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The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1886-02-17

1t is reported of DR.. Fulton, Of Brook
lyn, that in an eloquent passage he was
exclaiming: "Place me upon the polar
iceberg, where no verdure greets the eye,
and where naught but the white bears
growl can be heard" when deep bass
voice replied "Amen I"
As the Rev. DR.. Bowman was about to
begin his sermon one evening at Ocean
G rove, he remarked: "Many Of you have
never seen me before, and in all probabili-
ty, many Of you will never see me again"
g Amen!" shouted an enthusiastic
brother.
Tile Voice heads these last two items,
"What to do with the liquor sellers?" l
really don't see any point to it unless his
idea is, that the place to put them would
be upon polar iceberg" where 1--WE
would never see them again" If that is
his idea Amen, and SO say we all.
The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1886-02-17

"A Ladies' Auxiliary to Major c. A.
Angel Post, No. 20, G. A. R., of this city,
was organized last Wednesday evening,
when the following officers were elected;
President-Mrs. Amanda O'Daniel.
Senior Vice President-Mrs. Emma
Morgan.
Junior Vice President-Mrs. Jennie
Naylor.
Chaplain-Mrs. Amelia Smith.
Treasurer--Mrs. Anna Wilson.
Secretary--Mrs. Maggie Crook.
Assistant Secretary Miss Virginia II
O'Daniel.
Conductor Miss Sallie Williamson.
Assistant Conductor Mrs. Maggie
Robbins.
Guard-Mrs. Hugh Murray.
Assistant Guard-Mrs. Emma Naylor
The installing officers we're Mrs. Jennie
Atwood, Department President, of Brook
Ign, N. Y. +; Mrs. Elizabeth Work, of Old
Bridge, N. J. +; Mrs. Mary Appleby, Mrs.
De Voc and Mrs. Helen Bray. The new
organization starts with twenty-one mem
bers.
The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1886-02-17

The entertainment given on Wednes-
day evening of last week, by the Young
Peoples Temperance Union, drew very
good audience and resulted, VIC believe,
in adding about 1856 to the treasury.
The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1886-02-17

Beiow we give few extracts from the
speech of Canon Farrar on bis return to
London last month:
Hon. Neal Dow is man 81 years OF
age, who still retains the heart and fresh
ness of boy. | never saw any man oil
that age equally vigorous and equally ac
tive. He is splendid specimen of q
total abstainer.
If had any doubt-as to the efficiency
of the Maine Liquor Law-it would be
removed by observing how intense is the
hostility of the liquor interest against the
law of Prohibition. They would not OPP
pose it with such frantic vehemence il
they we're not considerably afraid of it.
If you once succeed in making drunk
enness difficult you diminish, almost in
definitely, the amount. slow oft the
sight of means to do Ill deeds, makes III
deeds done -
Take away the glaring public bar, and
you will be astonished at once to find that
the number of arrests for drunkenness
had been almost indefinitely diminished.
Tho absurdity Of our present system
consists in this, that we first of all do all
we can to lead men into temptation, and
then imprison them because they sue
cumb. We permit the causes, and then
we punish the effects mot much punish
ing the effects here in Lambertyille, judg.
ing from the undisturbed, noisy, night
demonstrations in some parts of our city. J
The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1886-02-17
TEMPERANCE COLUMN.
BY THE W. c. T. U.

Gospel Temperance Meetings ia Thatch-
er's Hall, every Sunday, at $50 P. NJ.
Come aud see us.
The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1886-02-17
DIGNANS'
148 PERRY STREET,

Is the place to get them, as he is special
agent for the largest and most reliable
house in the United States in the Gas
Fixture business. In Lamp Goods, j. w.
DIGNAN is considered headquarters, and
this admitted even by competitors.
The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1886-02-17

Nov. %, issO..em.
The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1886-02-17

Efforts are being made 10 start a
lodge of Knights of Pythias at Fleming
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1886-01-29
Men Who Want to BE Editors.


