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The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1893-11-24

horses when the grain was trodden OUT
il was Joy unalIoyed TO see the ne"
tbrashing machine do its work. IL pos
sessed the element of mystery to your
you shful eyes. A man stood on the hoor
at one end and poked the bundles Oh
grain into the mouth of the contr1vance'
and at the other end came out the straw
while the grain ran in little stream INTO
a measure or bag at the side. How IL
was done YOU couldn't understand, but
YOU never got tired watching it, and you
used to follow the machine TO the nelgh-
boring farms-by permission II you coulo
get it; without permission if you had TO.
But the first small thrashing machines
that were run by treadmill were as moth
ing by the side of the splendid great
.sseparators' that took their places. 1t
took moro men to operate these ma
chimes. and the force was furnished by
horses hitched in teams to the ends or
the long sweeps of q horsepower that
was set up outside the barn. When ev-
erything was ready, the driver used to
get upon the platform in the middle OF
the power, and cracking his long whip
start the horses on an intermihable jour
new round and round and round in
small circle described by the ends OF the
revolving sweeps. You used to think
that if when you were man you could
stand ND on the platform of horsepower
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1893-11-24
AT THRASHING TIME.
EVOLUTION OF THE WORK OF SEPA-
RATING GRAIN FROM HUsKs.

From the FIail and the TreadmiIi to tho
Modern Steam Thrashing Machine-Rem-
inIseences OF the Good Old Times-Ad-
vice to the Novice.
II you ever hire out TO help farmer
st ''thrashin time, " you viii do well to
ttlpulate that you are not TO be placed
at the tail Of the straw carrier, particu-
Iarly If the farmer have barley in his
barn or his stacks, because if you are
green hand and therefore fail 70 make
that proviso You will surely be set at
that part Of the work, and if you are
you'll wish you had never been born. If
1t happen that the straw is carried up
into the NOW pronounce this word to
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1893-11-24
Extremes of Weather.

In Moscow the winter cold is SO in
tense that it freezes quicksilver, while
the summer temperature is as high as
that of Naples.
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1893-11-24
a-.-.... rather WAS a Bic ,Ian.

The Hebrew Talmud says that when
Adam was created he was a giant, his
head reaching into the heavens and his
countenance outshining the sun.
The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1893-03-04
FACTS IN ASTRONOMY.

THE nearest fixed star is 81, 900, 900, ,OOO
miles from the earth.
The moon is without water, and des.
titute of an atmosphere.
SOME of the stars move with a veloc-
ity of fifty miles n second.
The fixed stars are suns and each may
have its own planetary system.
THERE are twenty stars of the first
magnitude and seventy of the second.
TIE fixed star second in distance is
C3,OOo, 100000 of miles from the earth.
To THE naked eye 5000 stars are Wis.
ible; the best telescopes show $500, 900.
THE planets Venus and Mars most
nearly resemble the earth in climatic
conditions.
THERE are stars whose diameter is
greater than that of our whole solar
system.
THE tail of a comet is believed to be
matter similar to that contained in the
nebulae.
THE strongest telescopes bring the
moon to an @pparent distance of one
hundred miles
THE mln's volume is 1,407, 1874 times
TINT Of the earth, and COO times greater
than all tho planets.
The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1893-03-04
RLAINE,s BURIAL PLACE.

The spot Suggestive of Isolation and Desc
lation, as We'll as Extreme simplicity.
A correspondent who visited the
grave of James G. Blaine writes:
"The heaps of brown clay on each
side were partly hidden with flowers
and piled high alongside the two
mounds which marked the graves of
Walker Blaine and Alice Blaine Cop
pinger were the most exquisite flowers
That of Walker Blaine was buried in a
profusion of great white Gala lilies and
the modest lily of the valley, which is
just coming to bloom in this latitude.
The spot was suggestive of isolation
and desolation, as well as of extreme
simplicity. There was no sweep of
ground to mark the Blaine lot On the
contrary, it was scarcely fifteen feet
square, and hedged in on all sides by
unpretentious gravestones.
There is one noticeable and natural
monument which rears itself immedi-
ately at the head of the open grave, and
which seems to have come there by
some prophetic accident. 1t is a huge
elm that had lived perhaps sixty years
and then been shivered by lightning
forty feet above the base. 1t was so
near the grave that the diggers had to
hew away the tendril roots
"The view from the graveside is one
of wildRess and beauty. 1t is the one
spot in Washington where the dead
level is broken into succession of ra-
vines and natural terraces, which reach,
at some points, the grandeur of canon
scenery, Lovers lane, which sweeps
around the cemetery, has spot from
which one may look down an abyss of
sheer three hundred feet From the
grave one sees the apex OF the Washing
ton monument, and on clear day the
great dome of the Capitol is prominent
ly outlined against the sky. An inter-
vening ridge cuts off the view of the
white house, but the tall chimneys of
the state department are just discern
ible. Thus the visitor to Blaine's tomb
will take in at a glance not only his
last resting place but all the various
scenes of his busy life, Only the white
house is lacking. Chicago Tribune.
The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1893-03-04
CARIBOU IN CROWDS.
Thousands Seen in Hunting Expeditions in
Northern Canada.


