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The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1886-10-28
MATERIALS FOR MAKING LACE.
Fiber of the Aloe-Lace-Bark Tree-As-
bestos-sptder's Web-Human Hair.

Fiber of the Aloe-Lace-Bark Tree-As-
bestos-Spider's Web-Human Hair.
Human ingenuity has almost exhausted it
self in finding new materials from which this
product of marvellous industry and patience
can be manufactured The thread used In
making Brussels lace is of such extreme fine
ness that it has to be- spun underground to
prevent the dry air causing it TO break That
this lace Is so expensive is due to the hnenesS
of the thread spun by hand, which costs all
the way from 81 600 to s., 900 pound.
The fiber of the aloe has been successfully
manufactured into lace both in its natural
color and dyed black in Geneva, the Greek
islands, and Spain. In Jamais peculiar lace
has been made from the inner bark Of the
legether, or lace-bark tree, and in 1851 &
dress from this material was presented to
Queen Victoria. Asbestos has also been skill
fully worked into lace, and even caterpnlars
have been made to act their own bObbins
and thread by the ingenious device of Ger
man gentleman, who has presented several Of
his young friends on their marriage with
bridal wells, more exquisitely fine and light,
weighing but five ounces to the square yard,
than anything they could buy.
In South America native spider weaveS
sort of lace in a regular open-wOrk pattern,
and which was utilized by an English mis-
treSs of Lopez as filmy hangings for her
boudoir over panels of crimson satin. POints
treSse, or lace woven from human hair, has
also found place in history, and both Queen
Elizabeth and her fair cousin of Scotland had
valuable specimens of it.-Cincinnati En-
Ouirer
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ment for further proceedings stand over
till the January term.
Hiilawe vs.. kalua ct al, ejectmenr.
Demurrer Of amended complaint having
been submitted without argument, the
Court filed a decision ordering demurrer
overuled. Judgment for plaintiff
An Hoy VS.. Asa Kaulia ct al, trespass
Jury waived. In this case, which was
heard the 21st instant, the Court filed a
decision, ordering judgment for plaintiff,
800.
The widening OF Fort street H Brad
ley's appeal. Mr.. Rosa for the Hawa-
iian Government; Messrs. Whiting,
Creighton and Brown for the applicant
Stipulated that the case be heard on
points of law, damages to be considered
hereafter. Other appeals in this matter
10 abide by decision herein
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MORE ABOUT THE HARBOR.

The explanation OF the Bulletin re-
garding the suggested purchase OF land
in the harbor, on Government account,
is perfectly satisfactory. It would be
desirable to acquire this property on be-
hall Of the public if possible, and we see
no good reason why negotiations to that
end should not be opened by the Minis
ter Of the Interior, within whose depart
ment such a transaction would fall Too
little attention has been given by the
Government to the improvement OF the
harlor. and We are inclined to question
whether the line of policy heretofore
pursued in this matter had even been
carefully thought out. The entire com
munity are interested, because it is to
the harbor the Government must look
for a very large share Of its revenue,
direct and indirect. An intelligent and
liberal policy regarding the harbor
would pay The ADVERTISER has re-
peatedly urged the advisability OF max
ing Honolulu a free port, at the same
time deepening the entrance, enlarging
the water space inside the bar and con-
structing a craving dock OF sufficient
size But nothing practical, looking to
this end, has been done by the
Legislature. 1t is true that the
Loan Act contains a provision
forexpending $1,000 on the improve
ment OF the harbor of Honolulu and new
wharves," but while this designation OF
the vote is vague the amount is wholly
insufficient. In our Judgment it would
have been worth while to have made
some sacrifice to procure a sufficient
sum for such an enterprise, but the cir
cumstances under which the Loan Act
was introduced and finally passed were
bar to anything like the consideration
of a comprehensive scheme of harbOr
improvement This was out Of the ques-
ton altogether. But while such is the
case, it does not follow therefore that an
opportunity for acquiring land for the
Government, in Z" commanding position
along the deep water front, should be
neglected, and we agree with our even
ing contemporary in saying that negotia-
tons for this purpose should be opened.
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.The Planters Monthly

