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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1891-01-12
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AMUSEMENIS.
A LBAUen's GRAND OPERA HOUSE
EVENINGS ATS
ONLY MATINEE SATURDAY.
]. X. EMMET
In his entirely new and natural drama.
UNCLE ZOE;
FRIrz In MAD HOUSE.
Which ran three month. :. the l4sA 81. rhs.s<.
EXCELLENT COMPANY,
ENTIRE NEW SONGS.
cAR LOAD OF scENERYi
The LARGEST and Hsnasomsss Dog in the Ioridi
cS Mi % sss Se" Comedy. AL TIE
NEW NATIONAL rHEATRK
Every Evening This Week at 8 O'Clock.
ffrst Matinee for ladies' and Children Wednesday AZ
fst Matinee for Ladies' and chldrra Wednesday .
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This Week. Ladies Matinee Tomorrow.
WEBER AND FIELDS
OWN COMPANY.
Weber and Fields. Frank Bush. Wilson and Came
ron. Florence Miller. Isabella Ward Drawee Bros |.
kassuf. the Freinonts.
Next Week = DELAUR-DEBRIMoST sPEcTAc-
ULAR OPERATE BURLEsQUE COMPANY. jal2-6t
THE FAIR GIVEN BY DISTRICT EMPLOYMENT
Il Association tor the Poor is open TONIGHT Great
EnessnS contest for safety Bicycle Adnissi m loc
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The Most Ehectusl. The Best.
The Most Practical. The cheapes..
The Ever Ready and Always Patient
LANGUAGE TEACHER.
FRENCH. GERMAN. SPANISH. ITALIAN. &C..
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CITY ITEMS.

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Table and Pocket Cutlery, Scissors and
Raxors. WALFoRp's, 477 Pa ave. lts
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The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1891-04-16
CURIOUS CONVERSATIONS.

A Salt Lake City editor, who is
blind, is to have his eyes replaced
by those of q rabbit.
Geneva,O thinks it has the only
horse in the world that can turn a
complete somersault.
A Gordon, Ga, school teacher
promoted boy to the head of the
class for spelling cat "quatte."
The London Religious Tract
Society last year issued 100000
publications.
To make one pound of honey the
bees must visit from 10000 to 200,-
900 flowers.
The Sultan of Turkey has at
tached to his body guard q soldier
who is ITO years old.
The statistics of the trade unions
in Germany show that about 2,000,-
600 workmen in that country have
an annual income of less than S155,
and that in the weaving districts
of Saxony and Sllesia there are
thousands of men earning but SIS
per year by their trade.
There is now being finished at
GreenviIle, Pa, disc of glass for
refractiDg telescope lens, which
is claimed as the largest that has
ever been made in the United
States. The disc is 30A inches in
diameter by 81 inches in thickness,
and weighs over 300 pounds.
A New York clab recently gave
dinner to all the principal freaks
in the dime museums. Living
skeletons, fat women, turtle boys,
contortionists, magnetic women,
Chinese giants, calf-headed boys,
three-armed and four-legged born
dined and danced with their hosts.
The great festival of the English
milkmaids and chimney sweeps of
the LIST of May dates it's origin
back to the Romans, who were
wont to commemorate the festival
OF Flora, the goddess of flowers,
for several days in May. May
poles were forbidden to be erected
by Parliament in 1914, but they
were restored again on the restora-
ton of Charles H., and in 1861 the
May pole in the Strand was reared
with much ceremony and rejoicing.
This pole which stood near where
Catharine street JOINS the Strand,
was of cedar, and was raised by
twelve seamen, commanded by the
Duke of York, who was then lI44 eerrd
-i Hlgb = S-e.i'.;iaI ii england.
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1891-04-16

THIS PAPER IS KEPT ON FILE
IL at E. G. DAKE's ADVERTISING
AGENCY, "a & IS Merchants Exchange,
San Francisco, Cal, where contracts for
advertising can be made for it
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1891-04-16
Aduertise.asuts.

