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REMARKABLE KANAkA DIVER.

Went Down 10 the Bottom to Release a
 Fouled Anchor and Set a ship Free.
 Had 1t not been for the skill and en- d,trance of kanaka shell diver. the chances are that the barkentine John D. SpreclSles, which plies between this port and the Hawaiian islands, would have had to sacrifice costly anchor and chain while at Mahul<ona recently
 The vessel made her usual visit to that little harbor, and, having discharged her supplies and taken on considerable sugar, tried to take her departure. The seamen found, however, that the an. chor had become fast to the rocks at the bottom, and they could not dislodge it. They waited for the turn of sev- erfd tides, and still they could not free the anchor.
 Capt. Christiansen did not want to lose the anchor. and yet that seemed to be the only way out of the predica- ment. At last happy thought struck him. He sent ashore for a Kanaka. who was reputed to be slsillful diver, and. when tho dark-skinned fellow arr rived, made bargain with him to re- lease the anchor, which was lying in ten fathoms of water This did not seem to bother the kanaka in the least, however, end lie plunged overheard for q accommodating tour. He was gone ahout two minutes, and then returned to the surface to report that theanchor was cliaging te a conical-shapesl bowl der, and would have to he dragged away from it. One of the sailors warned the diver to be on his guard, as several sharks had been seen in the vicinity. The fellow only grinned.
 "Sharl no bite KanalSa,s he said. and then started for the bottom again, after giving instructions to have the chain slackened
 This time the diver was gone nearly three minutes, says Capt. Christian- sen. By the time he returned to the surface the rapid drifting of the yes sel told those on board that the anchor had been released. The captain says the anchor was by no means a light one, and he is still wondering how the Kan aka could handle it aud yet survive in that depth of water. San Francisco Examiner.
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TERRAPEN FARMING.
How the Raising Of the Valuable Diamond
 Back Is Now Being Carried On.

How the Raising Of the Valuable Diamond
 Back Is Now Being Carried On.
 While the demand for terfapin is re- stricted, being confined to the limited portion of the rich who have epicurean tastes. the cultivation, or farming, as it is called, of this priceless little animal is on the increase. It is doubtful. though, whether this great delicacy of the epicure will be cheapened to any appreeiable extent by the multiplicity of the farms, for the choice variety which cost about five dollars apiece, will always be scarce. Still, If ineX- perienced persons are attracted to the indiscriminate cultivation of the ter rapin by the inducement of large profits, it is possible that in time the common varieties, now worth from $15 to $20 dozen, will thrive to the eXtinc- tion of the rare diamond backs"
 Atypical terrapin farm contains about two or three acres of land and water. It is surrounded by board fence to pre- vent the animals from escaping. The in- terior is divided into lots. There must be sufficient marshy ground provided for the terrapins, which burrow in the mud during cold weather.
 The eggs are laid in the sun. The fe- male claws a hole in the sand, following it out in the form of an inverted cone, with the greatest nicety. In this nest she deposits her eggs, usually about a dozen, and then packs the sand down with the hard shell of her breast. The eggs are hatched by the heat of the sun, ten weeks being the average t:Iae of in eubation. When the little terrapins dig themselves out of the sand they take at once to the water and are able to look out for themselves.
 The terrapin takes his winter quar- ters at the bottom of the pond The older ones sleep ail through the cold weather. while tha younger ones re- main around the edges of the banl-N. Y Journal
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now they go in palace car style. The upper and lower berths are made up by the porters in the form of fiat trays setting on top of each other in crate. They have canton flannel coverlids plenty big enough and enjoy cool weather, as human travellers do not al- ways. The grateful of trays is put in q right-side-up-with-care box and kept cool with packing of flal1y moss and just about as much ice as they need, which is carefully renewed from time to time. Because of the care they need, the eggs generally travel with a messenger acting also as valet, but for short distances they may be sent by ex- press.
 The graduating class of 96 in the gov ernment's lobster school is the largeston record, but the commissioners do not think that the limit has yet been reached of the artificial propagation of the nightmare-breeding salad meat.
 mOWEN I,ANGDON
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means of saving many lives as well as

