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The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1894-05-01
A New Adjustment.

A Custom House guard named
Behrens has been dismissed from
the Port Surveyors force. The
reason for his dismissal is explained
in this way: Under the new adj
justment, the first class force of in
spectors has been reduced from six
to four. Captain Whitney, another
inspector, has been changed to a
lower grade. The new office of
Deputy Port Surveyor has not been
filled as yet.
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1894-05-01
SHIPPING INTELLIGENCE.
DEPARTURES.
VESSELS LEAVING TO-DAY.

Stmr Mikahala. CLANCY, for Kauai, at 2
p III.
Stmr Walaleale, Smythe, for Honokaa,
at noon.
Stnlr Claudine, Cameron. for Maui, at 5
pm.
Stmr Kinau. Clarke, for Il aui and Ha-
wall, al 2 p m.
San Francisco.
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1894-05-01

Daily ADVERTISER Is cents a
month.
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1894-05-01

SE->nLs Az kORT.
tThia iist docs uoI include coasters.)
NAVAL

tThIa iist docs IloG include coasters.)
NAVAL VESSELS.
o s Philadelphia, Barker. Callao.
French cruiser Duchaffault, Dupius, Callao.
81 / J NJ TakachihO, NOmura, Yokohama.
III 3 NJ Champion, Rookie, EsquImalt.
MERCHANTMEN.
Am sch G Holmes, Johnson, PIT Blakely.
Am sch VIM Bowden, Fjerem 5 T.
Am blk r p Rithet, Morrison. S +.
Am Miss stmr Morning Star, Garland.
Ship Occidental, Morse, Comax, 3 g.
Am schr Golden Shore, Bernholnl, \ s w.
Schr w f Whitman, Petersen, Newcastle.
Nor blk Petrus, Andersen, Newcastle.
Am bktne Jane l. Stanford, Newcastle.
Blk G. Allen, Thompson, San Francisco.
Bktne n Castle, Hubbard San Fran.
Bktne Mary Winkelman, Nissen, San F.
Haw blk Leahi, Nielsen, Nanaimo, Il G
Am schr Salvador, Wells, n s w.
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1894-05-01

New moon on the 5th at Al. 10 M a. M.
Time whistle blows ut III. 28m. S4s. Pm. OF
uonoIn1m TINA. which is the same as 12h. 0m. o..
of Greenwich time.
For every 1000 feet of distance OF the observer
from the Custom House) allow one second Ior
fransmission of sound, or seconds to statute
mile.
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1894-05-01

DIAMOND HEAD, April 80, 10
P. M.-Weather hazy; wind, light
southeast.
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The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1894-05-01
PASSE NGERS.
DEPARTURES.

For Kauai, per stmr Iwalani. April 30
III + Knudsen, Mrs Smith, Captain All
born, and II on deck.
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1894-05-01

Steamships will leave for and arrive from
San Francisco, on the following dates, till
the close of 1894.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1894-06-22
SUGGESTIONS.

Crackers, after becoming damp can
be made nice as when fresh, by crisp
ing them in the oven.
Baking soda will remove grease
spots from the kitchen floor. Moisten
the soda and rub it on the grease
spots with q cloth.
Iwonder if the sisters know that
kerosene will take iron rust and fruit
stains from almost every kind Of
goods without injuring the fabric in
the least?
/ learned new way to make dump
lings the other day which is too nice
to keep to myself. Make a rich bis
cult dough, roll out pieces large as a
tea plate. In the center put canned
or stewed fruit Of any kind, leaving off
the juice. Draw the edges up, pinch
them together, place the dumplings in
a buttered tin, put bits of butter and
plenty OF sugar on each, crate over a
little nutmeg, then pour ON the juice
of the fruit and enough hot water to
cover. Bake for an hour and serve
in saucers. They make nice change
this time of the year when it is hard
for the housekeeper to think of some.
thing to tempt the appetite.
AUNT PRUE.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1894-06-22
SOME RECIPES.