READ THIS!
JUSTRECE[TED and FOR SALE CHEAP
Galvanized Ridging,
Galv. Screws and Lead Washers,
Plain Galvanized Iron,
Sheet Lead, Sheet Zinc,
Boxes of Tin,
Galvanized WATER PIPING, y, a,
1, IA, ~ and inch;
Pipe Fittings,
HAIR FELTING and Asbestos Sponge,
Tor covering steam pipes;
Rubber Packing, all kinds:
BLACK FENCE WIRE,
Galvanized Fence Wire,
Galvanized and Copper Telephone Wire,
Genuine Bell Telephones,
Electric House Bells, and
ELECTRICAL SUPPLIES
80 ELECTRIC LIGHT fIANTs OF any
size and description furnished and in
stalled
SHIP CHANDLERY:
BblS Coal Tar,
Bbls. Stockholm Tar,
Bbls. Pitch, Asphaltum;
Blocks, in great variety;
Manila Rope. u to inch;
Iron and Steel Wire Rope,
Iron Selling, assorted;
Yellow Metal Sheathing, ii oz. to &c OF.
Oakum, Oars, all sizes;
Patent Logs,
Nautical Almanacs,
Bunting, assorted colors;
American and Hawaiian FLAGS.
A great variety OF
SHIP HARDWARE of latest designs.
E~ NO OLD STOCK
Also, constantly on hand, full stock of
SHELF HARDWARE,
Tools of all kinds,
Agricultural Implements,
KEROSENE OIL, of good quality;
SPERM, and all other
LUBRICATING OILS;
Boston Gard Matches,
Rubber Hose, assorted;
ALCOHOL of high test for mechani-
cal and medicinal purposes, Just
received
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1891-04-16
Builders Of Steam Machinery

In all its branches.
Steamboat, Steamship. Land Engines & Boilers
High Pressure or Compound.
STEAM VESSELS of all kinds built complete
With bulls o: wood, iron or composite.
ORDINARY ENGINES compounded when sd
visable.
STEAM LAUNCHES, Bargcs and Steam Tugs con
structed with reference to the trade in which
they are to be employed. Speed, tonnage and
draft of water guaranteed.
SUGAR MILLS and Sugar Making Machinery
made after the most approved plans. Also, all
Boiler Iron Work connected Herewith.
WATER PIPE, of Boiler OF Sheet Iron OF any
size, made n suitable lengths for con Meeting
together, or Sheets rolled, punched and packed
for shipment, ready 20 be riveted on the
ground.
HYDRAULIC RIvETING, Boiler work and Water
Pipes made by this estsb ishmcnt, riveted by
hydraulic rivetiRg machinery, that quality Of
work being far superior to hand work.
SHIP WORN, Ship and Steam Capstans, Steam
Winches, Air and Circulating Pumps, made
after the most approved plans.
SOLE Agents and manufacturers for the Pacific
Coast Of the Heine Safety Boiler.
PUMPS-Direct Acting Pumps for irrigation or
Davy Valve Motion, superior to any othe,
pump.
Room No. 8. upstairs, spreckels' BLOCH.
1851 1879
, 1891-05-24
..rabne oplnlon,, sc1rp-annL.

