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The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1893-01-16

The Committee of Safety has
called a meeting to take place this
afternoon in the Armory on Bere-
tania street. The critical situation
of the country will be discussed.
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1893-01-16

On Wednesday, January 18th,
at the office of E. II. Bailey at Wal
luku, Maui, an auction sale of val
liable lands will take place. The
property is described elsewhere in
this issue.
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1893-01-16

The Band will give a concert
his evening at Emma Square.
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1893-01-16

a new arrival from the Colonies
states that affairs are not bright in
Australia. He declared that if
they were put to the test most of
the banks and business houses
could not pay twenty-five cents on
the dollar.
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1893-01-16

The Christmas number of the
Californian Magazine is a hand
some periodical. The articles
written especially for it are Of a
high literary order. 1t can be had
at the newsdealers.
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1893-01-16

Hon. II. =. Baldwin returned
from Kauai yesterday.
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1893-01-16

The steamer MokoIii on her last
trip brought fifty bales Of wool.
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1893-01-16

The Alameda is due to-day from
San Francisco with six days later
news.
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1893-01-16

meteorological Record.
ST THE GOVERNMENT SURVEY. PUBLISHED
EVERY MONDAY.
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1893-01-16
OAHU RAILWAY i LAND co.'s
TINE TABLE.

FROM AND AFTER OCT. /, 1892.
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1893-01-16

ever dec. 24.-The American
LONDON. c Captain Atkinson,
s,;n '- VorI..a, ST 3, and Callao
from Pisagua AugGElH. :, mas ~ go oro
October 80 for New ": hnl i1'''
ashore near Maceio, BrazSStt
is q fathnm of water in her.
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1893-01-16
SHIPPING INTELLIG ENCE.

New moon on the 18th. at 2h. 81
The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1893-07-05
Immigration Into Canada.

According to the official statistics,
immigration into Canada is compare
lively inconsiderable. In 1882 it grew
suddenly from $4,000, the mum Der re-
ceived in 1881, to 112, ,458; but in 1888
it fell to under 10000, and in 1891 it
was only $4,000. 1t is an interesting
fact that more than two-thirds of the
addition to the population of Quebec
from abroad is made by Canadians
who have tried to make their way in
the United States, but, having failed,
return to their own country. At least
this is the assertion of the official sta
tistician in the yearbook for 1891.
There is no evidence that this is more
than mere opinion. The Dominion
statistics on this interesting subject
are confessedly unsatisfactory, the
task of gathering them being rendered
difficult because many of the new set
tiers enter the country from the United
States.
In an evidently partial table in the
yearbook are some interesting facts
that throw strong side light on the
race and immigration problems in the
two old provinces of Upper and Lower
Canada. Out of an immigration of
20,852 people into Quebec. Is, 400 were
Canadians, and only 1920 were Eng
lish, Irish, Scotch, German, and citi-
zens of the United States. Out of an
immigration of 9,516 into Ontario,
1864 were of the last-named peoples.
There had gone to Ontario nearly two
and half times as many Englishmen,
nearly twice as many Irishmen, more
than three times as many Scotchmen,
more than six times as many Germans,
and four times as many Americans as
had gone to Quebec. At the same
time, three times Us many Canadians
had returned to Quebec as had gone
back to Ontario.-Henry Loonais NeL-
son, in Harper's Magazine.
The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1893-07-05
Secrets of snake-charming.

A snake-charmer can, by single
motion of his hand, make a moving
snake stop instantly.
The reason is this: A snake is q
most timid animal. His eyes, as has
been said before, while dull to color
and form, are quick to motion, es-
pecially if it is rapid. If any large
thing moves very quickly too near
him, he gets frightened and scurries
off; while at certain distance the mo-
ton stops him if he be moving. He
stops from astonishment, fear, or the
wish to see what it is that moves.
Hence he glides on, unconscious of the
charmer's presence near him so long
as the latter remains perfectly quiet;
the snake doesn't know him from a
tree or rock. But when he gives a
sudden evidence of life, the snake is
astonished, and Immediately remains
stock-still.
In India and Africa the charmers
pretend the snakes dance to the music
but they do not, for they never hear
it. A snake has no external ears,
and perhaps gets evidence of sound
only through his skin, when sound
causes bodies in contact with him to
vibrate. They hear also through the
nerves of the tongue, but do not at
all comprehend sound as we do. But
the snakes eyes are very much alive
to the motions of the charmer, or to
the moving drumsticks of his confed-
crate; and, being alarmed, he pre-
pares to strike. a dancing cobra (and
no other snakes dance) is simply a
cobra alarmed aud in posture of at
tack He is not dancing to the
music, but is making ready to strike
the charmer.-,St. Nicholas.
The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1893-07-05
HOW TO WIN AT EucHRE.
A Louisville Player Gives the Secret OF
Her Success Last Winter.

