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The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1886-08-06
me Duration of a ueners,1on.

The duration of generation is the aver
age length of life for man. That is, though,
of a million of human beings born in IA
generation, some will die in infancy and
some will live to old age, the average life
for the entire number will be about thirty
three years. This is arrived at by averag
ins the ages of all persons, old and young,
> dying within a term of years. Different 10
caIties, different periods, will of course
alter the result, but the average for the
race in civilized countries is always APP
prOXimately the same.
The average age of population is diff
ferent thing. This is the average age Of
all persons living at any one time ascer-
tanned by summing the ages of persons Of
different age as given by census of tie
population, and dividing this by the sum
total of the popuIation.-Inter Ocean
Queries"
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. sseIs Expected from Foreign ports

SSPlS Expected from FOredSh S-OFhS'
Brit bark Isle OF Erin, Nicholson, from Liver
pool, due July 1871
Am bark Edward May, Johnson, from Boston,
due August 2O-31
Brit ship Amana. from Liverpool, due August
1925
Boil bark Don Nicolas Ross from Port Towns
end w T, due July 2U-31
Nc bark Rimijio Howard, from Departure
Bay, G, due June $3.50
K NJ S Alameda ANN, II q Morse, from san
Francisco en- route to the Colonies, due Au-
gust
Hayg steamship Zea1andia van OtereDdorp,
from San Francisco due August 9Th
Ger bark Pacific, Gilman, from Bremen, due
Sept 2O-3O
Am bark California, from Port Townsend,
W L, due Aug Ill
am tern Eva, o Wikman, from Port Town
send, w f, due Aug 1920
Brit bark IrOnerag, from Liverpool, due octo-
Brit bark H Watson, from Liverpool, due
GER blk Livingstone, from Hongkong, due
August 1920
Am ship Fairfield, from Hongkong, due August
2O-3O -.
S w, due August 1925
Am bk Elsinore q w jerks, from Newcastle,
n S W, due August 2O-O
Am blk PACING Slope, Barnes, from Newcastle
w, due September 1925
O 8 s Australia (Haw), II WebDer, from san
Francisco, due August sd
K NJ y Mararoa (Brit), James Edie, from the
Colonies en- route to San Francisco, due August
28th
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An Elegant Gift.

Mr. F. L. Clarke has just completed
the first of the elegant cards in fern de-
signs, which he is preparing for the APP
preaching holiday season. The design
just finished is that of portfolio in silk
plush, made to contain half dozen
cards, on which are mounted groups of
elegant ferns and MOSES. The front of
this portfolio is decorated with a group
OF graceful ferns, and the back with the
word "Aloha" delicately formed of "sil-
yer swords" and MOSES. The whole is
most artistic and beautiful, and will
make the recipient happy without doubt.
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1886-08-06
E.ast Night.s Rea,IinGs

According to announcement Miss Pres
colt gave a series Of readings at the Y.
NJ. {. A. Hall last evening. The audi
ence was not large. Miss Prescott
taught elocution for several years in
Boston, Mass, and has many fiattering
testimonials. The lady has pleasant
voice and her pronunciation is very dis
tinct. Her selections were of varied
nature and showed the most careful
study The audience showed their APP
probation Of her efforts by frequent APP
DlaIISa
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Marvel OF orlginnlitx and Reantv.

The hotel men of New York do not do
things by halves. | received the cards of
invitation the other day for the meeting OF
the Hotel Mems Mutual Benevolent asso-
citation there, and they were by all odds
the most elegant things of the sort have
ever seen. The separate tickets for a num-
Der of excursions that were included in
the scheme of entertainment were inclOsed
in beautiful morocco case, and the pro
gramme printed in a miniature volume
bound in fac-simile of a hotel register.
The bill of fare was marvel of original
ity and beauty. On the outside folder was
a gilt key and check, caught by satin rib
bons, and on the reverse the seal of the
order i'll green and gold The menu in
cluded thirty-two varieties of wine, so it is
evident that conviviality was a feature OF
the occasion.-Cor. Globe-Democrat.
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4 SIGN Of Financial Distress.

