The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1856-1888, 1870-02-05
Miscellany.
London Fun.

't1 Napoleon III now goes to bed every evening at
he.q New ZEALAND offers S75O. 900 per annum for
monthly line Of steamers tO San Francisco
sr,- Il glass piano has just been invented by Mex
ican genius.
Mss Redhead is the pOeticaI of histri-
cnic star, now shining in La Crosse.
Camilla Urso gets 81 900 for each of her Cali
brnia e5ucerts.
Ladies without regard to sex - are invited TO
"a bTn. ' "'''-' -
. An English newspaper seriously informs its
~ readers that years residence IN Chicago entities
al married couples to divorces upon application.
4 Young lady aged seventeen has been arrested
erx ID Buffalo for bigamy- She began marrying at
D. age Of fourteen.
, Squib thinks he shall apply to the Legislature
y fr an increase of capital He thinks he has
nied most every other way.
An old tobacco chewer finds that the Bible
snsJains his fayOrite habit. He quotes: 80 He
rar7 tlat Il filthy, let him be filthy STILL
Western paper says the Rev Mr. Smith, Of
'UB illinois, was acquitted for drowning his wife,
1ecause it was has first offence of the kind.
y Grusty old bachelor says he thinks it is
On uOms ., and not her wrongs that ought to be
si 1sts IN dressed
4 .Ady teacher was endeavoring To impress
~ a1On her pupils the terrible effect of the punish
&c he ate grass like eow," when boy asked,
s- 4 Did be give milk"
sh s. | wish you would not give me such short
weight for my money!" said 4 customer to a
la groeer, who had an outstanding bill against him
And ! wish you wouldn't give such long
4alt for mine, replied the grocer.
avs The - Alexandra limp is the latest eccentric
~ Of fashion, 1t is produced by wearing very
high heeled boot foot, and a fiat heeled
- boOt on the other. The young lady waddlos
a5out like goose.
So The Liverpool people horrifed at the prey
- aeHce 0t drunkenness among the women of that
50 fIty- In year, over 5000 have been committed
s. y pil there for crimes committed under the
? luHuence of strong drink
500 Il Is said that Madame Anna Bishop has sung
fn no less than nine different languages-English,
a french, Italian, Spanish, Swedish, Danish, Rus
rfian, Bohemian, and German
) q Parts Of y skeleton have been exhumed at
2 ~ heatOn, ILL.,, which must have belonged to a
s 4 ,preadlmite 9uadruped larger than tine mastOdOn
s 4lhe thigh bone of the fore leg measures more
ahan three feet in circumference. An enormous
price has been set on.
~ Gully said he'd rather die In a railroad smash
Ip than n steamboat buTst-up, for this reason
= II YOU get of alive from sInash-up, dar you
81 =; but il you gets blowed up on boat, whar
y p yOu?''
Nantucket has gone backward within the last
PIX years Her period Of greatest prosperity was
aton of over 1000, with over 500 vessels. Now
tnere are but 1890 persons in the town, and,
ei ,442 OF these are over sixty years of age.
n NODEL ADyEKTIsEdEST--An advertisement
p 4 distillery in a Philadelphia paper, simply
insists Of the name Of the firm and picture Of
he manufactory- The proprietOrs evidently
believers in works, and the picture is intended 70
puppy the lack of words the quality of
fheir article.
IN English labOrer's wife lately presented her
husband with five children at u birth-all of
whom alive at last accounts. The poor
Woman has twenty-five children, including two
teIs OF triplets- The Queen has sent her 81.
Terms have been arranged by means of cable
) ispatehes. for race between James Gordon
pennett, Jr, with the American yacht DGuntiesS,
rh Ash6urys English yacht Cambria, for
Plate and &250. Distance-from Old Head of
.r 9TH of July
re Ahs resident has caused to be issued to Amer
= ah ministers abrCad circular letter instructing
n mem 10 propose to the Cabinets to which they
- accTedlted to joint convention of the mari
PINE powers Of the world to provide for the
protection and neutrality of submarine cables.
Inc letter OF Instructions is prepared and signed
''y the Secretary Of State
The Grand Opera has just been inaugurated at
s. urSnd Cairo. Two days after a crocodile was
D Fdught, IN whose interior was found a uair of
: opera glasses by VOightlander. There is no
now OF the fate of the foreign correspondent
who Went out between the acts OF - RigoIetto -
e o1y an orange, and never returned to his stall
, N the opening night.
Journalism in Paris is a thing of rapid growth
we may judge by the marvellous success of
IN tlelll hoeheiorts new paper " La MorseiHais -
careeiy month has Ella psed since its first issue
uu now lts circulation is reported at IOO, 600
4 opes. 10 be sure it started with the whole pat
e Oh OF the L0HteTne, but the latter in its best
rays never attained, webelieve to ANYTHING like
-. IL proves that Frenchmen have a relish for
Is fptey journalism. 80