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The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1890-12-24

An unusual number of arrivals
came on the w g. Hall; twenty
cabin and 129 deck passengers.
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CamerinO's Refrigerator.

CamerinO's Refrigerator.
Arrives, per S. S. Alameda,
sSHS filled with dainty Fruits and
Oysters for Christmes: Grapes,
Pears, Mandarin Oysters, Oregon and Cali
fornia Apples. Cauli6owers, Celery; also a
full supply of Rasens and Nuts, Smyrna
and California Figs.
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1890-12-24

No. 3 Of Club l of the California
Club drew its first watch Monday.
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1890-12-24

A reward is offered for the return
Of a package containing chIld's
coat.
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1890-12-24

ER- With the Union Ice Company we
have stored Forzen Turkeys and Poultry
of all kinds for Christmas. Prices reason
able. Mutual Tel 37S.
1896 CALIFORNIA FRUIT MARKET.
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PASSENGERS.
DEPARTURES.

For Molokai. per stmr Mokolii, Dec %
Miss Meyer, Mrs McCorriston Hon A P
Paehaole and family, Miss L Paehaole and
80 deck passengers.
For Maui, per stmr Claudine, Dec 23-
DR. Stow, Geo King, w Marshall and wife,
Hon l. w z Kanealii, Miss Alexander, Miss
Dam)n Miss + b Snow, Miss Fereira,
Capt dallOp and 40 deck passengers.
For Kauai. per stmr Mikahala. Dec %
ID X p lsenberg, MISS Tanning, Miss
Reeves. Mr. Reuter-, Geo II Bailey, Mrs
Widdifield aud daughter, II C Palmer, Fl
NJ Whitney, Jr, G Munroe, l. Kahlbaum
Master Conradt, Miss ] Kahee, JOS kahee.
Jas Edwards and wife, w Hardy, + +
Bishop and so deck passengers.
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VESSELS LEAVING TO-DAY.

Am tern John q North, Ipsen, for SaI
Francisco, via Mahukona
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DIED.

GARDINER In Honolulu, December
sd Adelaine. infant daughter of Percy
Gardiner, aged 2 months.
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1890-12-24

Go to the Elite for your mince
pies.
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SPECIAL BUSINESS ITEMS.

MINCE PIES OF EXTRA
Co. fine quality you can get at THE
ELITE Ice CREAM PARLoRs.
Isl St
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1890-12-24

E~- Elk Alameda A Consignment of
Fine Breed of Chickens; also fat BOOSTERS
for the table.
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Notice to Contractors !!

DIDS WILL BE RECEIVED FOR
ID digging cellar and building cellar
walls on Fort street, on the site of Will
liams' Photographic Gallery, up TO Dec.
80, 1890, at y o'clock noon. We do not
hind ourselves to accept the lowest bid
made. Plans and specifications can be
obtained at our office.
l45-2w C. BREWER co.
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ARRIVALS.

From Maui and Hawaii per stmr w G
Hall, Dec 23-Col Norris, Kin Wahaole-
lua, Il L Auerhach. Mrs Hugh, j K XII
haula, Mrs haike. Mrs Robinson, Miss
Kahuila, Miss kalei, IL Macmillan. A Gar
tenberg, w oo1ness and wife, G f Short,
Y Ming, Chock Say, Mrs ID Taylor, Miss
Thompson, Miss NJ Jones, zee Hop and
129 deck
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SHIPPING INTELLIGENCE.
ARRIVALS.

TUESDAY. Dec %.
Schr Waimalu from Kahului.
Schr Liholiho from Kauai
Stmr w q Hall ,Simerson from Maui and
Hawaii.
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XMAS DAY !!
CALIFORNIA WATCH CLUB CO.
Lost, Lent or Stolen -!

RARE AND VALUABLE COPY OF
"A the Bible, printed about the year 1900
A. ID. 1t was bound IN calf, and had a
heavy brass clasp. The finder will please
return it to CAPT. A. M1NTYE.
Isl 1861
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LOCAL AND GENERAL.

A Merry Christmas to all.
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Nem ahpertisemenfs.
CHALLENGE !!