There are as many superstitious peo-
pie in the world to-day as there ever
were, says the Louisville Coarier-Joatr-
nal, and the belief in signs, charms
and omens has by no means passed
away. A charming young married
woman has won almost all of the
prizes at the progressive euchre par
ties she attended last winter. She
plays we'll, but, as a friend told her,
"the best players have to hold good
cards to win." At the end of the sea-
son she told what she thinks has been
the cause of all her luck. 81 never fail
to cut my finger nails before breakfast
every Monday morning." she said,
"and that is my magical charm against
bad luck for the whole week" A pret-
ty little woman, who was visiting here
from a neighboring town, looked adj
miringly at her own dainty fingers and
anxiously inquired "1f filing would do
them so," but the lucky one was posi-
tive it would not, and the pretty nails
would have to be sacrificed if their
owner wished to win.
One of the best women l know shows
a piece of silver TO the new moon each
month, and if she has to turn back
after she starts anywhere she careful
ly spits before she sets out again. The
most cherished possession of one OF
the most successful singers now on
the stage is pair of old stockings she
wore on the night of her greatest
triumph. and she is SO sure that SC
long as they remain with her so long
her luck will last that she would part
sooner with costliest gems than with
these worn silk hose. 1t is said the
late Mr.. Belmont would bet heavily il
flight of birds crossed his path while
he was on his way to the race course.
And so on, from high to low everyone
has a pet superstition carefully hidden
away or laug ghingly confessed.
The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1893-07-05
STORIES ABOUT PROMINENT PEOPLE.
How Frank Pierce Lost His Nerve When
u Soldier In Mexico.

The nomination of Mr.. Joseph II.
Wise to be collector of customs at San
Francisco recalls memory of the man
who held the post when Mr.. Wise, then
q beardless boy, was sent out as dep
uty, says the Washington Post. His
name was Hammond, he had gallant
war record, and he was better known
as "Maj." Hammond. To his nomina-
ton, made in the spring of 1858, is at
tached strange and pathetic story,
vouched for by many residents of the
slope, but seldom, if ever, published.
In the heat of the struggle between
the United States and Mexico Ham,
mond, a harum-scarum young lieuten-
ant, was attached to the staff of Gen.
Winfield Scott. In one of the desper-
ate encounters which marked the
steady American advance to the Mexi-
can capital he was sent to the rear for
reinforcements. Galloping at full
speed he attempted to leap a ravine,
his horse fell, and the rider went with
him. Extricating himself, and rising,
he saw crouched under the bank the
figure of a man. Crazed with the
heat, blinded by the smoke, and deaf
ened by the roar of the guns, he had
lost his nerve; "gone all to pieces" as
the veterans call it, and was trembling
in hiding. Hammond felt pity for
him. dragged him TO his feet, talked
to him as father to his son; told him
that the eyes Of his comrades were on
him; that he must do his duty; that
all Americans must stand together in
that far country; gave him some wa
ter to drink, and so put heart into
him that the man was able to smile,
give him firm handgrip, and mounted
the riderless horse that stood by. His
last words ere he plunged back into
the thick of the fray were: @For Gods
sake, old man, don't tell anybody"
at was an experience that has hap
pened to many young soldiers other
wise brave enough" Hammond used
to say in telling it.
The man was Franklin H. Pierce.
When he was elected president of the
United States Hammond came on to
Washington. The new executive saw
him and clasped both his hands, while
grateful tears came to his eyes. They
had not met since they parted at the
bank of the ravine in far-away Mexico.
"Can do anything for you, Ham
mond?" Mr.. Pierce inquired. Cant
you name something l can do for
youp"
"Well," was the response. "I've been
thinking / would like to be customs
collector out at Frisco"
The appointment was sent in the
next day.
The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1893-07-05
You Never Saw a Full Moon.

