The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1874-07-01
Variety.


The commonplace exists only as the creation o
commonplace people, Macdonald.
All lives have their prose translation as well Al
their ideal meaning. Charles Auchester.
Only what we have wrought into our character dur
ing life can take away with u.s. Humboldt.
little fouT-year old watertOwn girl went running
into the house the other day, exclaiming, Mamma
mamma, I've seen Jack Frost r ''ghere did YOU
see him, my darlingY' queried the mother. "Oh, ]
the tip Of his tail hanging over the caves She
had seen iciole.
Sydney Smith once fell into an argument concern.
ing the comparative stature and amount of brains
among the men Of his day. why said he, you
would never suspect our friend Jeffrey Of knowing
much, and for, he has not body enough to cover
his mind deccntly with his intellect is improperly
exposed"
Never be above your business, no matter what that
calling may be- but strive to be the best in that line
He who turns up his nose at his work uuarrels with
his bread and butter. He is poor smith who quar-
rels with his sparks there no shame about an
honest calling. Don't be afraid of soiling your hands
there is plenty Of soap to be had.
Mr.. Beecher, in q recent sermon on & Hero Wor-
ship" said So long as the world stands we shall
admire the intellectual force of Napoleon but as the
world grows older, it will less and less call him full
hero, because in his disposition and nature he was
malign, without moral principle, and without any
spiritual instinct. He was hero on the lower plane
Of life"
Z" The man who lays his hand upon woman OK
ospt in kindness'-Or perhaps, the version of Mrs.
Robert Shehoe Of 0wassO H.. is more in accordance
with the progress Of the age. " don't so much
care" says Mrs. Shehoe, @ about a mans striking
woman with his fist but when it comes to taking an
AZ to her, it's too much" Mr.. shehee, by the way,
got one month in jail.
Episode at an American hotel: " Are you shrough?'
asked gentleman Of an EnglishmHn, who sit
ting at table. Through - exclaimed the English
man, staring around, above and below" through
through what p " Through dinner" was the re-
sPOnse. puzzled and then an amused expression
broke over the rudy Engishman's face as he init
mated that he had finished his dinner but never sup
posed he had gone thrOughi It'll
An inebriate got into car in Boston, and became
go annoying to the passengers that it was proposed
to eject him but kind-hearted reverend doctor in
teposed for him. and soothed him into good behavior
for the remainder of the journey. Before leaving,
however, he soOwled upon the occupants Of the car
and uttered some words of contempt but shook hands
warmly with the doctor, and said " Good-day, my
friend. see you know what it is to be drunk
James the First Of England and Sixth of Scotland
was, every one knows, not remarkable for vigOr
and steadiness. Having heard of famous preacher
who very witty in his sermons, and peculiarly
so in his choice of texts he ordered this clergyman
to preach before him With all suitable gravity the
learned divine gave out his text in the following
James first and sixth in the latter part Of theverse
He that wavereth is like a wave of the sea driven
with the wind and tossod.'''
Prom the account of the Sandersvile, Ca, Herald,
it appears that there was something laugh in the
escape of the convict from the washinging County
gang hired for agricultural labor. The overseer had
some dogs that he training to catch any of the
gang who might escape, and he turned this convict
loose to exercise the dogs, and instruct them in their
parts But the fellow took his part in earnest, and
as the dogs failed to come up to what expected
Of them, he was not caught.
State Senator Alexander H. Barber and Bradford
R. Davis both coorod, have brought suit against the
Louisiana Jockey Club, each claiming five thousand
dollar damages because. as petitioners aver, said
club refused to sell them quarter stretch badges dur
ing the recent races of their color, they
being Of African descent that such refusal and ex-
olusion were only in violation of the principles
of natural justice but also of the right guaranteed
to them by the constitution and the statutes Of the
State.
Eating kills as many, if not more, than drinking
does. Not even the English can hold out forever
against the continuous and immense consumption of
vnriegated pabulum, which after middle of life,
makes them so large E proportion of the invslids
found at Baden, Hamburg, TGplitz, Ems and Carls-
bad Half the ailing Americans whom encounter
abroad, pale, dyspeptic, worn out long before what
should be the prime of life the victims of over
eating and New York contributes three-quarters of
the entire number. Take care of your stomach"
says modern philosopher, " and you will have no
occasion to trouble yourself about your soul"
The tower of Babel was pigmy to what COM
pany of enterprising Philadelphia bridge builders
propose construct 4 toy to grace the approach
ing centennial exhibition in that city 1t to be of
wrought iron 1000 feet in height and beside it such
structures rs the dome of St. Peters, the pyramids
of Egypt and Bunker Hill monument would be dwarf
cd into insgni6cance. The tower is to be circular in
section $50 feet in diameter at the base diminishing
to 80 feet at the top 1t is proposed to have spiral
saircases winding around the centre tube for those
preferng walk ups but elevators will be provided,
which are calculated to ascend to the top in three
minutes. The Scientific American says this is one Of
the greatest engineering projects of the age and it is
in the hands Of constructors capable Of completing
whatever they undertake.