means of saving many lives as well as of relieving much unnecessary agony.
 Contusions are the simplest wounds made by falls and are usually disregard ed by hardy wheelmen. The remedy is to bathe as soon as possible in alcohol and water, Ponds extract or laudanum. Anything containing alcohol will act eff ficaciously. The simplest falls are usually from inexperienced riding or from slipping on wet pavements.
 Shock is a condition so common and so dangerous that it's remedy must be kept constantly in mind. The action of the heart has been interfered with through the nerve centers, and unless promptly attended to may produce grave consequences. The treatment consists in applying heat to the body as quickly as possible Stimulants should be given in small quantities except in cases of injury to the head, when heat alone should be resorted to. The near est house should be called on for hot wet towels. Sudden collisions between two wheels or between a wheel and some other object will nearly always produce some degree of shock, and if the con- tact was sufficient to throw rider from his seat, the force of the fall added to the shock may produce some serious re- suits, unless perfect rest for time is insisted upon
 Broken ribs are almost the invariable outcome which several riders going at the top of their speed fall one on top of the other. If, in this accident, the sufferer groans continually and has much difficulty in breathing. perhaps splitting a little blood at intervals. there is nothing to do but moisten his lips with liquor and carry him as gently as possible to the nearest hospital.
 For simple fracture, where the bone is broken but does not protrude, there is no need to hurry. Give the patient a little stimulant and handle as little as possible until the surgeon arrives. For fracture of the collar bone. lay the pa- tient flat on his back and keep him prac- tically quiet; but if it is absolutely. necessary to move him before the bone is set, do not forget to putt large pad Tn the arm pit, and bind the arm to the side with the hand and forearm across the chest.
 4 broken arm or leg car readily be seen, II It is compound fracture. Tn this case little can be done, but protect the wound from dirt and treat the pa-
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L0BSTERs BY THE MILLION.
Uncle Sam's Great Matching Op-
 erations at Woods Hole.
Young Holsters and Popeorn-The Habits and Habitat of the Prince of Edi- ble Crustaceans in Ameri-
 can Waters.
rcoPYnroHr. 1896. l

