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The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1894-08-03

England, announces that the
steerage passage from New
York and Philadelphia to London,
Liverpool, Queenstown, and South
ampton has been reduced to $40.
The barkentine Newsboy is in
from Honolulu with sugar for
Spreckels says the S. F. Call of
July 10th. On July 10th William
Pugh, a seaman, and native Of
Dublin, 81 years of age, fell from
the iibboom overheard, and was
drowned. An effort was made to
save him, but he went down before
a boat could be launched.
VICTORIA, July 1S.-The French
warship Duguay Trouin leaves
here Tuesday for Honolulu. II. NJ.
S. Hyacinthe was locked this
morning. The admiralty will ex-
pend $4,000 in refitting her. She
will 60 to Honolulu to relieve the
Champion.
The bark William LIE Lecheur
was recently wrecked off Cape st.
James, on Provost Island, 600 miles
from Singapore. The captain and
crew, consisting of Is men, were
drowned.
Mate Patterson, who shipped
here as first officer of the ship EN-
pire, was recently arrested in San
Francisco for assaulting Captain
Davis, Of the same vessel.
The whaling bark Abram Barker,
owned at New Bedford, Mass, was
crushed in the Arctic on the 9TH of
May, and, in few hours, went to
the bottom. The whaling bark
Horatio picked up the crew, the
members of which were distributed
among the fleet.
WASHINGTON, July 17.-Repre-
sentative English's item of $15O,O00
for the hull Of the Hartford has
been agreed upon by the conferrees
on the naval appropriation bill.
PHILADELPHIA, July 1.-THE
cruiser Columbia passed out the
Delaware capes this noon on her
way to join the North Atlantic
squadron.
ST. PETERSBURG, July lin a
collision between ferry boats today
one OF them sank and twenty-eight
persons were drowned.
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BUILDING THE NAVY.
How the Hartford and Constitution
Will Be Saved.

WASHINGTON, July 1S.-An agree.
ment has been reached on the naval
appropriation bill by the Senate and
finally agreed to. The allowance
for ordnance stands as the Senate
reduced it, from S350,000 to 5000 600.
This reduction was made, however,
by striking out the House item of
S150,000 for modern battery for the
Hartford. The House had also put
in an appropriation OF 100000 for
new machinery for the Hartford, but
the Senate committee decided that
she was to be used as training-ship
and made an appropriation Of $780,
900 to have her remodeled, which
stands as does the Senate appropria-
ton of $4,000 for repairs to the old
Constitution at the Portsmouth
navy-yard, so that she may be used
as a training-ship for naval militia.
The Senate conferrees receded
from the amendments to pay the
Bath Iron Works for speed premiums
on the Machias and Castine $4,000,
and to pay the Samuel B. Moore &
Sons Company $4,000 speed pre-
MUM on the steel practice vessel
Bancroft.
The amendment authorizing the
Secretary of the Navy to remit the
time penalties on the dynamite
cruiser Vesuvius and appropriating
the necessary sum was allowed to
stand. The Senate struck out of the
bill the provisions making i'm
mediately available so much as is
necessary of the appropriation of
100000 for armor and armament
and S5,955,025 for construction and
machinery. Its action prevailed in
the first instance, but the bill is so
amended in conference that from the
second appropriation is to be paid
all speed premiums on new vessels
earned before January /. 1894, speed
to be based on the official reports ap-
proved by the Secretary of the Navy.
The section regarding naval cadets
is so reported that the Secretary of
the Navy can fill vacancies by the
appointment of cadets who have
been for two years residents of the
district from which appointed Con-
gressmen whose districts are unre-
presented by residents can nominate
candidates before September 1.
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WHARF AND WAVE.