The October number is largely made
up of extract matter from a variety OF
sources having reference to the sugar in
dustry as well as other branches of agri-
culture, such as tobacco and tea culture
One of these affords some valuable refec-
tions on irrigation. The editorial pages
commence by advocating the introduce
ton of tobacco culture in these islands.
They contain a lamentation over the
Appropriation bill, and, what is
more to the point, the subject of
ensilage as applied to cane tops is com
mended to the attention of planters.
These constitute the main features. A
contribution appears from Mr.. J. NJ.
Lydgate, in which the writer seeks to
explain ''Why the sugar business does
not pay" The reaons assigned are
the lack of system on the part of those
who enter upon planting, and an undue
and an over-sanguine view of the pros
poets of the local sugar trade. He con-
tends that there is nothing to warrant
the sinking of capital in improvements
Of a very permanent character, but that
such improvements should be made
with view to quicken returns. Another
fertile cause Of failure is said to be too
much capital lying idle in unnecessary
machinery. The article concludes by
stating that having secured this expert
ence, the most important step has been
taken towards securing that fortune
which sugar may yet bestow.
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REGISTRAR OF CONVEYANCES.

Rumors were rife in town yesterday to
the effect that a member of the House of
Mobiles had been appointed to the va
cant office of Registrar of Conveyances.
The gentleman whose name was freely
used in this connection is a native Ha-
waiian, and we are free to confess that
his nomination will be disappointment
to the public. We have nothing to say
against him personally beyond this,
that we do not think he is competent to
perform the duties of the office in
manner even approaching to efficiency.
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On Top of n1onnt washinrton.

The Mount Washington signal office is a
one-story building, containing three rooms.
1t is built with double walls, filed with saw
dust double windows, doors, and floors.
Large iron rods run through the house, and
are bolted in the rocks beneath, while two
heavy iron cables are thrown over it and
fastened on each side. In the coolest weather
the only habitable place is the center room,
which is only 12xI5 feet in dimensions Two
stoves of the best make are run at their full
capacity, and by wrapping themselves in
blankets the observers just manage TO keep
from freezing. The stoves occupy nearly
half the space in the room, and yet water in
there will freeze in a moment.
The nOiSe made by the wind is almost indie
scribable. 1t comes at short intervals, and
sounds as if an army was pounding at the
door with a huge batteriug ram. No human
creature could live for two minutes exposed
to such blast Even in August the water
sometimes freezes solid. Everybody has seen
frost on the windows and knows how il
looks. On Mount Washington it forms four
or five feet thick, and if a person goes out all
muffied up it viii deposit foot deep on his
clothing chicago Times
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II II E
Pacific Commercial Advertiser
ABOUT ROAD REPAIRS.

Our morning contemporary blames
the ADVERTISER for advising the Minister
OF the Interior ''tO promptly begin the
improvement Of roads so much required, "
because the Legislature voted money for
unnecessary and foolish purposes"
We certainly are not responsible for
what the Legislature did in that regard,
but seeing that such is the case we
deemed it proper to point out to His
Excellency Mr.. Ahoio what was his
duty in the circumstances. Now, sup
pose we had advised the Minister to
draw every available dollar in the Treas
ury for some OF the unnecessary and
foolish purposes indicated, and not to
take a thought about the condition Of
the roads and bridges, the "Herald"
would doubtless have assumed a vir-
tuous and indignant tone, and cited this
as another proof of the total depravity Of
the ADVERTISER. And our journalistic
friend would have been quite justified in
mis- structures, however severe, had we
done so. But we did nothing OF the
kind, and we assure him that we are
quite as innocent of any purpose or de-
sire to spend the public revenue foolishly
or upon unworthy objects as he either
IS or can be.
In this relation we again take
leave to press upon His Excellency Mr.
Aholo's attention the necessity for tax
ing immediate steps to put the leading
thoroughfares into passable condition
before the rainy season sets fairly in. It
may be done for considerably less money
now than after the surface of the roads
has been softened with moisture or torn
up by floods. Indsed, road work should
be done if possible before the rains set
in. The protracted Legislative session,
however, prevents this being accomp-
lished to any considerable extent this
year, but there is nothing to prevent full
advantage being taken OF the dry
weather next season. Meanwhile some
thing must be done to render loc0motion !
safe and tolerably comfortable on the |
various highways leading out of the city.
There should be no difficulty whatever
in finding the funds requisite for this
absolutely necessary purpose.
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THE MAJORS STORY.