THE KAMEHAMEHA BASEBALL
L team will play any accepting team on
Thursday (Christmas) afternoon, at 8; 30
O'Clock 15l-lt
Peninsula enterprise. [volume] (Accomac, Va.) 1881-1965, 1890-03-29

The advent OF the Americans on the
high seas as the first raval power in
the world is rs certain as the rising Of
the sun, but hitherto the Development
of the navy of The United States has
been slow. The Secretary Of the Navy
at Washington is, however, moving i'll
the matter, and his latest report rec
ommends the building of two fleets of
battleships, eight for the Pacific and
twelve for the Atlantic; twenty coast
defense ships and five frst,class tor
redo boats. This is, of couse, only q
fancy programme. BUTT has substance
enough in it to give stimulus to the
hope that before long an Anglo. AMER.
can Gag mny be rnfurled which will
represent the combined naval forces OF
the English speaking world. = Pal
Nall Gazette.
Peninsula enterprise. [volume] (Accomac, Va.) 1881-1965, 1890-03-29
yalua OF Earth Worms.

The weight of earth worms bring to
the surface yearly is enormous. Darwin
estimated that worms, by swallowing
earth for the sake of the vegetable mat
te: it contains and forming castings,
bring to the surface as much as ten tons
Of earth per annum on an acre. Worms
are great promoters of vegetation by
boring, performing, and loosening the
soil, and rendering it pervious to rains
and tie libcrs of plants, by drawing
straws and stalks Of leaves and twigs
into it, and, most of Ill, by throwing up
such Infinite numbers of Jumps OF earth
called worm casts, which form q fine
manure for grain and grass. The earth
without worms would soon become cold.
hard bound, void of fermentation, and
consequently sterile; this mas occurred in
mauy cases where the worms have been
either accidentally or Intentionally de-
stroyca, and the fertility of the soil thus
lost has only been restored when the
worms had again collected and resumed
their fertilizipg work.
Peninsula enterprise. [volume] (Accomac, Va.) 1881-1965, 1890-03-29
CLEAN MILK.

There is one thing that everybody on
this earth is interested in, no matter
where he lives or what he does, no mat
Ter whether ric;l Or poor, refined or
vulgar-that is clean milk Pure milk
is nourisiing to those in health and to the
sick. Foul or impure milk is poisonous
TO the blood and unit to he taken into
the system. II milk, after standing a
few hours, looks dark ard cloudy ut the
bottom of the vessel there is something
wrong, and the matter should be inquired
into ut once Extra care is needed 10
keep the milk clean where COWS ere kept
in stables. The animals should he care
fully brushed, and every particle OF dirt
wiped or washed from the uddcr. and
the stables cicaned before milking is be.
gun. as the fresh milk aosurbs foul odors
readily. With farmers there is no excuse
for using uncican milk. Thusc in cities
vino procure supplies from mikmen may
be obliged to endure what they can not
Change City authorities, however,
shoad take the necessary precautions TO
have the people served WITH pure mix.
1t is quite as important as that they be
served with clean meat. Milk which is
kept where it can be reached BY currents
OF impure air will absorb the impurities
with which the air is loaded. Smells
from the Kitchen may nc tasted in the
milk kept in cupboards opening iato the
kitchen, where vegetables are being
cooked daily.
The cleanliness and purity of milk
also depends on the food and water given
to cows. If the water is found in stag
nant pools or mud-holes look out for
fcvcrs, headaches, and other forms of
maarial disorders Clean food, clean
water, clean udders, clean stables, and
clean pals aud pans--then we have clean
milk, and if kept in IL clean place it will
continue clean and pure, and always
prove itself wholesome, noarishing food.
-Chicngo Times.
Peninsula enterprise. [volume] (Accomac, Va.) 1881-1965, 1890-03-29
A Wonderful Fountain

