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The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1889-08-27
Along the Hudson River.

ICor. Cincinnati Commercial Gazette.l
In the other settlements, in towns not
more sleepy, but more aged, are cedars
and flowers set all in rows. The houses
are rea; Dutch houses, clean and
straight. Mademoiselle, who has spent
years in Holland and Austria and Eng
land, points out the various nation
alities of the residents unerringly by
their homes and their habits.
There is something touching to me, %
said my friend, to see IN the New World
how the people try to keep remem
brance of the old homesteads. The
Dutch built as near like their forefathers
as possible; the English have their great
houses, and the Germans their garden
flowers, and through all the years of
change following the settlement of the
country these differences have been
maintained. These Dutch hamlets have,
too, the more vivid green and the pecul-
lar high colors of Amsterdam; the
trees, even, are not like other trees; they
have been trimmed and fed and cul-
tivated-the whole aspect is one Of
Fnrift, and the descendants of the
knickerbockers are prouder of their
queer homes and ancient vines than OF
any modern landscape garden"
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1889-08-27
why a Drunken Man Escapes.

One sometimes sees a drunken man
pitched violently from a horse, and
when the byStanders rush to find him
dead, they are astonished to discover
that he has been little injured. In his
"Scrambles Among the High Alps, "
Leslie Stephen tells the story Of a
guide who, while drunk, fell over a
precipice so deep that fall over it
seemed almost certain death, and who
yet sustained little injury. Stephen ac-
cordingly gives his readers the advice
either not to fall over a precipice, or to
get thoroughly drunk before doing so.
The reason of this immunity is that
the nerve centers are so much paralyzed
in the drunken man as not to be af-
fected by the shock of the fall, which,
in a sober man, would have acted upon
them so violently as to stop the heart,
arrest the circulation, and cause instant
death
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1889-08-27
THE PRISONER OF THE BAsTILE.
Secrecy the One AII.ImpOrtant Matter
Passing the Sentinels.
be Gentleman's Magazine.l

Passing the Sentinels.
THE Gentleman's Magazine1
Under the ancient monarchy in France
secrecy was the one all-important mat
ter whenever prisoners of state were
concerned To them the Bastile was as
silent as the grave so long as they were
prisonment were given by lettres dc
cachet, and these were scrutinized with
the greatest care. The lettre de cachet
was, in fact a letter signed with the
kings seal, and containing an order
from him, but the orders that have come
most frequently to our notice were
orders for Imprisonment.
Those that related to the Bastile had
to be signed first by the king, afterward
by a minister. At the bottom of the
order the governor signed a
receipt. And in nearly every
case, before the arrival of the
prisoner, the governor had already
received instructions to enter in the
register his name, the cause for his ar
rest, and by whose order the arrest had
been made. Unless these preliminary
rules had been observed entrance into
the castle was forbidden.
To effect the arrest either force or
cunning was the means usually en-
ployed, for it was above all things nee
essary to avoid publicity. An officer
touched the shoulder of the man whom
he was about to make prisoner with q
white wand, and ordered him in tn
kings name to follow. Resistance wa
not often shown, for all knew that j
would be Intellectual. A carriage was
kept in readiness, or when that was not
possible the first vehicle that could be
found was seized-again in the kings
name-and into that the prisoner was
made to enter, two or three officers sit
ting beside him.
Before opening the gates of the Bas-
tile the first sentinel cried, "QRi viveP'
The chief escort answered, ''Ordre du
rol. A subaltern of the guard inside
the castle demanded to see the lettre de
cachet. Then he allowed the gates to
be opened, and bell was tolled to warn
the officers inside. The kings lieuten.
ant and the captain in command of the
gates received the prisoner in due form
as he alighted from his carriage.
De Renneville-whow was a political
prisoner in bastile during the latter
years Of the reign of Louis XIV, and
who has left us a long though not al
ways trustworthy account of his I'M
RFisonment and of his sufferings says:
cat last we reached the dreaded spot.
On entering, as soon as the sentinel&
saw us. they put their caps before their
faces. have since learned that they
observe this strange custom because it
is forbidden them to look at the faces O.
the prisoners"
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1889-08-27
Very Long and Very PiOus.