EYvaaI, YES. said the major, unfolding hiA
knife,
And shaving slice from his chair,
Il come from a family OF purity long life
The longest, I reckon round hyar."
my grandfather lived TO a mighty old ags-
He died at two hundred and four"
But the major stopped short in his yarn at
this stage,
For the Judge entered in at the door.
"Now, major, the judge very grsvely re-
marked,
Il knew your old grandfather well;
He was just eighty three when his spirit en-
barked
For that bourne where the good spirits
dwell"
For moment the major had nothing to say,
But finally rose to his feet;
He died at two hundred and four Broad
way"
Then the judge moseyed up and stood
treat New York Sun.
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Art NOtes.

There is now on exhibition in J. j. VIII
Hams' Photographic studio rather large
oil painting OF the crater OF Kilauea, by
Mr. C.. Furneaux 1t is taken from a
photograph and represents Halemau-
.nau as it appeared on October 9TH.
The artist has done a clever piece Of
work which viii bear the closest inspec-
ton. Those who visited the volcano be-
fore the bottom dropped out, will be able to
see by this picture how great the change
has been. The same artist has a bunch
Of ohias, perhaps one OF his best efforts
in this line
In the studio there is also hung up a
painting by Jules Tavernier which IS a
gem. 1t is a view OF the Wailuku valley
with the snow-capped Maunakea in the
distance.
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1886-10-28
The Chief and the Inflated Pillow.

Mr.. Russell, the war correspondent, was u
good story teller, and had many "reminiscences
of his adventures in the First. Once, while
travelling in India, he carried with him an
India-rubber pillow, which at night he in
hated. One evening he took it out Of his
pocket and showed it to a chief, who asked
him its use He told him it was pillow
mo good; log of wood much better I"
"Why:' asked Mr.. Russell. Because it is
nat" replied the chief Mr. Russell then in
fiated it and it was handed around 20 all the
family, who, in turns, let out the air and
again inflated 1t. At last the chief took it.
at is good said he, very, very good ."
why" asked Mr. Russell. Because by and
by you viii be an old man, and will have but
little breath in YOU, and you can get some
out OF this bag. Ben Perley Poore.
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The Hardy Sea Dogs of Maine.

a short time ago Seaport. the home of the
hardy Nichols and Pendletons. came for
ward and claimed the distinction OF furnish
ing One-tenth Of all the American sea CAP
taIns. ThomastOn now shows up with fifty
on the active and twenty whine On the retired
ist-a remarkably good ehowing at the pres
ent shipping crisis. This Is an interesting
subject. Let Us hear i.5m Bath and the his
tOric Georgetown, and ,yaldoboro and Booth
bay. They can each furnish a long list of old
sea dogs.-Portland Press.
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About billiards.

The presence OF Messrs. NcCleery and
SAVIOR, the bilhardists, in Honolulu, has
tended TO throw considerable interest in
this fine game, and II Is expected that on
Friday evening, when they play their
match al the balk line game, the Hotel
billiard room, where it takes place, will
be filed 10 its utmost capacity. The
two are practicing in earnest, and a close
and exciting game may be looked for.
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1886-10-28
THE LOAN ACT.

4 correspondent writes to us inquiring
whether money paid into the Treasury
in the purchase OF bonds under the new
Government loan can be applied to the
ordinary purposes of the Government.
In reply we have to say that the pro-
ceeds OF the loan are in the nature of a
trust fund, and can only be used as pro
vided for by law. Upon this point the
Act is very specific. Its language is as
follows:
Section 4. The sums borrowed under
this Act shall be placed in the Treasury To
the credit of the Loan Fund and be paid
out for the following purposes and no
other;
l. To recall and cancel all bonds
at present outstanding, IS
sued under any Act of the
Legislature prior to the date
OF this loan; special loan and
the interest accrued on spec
ial loan and outstanding
bonds -....-.....-..,-..--.7 81 ,235, 900
grafton .........-...s... 100, 900
g. Interisland cables and electric
light, Honolulu . 100 900
4. Honolulu Water Works - 80 900
3. Improvement of the harbOr OF
Honolulu and new wharves 100 600
6. Improvement OF the streets of
Honolulu and roadways of
the Kingdom 10000
=. New Bridges and landings 5000
3. Purchase Of steam tug Eleu 40 900
9. Expense of floating loan, etc. 100000
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Changed His Name to "Eaher