The artcsian well 1T Charlcyillc, on The
Warrcgo River, Queensland, is the new
est and most remarkable instance oil the
natural resources OF marvellous Australia.
The we'll is situated quite near the rail
way station, but in one of the most I'M
likely places that could have been i'm
ngincd. Who OH earth would lave
expected that this artcsian well, which IS
the best in the world, or at all events
yields the largest amount of water, was
sunk upon top OF II sandy humlnocN! Yet
so it is.
Crossing the swampy fiat leading TO
this hummoc!5, attention is drawn to ~
wide channel cut through the drift sand,
and it is explained that the outflow OF
water had done this ere the apparatus for
controlling it had been obtained. The
bore itself locked harmless enough kind
of thing. 1t might have been taken for
a rather high standpipe placed in an
idiotic position in the bottom of a hole
sixty or seventy yards long, thirty broad,
and ten feet deep. But moments OBJ
scrvation showed that the manifestations
ing standpipc had made the hole. As Il
matter OF fact, the water when it was
tapped rushed up in such volume that
it washed away the sand around the bore
in few minutes, and cleaned ont the
foundations OF the derrick and Threatened
to wreck the whole coutrivance. If they
had not got a plug in it pretty soon, it
would have washed Charlevillc INFO the
Warrego. On top of the pipc there has
been fixed right-anglc band, so tia; the
water can be turned in any direction.
Subsequently nozzle, one ineli in di-
amctcr, Vas attached to the pipe, and
when the water was turned on it assembled
in IN even jet to a height OF nearly one
hundred feet, returning TO earth in Il
heavy shower or dis>ipa;ing il mast
clouds through which the rainbowc
played with m effect that was as bcanti-
ful as il was wonderful 1t seemed that
the visitors would never tire looking at
it. They simply stood and sazed, hardly
saving Il word, for, i'll the presence of
this marvellous phenomenon, speech
seemed poor and commonplace, ard the
mind simply gave itself up to chlldiike
wondcrmcnt.--[ Quccnslandcr.
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Praying Against Time.

An undergraduate in one of the uni
yersities not so very far from New York
tells the following story OF how one of
the Greek letter fratcrnitics in the insti-
tuition recently captured the presidency
of one of the literary societies at time
When the office was, forsomc reason, par
ticularly to be desired:
ssFlrst we made COALITION" he said,
.with the fraternity whose man was al
ready in the chair. Counting their fc.-
lows and our own and the fellows OF an
other fraternity, we found that we had
Just one man more than the opposition
party, But when the society met on its
regular evening one of our own fellows,
Il man not always to be relied upon, was
missing. 1t was time for the society to
be called to order, and the first business
would be the election OF officers. The
fellows on the opposition were triumph
ant. We had few minutes consulta-
ton with ourselves and with the Presi-
dent, and then two of our men quietly
left the hall.
s'lt had always been customary to open
the meetings Of the society with some
brief kind of devotional exercises-a
mere form, sufficient 10 keep up the an
cient habit. The President called on one
of own fellows to olficiate. He walked
to the big Bible, opened it II the l19tll
Psalm, aud began to read. He read on,
and on and on; thirty minutes passed.
The fellows on the other side were IN
:mazement. lie finished the Psalm; then
he began prayer. He was Il good fci-
low and Il candidate for the ministry.
And such difused and capable praying |
never heard. BY this time the opposi-
ton were beginning 70 see through the
r;ise. lie WAS praying against time while
the missing man was being hunted up
and brought in to vote. But there was
nothing 10 be donc-therc was no pro-
vision in the constitution for calling i
man 10 order on devotional exercises. So
he pravci on-he prayed for the Society,
for thc University, for the Government,
for the hcathen. he put complete sup
plicatory belt about the earth-he prayed
in fact, unit! there came light tap at
the doo-ard the Scrgcant-at-Arms opened
It 10 admit the missing man guarded by
the fellows who had gone to find him.
We cot our man in as President, and by
nv watch that fellow I'VE call him Dea-
con, now had prayed thirty-:even min
utoS = Nc,r York Sun.
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! Ret Declared or.

A large yellow-and-white cat started
to Cross Broadway, nearly opposite
Park row one afternoon recently when
traffic was at its greatest. Where she
came from was known only to herself,
but that she Was making for the friend
" shelter afforded by the rails of ST.
Paurs churchyard was apparent to NIL.
Her chances of getting across the street
safely did not seem to be good, as SHE
shraul. back terrified from passenger
car, lodged under The wheels Of an e:l-
press wagon, and escaped being run over
by ore of Uncle Sans small vans by
less than half tie length of her tail.
Two well-dresscd men from Plila-
delphia stopped in the middle Of the
thoroughfare to watch her.
"Bet yon slle is crushed" said one.
"Take YOU. replied the other.
Just then the pole of double truck
struck tie fifth rib Of the man who
had offered the bet, Knocked lis lat
off. and nenrly threw him down.
Gill" roared the driver. "Hain't you
got 30 eyes,"
At tic same moment the man who
had taken The bet received bow on
the Lack OF the neck from the off horses
head That really dislocated something
spinal.
4lIo!" roared The driver. "Are YOU
asleep
The men escaped to the sidewalk.
sNherc's tie cat?" asked one.
GLOW the devil do I now?' replied
the other.
And az tho venturesome creature wa7
not vi.iblo, dead OF alive. the bet vas
ordered off.
Peninsula enterprise. [volume] (Accomac, Va.) 1881-1965, 1890-03-29
The Commas.