The address that Arabs place on let
tiers is very long and very pious. Here
is one on a letter sent to writer in The
Berlin Tagblatt: In the name of the
merciful God, the benefcent. This writ
ing is from one who serves his Lord,
from X, the son of x; and if God wills
it will get into the hands of our friend
Sidi Musa, the son of Hamdalla, the
Prussian, the Christian, in the city OF
Tharabelos, Tripoi, the illustrous, the
famous
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1889-08-27
To Preserve Fruit in Good Condition.

Fruit has been kept in perfect con.
dition by simply covering the jars w3F.h
cotton batting. PutrefactiOn is caused
by the invisible creatures in the air
Cooking the fruit expels these. and, as
they can not pass through cotton bat
ting, the fruit thus protected will keel
an indefinite period. Tyndall has
proved that atmospheric germs can not
Ass TIN pugh layer of cotton.
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1889-08-27
How New Mexicans Make Blankets.

iOSuN6F NSWSl
The curious blankets for which there
is such rage nowadays are made at
Aguas Calientes, at Saltillo, and other
old Mexican cities. They are woven on
a handloom, which is stretched from
one tree to another. These looms are
exceedingly primitive, although they
are run by a treadle which is an
improvement on the looms used by the
New Mexican Indians. The shuttle and
needle are both of wood, and the
threads are held together more firmly
by the insertion of small sticks of
different lengths. The Indians show
great skill in the blending of colors in
these blankets. Many of them are OK.
ceedingly rich and handsome, and
there is little inharmony in the shades
These blankets are very expensive, and
are the proper thing nowadays for
portieres to be used in halls, libraries
and studios. The Navajo is the principal
blanket making New Mexican triba
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1889-08-27
DipIomatie and Consular REPRESENTATIVES Of Hawaii.

COUNTRY.
UNITED STATES.
Washington, d. G.
New York,
San Francisco,
Boston,
Portland, o.,
Port Townsend,
Philadelphia,
MEXICO,
Mexico,
ManZanillo,
GEN1rpAT. 81 SoTTTu
AMERICA.
Valparaiso,
Lima,
CallaO,
Colon,
Guatemala,
Monte Video,
Assumption,
GREAT BRITAIN d
IRELAND.
London,
Liverpool,
Bristol,
Hull,
Newcastle on
Tyne,
Falmouth,
Dover and the
Cirque Ports,
Cardiff & Swan
sea,
Edinburgh and
Leith,
Glasgow,
Dundee,
Dublin,
Queenstown,
Cork,
Belfast,
CANADA.
Ottawa,
Montreal,
Toronto,
Rockville, Ont,
Hamilton, Ont.
Kingstown, Ont.
Rimouski, O.,
st. Johns, N. B.
Halifax, n. S.,
Yarmouth, n. S.
Victoria, B. c.,
Vancouver, B. @.
AUSTRALASIA.
Sydney, n. S. W.
Newcastle, g
Melbourne, Wet
brisbane, Q,
Hobart, 'Ias.,
Launceston, Tas
Auckland, n. r.,
Dunedin, n. H.,
HoNGKONG,
SHANGHAI,
GIBRALTAR,
FRANCE u Colo
MES.
Paris,
Marseilles,
Bordeaux,
Rouen,
SOCIETY GROUP.
Papeete, Tahiti,
GERMANY 81 Colo
MES.
Berlin,
Hamburg,
Bremen,
Frankfort on
| Maine,
| Dresden,
| Karlsruhe,
SPAIN d COLONIES,
| Madrid,
| Barcelona,
Cadiz,
Valencia,
Malaga,
| Cartagena,
| CANARY ISLANDS.
| Las Palmas,
| Santa Cruz de /
| Palma,
| PORTUGAL d CoLC
| MES.
Lisbon,
| Oporto,
| Madeira,
| st. Michaels,
| st. Vincent,
| ITALY.
J Rome,
| Genoa,
| Naples,
Palermo,
NETHERLANDS.
! Amsterdam,
| Dordrecht,
| BELGIUM.
| Antwerp,
Client,
| Liege,
| Bruges,
| SWEDEN q NORWAY
Stockholm,
Christiania,
| Lyskil,
| Gothemburg,
| AUSTRIA.
Vienna,
| DENMARK.
Copenhagen,
| JAPAN.
Toxic,
Hiogo & Osaka,
| SOUTH AFRICAN
REPUBLIC.
Pretoria,
The Week
Are
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1889-08-25
A QUESTION.

