,
the Lady Augusta. They called me to get
out and go with them 10 their cousin, the
master of Megginch castle, but / was bound
on an inspection of consulates. l was consul
general at the time for the kingdom, and
made sort of diocesan tour of my consulates
every year. Besides, l did not know the
cousin. But the Stanleys assured me l would
be welcome, and l promised TO return the
next day on their invitation. did 50, and l
was more than cordially received, for this is
the hospitable fashion of the Highlands. Ny
friends were entirely free to ask their friends.
The dean took me TO some famous ruined
church, and fun as he was Of antiquarian
end ecclesiastical lore, he made the most de
hghtful Cicerone imaginable. At night, as an
especial favor, l was put into the ghost
chamber, for l always asked to sleep in the
haunted room. But no historic shade ever
returned To disturb the SAUNDERS of the dem
oCrat from the New W Grid
In DevOnshire | remember that Lord
Fortesque took a party to an abandoned
manor house belonging to his family, quaint
and venerable and picturesque in appearance,
with architecture and scenery and aSsOCia-
tions all i'll harmony. The servants had
brought lunch with them and devised an inn
promptu table; they spread the cloth in the
old baronial hall, aud there on the uncarpeted
floor and under the rafters, laid in the time of
the Henrys, with ivy and wild flowers grow
ing i'll the open easement, the modern asisto-
Gratis made merry in the halls of their ances-
tors.
Time would fail me to tell of the meets of
the hounds, of the uamps over deer forests
lid grouse moors, and through partridge
covers; of the yacht parties on Highland
Ochs, of pcncs in the valleys of NOrthumber-
land, of dances on Welsh lawns, of the bishops
who took mo through their dthedrals, of the
lunches at hospitable mansions, where room
W@Is often made at tal5ie for half IA score Of
unexpected guests, ai;JTe Il, 81 the delight
full drives with my h0steases in their own
phaetOns. These drives were almost always
offered To the stranger once at least on each
visit It was then that | appreciated most the
delightful simplicity ri the hest of the high
born English women, J.Ie sometimes unsus-
peCted cultivation and ClevernesS. never pa
raded and only intimate occasions like
these betrayed Then they told me what /
wanted to know of English etiquettes and
more important customs and asked me in re-
turn about America. never went for one
of these drives that l was not sorry when it
was past.-Adam Badeau in New York Sun.
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sHIPPING NOTES.

The steamer Surprise brought 240 barrels mo
Iasses from Kuau Maui, December 30.
The barkentine Klikitat will sail about next
Thursday u ballast for Port Tow nsend.
The American bark j. H Bowers, which had
been in quarantine of port the last three aa-s,
was lowed into port by the tug Eleu December
3D. and was locked at the old Custom House
wharf. The - Chinese passengers landed at the
Quarantine Station.
The American barkentine Wrestler will be
docked next week at the coal wharf to dischage
coal.
The steamer Kilauea Hou arrived in ballast
from HAnakua, Hawaii December Sd. on her
last trip so head cattle from Kawaihae Hawaii
were landed at the leper settlement MOlo-
kai.
The bsrkentine George c. Perkins will leave
next Thursday for san Francisco.
The schooner MokuoIa brought 2sO bags rice
from Eva, Oahu, December Sd.
The steamer W G. Hall arrived from Maui and
Hawaii December Sd, with 1886 bags sugar, 81
bags coffee, 375 bags ava, rs hides, horses and
81 head cattle.
The Hawaiian bark Star of Devon may be eX-
pectsd to arrive st this port next week, with CO.
bra and guAno from Fanning's Island for the
bark Pacific.
The German bark Hydra is about 40 days out
from HongkOng.
The barkentine Eureka and the bark CeylOn
are IT and 10 days out respectively from San
Francisco for this port.
The American bark Martha Davis, Captain F.
N BENSON, is about 12O days out from Boston
for this port
The American bark saranac from New York is
now due at this port
The following vessels arrived from foreign
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Wanted Edison.s Gelat,ne Shirt.

Some time ago an American wag wrote an
an account of gelatine shirt that Edison
had invented 1t was said 10 be made Of thin
sheets of gelatine, each sheet to be taken off
when soiled; and there were enough sheets to
make the shirt last year. This yarn was
printed in various newspapers, and at last in
Brazil 'The gullbility of the South Amer
lean may be appreciated" said Mr.. Edison in
a recent interview, "when it is known that
soon after the shirt story met their eyes the
Brazilians began TO send me drafts and
checks for shirts One idiotic diamond dealer
sent me draft for 91O0 on the Bank of Eng
land. He wrote that he didn't know how
much the shirts were, but he did not think
they ought to cost over 9100 apiece. New
York Sun.
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DEPAiSEE SES
Vessels in Port from Foreign Ports.