STRAWBERRY SYRUP.-Make o syrup
OF one pound of sugar and one pint OF
water and boil it till it will spin a
thread. Skim before it begins to boil.
Add one pint of strawberry juice and
boil for thrse-quarters of an hour.
Seal hot.
BAKED RHUBARB.-Peel and cut
into two-inch lengths three punches
of rhubarb. Dredge with flour and
put in baking dish with one large cup
of sugar sprinkled over. Bake in mod.
crate oven three-quarters of an hour.
Very nice served hot as o vegetable, OF
cold as salad.
LETTUCE DREssING.-One-hal pint
of cream or rich milk, one-half pint
OF good vinegar (weak), one small tea.
cup of sugar, three eggs we'll beaten, q
lump of butter size of an egg, one tea.
spoonful ground mustard. Pepper
and salt. Mix altogether cold, and
cook until thick as custard.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1894-06-22

Secretary of War Lamont is honing
his pruning knife and getting ready to
do some effective work in reducing his
force about July 1st. The department
is overloaded with employees who are
wholly unnecessary for the amount Of
work involved, so a goodly number
will be retired. Those who are lucky
enough to retain positions will be
pretty generally cut in salaries. In
other words. Secretary Lamont pro-
poses to conduct the War Depart.
ment upon strict business principles
The political barnacles will be sloughed
off.
Public Printer Benedict is making
some effective changes in his offices,
too. When he retired four years ago
there were 1000 employees in that
Office. On his return, two weeks
since, he found $500, a very remarka'
BILE increase. He will dismiss about
1900.
The fever for retrenchment il
spreading through the country and
even Spokane can be materially bene
fited by a little effective work on the
part OF the committee who has the
salary matter under consideration.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1894-06-22

The Seattle Press. Times, alluding to
the Populist idea of adoption OF the
referendum "system OF law-making,"
says:
"The argument OF greatest force
against the referendum system seems
to be the difficulty in getting the mass
of the voters to take an intelligent in
terest in the questions to be submitted
for their approval or disapproval, even
to the extent of informing themselves
what the subjscts are upon which they
are called to give an expression Of
their views by their ballots.
ain the recent municipal election
in this city, for example, there were a
large number OF amendments to the
charter proposed for adoption. OF
course, no ballot could contain the
substance of these proposed amend
ments, and they appeared thereon re-
ferred to solely by numbers.
"It was the experience OF all the
election officers that not 10 per cent.
OF the voters who appeared at the poll
ing booths had taken the trouble to
inform themselves at all on the pro-
posed amendments; did not know
what they referred to, and few of the
election officers were able to enlighten
them, until copies OF the newspapers
containing the amendments could be
procured.
"a very large percentage of the
voters did not vote on the amendments
at all, and many others pumped their
ballots for or against, as it might hap
pen, all the proposed amendments ap-
parently governed in the matter purely
by whim. Intelligent discrimination
in the voting was extremely rare.
"Yet everyone must recognize that
the amendments to the organic law of
the city were Of more real importance
to the taxpayers Of the city than the
simple question as to which of two
or three sets of fairly intelligent. Ca
pable and trustworthy men should
have the salaries OF the various city
offices.
"The people get bad laws because
they do not take an intelligent inter.
est in the selection of men to repre-
sent them. If they continue that lack
OF interest in the future no system of
referendum can remedy that evil"
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1894-06-22
BUSINESS AND INDUSTRIAL.

