The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1856-1888, 1872-08-31
Foreign Items.


Music, says Aucrohach, washes away from the
soul the dust Of everyday life.
Miles Standish, the old Puritan, is 10 have i
monument 100 feet high 1t Duxbury, Mass 10
pcrpeJuate his memory.
The people who voted agaius; beer in other
Massachusetts towns all 20 To spend Sunday in
Newbaryport, where that liquid luxury Is legal.
Brown says wedding-rings ought 10 be re
chrisiened sufer-rings- lie has been married
FIVE years
Since the Jubilee. Boston has run So entirely
m~usic-mad, that its men wear brass bands on
their hats.
The &ar says Stokes put New York TO an
expense of $500 ,OOe by pistoIing Fisk, and more
expense is u come with the mex: trial.
The fashionable hotel at Saratoga refused to
receive Josie Mansfield Monday, when she went
there to testify IN the Barnard impeachment ease.
If any person has doubts whether advertise
ments are read or not. let him put something he
doesn't wish seen in an obscure part OF the paper.
Colonel Tom Scott is president of only
twenty-six railway companies, with an aggregate
salary of SIG 000.-ErchaHge.
An Irish schoolmaster recently informed his
pupils thar the feminine gender should be applied
to all ships and vessels a@float, except nlak-steana-
erS and nleR-0f-tcar.
The twenty-hfth anniversary Of the Rev. Henry
Ward Beecher's incumbency of PlymOuth's pull
pit, is to be celebrated BY his flock on the l0th of
next October.
Some irreverant individual has discovered that
the first genuine Dolly Warden was worn by a
man, and that the whole story is To be found in
the book of Genesis.
Greeley will get all the votes in the Tribune
Office except the man who sets up his copy he
has been waiting years for a diabolical revenge,
and now finds his opportunity.
Tho ,Ianat Wanna will mass hatyvaaD the earth
and the sun in the autumn. All the civilized
governments are preparing to observe it with the
incest care.
From the end of 1860 to the end of 1870, there
was built in the United States % ,ll3 miles of
railway. But little OF this was built during the
years OF war.
Dolly Warden has had a short and very igno-
minous career in London. "No lady, says the
Queen, the ladies' newspaper, " Will hereafter
lisfgure herself by wearing one of these now
vulgar costumes"
SUFFICIENT ExCUsE.-The editor is absent. the
foreman has the toothache, the devil is drunk
and the press out of order, and we amt well
ourselves, so excuse a poor paper for this week
only.
Death, with heshless fingers, having snatched
all the centenaTians of WashingtOns domestic
family, is now commencing on that of the late
President Madison, and one old colored lady of
on hundred and seven Summers has just gone.
A gentleman dining at n cheap restaurant, one
day, was heard to give this courageous order:
- Waiter, let the cheese move this way 1t
was a cheese very much like that ON the table
which was awarded che prize for a gymnastics at
a country fair
A few Sundays since a teacher in the Sunday
School of an Episcopal church in Chicago, said to
one of her pupils james what good thing
what great pleasure are you willing to give up as
a sacrifice during the Lenten season ~ Jimmy
meditated about ten seconds, and responded ~
think Iii give up going to Sunday School"
Bob jim, de men don't make such fools of
themselves about women as de women do about
men. If dey look at de moon dey see a man in
it. If dev hear Il mouse nibbling it's a man;
and dey all look under de bed last thing at night
to find u man. Why, | nebber look under de bed
to find a woman, does you?
y New Fairfield man vino failed to get a thirty
cent pine apple for a quarter of a dollar, wanted
to know : whether we are breathing the pure air
of freedom or being strangled with the fetid breath
of a lellisf despotsm?; The storekeeper said
those were the only pine apples he had.-Dam-
buvy NelcS.
An Iowa farmer processes to have discovered a
process by which sugar can be extracted from
corn stalks at a cost of less than 81 cents per
pound. In view of the success with which the
makers of beet sugar are meeting, and the
promise of plenty of a superior article from corn,
this country stands n chance of having plenty OF
sweetening.
The United States Government is TO undertake
the breeding Of salmon on the Pacific coast, with
a view TO stocking Eastern rivers and other waters
suitable for salmon. The work will be carried on
on a large scale, and will be under the charge of
Livingstone Stone, of Charleston, 5. c., who will
go to Oregon next month and commence opera
tions on the Columbia river.
Sugar cane in Louisiana has degenerated, in
cDnSpuupuCp of prDWInr the same EpacipS in tHp
same soil, without changing the stock. At a
meeting of planters, an agent was appointed to
visit Java and Sumatra, to select new varieties OF
East India sugar cane. This measure is expected
t. iniuse new yigor into sugar planting, which
has become Of late years almost unremunerative
A Texan tells this story of lost opportunities
&" Now, you see,'' said he, " land was cheap
enough at one time in Texas. have seen the
day when | could have bought n square league Of
land, covered with fine grass and timber, for a
pair of boots &" And why didn't you buy it?"
asked his companion. g Didn't have the boots"
SAID the Texan.
HOMEMADE Observation-Disclosures n bushel
OF salt in u barrel of water, and with the salt
water slack n barrel of lime, which should be
wet enough TO form a kind of paste. For the
purpose of a disinlectant this homemade chloride
of lime is nearly as good as that purchased at
the shops and drug stores. Use it freely about
sinks. cellars, cutters and outhOuses, and in this
way, prevent sickness, suffering and expense.
Whenever you see a flock of geese all standing
on one leg, except the old gander, and he chew
ing his cud. look out for a southwest wind to-
morrow, or next day, or a day after. or at some
future time. Whenever dogs are seen travelling
around with nothing 70 do, and old maids refuse
their tea, and hop vines won't climb, and grind
stones won't grind, then you may expect a little
crop of oats and beans that Wont pay for har-
vesting.-JOsh Billings. :
The following is a certificate given by a Troy
lawyer 10 an applicant for admission to the bar
I hereby certify that the bearer. --, was
a student in my Office for ten months that dur I
.nr lie rhnla Of that TING hIs chalacter Er riat- .