1t is a rather peculiar thing, by the
way, that every man on earth believes
that he can run a newspaper. The cd
itor of every prominent journal receives
bushels of letters every week from I'M
grammatical and illiterate people telling
him exactly what to DO with his paper.
Every man who attends play in New
York knows more about il than the pro
fessional critic who writes his opinions
for the following days paper, and the
politician does not live who could not
give the shrewdest newspaper man
points concerning the attitude of any
particular journal during a political
campaign. Aside from this every whip
per snapper who stands behind a coun-
ter criticiZes with shallow-p ated viru
lence the editorials he reads in his morn
ing paper, and do not believe there is a
man in any business whatsoever
in town, who is not thor
oughly convinced that if every
other means of gaining a livelihood
should fail, he could step into a news
paper Office and make q distinguished
success as a writer. Nothing proves
this more thoroughly than a glance at
the applicants for positions as reporters
on the New York press.
The managing editor of big daily
here, told me short time since that he
had an average of three calls every day
the year round, for positions on his
paper. ''They come" he said, from
men who have studied law and can get
nothing to do, who have graduated as
physicians and are starving for pa
tients, who have failed in business, who
are fresh from college and who have
been broken down in various walks of
life. Not one Of them has a shadow of
doubt but that he will make a clever
writer, and yet the majority of them
have had no experience whatever in
newspaper offices and prove by their
maudlin and mushy ideas how thor
oughly out of place they would be as
reporters. Bless your soul, you can't
convince them that they are wrong
They consider you an enemy forever,
after you have refused to accept their
services
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1886-01-29
A Very Strange Statement.

Fannie b. Ward Mexico Letter.
They tell us that here, and all along
the southern coasts of Mexico, people
have habit of inoculating themselves
with the virus of the rattlesnake or
adder, which renders them forever
afterwards absolutely safe from the
bite or sting of any reptile, however
poisonous The truth of the statement
cannot vouch for, but will tell the
tale as twas told to me-. The person
to be thus vaccinated is pricked with
the fang of the serpent, on the tongue,
in both arms, and on various parts of
the body, and the venom is thoroughly
introduced into the wounds. Imme-
diately an eruption comes out, which
continues few days, accompanied by
scales, something as in leprosy.
But now comes the unbelievable part
of the story. Not only can an moe
ulated person handle the most poisonous
serpents with impunity- making them
come at will, fOndling and caressing
them-but the bite of these persons
themselves is considered as fatal as that
of a rattlesnake! The reader is scarcely
expected to swallow this; but, never
theless, we have the testimony of several
gentlemen, both Mexican and American,
whose word is unimpeachable-on other
subjects.
A well-known merchant of Tampico
English tells me that he has been
vainly endsavoring to make up his mind
to submit to the operation, as he is
obliged to be travelling up and down
the coast a great deal, and is, therefore,
in constant danger He is always ac-
companied on these expeditions by his
servant, an inoculated negro, and when
he receives a bite or sting, the servant
Immediately cures him by sucking the
wound. He says that this negro, not
long since, cured white boy who had
been bitten by an inOculated young In
dian, with whom he had been fighting,
and who exhibited every symptom of
having been bitten by an adder, and
would undoubtedly lave died without
this timely assistance.
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1886-01-29
THE LATEST AMERICAN INVENTION.
THE VICTORY OF ELECTRICITY.

Electricity has
could rid themselves Of ne
laying the principle
itself foot
succeeded completely rsazng
lighting there doubt that this most important invention
Electric Lamp needs neither conductors expensive outlay
of be
neither producing
absolutely inodorous and does not need be
that invaluable 1t further preferable known kid
manipulation that can tin order.
be removed like oil lamp from one place
the produced asoftau
though of lighting be regulated degree
absolutely the
That completely unaffected thus being
lam 5 INST Q present n different
light
industrial purpose Price
Pc lamp free 0 anypa + ne
medium SIZE Serves all domestic P@5Py ie gn ng d houses ETC. rms
of bronze globe richly and elegantly eonructedl
public building
audhe workm is elegant Price 9410
Foot lamp in either bronze japanese asnG or t SILVER np Go
will be packed
ra burnef
Every lamp accompanied
remittance
method sending draft on New York which can be procured Of
Of any country Of the world it.nt will receive
by law and all limitations and infngemen
Will - lamps
or
Address NORMAN ELECTRIC LIGHT co.
9S7marl6 DIV PHILADELPHIA, U. S. OF AMERICA.
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1886-01-29
en- nee CT l. and NIatrTmony.


