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The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1886-08-30
Awed by an Ear-Trumpet.

Some years ago a wel-known Presby-
terrain divine was spending his summer
vacation with his family in the Adiron-
dacks. One Sunday he accepted an in
vitation to preach in one of the simple
meeting houses of that region. In the
congregation was man who apparently
was very deaf, for he came to the service
armed and equipped with IN immense
brass ear-trumpet, and as soon as the ser
mon began went forward and took his
seat well up on the pulpit stairs. The
clergyman's little daughter was among
the auditors; she had never seen an ear
trumpet, and the spectacle of the form on
the pulpit stairs steadily holding that in
strument to his head filed her with awe
and wonder. On her way home from
church the first thing she said to her
father when they were alone was:
Papa, was that an archangel by your"
Boston Herald.
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1886-08-30
l.. G. SRESOVICH & co.

Foreign and Domestic Fruits, green and dried;
manufacturers of Desiccated COcoanut. Bananas,
Lines. Pine Apples, Sicily Lemons, Tahiti
Oranges and COcoanuts, Nuts of all kinds, Dates
and smyrna Figs,
Packing Fruit for export a speciality. Long ex-
perienee in shipping to China, Australia, Mexico,
Central America, Eastern States, etc. Tropical
Fruits Imported direct by every steamer.
Branch House, san Francisco, p. o. box 1898.
Honolulu. II. J., Z. o. box I2O.
Alb, 4l5 and AZ Washington street opposite Post
Office: 49, Ala and II6 Merchant street
47s feb26 81 SAN FRANCISCO.
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1886-08-30
said Matilda to ner hesitating

"Oh, dear" said Matilda to ner hesitating
lover, "Pm so sorry for the strike; fatbh,
was going to have new gate, and ID r
believe the old one viii bear our weighSe Pr
other season" He popped the question "
out further delay, and very quickly named
the happy hour.-Boston Budget
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1886-08-30
Waimea Sugar Mil Co.,

At Waime a, Kauai, will be sold to the highest
bidder, at Public Auction, at the salesroom of f.
P. Adams * Co., on MONDAY, the
The Arizona sentinel., 1886-09-25

among his earlier successes; 'Grand- fatherSs Clock among the latest. Marching Through Georgia is con- sidered Standard song, and sells to the extent of eight thousand or nine thou sand yearly. I shall never forget the first time 1 heard Grandfather Clock. 1 was then employed in Western music store. He came in and sang it to me. He was very bad singer, and the sub- ject and the treatment were both so quaint, the movement of the melody so unusual, that did not know what to think of it, or what to say about its probable success. My opinion of it was that the imitation of the clock move ment was novel and attractive, but did not venture to say any thing further. The song was published, but it was long time before it won its way to the popular ear, to say nothing of the pop ular heart It was shown to minstrel singers, who threw it impatiently aside. Wombold declared that he would not sing such trash. In spite of every thing, however, it made its way and be- came popular. Then Wombold did sing it, anG especially advertised the fact Among Work other songs are: Father, o Father, Come Home With Me Now, The Loss of the Lady Elgin, The Fire Bells and Drop the Pink Curtains Work tried number of times to write successfully humorous songs, but failed every time. ''-NGSh UiLte American.
The Arizona sentinel., 1886-09-25
THE NORTH COAST.
Impressive Scenery in the Most Romantf
 Portion of England.