Did you ever see "full moona" asks
a writer in the st. Lous Republic. /
know what your answer will be with
out waiting for it. 1t is this, "Yes,
once every month since l have been
old enough to pay attention to such
phenomena. Yet l take the position
that you are badly mistaken, and that
in all probability you have never in
your life beheld the full face of our
"silvery sister world" By the way of
constitute "full moon" in the exact
sense of the term: A full moon oc-
ours only when our obsequious at
tendant is 18O degrees of longitude
from the sun, Old Sol and the earth
being on the ecliptic. But the moons
orbit is inclined to the ecliptic at an
angle of 5 degree minutes Al seconds
and is therefore never on the ecliptic
except when at its modes" or cross
ings.
This being the case, what we call
the circular disk of the moon Gull
moon) lacks considerable of being an
exact circle, being what astronomers
term "in state of gibbosity," and is
never perfect disk except when "a
full moon" happens exactly at the time
when Luna is crossing the ecliptie, at
which time she must necessarily be
centrally eclipted One of our best
present day astronomers, in conclud-
ing an article of much merit on the
same subject, says. I'VE therefore
conclude that a real full moon. one
having perfect circle. has rarely, if
eYar. been seem
The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1893-07-05
How to See the Fair.

Nor, at Chicago, will you learn
about the things which are dear to
you unless you are very wise and
steady, patient and self-denying. Take
a day first to satisfy your curiosity, to
crafty your sense of wonderment and
your love of beauty. to get your bear
ings and discover how much exertion
you can support. Go all over the Fair
grounds, and to the top of at least one
of the big domes or towers. See the
Fair. as a Fair, from its various CEN
ters, and from different parts of it's
circumference, especially from the
lake. / think you can do this in one
or two days, if you start early and end
late, if you are strong, and if you have
yourself conveyed by all available
means of conveyance, ,--encircling rail-
ways, boats, and rolling-chairs,- and
if you do not step inside single build
ing except for the ascent in search of
your bird's-eye view. Then go home,
stay in bed the following day, if you
are wise, and the next day spread the
wings and stiffen the spine of your
conscience, and 90 in search of the
things you have come to study-steam-
boilers or roses, fishes or stuffed birds,
needlework or statistics of idiot asy-
lums, methods of slaughtering men or
cattle, or of preserving human life or
edible fruits. Stay at this task until
YOU have finished it, or until it has ex-
hausted your powers of application.
Then release and relax yourself. Go
to see something else-palms if you
have been studying plows, pictures if
you have been studying electric mo-
tors. Mrs. Van Rensselaer,, IN Century.
The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1893-07-05
NEVER FELT THE BLOW.
How an AsIatIc Was Bsheaded with One
Cut of q Sword.

once saw a heavy executioner in
Turkey slide down the rope and fall
on the suspended mans neck with all
his avoirdupois to break the spinal
column, says a writer in the Globe
Democrat. OF course it was a barbar-
GUS proceeding. The most careful
and conscientious executioner / ever
saw was near the dividing line between
Turkey and Russia. / was riding
through some woods when suddenly
found myself in clearing before
cabin. A man was at the door tying
a red thread around sleeps neck. 1
asked him why he was doing that. He
picked up cleaver and with quick
blow cut off the sleeps head, making
the cut exactly along the line of the
red thread. "You see now," he sand,
"why did it. 1 tied that thread be-
tween two joints so that there would
passage of the blade" "But why do
you slaughter sheep in this waye" l
asked. Come tomorrow to -
(naming a nearby town) and you will
see."
| was in the town the next day and
met the sheepslayer. He was public
executioner. and he had a man to be-
head that day. I saw him do it. He
had a sword with curved blade. The
blade and hilt were hollow, and there
was quicksilver in the space, so that
when the weapon was held aloft the
quicksilver ran down into the hilt and
steadied the hand, and when the sword
was swung down the quicksilver ran
to the end of the blade and gave added
weight and impetus to the blow. The
doomed man knelt and bent his head
forward. The executioner tied red
thread carefully around the barred
neck, and with one swing of his weapon
cut off the head. 1t was a clean, scien-
tific cut between the vertebrae, and
the unfortunate man, l presume, never
felt it.
The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1893-07-05
Not at All Modest.

