The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1856-1888, 1866-01-20
VARIETY.

Cream milk is the only article that has not
risen of late.
Butter is falling in Maine. Grease the track
and keep it sliding.
Married, in Williamson, Mass, Mr.. William
Williams and Miss Lizzie Williams. For par
ticuars see small Bills.
The leading hotels in Washington have raised
their price TO five dollars u day for the special
benefit of COngressmen.
At Chicago the Postmaster has placed at the
ladies' window girls instead of young men for
clerks. The object is to save time and stop firt-
alton.
They have a colt in Portland, Me-, six months
old, that was foaled in New Brunswick, and had
three legs when it was born. 1t is conveyed in
4 carriage.
In Burgundy hare has been shot, between
whose ears horny protrGberance some inches
long was discovered. 1t is, i'll fact, miniature
unicorn
The man who, in consequence OF the high
price Of sugar, attempted to sweeten his coffee
with his wife's smiles, has concluded to fall back
the granulated juice of cane
A bale of Cotton ut the Central mills, South
bridge, Mass, was opened few days ago, and
found TO contain four shells one loaded, weigh
ing fifty pounds in the aggregate.
The - ladies' of Reading 20 around the streets
dressed in grntiemen's apparel. No attempt IL
made to interfere with this attempt to transform
themselves into men.
y Boston lady, 40 years OIu, can repeat all
the Psalms and Proverbs by memory, and widow
Chase, of Cuttyhunk, can repeat whole chapters
of books read by her in her youth. Her age IS
81.
The latest export from Canada is a crate of
AIaItest. Kittens from Baltimore, which city Is
said to be suffering from short supply of the
feline race. Whether sausage shops abound IN
that locality Is not stated.
\ correspondent of the New York Times, in
travelling the coast of Florida and Georgia, found
n woman who did not even know what news
paper Happy woman She had seven
children and pipe IN her mouth
Two foolish young men were poisoned in Chi
clgo recently They found bottle containing
some liquid. and thinking it might do them good,
drank il. One Of them died in few hours and
the other is still very ILL., The bottle contained
prussic acid.
The Boston DaiIv Adrerfiser critcising the
prediction by a British officer that the world
will come to an end in 1873, thoughtfully re-
minds its readers that notes due ON the 10Th Will
accordingly be payable on the 10Th
\ dashing young bachelor lately appeared in
Central Park with two handsome ponies, whose
tails were done up to look like Il lady's waterfall,
and cooped up in small fsh-nets. The resem
blance was capital, and the team created great
sensation.
TIE NAx WHO woN'r PAY THE PRISTER,-May he
be shod with lightning and compelled to wander over
gunIoSier.
May he have sore syes and q chestnut burr for an
eye-stone.
May he never be permitted to kiss handsome
woman
May 543 Nightmares trOt races over his stomach
every night.
May his boots leak, his gun hang fire. and his
fishing lines break.
May his coffee be sweetened with flies and his
sauce seasoned with spiders.
May he strike oil, and be continually blest
with nothing.
May his friend run off with his wife, and his chill
dren take the whooping cough.
May his cattle die of murrain and his pigs destroy
his garden.
May the flminestricken ghost of an editors baby
haunt his slumbers aud hiss murder in his dreaming
ears
May his give sour milk and his churn rnucid
butter; in short. may his daughter marry n one
eyed editor his business go rain, and he 90 TO the
Legislature. Amen.