The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1856-1888, 1871-01-14
Miscellaneous.

lam hasa yearly salary Of 81 900 600.
1alnan being has right to be treated
<r<1t and kindness, whatever the station
Asy ell. /
|H5acinthe, who enlisted as private in !
thc volunteer regiments for the defense Of
,az keen promoted to a sergeant-ship-
J are. spent according to COmmls-ioper
>st,nsate, S4S3 ,49l ,S65 in one year in the
States, for - drinks - ofspirituOus liquors.
la.est estimate makes it out that in the
states Just now there are twenty-seyen
<5men studying theology. with a view TO
1< preachers nineteen studying Law. and
W Studying medicine
.I.1ner boasted that he could tell any kind
+ b liquor, blindfolded, merely by the taste
# one kind after another and rapidly
ID. At last glass of water was handed
=asted it, hesitated, tasted again, smeit,
Ind then said, 80 give it up; that's
9 fguOr / never got hold of before"
<rain has this advice for young men with
<<<DiratiOns :. Write without paw until
~ offcrs pay. If nobody offers to pay
<I,rte years, the candidate may look upon
eztance with the most mplicit confidence
~ that saving wood is what he was in
st fersey paper tells how champagne is
''E cider. a barrel of cider costing, say
q 5ield 40 bottles of champagne, which,
<3 Der bottle. will sell for $500 by the ad-
" 3 little Rhine wine, alcohol, sugar and
A .eid gas. And now, it says. cider has
|zz<3rs in turn. The bogus cider makers
<@t apples and soak them. The water is
~i<h alcohol, and carbonic acid, bottled
B .br cider
likes Booth has been spiritually inter-
z F-cording to the report OF a seance lately
f;roOklyn- The spirit said that he has
4recOneiled To Abraham Lincoln. They
stt daily. lie says the assassination was
aPn Misunderstanding. They are now
risnds- lie wasn't in his right mind when
% pim. He yielded to an impulse.
|E<r DIET.-Hall's Journal of Health saws:
"a nay live long and in health who never
neat. but they never can excel in ANYTHING
resuircs cDeIay. The nations which eat
It. as to the masses. are ALWAYS inefficient
'-1eded, The hundreds Of millions of Jauan
- have failed in the centuries of the past
- makes a nation or an individual grand
PtiOn or magnificent in Accomplishments.
->e to-day what they Were ages ago. and
~ mainly on rice and other vegetables. -
- theatre one night John Phenix thought
an acquaintance sitting few seats il
% asked q gentleman between them t.
- with his cane When he turned around
powered his mistake. Fixing bis attention
4 play, and affecting ind ference of the
AnaIr, he left the man with the cane e
e disturbance, and he, being wholly with
exense, there was, OF course. a ludicrous
! q .ar RAISING scene, during all of which
- PAS profoundly interested In the NAV.
Ian asked, Indignantly ssDid YOU tell
koke tnet man with my stick ?'' SYes. u
! <-,.'e u-u YOU want 20 81 wanted to ace
en- you would poke him or pot.''
following items taken from the recsn, 20
~ the Insurance. Commissioner of Masse-
-, are OF interest to insurers tn -,
Is of death-claims paid by the 60 NJ Tfa 'o;Sl "a
3 companies DONG business in the S,a.,
the last year was Sl5,24S, ,76O On eS ~
~ of claims resisted was only S97S n9o
of the whole. OF this am.
DO was resisted by single comn.n..
% by two others, S55, 800 BY five otbers
y BY seven others, and the balance. 80
4 five others. 1t thus appears that tb
business of resisting claims belonging Z
companies, while forty-three comIanie
their losses promptly without resisting
slaim.
SSt- Louis Republican gives the, origin 9
fments' nom de plume ofss Mark Twain
dement's used to write up river items an
pa squibs for the Republican. and havin
humorous sketch of an old river pilot
Pred OF John Morris, now steward of tb
iemphls, what name he should sign to il
the deck hands. at the time happening 3
ing the lead, followed out ssMark Twain.
,he depth of the water, when Clement
That's it, Mark Twain's my name. ,
aca e'en with his new name, " Mark Twain ;
''oIn On oi 1t, found place in the river de
t OF the Republican. 1t proved to he,
'fnals. sep'0u " "eo'