In the autumn of 1889 Mr.. Warburton
Pike visited the Barren Ground of
northern Canada on hunting eXpcdi-
tion. Winter set in about the middle of
October. After the 14th there was nc
sign of thaw. With the increasing
depth of snow there was noticeable
southwark migration of different forms
of animal life, Ptarmigan came literal
ly In thousands, and the tracks OF
wolves, wolverines and arctic foxes
made a continuous network in the
snow. But the great feature of this
migratory movement was the coming
of caribou. Scattered bands of them
We're almost always in sight from the
ridge behind the camp, and the num-
bers increased until October 20.
Then little Baptiste, who had gone
for firewood, woke us before daylight
with the cry of LA foule! la fouler'
and even in the lodge we could hear the
curious clatter made by band of trav-
cling caribou. La foule-the crowd
had really come, and during its passage
of six days l was able to realize what
numbers of these animals still roam in
the Barren Ground.
From the ridge we had splendid
view of the migration. All the south
side of Macllay lake was alive with
moving beasts, while the ice seemed to
be dotted all over with black islands,
and still away on the north shore, with
the aid of glasses, we could see them
coming like regiments on the march.
In every direction we could hear the
grunting noise that the caribou always
makes when travelling. The snow was
broken into broad roads, and l found il
useless to try to estimate the number
that passed within few miles of our
encampment
We We're just on the western edge OF
their passage and afterward heard that
band of Dog Ribs, hunting some forty
miles to the west, We're NJ this time in
the last straits of starvation. This is q
common danger in the autumn, as the
caribou coming in from the Barren
Ground join together in one vast herd,
and do not scatter much till they reach
the thick timber
As for us, there was no limit to tho
number we might have killed. The
caribou as is usually the case when
they are in large numbers, We're very
tame, and on several occasions found
myself right in the middle OF a band,
with fine chance to pick ont any that
seemed in good condition, Youths
Companion.
The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1893-03-04
PuNoENr PARAoRAPhs.

1T is seldom that man ever gets Is
be wise enough to know what to dc
with a large fortune. ---Ram's Horn.
-Shingiss--"Don't you think Boom.
ield acts the hog?" Van Braam-"He
doesn't need to act. "-Brandon Banner.
-lleiress.-'If l should marry an
English lord, would you be anything,
papa?" Papa-"Yes; bankrupt "-Bos-
lon Gazette
-Dullpate--"I find IL very hard work
20 collect my thoughts" Maud-"Papa
says it's always difficult to recover
small amounts. Inter Ocean.
Enough to Kill. Music is very
often tonic" eyes, but if you'd hear
my niece playing certain scales all day,
you'd conclude that music was all die
sonicl"
He (painting)-" you were I, Miss
Maude, wonder how you'd treat this
subject?' She (posing)-"oysters."-
Kate Fields Washington.
Tile may be foreigner," said
Maud, "but he can't be very distin-
guished." "Why not?" 81 could pro-
nounce his name the first time l tried
It t"-Washington Star
-Haterby-"Did you hear the newsP
Got baby at our house. They say it
Is the very image of me-" Synnek-"I
wouldn't mind. He may outgrow it."
Boston Transcript
-Perdita-"Did he kiss you when you
accepted him?" Penelope--"No.
wouldn't let him" Perdita-"Why
not?" Penelope-"Wcll, mamma told
me that we ought to act differently to-
ward each other after the engagement"
Truth.
-She-"Indeed, Mr.. Maulsticlt, yours
were the only pictures looked at in the
exhibition" Maulstick-"Ah, you fat
ter -" She-"No; the others, you
know, were so surrounded by the
crowd. brooklyn Life.
IL see by the papers that your
friend Longwate is meeting with great
success as n writer of wholesome advice
to young men" "Yes, and I'm glad of
thing else he ever tried "-Detroit Trib-
une.
Little Brother-''Mr Johuson, won't
you go and stand before the Window"
Mr.. Johnson-"Certainly, my little man;
but why?" Little Brother-"O, ma says
she can see through you, and 1 want to
see if can."-Jewish Messenger.
There are 5000 words in the En-
glish language that have no rhyme to
Them" said Poetaster SIS that all?"
inquired a friend. 81 had imagined
from reading your verses that there
were at least million. Buffalo Ex-
press.
Mrs. Observation-Disclosures we were
married, you often wished there was
some brave deed you could do for me to
show your love" Mr.. McBride-"Yes,
dear, and l would do it now" Mrs.
McBride-''Then, love, go down into
the kitchen and discharge Bridget -
Harpers Bazaar
How do you do, Mary? Where are
you living now?" asked a lady, upon
meeting in the street the former serv-
ant'of one of her friends. please,
num-" replied the girl, blushing. 81
don't live anywhere now, I'm married
to James as was the coachman, you
Known. Y. Herald
"A Smart Boarder. er.-Hunker-"Di
Short pay up his board?" Spatts-''No;
he owes for four weeks" Hunker-
How is it he is getting the tenderest
part of the steak and all of Mrs. SmalIs
smiles this morning?" Spatts-"When
he came down stairs this morning he
told her he had never seen her looking
SO young Detroit Free Press.
The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1893-03-04
rhE LATE pHnLlpa RRooks.
Couple OF Anecdotes of tho Lamented
Massaohusetts Divine.