Our American girls occasionally COM
nit suicide through disappointment at
not getting married, but it will surprise
them to learn that the Chinese young
ladies have such a dread of the matri-
monial chain that they frequently pre-
fer death to marriage. "Of all people, !"
said Confucius, women are the most
difficult to manage If you are ia
miliar with them they become forward,
and if you keep them at distance they
become disconnected So many are the
disabilities of married women that many
girls prefer going into Buddhist or
Taouist nunneries, or even committing
suicide, to trusting their future to men
of whom they can know nothing but
from the interested reports of the go be-
tweens.
Archdeacon Gray, in his work on
China, states that in 1873 eight young
girls, residing near Canton, ''who had
been al anced, drowned themselves in
order to avoid marriage. They clothed
themselves in their best attire, and at
II o'clock, in the darkness of the night,
having bound themselves together, they
threw themselves into a tributary
stream of the Canton river"
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1886-01-29
\ GrrI at the 'front.' Gate.

III LOUIS Aa-dGll-.i
Heaven bless the girl at the front
gate with peach-bloom on her chez IS
and love light in her ewes. Men would
shut her out of our literature, but am
not one of them. The girl at the front
gate can never grow old to those who
have been there with her Years may
come and go, but the music of the low
voice at the front gate will not be stilled,
and the memory of the cherry lips
kissed at the front gate will hold out
faithful to the end. What if the old
gate does sag and its hinges rattle and
Its latch refuse to hold it shut? What
If the posts are shaky and some of its
pickets gomez We love the dear old
relic still.
We love it for the sake of the girl
who used to stand out there by it with
roses on her cheeks and nectar on her
lips, We held the old gate up and
counted the stars and bid good bye, and
then counted the stars again. How
many times of night was goodbye
said! How many times did lips meet
o er the old dear gate? The old gate
knows, but 1t will never tell. The old
front gate may have counted the kisses,
but | never did. l am sure that the
girl with the peach bloom cheeks never
did. And what of the girl with the
peach bloom cheeks All, me- she mar
ried another. She forgot her VOWS at
the old front gate, as some girls will,
and married richer and handsomer
man.
And II Well, l went of to another
front gate, where there were other
peach bloom cheeks and other lips as
sweet, and Just as many stars to count.
And now have a front gate of my own,
and girl of my own with peach bloom
cheeks, who counts the stars with the
boy of the girl whose VOWS made with
me at the first front gate were broken.
But he is a true, good boy, and my girl
is n good, true girl, and Heaven bless
them both as they stand tonight at the
old front gate.
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1886-01-29
Names That NIislead.
Providence JournaI.l


Black lead is lot lead at all, but a
compound of carbon and a small guam
tity of iron. Brazilian grass never grew
in Brazil, and is not grass; it is nothing
but strips of palm leaf. Burgundy pitch
is not pitch, and does not come from
Burgundy; the greater part of it is resin
and palmoil Catgut is made from the
entrails of sheep. Cuttle-bone is not
bone, but kind Of chalk once enclosed
in the fossil remains OF extinct speci-
mems of cutie fish. German silver was not
invented in Germany, and does not CON
tain a particle of silver CleOpatra's
Needle was not erected by the Egyptian
queen, nor in her honor. POmpey's
pillar had no historical connection with
Pompey in any way. Sealing-wax does
not contain a particle Of wax, but it is
composed of Venice turpentine, shellac
and cinnabar The tuberose is no rose,
but a species of Polianthes. Turkish
baths did not originate in Turkey, and
are not baths, but heated chambers.
Whalebone is not bone, and is said not
to possess a single property of bone.
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1886-01-29
VESSELS Expected from Foreign Ports.

Vessels Expected from EOFSASh EOftS'
Brit bk ChIlena, Davies, from Liverpool, due
Jan1-l0
Brit bark Natuma, from Glasgow, que Aarch
-O-3I
Brit ship stirlingshire. Alexander, from Liver
pool, MADEIRA due March 25-3l
Bark COnferaBceb from NeWcaSJleJ n - W, que
Jan l5-25
Ship DiOnysus, Jones, from Newcastle, n w,
due Jan 25-3I
Am bktne Nellie NJ Slade, from New York.
Brit bark Tycoon from sydney via Newcastle,
~ , W, due March lis
Am bktne Ella, + NJ Howe, from san Francesca,
due January 1920.
Am blk SOnOma, HOwes, from Newcastle
w, due February ES-2S.
Bit > ) Zealandia III Weber, from San Fran
cisco, route to the Colonies, due Feb
Brit y Australia, & Brough, from the Colo
MES. en- route to San Francisco, due Feb
Brit bark Lapwing, De Gruchy, from Liverpool,
Am ship Valley Forge, Love, from Newcastle,
V = W due Jan 20-3l
Am scar Cauute, from San Francisco due Jan
Z5-2I
os ) ST. Paul (Am). NJ c Erskine, from San
Francisco, due Feb. y.
X NJ Mariposa, (Am) IL NJ Hayward, from
sydney via Auckland, enroute TO San Francisco,
due Feb. -.
Nor blk Cap, Christensen, from Newcastle, n
w, due April lilo.
Am bgthe Courtney Ford, Miller from NewcaS
tie, y > W, due April 1920.
Am bktne Wrestler, Schuauer, frO-.l Newcastle,
y ) w, due Feb. 1915.
Am ok John WOFster, Hittscher, from NewcaS-
tls, y y w, due Feb. l5-23.
BRIT ok star of Devon, from Newcastle, y s W,
due March 1871.
Am schr ROsaind, lie Ballister, from San Fran
cisco, due at Kahului, Maui, Jan. 2S-3l.
Am bgtne C0nSuelo, T. 3 Cousins, from san
FTanciSco, due Feb. 1925.
Am blk Majestic. Burton, from Port Townsend,
w T, due jan 1880
Am bark Forest queen, Winding, from San
francisco. due February 1870
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1886-01-29
SHIPPING NOTES.