DIAMOND HEAD, Aug. =, 10 PM.
Weather cloudy; wind, fresh,
northeast.
The Charleston was to leave San
Francisco for this port on July 30.
The Boston will probably leave
Mare Island soon for the Asiatic
Station.
The schooner Alice Cooke will
load lumber at Puget Sound for
Honolulu.
The barkentine Mary Winkel-
man will soon leave San Francisco
for Melbourne.
The Hawaiian bark Leahi re-
Gently left San Francisco for Eu-
reka to load lumber.
The brig L'Avennire, which re-
Gently put in here in distress, ar
rived at San Francisco on the 18th
ultimo.
Thomas St. Clair, who murdered
the mate Of the bark Hesper, has
been sentenced to be hanged on
September Dist.
Captain Davis. of the ship EN-
pire, has been succeeded by Capt.
Buchanan. The managing owners
Of the vessel insisted on the said
change.
The barkentine Robert Sudden,
recently here, will load lumber at
Puget Sound for Sydney. She will
afterwards load coal at Newcastle
for this port.
The Monowai arrived Yesterday
afternoon. She left San Francisco
on July Doth. Purser Bendall re-
ported a pleasant voyage through
out. She brought a large number
OF passengers for this port, and a
heavy mail. She resumed her
voyage last evening.
SAN FRANCISCO ITEMS.
Arrivals-JuIy 10Th. bark News
boy, % days; July Dist. bark
Ceylon, so days; July 18th, schr.
Alice Cooke and bark Robert Sud
den, all from Honolulu. July 18th.
bktne. c. F. Croker, % DAYS from
Hilo, brig Consuelo, IS DAYS from
kahului; July 18th, brig Lurline,
10 days from Hilo; July 18th.
brig J. D. Spreckels, l. days from
kahului.
Projected Departures July 81.
barkentine S. @. Wilder August
6, bark c. D. Bryant, both for Ho-
nolulu; bark Ceylon. for Honolulu
schooner Allen a. for Mahukona
barkentine c. F. Croker for HiIo.
The barkentine Wrestler which
went on the rocks few weeks ago
near Esquimalt, and which was af-
terward sold to an English firm for
less than tenth Of her value. has
been floated. She will be repaired
at Victoria and in future will sail
under the British flag.
G. D. Fahnestock, general agent
at San Francisco for the Interna-
tional Navigation Company, which
operates the American line of
steamers between New York and
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FOREIGN VESSELS EXPECTED.
Vessels.
= 4~-kSH r. ~.
ARRIVALS

From San francisco, per VI : 5
Nonowai, Aug. Nv NJ Giffard, W Pea
cock, wife and children, Mrs Hadlich, DR.
Dickson, f w Jordan, Mrs VI Rowell,
Hon ) VI Damon, G G Broughton. c Hyde
y Unna, Miss + Roberts. Vim Bradford
Oscar Toepelmann, H J Lyman IL Hugo,
Miss Grace Richards, 4 III Anterior, a +
Judd. Jr, John Warehouse. G NJ Cooke,
r Judd, a d Baldwin. f Baldwin, ]
Hirschberg, D Letcher, Mrs c VI Hyde.
Miss Mcintyre, Judge Hartwell and son, c
Davidson and 39in the steerage.
DEPARTURES.
For Sydnay, per r NJ S Monowai. Aug
2-J Benin, J Slater, Mrs J Cardoza
and maid and steerage.
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DEPARTURES.

DEPARTURES.
THURSDAY. July &c.
z Z NJ 5 : Monowai, Carey, for Sydney
via Apia.
Stmr James Makee. Peterson, for Kappa.
Stmr haala. Thompson, for Nalanae
and other ports on Oahu.
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Useful to Mariners.

The third number of North Pa
cific Coast Ports" has just been is
sued by John D. Spreckels Bros.
Company, says the San Francisco
Report. 1t is a volume containing
a mass OF valuable information for
merchants and shipping men. The
ports of Honolulu. Nanaimo, Port
land, Port Los Angeles, Redondo,
San Francisco, San Diego, San Pc
dro, Tacoma and Vancouver are
described, the port charges and the
custom house rules and regulations
are enumerated. The work was
compiled by Fred s. Samuels of J.
D. Spreckels Bros. Company.
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VESSELS LEAVING TODAY.
Stmr Kinau, Clarke. for Maui and Ha-
waii at 2 p IL.
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VESSELS ~ PntST.
This list does not :nclude co-sisrs.E

[ ST ; Philadelphia, Barker, Callao.
HBM Champion, Rookie, Vancouver.
HERCHASTMEE.
Bk + 2 Rithet. Morrison, San Francisco.
Bk Alexandra, Barfeld, Newcastle, y S W.
Bktne w II Dimond. San Francisco.
Blk Albert, Griffiths, San Francisco.
Am bktne y Castle, Hubbard. San Fran.
Bktne Irmgard, Schmidt, San Francisco.
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Italy produces 23.4 per cent. of
the wine of the world, Spain, 23.S
per cent. and France 21.9 per cent,
the three nations producing 69.1
per cent. of the aggregate output,
amounting to 3,370,OOO,O0O gallons.
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New moon on the 1st At III. 55nl. an.
Time Whistle blows 81 III. 2Sn. SIS. Pm. OF
Honolulu time, which Is the same IS l2h ON. o..
Of Greenwich time.
For every 1000 fes OF distance Of the observer
from the Custom Housed allow one second for
transmission Of sound, or SECONDS &c statute
mile.
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SHIPPING INTELLIGENCE.
ARRIVALS.

