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The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1888-02-11
A Gre at Scheme.
D4e.t Dot

The latest luminous sensation bids fair
to be not Liberty Enlightening the World,
but Pennsylvania enlightening New York,
including Hoboken This is to be done
by means of the wonderful wells of nat
ural gas that are to constitute a new
source of wealth for the keystone state
and revOlutinniZe art industry, manu-
facture and domestic economy. True, il
would require hundreds of miles of con-
duits and much forcing pressure to carry
the gas from its native reservoirs and dis
tribute it through the metropolis but
money can do that if it will only pay.
The same gas that helps to make the
clear plate glass through which the rich
New \ orker can get better view of the
outer world in the daytime will enter his
house at night. illumine his surroundings
and enable him to defy the local gas
companies, though whether a Penn
sylvania syndicate would be any more
merciful we are inclined to doubt. We
know of no proposition of its kind more
comprehensive than this unless it may be
the scheme to generate electric light for
the whole state of New York by utilizing
the power of Niagara falls. There are
large schemes afoat these days
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1888-02-11

Army Architecture Out West,


Army architecture is, as a rule, the
meanest in the world, and when think
of the places and houses we have had to
live in out west it makes me sick Low
ceilings, little, cramped-up rooms, bad
ventilation, small barracks were the men
were crowded together like a herd of
sheep-this was the rule in army build,
ing, and the exceptions were few and far
between.
There is nothing of the kind here
The barracks are large, and every man
has room to move about; the ceilings are
high and the ventilation perfect In the
officers houses the rooms are large, the
ceilings high. and the buildings all well
ventilated. There is no cheap paper on
the walls to hide the cracks and dirt, but
the walls are painted and the rooms solid
and clean The houses have the appear
ance, inside at least, of city residences,
and the evidences of comfort and convent
ence appear the moment one opens the
wide doors
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1888-02-11
Variable Stars.
fArkansaw Travel 9r. 7

The brightness of some stars varies
periodically, more than ahundred so called
variable stars being known. while many
more are suspected variables The
periods range from few days
10 many ears. The variation is
usually slight, but is very marked
in the cases of Algol and Mira,
the former star alternating from the sec
ond to the fourth magnitude in a little
less than three days. while the latter is a
still more remarkable variable, being in
visible most of the time and blazing up to
second magnitude brilliancy at intervals
of eleven mon hs. The most interesting
of stars of this class is our own sun,
whose brightness is affected by the i'm
mense spots which appear on its surface
and sometimes cover millions of square
miles, and whose period of variability is
eleven years
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1888-02-11
Irohibald Forbes Beginning.
Chicago News.l


Having returned to England from the
seat of war, the sole man in all the vast
expectal 1T London, outside the German
embassy, to whom belonged the knowl-
edge of the disposition of the German
troops engaged in weaving round Paris
that environment of blood and iron, !"
he resolved To make one more effort to
place his services. 1t was a tOss-up as to
which of the great London dailies should
be applied to, but fortunately The Daily
News won the toss, and Dir. Forbes found
himself appreciated Mr. Robinson, of
The News met him pleasantly, and, after
listening to what he had to say, re
marked: Yes that sounds very interest
lug and valuable. Will you oblige me by
writing three columns on the subject,
and will you consider guineas a
column adequate remuneration? If so.
please let the copy be sent in as rapidly
as possible. " Having returned to his
lodgings and begun to write Mr.. Forbes
found that he had much more than three
columns of matter to say, and went back
to explain the difficulty. He saw the
managing editor this time, and the follow
ing brief dialogue followed:
us this your stuff" he trenchantly
asked laying his finger on the slip of
proof before him.
Forbes glanced at it and said it was his
stuff.
"Wel, then, said he, well take as
much of this of stuff as you care to
write.
The next day Forbes started for Metz to
represent The Daily News at was
then. he says, "that in reality my career
as war correspondent began.
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1888-02-11
The Imperial Huntress.
New York Sun. |