Woods Hole, Mass.-If you have ever seen anyone popping corn over q stow fire, you have q very good idea of the way young losbters hatch out in the laboratories of the United States fish commission here.
 Before you is glass jar filled with running water. Loosely filling it about half way up are large number of eggs nearly round in shape, and about one sixteenth of an inch in diameter, ever trying to rest upon the bottom, but boil ing and bubbling up with the force of the incoming current below and dare- ing in it like the corn on the stove. Once In awhile one Of the expanding shells falls off it's owners back and before Mr. Lobster knows it, whisll! off he goes up and away with the current through q long tube into a bigger receiving jar, ns frislly as young colt.
 Uncle Sam takes great deal of pains about his lobster crop. It is one of the most important known to the coast fisherman and the government doesn't intend that either the catcher or the eater of lobster shall starve by reason of his extinction.
 The lobster leads nomadic life, mi grating more or less from warmer wa ters to colder and from shallow to deep, according to the season. He can dis pense with claw, though unwillingly, and grow another ill it's stead. He is fond of fresh lobster himself, as we'll as of fish and clans, and eats his food bones and all, the bony part furnishing him with material for his shell. The lobster is very particular to get himself new shell when his old one has be come last years style. The shell cracks, warps. curls up and sloughs off,
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materially aided by the eontortions of the lobster himself. Then he emerges in thin new suit which gradually hardens until it is in turn ready to be cast off
 The United States fish commission is in league with the lobster against it's enemies, and these are men, other lob sters, parasites, disease and fish-eating things generally Hence the artificial hatching process.
 The female Holsters for the commits sion are caught in the ordinary way in traps or lobster pots-baited boxes or baskets, anchored to the bottom of the lobster beds with stones, and pulled up at intervals for inspection. The law in all states forbids the taking of female Holsters with eggs, or any lobster under ten Cor eight) inches long. But for the purpose of scientific propagation an exception is cheerfully made
 The she lobster is so proud of her eggs that she glues them on the out side of her body. Hence she is called at such times a "berried hens lobster For merly, before the passage of oppressive laws, these egg decorated Holsters were as great delicacy as roe shad, and the eggs were used in making sauces for salads. The United States was much quicker than the European nations to recogniza the danger of destroying the "berried" Holsters and to protect them by law.
 Fish cultural sharps talk lightly of millions of eggs. and no wonder. One average ten-ineh lobster will yield 10,- 00o eggs, an average 19-inch one about 75,00o. In the hatchers these are stripped from the lobster and put into Macdonald hatching jars, which are so arranged that a constant current of pure sea water is forced in at the bot tom and passed off at the top. The eggs are heavier than sea water, and hence sink to the bottom, where he incoming stream of water keeps them bobbing about. When the lobster larvae hatch out, their shells sink, but they, being lighter, float off through tae discharge pipe and are set free. The hatching is almost all completed h ,se,ss-~ = ' = . - %
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June of each year, thougii sometimes it continues during early July. The fe- male lobster breeds only once in two years.
 The young lobster, like young human beings, is ut first a radical, scorning the ways of it's ancestors. It lives at the surface of the water, swimming freely about in the sunlight. But as the young thing grows and gains in dig nity it becomes q conservative; grows heavier, too, in specific gravity as we'll as manner, and sinks to the bottom to crawl around and grub for dead fish and smaller Holsters as prosaically as the rest of folk. The larvae are at first only third of an inch long and swim about unreeognized by most of the fishermen. At two or three inches long they become more like Holsters in appearance, but are seldom seen of this size, as they are small enough to slip through the sides of the lobster pots.
 The fish commission doesn't bring Holsters up by hand. A hundred mil lion eggs would become big enough to fill all outdoors, by the time each egg had grown to 9 ten-inch lobster, so they are simply protected through the hatehing period and turned loose to shift for themselves at a very early age. Many of them get eaten, but that may happen to them in the end, anyhow.
 Of course no lobster eggs or fry are taken or matched for private parties be- cause no individual could profit by turn ing losses off his shore lot of little beasts that would promptly show their ingratitude by swimming out of his reach while young, or by crawling when older grown. It isn't as if they were brook trout and could be shut up in a pond.
 Still, Holsters do travel. Kahn, the Swedish savant who visited America before the revolution, says that there were no Holsters in New York waters until a vessel towing a penful of them happened to smash the pen in Hell Gate. Then the liberated Holsters liked the place so well that they concluded to stay and grow up with the country and their descendants after them.
 When lobster ergs are transported
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tient the same as from sbocr ,,.,s there be bleeding, when it sba,,1s l'es| treated as any other hemorrbage -
 Fracture of the skull is usn,ll.. tended with bleeding at the care nose, blood spots in the wb;tas = e,'' 7, eyes and immediate loss of reaso, this ease do not give stimulan+s
 Dislecations should be kent u.. cool water until medical aid arr;,
 Sprains, which are especially conn, for beginners, should be batbaa = v water if possible and kept nereaaa ne quiet until bandaged. Cold watar - i| \ also give relief. A sprained anl,a F E be set right by three or four bovns ' hot or cold applications with lin;ma and a little rest. Nose bleed is tba - common form of hemorrhage hut sa1; ous results have often attended if Th treatment is simply to keep the he'd erect and apply cold water to A bridge of the nose and back of tbe naot Snuff 8 little cold water or alnm a,S water if you can obtain it. For bleeding wounds which are SC, ous lay the patient down at full len gtl the head slightly raised, then ami cloth in the form of a pad or comnreS to the wounded spot, holding it tiebtI until it can be bandaged. The con press may be wet with clean cold wate if it is at hand.
 Bleeding from severed limbs is na, haps the most alarming condition fa the novice to behold, but it is one of th simplest injuries for first aid, if tb treatment is applied promptly. A quicI ly improyised bandage of cloth. a wo,,, ans garter or a mans suspender ca, be utilized in this emergency. It ba only to be tied tightly around the liIn| little above the point of injury and a5 ordinary stick twisted into it nnf3 there is absolute compression.
 For a smashed or scared arm the pras sure should be applied either by th fingers or an improvised tourniquet Ri rectly below the biceps muscle or abon half way between the shoulder and e] bow.
 In unconsciousness from faints th
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Mns. eARFIELo's FORTUNE.
Tie Income of the Widow of the Ex-Presi-
 dent Is s2I,0 900 Year.

