The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1890-03-06

The name United States OF Amer.
lea" was first applied to the colonies in
the famous pronounciamento for Amer.
lean liberty. the Declaration OF indie.
pendence, made July 4. l776.
"A Jacqueminot bush is mentioned
by vick's Magazine. which grows in
very small city garden. and has branch
es eight or nine feet long. on which
were borne last June 97l roses.
, "A Carroll County (Mo) man over
eighty years Of age recently walked
from his home in the country to Car
rollton, a distance of eight miles, to
buy clay pipe and a paper Of fine cut
, "A Stockton (Cal.) consumptive
called up an undertaken the day before
he died and challenged him to shake
dice with him for a coffin. The aston
ished undertaken accepted. when the
poor man threw three skies and won
the coffin.
"A man Of forty lately confessed on
his dying bed in New York hospital.
that he had been married sixteen differ
ent times in the last seven years, and
that he believed all his wives to be
living. He wanted to live to make
them all happy, he said. but death
claimed him as its own.
"A Maine minister recently re.
ceived from an admiring female par
ishioner a present of a nicely made
burial robe. The gift was made in
such evident good faith and innocence
of any idea Of improperly that he re-
ceived it with thanks and cheerfully
laid it by against the need that must
come.
AT Greenville, Miss. the other
day, policeman shot at a white man,
but hit negro. This is how a local
paper describes the result: 1.-THE cop
blazed away ut the man, and shot him
in the elbow, the ball glancing and
striking the negro in the cheek. As
he spit the ball out he said: Look
heah, white man, you quit dat shoot
in at me; fus' thing yuh knows yuh
gwinter brake some spectacle pusson's
winder glass;"
/ The longest pendulum on this
continent swings in the chronological
school at Atlanta, Ga. It is q heavy
pear-shaped piece Of iron attached to
a brass wire forty-two feet long. The
upper end of the wire il pivoted In q
steel point which rests on the center
of steel plate so as to cause the
least possible friction. The swinging
of the pendulum gradually describes
a circle on the floor in a direction fol-
lowing the sun, showing in this that
1.-THE earth do move"
+ "A woman living at Durham. near
Rochester, England. has just had q
narrow escape from being buried alive.
She fell into kind of trance, which
was mistaken for death. and q coffin
was ordered and the usual prepara-
tions made for funeral. But while q
number of relatives were gathered at
the bedside bewailing their bereave-'
ment, the supposed corpse startled
them by suddenly rising up in bed and
asking what was the matter. The
woman is making good progress
toward commissioners.
The discovery that brass tubes.
when properly annealed. have resonant
qualities far superior to BEN. II the
same comparative weight and cost is
being utilized in Germany, where
tubes are being used for chimes in
church towers. It is stated that q
tube three inches in diameter outside
and one-half inch thick, twelve feet
long. can easily be heard a distance Of
one mile, and under favo rable circum-
stances two or three miles. In Prov
idence, r l., these tubes are now be-
ing used for chimes. which are rung
by the clock movement at regular in
tervals.
"A suggestive yarn about the abuse
of the fee system by constables is told
by a Gardiner, Me-. man. Officers
down on the Kennebec have pocketed
lots of money from fees for arresting
custom in times gone by that when ono
of these gentlemen of leisure was COM
mitted to Jail he was presented with a
plug of tobacco by the officer who lr-
rested him, with the understanding
that when his time had expired and
he ca me round on the circuit again he
should look out for his official friend
and help him get another fee. The
increase of this branch of the pol &C
duty caused competition to spring ur
among the members of the force. nd
it is stated as fact that some OF the
brides of tobacco run as high a. q
pound.
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