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The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1895-11-13
GOLD NATERKALSONINE

Adapted for Dwellings, Offices and Public
Dwellings, or any other place where
KALSOMINE is used. 1t will not rub,
discoor or scale off.
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1895-11-13

TUESDAY. Nov -.

TUESDAY, Nov -.
Stmr w 6 Hall, Simerson. from Maui
and Hawaii.
Stmr James MaEee, Peterson. from
Kauai.
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ROKEIaN NAIL sERv ZOE.
~A!xS

Steamships will leave for and arrive
from San Francisco, Vancouver ard
Sydney on the following dates, till tie
close of 1895.
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SHIPPING INTELLIGENCE.
yEH- ELs ~ PORT.
MERCHAETMES.

w II Dimond, Nilsson. San Francisco.
Bktne , g Wilder. Mcneil, San Francisco
Bk City OF Adelaide Williamson, Newcs lie
Bktne ; y Castle. Hubbard, ; +
5chr Spokane, Jameson, Port Gamble.
Bark Don AdOlfO. Larsen. Newcastle.
Bark ) & Allen. Thompson, San Francisco
Ger bark II Hackfeld, WOlters, New YORK.
Schr Robert Levers, Goodman, Hilo.
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Barometer corrected for temperature and ele-
vation, but not for latitude
The Cook County herald., 1895-09-14
The Raining Tree,

The commonly called raining tree
of the Canares, which affords a regu-
lar supply cf water to an island desti-
tute of that blessing, is wonderful
instance of natures wise provision
fo' mans necessities. This interest
ing tree is an evergreen. of consider
able size, with leaves resembling the
laurel. Every morning a mist arises
from the sea, which rests on the thick
leaves and wide-spreading branches
of this tree, and distils in drops. dur
ing the remainder of the day, till it is
at length exhausted. The peculiar sit
uation, Of the tree enables it more
readily to attract the mist. as it stands
on rock at the termination of a long
and narrow valley. The water which
distils from it furnishes every family
on the island with what is sufficient
for domestic purposes; and persons are
appointed by the council 10 ilnlicious,
ly distribute it.-Detroit Free Press.
The Cook County herald., 1895-09-14
The Teeth of Elephants.

"Whoever has looked inside an ele-
plants mouth has seen a strange
sight, said an elephant trainer "Ele-
plants have no front teeth, and they
never eat flesh or any food that re-
qulres tearing apart. Eight teeth are
all they have, two above and below on
each side, huge yellow molars as wide
as a mans hand, and Il couple Of
inches thick. Over these hay or fOd-
der is shifted by the Queerest, ugliest
tongue in the whole animal kingdom.
a tongue having no power of move
ment except in the middle. where it
shifts back and forth, from side to
side, arching up against the roof Of
the big mouth like an immense wlink-
ling pink serpent. There is nothing
stranger than the working of an ele-
phants S tongue, unless it be the work
ing of his breathing apparatus when
he sleeps. Elephants, like human be-
lngs, have two sets of teeth; the milk
teeth which are smaller than the per-
manent Elolars fall out when the ami
mails are about 1 years old. These
baby teeth, which are nevertheless
enormous, are occasionally picked up
Dy circus men among the fodder and
preserved as curiosities. Such a thing
as an elephant having toothache or q
decayed molar is absolutely unknown
The Cook County herald., 1895-09-14
A VERY BAD Triple.
One Drink Makes Some Men Drunl
All Day and Others Crazy.