A Couple OF Anecdotes of tho Lamented
Massachusetts Divine.
Bishop Phillips Brooks found teach
ing school in his early manhood one of
his most irxsome experiences The boys
sometimes made fun of their colossal
and serious-minded instructor. One who
had the good fortune to be pupil in
the Boston Latin school when Phillips
Brooks, at the age of %, was instructor
there, recalls this incident: "Just up
above the school on Bedford street was
a tinshop, and every now and then
there would be barrels of refuse tin
placed on the sidewalk. One morning
there were some of these barrels of tin
out there, and 1 don't remember who
started it, but every boy in Brooks
room got strip of tin and made pair
of eyeglasses. When the bell rang we
all took our seats Mr. Brooks came
in and said Good morning and then
put on his own eyeglasses to read the
usual chapter in the New Testament
When he looked over his class he found
every boy sitting bolt upright staring
at him through pair of tin eyeglasses.
thought he was mad then, but l have
since come to the conclusion that he
was hurt at our making fun of his own
infirmity, although | don't believe a
single boy intended t. do that He
stopped the devotional exercises and
told us all to bring those eyeglasses
up and deposit them in the waste
basket That receptacle had been
spirited away, and finally he told
us to put them into the tall
silk hat which he had placed on
the end of his desk 1t didn't take
many of the tins to fill the hat to over
flowing, and then one of the boys under
| took to press the mass down. He did
50, and pressed the top of the hat right
out, and of course spilled the tin all
over the floor. The boy who did this
injury to the hat was profuse in his
apologies and offered to buy a new one,
but that was not to be allowed"
| An instance of DIR. Brooks noble sym.
pathy and great regard for the poor
and distressed is told by Rev. DIR. Nc
| Vicllar, his devoted friend. A poor
woman living in the parish was sick.
Dr. Brooks visited her frequently and,
besides ministering to her spiritual
wants. provided in substantial way
for her physical needs. One day the
doctor found her more than usually pale
and miserable in appearance. Believ-
ing that outdoor exercise would benefit t
her, he advised her to go out in the air
for recreation. She replied that she
could not leave her sicl1ly babe behind
and she was too weak to carry it.
'"Then go out for while and l will
mind the baby" urged the doctor. The
grateful woman protested against such
a seeming indignity to a clergyman, but
he insisted, and while she enjoyed for
several hours the sunlight and purer
air of the park the great-hearted, gen
erous DOCTOR unmindful of his position
as rector of a wealthy and fashionable
church, sat in dingy, meanly fur
nished room in a back alley, rocking
the cradle in which lay the peevish in
FAINT until It's mothers return.-N. Y.
| Press,
The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1893-03-04
NOTES OF THE FASHIONS.
New Ideas in the Making and Trimming
OF Ladies' Costumes.