TIE compass needle points to the
north because practically the earth is o
magnet, not differing essentially in it's
magnetic propertie; from bar OF mag
netized steel. It has two poles OF
greatest intensity, and, like most large
steel magnets, there are several sup
Elemental poles of lesser intensity.
just MS the pole of one bar magnet at
tracts the end of another, so the mag
netic poles of the earth behave toward
poles of the compass needle, unlike
poles attracting and like poles repelli,g
each other.
It is we'll to modify the statement
that the needle points north and south.
AS n matter of fact, there are but few
localities on the earth where it does
point due north and south, and these
are constantly changing. An irregular
limo drawn from the mouth of The
Orinoco River, through the cast coast
Of Hayli, Charleston, S. c., and De-
troit, Mich, represents very nearly the
line in which there is no variation at
the present time. In all tho places
cast of this line the north end of tho
needle swings slightly to the west
ward; in all places west of it, to the
eastward. At the north of the Colum-
bin River the variation of the compass
is about twenty-five degrees east; in
Alaska it is from forty to sixty degrees
east; midway between New York and
Liverpool it is about thirty-fve degrees
west.
Tho reason is that the compass
needle points, not 10 the geographical
but to the magnetic poles, and these
do not coincide in position. The mag
netic north pole is ct present on or
near the southwestern shore of Boothia
Peninsula, in the northern part of North
America.
Its position is constantly changing,
and in the last five hundred years it
has moved about half The distance
round the geographical pole. During
tho three hundred years in which OBJ
servations have been carefully made
at the Magnetic Observatory in Paris,
the variations have changed from eleven
degrees twenty minutes east of north to
twenty-five degrees ten minutes west
In the United States the rate of the
change in variation differs much in diff
ferent parts of the country. In Wash
ington State it changes at the rate Of
about seven minutes u year; in Arizona
and New Mexico it is stationary; in the
New England States ii is from one to
three minutes per year.
Peninsula enterprise. [volume] (Accomac, Va.) 1881-1965, 1890-03-29
S:anley's Name Talismau in Africa.

Herbert Ward, VINO was with Stanley
part of the time during the explorers
last trip in Africa, describes in the lei
ge,.a Journey on the Upper Congo. We
make this extract:
In the night. about 10 p. NJ, We got
INFO Il narrow channel; all was silent and
dark, when several hippopotami rushed
fox the water from the narrow. rcedy
aan.s, where they hal been doing,
Some almost rushed upon us in their CT
forts to gain the river, whilst the water
surged and rolled about until feared
one OF the monsters would take it into
his head TO charge us. Such an event
would have been the end of our canoe
Journey. About midnight, as NC passed
some villages on the north bank, the
alarm drums beat. and a very gruf voice
challenged us.
"N-c are friends, children OF Stanley,
going to Bangai;i; we arc peaccable, !"
said we. I tod them we were SANKEY'S
Children, for Stanley's native name, Bula
Iatadi. ",rhc Stonc-brcaker, acts as u
talisman throughout the Congo country.
l,v millions OF these savagcs his name is
uttered with respec: almost akin to fear.
It was evident that the natives did not
believe our declaration, for the gruff
voice replied:
al YOU are VIVA: YOU say, why do you
:ravei in the dark. You lie, and we will
conc :: ~nn presently and fight, for you
are like thieves, traveiins : =" dark "
We laughed at them, and went on, but
the uighs was intensely dark, and being
anxious lest we should miss the right
channel, VIC made the canoes fast along
side the bank until daybreak; passing the
night without interruption from the ma
t;ves-wiilo, or rcconsidering the matter,
probably had believed our assurance that
we were children of Stanley.
.Atvcry earliest streak of dawn on the
following morning we were ofagain, and
passed many villages on the north bank
that had grown up in the interval since
my stay at Bangala in 1885.
Peninsula enterprise. [volume] (Accomac, Va.) 1881-1965, 1890-03-29
rKEArMENr OF s1lRuns