The visitors at the London Zoo during
1885 were only $50 500, against 145, AGO in
1884 a falling off due, it is supposed, 70
financial distress among the working
people.
King Kalakaua lately ran with an en-
CINE and pumped bravely to help put out
a fire in Honolulu.
HOlogaugus is a word that means mo good
in the Seminole language. Very few peopls
know it, however, that we violate no con-
fidence, and hurt nobody's feelings by ex-
pressing our candid opinion that a good
many people might mention are hologau,
gus -Somerviue Journal
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Death of Mrs. II. j. Mossmam

Last evening, at half-past Z, Mrs.
Mossnan, wife OF Mr.. T. J. MOssman,
died at the family residence, corner OF
Fort and Beretania streets, OF partial
paralysis of the brain. The deceased
was born on the Islands, and has been
ailing for number of years. The flu
neral takes place this afternoon at 4
o'clock from the residence of Mr.. F. L.
Winter, Nuuanu Valley.
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HouoIuIu Fire Department.

The regular meeting of the Board OF
Representatives of the Fire Department
was held last evening at the Bell Tower.
First Assistant julius Asch presided in
the absence of Chief Wilson, who vas
sick The usual routine business was
transacted. Reports were read from
the Foremen OF the different companies
relating to the new officers recently
elected. A discussion took place on the
81, 400 collected for the relief of desti-
tute firemen, but no action was taken.
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Quaker Citv,s wonderful Clock.

The dial faces of the huge clock-the
second largest in the world-which are to
go into the tower of the public buildings in
Philadelphia, will be twenty-five feet in
diameter and more than seventy-eight feet
in circumference. The minute hands will
be twelve feet in length, and at the expira-
ton of every sixty seconds viii move over
thirteen inches. The hour hands, one foot
shorter, will move more than six and one
half feet every hour. Chimes of bells will
probably be connected with the elaborate
mechanism, so that the quarters, halves
and hours will be musically announced
Philadelphia Letter.
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New York Letter.
A Bow Under the Barn

The average small boy of the present
day is seldom at a loss for something to
say even in the most embarrassing situa-
tiOns. Bobby, a precocious youth of six
summers, had been indulging in profanity
and, in order to escape the punishment
for which his mother had made prepara-
tions, he crawled under a barn, and re-
manned there in a state of siege for the
greater part of the afternoon. When his
father returned at night and learned how
matters stood, he made his way with
much difficulty under the barn in search
of the boy. Hello, pa" said Bobby
cheerfully, as his sire approached, you
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Told in Joe Howard, Lecture.

One story of Charles A. Dana is worth
repeating. The incident occurred while
Dana was managing editor of The Tribune.
Howard was officiating as war correspond
ent. A great battle had been fought, and
Joe was telegraping a description of it.
He began with an eXordium, ITO God be
all the glory? Mine eyes have seen the
work of the Lord, and the cause of the
righteous has triumphed," with more of
the same sort, followed by the words, The
Army of the Potomac is triumphant. We
have won great victory" A day or two
afterward he received a letter something
like the following:
Thereafter, in sending your reports,
please specify the number of the hymn
and save telegraph expenses.
CHARLES A. DANA"
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More Opium .

Yesterday afternoon Mr.. Winchester,
one of the Custom House guards, dis
covered thirty-two half-pound tins OF
opium under the bowsprit of the Mary
Winkelman. No arrest has been made,
as the importer of the contraband drug
is not known
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Honolulu RinOS.

At the regular monthly meeting OF the
above company, it was decided to lease
the Central Park Rink for an armory if
satisfactory arrangements can be made
with the proprietor, Mr.. c. w Hart. A
gold and "A silver medal are to be offered
for prizes to be shot for some Saturday
afternoon in the future
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Yesterdays Reception

The regular monthly reception of Her
Royal Highness the Princess Liliuoka-
lani was held yesterday afternoon at her
Palama residence, and was well at
tended. The Royal Hawaiian Band was
in attendance, and played a choice selec-
ton of music.
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The AEichIeIs Fire.