OF Ladies' Costumes.
The most stylish of the universally
popular capes has an Elizabethan collar
with fur on both sides SO that it can be
turned up or down.
Among the new French color combi-
nations are pale blue and heliotrope,
maroon and sea green, and browns with
greens of various shades.
The latest thing in street garments is
a natty, taut, tight-ftting coat of
medium length. With this is worn a
fur fichu, neck-scarf, tippet or stole
shaped collarette.
Among the most elegant costumes for
spring are those of Russian velours, and
plain, smooth-faced clothes are to be
much used both for house and street
costumes
1t is declared by those who are in a
position to know that it is tradesmen
and manufacturers who are pushing
the crinoline to the fore, and not those
who usually set fashions PAGES.
Not only economical but picturesque
are the now fashionable bodices quite
different from the skirt, which enables
one to use the ''short-length" patterns
which are found on the bargain
counters
Plain French cashmere is a favorite
material for house gowns, which are
made with simple round waist with
immense silk bretelles that cover the
shoulders and graduate to sharp point
at the belt
AS effective as fashionable is the waist
of tartan silk that tones well with the
dress skirt The tartan is cut on the
cross In the front is yoke and in the
back the folds reach from shoulder to
belt The full leg-o'-mutton is cut on
the bias.
This is the way skillful modiste
changed and freshened a handsome
black silk: A vest and panel together
with collar and cuffs OF cream-white
ottoman silk striped with fine cut let
was introduced, and when the whole
costume was sponged and pressed il
was transformed past all recognition.
Some OF the most elegant reception
gowns are being made of transparent or
openwork fabric over either silk or
satin of contrasting color, which pro-
duces charming changeable effect.
Rose color, corn yellow, silver blue,
Nile green and rose mauve are among
the colors woven in transparent nets,
which are mounted over silk of a shade
equally as bright but contrasting in
color.-N. y. Post.
The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1893-03-04
Eating Out OF rrougns.

All the men employed on the Mani
ace estate in Sicily sleep on the prop.
erty on week nights, and tramp
back to town Cor Sunday. Their food
is provided for them during the week.
In the morning they have each large
chunk of brown bread baked on the
spot herring or sardine, and as
much wine as one can drink at a
draught. In the evening they feed like
animals. There are wooden troughs
on trestles in the open air. arranged
around three sides of a square and
filled with sort of pasta" The men
stand around these troughs (they are
like English pig troughsl and feed with
their fingers 1t is in vain that their
master has tried to induce them to eat
out of plates with spoons, They broke
the plates and threw the spoons away
Presumably their idea is that sometimes
there are humps in the food, which,
feeling with their fingers, they are able
to seize upon, so securing Il large share
National Review
The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1893-03-04
Corbett's Condition.

New YORK, Feb 27.-A close friend
of Champion Corbett claims to have a
letter from the great pugilist in which
he says he is far from well. His throat,
it is said, has bothered him for some
time, and now begins to cause him some
alarm. A dispatch to Minneapolis Sun
day, where Corbett was playing last
week, brought the information that be-
yond slight cold the champion was all
right 1t is taought there that the re-
port of his illness was started to make
good betting on his fight with Mitchell
The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1893-03-04
rnttenlng DrIdos IN runis. :

A girl in Tunis after she is betrothed
is cooped up in small room, with
shacllles of gold and silver upon her
ankles and wrists If she is to be mar
ried to a man who has discharged, dis
patched or lost Il former wife, the
shackles which the former bride wore
are put upon the now brides limbs and
she is fed till they are filed up to the
proper thickness. The food used for
this custom, worthy of barbarians, is a
seed called drough, which is of AN ex-
traordinary fattening quality. With
this seed and their national dish, Gus.
eusso, the bride is forcibly fed, and
many actually die under the spoon. -
Eastern Age.
The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1893-03-04
Tho Known in a End Ely.

CITY OF MEXICO, via Galveston, Feb.
23. The trial of Robert j. Know, the
American who is imprisoned in this
city on the charge of fraudulently OBJ
tanning a large amount of jewelry, will
take place within fortnight Mrs.
Know, the prisoners wife, who is also
in custody, is still lying i'll at the Amer
lean hospital
The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1893-03-04

Old Titephist had just taken his sea
in II Woodward avenue car, when ht
suddenly arose with look of pain OF
his face.
Whats the matter with the old cod.
ger now?" asked Billts of Jilks
Must have sat down on his pocket
book" was the reply.
but what made him get up in such
u hurry?"
Afraid he would break dollar,
guess - Detroit Free Preaa
The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1893-03-04
THINKS tho Treaty is Defeated.