The moonshiners, or Parnell, or both,
have frightened the Austrian empress
from Irish soil, it is said, and she will
henceforth hunt nearer home In the for
ests at Schoenbrunn she has had a splen-
did hunting palace built, that is described
as a marvel of Luxurious decoration. Its
architecture is that of the modern renais-
sance period Steps of white Italian mar
BILE lead to the empress rooms in the Sec
ond story, upon which the best painters
of the empire have lavished their art.
Makart planned the bedroom frescoing.
The turn room, the empress gymna-
SUM, is done in Pompeiian style, and the
vaulted riding school. about which the
extensive stables cluster, in white, with
plate glass mirrors extending from floor
to ceiling, and lounges upholstered in red
velvet Until the palace at Schoenbrunn
is completed, the emgress will hunt in the
imperial forests at hadmer.
Despite her Elizabeth of Austria
is nearly 5O-she is as active tourist, and
makes excursions on foot through the
country, in company with the young
Archduches3 Valera, that are the marvel
and despair of her court
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1888-02-11
THE TASTE FOR FIGUREHEA0a
Some Queer and ComicsI Conceits-The
-

Some Queer and COmicsl COnceits-The
Variety of Designs.
New York Sum-
The decorating of the sails of modern
ships begins when the winds have worn
holes in the canvass. The Variegated
patches show all the shades, from black
to creamy white The taste for figure
heads has survived the lapse of centuries
1t comes natural to navigators Of all ma
tons. A walk along the water front re-
veals the tastes of different nationalities Of
shipbuilders. The saint of the Spaniard.
the sweetheart of the north country sailor
the lion of the Briton, and the eagle of tie
Yankee are ali there
When the Greedy relief ship Bear first
came into this port she had wooden
polar bear for fgurehead Its eyes were
a royal purple the tongue was a bloody
red and the one paw was badly shattered,
but the corners Of the mouth curled up
in a way that indicated that bruin fully
appreciated the ludicrOus figure he made
and was inclined to be good natured over
it The steamship Africa carries negro
figurehead draped in white garments. 1t
is so black and smiling that it would
make the fortune of a minstrel company
if placed in the theatre lobby. Not many
months ago the Eastern Monarch was at
South street pier loading for Melbourne
Under her big bowsprit there was poised
an enormous Bedouin chief, wrapped in
flowing robes, and just in the act of
drawing huge crooked sword from its
scabbard.
Good nature seems to pervade most of
the animals that are used as fgureheads.
Smiling lion faces beam down from cat
heads. Smiling spread eagles. surrounded
sometimes by scrolls of smiling serpents,
relieve what would otherwise be a black
and dreary waste beneath the taffraiL
Red and gold and blue flags are often
painted on the stern. Rarely there may
be seen a green harp of Erin. but the
square and compass of the Masons and the
three links of the Odd Fellows are very
common.
The great majority of figureheads are
female figures This is not due more to
The galantry of the sailor owner than to
his love for wife, or mother, or daughter
The ship is named for the woman he loves
and a modest figure representing her
adorns the cutwater. Or he is patriotic,
and Columbia in her striped and starred
skirts, with a staff in her hand boldly
faces the froth and spume of angry Nep-
tune. Hopeless ,tempts to reproduce the
likenesses of favorite actresses are as COM
mon as they are ludicrous.
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1888-02-11
How Grant StiRened Up An Aide.
New York World

An old army officer told me the other
day how Gen. Grant once revived the
tagging courage of one of his staff Off
GERS. The latter, when he was first as
signed to duty under Grant, had never
been in any serious engagement Almost
the first day that he reported to Grant he
was placed under fire of the hottest and
most severe kind. The screaming of the
balls, the roaring of the cannon, and the
sharp crack and rattle of the musketry
thoroughly demoralized him. He became
absolutely sick and paralzyed with fear.
He was so weak from nervous excitement
that he lost physical control over himself
Grant came up at the very climax of
his fright and noticing his pale face, his
blue lips, and chattering teeth, he said
Captain, you are frightened. That is
natural enough. You will get over it
Suppose, continued Grant Il should
come to you with hat containing ninety
nine white beans and one black one, and
l should ask you to thrust your hand into
the hat at venture and pick out the black
bean; do you think your chance of get
ting that black bean would be very good?
Well, your chance for being hit under
this fire is no greater than your chance
for drawing the black bean This Off
Ger at once took heart. and from then on
he never showed the slightest sign of fear.
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1888-02-11
The CantalOupe Crank.
philadelphia News.