Now tell me. young sirs and maidens gay,
If this question were asked, you what would
you say:
What would you think the greater pleasure
To love OF be loved in boundless measure?
To receive all yourself, nothing returning,
And teach others to love. yourself not learn.
ing,
Or to love and never be loved again,
Knowing none Of the pleasure and all Of the
pain7
To me It's no matter what others may say,
For have been loved year and day.
The hot wine OF passion was poured at my
feet
Till my brain almost reeled with the lntoxi-
cant sweet.
But though sweet and though strong, II
touched not my heart
Twas only the sense that yielded in part.
Oh, IT'S pleasure and peace and freedom
To be loved and well loved without loving
again!
This is heartless and cruel, some people may
say,
But I'd rather be loved year and day
To be locked in the chains of frnitless pas
sion;
For there're fools enough in this fair world
of ours,
And some must find thorns where others
pluck flowers.
Now would you not think it a greater pleas
ure
Than loving, to be loved in boundles meas
ure?
Kate A. Darlington, in New Orleans Plea
yune.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1889-08-25
APRAorICAL CHARITY.

The Drexel Industrial Institute in
Philadelphia, founded by the munifi-
cence of man of great wealth, prom
Uses to be perpetual monument to sa-
gaciOus beneficence. 1t is designed to
keep 1900 young people of both sexes
in training for self-support and useful
ness in life. In addition to the general
instruction common to good education,
they will be taught the details of va
riOus trades and avocations, such as are
learned in an apprenticeship. The boy
who wants to be an engineer will be
taught the principles of the engine and
be ready to operate it. The girl who is to
be telegraph operator or typewriter
will know not only how to manipulate
the instruments, but how to spell and
compose properly. A few institutions
established by individual benefactions.
here and there, will not meet the gen.
eral needs, but will be useful as pointers
and examples. The tendency to pro-
vide industrial training in connection
with the school systems is believed to be
in the right direction.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1889-08-25
A Matrimonial Exchange.

Nebraska papers report recently bit
of matrimonial sandwich in connection
with a double wedding that has favor
able suggestion for eonnubiality. Some
years ago two newly-married couples
lived near together and were close
friends. In fact, one of the men and
the other mans wife became so cordial
that they wanted to shake their lawful
partners and marry each other. They
left together without ceremony, and the
deserted wife and husband got divorces
and consoled themselves with marriage.
The bad couple also married. Some
how, all the members of the quartette
found their new relations unsatisfac-
tory. The good couple found that two
good people together made very COM
monplace life. and they got divorce.
The bad ones, too, got tired of each
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1889-08-25
THE NICARAGUA CANAL

The Isthmus of Panama has always
been noted for its malaria and un-
healthfulness. People hesitate to go to
California that way for fear of con-
tracing disease in crossing it by rail
way. This fact will add to the satisfac-
ton in this country with the Nicaragua
route. That is reported by recent in
vestigators as remarkably salubrious
and enjoyable region, full of romantic
scenery. 1t is predicted that it will
become popular wintering resort, and
that Americans will have their villas
all along the canal. The climate in the
winter is very much like that of Mime
sofa in the summer, with the omission
of occasional cratic short periods. Not
much is generally known in this coun-
try of any of those parts of Central
America, and it is probable that good
deal that is worth taking in will be
found scattered about those rather
ancient regions.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1889-08-25
AS USUAL.