WASHINGTON, Feb. 27.-Dr. Paul New
man, envoy of Queen Lilioukalani to
Washington, Sunday expressed his con-
fident conviction that the treaty of an
nexation made with the commissioners
of the provisional government of Ra-
waii was practically defeated.
The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1893-03-04
A Gut OF Treasures of the Sen

New York, Feb. Coco. w. Lech-
tenthaler of Bloomington, ILL.,, whc
died at the Ross house. San Francisco,
Cal, had stored away in safe deposit
vault in this city collection of shells
and marine plants valued at $40, 600,
which he had willed to the Leland
Stanford university.
The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1893-03-04

PEoRlA, ILL.,, Feb 22. The whisky
trust headquarters, in Bob Ingersoll'a
old homestead, was burned Tuesday
morning. 1t is believed ell the records
and vouchers wanted in the congress
sioaal investigation were destroyed
The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1893-03-04
Banquet to Hoso Smith.

ATLANTA, Ga, Feb @8. The citizens
Of Atlanta will tender banquet to Mr..
Hoke Smith, the next secretary of the
interior, Monday night
The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1893-03-04

Paterfnmilias (who has just been
asked fer his daughter)-But can you
support her?
Mr.. Frankleigh Haphazard-Yes, |
think we could. Life.
The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1893-03-04
Shock.

81 had awful hard luck yesterday
said Weary .....son, the tramp 81
struck man who had work that hs
wanted done. Judge.
The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1893-03-04
No Use tor Tho,n.

''What did you do with the little
white mice | sent you?"
I'VE had to give them away. We
save no cat Truth.
Passaic City record., 1893-09-02
Endurance Of Indian Guides.

White hunters who visit the north
ern woods are surprised at the tough
ness and endurance of their Indian
carriers and guides Those fellows
will carry burden of 100 pounds for
miles with less grunting and complaint
than would be heard from white man
if he had to carry twenty pounds over
the same distance. The bulkier par
cells they prefer to carry on their backs,
sustaining the weight from their fore
heads, 'tump strap as they call it,
keeping the load in place and their ell
bows preventing it from swinging.
The Mexicans carry all their freight
on the top of their heads, and always
go at dog trot. A porter carrying
15O-pound trunk will go at pace that
the owner of the trunk can hardly
keep up with. Picayune.
Passaic City record., 1893-09-02
Original Method Of Curing Meat.

According to the Worth Ca Lo-
cal, Joe I. McLendon, of Ashburn,
has a method of preserving meat and
keeping it sweet and wholesome, that
is of his own invention, and worthy
the attention of every farmer who
raises his own supplies, and finds his
meat at this season of the yesr getting
strong and unpalatable. The plan is
this:
ssMr. McLandon has built dark
room to his smokehouse, which is
cei1ed inside and all crevasses chinked
until it is alright. So dark is it that
a man inside holding up paper be-
fore his face cannot see it. To the
ceiling and to tranverse pieces, where
the ceiling does not afford room
enough, he has fastened screw hooks,
and to these hooks he hangs the meat
as soon as it is taken out of the pack
ing box and hung in the air until the
moisture had dried cut Of it. Being
kept from the light and air it retains
its freshness and flavor, and meat hung
up in that room last fall is now as
sweet and wholesome as when fresh
cured. - Atlanta Journal.
Passaic City record., 1893-09-02
An Eminent nfeteoroiogfst.

Among the many services which
Professor Cleveland Abte has rem
dered to meteorology are the transla-
tion OF valuable papers by foreign
physicists for the Smithsonian In
stitution. One collection of them,
mostly from the pen of DR.. Julius
Ham, made its appearance several
years ago. Another has just been
issued under the general title
Mechanics of the Earth's Atmos-
phere," and includes treatises by
Helmholtz, Overlook, Bezold, Kirch-
hoff, Hertz and Hagen, to which are
appended writings OF Lord Rayleigh,
Max Morgules and William Ferrel,
which deserve place in such a
volume. Whoever desires an ac-
quaintaDce with the fundamental
laws,goyerning atmospheric motions
and engineers and aerial naviga-
tors, as well as meteorologists, are
interested in such matters-will find
these discussions of great value.
Passaic City record., 1893-09-02

Bacteria are simply microscopic
plants of varying size and shapes,
some Of them being SO small that 15,-
900 laid end to end would not make q
row more than an inch in length.
Some are fiat, others round or oval,
and still others are rod shaped. The
oldest form Of all is that of the one
that is the exact counterpart Of q
corkscrew. In all cases they are SO
minute that one needs powerful
microscope in order to study them,
and in no case can they be perceived
with the upaided eye alone.