De Pachmann, the pianist, says him.
self that he is not at all modest man,
in fact, he knows only Won Bulow who
is more unmodest. At a recent recital
at Southsea, says the Portsmouth
(Eng.) Nee0s, two ladies left the room
and De Pachmann remarked: Ladies? ?
They are not ladies. They ought to
stay and hear such an artist" The
audience, too, were not sufficiently at
tentive and he told them 50. "In
Paris and in London when l play the
audience 60 'euh' This being an ex-
planation of surprised admiration] but
YOU The audience, how
ever, took the affair in good part and
M. de Pachmann is said to have never
played better.
The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1893-07-05
GOT EVEN WITH HIS WIFE.
A Husband Who Called In a Phrenolo-
gist to Stop Practical Joking.

He had been frequently the victim
of his wife's practical jokes, says the
Detroit Free Press. He was troubled
most by a neighbor who called in to
tell fortunes with the cards and at the
wife's suggestion always got the laugh
on him by recalling some alleged incl
dent of his past life that never oc-
Cured, seeing some blonde woman
near him that was going to cause fu-
ture trouble, OF having him tangled up
in scrape which he would be the last
man to encounter. The other day he
found peregrinating Phren0olloglst on
the street. He asked the old fraud to
the house and told him on the way up
that he had a good looking servant
girl at the house who was a jewel in
her proper capacity. but good many
things had been missed from the house
since she came there, and while he
could prove nothing he suspected the
woman. When they reached the house
the wife was called in and the bump
interpreter was set to work without
the preliminary of an introduction.
He thought he knew the lay of the
land and proceeded accordingly.
"This woman" he said, "has keen
perceptions. She is shrewd, but some
what after the manner of fox. She
has grasping disposition and covets
anything pretty that she sees. If
owned this property would keep my
spoons and other silver locked up.
would leave no money lying around,
and as for jewelry"-
But there was sudden breaking up
of the seance "John, who is this hor-
rid man? Laughing at him, are you!
Get out of here, you miserable old
cheat, you-you puppy, leave this
TIl~" TTu ''o But he % was GONE 90 on a dead
run, and when the husband could re.
gain his breath it was definitely ar
ranged that the days of his persecution
were over.
The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1893-07-05
To the Mountain land Ocean Re,
sorts via Penmsy1vanfa Lines.

The advantages peculiar to the Pennsylvania
Lines make them the desirable thoroughfares
to Bedford Springs, Altoona. Ebensburg or any
of the delightful summer havens in the cool Al.
legheny Mountains. By no other route can
Cresson. the ideal retreat on the crest of that
romantic mountain range be reached, as the
Pennsylvania is the only line direct to 1t, and
the only one leading past the Pack Saddle and
Allegrippus, around the famous Horse Shoe
Curve and along the Blue Juniata, the richest
of Americas scenic gems. For reachine At.
taRtic City, Cape May. Ocean Grove, Elberon
Ocean Beach. Berkeley, Newport, Nerragansett
Pier. Martha's Vineyard. Nantucket, or any
the numerous watering places that dot the At.
lsntic seaboard from the Carolinas to Maine.
these lines are particularly desirable. For
trip to the Adirondacks. the Catskills, and re-.
sorts in Northeastern New York, Connections.
Rhode Island, Massachusetts. Vermont, New
Hampshire and Maine. exceptional facilities
for delightful journey are offered passengers
via this direct route For detailed information
please apply to your nearest Pennsylvania Line
ticket. :or address f. Van Dusen, Chief Asst
Gen. Passenger Agent. Pittsburgh. Pa. 9i-6.
The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1893-07-05
Worlds Fair Excursions to Chicas
go via the Best ROute-The
PennsvIvauTa Lines

