The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1889-01-05
NEWS AND NOTES.
Spells of Scissors and Pen from Ex-
changes.

changes.
New York capitalists contemplate
building Australian railroads.
Chicago anarchists are establishing
Sunday schools to instruct children
while young to hate the laws and in
stitutions of the country.
f.. B. Fairchild, Boston drum
mer, and Kitty Ernest, daughter of
an Atchison, Kan, millionaire, eloped
recently and were married.
Russia is moving in a railroad re-
form. All travellers who play cards
will" says the Railway Minister,
"be judicially pursued"
Lucretia McReyolds of Chatta-
nooga has recovered judgment for
$4,000 against John Graham, a
wealthy farmer, for breach of pro
mise.
The monograph shows that a
mans voice has not the same sound
to himself that it has to others, thus
finally explaining why some people
persist in singing.
What said France when she heard
that Bismarck had been made a
Doctor of Divinity? Why, of course
she said something about a divinity
that shapes our ends rough.
Andrew j. Joyce, blockade run
ner during the war, has rejOined his
friends in Texas after twenty-One
years in Cuban prison. There was
re-Joyce-ing in the family no doubt.
The process of the manufacture of
China Grape was kept a secret by the
Chinese and for long time baff1ed
all attempts at imitation. A French
man finally discovered it, and is in
Producing its manufacture in France
Miss Hoge, head clerk in the In
ternal Revenue Office at Harris
burg, Penn, is missing, after losing
$4,000 Government money in specu
latiOn. The temptations of Office
spare neither sex nor degree, and
justice ought to follow the example.
Up to date the expense in building
the Eiffel Tower has been 3, 500,000f,
and more than eleven million pounds
of iron have been used. To prevent
the fate of Babel, the workmen
should be catechised every morning
with, g Parlez vous Francaise?"
A recent traveller in Labrador is
authority for the statement that
there exists there a waterfall that
eclipses Niagara Falls in several
ways. 1t is located, he says, on the
Grand River, which connects Lake
Petchikapon with Goose Bay, at the
head of Hamilton Inlet.
The Ice Palace at ST. Paul, Mimi.
for this winters carnival will be an
elaborate structure The outside
measurements are 212x252 feet, and
the maze, which will be the most in
tricate yet built IN connection with
an ice palace, covers about 100 feet
square. One tower will be 40 feet
in diameter and ITO feet high.
The Paris Project of Police has
bought wooden horse, harnessed,
and all candidates for cabmen must
show that they know how to harness
and unharness him, and pass an ex-
| animation on whatever other tests
the Project may propose. What is
wanted in Honolulu is a wooden
horse that can go around corners
and trot in a straight line. Then
Chinese candidates for cabmen
could be tested.
On recent afternoon in Portland
Oregon, twenty or thirty Cinnamon
engaged in a street fight at the cor
ner of Second and Alden streets.
Between forty and fifty shots We're
fired. The rioters fled on the arrival
of the police. Four Cinnamon, APP
parently fatally wounded, were car
ried to the city jail. Much excite
ment prevailed. The streets in the
vicinity were blocked with whites
and Chinese. Six Cinnamon were
arrested. A posse of officers was
placed in Chinatown to prevent any
further outbreak. Another wounded
man was discovered during the even
ing. Two of the wounded men have
since died. The fight grew out Of
an old feud between the Bow Leong
Tong and Hop Sing Tong Com