Impressive Scenery in the Most Romantic
 Portion of England.
 White, in his Eastern England, thus writes of ramble on the North coast: The frequent stiles of old ship timber are suggestive of wreckS The path is thickly bordered by 'iuck,' as the na- tives call the pretty yellow flower oi the kidney vesch and the lotus and red and white campion. And the cliff is so irregular, with many slips. foreshores, patches of grass and coltsfoot and slopes of gray, red and yellow and a gaping undercliff, with pond in the hollow, and a marly bluff and gullies and chimes, as to look strikingly pict uresque. As in other parts of the county, for instance, Reepham, there are two parish churches in one in- closure, but one here, St. Mary's, is in ruins. How many churches in Norfolk have been ruined? The county seems over-churched. This is one of a cluster of churches of which the local rhymc runs:
 "Gimmingham, Birmingham, Knapton ano
 Trunch,
 North Repps and South Repps are all of e
 bunch"
 It was late when we had finished our perambulations and got to our old quar- ters again. The country round was in its full glory of summer loveliness. The crops were changing from deep green to golden yellow, and the scarlet peoples were not yet faded or dead among the corn. The root crops, late ly so parched, had been refreshed by the recent rains, and the ferns on the hills, where the rabbits hide and dart in and out across your path, stand out rich and green against a sky line of Eton blue. No moon had yet shown out a night over the church-yard by the sea, or made the farm-houses decorated with the pale evening primrose and its stars of mid night bloom, as bright as the day. But after sunset comes that strange white white light of summer time, and the evening breezes bring a scent of ripen- ing corn to the late lingerer over the farmhouse gate. The bright light of the beacon refectors flashes as potentially as ever its warning over the empurpled waters; the hum of the Cromer visitors on the jetty is stilled; the band has ceased to play; the spades and pals of the little ones are put away for the night; the bathing machines have been drawn up to the extreme fringe of the beach in apprehension of high tide; the sand castles of to-day are unde- tended by the now slumbering young sters; paterfamilias is having his last pipe; ''all the air solemn stiffness holds, and, as the poet says: ''The plowman homeward plods his weary
 way,
 And leaves the world to darkness and to
 me"
 -LOnd0n Society
The Arizona sentinel., 1886-09-25
No Such Wonder Living.

"Yes," he said, as he slipped into the Bell office, you have heard of me, of course. Everybody has heard of me. Never did, you say? That's funny-I thought you surely had. Why, am the greatest living wonder in the Territory, positively the greatest. My fame has spread all over the Northwest. Crowds flock to see me. I can scarcely walk the streets there are so many people standing and staring at me. I am the lion of the hour-the man who attracts the most attention in this whole, grand Territory. Look at me, sir, look at mer' But what is it about you that is so wonderfully we asked, timidly. My friend,' he said, as he struck a tragic attitude, '1 am the only man in Dakota who don't want officep' but he had scarcely uttered the words when an of ficer came in and took him. He was an escaped lunatic. There is no such sane man in the Territory.-EstelIise 70. T.l Bell,
The Arizona sentinel., 1886-09-25
The Pitch of Rivers.

The average pitch of large rivers, eX, cluding regions of cascades, seldom ex- ceeds twelve inches to mile, and is sometimes but one-third of that amount According to Humphreys and Abbot, the pitch of the Mississippi from Me m- phis down (855 miles, is only 4.S2 inches at low water; from Cairo, at the mouth of the Ohio GLOSS miles), 6.94 inches; and above The Missouri, from its source, only 11.75 inches. The Mis- souri, from its highest source (2,90e miles), descends about 6,SOO feet, or 2s inche mile; but from Fort Benton to St. Joseph (2,16S miles), about 11.4O inches; and below St. Joseph to the mouth (4S4 miles), 9.25 inches. Dana gives the average pitch of the Amazon as little more than inches mile; of the Lower Nile, less than z; of the Lower Ganges, about 1. The Rhone is remarkable for its great pitch, it being 80 inches per mile from Geveva to Lyons, and 32 inches below Lyons ArbanSaW TrGUeler.
The Arizona sentinel., 1886-09-25
THE RISE OF WAGES.
Wages Paid to Common Laborers Hun
 dred Years Ago.

Wages Paid to Common Laborers Hun
 dred Years Ago.
 Discussing wages, in one of his lee lures before the students of Harvard University, Prof Thompson gives many facts of curious interest.
 In 1793 the Schuylkill and Susque- hanna Canal Company advertised for workmen, offering s month for the winter months and S6 for summer, with board and lodging The next year there was debate in the House of Repre- sentatives which brought out the fact that soldiers got but s a month. A Vermont member, discussing the pro- pOsal to raise it to S4, said that in his State men were hired for f1S year, or S4 a month, with board and clothing. MT. Wadsworth, of Pennsylvania. said: ''ln the States north of Pennsylvania the wages of the common laborer are not, upon the whole, superior to those of the common soldier"
 In 1797 Rhode Island farmer hired a good farm hand at B a month; and S5 a month was paid to those who got employment for the eight busy months of the farmers year. A strong boy could be had at that time in Connecticut at S1 a month through those months, and he earned it by working from day break until eight or nine o clock at night. lie could buy a coarse cotton shirt with the earnings of three such months.
 The farmers could pay no better, for the price they got for produce was wretched. Butter sold at eight cents a pound, and when it rose suddenly to tea cents several farmers wives and daughters went out of their minds with the excitement. Women picked the the sheep had left it, and spun and knit it into mittens to earn S1 year by this toilsome business They hired out as help for twenty-five cents month and their board. By days hard work at the spinning-wheel woman and girl together could earn twelve cents. As late ds 1921 the best farm hands could be had for twenty-five cents day, or twice as much in moving time.
 Mathew Carey. in his s'Letters on the Charities of Philadelphia" QS29), gives painful picture of the working classes at that time. Every avenue to employ ments was choked with applicants. Men left the cities 10 find work on the canals at from sixty to seventy-five cents day, and to encounter the ma laria, winch laid them low in numbers. The highest wages paid to women was twenty-five cents a day, and even the women who made clothes for the arsen- al were paid by the Government at no higher rates. When the ladies of the city begged for an improvement of this rate, the secretary hesitated, lest it should disarrange the relations Of capi- tai and labor throughout the city Poor people died of cold and want every win ter in the cty, and the fact seems to have made an impression only on be- nevolently disposed persons like Mr. Carey.-N r. EUeninq Post.
The Arizona sentinel., 1886-09-25
FOREIGN GOSSIP.