Side by side in a recent number of The
London Times were three advertisements.
each one announcing that a man named
smith was about to change his name to
~Faber." 1t will be remembered that ~Fabern
Is simply the Latin equivalent Of smith"
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Total



Now it is clear from the foregoing that
current expenses cannot be met out of
the Loan Fund, even as a temporary ad-
vance by the Treasury, and we have no
reason to suppose that such a thing has
been so much as thought Of Applica-
tons for the loan are coming in quite
satisfactorily we understand, this result
being due no doubt to the fact
that the home investor is placed
upon the same footing as to commits
sion on sales as foreign investors.
No better investment could he made
than Hawaiian Government six per
cent 1870 bonds, free from taxation, at
SO, the only question that can possibly
arise being whether it was necessary to
make such a So ;riice to obtain the
money.
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NOTICE.

THE REGULAR QUARTERLY MEETING OF
the Pacific Hardware Company Limited
will be held at their Office on Saturday. October
30, 1885, at 10 o'clock a. m
JAMES q. SPENCER.
Honolulu, October %, 1886 Secretary.
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NOTICE.

MR.. FRANK P. HASTINGS WILL HAVE
VI charge Of the business affairs of our bank
during the temporary absence Of Mr.. ". q.
Irwin at San Francisco.
I8s-doct29 wnoys CLAUS sPRECKELs s co.
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NOTICE

u URING THE TEMPORARY ABSENCE OF
IL orr Mr. Vim. q. Irwin at San Francisco,
Mr.. Waiter VI. Gifard will have charge OF the
general business Of our firm.
I87-doct29-wnovs WM G. IRWIN h 20
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The King vs.. Chin Quai Sen, perjury
in the second degree. Stipulated in open
Court that the presentation of indict-
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1886-12-16
AN ACT OF VENGEANCE.
How Enraged Monkeys Exterminated
Huge Boa-Constrictor.

How Enraged Monkeys Exterminated
Huge Boa-Constrictor.
The boa has not merely ofttimes been
mastered by man, but by much inferior
beings. An officer stationed at Kali
ladgee, in India, was once climbing a
rocky hill, when he and native who
accompanied him witnessed the follow
ing episode: A poor monkey was be-
ing slowly enwrapped in the volumin-
Gus folds of an enormous boa, its bones
breaking like pipe-stems by the pres
sure. Gradually the reptile unwound
itself, leaving crushed, unrecognizable
mass. The numerous monkeys on the
rock were in the greatest state of excite
ment, running wildly about. gesticulat-
ing, chattering and moaning, though,
of course, powerless to help their COM
rade While the snake was commence
ing its gorge, and before its body began
to fill and swell, the officer and native
went in quest of stout cudgel and a
sharp knife, expecting to make it an
easy prey as soon as it should be filled
to repletion. When they returned to
the scene Of strife, the boa lay thorough
ly gorged, beneath projecting mass
Of cliff, looking more like log than
anything more lively. On the submit
above troop of monkeys were as
sembled, and there or four of the lar
gest and strongest were occupied in
displacing a massive fragment of rock.
already loosened by the rains from the
main ledge. BY enormous exertion-
made, too, with silence quite unusual
to monkeys-they at length succeeded
in pushing the rock until it trembled
just over the boa's head; then, uttering
yell of triumph, they dropped it over
the miniature precipice. 1t struck the
boa on the head, MASKING it to jelly.
As its great tail dashed about inefect-
ually in its last struggle. there was a
chorus of exultation-man joining his
near relative, if we believe some Of our
| instructors-over this well-accom-
plished act of vengeance.-Good Words.
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PERSONAL AND LITERARY.