one Drink Makes Some Men Drunk
All Day and Others Crazy.
capt. CaSSOn. of the British bark
Cupica, while at Astoria, on his way
out to sea from Portland, gave a re-
porter some interesting facts in Pc
gard to the gagus plant and the terri
bic effects it has on the natives of the
Gauptil island. where it grows, says
the San Francisco Chronicle Capt.
CasSon is an authority on matters per
taining to the South Sea islands. In
speaking Of the gagus plant Capt
CaSSon said:
1T is species Of cactus, aud. as l
said, grows only, to my knowledge, on
the Gauptil island. The island is a
small one, but is we'll popIlatc by
natives of the Malay race In the in
terror this plant grows wild, flourish
Ing especially in the red, rocky soil.
It looks beautiful when growing. as
you may judge from the bright hues
with which it is spotted. Opium is a
potent drug, but am certain that the
extract from the gagus plant is cal
culated to do more damage to the
human system. The natives cut the
plant in the early spring. After they
have gathered a sufficient quantity
CAcJ put ~ III ld1 Se DOWl IS anu CRUSH IL
with huge stones.
"a srayfsh sap runs out freely and
this they collect and drink, after let
ting it ferment, which it does easily.
Within half an hour after imbibing it
the drinker becomes perfectly stupid
and lies around like a log. The spell
lasts day or more, during which time
the natives say they live in paradise.
l have known sailors to try it, but
never twice. Three years ago I had
man in my crew who was driven crazy
by one drink. The first effect of the
liquor is to soften the bones and grad
ually eat them away There are ma
tives there. the victims of gagus, who
are indeed boneless and unable to
walk Or use their limbs. Then they
begin to wither away, until they die in
misery and commissions. Usually two
years will finish the hardest man.
The sufferings of the slaves to. the
drink is terrible"
The Cook County herald., 1895-09-14
A Mathematicnl Mvster

When Zerah Colburn, the Vermont
mathematical ''prodigy' visited Har-
Vard College he told in four seconds
the exact number Of seconds in eleven
years. and answered other similar
questions with equal facility. FIe
could no more tell how he did it than
child in singing can tell the laws
of melody, but it is certain that it was
done under natural law and not in op-
position to it. 1t is hardly doubtful
that all such laws are extremely sim
pie, and that they will be discovered
as soon as Investigators cut loose
from accepted theories and apply mod
ern scientific methods of persistent ex-
pertinent and comparison to mathe-
matlcs. 1t ought to be taken for
granted when such unexplained phe-
nomena are witnessed, that "the last
word has not been said in mathe-
matics or anything else.-PhiladeL
phia Ledger.
The Cook County herald., 1895-09-14
There is no baking powder which
produces such sweet and tasteful food
as the Royal Baking Powder.
All About Lead Pencils.

The ordinary sized lead pencil. such
as one gets when he goes into store
and asks TOT 1puu pu1rcit, is seven
inches in length and trife more than
a quarter OF an inch thick. Pencils
are made in different STYLES and shapes
and for many special uses. Special
pencils Of very small diameter are
made for mathematical Instruments.
Another small diameter E.ci is the
programme pencil made for dancing
orders. of which the sale in this coun-
try is estimated at 5000 gross annual
ly. Programn pencils are made
round and hexagon in shape, and fin
Ell IN a variety of colors aud styles:
some are wound with silk. Program
me pencils are sold sharpened, and
with ring and a cord and tassel at
tached, ready for use. Other small
pencils made are those used for tab
let's and memorandum books.
Checking pencils, with red. blue and
green crayOns, are now used extern
slvely in commercial establishments
and by express and railroad compan-
les, and in almost every office Thou
sands Of gross of checking pencils are
sold annually, and the sale of them is
constantly increasing. Crayon pen
ellis for various uses are made of all
colors and in many tints.-New York
SIM
The Cook County herald., 1895-09-14
Not an Insult,

She is a pretty little West End
woman and the other day as she was
getting off a crowded car on Vande-
venter avenue, she was surprised to
find her hand seized and pressed very
warmly by some man on the platform.
He held on to it, too, until she was
safely landed and the car went on.
She did not dare look up, thinking that
this was the best way to ignore so
unWarranted a freedom, and so went
on her way home in entire ignorance
Of the handshaker's identity.
That evening when her husband
came home she felt it her duty to
confess, but he seemed so unna tural-
ly severe in his manner that she could
not muster up courage to tell him of
her experience. Finally, when the even
ing was nearly at an end, as was also
her peace Of mind, he said:
I'D like to know, Maggie, why YOU
can't recognize your own husband
when you meet him on a street carp"
A few tears and satisfactory cxpla-
nations on the part Of both followed
st. Louis Globe Democrat
The Cook County herald., 1895-09-14
THE MILh TESTER.
england Behind Americas in Apply
.~7s ing IL Useful Invention.