The owners photograph must now appear on all passports in Turkey.
 The best female lacemakers of Sax ony are not able to earn more than sixty cents week.
 The increase of postal business made it desirable for the German Gov ernment to erect post-office at Shang- hai.
 Samson, the French executioner, beheaded z, 143 people in his official ca- reer, being 217 a year-rather busy life
 The tomb of Mordecai and Queen Esther is still visited by Hebrew pill grims, and is well preserved in the cen ter of the town of Hamadan, in Persia.
 More than two per cent. of all the privates in the Russian army were pun ished by court-martial lastyear. Among the offenses were five thousand robber ies.
 The national debt of Great Britain amounts to more than f20 for each in- habitant, but very few worry over the matter. It is grocers' and butchers bills which make us jump when the door-bell rings.
 Under the postal telegraph system in England is to say, manage ment by the government of all tele- graph lines-the number of messages sent annually has increased from 9, ,000,- 900 in 1879 to 34, 900, 900 in 1885.
 In Paris an enthusiastic crowd in- sisted on carrying an unwilling stranger, who had saved a man from drowning, to the police station to be re- warded. There he was recognized as an offender who was wanted for larceny, and he was placed in prison.
 It may be news to some to learn that most of the London hospitals are without any endowment, their only source of income being voluntary con- tributions. Last year these institutions cared for over a million patient at an expense of five million dollars.
 The Dryphore, Noah's-ark kind of a looking vessel, now moored off the Cours-la-Reine, Paris, has for show a giant oak, weighing about fifty tons. This mammoth of a prehistoric forest was dug up from the bed of the Rhine, where it is supposed to have lain over three thousand years.
 The Berlin Central Union for Placing Labor' provided last year five thousand three hundred and five per sons, or more than sixty per cent. of the applicants, with work. No fee whatever is exacted by the union, which derives its support from the contribu- tions of employers. It promotes the welfare of the laboring classes also by reading rooms and by the aid given to needy and unsuccessful applicants for places.
 The LaRcet, which is publication admirably calculated to send nervous persons into lunatic asylums. declares that persons who drink large quantities of tea first become wildly excitable," and then 'the sense of hearing goes" This is bad news for the Bishop of Lon don, who is the greatest drinker of tea that has been known in England since the death of Dr. Johnson. n.-London Truth.
 The Prussian House of Lords num- bers nominally SIS members, 97 of whom are hereditary, while 216 are ap- pointed for life. However, while 34 Prussian cites are entitled to seats in the House, some of them practically never avail themselves of the privilege Thus Konigsberg has been without representative for nearly twelve years
The Arizona sentinel., 1886-09-25
Killed a Horned Snake.
Shenandoah (ya. ) Herald. ]


 Misses Sallie, Miley and Lizzie ger killed a horned snake on. Sunday last in the cellar of MT. James H. Hoover's house, on the river a few miles south of this place. The young ladies were putting away the evenings milking when they discovered the hideous reptile, and at once attacked and killed it. It measured four feet in length and had horn on the tail three-quarters of an inch long. These enakes are said to be deadly poisonous, and have a vicious and aggressive nature. Fortunately they are very scarce, but more of them have been seen and killed this season than for many years past. Snakes of all kinds are unusually plenti- ful this year, but we have heard of only one or two persons being bitten, none proving fatal.
The Arizona sentinel., 1886-09-25
A Smuggler's Assistant.