WASHINGTON, May % 1t has been
the custom at the white house since
President Hayes time to have all the
newspapers carefully read and clippings
made OF public opinion on current events
relating to the national Tn
to the days of the Cleveland administra-
ton a special %employe was detailed for
this purpose. Private Secretary Lamont,
being a newspaper man, thought this
kind OF work peculiarly fitted to his
training, and, acting according to the
spirit OF reform pretended BY his chief,
the otlcial exchange reader was bounced
and his duties performed by the private
secretary himself. After Col Lamont
retired and the Harrison administration
began MIR. Haliord. as good a newspaper
man, to ray the least, as Dan Lamont,
found 1t necessary to throw the great bur
zen OF the exchange reading, as il may be
called, on one OF the white house en-
ployes-Mr. MONTGOMERY. This gentleman
Is now engaged IN making a collection of
clippings from all the paper obtaInable
throughout the country of articles de-
scriptiYe or editorial on the subject of the
president trip. He has marked enough
matter now to fill a large-sized scrap book,
1IN - 70 NAlNNAGt tldA Us mutu muTG Will
be CLEANED and properly classified accord
ing to the order Of the itinerary. At the
close OF every administration tie scrap
books of the white house containing news
paper clippings are labeled, classified and
carefully put away. The Harrison ad.
minlstrstion has so far made up thirty
volumes. seven of which are filed with
politl,al matter, as many more with
financial articles, and the rest devoted to
Indian, judicial, legislative and mlscel
subjects. A book has already
been nearly filled with articles on the
ltata. From this it can be seen that the
occupants Of the white house are kept
thoroughly advised OF public opinion on
topics, am whenever it Is neces-
sary 10 hunt up any particular line of in
formation the scrap books are exceedingly
handy and valuable.
, 1891-05-24

The Chinese girls education begins al
six years of age. Then she must submit
to the bandaging of her feet, which cruel
custom cripples the poor child and
causes her untold suffering. But as
small feet are considered "a mark of great
beauty this .arbarous custom, which
has obtained in China for ages, is still
practiced. The bandages are changed
as often as they become soiled, but the
practice continues until the girl reaches
the age of nineteen. Sometimes, when
about ten, the bones of the toe are broken
to prevent further growth.
At nineteen the girl is married. But
courtship, as it is known among the
Americans, is not understood or tolerated
by the Chinese. Mutual affection is not
thef foundation of the marriage, but the
children are betrothed in infancy by
their parents, and when grown are
obliged to fulfill the engagement.-Phil-
Hdelphia Times.
, 1891-05-24

There were some queer distinctions in
those days. One Sunday, going to the
butchers booth, l found a customer
ahead of me, who inquired if he could
not have a piece of a liver which was
hanging on a tree in plain sight.
Don't know if you can or not" said
the butcher.
I'D like to know why2 I've been
trading with you all along, and V
asked for liver before: but | want some
variety now"
Stand round and let me look at you.
No, you can't have any liver"
"Well, whyl'
There amt enough to go round. /
have 10 have some rule about givin' it
out, n | have decided that no miner
can have a scrap of liver from me unless
he wears a nya patch on the seat of
his pants"
The canvas patch was n badge of prece-
dence as well recognized in our camp on
the Trinity rs the star of the Order of
the Garter is in Great Britain.-E. G.
Waite in Century.
, 1891-05-24

A tall, squarely built and athletic man
of t~hirty-fye or thereabouts walked into
the California hotel and registered John
Kelly, Jr., Bodie." Heis superintendent
of the Bulwer, Bodie and Mono mines,
located at Bodie, andhe became involved
in a dispute with a miner named ]. c..
Grant. The result was hat the two
men met on the street in Bodie, and
when within a few feet of each other
Grant drew a 45-caliber revolver, and
without warning fired point blank at
Kelly. The latter threw up his left arm,
and as he did so the bullet passed down
the inside of his coat sleeve without
scratching the skin and made its exit at
the elbow.
They then clinched, but Grant kept
firing, and the second shot struck the
collar button in the back of Kelly's shirt,
carried it away and plowed up the lining
of his o without doing other damage.
The third and fourth shots went through
Kelly's coat, which was u~nbuttoned, but
the fifth struck him in the chin. When
it struck the bone, however, it was de-
tlected, and, after tearing its way along
the jaw, came out just in front of the
ear, Kelly hen wrenched the pistol
from the others hand and with it beat
him into insensibility. The former keeps
the coat and shirt that he wore at the
time as n memento Of his marvellous e.
cape.-San Francisco Call.
, 1891-05-24