dent Is s21,0Oo Year.
 Mrs. Garfield is living quietly in her old home ut Mentor, in the suburbs of Cleveland and the place has been much improved. It is now one of the most beautiful and comfortable farm resi- dences in Ohio, and an ideal place for quiet, retired life. Ii is only 15 minutes on the cars from Cleveland and less than half an hours drive from Paines- vile, which is an educational center, and one of the most cultured com munities in the world.
 Mrs. Garfield is a rich woman now, bat her wealth came witls her sorrow. Her early days, and, in fact, all her life, even mp to the death of her husband, were passed in the closest economy, and she was often deprived of the comforts and lnxuries that usnfl;y pertain to people of her station. Gen. Garfield never had anything but his salary. He was an epen-handed man, generous and careless with his money and was scarcely ever able to make both ends meet. But Mrs Garfield now has an income of $16,000 IS interest from the fund that was raised for her by Cyrus W Field after the assassination, and pension from congress of S5000, which gives her $2l ,000 10 use as she plcases, and she does not spend one- fifth of il. All Of the children are well fixed. Mollie, the oldest child, is the wife Of Stanley Brown, the representa- tive of the Alaska Commercial company h. TI.,, praeticing law in partnership in Cleve- land, and are rapidly making both money and regulations. James is a member Of the Ohio state senate with an excellent record. They are both splendid fellows and promise to be use- full and famous men.
 Gen. Garfield had more money few days after his nomination than he ever had at any other time in his life. He reached Cleveland from the Chicago convention with just Ss0 in his pocket. That represented all ths wealth he had in the world except his mortgaged home In Mentor. Knowing this circumstance, Sylvester r. Everett, the well=known Cleveland banker, in whose house he was q guest, started out one morning with a little subscription paper, and came back with ten $1,0oo checks, one of which bore his own signature. He fixed up bank book with package of bank checks, put them all in an envel- ope, and at the first opportunity handed the package to Garfield, with the re- mark that there was little pin money for his personal expenses during the campaign, and an exploration that not penny of it was to be spent for polite al purposes.
 When the general realized the amount and the nature of the gift he fell upon Everett's neck and wept like q child. He said that the greatest load he had to bear had been taken from him, for he had been lying awake at nights wondering how he was going to meet his personal expenses during the campaign. He said. too, that he never had so much money before in his life.-- Washington Post.
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A Tired Skeleton.

Living Skeleton (only one in Amer ica, at dime museum)-These folks make me tired.
 Sympathet'c Visitor-In what way? a Here I am earning $500 a week as the greatest living skeleton, yet hour after hour, day in an day out. one old woman after another stops an chins m chins at me about the things I oligaf 10 cat to get fat. V. '. Weekly.
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body should be laid perfectly fiat Y the feet a trifie higher than the h if possible. Cold water should bel piled to the face and smelling salts the nose and above all avoid crowd close to the sufferer, thereby deplIY him of much needed air. In una sciousness from many causes the I will be found to be flushed and ln event do not give stimulants, but r3 the head slightly and apply cold el9 to it. When the face is pale it mus kept on level with or lower thans body in order that the blood may ra the brain, but in either case turn8 face to one side to prevent choking case the patient should yomit, as E frequently do after serious inJurles'
 Soon it will not be an uncomn sight to see a lightly constructed 5! of bandages, splints and restora Y strapped to the frame on a blcycte at least one member of club whelh' for a run who will be deputed to E the part of surgeon if necessary. box should have the following supR neatly packed in it:
 Two splints, i. e., pieces of thin oe 171a inches long, 31a inches wlos inch thick (boxwood).
 Two shorter splints, 12 inches ion4 3 inches wide.
 An Esmarch tourniquet, l. e., a s of rubber AS inches long, A-lnch K and 3-16-inch thick. #
 Four ounces absorbent cotton.
 Four unbleaehed muslin roller x dages, inches by 6 yards
 Four triangular bandages' lower der to measure 4 feet, side bordeF feet 10 inches. ,.
 Two sponges. 2 to 3 lnches in eter. K
 Che paper of pins Large ones).
 Six needles threaded with coafsS# K ton thread.
 One yard adhesive plaster 1in box). ,a,.
 Two ounces laudanum, with lap dicating use.
 Two ounces whisky, with lapei eating use. especially in shock
 "A British patentee has the san elusive rights to his invention .a.a,.0 as a patentee in the r States and nc person in any pals kingdom can make, sell q uss s .h ventiop without the consent o' 2 entee.
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Knew Her Tastes.