America has 5G3, ,49l telephones.
India laborers get five cents day.
Coal is cheap in Japan-$l.92 ton
Densely populated Mongolia has nc
hotels.
Virginia raises 5OOOOOO bushels oI
peanuts.
In Jerusalem blacksmiths get 81 81
a week.
London omnibuses are now lighted
by electricity.
OF experiment.
Cleveland, Ohio, gets its gas at so
cents per 1000 feet.
Virginia has the worlds greatest
manganese mines.
The British mint coins 25 tons OF
pennies every year.
The rice paper tree OF China is a
successful exotic in Florida.
Maryland has marketed one half
million cases OF tomatoes.
Women gardeners are in great de-
mand in England and Germany.
California strawberries are receiving
praise just now in the East.
Japanese bamboo is successfully cul-
tivated in Central Louisiana.
German butter, made of cocoanuts,
is preferred to eleomargarine.
A beer war in Chicago, with beer at
two cents glass, is in progress.
Ninety-five per cent. OF vacant pub
lie lands are in the arid regions.
Beehives should not be farther away
from flowers than two miles.
The cremation industry is carried
on in Buffalo bya cooperative society.
Gold, alloyed with 20 per cent. of
aluminium, takes on brilliant ruby
tint.
Last year the total consumption of
tea in this country was SS,l3l ,03S
pounds.
The Chicago Packing and Provision
Company last year. earned 20 per cent.
The farmer in Japan who has ten
acres of land is looked upon as a mo-
nopolist.
Over 1900. 900 people in this coun-
try live upon wages paid by railroad
companies.
The smallest coin is a Greek Lep-
ton, worth about one-fiith OF an Eng.
lish farthing.
One of the three successful skunk
farms in the United States is found in
Buchanan, Mich.
Cotton spinning with the finest
American machinery is a growing in
dustry in Japan.
Mulhall says that the life OF loco.
motive is usually 10 years and its ear
nings 100000.
The principal agricultural product
of Germany is potatoes, the second
hay, the third is beets.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1894-06-22
A Queer Lot.

Not everybody is aware that there
has existed for centuries among the
white people OF this country q class
more curious than any of the foreigners
exhibited in the Midway plaisance or
the side shows of the Worlds fair.
These are the clay-eaters of Georgia, a
race peculiar to themselves. From
the child 2 years old to the patriarch
of many winters this horrible appetite
for clay manifests itself among them.
Many OF these strange mortals live
among the hills of the Oconee, south
OF Milledgeville, in the vicinity of a
tumble down old town called Scots
borough. 1t is only few miles from
Milledgeville, but it is as far away from
civilization as Eskimoland for all
practical purposes.
The clay-eaters live in the lowest
state of poverty and care for nothing
better apparently. The soil of their
region is whitish clay, mingled with
sand beds. The clay they eat is not thai
ordinarily found, but is q fine white
lumpy kaolin, something like soap
stone. 1t is said to contain arsenic
and that is why the people eat it. A,
any rate, the habit is as fixed as tha,
of opium.eating or whisky-drinking
and no work of philanthropy or re
ligion as ever been able to rouse these
miserable beings from tho letharg,
into which clay-eating has kept them
for centuries. They look like death'l
head and crossbones, 80 cadsveroul
and skeletonlike are they. Ordinar,
! methods of making living are un
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1894-06-22
The History Of . Song.

Mr.. Bennett, a music-writer, and
Mr.. Webster were intimate friends.
He came in to where his friend Ben
nett was at business one day, while in
a depression OF spirits.
"What is the matter now?" said
Bennett, noticing his sad counten-
ance.
"No matter" said Webster. "It
will be right by-and-by."
"Yes; that sweet by.and-by," said
Bennett. "Would not that sentiment
make good hymn, Websterf"
MAYBE it wonld," replied Webster
indifferently.
Turning to his desk, Bennett wrote
the three verses of the hymn and hand.
ed them to Webster. When he read
them, his whole demeanor changed
Stepping to his..desk, he began to write
the notes.
Having finished them he requested
his violin, and played the melody. In
few minutes more he had the four
parts of the chorus lotted down. II
was not over thirty minutes from the
first thought Of the hymn before the
two friends, and two others who had
come in in the meantime, were sing,
ing all the parts together.
A bystander, who had been attract
ed by the music, and had listened ir
silence, remarked: "That hymn ii
immortal"
1t is now sung in every land under
the sun.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1894-06-22
Whist Rules for he ginners.

l. Lead originally from your best
long suit.
2. Be careful to play the correct
leads.
3. Watch the fall of the cards and
know which high cards have been
played.
4. Play your own and your part.
ner's hand combined.
5. Lead trumps from FIVE.
6. Discard from your strongest
suit on opponents trump lead.
7. Discard from your weakest sui,
on partners trump lead.
s. Make the game as easy fol
partner as possible.
8. Always return partners trump
lead.
10. Be very careful to coun
trumps.
II. Force opponents when the,
signal for lead trumps.
IL. Return partner the highest O
his suit from three, the lowest from
| four.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1894-06-22
A BATCH OF HOWS.