AS summer breakfast dish the canta-
loupe is undeniably treat, for it is both
meat and drink, and the man who has
cantaloupe for breakfast needs little else
than good bread and butter and little
relish of some sort. antalOupe in its
place is all right but not so in the places
where the cantaloupe crank would have
it. This species of the genus crank is the
person who tells you there is nothing like
cantaloupe. He eats it three times day
and he mas as many different ways of eat
ing it as we are told there are of eating
oranges. He eats it plain with spoon
in the morning; with a fork at noon,
when he spreads nauseating compound
of pepper and salt all over it,
thus Disgusting it's delicate taste, and with
wine and sugar on it at night. which is
even worse than the pepper and salt
Such a crank tells you that the sugar
in cantalOupes fattens you; that the juices
make the blood clear, and so on through
a long catalogue of benefits to be derived
from his favorite until his talk sounds
like the recommendation of a patent med
icine instead of the praises of a simple
and delicious fruit.
Luckily the cantaloupe crank is harm
less, and nearly all that he says is true;
but, after all, the best way to enjoy can
taloupe is simply to eat it when you feel
like it, and simply be glad that nature
supplies so acceptable a dish for the
summer breakfast table.
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1888-02-11
Lingo of the sloek Exchange.
lChicago UeraId.l

Stock exchange lingo is very peculiar
Conversions are the exchanges of bonds
for equivalent shares of stock such bonds
being "convertibles. "Collaterals" are
securities of any kind pledged for Dor
rowed money. Pledging them is termed
"hypothecatiOn. A good delivery" is
of certificates of stocks or bonds legally
issued. Differences are money bal
ances paid where stock is not transferred
which seldom happens To lend flat"
means without interest. TO water"
stock is to increase its quantity and i'm
par its quality, To pass dividend" is
not to pay it.
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1888-02-11
I'm the Spanish PostofHcs.

tCl a er dbl
The art of opening letters addressed to
other people and refastening them so thai
no one will know is profession in Spain.
In the postoffice they have a dark cham.
Der where experts inquire into things,
and these have long since given nm the
use of steam for opening g1mmed com
municacons Even red-hot platinum wire
for letters sealed with wax is out of date
The favorite means is said to be with a
knife sharper than a razor, which is run
along the bottom of the envelope. The
letter having been extracted and then re-
placed after the officials of the postoffice
have learned what is going on, a fine line
OF hquld cement is drawn along the open
ing, the slightest pressure conceivable is
applied and 10! the letter is as whole as
ever
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1888-02-11
A Young swen's Waistcoat.

Phil adelPhia Cor Chicago TribuneI
Three or four weeks ago the very
youthful son of a millionaire manufact-
urer, whose wife is struggling hard to get
into what are considered the inner social
circles, got back from three months res
idence in London. He lounged about the
clubs and the hotels in which the repre-
sentatives of wealth and fashion gather
in a suit Of amazing cOlOrs, the cap-sheaf
OF which was his waistcoat And the lat
ter garment was always flying loose and
unbuttoned at the bottom. Naturally
every one intimate enough to talk famil-
iarly to the young gentleman would in
the course of the conversation mechanic
ally close The button. and the eXquist
would quietly unfasten it again, so that
no one ever saw the waistcOat closed all
the way down for more than a minute
and half at time. After this perform
ance had gone on for a week or two the
ayOung gentleman said TO a friend who was
about to indulge in it again:
look here, old chappie, don't do
that {"
Don't do what, dear boy?"
"DOn't close that lower button. To
leave the last button Of your waistcOat
open is really the very latest in London.
don't you know? That is really what |
saw, you know, at all the races over in
England | have a great eye for detail,
don you know? Every gentleman must
who wishes to dress properly.
The seed was planted on good ground.
and now all the Quaker City ex usites
wear their waistcOats topping open at the
bottom Of course the fashion is dead in
London. Some silly oxford undergradu-
ates supported it during the 1854 season.
and a few imitators took it up after they
had dropped it. From one of them prob
ably our swell got it.
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1888-02-11
A ROSE LEAF.
Helen Hunts Last Poem.I

