The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1856-1888, 1870-02-19
Foreign Miscellany.
Woman nnestion-Is he rich?

Naslflllc Cldluls 10 nave I1u Il TSfNtfCHe uO1
fight.
Boston has now dominion over $685. acres o.
Matinee performances in New Orleans begin al
Spicy d~etails-annuaI statistics of the Nutmeg
! State.
The King of Wurtemburg takes three hours
for dinner.
An old lady in Indiana has put 1886 pieces
into Il quilt.
\ clergyman sprained his ankle and became a
lame 'un.
VI. Olivier, the French Premier, is Al years
old, and is the SON Of a merchant.
The . giant = farm in Cardiff, New York, has
been sold for 50 500.
An old maids love letter is called a romance
Of the middle age.
4 street car is being run in New York that
Napoleon III. has pardoncd Tibaldi, who once
attempted TO kill him.
Stewart has sold this season twenty $4,000
slawls and one for $500.
Five thousand cOnsumptiye patients resort TO
Minnesota every year, the climate there is so
favorable.
The New York station-houses furnished lodg-
ings to 1859 persons last year.
Losses by fire foot up in the United States for
the past u years $3.50 ,299 900.
There are 500 licensed vessels engaged in the
Chesapeake oyster fisheries.
Boston complains that the recent mild weather
has warmed mosquitoes into life.
Time says Horace Smith, is the vehicle
that carries everything into nothing
i Western girl likes to make bread because it
cleans her hands so beautifully.
The King of Sweden is going to deliver a num-
Der of public lectures i'll his kingdom, ON temper
ance.
1t was Charles Lamb who said he did not like
new moons, new faces or new years.
\ Pennsylvania restaurateur is under arrest
for making his " free soup ~ Of dog meat.
Death claimed % English peers and ii mem
bcrs Of the House of Commons in 1869.
The wife-s inability to make good bread is a
ground Of divorce among the Arabs.
\ sign on an uptown avenue in New York
reads thus Mrs. Reverend Dress Maker
Daily bulletins of the health and pranks of
Eugenie's pet Orang-Ontang are now issued.
We talk of - spending our time,'' as if it were
so much interest of a perpetual annuity.
\ too nimble clown cracked a joke and his
kneepan at the same time, in an English circus.
Almost any good looking man will sit for his
picture, but very few like to be drawn as jurors.
\ dead woman, eyes wide open, and thin as a
lath, was found in her room in London, starved.
cOlll DlCNODlCs OlONlHCI VI IuC 81. LDulS TlZc
fighter, is n member of the Minnesota Legislature.
The great preponderance of male over female
births in the United States just now is cited as a
premOnitf1n of another war.
An Indiana man has offered S75 for the privi-
lege Of officiating as hangman at All approaching
execution.
The New York Sun calls Mrs. Stoves new
book, "a Failure to Nindfcate Mrs. Harriet
Beecher Stowe"
o. NJ. .c-.z l. l. - - =
being rebuilt with new attractions for the coming
seaside season.
The coffin in which Giulia Grisi was buried, at
the Pere-la-Chaise of Paris, cost not less than
Is 900 francs.
Hope College, Michigan, has a japanese student,
named Tugawa. When Jap meet SOph, then
comes the Tugawa.
School has reached its three hundredth repre-
~sentatiOn in London, and the scenery has been
three times repainted.
The robbery of Minister Motley in London
suggests to the New York Herald that the
Alabama pirates are on shore.
What is at once the most curious and COM
mon-place thing to be seen at the South? \
knee-grow out at the elbow.
A London mercantile house has prohibited its
clerks from wearing mOustaches, and certain Lon
don girls are indignant.
The British POst-ofice Department made S23,-
600, 900 net last year, while that of the United
went behind So, 200, 900. No franking in
Twin brothers, II years of age, have just been
to the Massachusetts, State Prison for five
years, for burglary in Springfield.
Two sovereigns out of situations, Isabella of
Spain and Francis the Second of Naples, are now
residing in the same house in Rome.
In York, Pa, Mrs. Eliza Metzel has laid out
for burial, during the year 1869, 90 adults and
d children, making in all l47 persons.
\ little girl sent out to hunt for eggs came
back unsuccessful, complaining that g lots of
lens were standing around doing nothing"
\ Philadelphia photographer was asked by a
7Oung lady to take her picture with an expression
Is If she was composing a poem.
There is an old negro in Louisville 107 years
If age and blind. His wife is seven wears his
uniOr, and supports him by her own labor.
\ Kansas City clergyman stopped his sermon
lie other Sunday, and came out in front of the
hurch to marry an unfortunate couple ON horse
Jack.
y woman in st. Paul has been in n trance
for six weeks, and her husband refuses to
for n doctor. lie says lie intends to enjoy a
uiet time as long as possible. {
People who eat confectionery now-a-days NAV !
enerally say with Cleopatra !
n l feed myself !
With most delicious poison |
There are great numbers of people out of en- :
loymcnt at Montreal. The houses of industry :
nd refuge are full, and there are numerous APP '
for charity. !
How about those elaborate and curious COM ,
nations of figures so current last year, which Il
rOved individually that Napoleon III. would I
bdicate or die in 1869? Y
Hon. Charles O'Conor, lawyer, of New York, h
receiving great attention from the ~prelates and b
high dignitaries at Rome. lie had n special t
from the Pope. d
The Mayor of New York was brought ND n "
man. lie sent a short message and 81
read it. When will other rulers learn II
re merit of breyity? b
In Boston it is said the color of n certain =
ergyman's eyes has never been determined; ~
hen he prays he shuts his own, and when he !.
caches he shuts other peoples. :"
1t is said that Bismarck thinks seriously of re- -
gning his position as Premier of the Prussian 81
inistry, and devOting his attention entirely to II
e foreign affairs of the North German Con- m
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