~-1f&4 ing Useful Invention.
The English agriculturist is slow
to take advantage Of modern scientific
cream separator, the principle and
utility of which are universally under
STOOD, has not yet come into general
use N this country AS for the milk
tester, its very name is unknown to
thousands of English farmers. Yet
the value Of this simple and inexpen-
slVe appliance to every one who owns,
mitch cattle is incalcula BILE, and it's
employment is doing more to advance
the dairying industry in America and
elsewhere than perhaps even the sep
arator itself. Mere quantity of milk
does! not give any clew as to the but
ter producing capability of a COW. But
by TIE tester the percentage Of butter
fat IN each cows milk is ascertained,
with hardly any labor and with abso-
lutte accuracy, before the milk is pour
ed into the common receptacle for but
ter-making purposes.
The dairyman who has no tester
merely knows the quantity of butter
his COWS produce in the aggregate; he
has no clew as to the value of each in
diVidual COW in the herd. With the
tester. on the other hand, he knows
exactly how much butter each indiyid-
ual COW produces from every gallon
Of its milk. By this means he is enab-
led to Gull his herd, replacing poor but
ter producers by good ones The poor
COWS costs just as much for food and
attention as the good one, but the
annual monetary return of the two
animals show a wide margin of diff
ference. Moreover, good butter COW
produces good butter stock, and so.
from his knowledge acquired from
the use of the milk tester the breeder
Of dairy stock is enabled to select the
proper calves to rear and the proper
ones to reject.
In this way 1t becomes perfectly DOS
sible, as has been actually done on
farms in Vermont and elsewhere in
the United States, to grade I'D a
dairy herd from an average produc-
ton per COW of $50 pounds of butter
per annum to an average of 800.
pounds and over. With these figures
before him, even the layman will
grasp the value of such an invention
to- each individual former who uses
1t. But let us reflect what are the
money advantages of the system when
spread over the 1000 farms that con-
tribute to such a creamery as that at
st. Albans, VT, what the gain to the
whole of that great dairying state;
what the enhanced profit to the vast
dalrying industry of America. Were
the milk tester in universal use
throughout Great Britain and Ireland.
the capitalized value of our dairy
herds might be increased in a few
wears time fully 25 per cent. If. then,
the British farmer does not eagerly
avail himself Of such an invention,
can can he fairly srumble at being ousted
from his own markets by his foreign
petitOr?EWestnn tReytew.. -
The Cook County herald., 1895-09-14
Queer Money.

Here is an amusing account Of
traveller who wentsInany years ago to
Mexico and found the natives using a
strange kind Of currency. Says he:
I'm one of the small towns I bought
some lines and gave the girl 81 in
payment. BY way of change she re-
turned me forty-nine pieces of soap
the size of a small biscuit l looked
at her in astonishment, and she re-
turned my look with equal surprise,
when police officer, who had wit
messed the incident, fastened to in
form me that for small sums soap
was legal tender in many portions Of
the country.
Il examined my soap and found that
each cake was stamped with the name
OF a town and of q manufacture au-
thor1zed by the government The
cakes of soap were worth three far
things each. Afterward, in my travel,
l frequently received similar change
Many of the cakes showed signs of
having been in the wash tub; but that
l discovered was not 1t all uncommon
Provided the stamp was not obliter-
ated, the soap did not lose any value
as currency. Occasionally man
would borrow cake of a friend, wash
his hands and return it with thanks
l made use of my pieces more than
once in my bath, and subsequently
spent them. m.'-Harpers Round Table
The Cook County herald., 1895-09-14
FIGHTING FLIES
The summer Warfare and How to
COnUucr "A

The summer Warfare md How to
conquer q Pest
Housekeepers are always glad of
any information which will help them
TO conquer those. e.enemies of theirssum-
mer's peace-t1fes> Here are two
items which exRassialIries Ia:ss proved to
be of use in the1s &sss
We all know aSettlna upon
a screen door STdfher, or
those Of the kittallf fraC weather..
waiting for an OPPORTUNITY to step in
as soon as it is opened II a cloth dip
ped IN Kerosene is rubbed over the
outer side of the wire and frame Of
the screen the flies will not settle upon
it. They do not like kerosene. One
application will usually prove effectual
for several days.
The other agent-oil of lavender-is
for the purpose of disposing of such
of the enemy as have already gained
an entrance to the house
Darken all the windows but one.
The flies will soon ccngregate on that,
for flies enjoy sunshine as well as
moths detest it. Now with an atom
1zer spray the window casing with
Oil of lavender and either leave the
open bottle upon the sill or saturate a
small cloth with some of it, Some Of
the flies will soon become stupefed
and then can be brushed down and dis
posed of. If an atomizer is not at
hand rub the casing with the saturat-
ed cloth. 1t is also a good plan to rub
the oil all over any place that the
tiles like to light upon. A hangeng
lamp has often great attraction for
them, but If shade and chains are rub
bed over with the oil they will not
light upon it.
The Cook County herald., 1895-09-14

