The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1856-1888, 1874-04-04
VARIETY.

BETTER CHARACTER.-Gail Hamilton says :
"Adam had better character than any bank
president; and where the deiaulting cashier
brings only his own family to grief Adam
dragged down with him n whole world
A SLIGHT DIsTINcTIoN-The difference between
having tooth properly drawn by professional
surgeon, and having IT knocked out miscellane-
ously by fall on the pavement, is only slight
dstInction-one is dental, and the other accidental
We have never heard of anything more beau
tiful than the story Of married woman whose
will has been proved in England She gave all
her estate to Mr.. Van Haurigh, her husband !;
directed her clothes to be sold pay her funeral
expenses, and added :. 1t Is also my earnest
wish that my darling husband should marry ere
long, q nice, pretty girl. who is a good house
wife, and above all, to be careful that she is of
good temper"
PERFECTLY CoRRECT.-Tbe Louisville Courier
Journal answers Contributor as follows: 80 Your
communication. 'Junius Junior is declined
IL s quite too full Of quotation marks and italics
You should not honor with quotation marks every
stale, hackneyed sentence you choose to borrow.
And you may often write half day without
finding the use for single italic letter. Give
your reader credit for some intelligence-for at
least enough to know when a word needs to be
emphasized without having the fact thrust down
his throat by tipsy squad of reeling Italics
SHOULD BE FOLLOWED. Rules to govern peo-
IN n Milwaukee paper. This is a good idea, and
should be followed by several similar codes such
as - directions for ladies and gentlemen blown
up IN a steamboat; y . Guide for the victims of
n railroad collision - q System he pursued by
aeronauts who fall from their balloons - a The
whole duty of man after a nitro-glycerIne explo-
sion - - Regulations to be followed by all per-
sons struck by lightning 4" and a. Proper de-
pertinent during rapid descent from a six story
window"
PREcocIOUs CHILDREN.-A few days ago girl
aged l3 years, named Farley, and another about
the same age, left Cohoes for a walk to place
mile or two cast Of Cohoes. When about half
way they met boy aged Is years. Miss Farley
at once fell in love with him and he with her.
They approached each other, and after a brief
conversation, she resolved to accompany him to
his fathers farm, in the town of Wateryliet,
where they would be married. The parents of
the girl became alarmed Mt the absence of their
daughter, but they soon received letter from
her which said, 90 / will be home on Christmas
day. and bring my husband with me.''-Iroy,
N. y. Wing.
Well, every way the sex is advancing. Here
"a Jerusha Bryan, of Queens Run, Pa. She
went on 70 q neighbOring mountain to engage in
the useful and honorable business of picking
huckleberries-she with other danes and demoi-
selles. \ huge panther in the most ungallant
manner attacked her. Her sister huckleberry
piekers fed for safety and for succor, but Jerusha
SeIZtnE a 0uBc piilt-kuOL cuBdBtu tie Dtdsl III
battle Long the contest was doubtful but
female bravery triumphed and the panther
O. feet and 10 inches long,) lay dead at the feet
of Miss Bryan. She is now the acknowledged
heroine of the neighbOrhOOd, but whether by this
exploit she has advanced her matrimonial chances
IL doubtful
A funny scene occurred, the other night, in the
Bowery Theatre, New York. The scene was a
bedroom at midnight, with old gentleman
reading letter. To the sound of slow music
villain entered the room, and with a cat-like
tread approached the old man, cutching in bis
hand a glittering knife. He approached slowly,
and the excitement among the gamIns IN the gal
Ierv became intense just the wOuld-be muir
derer was about to make the deadly plunge at his
uususuecting victim, boy, who leaning
with omen mouth far over the railing OF the gal
Iery, sung out, with frantic earnestness: - Look
behind YOU, guy ner. There's fellow gOn' TO
stab YER! " The assassin dropped his knife and
roarcd with the audience, and the curtain dropped
without anybody being murdered
IS SITTING UPoN A Man" IN PERsIA-The prac-
tice Of sitting upon a man." as 1t Is called,
universally prevails in Persia, and it Is not easy
I'D deal with it,. Still, 1t may be dealt with; and
Sir John AI'Neill, shrewd old Scotch diplomat
ist who was once accredited to the Persian
Court. contrived to get rid of Persian who lad
tried To sit - upon him by a rather clever de-
vice. At the New Year, which is kept as great
festival in Persia, religious mendcants go about,
not 80 much asking alulSS as INSISTING upon u
fixed sum. They generally tax foreign ambas-
sador rather highly, and one OF them, deryish,
demanded an extrayagant sum from Sir John
N.NeiI. The Scotch diplomatist offered to COM
promise with him for any reasonable amount
but his offer was refused and, as he would not
give more, the deryish proceeded to - sit upon
him. He established himself IN Sir Johns gar
den, Just before his study windows and every
now and then during the day, and whenever he
woke up at night, tins deryish set up horrible
hullabaloO and blew n cracked trumpet. Sl
John, who did not like to have his rest disturbed
IN this way, determined To put stop to the der
yish's trisks and eject HIM by force; but he wa.
soIemnly warned by the Persian authorities tha
Il would be dangerous to lay hands upon the der
wish. :. Get rid of him it you can,'' said they
laughing as they wont TO do at a Minister
psrpIexity - but do not touch him 9 YerI
well /" said Sir John, drily and he sent for
bricklayer. Build me d wall round that howl
ing beggar in my garden,' said Sir John to tn,
brickIayer and then roof it in" The dervisl
looked on compOsedly while the wall rose siowlI
round him, and made more noise than ever but
when he perceived that Fiey really meant to shu
him up IN the tomb I've, he jumped over tn
lowest part of the wal 4 nd rushed away like
maniac Sir John VI and robably the only Euro
pean who ever got > n Wtter of dervish