The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1856-1888, 1868-04-18

Dumas Is san 10 DC writing n novel entitled
- Abraham Lineoln."
II i n folly to believe thar the more hours chill
dren study in school the faster they will learn.
Judge Busted is holding court again in Mobile,
nearly as well as ever.
Gen. LOngs;reet PASSED through Lynchburg. on
Friday last, es roufs tn New Orleans.
The Rochester (Ninne@o:a) Union says that Mr..
PeDdleton Is nearly if not quite the unanimous
choice of the Democracy.
y newspaper correspondent SAYS that Fernando
Wool pays 81 .OO0 a month for the house which
he keeps in Washington.
\ bill i pending before the New York Lesisla-
ture prohibiting the marriage of first cousins
under 4 heavy penalty Of fine and imprisonment
George Francis Train remarks. in letter written
At rea: Z" ShipbOard Is The place to read charac-
ter: all there Il IN 4 man pops out when lie Is sea-
sick"
Noah was probably the first Ter~on who went
to sea for fear OF being drowned.
" There are more PERSONS Of Irish blood in
America than in Ireland itself" said Mr.. Shaw
Lefevre, in n recent lecture in England.
Banana plant roots are being imported into
California from Nicaragua, with view 70 cultiya-
ting the fruit.
a. do wonder how they make lucifer matches?"
said Mrs. Caudle. The process l. very simple"
said Mr.. Caudle. q. once made one.'i s.How
did YOU manage IL p" The asked. :. By leading
you to tile altar. +" he replied.
4. Eleonora. wilt thou take this nan TO be thy
welded husband" asked the officiating clergyman.
. Ieth thir, l should like 10, ifyou pleath, "lispei
EleOnora, dropping 4 pretty COURTESY.
4 welding came OF in Boston the other day in
which IL l. said the two families concerned were
worth twenty millions of dollars. There Is dan
ger Of 3 fight there.
The census reveals the fact that in the States
west of the Mississippi there are 230 900 lonely
bachelors marching through the world alone and
uncontrolled.
\ BJston naturalist SAYS that the strains pro-
dueed by grasshOpIers are obtained by playing on
their legs like 4 fiddle, with their hind legs used
rs q bow. Different kinds of locusts play differ
emily in time and tune.
The famous American clown, called the Maufy,
committed suicide recently at Berlin. in the pres
enee of two thousand Spectators, by firing a pistol
in his mouth at the moment ,e was hanging by
his feet To the ceiling of the thea.rc.
VIM. Cullen Bryant il writing three poems for
the v. Y. Lager, for which Bonner pays him
S3, 900. This Is the largest amount ever paid 10
u poet.
Aguisifire Hffk Miss. Ma, where do poor
people 90 when they die:'
A1aocrqtie Ma. To Heaven, / hope, my dear,
the greater portion Of them"
L:tlisinre hiis Mis- To Heaven. ma, Why
where do they get their money to pay for their
pews-'
To learn to read the following SO as TO make
good sense l. the mystery
the r=Ai >e that me,
But that AID you have youu
Little Mary was discr sing the great hereafter
with her mamma, when the following ensued
Mamma will you 60 { beayen when youdie? ?"
Yes, | hope 50, my child"
We'll, I'll 20 too, or you'll be lonesome
"Oh, ye-, and | hope your papa will 20, too"
"Oh, no papa can't 90. lie can't leave the
EcnoE.-Of what has Heaven given US an equal
share? Air.
What does n rumor do when it flies? Lies.
Which Is the lOyliest flower that grows? Rose.
Whose children are we apt to think the sweet
est flowers? Ours.
Labor by farm hands IN Virginia has experienced
a remarkable depreciation, and the result is that
in the counties adjacent to Petersburg the highest
rate Of wages does not exceed IS per month,
while in North Carolina ii rates from - 10 S6.
Any number of laborers, il Is stated, may be had
1t thc-e prices, and they are glad to accept the
offer.
\ shepherd once, to prove tic quiclness, of his
dog, who was lying by the fire in the house, where
we Were talking, said 10 me-. in the middle of a
sentence concerning something else, = I'm think
ing, sir, that the cow j. in the potatoes" Though
he puTp1Scly laid no stress ON these words. but
said them in a quiet, unconcernel tone of voice,
the dog. who appeared 10 lie asleep. Immediately
jumped up, and leaped through the open window,
and scrambled mp TO the turf roof OF the house.
from which he could see the potato field. He then
mot seeing the COW there) ran and looked into the
pasture where the cow was, and finding that all
vas right. came back to tie house. After 4 short
time. the shepherd said the same words again, and
the dog repeated his lookout: but on the false
alarm being a third time given, the dog got up. and
wagging his tail, looked his master in the face
that lac could Mt help laughing ut him. on which.
with n slight growl, he laid himself down in his
warm corner with an offended air, and n if de-
ternined not to be made a fool of aglin.-Jesse.
mo presents will be received, except from re-
Ii is said TO be the very latest New
York notion. to attach 10 cards Of invitation to
weddings and wedding PARTIES, the above special
notice. The explanation is-that the fashion of
making costly presents To brides by those invited
IL weddings has become ~ prevalent, that many
are declining all such Invitations, except of par
ticular friends and this note Bene Is attached TO
parties from being utterly foTsaken. il Is not a
bad idea and 1T the whole notion of enforced
presents could he utterly and forever exploded, il
would be a grand contamination. Ii IL no doubt
much more blessed u give than In receive, If the
j. spontaneous. and Of love. Ii l. n cheerful
.iver that the Great Giver loves, and no other
giyer Is of much account among men even.
WILL AND SHALL.-Maeaulay, in one of his crit
iques, saws that =. not one L0ndoner in a million
mIs-Ilaees his will and shall = and. he might
have added. his would and should. But | am in
TO believe that in America scarcely one man
in a million ever fails to misplace them. Mr..
Moon has already referred to this popularity in
American writers in one of his recent criticisms.
The truth is, this vulgarism is getting to be an in
tOlerable nuisance We meet ii everywhere.
We will have a universal bankruptcy within
three months. exclaims one of the most dashing
and slashing ofOur Jefferson Bricks. " We will
be inevitably lost. unless etc, etc, cries .
ashionablr Wbitefield. IL would very much
ike TO see" etc, say half the persons YOU con-