THURSDAY, Aug. >.
+ VI , 5 Monowai, Carey, from san
FrauCiscO.
stmr Waialeale, Smythe, from Hama
kua.
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Barometer corrected for temperature and ele-
vstion, but not for latitude.
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FRANCE AND COLONIES.

Paris-Alfred Houle, Charge DAFT,
and Consul-General; a HTeys
Vice-Consul
Marseilles-G du Cayla, Consul
Bordeaux-Ernest de Boissac, Consul
Dion, H-H Veilhomnne, Consul
Libourne-Charles Schaessler, Consul
Tahiti, Papeete-A F Bonet, Consul
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steamships will leave for and arrive from
San Francisco, on the following dates. till
the close OF 1894.
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Some New York Breakfasts.

Nearly every German bakery ON Third
avenue serves breakfast and luncheon TO
the furnished room population of the
east side. Some serve eggs and cold
meats, coffee, tea and chocolate. The
majority, however, provide only coffee.
tea, rolls and cakes. Nine out of ten
of the customers take coffee and cake.
The latter is not the French or Ameri-
can kind. 1t consists of four varieties
dear to the German palate apple,
peach prune and sugar. The last
named is also called cinnamon. 1t is
made of bread dough on the upper sur
face Of which is spread some butter,
sugar aud cinnamon. Then it is baked
hard.
The peach and apple cakes are made of
thinly rolled bread dough, surmounted by
slices of apples or peaches, as the case
may be- When a little butter and sugar
have been placed between the slices, the
baker has approached as near perfection
aspossible. The dough of the prune cake
is made like the other and covered
thickly with mashed stewed prunes.
In the best bakeries slice of any of
these cakes from four to five inches
square is sold for cents. A good cup of
coffee or tea with milk and sugar costs
the same. Those who like light and sweet
breakfasts can thus be satisfied for 10
cents. Probably 5000 east siders eat
such breakfasts in the bakeries every
morning.-New York Sun.
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The Origin of starching.

The course of history carries US back
no further than the year 1864 for the
origin of starching in London. 1t was
in that year that Mistress Van der Plasse
came with her husband from Flanders
to the English metropolis ''for their
greater safety" and there professed her
self starcher. The best housewives of
the time were not long in discovering
the excellent whiteness of the Dutch
linen." as it was called, and Mistress
Plasse soon had plenty of good paying
clients. Some of these began to send
her rufus of lawn to starch, which she
did so excellently well that it became a
saying that if any one sent her a ruff
made of a spiders web she would be
able to starch it. So greatly did her
reputation grow that fashionable danes
went to her to learn the art and mystery
of starching, for which they gladly paid
premium of ca or e5, and for the Sc
cret of seething starch they paid gladly
farther sum of 20 shillings.-New York
World
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rorlemache,s Consideration.

Of the late Lord Tollemache's consid-
Grafton for others an amusing instance
has been related by his brother. One
day, at Peckforton. he came down ear
ier than was his wont and happened TO
look into the drawing room. He found
the room mot done" and Uttered with
brushes and busters. Extremely dis
pleased he rang the bell impetuously,
and the inculpated housemaid was sum-
moned, but when she appeared, instead
of administering the intended rebuke.
he spologized TO her for coming into the
room so early. and was so full of excuses
for his untimely visit that she said at
last, pray, don't mention it. my lord '
London Tit-Bits.
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DREAMING.

