The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1856-1888, 1876-03-25
Foreign Sum

Hon. Reyerdy johnson had his life insured fo
800 900.
The total consumption of sugar in the United
states for the year 1875 is estimated at 773 900
tons.
Justice Pitman decides that a boy II years
old, in the present state of education, is qualified
to testify as a witness"
There is a man in Indiana who takes 81
newspapers and you might as well try to ride a
whirlwind on a sidesaddle as to attempt to impose
upon that man.
PROVE 1.-THE vital statistics of this country
prove that a woman spends more time to hide a
pimple on her forhead than she will to take care
of seven children.
TEA CULTURE IN GEoRGIA.-Tea culture is now
said to be gaining ground in Georgia 50 rapidly that
it bids fair 10 become one of the settled industries of
that State.
The manufacturers at Fall River, Mass. are now
exporting prints to the English markets; 10000
pieces have been forwarded all ready, and arrang-
ments are being made for the regular sale of Ameri-
can prints in the London market.
At the mint at Carson, Nevada, q set of scales has
been set up by which the difference between two ap-
parently equal human hairs can be readily ascertain
ed, and a difference in weight of q millionth of a
grain can be measured.
CHEERFUL.-This is the cheerful state of affairs
which at present exists between two Illinois lovers:
The girl was about to marry another young man
when her former lover replevlned a sewing-ma-
chine he had given her. She responded by suing
him for the value of meals eaten at her house, and
now he has sued her for the time occupied in court
ing her.
DOMESTIC INFELIcITY.-A man and bis wife,
who had been married ten years, disagreed and
determined to separate. The terms of separation
were to be decided by the justice of the arrondise-
ment in which they lived. They were Parisians.
Z" Have you any children ?" said the judge.
Yes, monsieur. How many?" "Three
two boys and a girl, and it is with them lies the
difficulty. Madame wishes to have two of them
SO do L." Have you agreed to abide by my
decision ?' "We have" said both of them.
every well, my friends; 1 condemn you to have
another child, SO that you may each have two.
When you have obtained that you may return to
me- The matter was then adjourned for the time
being. Two years afterwards the worthy mag1s-
trate, who in the meantime had heard nothing
of the husband or wife, met the former. "Ah,"
said he, " how about the separation?" "Still
impossible, Monsieur. Instead of four children
we have now FIVE.
know Prussia well, only last summer l wandered
over it from the Rhine to the Baltic. Why, so
far from Prussia having a cheap army, it is the
most expensive army in the world; while ours,
considering what it does and it secures to us, is
the very cheapest. Taking Thousands of Der ablest-
bodied men yearly from their ordinary employ
ment to become non-producers, is in itself a vast
cost to Prussia. The disturbance of trade and
caused by it must be a tremendous
sacrifice of money. But that is not all. By far
the most serious expense is the loss incurred by
the nation through forced emigration. Prussians,
the strong men remember, not the feeble, in order
to escape the CONSUMPTION, leave their country by
shoals. They are TO be found all over Europe,
in America whole towns are German. Has
Mr.. Holms ever estimated what all this outlay
amounted to? If not, let him do so, and he will
never tell again Of a cheap Prussian army
London Times.
Row BRIGHAM LooKs.-We find the following
description of Brigham in Canadian paper. The
picture was taken when the Prophets feelings were
narrowed up: Brigham is a shrewd Yankee
born IN Vermont seventy-fve years ago, and
brought up, like Joseph of old, to a carpenters
'rade, In person he is rather mean looking. He
nearly six feet high. broad-shouldered and
toeky, with the general physical aspect ola human
1ull. His head is of a moderate size, with strong
developments of the base and poster:or regions Of
he Uranium, and it is by no meas. lacking in in
erior breadth. His hair is chs-esnss = cEles
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