Comparatively few persons know the
beneficial effects of dressings OF soil when
applied to ground which has been cx-
hauscd by the roots of shrubs The ne
cessity exists for fresh food most gen
orally in cases where trees grow among
and oycrtop ;iie shrubs and where leaves
are carted oil before decaying. Four
inches i'll thickness may be taken as the
least quantity Of earth to prove Of per-
mancnt good. Wonderful results have
been known to follow in the next season 5
growth. through :. liberal application of
fresh earth Immediately over the roots Of
shrubs That were apparently dying at the
time of the application.
-tuother plan of putting fresh vitality
into shrubs. where the soil is strong. is
TO dig a circular trench ut sufficient dis
lance from the trunk Of the plant not TO
stop growth the width of the trench to
be rot less than twelve or fourteen
inches. An opening is formed at one
side and the soil is simply furucd over
and broken up TO depth OF about fifteen
inches. When the shrub is circlcd the
soil thrown out is pat back and the work
completed. If this be done early III the
spring great benefit will arise. The
reason is much the same rs in the case OF
shrubs dressed with fresh soil, viz, the
emission Of numbers of strong loots in IL
medium more suited 20 Il healthy growth
than hard soil in an nnbrokcn state. This
latter method is one much practised by
English horticulturists.- World.
Peninsula enterprise. [volume] (Accomac, Va.) 1881-1965, 1890-03-29
FARM AND GARDEN NOTES.


Don Use doubtful seeds.
Milk, sweet Or sour, is excellent for
fowls.
Good onion seed sinks when placed in
water.
The secrets OF large yields always and
everywhere are rich soil, good seed and
thorough tillage.
The peach tree is easy to plant, easy to
remove, if it proves worthless, and of
great value when success.
Many people arc prevented from rails
ing asparagus by an exaggerated notion
of the labor involved. Its requirements
are simple.
If hen will leave her nest when any
one approaches she should nos be used
Cor setting purposes. She will generally
prove an unsteady sitter and breaker OF
eggs.
A gootl crop of both corn and weeds
cannot be grown on the same ground mt
the same time, any more than two rail-
way trains can pass each other on the
same track.
Profitable feeding must be steady
tccding-in spasmodic feeding the fcasts
may do actual harm, and the short rations
surely cutail loss. Do not cram one day
and starvc the next
In buying poultry for breeding pur-
poses, 80 to some reliable breeder, who
has his reputation at stake. 1t may cost
ittlc more for thc birds, but the buyer
can depend on what he gets. Culls are
expensive at any price.
Ground bone is a fertilizer that bcne-
fits nearly all crops; can be applied at
all seasons of the year; will not injure
any tree or plant; is permanent and last
ing in its effects, and is the cheapest
form .. fertilizer i'll proportion to the
bcaeiJ it imparts that can be used.
Peninsula enterprise. [volume] (Accomac, Va.) 1881-1965, 1890-03-29
An Ideal Steamship.

Drawings and propositions for n new
rtylc of fast ocean steamship appear in
the American Mail md Export Journal.
Civil Engineer B. schicldrop, the author
of the proposed new greyhound, claims
that it will be able to raise the record Of
speed across the Atlantic from. twenty
one to thirty-four knots an hour. This
would admit Of voyages between Queens
town and Sandy Hook in three days and
thirteen hours.
Mr.. Schicldrop claims that in the fun
damcntal principle upon which the
modern Transatlantic steamers are built
and operated no real advance has been
made since the Savannah crossed in 1919.
He thinks that the trouble has been that
the same boat has been "a mail convey
ance a hotel, IL barn, and a warehouse"
all in one. He proposes to build, upon
special model, Il vessel for tirst-class
passengers and mail which will possess
the maximum OF speed and space with
the minimum of weight and displace-
mcnt BY removing cargo space of the
vessel now in use he proposes to Tighten
the structure of the hull and still keep it
submerged to the same water line. This
would give the hull shallow and broad
upper part and II narrow and deep lower
part. 1t might be described as combi-
nation of the ccntrc-board type in the
upper part and an English cutter in the
lower part.
As regards stability, the new vessel
will prove mean between the cutter and
the ccntrc-board type. lie claims that
on account OF its fuIness above the water
line his plan will insurca dry deck both
adinidships and at the cxtrcmities. The
upper deck will be devoted to spacious
library, laaics' cabin, smoking saloon
and music-room. The main deck will
be taken up by a dining saloon, an elc
CANT after cabin and several high-priccd
statcrooms. The dining saloon will scat
$50 persons comfortably. The entire
lower deck will be divided into state
rooms of different dimensions.
All Of the modern conyenicnccs will be
at hand, and cleanliness, it is claimed.
can be more thoroughly secured than if
Storage passengers and freight were car
ricd. Mr.. Shicldrop says that his method
would lie in reality II fast limited express
transit with Pullman accommodations.