The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1903-06-10


This craze for beating records l
an abnormal mental condition.
should like to examine some of thos
afflicted with it. If they keep i. u
any considerable time they are sur
to end with a severe mental break
down. I should not be surprised
| we should have q new class of pa
tients in our asylums before lone
motormaniacs.
SALT LAKE DRYING UP.
7 SALT LAKE Otah), June 2.-Grea
Salt Lake is doomed. Readings TAX
en- today by United States Sectio,
Director Hyatt show that despite th'
1 unprecedented rainfall of the last thre,
weeks the lake level is two feet and
six inches below normal
The Headlines amazed DR.. Hyatt who
expected that in view of the heavy
precipitation that a rise would be
shown. Scientists are puzzled by the
drying up Of the lake. Some attrib-
ute 1t to a 'subterranean outlet and
others to evap grafton.
PARROT DIED CURSING TEAM
CHICAGO, June 2.-Patchotko Poll,
the official parror of the University
of Chicago, is dead, having passed
away today while Cursinp the rotten
playing by the university freshmen
baseball team. For wears the parrot
has been taken to all athletic events.
and the constant compa uionship of the
students had given to Patchotko Poll
a string of profanity thai was some
thing weired and terrible to hear.
Miss TWelva Foster, ow Ter of the
green bird secured him in South At
RIGA years ago. Poll had already nick
ed up smattering of cuss words from
sailor, but the students speedily en-
larged the birds vocabulary iTodav
the bird went out TO the practice game
and began swearing at the players,
finally dying in a spasm. He was
buried with weird ceremonial, and the
headboard over his grave bears the
Here lies Patchotko Psi
professor of many languages and mas
ter of all, as far as swearing is cor
cerned. Bum ball players viii please,
this
EATEN ALIVE BY WORMS.
SAN BARNARDINO, June Geo.
Madden, a Western Union Telegraph !
Iira,,,a, roc bro,,rb+ 70 +bo Co,1DTs-
Hospital today from the desert afflict- |
ed with a most Ioathsome complaint, |
actually being eaten up alive by thou |
sands of minute worms which have !
hatched from eggs laid in his nostrils !
while he was asleep. A description OF |
lis. condition is too revolving to be |
printable.
Madden states that three weeks ago |
he was employed by the telegraph COM
pany at Los Angeles and was sent to !
The Arizona desert. At night he was
pestered with snats, lut
had no idea of the terrible danger to
which he had been exposed Until a
week later when he was seized with
dizziness. He was taken 20 Nee lies,
where it was d;scoyerel that gnats hed
deposited eggs N his nostriIs and that
hey were Matching.
The poor fellow was brought mere.
where everything possibIble is being
lone to allay his sufferings. but 70
nope is entertained for his recovery.
This is the second case of the kind
reated here.
STRAWBERRIES CHEAP.
BALTIMORE, June 2.-Many thou
sands of dollars have been lost by
hfppers of Strawberries from the vast
ruck farms on the eastern shore of
Iaryland A great slump in prices
vas caused by the sudden breaking
f the drought and TIE hot sun, which
apidIy ripened the berr. s. They are
icing thrown on the market for what
hey will bring, frequently going at
cent a quart.
SOLD FOR OLD JUNK.
CHICAGO, June 2.-The Ferris
heel, the massive structure which
as one of the main attractions dur
1g the Worlds Fair. in 1893 was to-
lay sold at public auction. a junk
ealer bid in the Wheel ana the sum
aid for buildings. boilers, etc, was
1900. The wheel cost originally
90, 600. Outstanding against it are
onds amounting to 100000 and
oating debt of 100000.