The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1890-02-08
u OF GENERAL INTEREST.

An Englishman has made a toy
containing four hundred animals and
men. They are all put in motion by y
windmill turned by the current fcom
burning candles.
An enormous shark was caught
dear Yarmouth. n. s.. the other day.
1t measured twenty-five feet in length
and weighed about two tons. A barrel
Of liver was taken from the carcass.
A Philadelphiau who advertised
that he was lame, cross-eyed, had
satarrh. a bad temper and was ad-
dicted to drink and profanitr. but
wanted wife, received two hundred
letters in four days.
An English lady has written to
the newspapers protesting against tho
outrageous conduct of the railway
companies in not providing men to
stand in the railway coaches and hold
bonnet boxes in their arms, so that
their contents shall not be jostled.
AT recent sale of fancy Jersey
cattle at Hamilton, Ont. a seven-year-
old COW fetched $500; another, ten
years old. g.. 100; and two yearling
bull calves $l.7O0 and $50 respect
lively. Twenty-nine head in all wero
sold, for which $l7. $50 was realized.
An Austin inventor has devised n
steel corn husker, which, drawn by a
team, picks and husks the corn mt tho
rate of eight to twelve acres a day.
according to the capacity OF the team.
The team and machine move astride
the row, one horse on either side, and
every ear of corn, large or small. is
picked up Corn husking can now be
done just as thrashing is. lasting but
few days.
"A California philosopher evolves
the theory that the many divorces in
that State are due to the coldness OF
the climate and the high price OF coal.
In the evening. he says. IL is SO chilly
that the husband and wife can not sit
down comfortably as they do In the
East, and with coal at fifteen dollars q
ton they can't afford to use it. So the
husband gets in the habit OF going out
for walk in the evening to keep
worm. unti the wire OFTEN gets into tho
same habit. Divorce soon follows.
"A merchant in Philadelphia had
in his possession seven quarter dollars
that he had taken at different times.
These quarters had a hole punched
in each of them. and the merchant
placed them on a shelf in his count
ing-room, intending to take them to a
broker and sell them for what they
were worth. Somebody stole the
quarters, and while the merchant was
away took advantage to pass those
seven quarters back on the clerks In
one day in payment of purchased
goods.
Prof. Whitney says that from the
summit of Mount Hamilton, in Cali
fornia. more OF the earth's surface can
be seen than from any other spot on
the globe, though 1t is only about 1890
feet high. The view extends around
it in every direction. and the snow
capped range of the lofty Sierras can
be plainly seen 200 miles away. against
the northern sky. To the south nearly
as far away, the San Bernardino range
limits the view, and between the two
lies room for all the Eastern States.
with their rivers, lakes, mountains
and seacoast.
The history OF engraving in this
country has its dark and its romantic
side. Engravers must be trusted in
great matters. and sometimes they
have betrayed their trust. One of the
most skillful engravers in the country
now works at his profession in Brook
Ign under police surveillance. He
counterfeited Government securities
while employed by the Treasury De
partment. He escaped Imprisonment
completes are still in Jail. and though
he is free he can never escape the
watchiul eye OF the police. Once sus-
pected. an engraver is ever after a
marked man.
1t has been observed that laughter
is Indicative CT particular temper and
character. according to the sound of
the vowel that prevails in cachinna-
ton. Persons that laugh in broad
Latin "A" are open-hearted. honest
people. fond of noisy jocundity,
but perhaps OF voluble mood. Excess.
sive jerking laughter. however. is ar
evidence of vulgarity. Those laugh
ing in dry "a" are respectable. bu'
little expansive. and a hard lot o
people. When the Latin 'E" prevails
there prevails also phlegmatic
melancholy temper. Timorous. un
steady people. also those imbued will
malignity. laugh in a kind of swellin.
81" Laughter in 30" is the utteranc,
of proud. bold. imperative. somewha
bantering people. Beware of thos'
that laugh in 100" Coz. They arr
traitors, haters. scorners.