The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1856-1888, 1870-12-03
Variety.

Laziness is a good deal like money, the more a
man has Of il, the more ne wants.
Show may be easily purchased, but happiness
Is q homemade article.
The marriage of Princess Louisa and the Mar
quis Of LOrne will take place in February.
An Irishman, eating his first green corn,
handed the cob to the waiter, and asked Z" Win
ye plaze put some bsnes on me shtick."
Ms American women are celebrated all over the
world for their small and pretty shaped hands
and feet.
Law is like sieve, you may see through it,
but you must be considerably reduced before you
can get through it.
Sound advice of an old merchant: 81 Never
owe any man more than you are able to pay, and
allow No man to owe you more than you are able
70 lOse.''
Josh Billings says that {" one ov the hardest
things for emmy man to do is tew fall down on
the ice when it IL wet, and then get up and praze
the Lord
The Tauton, Mass, City Council have author
lzed the City Marshal to arrest all persons guilty
Of using profane language in the streets of that
city.
Human life is one great Saturday, in which the
2 world should get ready for Sunday closing up ac-
counts with time, and putting things in order for
. holiday
Youth and age have too little sympathy with
each other. 1t the young would remember that
|Lney may De Old, ana the old remember that they
have been young, the world would be happier.
The town authorities of Canton, Illinois, keep
. list of habitual drunkards, copy of which is
furnished every saloon keeper in the place. and
they not allowed to sell liquor to any person
named in the list.
"a The largest individual donation which history
records having been made by private indi-
~sidual has just been made by Oppenheim, the
banker of Cologne, who has sent to King William
as war gift, $750,00O.
Congregational minister, of Boston, was
Caught day lately swearing terribly at a cow
that had kicked over pail of milk. On being
reprmanded for his profanity, he said he only
swore on such occasions, and thought he should
have to give up being Christian, else trade
of that COW.
A captain, one Of the old school, being at q
ball, had been accepted by beautiful partner, a
lady of rank, who in the most delicate manner
possible limited to him the proprety of putting
reply, 50 never mind me, ma'am. shall wash
my hands when I've done dancng.''
A wager was laid on the Yankee peculiarity to
answer question by asking another. To de-
! eide the bet Down-Easter was Intercepted: I"
= want you,' said the better, .' to give me a
straightforward answer to a plain question: 80
kin du it. mister" said the Yankee. g Then
why is it New Englanders always answer a ques-
tlcn by asking one in return? - ' Du they? {"
was JOnathan's reply.
Thirty-two young ladies of Upton, Ind, re-
Gently met in council, and passed the following
resolutiOn 50 That we will not accompany any
young man TO church or places of amusement
who uses tobacco in any manner and that we
rlii discard all young men who play billiards,
enehre or poker and that young men who in
fqnlge IN protane language need not apply and
fhat We VIII not, by hook, look crook, notice
any young man who indulges in lager beer or
fwhisky; and that will not harbor young men
known to keep late hours"
"a The German astronomers and physicists have
after prolonged observation, arrived at the con-
SaostOn taas the moon Is dead planet-that is
shat 1t has :. cooled off, and Is now witbout
heal, water or atmosphere and cons.1na-,.I,.
without life OF any kind. The earth is underoo
ing the same process, according to these learned
philosophers, and will eventually be without life
or light. But we who live NAV axe no
fears % heart ON that account, as the earth can
\ cool of, say the geologists, only at the rate of
fifteen degrees in nine million years.
- It is not often that the secular press is ndorsed
hom the pulpit. But Rev. De Witt Talmadge,
IN recent address, used the following remarkable
Language . now declare that I consider the
newspapers to be the grand agency by which the
gospel is preached, Ignorance is cast ont, oppres-
sion dethroned, crime extirpated the world raised,
Heaven rejoiced, and God gIoriied In the clank-
lng Of the printing press, the sheets f1y out,
hear the voice ct the Lord Almighty proclaiming
20 the nations of the earth, Lazarus come forth
be light.'''
In 1885 two English missionaries landed on the
FIJI Islands, and the islands have already been
81 brought into state Of natural Ohristianity. This
phrase is one of great significance when applied
TO FIJI Islanders, who, half a century ago were
eannibals, and are so far lifted out of their
barbarous condition that their islands make a
4 pleasant home for civilized people. The native
population, loo, 900 in number-occupy these
200 islands, living in towns of about 500 souls
each, the villages being governed by Chief,
island has one Viii Leon, the largest island, il
900 miles IN circum ference. and yaum Leon ,the
next IN importance, has circumference of 200
miles. The whites in the Fiji Islands number
2OoO, The climate is described as delightful
fne soii IL = dark, rich loan and the products
are cotton and tropical fruits