YOU?'
Ae had been spending part of the day
Only one witness, he says, could prove
this, and this is an individual who trav-
e1ed with him as far as P and en-
tered into conversation with him. Ad-
vertisements have been inserted in all
the papers by Fenthurst's legal advis-
ers, but as no answer has been forth
coming, it is generally believed that the
whole story is myth. The murder was
committed on February 6. Since his
condemnation the prisoner has been
confined in Silkminster Jail, where his
execution will take place."
*Astonishment and dismay confronted
me as laid the paper down. was the
missing witness they had so vainly
sought.
I had entered into conversation on the
return journey with the only other oc.
cupant of my compartment, young
man with a small black bag, on which
were painted the letters &C. F." I re-
membered all this distinctly. In order
to make sure snatched up my dairy
and quickly turned to the date of the
murder, February 6. There was the
entry.
The horror Of the situation now
flashed upon me. A man S lifeline lie
of my old friends son-depended upon
me-
7 looked at my watch. It was 4lst II
o'clock Hurriedly I dragged on my
boots, thinking the while what l should
do
My first impulse was to rush to the
telegraph Office. Then, with disnay, /
remembered that it was shut for the
night after 8 o'clock and that the post
master took the $3.50 train to large
The Cook County herald., 1895-09-14
A Mean Man.

A French paper tells of man who
ought to be set down as the EleaneSt
man Of his time. His name is RaDi-
neau, and he is the happy father of
three children. His chief claim to
meanness lies in the fact that he has
latel Y discovered Il plan to reduce his
weekly expenditures. Every morning,
when sitting down at the table he
makes the following proposal: Those
who will go without breakfast shall
have twOpence." 'Me-mew eXclaim
the youngsters in chorus. Rapineau
gives them the money and suppresses
the breakfast. In the afternoon, when
the children are anNiously expecting
their first meal, Rapineau calls out:
"Those who want their dinner must
give twopence," and they all pay back
what they received in the morning for
going without their breakfast and in
that way Rapineau saves a meal a
day.-Harper's Round Table.
The Cook County herald., 1895-09-14
Not Familiar With B1esstnes

There is musical association in one
Of our suburban towns which, con-
trary to the general run Of such
bodice, found itself recently with a
surplus of cash on hand. The mem
bers accordingly determined to give
themselves a dinner and invite their
wives. When they We're assembled at
the table they stood rather awkwardlv
behind their chairs until the president,
who seemed also embarrassed, finally
called on one Of the members in this
wise: brother Waters, will YOU
please ask a blessing?" This was
something that in all his varied expa-
rience Brother Waters never had done
He drew a long breath, rolled his ewes
once more in despair and in a tone in
which triumph and uneasiness were
blended, said: &C.," They went
Boston Herald.
The Cook County herald., 1895-09-14
Strength of Metal and TimE,or

Cast iron weights IA pounds to the
cubic foot and Il one-incn square bar
will sustain a weight Of 16,5OO pounds;
bronze. weight 52j pounds per cubic
foot, tenacity 10000; wrought iron,
weight 4SO pounds, tenacity 10000;
hard ''struck' steel weight 400, ten
aclty $4,000; aluminium. weight 1853,
stena city 26, 0GD.&=Ior equal sizes. the
metals are. of course, stouter than the
WOODS; but, when we consider equal
weights of the two materials, some va
rleties OF wood will prove stouter
than ordinary steel. \ bar of pine
just as heavy as bar of steel an inch
square will hold up 125,OO5 pounds.
Wood is bulky. 1t occupies 10 or -
times the space Of steel The figures
are given i'll Scientific American. July
6th. and Professor r. H. Thurston as
the authority.
The Cook County herald., 1895-09-14


