The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1856-1888, 1856-07-24

VARIETY.

NapOIeOn rock
K ing his baby, and the Goddess of Liberty standin
before him, having asked lsln the above question 3
so which The Emperor give shrug apd looks askanct
For this caricature Pun has been seized in France
IN California jury ina suicide case lately found tn
following verdict: g We, the jury, find that the de
ceased fool.''
D. The Geneva Fireman's Journal ha. for its motto
! g Out with the masheen.' Wouldn't ssOut will
$ the tfre'' be little more appropriate?
y '' Truth is stranger than felton, said the man
when told that his daughter had eloped with negro
beau.
Astonishing what difference in looks, suit Of
clothes or coat of paint will mske-but neither will
l increase the worth of what they cover
6 find Dick, that you are in the habit of taking
my best jokes and passing them off as your own
'Do you call that gentleflanly conduct 30 To be
sure do, Tom a true gentleman will take a ioE .
from a friend.''
LIEUTENANT MAURY has discovered a new class of
currents IN the ocean. His search after huckeber
res has not we regret to say, been crowned with sins
liar success
Capillary attraction-the moustache
He who writes what is wrong, wrong. what is
right.
An English paper thinks it is the first duty of teto
tallers to get the duty off from tea totally.
! brother lawyer once told John G. SAKE that
beard was unprofessional. Right said SAKE
| lawyer cannot be barefaced.''
On child being told, the other day that he must
be broken of bad habit, he actually replied Pa
hadn't better be mended 90
Alady advertises in the Glasgow Herald that she
wants gentleman for breakfast and tea The can
nbal
1t is the custom of the celebrated porcelain manu-
factory OF Sevres to present to the consort of the
French sovereign occasion of the births of princes
a cup richly ornamented. There are now at the i'm
h;oI Az
Empress Will be solicited to make her choice Painted
by the best artists, these objects are real
res.
A g remedy for perfumed BREATH has recently
been taking quite an advertising round The best
renedy we ever heard, was that of in Florida
who swallowed orange seed, and soon had breath
fragrant of orange blossoms that the ladies wero
constantly teasing him for kisses.
The scientific American describes plan for cook;no
without fire. The invention is combination of ti3
cooking dishes, placed one above another the bottom
OF one VeSsel hitting the top part of the dish below
In the lower dish of all small quantity of ouickne
is placed, and then, by means of tube cold water
IS introduced upon the lime. Chemical action gene
rates intense heat whereby the articles On the dishes
are quickly cooked, ready for the table.
A PLrMogTH ANEcDoTE.-When has a man got
enough Never till he gets little more. A very
good story of old embargo times and the war of 1918
was told us the other day Under the impulse of the
removal of the embargo, there sudden rise in
the value OF property, and such demand for it that
merchandise was sometimes carried off from the YES
sells before their arrived at their place of hu
ness, and the parties taking it in afterwards TO
say that they were at the owners mercy and must C
oay what they chose to ask. brig was lying in :
Boston harbor, which had come up new from Plv
mouth just before the embargo was laid and was P
loW IN good condition fit for The Plymouth own
II thought it was good tine to sell the brig, and
sent up his son for the purpose, telling hin To
1emand eight thousand dollars for her. and not TO
axe less than SIX John went to Boston, found how
hlngs were going, sold the brig in Il moment, and
hurried home elated with his bargain As he neared
he house, he saw the old gentleman marching up
I'D down the piazza, and presently rushing out to III
leet his son and hear the result of the SALE =
g Have you sold the brig, John 70
8 Yes, father, you may be sure of that
+" For how much, John ?''
6 For ten thousand dollars %
" Ten thousand dollars - cried the old man. with As
arng eyes, at hearing price more than double :
hat the vessel cost. Ten thousand dollars - I
ct you have sold her to some swindler who don,t 20
IRE what the price is, and never means to pay his
otes.'' - -
8 Notes, did you say, father, Wbv. there's no Tn
ote in the case. got the money and put it in the
ank draw, and you'll get t'' =
The old mans excitement suddenly cooled. and as
lie ruling passion rose In its place he said Re
ore ? y So " ''e''e =
IHE GREAT AFRICAN DEsERT-Few men have /. I'm
rrcct standard by which to measure the vast extent
the African Desert. 1t stretches westward down
the gigantic floods that tho o,,o,t o, yII y, ~ I'm
lis against the continent. Far into the high sea
Sahara extends below the restless waves, 50 that
depth OF water is but triing for miles and ships s'
mot approach the inhospitable shores Fearful
nd panks announce to the weary mariner that he is
ar the land of mysterious Africa, and warn him to
* more kindly harbors. Eastward the dread waste
reads Its white shroud the whole nothern part
the continent until at last it is lifted ON high bv I
pyramids of Egypt, and torn by the mighty foods
the Nile In vain, year after year. does it roll its
ossai dry waves over sphinx aud temples in vain linn
S SEND It's tempest tost clouds even across the fer
Vaiiey-the great god of the Nile whom the Egvp -
ns y Worshpped dbefore whom the ignorant feilah
= Aneels In blind ave. interposes his power and Cab
~ ar the sacred mountains beyond higher voice is
Stv ahaTa is thus nearly six hundred and sadd
y geographical miles, but its breadth differs, es
ay a toward the Red Sea; still it covers with its
d anu 9snaI m terrors, space much larger than