The Hon. John L. Kaulukou, Marshal
of the Kingdom, offers $500 as a reward
for information that will lead to the ar
rest and conviction of the person who
set fire to the premises of Chas. Michiels,
the Louvre OF Brussels, on the night OF
the 4th instant.
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1886-08-06

No book ever published contains SO much
reliable and valuable information regard
ing the Hawaiian Islands in such small
compass as the HONOLULU ALMANAC AND
DIRECTORY. 1886. Price 80 cents
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Vessels i'm Port from Foreign Port

French schr Hammonia, Armand, from
Peryn Island .
Haw' schr General seigel, Nelson, from Jaluit,
Marshall Islands
Ger schr Mary G Bohn, p Bohm, from Yoke
hama, via Kauai
German bark Fu:st Bismarck, Van der wiring
from Bremen
swedish ship Aurora. sederstraus, from New
castle, W
Am. brgtne Consuelo. L Cousins from san
Francisco
Am bk Caibarien, II Hubbard, from San
Francisco
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Two Long Islanders, odd Match.

Two Long Islanders had an odd match
at Westhaven for 500 a side, one picking
the feathers from four chickens in less
time than it took his competitor to skin
twelve cells.
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Dynamite Suicides in South Africa.

Dynamite suicides are the latest intro
duction in South Africa. A colonel at
Pretoria lately placed a dynamite cap in
in his mouth and lighted it at a candle,
with the result of blowing his head off.
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1886-08-06

The Steam Laundry is the only place
where clothes are boiled by steam, and
thereby thoroughly cleansed. Boiling by
steam is also true disinfectant.
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1886-08-06
Buying Tombstones at wholesale Rates

A man with his fourth wife sorrowingIy
leaning on his arm went into a marble yard
to get gravestones for his three departed
loves. Marble is always dear, but to him
the prices were beyond question and
when he got the gravestone man down to
the lowest cent, turned, and looking
mournfully on his wife Iugubriously said
won't you give me four for that price,"
Penny Press
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Vessels I.eavimg To-day.

Brit bark Birmah, Jonas, FOR Portland, Oregon
Am schr American Girl II Moore, for
San Francisco, at 10 a IN
Am bktne George Perkins, II Alderman &.
for Sa n Francisco, al 10 a III
Ger bark + Sieben. J Bruhn, for Port Town
send, W T
Schr Canute, for HIlo, hawaii
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1886-08-06

NIOssNIAN-In this city. N the 5th instant, of
partial paralysis of the brain, Mrs J. = Moss
SzrThe funeral will take place at O'Clock this
afternoon, from the residence Of Mr. F. L. Win
tir Nuuanu Valley.
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PORT OF HONOLULU. ii. /.
ARRIVALS.

THURSDAY. August .,
Am bark Caibarien, " Hubbard, 1912 days
from San Francisco
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The Car Is Too Eat.

The car of Russia has offered DIR,
Schweninger, Prince Bismarck's physi-
clan, $1,000 to reduce him to healthy
weight.
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WHAT IT IS FOE.

"The whistling buoy is a simple device
for warning sailors against shOal water.
1t is merely a floating tank arranged with
a big iron pipe projecting through the
bottom and a number of valves and loco
motive whistle on the top. The rise and
fall of the waves within the pipe com
presses and drives the air i'll the tank out
against the whistle and draws it in again
through the valves. 1t is the varying
pressure of the air that gives the nm
earthly sound to the whistle. Supersti-
tions sailors are not the only people
disturbed by the whistling buoy The
sounds are often clearly heard for zen
miles inland from the shoals where they
are anchored, giving the heartacEe to the
wives of the fishermen whose husbands
are away on the water, and not a season
passes that a number of these whistles are
not destroyed or sent adrift by the people
living along shore. 1t is impossible 10
detect the miscreants except by accident.
and so the government simply goes on re
pairing the damages and appealing u the
people who are veXed by the whistle 70 re
member the sailors lives that are imperiled
by the shoals where the buoy is
anchored. New York Sun.
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nEPARrIIRES.