Helen Hunts Last Poem.l
a rose leaf on the snowy deck,
The light wind whirling it astern;
Nothing the wind would know or reck
Why did the kings eyes thither turn.
"The queen has walked herer" hoarse he
cried.
The courtiers turned red, turned white;
No use if they had stammered, lied
Aghast they fed his wrathful sight.
Kings wivesdie quick when kings go mad;
To death how beauteous, brave she gOesl
What if the king knew how she had
Shut in her hand little rose?
And men die quick when kings have said,
Bleeding. dishonored, and flung apart;
In outcast field a man lies dead
With rose leaves warm upon his heart.
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1888-02-11
PARTING.
Iondon Society.I

Pass on! and leave me standing here alone,
My soul predicts the future holds for thee
Wealth and the fame of men. 1t hath for
Life's humber duties. Dear, thy every
tone
Hath made my pathway brighter. No weak
moan
Shall pass my lips because my eyes may see
Thine nevermore on earth; altho' the tree
Hang leafess DER my head that once
weighed down
With its abundant harvest. Many ray
From out the golden past shines on the rain;
But for the storm and tears of life, the day
Had never its fair rainbow. Blessed pain
That makes US trust our Father, till the
way
Leads heavenward, friend, and we clasp
hands apainl
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1888-02-11
Death in tn Fortieth of a Second.
ID,t oft F g. Ire ~

ID OFT Z @ 70 =.
A learned writer in one of the scientific
magazines claims that death by hanging
is the most humane method of putting
criminals out of the world that has yet
been discovered. From numerous OBJ
servations of executions, and careful com
putations of tine required for the censor
nerves to carry the feeling to the brain,
he thinks the pang occasioned by the fall
is very brief. and places the time which a
man is conscious of his own feelings.
after bringing up at the end of the rope,
at ops of a second In other words, a
man who is hung has his senses just one
fortieth of a second after the line is taut
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1888-02-11
Bessemer's Beginning.
TChicago Tribune.1

Sir Henry Bessemer, the steel process
inventor. trst made his mark by devising
stamp that could not be used twice
The English government made him super
intendent of stamps at good salary, and
he called on his betrothed to inform her
that they could get married soon His
invention consisted of die that punched
400 holes in the paper to be stamped, and
the young lady suggested that it would be
much simpler to make a stamp that con
tanned movable dates He set 20 work
and devised one, which the government
adopted, and which cost him the position
that had just been created for him. He
had himself rendered it unnecessary.
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1888-02-11
Boring Toward the Central Fire.

The Review Ciel ct Terre states that
the German government has just com
pleted at Schladebach, little village he
tween Leipzig and Corbetha, the deepest
boring into the surface of the earth that
hal yet been accomplished The shaft
sunk reached depth of / 1872 meters
where the heat was found to be 40 de-
grees If the temperature increases at
this rate it is reckoned that water would
boil at a depth of 3, co. meters, and that
at 44a miles platinum would melt
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1888-02-11
Put Lump of Ice in His Pocket.

IpaILIssNII5 Nr Ia.J NeWS.I
A white man from away down south in
the Okeechobee lake region came up to
Gainesville last week on business at the
United States land Office While here he
saw the first ice he had ever seen. He
manifested great interest in the frigid sub
stance aud put a half pound lump in his
pants pocket to take home to his family.
he soon took 1t out of his pocket, how
ever, and as he did so he said: Il am
afssrd it will Spite my terback4I !"
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1888-02-11
Civilized Indians

The fashionable game of the mighty
Huron race of Indians near Quebec this
summer is croquet. The young braves
send the balls through the hoops with as
much vigor az their ancestors used in
welding the tomahAwk
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1888-02-11
A New Instrument.
lArkansaw T aveler.l

A new scientific apparatus for measur-
ing distances-the teletopometer has
been devised by Professor Cerebotani of
erona,zand is being exhibited in Lon
don. AgRrinciple is that known to sur
veyors as tIiangulation, but the essen
tlal base line is so shortened as to be con
tanned IN the instrument itself, while q set
! o. tables enables the observer to read off
quite accurately the distance or height of
any OBJECT in view without rigonon2etri-
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1888-02-11
Water in the Desert.
[Exchange.l

