The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1856-1888, 1870-03-05
Fact and Fancy.

tricity. Shocking
Do YOU know any word that contains all thu
vowels? UnquestiOnably.
The merchant who has been for some time ben
on pleasure is at last broken.
The Cardiff Giant in miniature is coming il
vogue as a parlor ornament.
On what occasion did George ". give himsel
airs? When he bought a wig.
y clergyman gave this order TO an eating-hous'
waiter: Roast beef, well done, good and faith
full servant.
his council my children That is right. lie
is their Papa.
Fashionable young ladies are said to be suffer
ing with assesses on their feet, caused by tine
high French bOOt-heels now in vogue.
WHY is an overcoat like a baby? Because one
is what you wear, and the other is what you was,
We saw 4 horse un the street the other day SO
poor that the owner had tied a knot in his tail to
keep his body from slipping through the collar.
Massachusetts, contains a thief who stole the
oars and towline of ore of the lifeboats belong
ing to its Humane Society.
The late Marquis Of Westminster left about
$4,000 900 in personal property. The value OF
his real estate has never been estimated.
Women have the franchise in Wyoming with
out restriction, bat in the case of males the usual
regulations relative TO residence, etc., hold good.
\ contemporary appalls oyster eaters by de-
acribing the oyster a. q marine acephalOus mOllusc
Of the lli-brlnchiate order of the genus
Ostrea.
Governor Fairchilds ~ommend that the Leg
~islature of Wisconsin submit to the people a
/ constitutional amendment abOlIshing the Grand
Jury system.
4 little girl lost liz London streets. on being
( questioned IS TO her parentage and place OF
birth. replied that she was the {. child Ot SIN,
and was . born in Wrath
\ report has been spread in Paris that the
beautiful ship Paris Port ne -Mcy, which sailed
from Paris direct, some two months back, has
been lost of the Cape of Good Hope.
At Rheims, recently, n robber was struck dead
at night by a~poplexy in the Cathedral, into which
he had broken for the purpose of carrying Old the
sacred vessels and ornaments.
A new colony has been founded in Syria COM
posed of Germans from Wurtemberg. They have
settled upon the site formerly occupied by the
abandoned New England colony.
The Governor Of Ohio has pardoned n young
man who was sent to the State Prison for MAN.
slaughter on condition that he drinks no liquor
during the time for which ne was sentenced.
The Detroit Post announces the death of Mrs.
Cornell in that city, at the age Of 10 years. She
had been in the enjoyment of continuous good
health up to the present winter.
The Telegraph, the most cnterprising of the
London journals, has adopted the American prac-
of interviewing distinguished men. Among
it, first victims were Bismarck and the Khedive.
\ bill is before the South Carolina Legislature
for the relief of farmers, by making adj
vaneesrand the appointment of State agents in
each county TO recommend those worthy of assist
anee-
y little three-year-oId girl in New Orleans re-
astOnished her mother, who attempted To
correct her, motioning her away with n chubby
little hand and scornfully saying, ''ShoO, fly, don't
bOdder me! :"
4 young gentleman at Charles City, Iowa, sent
cents 10 New York, recently, for Il
of writing without pen or ink. He re-
eeiTed the following inscription, i'll large type. on
\ card " Write with a pencil"
Miss Elise Holt was somewhat injured bv an
accident in the New Orleans Academy. \ portion
IF the machinery fell upon her, and prevented her
filling her part in the rest of the play, as was all
to the audience.
DIR. Mary Walker had a row in Kansas lately
with q railroad conductor about her fare, and
called him n = dirty, sinking man." She then
paid the money, apparently satisfied in her own
mind that she had come of victorious.
The Detroit Advertiser alIudes thus to the dis
tinguished Senator from Massachusetts, 81 lie is
the perpendicular of the Senate and all opinions
adverse to his are too apt to be accounted by him
as fatal reflections from the right line"
Mrs. Amelia Bloomcr, n name once known
throughout the length and breadth i Of the land. is
living at Council Bluffs. Her Door health she al
as an excuse for not taking a more prominent
part in the female suffrage movement.
An English Bishop querulously remarked TO his
servant that he was dying. We'll, my lord
the good fellow, q you are going TO a better
place. - John, > replied the prelate, with an air
IF conviction, 50 there's no place like Old England
The Boston Journal casts an unkind reflection
,n the WOman's Rights movement, when it says
9 A laIv nf this oiry- xra arUbt n, E,y N Sn;rgta
she don't care about female suffrage
Inless it carries with it the right TO make pro-
,osals of marriage"
'Nireteen dresses in three days, and she said
It night that she could not 60 to supper, as she
lad not a rag to her back - What did Gussy
ay - &" Why, that he could not go either, as he
lad no coat to his stomach"
An DID author dainty remarks Avoid ar
,ument with ladies. in spinning yarns among
ilks and satins, a man is sure TO be wOrsted and
visited. And when a man is wOrsted and twisted,
le may consider himself wound up"
Nothing can be done well that is done in n
l1rry,' Oracularly declared a certain pOmpOus
in a railway carriage one morning late
Y. How about catching n train?" asked a
Sag at his elbow. The oracle was silenced.
Lady (who is canvassing for a choir at the vii
age church)-I hope Mrs. Giles, you will per-
uade your husband 10 jUin us. | am told he has
very sonorous voice. Mrs. Ga snorous
dice, marin. All ! you should hear 1t a comm
ut of his nose when he's asleep.
Some one asked the poet Lamartine whether he
vas not spending too much money in advertising
lis publications. "NO,'' he answered ''adver-
are absolutely necessary. Even divine
needs advertising otherwise, what is the
meaning of church bells ?"
In grading for a new railroad at the west the
extractor has to cut through a rich vein of iron
re. He is as much discouraged by the hardness
f the rock as was the Californian who abandoned
he diggings in despair because he had to blast
Trough three feet of silver to get at the gold.
An order has been introduced in the common
ouncil at Washington, ID. c., ." to prohibit the
aising of mosquitoes , in that city, and imposes
penalty of from one dollar to five on every per-
ON who shall allow any bucket, tub or other re-
eptacle, containing water, IN their yards without
aving the same securely covered, to prevent
Mosquitoes from propagating.
1t is estimated that there are over u, 900 900
cad of cattle in Texas alone, but prior to the war
hat State only contained 3,000.0 600 head. The
emand ceased and the cattle throTe during the