When friend meeting friend asks regarding
his health,
The answer comes quickly-as usual.
The Door pauper's portion and millionaire
wealth,
Remain pretty steady-as usual.
The man who inquiries if you know that it's
hot
The fellow who bluffs to corral jack pot,
The fool with his nickel to drop in the slot,
Are on hand, in large numbers-as usual.
If you ask young lady regarding her age,
She pouts but says nothing-as usual.
If pretty girl trips to the front Of the stage,
She gets bouquet-aS usual.
The bald-heads monopolize all the front
rows,
They smile when the management turns n
the hose,
John L. gets send-off wherever he goes,
He got one at Puryis-as usual.
The man who leaves home with rod, hook.
and line,
Is going to fish-as usual.
Just BY way Of diversion he bowls up on
wine.
And carries jag-as usual.
He ret1res with friend to quiet resort,
There passes the time in enjoyment and
sport,
By filing his ski n with beer, claret and port
And lies to his wife-as usual.
The girl who believes she never liked cream,
Gets away with two plates-as usual.
The fellow who tackles roulette with q
scheme.
Goes broke in the end-as usual.
Those people who go to the lakes when it's
hot,
And daily with breezes and bugs and what
not?
They simmer and stew like an eel in a pot,
Yet say they enjoy it-as usual.
Our ball club is off in its playing just now,
Young Miller makes errors-as usual.
The cranks are excited and kick up row,
They shout for John Pickett-as usual.
Mr.. Barnes has pulled out with his pockets
well lined.
He saws it don't pay when club is behind,
Poor Thompson and Poupeny feel quite re-
And Mike Roches (say nothing)-as
usual.
The council is having good deal of fun,
Tom Lowry's on deck-as usual.
We would like rapid transit, but nothing's
been done,
It's question Of time-as usual.
This Ginning and jawing's all right in its
way,
But it doesn't build street cars or iron rails
lay,
Electricity's with US. and come here to stay.
Tho the mules struggle on-as usual.
MI. Donnelly.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1889-08-25
Just Like a Man.

II adore my wife," is the comprehen-
sive and pitiable plea of EBEN S.
ALLEN, the president Of the New York
street railway company lately sent to
the penitentiary for fourteen years, vir-
tually life sentence, for an over-issue
of the bonds of his company. 1t is not
an original idea, attributing temptation
to the woman. ADAM did something of
the kind, if his case is reliably reported.
A true woman will not crave the adj
miration that makes her husband a
thief in order to crafty her whims or
extravagances. She will readily and
cheerfully adapt her living to the cir
cumstances, and heartily cooperate
with her husband in the practice of all
needful economy. If she is not of that
sort, man is fool to endanger him
self to disaster and ruin to crafty her
selfish extravaganza. An obvious sug-
gestion in view OF this case is that the
man should be confding to his wife and
let her understand the business situa-
tion-so far, at least, as it should affect
her mode OF living.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1889-08-25
THE TIPPING CUSTOM.

In the current number of the Century
the editor discusses the subject of tip
ping, and gives it unqualified disap-
proval. 1t is an established practice in
most of the countries over the water,
and is getting a foothold in the great
hotels and summer and winter resorts of
this country. In Europe this is proba-
bly, the chief compensation of the waiter
very commonly, but the traveller in the
United States does not often have rea-
son to doubt that he is charged enough
in his bills to cover all needful service.
For the very wealthy it is triflng mat
ter, but the average citizen will avoid
the place where this is encouraged. He
may not care particularly for the
amount, but he doesn't believe in the sys-
tenn, and will not comply with its exac-
tions. 1t is degrading to the walters,
and makes toadies of them. 1t is
annoying to the traveller who does not
comply with it, as it subjects him to the
imputation of meanness.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1889-08-25
MILK INSPECTION.