How to brighten the color of pink
goods Put vinegar in the rising
water.
How to remove grass stains While
the stains are fresh, wash them out in
alcohol.
How to prevent lined from fading
Put little borax in the water and
let it stand one hour.
How to prepare starch for colored
clothes TO every pint OF starch add
a small piece OF alum.
How to remove coffee stains Rub
thick glvcerine on the wrong side and
wash out with lukewarm water.
How to set the color OF blue cambric ;
Dip in solution of saltpetre, using
two or three cents worth to pail of
water.
How to remove ink, wine, or fruit
stains:-Satu-ate we'll with tomato
juice. 1t is also a good thing to re-
move stains from the hands.
How to take ink stains out of red
table cloth Soak the spot in sweet
milk. or melted tallow. If that does
not start it, hold over burning matches
How to remove iron rust from linen ::
|-Saturate the spot with a strong
solution OF lemon juice and salt, and
hold over the nose of a teakettle filled
with boiling water, when the spot will
almost instantly disappear.
How to wash blue cotton goods with.
out fading:-Put the goods before
they are washed, into water prepared
by adding one teacup of saturated
solution of borax to a gallon of water.
This need only be done once, before
they are washed the first time.
How to remove freshly spilled ink
from arpets:-First take up as much
OF the ink as possible with teaspoon,
then pour cold, sweet milk on the spot
and take up as before, repeating this
until the milk is only slightly tinged
with black. Wash with cold water,
and absorb with a cloth without too
much rubbing. Busy HOUSEWIFE.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1894-06-22
Brushes of spun Glass.

An American glass manufacturer
has now begun to make glass brushes
such as are used by China decorators
for Furnishing the gliding on China
after it comes from the kiln. These
brushes now come from Bohemia.
They are marvels of glass spinning.
They are made of glass fibres so fine
that they look like spun silk. These
fibres are rolled up in bundles about
six inches in length and in three
sizes in diameter, half-inch, three
quarters and one inch. The bundles
are wound with cord to within about
three-quarters of an inch of each end,
each end being used as a brush. The
brushes are cut square across the ends,
and so extremely fine are the glass
tibres that in the face OF the brush the
compact center presents velvety ap.
pearance. The brushes are flexible
and silky to the touch. They wear
away in use, and as they wear the
cord is cut away to leave the end OF
sufficient length,
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1894-06-22
LABELLING CANS.
a simple Machine That Puts on
100000 n Day.

Have you ever been in a earning
factory and watched the girls pasting
the snowy labels on the cans to desig-
nate the contents? If you have you
cannot have failed to notice that, while
the girls are very expert at the work,
it is comparatively SLOW, when in these
times the desire ehs to be to pro-
duce the greatest amount in the least
possible period of times
Recently a machine was devised
which has been so perfeeted that it
will place labels on 100000 cans in
working day of 10 hours. 1t is a very
simple combination of belts, cog
wheels, paste pot and crank, which
work rapidly and uniformly, and run
off $50 labeled cans a minute. Under
meath two parallel bars is receiver
that holds a quantity of paste. A
short distance from this is box that
holds the richly illuminated labels
face down and pressed up to a certain
level by means of springs. Above this
are straps and rollers connected with
wheels and a crank. On q shute at
one end feeder deposits cans as they
come from the packers, and as rapidly
as the crank is turned the cans leave
the shute at equal distance from each
other and pass over the lower horizon.
tai bars. On the run the cans each
pick up a email quantity of paste,
which is spread across the entire
width, then each picks up one end OF
a label, which in the next revolution
is carried under wire that laps some
OF the paste, conveys it to the loose
end of the label, and one more revolu-
tion presses the loose end or flap
against a narrow cushion, and that
fixes the flap so that it will not sep
arate
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1894-06-22