THURSDAY, August 5.
Schr Moi Wahine. Staples, for Hamakua, Ha-
wall
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Supreme Court.
AT CHAMBERs-BEFOR JUDD, c. ).

WEDNESDAY, August 4th.
Oscar Unna VS.. c. Brown ct al. in
equity. The accounts OF the receiver OF
the Hama plantation, Colonel w F.
Allen, for the quarter ending June Both,
were examined and approved.
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BORN.
DIED.

McGUIRE-In this city, August 9Th, TO the wife
of j. A Mcclure, daughter
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l6S GENTS s12 SUITS.

Coat. Vest and Pants for only SO 90.
rha Greatest Bargain Ever offered in
Honolulu.
1913 BOYS SUITS for 81 37ls. former
Price, 81 so.
These all trimmed nicely and We'll finished.
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ADRIFT OFF THE COAST.

"There is one of these whistIing buoys
adrift now off the American coast. 1t was
first reported as blowing its way up the
center OF the gulf stream and little be-
low the latitude of Norfolk just before
Christmas last year. 1t was a gas-Hghted
buoy as well as whistler then, but the
gas has long since given out. Ten days
later it was seen nearly 125 miles To the
southland and BASTARD, having been drifted
by the wind almost directly against the
current On Jan. Is it was still travelling
south and east, but although it had got
beyond the gulf it had only covered about
seventy-five miles. On Jan. IS it had
drifted off 100 miles almost directly east.
On Feb. it had travelled seventy-five
miles to the northeast, and on Feb II it
had returned to about the place at which
it was seen on Jan. Is. Then it got h run
to the north again, having been seen on
Feb. Is in the latitude of Cape Hatteras
and nearly 400 miles to the east of that
point Northerly winds followed then, for
on March 20 it was footing away as
natural as life less than fifty miles north
east of the Bermudas, and two days later
within sight of those islands When last
encountered on April % it had been travel
ing in straight line for New York, and
covered at least $50 miles of the route.
The prevailing winds in that region at this
time of the year are southerly and west
erly. 1t is not at all unlikely that this in
teresting current chip, for such purpose
it now serving may get into the gulf
stream again, and go screaming and
mourning across the Atlantic to astonish
and brighten the natives of the Azores or
the Cape Verdes or even the natives of
Africa itSaIf
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co-Partnere hip ri office.

THEUG PING CHEU AND CHING HEEN
y have formed co-partnership under rame
of KUN HUNG YEE in the business of the
Chinese Theater, King street, Honolulu.
Residence, Honolulu, II. 1.
Dated July 20, 1896. jy3O-2w
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rzAs we only sell to the trade, protection of
price is guaranteed. 500 oc20
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Cross Cut Smoking Tobacco

The latter containing one holder to severy scigar-
ette and therefore everyg7sm sker can keep his
hand clean.
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The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1886-10-16
Purely Political.

John Sherman made pettytogging
speech lately, in which he drew a disma!
picture of nard times depressing the Coun.
try, all the fault of Cleveland, when the
same day the leading New York republi-
can papers announced boom in prices all
over the east
Gov. Patterson, of Pennsylvania, has
made up his mind 10 punish the big pro.
tectlonist coal companies in his state. He
is democrat, and has long since sounded
the hypocrisy of protectionistS in their pro
LESSONS of interest in the masses. While
these big pampered corporations have made
colossal fortunes by means OF protective
robbery of the people, and have recently
raised their prices twenty five per cent
they treat demands for a proportionate in
crease Of wages for the miners with con
tempt and lnsolence, and threaten 10 supply
their places with imported pauper labor
Thus isthe history of republican protection
Of miiilomires and starvation Of the labor
ers repeating itself. Will the laborers
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1886-10-16