Notwithstanding the inattention of
council, the health commissioner holds
out persistenly III urging his demand
upon that body for the appointment of
milk inspector. Ordinarily, the crea-
ton of new offices is Objectionable.
There is already popular Impression
that there are more offices in connection
with the city government than are de-
manded by the public service, and it is
possibly through fear that its action
may be misunderstood and subjected to
public criticism that council now hest
tates to create the Office of milk inspect
or. Still. if the members of the city
council would inquire into the impor-
lance of DR.. HoYT's demand, we are
confident that they would adopt his rec
ommendation if they had to lop off some
Office or offices already in existence, but
which are less useful than the one now
proposed would be. The necessity for
having pure milk is not of secondary
Importance to the necessity for pure
water supply. There is no article of
food in such general use as milk, and
there is no other article so liable to be
made the receptacle for disease germs.
This fact alone demonstrates the wis
dom of DR.. HoYT's recommendation
that a local milk inspector be
appointed, and that he be placed
under the charge of the health depart
ment. Our state laws make milk in
spection part of the duty of the dairy
commissioner, but that is done solely
with view to prevent the milk sellers
from watering the milk, and not for
by gienic purposes. In many instances
it would be better for the health of the
city if that which is sold for milk were
all water, because the water is purer
than the milk. Only few days ago
the GLOBE cited the case of dairyman
who fed his cows on swill which was
reeking with vermin. The milk from
those COWS would doubtless stand the
dairy commissioners test, yet no one
could advocate its use as healthy
drink. Then again, milk which comes
from healthy cows that have been fed
on healthy diet will be contaminated
by exposure to foul atmosphere, for
there is no fluid which takes up poison
Gus vapors more surely or more rapidly
than milk. The consumer has no means
of knowing whether the milk he buys
has been kept in pure. sweet atmos-
phere or whether he gets it filled with
disease germs. 1t is all alike so far as
taste and looks are concerned. The
only protection, then, to the milk con-
sumner is by the establishment of sys-
TEN of milk inspection under the super
vision of the city's health department.
When we remember that there is not
household in the city in which milk is
rot used as an article of daily diet, and
that its purity is just as essential to the
good health of the family as is pure
water supply or perfect sewerage, we
are impressed with the reasonableness
of DR.. HoYT's demand upon the city
pOupcjl
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1889-08-25
The Disappearing Humbue.

Those who want to talk about the
elixir while it is in fashion will need to
be hasty in speech. 1t is rapidly disap-
pearing from the general panorama las
a thing only of value in definite limits
and in scientific hands It will appar-
emily add something to the agencies
of enlightened and progressive medical
science in the way of a stimulent in
cases of exhausted vitality. There is
class of medical people who are quick
to reject and denounce anything not
coming through the rut-worn channels.
They know that no potency can be de-
rived from such source. The thing is
IN absurdity. Scientific principles are
lost sight of. But the average unpro-
fessional mind doesn't care for the pos
sible OF impossible in any new claims.
If the experiment shows that the thing
will work as claimed. it Is accepted and
given the scope it can fill. Innovations
have to fight their way on all lines, but
the modern tendency is not to reject I'M
til tried.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1889-08-25
BRIEF BUT INTERESTING.

OF the English bench Of bishops
twelve are pledged abstainers.
A letter can now be sent round the
world in sixty-nine days via Vancouver.
1t is said that the number of derelicts
recorded each month in the North At
lantie alone varies from twenty-five to
forty-five.
A pair Of screens, wrought in the fin
est of gold lacquer by Japanese work.
men, have been sold to a merchant of
Shanghai for $4,000.
In Galway it is considered so unlucky
to catch sight of fox that fishermen
will not put to sea if they notice one
while going to their boats.
A watermelon farm at Adams Park,
which consists of 800 acres and pro-
duceS 400 carloads of melons, is said to
be the largest watermelon patch in the
world.
California still continues to have faith
in the health-giving properties of the
eucalyptus. The state board of hOrti-
culture is just now distributing seeds,
which have been received from Aus
tralia, of large number Of varieties OF
the famous tree.
The weight of the great smokecloud
daily hanging over the city of London
has been computed by Prof. Roberts at
fifty tons of solid carbon and $50 tons of
hydrO-carbon and carbon oxide gases
for each day of the year, and its value at
s., 0O0,0 900 per annum.
The WOmen's Christian Temperance
Union of Oakland. CAL. has "cig-
arctic committee" the business OF
which is the suppression of the cigarette
habit A petition to the city council in
favor of the prohibition of the sale of
cigarettes was brought under debate at
recent meeting of the union.
The great bell of Hung-wu, which
has long lain half buried in the ground,
has at length been lifted by foreign ma
chinery and hung in a pag0da built of
iron by foreign firm. According to
prophecy. this bell was never to be
lifted until China had entered upon a
new career Of prosperity.
The latest marine internal machine
is floating battering-ram. 1t consists
of cigar shaped boat. made entirely OF
thick steel, and operated by the captain
only, who is lodged in an invulnerable
turret. Such contrivance as this is
capable of sinking the largest iron
clad with the greatest ease.
A remarkable instance of telephone
communication occurred in Charleston,
S. c., last week. A young man en-
ploved in the Western Union telegraph
Office in that city conversed without any
difficulty with his brother. who was in
Omaha. 1900 milesaway. The brothers
talked an hour with hardly any pause
between questions.