The Oceanic steamship ST. Paul is expected to
leave San Francisco tomorrow for tins port.
The schooner Josephine brought 200 bags salt
from Eva, Oahu, for MI J. 1. Dowsett, January
S2stb.
me steamer Ivy Holmes is having new tubes
put in her boiler.
The schooner Alalolo brought ,o4s bags sugar
from Kawailahilahi, Hawaii, January 2sth, which
were transferred to the bark Elsinore. Reports
very rough weather at Kaiwilahilahi' and 50 was
obliged to FstnEn half Of her lumber here.
The American barkentne Ella, Captain h NJ.
Howe, is IS days out from Sau Francisco, for this
port
The brigantine COnsuelO was 70 leave san FRAN
cisco for this port about the 18th inst.
The British bark ChLena Captain Davis. con-
signed 10 Aessrs. Theo. Davis & Co., sailed from
Liverpool for this port about September l6, 1885,
aud is consequently Ia5 days out
The schooner Kulamann brought 2'o55 bags
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1886-01-29
The Terrible Lantern Fly.
EThi adeiphia Fress !


The latest bit of news for those who
like to know all about insects concerns
the lantern fly. The reputation of this
fly has been simply dreadful. In the
first place its name is against it. Think
of a thing called the ''gitirana boia"
Then it was said to be able to kill any
living thing by means of long poison
Gus beak, projecting from its large head.
Monkeys struck by the fly were seen to
fall stone dead to the ground. Cattle
were killed in Brazil by the pest, and a
child at Para, stung by the lantern fly,
died a few days afterward in great
agony"
So much for the insects reputation.
In The American Naturalist. for Sep
TENDER, John c. Branner proves two in
teresting things, to wit, that it is not
luminous and that it is harmless. Not
only is its name misnOmer, but the
stories concerning it are exaggerations
merely.
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1886-01-29
water Notice.
Attorney-Gener

From this date, till further notice, W. r. SEAL
ESQ, is alone authorized to collect water rates
and dues Oh account OF the Honolulu Water
Works.
He is fully empowered to give good and sufii-
cient receipt, and none other Will be acknowl-
edged.
All parties are requested when paying water
rates, to produce to the Receiver their last
receipt.
This Regulation does not apply to any business
relating to the Water Works, which now is, or
may hereafter be placed i'm the hands of the At
ney-General for settlement.
CHAS. L. GULICK,
Minister of the Interior.
Interior Office, November 5. 1885. BIB no5tf
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1886-01-29

Notice to inspectors OF Election.
10 the Inspectors Of Election in the several Dis
tricts OF the Kingdom:
Inquiries having been made whether persons
who are exempt from the payment of personal
taxes by reason of being cergymen, teachers,
pupils in High Schools, fremen, etc, by reason
OF being over the age of sixty years whose
taxes have been excused by the Assessor on ac-
count Of iufirmity poverty, are allow ed by law
vote ut the election for Representatives.
1t is my opinion that all such persons are emit
tied TO vote. The Tax Collector should issue to
each such person receipt with the words
"Qualifed to Vote" upon it, which he must sign,
and in place of the amount of taxes he must
write exempt" or excused" On the presenta-
ton of this Tax Receipt TO the Inspectors Of Elec
ton at their sessions previous TO the election, the
name of the voter must be put the list of voters
and the receipt returned to the voter.
At the General Election to be held on the Sd OF
February, 1856, the votes OF such persons must be
received, unless challenged for other reasons.
PAUL NEUMANN,
ACKNOWLEDGEMENT
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1886-01-29
ne crop u CentenarTans.
Ia linta Constitution. I
WTe' ia Paris.

