The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1905-02-27

d Senator McCandless may deem
: proper to open up his Sunday bill fl
the purpose of preventing such case
p; of distress as that of the Mongolia
passenger who ventured to cross til
r Pacific, from the Orient to the Occiden
without a sufficient supply of shirt
| and collars to give him respectable Ell
trance through the Golden Gate.
The longest straight piece of railwa
lime in the world is from Nyngan t
Mourke, in New South Wales. Thi
railway runs 1876 miles on level in
perfectly straight line.
| Eagles sometimes rise to the heigh
of 5000 feet, and larks, crows, stork
and buzzards often rise 1000 feet. Blu
the average bird seldom goes 1000 fee
above the earth.
The first Japanese newspaper was
published in 1868, only forty-one years
ago and contained some news trans
lated from the Dutch papers. Today
Japan has 1,500 daily newspapers and
periodicals.
Notwithstanding the honor in which
harakiri is held in Japan, the proper
ton of suicides there is comparatively
low-177 a million, to 246 in France,
23S in Denmark, 233 in Switzerland and
SOC in Germany.
When dining with the King of Eng
land Cwhere uniform is not worm the
proper dress consists of evening dress
coat, evening dress waist coat, breaches
and black silk stockings or trousers
and white necl1tie.
An excavation 1T Herculaneun re-
vealed a bond-dated A. D. 100-appren-
ticing a slave for two years to the
''semiograph, - to be taught to read and
write shorthand, or the signs that
your son Dionysios knows" the teacher
receiving in all 120 drachmas-abou
$23.
The skin of the men and women of
some nations is much thicker than that
of others, particularly in hot countries.
The Central African negro has a skin
about half as thick again as that of a
European. That of negro is ttickest
over the head ana back evidently to
form a protection from the SUI.
Congressman Mann was in the chair
the other day when Mr.. Baker of New
York was declaiming vigorously on
the horrors of the Russian situation.
Words fail me. Ear. Speaker" ex-
claimed the orator. words fail me-"
Wen. it's III the same said The pre-
siding officer calmly the gentle'nan's
time has expired anyhow"
The silver watch worn by Captain
Meriwether Lewis on the exploration
expedition 100 years ago through Ore
gon to the Pacific, and which was be-
lieved to have been stolen from him
when he was murdered in Tennessee,
has been found. An old lady in Wes-
ton w. Va, claims to own the identi-
cal timepiece, and viii exhibit it at the
Lewis and Clarke centennial
Pope Plus X. does not believe in nepo-
tism. a brother of his is a postal clerk
at Mantua. one of his sisters keeps a
tavern at Riese. another does tailoring
at Talzano, a third keeps a store. The
two sisters who used to do his house
keeping followed him to Rome They
do not live in the Vatican, however,
but have a few rooms in a quiet part
of the city. where they do their own
work. They cannot call on the Pope
without previously notifying Bisleti,
the maestro di casa.
Senator McEnery, of Louisiana. is
very deaf. 4 correspondent for a New
Orleans paper sent his card in to Nc
Emery and the senator came out into
the lobby to see him. Good after
noon,' said the correspondent. us
there any news today?" Whats
that?" asked McEnery, putting his
hand to his ear. Have you any news?"
Yes said the senator; II think I
have just one" He reached into his
pocket, took out a cigar, handed it to
the amazed correspondent and sta1ked
away: when the senator reached
his seat he turned to Senator Pettus
and said: What do you think of the
nerve of that ST. Louis correspondent?
Why he called me from my work here
to get me to give him a cigar
Emperor William possesses over $50
full military and naval uniforms with
all their appendages of swords straps.
belts, sashes. caps. hats. helmets and
shakos-more than any other potentate
in the world. AS chief of every regi-
ment in his army he has its uniform
not only Of parade. but the ordinary
and interim uniforms as we'll. with
sword. sword knot and all complete.
Then he is the colonel of each of his
guard regiments and in this corps there
are eighteen uniforms. A large suite
of rooms is set aside in Potsdam and
Berlin in which these various costumes
hang in huge cup boards. They are
under the charge Of the kaiser's head
valet, Who has staff Of assistants
perpetuaIly engaged in keeping them