The cooling fingers Of the twilight lay
a balm upon the fevered ebb of day,
And, languor lulled by dream winged spirits In
their fight
Between the half uncertain hours Of dark and
light,
dream OF thee.
Trflled through the silvery sphere OF fading
day.
A late bird honIeward wings its wearied way:
And, through the wide tranquility Of upper
Attunes his vesper note of farof Iminstrelsy
To songs OF thee
Far from the west the sentinel Of light
Ssts the dead affairs of approaching night
Afanle. and paints the ambient skies with
mystic gold.
Whose liquid light reflects the happiness Of old
OF me with thee.
The sky, the air. the sea, the earth, its flowers.
Lie STEPPED in magic Of the moonlit showers
And /? Far out beyond the waves, where sky
meets sea.
From star to star across the nights tranquil
lily,
come to thee.
The evening winds. distilled from fragrant
flowers,
Pour out their incense on the dew wrapt hours,
And on the still, sweet harmony Of sky and sea
stray little space into infinity
To dwell with thee
Thus when the fingers Of the twilight gray
Pour balm upon the ebbing tides of day,
l. languor lulled by dream winged spirits In
their flight
Between the half uncertain hours OF dark and
light,
Can live with thee.
Amy Seville Wolff.
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KiIrore,s Objections.

A single phrase has made Colonel Kill
gore a national character. Very early
in his congressional career he began to
say, At object" He has kept this up at
every session of congress with serene
consistency A small man. a nervous
man or bad tempered man could never
have made a success of such policy.
He would have been run over in some
way But Colonel Kilgore's Il object,
uttered with dignity and with delibera-
ton and backed by such an impressive
personality, has won its way. It has
stopped hundreds of little bills; it has
seminary a disappointed member to the
cloG.room Tuning and swearing. And
yet the big man, who is always good
humored and who smiles on slight prov
ocation, is a popular member of con-
gress. There is everything in the way
that 81 object" is said. The tone can
carry malice or anger or honest opposi-
ton. Colonel Kilgore says 81 object"
with such utter disregard of personal
considerations and with such unfailing
regularity that he has disarmed the re-
sentiment which usually falls upon OBJ
jectors.-St. Louis Globe-Democrat.
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Smelling Ont Bank Bills.

If bill must be sent in letter, the
safest plan is TO roll it tightly into the
shape of a lamplighter and lay it in the
fold of the sheet inclosed. Arranged in
that fashion, the fact that it is money
cannot well be distinguished by the
"feel" A thread, with knot at the
end, will not be so likely to fetch tell
tale fragment of the fiber paper when
drawn by means of a needle through the
envelope, and the smell of it will be less
perceptible. So peculiar is the effluvium
belonging to bank or treasury notes that
experts at the bureau of engraving say
that they can distinguish them when
sealed in envelopes by the nose every
time. A thief once showed to govern
ment detectives who had caught him
that he could pick out, while blindfolded,
from pile of 400 letters every one of
seven which contained paper cash mere
ly by scent Washington Star
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Daily Advertiser SOC. per month
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a Hair Splitting Bishop.

1t is recorded of a certain hair split
ting English bishop, who was accus-
toned to compose his charges" in the
train, and whose desk was always placed
opposite to him, that he invariably treat
ed it as though it were living vis-a-vis.
The train being very full on one occa-
sion, would be passenger inquired Il
this place was taken, and the bishop,
with his sunniest smile. expressed regret
that there was no room. Il don't think
that was quite right. my lord said ON :
of his fellow passengers. What wa
not right" inquired his lordship urbane
ly. To say that the place was taken
Pardon me, did not say that it was
taken: | was particularly careful to u.s.
the word occupied. San Francisco
ArgOuaut
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FLOWER SUGGESTIONS.
maidens' Barometers For Divining the
Depths of Their Sweethearts' Love.

