Evening bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1895-1912, 1901-10-12

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When the Board OF Health has Sc
cured a poi contract that will stick
until the ink on It dries. tenders may
be invited for graduating the mosquito
nuisance.
The Food Commissioner reports a
diminution in the quantity OF diluted
milk for September. Last month was
unusually dry.
II was suggested at the Board Of
Health meeting the other day that the
plague news from Hongkong dictated
increased vigilance at Honolulu. What
about rat-kllling, everywhere recog-
nized as the first of precautions?
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It's hard enough to hunt the real
thing, without having to look out for
bogus dollars.
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"A sitting hen Is correct. A farmer
may set" hen on eggs, but the hen
herself sits" on eggs. During the
time that she sits. she Is "a sitting
hen. Ladies' Home Journal.
II would be Interesting TO test the &c
curacy Of the foregoing statements, but
Mt the current price OF eggs in Homo
lulu the experiment Is outside the
scope of private enterprise. Perhaps
Director Jared Smith can spare enough
from the appropriation for the Federal
Experiment Station to buy setting of
eggs for square trial. think I
could engage to find hen that would
be correct" enough to preside.
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Mrs. Sadwell-I wish you could sell a
tooth brush that would not shed its
bristles whenever II Is used That last
one you warranted always leaves my
mouth like | had been eating tooth
picks.
Polite Drug Clerk Madame. If YOU
had dipped the brush in that Capil-
larium hair rcstorer you bought here
1t would have brought ont a new cron
u bristles.
Carnegie would be grand catch
Tor a spendthrirt trust.
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lhe man up n tree expects that the
knockers OF the Hawaiian Bar Asso.
clalon Will themselves ultimately
take Knox in good part.
4 4 4
Music drives flies away" SAYS the
heading of a piece OF eclectic intelli.
gence In one of the papers. This pro.
Woes fne excuse for Chilllngworths
neiders who miss flies" when the
band plays at baseball match.
Alternately the editors of the two
morning papers are publishing rumors
each that the other fellow is about to
he fired from his situation, as II II were
news fraught with most prodigious
Importance to the public. Surely they
are not trying to make each other a
target for Anarchists by thus exploit.
ing one another's greatness,
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Those for whom night schools are
designed will probably be found. as a
rule when worth an education, able
TO pay for 1t through their own indus.
try And when It Is obtained in that
manner the education Is of manifold
greater value to the recipient Fifty
pupils would not make large school,
yet this number each paying ten cents
a night for Ave nights in the week,
yields salary more lucrative than
most publicschool teachers receive.
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While coon was unlading a boat of
its freight
A slingtul of sugar grazed hard on his
peight.
Not an ambulance was nigh
When his mates raised an outcrigh.
SO to hospital they packed the coon In
crelght.
Carrie Nation lately visited Ottawa.
the Dominion capitai, where she
smashed with her Ratchet a plate.
glass mirror in the barroom of a lead.
Ing hotel, and few bottles in another
saloon. The Canadian policemen led
her gently away without putting her
In jail. II looks like carrying the
game too far, thus to invade foreign
country, but having got rid of her hus.
band at home, Carrie was dying to con.
quer another nation.