French engineers have succeeded in
finding water in the desert country of
southern Tunis. At the depth of more
than 800 feet they struck current which
rushed forth from the surface with such
velocity as to carry huge stones high into
the air
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1888-02-11
me srrIdes of Journalism.
TBiIl Nve7

$ Yes, indeed. journalism has made wonder
strides in the past 200 years. Formerly, we
kept an apology on the Standing galley"
now we are more bold and fearless, and
every day, almost, some man mysteriouslY
disappears, who, when last heard OF, had
slipped on his overshoes to run across the
street and lick an editor, expecting TO be
back in fifteen minutes
The Red Cloud chief., 1888-11-23

0VV0D 1eoe - UOVe&A
TopaRA. kaa- Nov. n-rAs s~sosv.
s~coed sns.si m~>tiax of he Nssiaaal
Grange Patroas Of HsshasAry ~ -
Representative Hall Yesterday. ~,sA .
fair namh>s q delegates present TIE
fofeaooa work conssss~d In the sps~cins-
meas oe ccmmiis~~~, shcs~ t~,sx nineteen
In the sfssrpcoa Master Jasns. Draper. %
Woscesser. Mass. read the sauus. al.
iresa- Ther~ are nfsT lone del~S ATE. p<es.
rns representing ts~nty-n;us S,a;~&
The session viii last tsr~e DAYS.
the delegate. giving Saturday "a the
Agricultural COLLEGE a, Manhattan There
~ili 10 . public r~csrsloa ~aieF.a the
visitors to-day at tao ,. IA 1ossrnor
Martin ana Mayor N.;sker delivering iA-
addresses Of welcome, The National Cs..
gr~ss os Farmers. u y. kolh II xoa..
oncry. Ala pr~s!d-n,. and = y CLAYTON.
Il N~ac-tonia- la. s.cTvtaIy. o.-ned Is
session also. with d,l~s ate. present from
Indiana. Iowa, Kansas, Kentucky. Louis.
aaa. Maine, N.sissyp- Nt.sour AMI
Rhode Island On ing 10 DELAYED trasas
noihinx ~As dou- except the soI mai. op~a.
ing.
The principal ~f-ssure q the aay In she
Grange VAS the aitr-.. % Acting Master
James Draper. In beginning HI. adis~.s
be paid = ~tTitat~ IL IN. ate ma sssT of n.
National Grange. Putnam DaTicr- lie
spoke cf the douri,h,aS condition 10 the
order and said that during tue past wear
ia3 suto;d!nstc &c. had been organ
lx-d-thc greatest Increase being N
North Carolina Past experience
showed that the organization needed
sy-t-m IN the s~up-f~us'on Il its
Legislative interests. and h- recommends
that some person " lth authority IT, act for
III. grange tr s'at 0nci tn ston
during sessions of Congress. After CTiG-
cisiny the action os III. United State,
Senate in rejecting the bail 20 enlarge
the powers anG duties % the p-paItucn,
q Agriculture. he turneI his attention
60 trusts, wh,ch he denounced a. injart0us
60 the producer and consumer alike -
All extent unparalleled IN the worlds
history. The g.aIsc. as The only
National orsau alton Of asTlCu!t-
ural interests should take the .iu.t
aggressive step. ia defending that IN
duS'ry which undcriay all other industries
and affects so seriously ih- National pTo--
perity. He spoke Of the alarming increase
IN food alult-ration. which bad assumed =
proportion 81 gigantic that u threatened
the hea!thfu,neSS q! nearly every aTtici-
{ d.-.. On tho ta'ir question he sad:
tn. declaration of the purpose. 81 our
order demands protection for the weak.
restraint upon the strong. Equitable
tariff legislation l. ~ ;ssu- sec
end "a none in this direction
aud tn accomplish Huy TIA uS We mus, use
our individual iniiucrce and organized
power IN demanding "a r~duciioc 80 'h.
highly protected Industries 81 correspond
with the protection agriculture = now re-
OF else an increase of protection
To agriculture that shall h. equitable and
just Ia ali concerned" lie also spoke 81
The State universlf - established ty the
Government for the benefit of sous of
farmers and artisans and a.! other matters
pertaining To the work of the grange.