whole paschal week, and the preparation"
here named the preparation for the coming
Sabbath See Haley's alleged Discrepan-
cics OF the Bible.n 1t was about the sixth
hour, according TO the method OF reckoning
| time In this Gospel-about Il o'clock.
| ". 49, Pilates conscience was i'll at ease,
| but his political interests We're the main thing
| in his mind. Angry with himself he is
angry with them too, and his anger and scorn
find vent against the Jews. He says to them
"Behold your King!' He means TO mock and
insult them. Their reply is a renewal of their
clamor for His cruciilxion, and when he says
in scorn again: "Shall cruelty your King!'
the very lowest depths to which, us the repre-
sentatives of a nation, they could descend is
reached by them. Once owned rs the people
of God, with no king but Jehovah, again and
again delivered from foreign kings by mar
velous interpretations of Jehovah, the nation
is here, by its representatives, declaring its
bondage, and that TO foreign and a Gentle
yoke. ave have no king but Caesar" They
hated Caesar much, but Jesus more, and are
willing to parade their bondage to the former
that they may get the latter crucifcd The
remuneration Of Jesus and the confession of
subsection to Caesar, Plate fittingly follows
WIN Iue lOTlnal StnlcICc lcilNcilIl5 INN uillc
them to be crucfied.
We may SEED How conscience can ba
approached. PLATE felt the purity of Christ;
he knew the absurdity of Jews processing
zeal against a rival of Caesar. lie had warn
ing from his wife, from Jestls-all felt by
him, but overruled
(2 We see how supposed interests can
drown the voice of conscience. The main
thing he feared was standing badly with
Caesar. The right of the case he overlooked
in his deeds, though trying to clear himself
by washing his hands.
CO In a sense jesus stands at the bar Of the
soul of each of us. 1t may be against our in
clnation, our pleasures, our supposed inter
ests, to receive Him. We may make out u
case throwing the blame Off from Us, but it
will not stand The misery and humiliation
to which not only tradition but history tells
us Plate came is slight compared with the
woe of eternity for rejecting the son of man.
Sunday School World.
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Literature
RcSfdY

The Rev. u. A. Lewis writes in the forth
coming number Of Tie PoPW1r Ho,ean
Monthy on the origin ana results Of SunlnJ
Legislation. Ills contention is that the daJ
was first instituted by pagan wor7hipers
and that it has only been possible to main
tain its status in Christian nations by the
constant exercise Of the authority Of the
state.
The Popl,l1r Science Nowh'V for November
will contain an article BY Dr.. i, ". Richard
son on "The liygienic Treatment OF Con
SUMPTION which is full Of information oil
the utmost practical value to those who are
suffering or who are threatened, with that
fatal disease The paper consists Of ten sm.
pie rules Of living, with full explanations Of
the reason for them, which any one Of ordn.
airy capacity can understand. They may be
followed with or without the aid of a doctor.
with the certainty of salGtary results, whore
the present methods of treatment usually
end in death.
Probably no American women living has
seen more Of men and the events that have
made history during the present century
than Mrs. Jessie Benton Fremont, Her new
book, Souyeniers of My Time, in press with
D. Lothrop & Co., is sure to take a perman,
ent place in the literature Of memoirs and
"recollectiOps'
Pocahontas will be the subject Of most
important and interesting historical article
of fifteen pages in the November JI'de i~ahe,
by Mrs Raymond Blathwayte, of Eng land.
This noticeable article gives many hitherto IN
published facts, numerous illustrations from
and drawings of mementos Of
the Princess still in exis,ance, and line
full page engraving of painting of Pocnhon.
tas and her little son Thomas Rolte, now IN
Ileacham Hall, Iieacham, England and
which has never before been engraved.
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The Illinois Central railroad will run only
one more Southern Land Excursion. leayir
La Sale at Oj p m. October 20, 1856. The
points to which very low rates will he made
are Jackson, Tennessee, Aberdeen and
Jacks on, i,sissirpi, ard Hammond, Lou.
siana. Parties who have any desire to visit
these points should arrange to take this ex-
cursion. Through coaches to Hammond,
and through sleepers in case enough appli'
cations for berths are received by the un-
dersigned on or before October 20, to war
rant il J. +. MsRRY,
Gen. West Pass Agt
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eral valuable articles, among which ""e
decorated china set, oil painting silver 's'
ter, &c aiiy Record, TneSday.
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1886-10-16

Entered at the Post OHce AZ OfhurG, NiiHOiS, az
Second CLASS Udh Hdtter.