She (to her atfianeed) What an inn pertinent woman that is. Yesterday she had the audacity to tell me that blue was not as becoming to me as pink would be.
 We'll, she was proLah'y right about it. She has artistic tnstes
 I'd like 10 know how you came to be so familiar with her tastesi"
 She used to be my wife and go5 them from me. Cleveland Leader.
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Flanniran Got in Tronh,a.

Ben A. Bore-rm very sorry Miss Tooker is out; you won't forget to mention that called?
 Flannigan = No, indeed; I'll run right upstairs now and tell lasr.-N. Y. World.
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1896-08-27
BERENTzEN's BRAVE ACT.

Captain Albert BerentZen, command
er of the Thingvalla Line steamship
Thingvalla, was just leaving the Gus
tom House yesterday when he was met
by tall, middle aged man.
Captain Berentzen, 1 want to thank
you. You saved my life many years
ago"
But 1 don't know you" said the
captain.
Il am Peter" replied the stranger
Eighteen years ago we were shipmates
before the mast aboard the American
barkentine Henry L. Gregg. During a
cyclone the ship was thrown on her
beam ends, and when the captain called
for volunteers to go aloft and cut away
the upper rigging you were the only
man who responded. You took your
own life in your hands, and not only
saved the ship, but the lives of every
man aboard. I want to thank you
Captain BerentZen mumbled some
thing about only having done what any
body else would have done.
Captain Berentzen is now one of the
best commanders of the Thingvalla line
He and Peter had not seen each other
since the incident.-New York World
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1896-08-27
They Scamper.

About twenty natives were collected
in a group outside the Oceanic wharf
shortly after noon yesterday, playing at
a game known as Russian war;" the
necessary figures being painted on a
dirty rag. They were huddled together
so closely and were so much interested
in the progress of the game, and Incl
dentally the so cents up, that they were
not aware of the approach of a fire.
quenter of the water front who, upon
arriving near enough, let out a yell and
jumped into the middle of the gang.
There was CONSERVATION at once, and
money and cloth were dropped and the
natives went scampering off in all di-
rections, some over the lumber piles,
others into the Oceanic wharf and four
into the water.
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1896-08-27

for San Francisco on the Gaelic, due to-
morrow. The Kaala should be in to-
day
The Waialeale will not be back from
Kauai ports until tomorrow, on account
of the load of paddy it will be neces-
sary for her to take on at Hanalei.
The w. H. Dimond is not getting her
needed installment of sugar very fast.
1t will be the latter part of next week
before she succeeds in getting away.
The large boiler that has been lying
alongside G. Brewer e Co.'S Office for
several months was removed yesterday
and placed in the steamer James Makee,
now undergoing repairs.
The schooners Kauikeaouli and Ka
Moi did not get away for Hamakua un-
til yesterday afternoon on account of
the large amount of freight it was ne
cessary for them to take.
The steamer Hawaii sailed for Ha-
wall ports yesterday afternoon. She
will probably not call at Hilo on this
trip. but will gather freight at other
Hawaii ports and return to Honolulu
a week from Saturday or Sunday.