The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1856-1888, 1871-01-28
VARIETY.


Of expense to bis cOuntry-William of
'bservant Josh Billings says: Men
me nowadays to be divided into slow
bs and wide-awake sinners.
.hIe in Newport, R. l., recently celebrated
! Il welding, having been married seventy
j has captured 1858 French guns. but
has % 900 widows: she has 200, 900
bs, and has also I20,0 900 fatherless chill
iyices report the killing of many Prus-
Ahels with air-guns. 4 sergeant named
been complImen ted in a general order
for killing thirty in this manner.
! 'bdi has gone home in disgust The
pests so prejudieed his men against him
nld do nothing with them. They can
fshis campaign against the Pope
Fig Of Greece received General Sheridan
y xhilerating remark that he was glad to
\ th hand eOuntTyman of George Francis
i little Phii. proposes TO travel ny dis
kreiter-
Ed-ard Thornton, British Minister at
9Et1, has received nearly $1,000 fO- the
q All orphans of the crew Of the Oneida.
- VS. quietly contributed by seven British
ters headed by the Earl of Shaftsl ury,
hreHion, and the Rothschilds, and given
Erd for distribution.
Presdent Colfax has received from r.
Ry, United States Consul at Jerusalem, a
talnag a speakers mallet, of Oliye-Rood,
fnds If oak from Abraham g oak, at He
1chalse of olive wood from the Mount of
lnd n inkstand and sand-bOx of asphalt,
2e Dad Sea, all beautifully carved and
ilshmin went in great grief to a neigtbor
slt b. grandmother for burial. Accsrd-
Plat light a couple Of the ladies vent
fen' b their great establishment, the ran
fn at tue gate, informing them, $40
she ant dead yet. But ye may bein
fe Watr to wash her in
Is little railroad at Bayou Sara, Louii-
\ runs to NOOdville ON a very uncertan
!. A Stranger came in the other day d
! how often that steam car made trbs
|eountr'. The party Intercepted sad
'ekly-' What do you mean by tri-weekl,?
|wer wa, . 1t goes up one week and trIs
down the next"
ensus ta<ers in some portions of the Wea
funny experiences as those in the largt
this settiOn. One has discovered a lad,
eha who Is happy and eOntented in the
Jane Juliette IsalIna Araminta Musa.
Feks; AMI in Ohio a farmer has beer
nose hrst son is named Imprimis, the
I inls, aud the three others, Appendix
pm and Erratum,
OF THE WORD SALARY.-SpiIlino sail
% be an unlucky omen by the Romans
superstition has descended to ourselves
y dc Nrnei ayailed himself of this tradi tior
'l9ogs picture OF the - Lords Supper" te
. udas lseariot by the salt-cellar knocked
'iuentaliy by his arm. Salt was used il
oy the Greeks and Romans, and also b,
\ and Is still mad,, use of In Baptism bI
An Catholic clergy. 1t was an emblem
ana Of y te sanctifying influence on other
nie, hethce our Lord tells his disciples
the sa Of the earth.'' The salt bein.
= y wa placed on the head of the victim
.s'ueied bad omen, being supposed {.
saerIhce was not accepted; ant
= 81 efstltlon. When we say ofa shift
'~ mat he does not IS earn his salt" w
'Ou-ly ailude to an ancient custom anon,
l4hs: Among them he was said to be Il
.n % = . salary " who had his 50 salarium. ,
'snee .I OF salt-money, or Of salt, wherewitI
.'e lood by which he lived. Thus saIar,
@ 1 sSlt-and, in this view of the word
~ 'nere are who do not earn tbei
- - - CESS IN AGRIcULruRE.-At
Z PomPkln OF his own raisino AZ = On n
= sohtary and erOwning s,,ce,,.o .1,a1-.
= OF dIscouraging failure IN r-,.it aits. seS .,
eiuo surrounded it with unpenlnI al hI eui
ngied emotions OF surprise 49, aJ'.ao ne'.ul
y liz was superb fruit, and "ira,iDl 'nIan SIn
was placed ON 1t, to illustrate; =" Ien -'ir
y, the hat and pumpkin seenaI 80 PIG alN any
iapted to each other, and toSe,t % per
etfeet so startling, that severn en,bmS; G
mbers swOre they would have I1oun ',.Ii =. !,
at pumpkin if they had seen il Invwbera
. photographed by Gurney, ant the nex
Tribune subscribers will reeei,a con;es
lpkin was the hattering produ,, of on,
seed planted on the farm in Ch,nbagna
-r olossOmIng, the vine manifested a6 in
to whittier. 1t was thereupn trans
% q large hower-pot and remov,d TO th,
siuenee y OF Its founder. For som time i
q orooped, aud they set up nights with
tIng that every moment would belts LAST
o careful nursing it finally rallied anC
20 maturity, as cherished and ouob a
as ever grew. DIR. Sixhammers srrpesteC
result OF Mr.. G.'s indomitable sru0olt
pumpkin, showed how every CITY anil,
oVide itself with pumpkin pie. Heoope6
e day when every window-sill in r.
I'd be adorned with fructifying puAsA (
every wOrkman's cottage embowesd u
! vines.-M0rk Tioain.