The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1903-06-10
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Troops Starving in Kansas--Bones of Cave
DweIIers---Incompetent German Generals
Another Tesla Promise---Vegetarian
Leads to Divorce.

- most confines. AS before. we have
= wait and see. doubtful because of ttf
miraculous character of the task b.
hopeful on the strength of the wonder
I that science has already done"
vEGETARIANIsM AND DIVORCE
SAN BERNARDINO. May 27.-Grea
surprise was caused here today by tn
filing of a suit for divorce by Mrs. Al
fred H. Seccombe, a prominent societ,
woman, who alleges as her cause of &C
, ton that her husband for five years ha
persisted in prescribing a vegetarian
diet for herself and three children
When he discovered any violations o
his dietary rules. it is said, he would
launch into TRADE of abuse.
According to the complaint, which j:
free from any charge of personal vio-
lence. his usual pastime during meals
was to lecture his assembled family
upon the propriety and improperly OF
partaking of certain foods, terming al
| the meats usually eaten by human be-
ings as a mass of corruption and mi
crobes The plaintiff claims the COM
munity property and the sum of $4,000
and petitions for division.
The defendant is said to be hiding
here. having disposed of most of his
realty by transferring it to his brother,
a prominent druggist, and his attorney,
despite the fact that the court has is
sued an injunction to restrain him from
doing so until the divorce case has been
settled.
The defendant has retained counsel
with the intention of filing a cross
complaint which is said to promise
many sensational features, the nature
of which his friends refuse to divulge,
though it is admitted the woman's rela-
tives will come in for severe criticism.
ARRESTED FOR INSANITY.
VANCOUVER B. c., May PA
rather sensational incident occurred
last Sunday morning in the Nelson
Presbyterian Church, when Peter
Greschelle, an unmarried man, aged 50
years, walked to the chancel and ten
dered the pastor his purse, which con-
tanned in cash ana drafts about $500
and also offered to hand over his ranch,
a valuable estate near the city.
Gretschelle did not preface his unique
action with warning, but just as the
prayer was being commenced he made
his way down the aisle. Instead of tax
ing the man at his word the church
authorities thought he was insincere
and handed him over to the police au-
thorities.
They promptly adjudged him out Of
his right senses, for they reasoned that
no man in a normal condition would
make such an offer Nothing else un-
usual has been noticed in his actions;
nevertheless the church has declined
the gift which he so generously prof
fered.
RELICS OF THE ROMANS.
PARIS, May S1.-In the very heart or
Paris. shut in by iron ratings and hid |
den from the street by a little hill, |
grass-covered and adorned with trees, /!
lies a most interesting relic of days |
long since gone by, when this city
was under the rule of the Roman in
vader. The spot is known to those VINO
know it at all as Pare d'Arene. and /
the Roman arena in its center was dis
covered by accident. 1t is not men,
toned in any Paris guide book
There was need of a new water sup
ply in the locality on the left bank of
the Seine, not far from the Jardin des
Plantes. To provide a reservoir the
began to excavate in the
little park at Rue Navarro and Rue
Monge. After the digging had been
going on while the workmen came
upon a structure belonging to another
age. Proceeding carefully, they ex-
posed Roman arena. The entrance
TO the arena is from the Rue Navarro.
To the righ- and left are the boxes
fer the mobiles, and one larg-
ar and better situated than the rest
nay have been for the Emperor.
On the other side of the entrance
ire cages built under the seats. When
half Of the arena had been brought
10 view the work had to be discon- {
inued, as it runs under the wall CT
IN adjoining building. The city au- !
horites have decided to buy the pro- {
oerty as soon as the lease runs out I
md restore the other half of the am
,hitheater.
AUTO AND INTELLECT. i
NEW YORK, May 31.-A cable to the
World from London says: Forbes
the eminent brain specialist. a
kinks the racing motor surpasses the I