The late John Landon Sibley. Ii
brarian of Harvard, courted his sweet
heart twenty years before he married
her.
The ex-King Regent of Portugal
left his German-American widow-a
Boston-born woman, by the way-a
fortune of $4,000,000.
DR. Schliemann, the famous ex-
plorer of ancient Troy, who resides in
the city of Athens, has two children,
and their names are Andromache and
Agamemnon.
M. Louis Pasteur, the discoverer of
the remedy against rabies, is not ply
sician, but chemist. He is native OF
Dole, in the Department of Jura,
France, and is in his sixtieth year.
Harry Brown, colored man nine
ty-five years old, still living at Texas,
N. Y, was once the slave of Governor
Dewitt Clinton, and obtained his free
dom under the State Manumission act,
July 4, 1827.-1roy Times.
Mrs. John Sherwood, Mrs Burton
Harrison, Mrs. James B. Potter, Mr..
Paul Dana, Mr.. Poultney Bigelow, Hon.
w. w. Astor and Mr. CORTLAND Palmer
are, according to New York CORE
spondent of a provincial paper, 1.-THE
leading literary lights of New York
fashionable society,"
The Misses Drexel-three of them
inherited twelve million dollars from
their father. the Philadelphia banker.
They pay rent for and largely contrib
ute to the support of three hundred and
twenty families. This does not COM
pass the full measure of their benefac-
tions.-Phitadelphi Press.
I'm all the gossip about the Wander
bilts high praise is accorded the oldest
son, Cornelius. He is said to be a
scholarly, serious minded man, OF cul-
tivated tastes and religious character,
who is seldom ''before the public but,
when he is mentioned, is invariably
spoken of respectfully.-N Y. Tribune.
The late Mrs. Fillmore's library at
Buffalo has in it a scrap-book made by
Mrs. Fillmore with much painstaking.
The covers, of green Russian leather,
contain all the newspaper articles that
she could find to clip, telling of the
last fitness and death of her husband,
the President of the United States Mr.
Fillmore's right arm was palsied while
he held his razor in his hand in the act
of shaving. -Bnfalo Express.
Mr. Clemens ozark Twain), ii
seems, is becoming offended because OF
the vast number of congratulations
which shower upon him because he has
attained his fiftieth birthday. 81 do
not see what i have DONE" he says,
"to have so many enemies. / have
never congratulated a person on being
fifty years of age. 1t is true I have
shot at people in the dark when have
had something unusual against them,
but have drawn the line there"
Peter Donahue, who died recently
in San Francisco, was worth $4,000.
600. He begun life as blacksmith
and was never ashamed of his humble
calling. When he came to build .
$4,000 tomb or vault in Calvary Gene
terry. he placed upon the front a huge
bronze medallion, representing in has
relief tremendous arm, with a heavy
hammer in the fist, and underneath il
the words: Labor Omnia Vincit,
while over it was the single name
''Donahue." His daughter is the wifi
of Baron Won Schroeder, of Germany
and lives in Stuttgart. CoAneciicat
| Cdth0i--
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DINNER PHILOSOPHY.
The Human Race Divided into -Four Dis
tinct Glasses.

The Human Race Divided into Four Dig
tinct Glasses.
Prof. Sumner, of Yale College, d.
vides the human race into three class
es; people who work to-day to pay for
yesterdays dinner, people who work to-
day to pay for to-day's dinner and those
who work to-day to provide dinner
for tomorrow. But there is fourth
class quite numerous, those who do not
work at all and eat the dinners earned
by others.
There is a story of colored barber
who reformed from hard drinking be-
cause he observed that while he, the
drinking man, bought two pounds Of
liver for his family's dinner, the man
who sold him the rum bought seven
pounds of porter-house steak. He took
the pledge forthwith, and ate the por-
ter-house ever after, instead of drinking
up the price of it.
ciple of Prof Summers, which is, that
the only fair way for man to get out
of the class who work to-day to pay
for yesterday into the class who work
to-day to provide for tomorrow is to
practice self-denial. ''Self-deniai,"
says the learned professor, "must be
our gospel if we would gain capital,
and almost any one can gain capital il
he practices prudence. So thought
the barber, and acted aecordingly.-N
7. Ledger.