Miss Martin, a professor of Ohio
Wesleyan University, took the ladies
OF that institute aside one day and
counseled them as follows: al. Tell
the truth. 2. DO not talk OF your
affairs. 3. Be willing to confess
ignorance. 4. Be an attentive listener.
3. Be brief" Ten helpful don'ts were
then suggested: al. Don't use
hyperbole. 2. Don't be an egotist
3. Don't interrupt. 4. Don't jumr
at conclusions. 5. Don't use slang
6. Don't gossip. 7. Don't be curious
8. Don't be ungram matical. .. DOM
use stinging sarcasm. 10. Don't tall
thoughtlessly. Whereupon the West
ern Christian Adrocate is moved I,
remark: ave hope the professor vii
now take the young gentlemen asid,
and deliver to them the same lecture
and rub it in"
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1894-06-22
Expensive Luxurles.
81. Louis Republic.

The list of expensive Injuries in
various parts of civilized Europe and
America, if grouped together in one
catalogue would prove interesting for
the curious to inspect.
Mr.. Marquand, of New York, has
the costliest piano in the world.
Steinway made the works, and the
case, painted by Alma Tauema, was
done in London, the whole costing
$4,000. He also owns the finest bill.
lard table of the world, valued at $685.
600. Mr.. Mackey has the finest dinner
service of the world and furnished the
silver from his mines to the amount OF
$75O,0OO. After Tiffany's best artists
got through with it, Mr.. Mackey was
called upon to furnish check for
$195,OOO.
The finest string of pearls in this
country belongs to Mrs. Louis Ham,
mersly. Mrs. w. H. Vanderbilt wears
solitaire diamond ring which cost
$48 900, and Mrs. Hicks Lord has
diamond necklace valued at $250,OOO.
The most expensive picture in this
country is Meissonier's 1907" which
hangs in the Metropolitan Museum.
presented by Henry Hilton, who paid
$66, 500 for it. 1t has been estimated
that this sum would more than cover
the entire canvass with $50 gold
pieces. In the Lennox library is q
perfect copy OF the Mazerine Gutten-
berg bible, the first book printed with
movable types. 1t is worth $25 600,
and nothing better has been done
since. The most costly book in the
world is declared to be Hebrew bible,
now in the Vatican. In the year 1912,
it is said, Pope Junius refused to sell it
for its WEIGHT in gold, which would
amount to 100000. Mr.. Irwin, OF
Oswega, N. Y, has an illustrated bible
for which he paid $4,000.
The Shah Of Persia smokes a pipe
valued at $4OO, 600, and the late w. H
Vanderbilt owned a whip that cos,
over $4,000. The design was made by
Fritz Kalkenberg, the sculptor. The
whip and ivory stock. before any cary
ng was done, cost 81 90. The braidini
of the whip and the manufacture O.
1.-THE snapper occupied one entir'
month.
The costliest toy on record is {
broken nosed wooden horse, which be
longed to Napoleon Bonaparte, ant
was sold for $500. The largest pric
ever paid for cane was $4,000. I
was once the property of George ~
made OF ebony with gold top, con
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1894-06-22
Easy Bread Making.

Here is an easy, quick and sure way
to make bread which will be blessing
to all over-worked housekeepers who
try it.
To make the sponge take one large
spoonful of salt, two of sugar and
three Of flour, and scald them with
boiling water while stirring them to-
gether. When the mixture has be-
come cool add half a yeast cake which
has been dissolved in warm water.
While this is rising pare half dozen
large potatoes, boil them and mash
fine; then add warm water until they
are OF the consistency of sweet cream,
and add them to the first mixture.
Be careful not to mix the ingredients
while too hot.
Now to make the bread. Stir the
sponge well, add flour and make il
into loaves. 1t will be ready to bake
in one hour, if we'll cared for.