world. It was a little after 8 o'clock
one evening in April that finished the
second volume of my work. 1t was with
great satisfaction that I wrote, and
with considerable flourish too, the
words, END of Volume the Second"
It was useless doing any more that
night, SO I put on my hat and coat
and started off for an evening stroll.
I had no sooner stepped into the street
than boy accosted me with bundle
OF papers under his arm and the re-
quest, Buy an evening paper, sir?"
bought one, put it in my pocket, and
resumed my walk.
My landlady had brought in my sup
per, and, as my walk had given me an
appetite, it was with no small pleasure
that viewed a goodly joint of cold beef
awaiting my attack.
1 had laid the newspaper on the table
when entering the room. intending to
read it during supper, but it was not till
1 had lit pipe and subsided into coZy
armchair by the fire that I unfolded the
sheet of printed matter
Therefore I looked at the ''leader.'
Something about new Greek loan.
That didn't interest me. skipped
through the little items of news and
hurried jottings and summaries pecul.
lar to our evening papers. Presently
my eye was caught with the following
paragraph heading:
Impending Execution of the Clinfold
Murderer.
"The murderer of the unfortunate
James Renfrew will be hanged tomor-
row morning at o'clock. The wretched
man, whose name-Charles Fenthurst-
is now in everybodys mouth, still per
slsts in his plea of innocence"
The name of Fenthurst was most IA
miliar to me. I had formed a deeI
friendship with a man Of that name
He was good fifteen years my senior
and had died about two years previous
ly knew he had a son named Charles
young fellow, who had emigrated tc
south Africa early in life. Could this
be the same man? l read on:
1T will be remembered that at the
trial the strongest circumstantial evi-
dence was brought to bear upon Fent.
hurst. The murder took place in a
house on the outskirts of the small town
of Clinfold
ut was proved that Fenthurst was in
the habit Of frequenting Renfrew S
premises and that, apparently, he was
1.-The evening. in sques-
rion He was seen neac the pace soon
after the crime was committed and sew
eral other proofs of a strongly condem-
natory character were also laid against
him.
HE has persisted from the first, how
ever, in maintaining that he was absent
from Clinfold at the very time the mur-
der took place. This was about o'clock
in the evening. At that hour he says
he was returning from London, where
The Cook County herald., 1895-09-14
The Strength of Fungus Growth.

The Strength of Fungus Growth.
An illustration of the tremendous
force Of certain vegetable growths was
recently noted in one Of the streets of
London, England. 1t was observed
that paving stone. four feet by two,
and weighing something over 200
pounds, was lifted out Of it's bed.
When the workmen raised It to put
it in place it was found that under
meath it there was an enormous ma IS
Of fungus growth of the toadstool ami
~. This grew very rapidly and lifted
the stone up to some distance above
the level Of the surrounding pavement.
AZ large quantity OF this growth had
to be taken out and the earth below re-
moved before the stone could be re-
stored to its formr place. The spores
from fungi multiply very fast, and it
is altogether likely that unless the en-
tire locality is cleaned or some meas
ures are taken to destroy the germs
the stone will have to be removed
again and again.
The enormous force of nature in this
respect has been remark ed when trees
of various sorts have sent rootlets in
to clefts of rock. In one Instance a
very narrow crevice through which a
little water constantly oozed was Sc
lected by the roOtlet Of a tree as 4 de-
sfrab1e home. Larger and larger it
grew, until after a number of years
1t split ledge Of rock, lifting piece
weighing many tons, and came out
in a crcvicc some forty feet distant
A vine of wistaria twined around the
lattice Of a very strong iron balcony
has little by little warped the iron en-
tirely out of shape. and in many place
broken it off altogether There are
many examples of this sort, and the
observing student is never at a loss
to verify similar accounts. Exchange.
The Cook County herald., 1895-09-14
An Invention in PaDer Making

a new form Of "dandy' roll has been
invented for producing watermarks
in paper. The watermarking Of paper
is ordinarily accomplished by means
of light revolving wire cylinder upon
the surface of which the lettering or
designs are fixed. This necessitates
the use of separate dandy" roll for
every watermark. The new invention
obviates this necessity, inasmuch as
the matchmaking letters or designs
are made interchangea BILE, thus avoid
ing the removal of the roll itself. The
saving in the number of rolls will be
appreciated by the papermarkers. A
further advantage is that it will be
possible to execute small orders with
any special watermark at a small cost
simply the cost for the lettering or
design.