It is dog story, and this particular log was assistant smuggler to French man who arrived from Liverpool q short time ago on the American line steamer British Princess. The customs officers, when they boarded the vessel, noticed the dog, big Newfoundland, acting rather queerly, and they took it aboard the Government cutter and ex- amined it. Just below the dog's neck in pocket in the dogs breast they found silk bag, which contained two hundred diamonds all the stones being of great value. The Frenchman tried to preveht the search, but with out avail. The stones were sent to the Treasury at Washington 10 await con- tiscation by the court Cor. St. LoafIs GLobe-D Democrat.
The Arizona sentinel., 1886-09-25

GRAY hair, however caused, is restored to its original color by Halls Hair Remover.
 Persons suffering from Ague of long standing will find specific in Ayers Ague Cure.
The Arizona sentinel., 1886-09-25

"WAs the man intoxicated who fell in the circus tent last evening.n asked Mrs. De Groof of her husband. No, the man was all right,' was the reply. "He twas walking a tight-rope. ."-LJe.
The Arizona sentinel., 1886-09-25

THOSE NU1sANCEs, Rheumatism and the Gout, are relieved by GLENN's SULPHUR SOAP.
 HILLS HAIR AND WHIsKER DYE, Black or Brown. 50c
The Arizona sentinel., 1886-09-25

THE New York JournGt heads an article: "Bicyclers give ear' A great many of lem have to say nothing of few teeth and the skin of their noseS.-BoSton Post.
The Arizona sentinel., 1886-09-25

CUcUMBERs serve double purpose.-h o. PicGyune
The Arizona sentinel., 1886-09-25

HEALTH officials of Brooklyms Philadel- phia, Baltimore and other cities, indorse RED STAR CoUGH CURE. Twenty-Five cents bottle.
The Arizona sentinel., 1886-09-25

IF afflicted with Sore Eyes use Dr. Isaac Thompson's Eye Water. Druggists ellit. 25c.
The Arizona sentinel., 1886-09-25

SIGNS of an early fall-The baby on the fence.-St. Louis Chronicle
The Arizona sentinel., 1886-09-25

WoMAN's greatest glory is in her hair, and she should be very economical of it when she is cooking.
The Arizona sentinel., 1886-09-25

eUnDTuHNn Bookkeeping, Business Writ SHVn HANB ing, English, etc., taught at BRYANT & STRATToN's College, St. Louis, Mo. Grsdu- atss successful in getting positions Circulars free
The Arizona sentinel., 1886-09-25

BRONCHITIS is cured by frequent small doses of Piso's Cure for Consumption.
The Arizona sentinel., 1886-09-25
EDUCATIONAL.

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The Arizona sentinel., 1886-09-25
Think of This

Many people have neglected slight manifestations of humor in the blood till the foul matter has be- come so powerful as to cause terrible scrofulous sores, awful suffering, and finally, as the system becomes drained of all it's strength, death.
 Some have neglected distress after eating, heart burn, occasional headache . and other early symp- toms of dyspepsia, till this painful disease has be- come incurable, and the victim barely sustains a miserable existence.
 Others neglect that tired feeling pains in the back, weakness, languor, till general debility and kidney or liver disease becomes firmly fixed upon them and there is no hope of recovery.
 Be wise in time: Hoods Sarsaparilla will cure when in the power of medicine, scrofula, salt rheum, bois, pimples dyspepsia, headache, bilious ness, catarrh, rheumatism, that tired feeling and any disease or affection caused by impure blood or low state of the system.
 Be sure to get "the peculiar medicine"
 Hoods SarsapariIIa Sold by all druggists S1; six for S5 Prepared only by c. l. HOOD & CO.,, Apothecaries, Lowell, Mass.
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The Arizona sentinel., 1886-09-25

To those acquainted with our instit to say that the Invalids' Hotel and branch establishment located at No. 3
 England, have. for many years, enjoy the most largely pstrOnized and wide the world for the treatment and cur arise from youthful indiscretiOns and I
 We, many years ago, established a
 treatment of these diseases, under u the most sl1illful physicians and surg that all who apply to us might receive Council of the most eXperienced spec
The Arizona sentinel., 1886-09-25

We offer no apology for devoting so mu believing no condition of humanity is t
 wretched to merit the sympathy and b, services of the noble profession to which belong Many who sllffer from these terril
The Arizona sentinel., 1886-09-25

cess. These are Urinary Diseases,
Springfield globe-republic. (Springfield, Ohio) 1884-1887, 1886-06-11
NOTICE TO CONTRACTORS.