Paris, without having the quantity of
water which might be wished, is, of all
the cities of Europe, the one where the
public service is least incomplete No
where else are dust and dirt more eff
fectualy combated with and the gut
ters more regularly washed out. As
for the household service Paris holds
the first rank in respect to the quality
of the water distributed The guam
tity per head is less by one fifth than
that of London, but the charges are not
nearly so great as those of the British
metropolis.
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1886-01-29
4 Curious Tradition.


The Abyssinians have a curious tradi
ton as to the custom of burying the
dead They say that when Adam found
the body of the murdered Abel he car
ried it upon his shoulders for twenty
days, not knowing how to dispose of it.
The Almighty took pity on him, and
sent forth crow with dead young
one on its back The crow flew before
Adam until it came to tract of sandy
ground, in which it dug a hole with its
feet and there buried its young one.
When Adam saw this, he dug a grave
in the sand and buried his dead boy
in IT
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1886-01-29

sugar from Hamakua, Hawaii, January 2sth,
which were put into the Pacific Mail Company's
warehouse. Reports that the schooners waiIele,
"aimalu, Emma and Haleakala were becalmed
for several days between Molokai and Lanai.
The steamers IwaIani and c. Il. Bishop may be
tx pee ted to arrive to-day.
The American brigantne W. G. Irwin sailed
January 18th with 542 bags sugar. u bags coffee,
100 punches bananas and $50 bags rice, for san
Francisco, weighing 55s tons, and valued at $751;
sI3 SO.
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1886-01-29
Honolulu, January 2S, 1886.

Messrs. Lyons & Cohen will hold
special and important sale to-day at 10
o'clock, at the store of Tong Hung & Co.,
No. 40 Nuuanu street. The goods offered
will consist OF gold and silver plated
jewelry and watches, show cases, counters,
and large variety of new furniture. A
large Halls patent safe, nearly new, will
be offered.
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1886-01-29
EoREIGN VESSELS IN PORT.

Am blk Elsinore. from Newcastle, Y w
Norwegian bark LOvspring, Thompson, from
Am bk1ne Discovery, W r. Perriman from San
Francisco.
Bht blk Lady Lampson, w H Marsten, from
Newcastle. y > w
Am bktne Mount Lebanon, II Nelson, from
HongkOng.
Bark Virginia, Pettigrew, FROM Newcastle, n
$ w
Haw brig Allie Rowe Phillips, from Hong
kong
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1886-01-29
The Ancient Holn.

The bean is one of the most ancient
articles of human food. 1t was cult, ated
in Egypt in the earliest ages, and formed
the common dish known among the
Hebrews as pottage, for a dish of which
Esau bartered away his birthrigAt 1t
is supposed to be a native of Persia
The bean was introduced into Britain
by the Romans.
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1886-01-29
T.. lsr Than 10 he Kicked.

How many of you can look God in the
face and say you sold out, lock, stock
and barrel, and didn't reserve anything
If were some of you l would change.
1t is easier to do right than to be kicked
and cuffed and numbered about by the
preachers every Sunday at church [
think Bishop Keener was right when he
said q Methodist preacher had but one
lob and that was to 90 around and
worry people into heaven.
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1886-01-29
N Hr.Irnnl,nhia-

The London home for lost dogs gives
shelter to 80, 900 homeless and starving
CANNES annually, yet there has never
been a case of rabies there since its
foundation, twelve years ago.
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1886-01-29
BY AUTHORITY.
Take NnffOef

ALI Instruments forwarded 10 the Register Office
must have the required number Of stamps at
tached before their delivery for record. The
deeds received in the course of the last week
uustamped amounted TO over $50.
THOMAS BROWN,
Registrar Of ConveyRnces.
Approved: CHAS. L. GULICK,
Minister OF the Interior.
Register Once, January p, 1896 476-jan3O
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1886-01-29
Slow Ira and O Lick.

Watches were formerly made with
IA, 400 beats to the hour, or four to the
second. This is called slow train and
is obsolete except for quarter-second
watches. English standard is 16, 900
beats to the hour, while the American
standard is IS, 600, or five to the second,
quick train.