81 Marys Cahedral-Masses at $50
and 1870 a. m. Vespers at "a p. IN.
81 Marks Episcopal Church Corner
Nineteenth and Central avenue. Rev. G..
q. Raiter. pastor. Trinity Sunday.
Mathis at $ a. M. Sermon and Holy
Eucharist at II a IN. Eyeusong and
sermon at 1880 p. IN. Sunday school at
1913 pm
First Baptist Church-Corner tcrgu
son and Eighteenth streets. Services at
II a. m. and 1870 p. M. Preaching
morning and evening by Rev. T. s..
DulIn of LonVmont, Colo Sunday school
after morning service. Young peoples
meeting at : D. IN. All are cordially vel
come.
First P~resLyteriaH Church-Corner Fer
guson and Eighteenth streets. Rev.
f G. Jacka will preach today at ] a. IN.
and 8 p. m. Morning subject: Signs of
Christi Divinity, John G:3O Evening
subject: Purity and Trial Of the Word, E"
Psalm 1886, A cordial invitation is given
to the public.
First Methodist Episcopal Chrch-Cor-
ner OF Central avenue aud Eighteenth
street. Rev. Samuel Weir. A. NJ. pas
tor Preaching at II a, IN. aud 500 D.
m. Morning subject: The Lone Hero
Of Israel. Evening subject. AN Elect
Nation. The G.. A. X. post will be
present in a body at the evening service.
Sabbath school at 1915 p. ~, ID. K.
Cowhick superintendent. EDworth League
at els u. m. Glass meeting at 10 a M.
and after the evening service. Public
cordially invited.
, 1891-05-24

AUSTIN, Tex. May 23-CoL. W. l..
McGaughey. the commissioner OF the
general lard Office Of Texas. has begun
the work of classifying the state lands of
Texas. These lands lie mostly in West
ern and Northeastern Texas, and have
been set aside BY the state and donated
for the purpose of founding and main
tanning public free schools and asylums.
This land is divided into three kinds, viz:
School, university and asylum, and the
latter Is subdivided into lunatics, blind.
orphan and deaf and dumb asylums. This
land will be classified as agricultural,
grazing and detached land. 1t is sold at
50 rer acre, audyon forty years time if
desired, the only difference between
the three classes being the require
ments made by the law OF purchasing
agricultural land. The purchaser obligates
himself to become an actual settler, and
to live on and improve the land so
purchased as a homestead for three ron.
secutive years. A person Is allowed to
buy only one section of $40 acres of agri-
cultural land from the state at one time,
bu: he may buy, together with this, three
sections OF what is known as dry or graz
ing land. This grazing land Is sold at 50
per acre also, aud the only difference be-
tween it and agricultural is that no oc-
cupation or settlement is required OF pur
chaser. The purchasers are made to
swear in their application to purchase,
that they are buying the land for their
own individual use, and are not acting in
collision with other parties or corpora
tiOns. When this land has been occupied
and improved IN compliance with the law,
and both principal and interest have been
paid in full, the purchaser receives a patent
from the state of Texas, which p~erfects
his title to the land. Corporations may
lease as much of this vacant land as they
wish, but should a man desire to buy any
section so leased his application is con
sidered and the lessee merely notified of
the sale, A good deal of this land has
been sold once or twice before. but on ac-
count OF on-settlement or n|ou-nayment
of interest has been forfeited back to the
state. Commissioner McGaughey in
tends to have all of this forfeited land re-
classified before 1t is again put on the
market, IN order that no single section Of
agricultural land may be overlooked. thus
cheating some poor man out of a home.
This classification is a big job, indeed, and
its completion will probably occupy the
entire hummer.
, 1891-05-24
REVERE OF a BACHELOR.
&c Smokes and Dreams aud Then lakes
Up His Mind to Light a Fresh Cigar.