NuTlCE is hereby given that the city Of
y Springfield, Ohio, Will receive sealed pro
Posals n the office "f the City Clerk of said
city, for furnishing all the material and doing
all the labor for the construction of the stone
abutments for a bridge over Buck creek on
Factory street. according to plans and specif
cations to be on file in the city Engineer 5
office on and after the 10th day of June. lSst.
Also, for furnishing all the material and do
ing all the labor for the erection of the iron sI-
prrStruCture of said bridge, bidders to furnish
their own plans and specifications for said
SuprrStructure.
All proposals must be for doing said work ac-
cordtng To the plans. profes and specifications
IN the city Engineers ONCE. and the plans and
Specifications furnished by the bidders on the
SuprrStruCture, must be- signed by the full
name uf all parties interested in said bid. and
by some responsible disinterested person AS a
guarantee that "A contract will be entered into
provided the bid is accepted, and must be on
le IN the city Clerk 5 Office on or before twelve
q o'clock, noon. Of Tuesday. the ath day of une.
4. ID. lNNi. To be opened and publicly read i'm
medlattly after twelve o'clock Of said day, in
the presence Of the Mayor, city Engineer. As
>lstant City Engineer and City Clerk. or any
two of them. and reported 10 council at the
first meeting thereafter.
The city Council reserves the right to re PirCt
any or all Proposals presented for any reason
thew may deem sufficient.
BY order of council.
J. 5. SHEWALTER.
subs City Clerk.
Springfield globe-republic. (Springfield, Ohio) 1884-1887, 1886-06-11
NOTICE TO CONTRACTORS.

NOTICE is hereby given that the city OF
" Sprl nEhrld. ohio, will receive sealed pro.
P"SalS AT the office of the City Clerk Of said
city. for furnishing all the material and doing
alt the labor for the construction of the stone
ahutmrutS Tor u bridge over the {. C. c. 4 l. K
K. and the |. b. h W. H. K. tracks on east High
street according I" plans and specifications 10
be- on ME in the city Engineers office on and
after the lSt day Of June. lSSG.
Also. for furnishing all the material and do
Ing all the labor for the erection of the iron
SuprrStrurturr Of said bridge. bidders 10 fur
niSh their own plans and specifications fur
said SuprrStruCture
All proposals must be for doing said work &C
corilHg To the plans. prntieS and specifications
IN the city Eugl nerr office. and the plans a nd
specifications furnished by the bidders on the
Sup"rStruCture. must be signed by the full
name ot all parties Interested in said bid. and
by some responsible diSinterrsttd person AS a
guarantee that a contract will be- entered into
prov the bid is accepted. and must be on
file IN the city CLERK : office on or before twelve
O'Clock. noon. of Tuesday. the 18th day of June
\. II. lNN6. To be- opened and publicly read i'm
mrdIatrly after twelve o'clock Of said day in
the presence of the Mayor City Engineer As
SIStaHt city Engineer and City Clerk. or any
two ui them. and reported to council at the
hrSt meeting thereafter.
The city Council reserves the right to reject
any OF all proposals presented for any reason
they may deem sufficient.
BY order of council.
J. S. SHEwALTER,
lHS-hs City Clerk
Springfield globe-republic. (Springfield, Ohio) 1884-1887, 1886-06-11
NOTICE TO C0NTRACT0RS

NEALED PROPOSALS viii be- received at the
y office "t the Clerk of the Board of education
Of the city Of Springfield, ohio. for furnishing
all the material and constructing Il school
house on the south side of east High street,
between East and Mary streets In said city.
according to the plans, prOfiles and Sprcihra-
UOUS which will be on file in the Office Of ChaS
A irrSar. architect. On and after June 10. lSSi.
All bids must BE- for furnishing all material
aud completing said work according to said
plans, pruhles and specifications; must state
the price OF labor and material separately, and
must be- signed by the full name OF every per
son Interested In such bid. and also be signed
10y the full name of some ii dSintertSted rrspnn-
slblr person, As a guarantee that a contract
Will hr entered into provided the bid is accept
/ ed: and all bids must BE- on file with the Clerk
I "t the Board "f Education on or before twelve
o'clock noon Of Friday. the ID Of July. 1881. To
be opened and read at the next meeting of the
Board thereafter.
The Bu&rd reserve the right to reject any or
all bids presented for any reason they may
deem sufficient. The board recommends than
all bids he made on blank forms. which will he
furnished to parties desiring To bid by the
clerk of said Board.
hy order of the Board Of Education.
az I'd ID. CUSHING, Clerk.