Am bktne George Perkins, Alderman
from San Francisco
Ger bark Pacific c Altman, from Bremen
Haw schr Jennie Walker, Anderson, from
Fanning's Island.
Am bktne Mary WinkelInan, Chas Backus,
Am blk Theobald, J Reed, from Newcastle
NSW
Brit bark W II Watson, Lawrence, from
Liverpool
Am bktne Klikitat, R Cutler, from Port
Townsend, w
Am bark Forest Queen, NJ Winding from
San francisco
Am bktne Wrestler. c Chnaur, from Newcastle,
NSW
Francisco
Am bark II Bowers. J Hum, from Hong
kong
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Origin of she Name Campben.

The Campbells, as are all the great nobility
of the three British kingdoms, are of French,
Norman or French-Angevine origin. The
founder of the family was Beauchamp, q
Norman from Rouen, who followed William
the Conqueror, to whom William gave large
estates in England. In the Thirteenth century
it was customary among the nobility to give
Latin names 20 their estates. Beauchamp
translated in Latin makes Campo BeDo;
translated in Saxon English it means Fairfield.
So, such is the origin Of the Campbells
Gourdon has made Gordon, and so on.-New
York Sun.
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AZ the LYPPunR.

The services tomorrow will be as foi-
lows: Sunday-schOol and Bible class at
9 :45 o'clock. Lesson: Rev. 5:1-l4,
''Worshipping God and the Lamb"
Services, with preaching by Rev. Z. c.
Oggel, the pastor, at IL a. M. and 80
p. m. The subject in the morning will
be: The Reign of Loving Kindness. "
In the evening; 'Ofice-seeking and
its Sad Ending" All cordially invited.
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esSeIs Expected from Foreign Ports.

Brit bark GIengaber, Rolleston, from Liver
pool, due Jan 1851
Am bark Martina Fisher, from Glasgow, due
Jan 1890
Am blk Martha Davis, VI B3nson, sailed from
Boston Aug,.Ht 7tb, due December l-D
Haw s"hr General Siegei, Sanders, from
Ere uch Frigtte SHOALS, due Nov 2U-3D
ger ha.rk hydra, from HOugkOuS, due DeceIn-
her -
German bark Hercules, Schaefer, sailed from
liverpool October 9Th due February 2U-ZS
Am bktne Amelia VIA Newhail, from Pore
Towust nd, W y, duo NoF eIuEtr 1926
Ha,g bark Star Of Devon, Lowell, from Faa
ming Island, due December S14
Hayu sChr MalolO, Holland, from Mani
hiki va. Fanning's Island, due December l55l
Am bark Saranac, from New York, due NoVem-
Der g-l5
Am bark Nellie May, sailed from Sydney, Oc-
tOber nth, due Nov 27-3O
I'm 81 CeylOu z Calhoun, from san Francisco,
] ne Dec is
Am ship Mercury, from Newcastle W, due
December 1915
Am bktue W Dimond from san Francisc
due December Clio
Am 6ktne Eureka. Meyer, from san Fran
cisco, due Dec 4-6
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Queer specimen of Corn.

A queer specimen of corn is on exhibit
ton at Cuthbert, Ga 1t is a cluster of
forty or more small ears of corn, each
about as long and large around as the
middle finger on a mans hand, and com
ing out on the stalk where the tassel
should have been No shuck protected
the corn, but instead a heavy silk about
two feet long fell off in a graceful man
ner, the whole supported by an ordinary
sized stock, partially Chicago
Times.
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ports during the week: Steamship Martposa and
tern J. c. Ford from San Francisco; bark }. H.
Bowers from Hougkong, and bark Sonautum
from Newcastle. y. 5. W. Following ware the
departures Steamship Mariposa for Auckland
and Sydney; barks I. J. Spence and Edward
Kidder for Hongkong, and bark Nonanturu for
San Francisco.
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The Ghost and the Zeal.

After the ghost scene III a recent perform
nnce Of Hamlet" in London, Mr. Wilson
Barrett went to the private box of the Prince
of Wales TO pay his respects, and found, be-
side. the heir to the English throne a modest
man sitting in a corner. "AlIow me- said
lis royal highness, ito present to the fictitious
..-:-ca Of Denmark this real prince Of Den
,Il.,l my brother-in-law Chicago Herald