| maidens' BarOmeters For Diyinins the
| Depths OF Their Sweethearts' Love.
| It is singular to see how many mean
ingless ceremonies are now practiced by
young women-ceremonies which were
formerly used in earnest as love charms
or incantations. Most of these have an am
atory origin, and in connection with not
afew certain flowers are used. presumably
as a means of foretelling the future. Ii
| several parts of New England when a
young lady expects visit from her lover
she Will pluck marigold, take it in her
| hand when he arrives and carry it until
the end Of his visit, when from its fresh
or fades condition she will judge OF the
strength of his affection.
A German t-irl, after having Deen
called on by her lover, Will put star
flower or dandeliCn in water and leave II
there until his next v.1t, drawing an
omen from its condition, w@1le a Spanish
maiden will take a moss rosebud, wear
it on her breast, and if it expands to be
come a perfect flower the omen is coz
sidered exceedingly fortunate. A super
stition of the same kind is shown by the
East Indian maiden who places a poppy
in her hair. In England the primrose i;
used for the same purpose, and in cour
try districts of New England the spikes
of the rib wort plantain are taken,
wrapped in dock leaves, placed beneath
a stone, and if the next day signs of new
buds appear the omen is considered
happy.
In France young ladies DESTROYS of
ascertaining the extent of a lovers affec
ton take the common daisy and pull off
its leaves one by one, with the question,
docs he love me? Does he love me
little? Does he love me much? Does he
love me with all his soul?'' Marguerite
in Faust" uses the common blue bottle
with similar questions. In England the
ash leaf is sometimes employed to ascer-
tain the faithfulness of an absent lover,
and the Irish maiden learns of her future
by putting a shamrock in her shoe, after
which she walks abroad, and the first
man she meets or one of his name will be
her husband.-New York Advertiser.
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Malta Drinking Mater.

THE best water ever drank. writes
a correspondent. was ut Malta. where
it is collected OH the fiat roofs. which
are most carefully cleaned preparatory
to the heavy fall of rain which takes
place when the weather breaks the first
or second week in September. Every
house has below it an immense tank,
often of the same area as the house, and
about - feet deep, and into this pours
the beautiful fresh water. which comes
UP cool and sparkling when wanted"
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He Was "a senator.

Senator Allen OF Nebraska is big,
burly man who looks like prosperous
dealer in live stock. Shortly after his
arrival in Washington he was stoppe ut
the door of the senate chamber by new
doorkeeper. who informed him that no
oue save senators was allowed on the
door. Mr.. Alle,- smiled sadly. waved his
hand and said: Very well, sonny, I'm a
senator. L don't look it. know, but
alr, just the same" and passed into the
sacred precincts.-Chicago Herald
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DAILY ADVERTISER, only SO cents
per month.
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When you speak of bees. designate the
kind referred to. There are $500 species
popularity known as wild bees" 5000
being natives of the Americas. Britain
has 20 species of bees and 16 of wasps.
OF the latter there are 10 species known
to entomologisrs.
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Scared Enough to Dive.

See here" said the man who had
married a widow. hasn't your hair
turned gray rather suddenly since we
were wed!'
"Oh." said she, that's from fright. |
was so scared when you proposed to me,
don't you owr'-Indianapolis Journal
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A woman wearing stays as loosely as
is possible for such articles to be wor,,
exerts pressure of 40 pounds on the CT
gans which they compress. Such figur,-
in cold print are startling.
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In the Vatican library there is a trea-
tise on dragons, manuscript i'll single
roll 300 feet long and foot wide, the
material Of which is said to be the
tanned gut of great dragon"
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those that live on a vegetable diet, say
the vegetarians. The lion is ferocious
rather than strong. The bnll. horse.
reindeer. elephant and antelope. all con
spicuous for strength and endurance
choose a vegetable diet.
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Her Prefaranea

How is it your little baby sister goes
to sleep as soon as your father takes
her:
Little Four ear-old-I spec tits cause
she'd rather do that than stay awake
and hear him si1g.-Beau Monde
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WORK OF A FIEND.
Two Women Murdered with o Hamme
Husband Of One Suspected. ~S

Two Women Murdered with q Hammer.
Husband Of One Suspected.
DETROIT, Mich, Oct. 3i.-A special to
The News from Columbiaville, Mich,
says: At 8 o'clock a. m, an unknown
man broke into Fred SINNERS house,
about 8 miles from here, and attempted
to murder Mr.. and Mrs. Skinner and
the latter's mother, Mrs. Standby.
The man entered the house through the
cellar, went first to- Mrs. Stand!ey's
room and struck her with a hammer,
crushing her skull. He then went to
SINNERS room, struck Mrs. Skinner
three times on the head and face, and
attempted to brain Skinner, but the
latter warded off the blow with a pill
low. The murderer then ran from the
h0use and has SO far eluded capture,
Mrs. Standley's husband, from whom
she separated some time ago, Is sus-
pected of the crime. He was seen in
Columbiaville shortly before the mur'
der. His home is in Pontiac, and the
sheriff has left for that place. Both
women will die.