The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1875-02-03
Variety.

NorED Quacks.-Ducks.
PArls has 10000 spiritualists.
A JAPANESE Punch has been started.
Nor a asocial clubn-the policemans.
GRAoE DAmIxos tomb is in ruined cOndi-
ton
BrRDuAE's buff is said to be the fashionable
color
GAs-Bn1s are now characterized as light attic
tons
FIRST law Of gruvity-Never laugh at your own
jokes.
TuE article chiefly sold at most fancy fairs
The visitor
SURE way to turn peoples heads--GO late into
church.
PIuoU7H church has more Frank incense than
myrrh
KENTUCKY supports Eve lotteries, besides lots
Of poor-houses.
THE dearest approach to confidence game is
pulling a mules tail.
AITHoUGH a womans age is undeniably her
own. she does not own it.
The young women swimmers at New York are
called the prettiest girls aaoat
One OF The few secrets that woman ever
keeps is put up in bottles aud used twice month
on the hair.
had you, sir, said Henry Erskine to adilatory
carpenter, been there to build the ark, we
should not have had the food yet"
The editor Of a religious paper is mad because
he undertook TO state that Mr.. SpurgeOn in bis
Sword and Trowel. said SO and so, and the
printer called it Shirt and Towel"
When fellow nearly breaks his neck trying
TO get out Of the way of ghtnlng-bug, srppos-
ing It to be the headlight Of locomotive, it is
time Tor him to sign the pledge.
Did anything about the defendant strike your
eye as remarkable 2" asked the judge Of the plain
tia in case Of assault and battery. at did, yer
Honor And what was 2" continued the
Judge. His fist, yer Honor"
The Duke OF Brunswick, Sc years old, is about
TO marry the daughter Of the expatriated King
Of Hanover. As be has no children, and as the
SaTc law does not rule in Brunswick, the old
Duke thus proposes 10 get a successor TO the
throne. The princess is about 26 years old.
A Utica paper, ridiculing the ridiculous little
county fairs, which make no effort at good shows,
says that the Clearfeld Fair consisted of calf,
goose. and pumpkin 1t rained so hard the first
night that the goose swan of the calf broke loose
and ate the pumpkin, and a thief prowling around
stole the calf. and that ended the fair.
Il has been thought that to turn the desert of
Sahara into a sea would injuriously affect the
climate Of Southern Europe but NJ. Grad writes
70 the French Academy Of Sciences that the eva
poration might increase the rains, but would not
otherwise eject the atmosphere, as the prevalent
winds are independent Of the physical condition
Of TIE Sahara.
Your Honor" said prisoner to a Paris judge,
my lawyer is not here. and request delay of
the case for eight days" But" said the Judge,
..you were caught in the act of theft what can
any lawyer say for you ?" That is just what
should ike 10 hear.H said the prisoner and the
Court laughed. but sentenced him to a year.
The difficulties attedAnt upon the breaking of
the habit Of chewing tobacco were never more
vividiy described than by the man who said that
10 freeing himself from the thraldom OF the weed /
be cbewed seventeen papers of cammomile flow
ers, Eve pounds Of stick hquorice and slippery |
elm. eat up four crash towels, three napkins, and
q dozen pocket-handkerchiets-a then went |
back 70 tobacco.
The plans of the railway which is to ascend |
Mount Vesuyius are now complete. The route
will be leI miles in length. The grades are 20
and 81 feet IN the hundred, and the road termi-
mates at few feet from the crater. There will /
be one station. protected by sort Of break-lavn,
which viii divert the fOw in case Of eruption, from
the building and rails The road is SO laid out as
70 be naturally sheltered at every point, except |
r1r distance Of about 60 feet