The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1889-06-15
VARIETY.

Minnesota pays 81 per bushel for
grasshoppers.
Mrs. Langtry is in New York writ
ing book about herself.
California sent 100000 pounds
of honey to Europe last year.
The number of female doctors in
the United States is about 5000.
The apple growers of Maine COM
plain that they lost money on their
crops last year.
Cotton seed, which used to be
thrown away, now makes 28,000,000
gallons of oil yearly.
Newspapers of Nebraska are very
enthusiastic over the growing bust
ness in that Commonwealth.
The S. F. News Letter says that
the United States "wlll yet make
the Pacific Ocean an American
lake"
IF Utah cannot enter the Union
because of too much marrying,
should not Illinois be excluded by
too much divorcing?
Prince Albert Victor of Wales,
better known as Collars and
Cuffs" is the sprig of royalty likely
to be sent to Canada.
More oranges, lemons, bananas,
figs, and raisins are consumed In the
UUited States than in any other
country in the world.
Calvin B. Macdonald, of Oakland,
al, the veteran newspaper writer,
~,
Oakland church on May 23d.
Present indications point to a rail
read development in Nebraska for
the year 1889, surprising the expec-
tations of the most sanguine.
A new Spanish industry of profit
is the cultivation of tomatoes. Some
of the importations last year bore
100 per cent profit, and the trade will
be much developed this year.
1t is estimated that American
orrists will spend something like
SL00,000,000 in Europe this year. In
that case the prevalent European
impression that America is peopled
with rich fools, will be extended and
confirmed
Large tobacco farms, to be worked
and managed by skilled Cubans,
have just been established at De
Funiak Springs, Fla. Tobacco
grown there from Havana seed is
said to be even finer and more deli
cately favored than that from Cuba
itself.
The material prosperity of the
South doesn't compare with what it
enjoyed thirty years ago; the Wig
orous life apparent in few isolated
localities in the South is derived
from the Southern fathers of the
men who manifest it; and the infu-
ences which refine and elevate human
existence have always been potential
in the South.
The New York Sun announces
gravely that Barnum has, it is
understood, offered Mr.. Macdonald,
of the London Times, ESQ week
to lecture In the United States on
some peculiarities of English jour
nalism. Mr. Walter and Mr.. Buckle
have received similar offers, but have
declined owing to an engagement
to prepare an obituary notice of the
property of the Thunderer.
Forty years ago to-day June 4th)
the old steamship Panama sailed
into the port of San Francisco. She
was the third of the steam vessels to
enter the Golden Gate, the steam
ship California being the first, arriv-
ing on February %, 1849, with about
300 passengers, among whom was
General Persifer T. Smith, who had
come to take command of the Pacific
division of the military department
of the United States, which then
embraced the Territories of Cali
fornia and Oregon. On March 31st,
or little more than a month later,
the Pacific Mail Steamer Oregon
arrived with $50 passengers and cast
anchor off Long Wharf, at the
corner of Commercial and Mont
gomery streets.