The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1905-02-21
LOCAL BREVITlES.

Philip Peck. the Hno banker. stopped
q fast runaway in Merchant street yes
terday-
To Mr.. and Mrs. Hiram Bingham OF
Cambridge Mass, Feb. 20, 10 a. M, d
son. Alfred.
The Queen street electric car line is
lagain in operation after suspension for
several months.
A special meeting of Pacific Lodge
viii be held tonight at the Masonic
Temple. Work in the first degree.
Both Eva and McBryde were both
much stronger on the stock exchange
yesterday than they We're last week.
Father Sylvester, who has been i'll
for some months, leaves in the Kinau
to enter the Catholic hospital at La
hama.
1t is proposed by Land Commissioner
Pratt shortly TO open up for settlement
the OmaopiO, Kaianae and WaiIua
tracts on Maui.
The High School has received a. grant
of 5000 for books. which have been ex-
pended on The Century Dictionary and
other standard works.
-fiN1ChiliSg 1OIileIiy Win the local
police department, has accepted the po-
sition of police officer for the Waipahu
plantation. and will take up his duties
this morning.
The Library will close for the cir
culation of books on Wednesday. Feb.
%, Washington's birthday. The read
ing room will open as usual from a.
m. to $50 p. IN.
Rev E. W. Thwing is going TO China
by the Korea, to Shanghai Canton and
to secure new missionary
recruits for Hawaii and TO get the work
there and here into closer touch
Quartermaster Nelson of the Alameda
will be detained at the quarantine sta
ton over the departure of the Alameda, |
as he developed a case of diphtheria |
on the trip from San Francisco.
Prof Geo. Mead of the University of |
Chicago will give a talk on The Re |
ation of School and Home" before the |
Mothers and Teachers Club on Fri
lay, the gath inst, in the Y w c. a. |
rooms, to which the public is most cor
Italy invited.
The w. G. r. L. will hold its month |
y meeting in the parlor of the c. T.
church this afternoon at 2:30. 1t being
/ Frances Willard memorial meeting
Mrs. George w. Townsend will give
some personal "reminiscences of Miss
Willard and also talk on police matron
work.
The Washington's birthday wheeling
rip to Wahiawa promises to be sue
,ess. 1t viii be under the auspices of
he Y. NJ. c.. A. The party will leave
honolulu this evening on the SIS
rain to Pearl City, going thence to the
eadwaters of the Wahiawa dam. About
wenty wheelmen have signif1ed their
Intention of making the trip.
Mrs. Frear will meet those wishing
o take up a course in Browning at En-
'leside on Friday evening, February "a,
t s p. IN. This course will consist of {
even evenings, meeting after this week 4
n Saturday evenings. Those who de-
ire to take advantage of this course {
an make arrangements with Mrs. 4
Brown, general secretary of the Y. w.
:. A, either personally or by tele-
hone, before Friday noon. =
The Fellow With the Microscope" is
he title of a very interesting pamphlet :
Ist issued in printed form by DR.. Jona-
nan T. Mcdonald, Pathologist to the
hawaiian Territorial Board of Health, ii
resident of the Hawaiian Territorial {
Tedical Society and consulting physi q
AN to the Queens Hospital. The arti- !
e was read before the Hawaiian Ter
toriaI Medical Society at its annual z
ession last November. Although some
hat of a. technical description of the .
horoscope. which DR.. Mcdonald be-
ewes is one of the greatest adjuncts
the paraphernalia of the modern sur
con- the text is written in a very in D
resting way, making excellent reading Z
zen for the IaVman =