&c Smokes and Dreams aud Then Makes
Up His Mind to Light a Fresh Cigar.
Puff This cigar-cost a pretty penny
too-is eHecrable. / feel like throwing
it away, only blowing the smoke into
rings is an amusement that / hate to
forego. Puff Now, that ring is a posi-
tive work Of art. Pity it has to go up
in smoke Rings Of smoke-they are
very like marriage rings The delusion
lasts about as long. They arc infinitely
more a~musing-and less wearisome.
Fancy being married! B-r-rl No more
bohemianisuI, no cakes and ale-nOr
champagne, either-no pipes and punch.
Instead-a drowsy fre-a chatter of
dishes from the Kitchen wife knitting
socks for the inevitable family. Later
a full hedged Observation-Disclosures
groceries and paying money to the school
book trusts-growing posy over when l
was a young fellow, sir" | shudder to
think of it.
Besides, it is so much pleasanter to
play at playing the game than really to
playi it. 1t is very pleasant to make love
and that is why marriage is SO I'M
pleasant; one can't make love then.
Making love is a game that should al
ways be played on the progressive plan.
With the same partner always it be-
comes dreadfully monotonous. 1t is for
that reason that | pity the married man.
To hutter from flower 10 flower, never
bestowing affection on any,b but affecting
to adore all-that is the bachelors priv
ilege.
But, you say, one cannot msake love
with gray hairs. An old beau is the
most ridiculous of men. Yes, you are
right But it is not necessary to be al
ways making love. As one grows old
there are so many other hobbies.
Puff How blue that smoke isl A
kind of fading, ethereal blue, not tang
ible in words or from the palette. A
blue like the blue of a pair of eyes-ah,
what glorious eyes they are-set in a
marble white frame-ike the blue and
white loves of Dresden china.
l wonder, by the way, if she meant all
she said-with those eyes-at the Bron-
sons that night She saba good deal.
She is really-not half bad. Rose Alvin
"a pretty name-rather. Rose-um,
h will still be Rose if. well-the
fact is-between me and the blue smoke
her face has been haunting me like a
ghosL 1 mlght-marry the ghost. From
what her eyes said hat night-she
wouldn't say no. If l were to throw
this cigar-put on my hat and
gloves, and go to her-what an exquisite
joke it would demonstrating what l
said about marriage just now. Puff
By jove, | will do it'll Pah, goodby, ci-
gar-even bad things have an end. This
glove-comes on too easily-deuced bad
form. Um-how dust viii settle on a
mans hat. Now-I think I'll do.
What's that The city post. HIM.
Dun's bills. Aha woman's hand.
What? "Mr. and Mrs. Alvin an
nounce the wedding of their daughter,
Rose
Ugh. How chill the room seems.
must-light a fresh cigar. Percy Pol
lard in Epoch.
, 1891-05-24
Monkeys That Fight with stones.

The Gelada balloons sometimes have
battles with the Hamadryads, especially
when the two species nave a mind TO rob
the same field, and if fighting in the hills,
will roll stones on to their enemies. Not
long ago a colony of Gelada balloons,
which had been fired at by some black
soldiers attending a duke of Coburg-
Gotha on a hunting expedition on the
borders of Abyssinia, blocke6 pass for
some days by rolling rocks on corners.
This seems to give some sur .ort to a Gu
rious objection raised by hinese local
governor in a report to IS superior on
the difficulties in the way of opening
to steamers the waters of the upper
fang-tse. The report, after noting that
the inhabitants IN the upper waters were
ignorent men who might quarrel with
strangers, went on to allege that mon
keys, which inhabited the banks, would
roll down one on the steamers. 1.-THE
two last facts" the report added,
would lead to complaint from the En-
glish and embroil the Celestials with
them, especially il the men or the mon
keys kill any English. Spectator.
, 1891-05-24
NIGHT IN the COUNTRY