Commencing April 25th. Worlds Fair Ex-
cursion Tickets to Chicago will be sold from
all ticket stations on the Pennsylvania Lines.
Consistent reductions in fare will be made and
sale Of tickets will continue daily until Octo-
per SOth. inclusive. Return coupons will be
valid until November 9th. Any Pennsylvania
Line ticket agent will furnish details upon ap.
plication.
The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1893-07-05

Rev. Mrs. Bromley Gust divorced,
to her late kusband)-"By the way.
Thomas-I should say Mr.. Bromley
my counsel has just asked me to marry
him and I've decided to do it. Would
you mind performing the ceremony
for me p"-ITuth.
The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1893-07-05

Ralph j. de Mayns, the English
hunter of big game in Africa, when in
San Francisco recently on his way
home from India said that he thought
the American grizzly and an infuriated
elephant were more dangerous than
a lion, but that the charge of a
rhinoceros was the most dangerous
of oil
The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1893-07-05
Pennsylvania
Lines.

Fourth of July Excursion Rates
via Pennsylvania Lines.
Excursion Tickets at one lowest limited FIST.
class fare for round trip will be sold Monday
and Tuesday. July 3rd and 4th from any ticket
station on the Pennsylvania Lines to any other
station on those lines within two hundred miles
of the station where the ticket is purchased,
The return coupon will be good until July 6th,
inclusive. Excursion tickets will not be sold
to adults for less than twenty-five cents nor to
children for less than fifteen cents.
The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1893-07-05

Splinter pulling bees, at which the
boys employed in the kindllng wood
mills extract the splinters accumulated
during the day out of each others
hands, is the latest form of amuse-
ment down east.
The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1893-07-05
To Cleveland at One Fare for the
Round Trip via PennsYIvania


July 10th and 11th. Excursion Tickets to Cleve-
land at rate of One Fare for Round Trip. will be
sold from principal ticket stations on Pennsyl-
vania Lines. account the North American San-
gerfest. Tickets will be good returning until
July l7th inclusive.
The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1893-07-05

So dense is the water in the deepest
parts of the ocean that an ironclad, il
it were to sink, would never reach the
bottom.
The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1893-07-05
Hot Weather Wash Goods. sztea.!z.
Our line of
and show many choice, pretty things you will not
find eUeryW7aere.-In
Wool Dress Goods Department

9XXOO4 G1OO0 GAOO0O GONCU1 O111O11Ul
You will find most every thing you think of. By
the way, have received few pieces of advance
order (for early Fall trade) in the HOP SACKING
style of Dress Fabrics. The Fashion Journals tell
that Hop Sackng is one of the things that will be
in great demand
Of course you will be going to Chicago to the Fair,
and will want nice Bag, and all the acconap0zin1ets
We show large line of things in Ladies' Travelling
Satchels and the thousand and little things that
SO necessary when you journey.
We have added to already large line of Corsets
the GENUINE FRENCH G. P. CORSET in the $500
quality Same exact fitting and style the higher cost
goods, but of not elaborate in finish We
furnish, promptly any of the higher cost numbers of
this celebrated Corset
We have also just received full assortment of
MEMS AND BOYS BATHING TRUNKS in all
sizes, and different qualities from SOC. to $lO0 per Suit
New lines of TAN HOSIERY for Ladies, Misses
and Children-Also SUMNER UNDERWEAR of all
kinds. In word, have every thing you expect to
find in First Glass Dry Goods Estabishment-all of
which offer you at well known low prices.
We hope we do not tire you (we certainly have no
thought of boring yoI but cannot help being a
leetle ust leetle) enthusiastic to the many s-
perior attractions most conscientiousy believe we
haYe to offer you mott all Others but most We
quite desirous of showing you and telling you all
about store, and say what do to induce you
to and for yourselves. We kindly invite you
and promise you our best efforts to please you.
The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1893-07-05
Business Cards.
G. H. GRIFFIN,

ITO LOAN.-Money to loan on Farm Prop
erty JOHN PORTER,
Billy Ravenna, y.