The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1889-08-24

Ogden, Utah, has voted to estab-
lish free-school systematic first In
the Territory.
Power obtained from a fall of
water a mile distant is to be used for
lighting the tower of Segorbe in
Spain.
On the bill of fare of a temper
ance restaurant in Chicago there
appears list of 40 temperance
drinks.
Jury" said a Western Judge, 'you
kin go out and find verdict. If
you can't find one of your own, get
the one last jury used"
In one of two stone sarcophagi
found at Rome in the Pratt di Cas-
tello the skeleton of girl was found
along with wooden doll with Joint
ed arms and legs.
A number of individuals who ex-
ploded fire-crackers and discharged
firearms in New York on the Fourth
in violation of law were fined in
sums ranging from ST. to $25.
Surgeon Parry of the Medical De-
partment of India says that he once
saw the jet black hair of a rebel
Sepoy turn grey in half an hour
through fright caused by a judicial
examination.
The insect-house of the Geological
Society of London is said to be the
only place where an attempt is made
to attract public attention to the
various and wonderful groups of the
insect family.
Dandykin who has tried on new
suit and found it satisfactory saw
excuse me; I'll just step ovaw to
the bank and cash a cheque." His
Tailor: "Quite so; and if you'll ex-
cuse me I'll follow suit"
The Baldwin Locomotive Works
has just completed it's ten thousandth
locomotive. And a huge engine it
is, too, being one-fourth heavier than
the largest freight locomotive on the
Pennsylvania Railroad.
The increase in the amount of tom
mage passing through the Suez
Canal is claimed to be due in great
measure to the lighting of the canal
by electricity, admitting of its use
by night as well as by day.
There is a woman in a west-of-
England town who makes good
living by killing cats. She adver-
tises that if people who are about TO
go away for the summer will send
their cats to her she will kill them
with chloroform.
There is much Indignation in New
York over an arbitrary increase of
thirty per cent in the price of ice.
Meat and other household neces-
saries have been made dearer too.
The companies make the old excuse
OF an open winter and short supply.
Nickleby-That's a strange pair
of scales yon have there. suppose
they are of the Ambuscade kid.
Grocer-Ambuscade? What is
that?
Nickldby-Why, they lie in
weight, as it were.
A fond parent in Massachusetts
wishing to assist his little son to
make up purse for the Fourth,
agreed to pay him one cent for
every potato bug he would capture.
At the close of the first day the
child had $40 bugs. The father
paid the $6.40, but the contract did
not continue.
Prof. John 1rowbridge, in the May
Scribner's, calls attention to the i'm
portance, from an engineering point
OF view, of making careful photo
graphs of steel and timber at the
point OF rupture under breaking
load, suggesting that in this way we
may learn something important on
the much vexed question of elias
ITCHY.
A male beauty show is to be opened
in Vienna, and the decisions are to
be made by jury of women. Four
prizes will be awarded, one to the
handsomest man, one to the owner
of the finest mustache, the third to
him who has the largest nose, and
the fourth to the competitor having
! the least hair on his head