The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1856-1888, 1872-12-14
PARAGRAMS.

- Insults" says a modern philosopher, ssare
like counterfeit money-we cannot hinder their
being offered, but we are not compelled to take
them"
A California lunatic fancies that he is the orig
inal Abraham Recently be carried sheen to
one of the highest hills near San Francisco and
sacrificed it ON an altar Of stones and earth.
BEFoRE.-An editor says his ancestors have
been in the habit Of living hundred years. HIS
opponent responds by saying that - that was be-
fore the introduction Of capital punishment"
An DID lady give this as her idea of great
One who is keerful of his clothes, don't
drink sperets, ken read the Bible without SPELL
without grumbIing.
An exchange says since the abolition Of the
gallOws in Iowa there has not been a murder in
the state" Thisgoes to show that some people
kill other people merely for the pleasure Of being
hanged.-LouisriHe C0tyier-JoluHal
just n passenger train going west on the De-
troit and Milwaukee road yesterday was clear of
the city, and running at the rate OF ten twelve
miles an hour, an old man named Dixon, living
in IOna county. suddenly leaped from bis seat
rushed to the platform and bounded of, turning
about forty sOmcrsaults before he brought up
agninst the fence In n short time he appeared
at the depot looked all around and then exclaimed
- What an old fool; l thought had left my um-
brella here and jumped of the cars to get it, and
now, hang me. IL don't remember chueking it
under the@seat. ''-DetrOii Free Press.
WHERE TIE WoxES DO THE LOVE MAKING.-In
the krSine, the women said tO court more
generally than the men. Slys a writer, who de-
scribes their manner: 80 When a young woman
falls in love with n man, she is not IN the least
ashamed 70 20 MS father house. aud reveal her
passion IN the most tender and pathetic manner,
and 70 pronounce the most submissive obedience
1t he will accept her wife. Should the in
sensible man pretend any excuse, she tells hiu she
Is resolved never to go out Of the house till he
gives his consent and accordingly. taking up her
lodgings, remains there. If he still Obstinately
refuses her. his becomes exceedingly distress
ing. The church IS commonly on her side and
to turn her out would provoke her kindred 10 re-
venge her honor; that be has no method left
but to betake himself 20 tight till she is otherwise
disposed Of"
We have a drUp Of comfort for tobacco smokers.
We feel that, In view of the scOrings the slaves
of the weed are constantly getting from all quar-
tiers, no apology Is needed for giving the other
side chance Strange to relate, too, we find the
drop in odd place-in the columns of the
Christian World. Religious journals are not rs
n rule, partial to the smoker but the World. for
one, evidently believes in fair play. Ii notes, IN
Dr. Samuel Iyler's splendid memoir of Chief |
Justice Taney, that the Judge was an awful |
smoker He began to puff away early in life, /
and kept on industriOusly putting away to the
end. Yet be had one OF those delicate. nervous !
sxcitable organizations which thought pecu-
lariy susceptible to injury from the of tobacco
While on his sick bed he found his greatest relief
from pain smoking. He died almost with the
cigar in his mouth. Here (says the World is
case for the Anti-TObaeco League. If such an
organization can stand the poison for eighty
years, wouldn't IL be well to get up some new
argument? We submit the question in all gravity.
MOVEMENTS OF SPECIE.-Our London exchanges
of recent date give interesting statements of
the movements of specie in the United Kingdom
The accounts of the imports and exports of gold
and silver bullion and specie registered at the Gus
tom-hOuse in the first three quarters of the year
1872, show that the imports amounted to S22,-
237 $50, and the exports 10 e22 3S4 ,93S, that
though there was much coming and going, no
surplus or balance stayed in that country The |
imports of gold amounted to G13, GA, ,395, show
ing decrease Of nearly two millions as compared
with the corresponding period of the preceding
year, and the exports Of gold amounted to El4,- |
SIG, ,5O9 an increase Of three and half millions |
The imports of silver amounted to ES ,562. .6S5,
decrease of nearly three millions, and the exports
of silver amounted to 81 ,S65, ,339, a decrease of
above a million. The export of gold in the nine /
months exceeded the import by nearly esq, 900, |
and the import of silver exceeded the export by |
nearly &70O, ,OOO- Above seven millions of gold |
arrived from the United States The import of |
gold from Australia declined from FIVE millions in
the first three quarters of 1871 TO four millions
and half in the corresponding period of 1872.
Gold was exported chiefly to Germany five mil
lious), South America, South Africa and Portu-
gal The chief imports Of silver were from the
United States (three and a half millions) South
America and Germany; and the export of silver
was chiefly TO India, to which above Four millions
and a half went