Oh, bird that fingers in the hush
OF twilight as It falleth,
Return ye now unto your nest;
List how your sweet mate Callethl
Oh, lowing COWS, haste TO your fold,
Or you will be belated-
Fen now the milkmaid loudly calls,
To- long for you she has waitedi
From yonder church the Ginning bells
Ring for the Angelus sweet,
And pious souls, with Bonded heads
The evening prayer repeat.
The locusts with di5cordhnt notes
A merry concert hold,
As though the comfrg on OF night
Made their small hearts more bold.
The jasmine vine that shades the porch
Breaks out in sweetest scent,
And waftings from the lily bed
Are with its odors blentl
The low OF kline and notes OF birds
Grow fainter and more faint,
Even the ~tireless kAtydids
Have hushed their loud complaint.
The glimmering lights begin to shine
From many a window pane,
And mothers rock their babes and sing
A sweet good night refrain.
To all there comes a country peace,
TIL quiet OF a night
That Is removes from out the world.
Far from the city's sight
Kate A. Darlington in New Orleans Plea
yune.
, 1891-05-24

Fortunately and wisely, we have thus
far steered clear of ~"entangling alli-
ances," with the single and limited ex-
ception of our treaty of 1916 with New
Granada respecting the transit of the
Isthmus of Panama; and by thus follow
ing the policyo of careful ~abstention from
all interference in the domestic aues-
tons and local issues of other nations.
we are enabled more consistently to
check and repel any impertinent or prag-
matical attempt by foreigners to inter
NEEDLE with our domestic policies or to
dictate alterations in our carefully ar
ranged distribution of powers. 1t may
as well be understood that, DESTROYS as
we are of pursuing policies of peace,
comfy and reciprocal advantage with
all nations, we will never so lower the
standard of our independence as to
change the form and principles OF our
government to accommodate strangers
who come among us voluntarily and in
pursuit of their individual tastes and
misunderstanding Bayard in Fo-
rum.
, 1891-05-24

The most ancient description we have
OF a water pump is by Hero of Alexan-
dire. There is no authentic account Of
the general use of the pump in Germany
previous to the beginning of the Six
tenth century. At about that time the
endless chain and bucket works for rails
ing water from mines began to be re-
placed by pumps.
, 1891-05-24
THE COMNERCLAL CONGRESS,7

There we're over $50 delegates in at
tendance upon the Trans Mississippi com
mercial congress in session at Denver.
OF these Il3 cast their votes upon the sill
yer resolution, IS in favor of limiting the
coinage to the American product and S.
for unlimited, unrestricted and ~unequivo-
cal free coinage. This result of the con
ventiou S labors is htue short OF ludicrous.
Ii is in reality a compromise with itself.
The main argument made by those favoring
the proposition which carried was that It
would arouse too much Eastern opposition
and 1t was therefore necessary to com
promise short Of what was actually de
sired, lust as though the commercial con
gress was the court Of last resort 1t is
much the same position as that Of a man
who wants a whole loaf but yet announces
10 the same breath that he is wiling to
compromise Cd half a loaf Under such
circumstances the natural starting point is
the half loaf proposition and the ultimate
compromise may be a quarter or an
eighth, The place for compromise was
not in the commercial congress but ir the
congress OF the United States. The de-
msnd should have been for what was
wanted and the compromise should have
been thought Of only when nothing better
could be secured.
, 1891-05-24

The Ionian isles produce a loose lace,
unique rather than handsome. 1t was
used at first mainly in the churches and
tombs. As antiquity more than doubles
the price the shrewd natives blacken
and mildew their work before offering
it to the tourists, who take dirt as a
voucher for age.
, 1891-05-24

Americans are the greatest newspaper
readers in the world. There are II, coo
newspapers published in the United
States. 1t is said that a new publica-
ton is born every four hours and forty
eight minutes day and night; but fort
unately oil unfortunately the death rate
is very high
, 1891-05-24

Most birds are stoics compared to owls,
and those who cultivate their acquaint-
ance know that they nave no time
wherein to make their poetical COM
plants TO the moor Poets should not
NEEDLE with owls. Shakespeare and
Wordsworth alone have understood
them-by most others they have been
~scandalously libeled.