The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1894-02-19

| the American wheat aud Hour trade
in the English midland~ He esti-
| mates the Increase in the amount Of
| flour received from the United States
| at 10 per cent. Ia four years and de-
| clares the dependence of Great Brit
ain OH the United States for "a CON
| siderable portion of her breadstutfs il
| completely established, and Is tar
more likely 60 Increase than de
crease.
The Federal election law has been
| passed and signed by the President.
| This removes all Government control
| OF elections and opens the door to all
| kinds of fraud.
Prof. +. K. Barnard, the eminent
| astronomer, has received the Orago
| media, from the French Government
| for the discovery of the fifth satellite
| &c Jupiter. This is the highest honor
an astronomer can receive, and has
| been conferred but once before. The
| medal Is intrinsically worth 1000
| francs.
Tue senate Sub Finance Committe
| is hard at work on the House tariff
| bill. 1t has decided not TO give man
ufacturers and others a chance to
| discuss the various features of the
| measure before the committee, but to
/ fix it up to suit themselves. The in
come tax clause will be maintained,
and it is stated that duty will be put
| on sugar to raise the revenue. The
silver Republicans have not made
| known what position they will take
| on the tariff question, but it Is thought
they will make trouble unless the
Democrats agree to do something for
silver. IL is a question, therefore, If
the bill can pass the Senate.
Fred NJ. Somers, who founded the
Of h Oft IN mr.
Literature in New York, died while
| on business trip to England. He
was one of the ablest literary editors
of this country.
The Louisiana Lottery dies hard.
1t now has headquarters at Tampa,
Florida, having been expelled from
New Orleans. The company which
has robbed the American people of
| about S5,000,000 a year, now has its
| drawings in Honduras.
The Chicago Fair was not good
investment for the stockholders.
Auditor Darlington of the Exposition
Company, in his monthly statement
| of receipts ana disbursements on Jan.
18th, shows that at the date men,
toned $26, 746, 420 had been expended
on the late Worlds Fair. He figures
the net assets at 81, 293, 707. If there
were no further expenditures to be In
Cured, this would represent the sum
| available TO be returned as dividend
on the stock. The capital stock OF the
company, including the $5,OOO,OOO
given by the city, amounts to SO, $685.
1875, so that if the whole surplus were
distributed the stockholders and the
city would receive IL cents on the
dollar. The net assets will, however,
be further reduced, and there can be
no hope of return of more than 10
per cent.
The sinners in Haweii may as well
prepare to be converted. Rev. L.
Dewitt Talmage is headed in that df-
rectiOn and expects to arrive there
about April 1st.
It ISIS tated thai Ex-President Har-
rison will not be a candidate for re-
| election, and that the plans are now
| being laid to give the nomination to
| Gov. Mckinley, the head of the pro-
tective policy in this country.
Anarchists are making the wealthy
men of New York nervous by declar-
ing with placards posted on their
doors that death awaits them by
means of the bomb.
George w. Childs, the great philan-
| thropist and publisher, died at his
| home in Philadelphia on February ID.
George William Childs, journalist,
publisher and philauthropist, was
born in Baltimore, Md, May Il, 1929.
In early life be attended private
schools, and during vacations worked
as errand boy in a book store at a
salary of 50 per week. He entered
the service of the United States Navy
in 1912 on the ship Pennsylvania,
| where he remained for fifteen months,
going to Philadelphia in 1874. Upon
reaching that city he found himself
absolutely without resources, beyond
| his indomitable courage and aptitude
for business. Beginning life there as
| q clerk in a. book store he was steadily
advanced, until at the age of 16 he
was a trusted employee, frequently
going to Boston and New York to buy
goods for his firm. When he was Is
years old he had saved up few hun
| dred dollars and started in business
| for himself in a small way in Phila-
delphia. He prospered, and in 1850
became a member of the firm of r. Z.
| Peterson IL Co, which afterwards was
| changed to Childs 81 Peterson. The
publications of this firm became ia
! nous, and netted the authors as well
| as the publishers enormous sums of
money.
Among the productions of the firm
| of Childs & Peterson were Familiar
| Science" which attained circulation
| of 200, 900 copies Fletcher's Brazil"
Sharswoods Blackstone" and DIR.
| Allibone's celebrated Dictionary of
English aud American Authors" DIR.
Kane's "Arctic Explorations paid
1 the author $4,000, and Brownlow'S
book Melted him SIS, 900.
After an eminently successful career
az a publisher, Mr.. Childs bought the
| Public Ledger of Philadelphia in 1854.
The newspaper had been established
for many years, but at the time of the
purchase was in a bad condition finan-
ciaIly. 1t was then that Mr.. Child,s
remarkable aptitude for understand
ing and supplying the wants of the
| people became most apparent. The
Ledger rapidly gained in circulation,
and became one of the most valuable