Hawaii Holomua, Volume II, Number 9, 11 January 1894 — PHORCED PHORAGING [ARTICLE]

PHORCED PHORAGING

Succcssful Raids by Gcncral Scissors. The Phil*d«Iphi* Cricket Club will Pl»y with au Gnglish team orgaaized by Lord Uawke at Lords in a three day match next June. The Lord’e team vi*ited the Uoited States two ve*rs ago. R. C. Pate, a Su Louia turfman who went to the City of Mexico some months ago to open a race track. believes lhat he ean pull otf the Corbett-Mitchell dght there. According to the annual report of tho Yale Pinaneial UnioncoIlege atbletics are protitabie. The Yale’s receipts from all athletic sources, wpre 151/202, tha expenditurea 135,203, and the net earninga 16.034. Conditions in JacksonviIle are now looking more promising for the pugilists and espēcially for the Corbett-.MilcheIl tight, The City Council haa passed to second reading an ordmance permitting eontest« with five ounee gloves, under the supervision of tha Chief of Poliee and upon payment of a 125 fee. The Pacific Kennel Club has expelled E. P. Schell for swindling dog buyers by giving fa!se pedigrecs to animali of low degree, whieh he declared were of thoroughbred lineage. Schell made charges against Uenry Huber. but they were dismisaed. Ricbard Gird, the beet-sugar man of Ohino, states tbat during the prcsent eeaaon 55,000 tons of bcets have boen used in the Chino factory, and that betwoen 15,000,000 and 16,000,00«) poundsof sugar have been made. The first year only 11,00 tons ot beeta were used. Last season tbe number had increased to 43,000 tons. The \VorId’s Fair, at Chicago. was the lasgest and most expensive and most profitable fair ever beld in the history of the world Tbe total receipts were aboot 114,000,000. There were 21,477,212 paid admissions. It is estimated that ihe profit to tbe *tockholden will be about 11.000,000. “Bobbi«ig in dancing will not be seen tbis year, says a fa?hion note. Everything is to be a glide wilh the molion from the knee, not from the hips, the weight of the body coming on the ba.ll of the foot. The big s!eeve tops, short full dres»es, and the Iongtai)ed coats of tbe men, make it abso!uteIy necessary to go s!ow.” _ * Mrs. Snarl—The papers says that russet sboes are going out of laahion. Mr. Snari (who has two pain on band) —Huh! That’s the way things go in thi* country. I’ll bet that Ilalian boot-blacking monopoiy ba* subsidized tbe pre«s. Nobody ean dispute the power of the press after ie*rning th*t aa Eranston, IIL, clergym*n ha* been incorporatiog editonals fr:m the Indianapolis Journal ia hi* *ermons as originaI matter. Anx:ous Iather —‘*And so, my son, yoo really think you know more lban your father? Yoang hopefui—“Sure. Yoa *aid yoor»elf tbat you coaldn't teacb tbe umpire how to play base-ball.” After l«ading careful!y ap to the *ubject ihe leacher of th« cl**s in the \V*i&' Miwion Sunday aehool felt oonfident that be had made an impresston on Soab-No«ed Mike. the bootblack. **And now, Mike.” b« «aid, adapting hia «tyle of talk to the vocabolary of the class, u «bat sort of kids do you tbiok go to h«avea? ’ **Dead oaea,” aoswtrw! SoabNoeed Mike, sol«mniy. Aad tbe moraI lecture ended right thexe.