The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1856-1888, 1877-11-24
Kissing.

A lady friend has transmitted to us the follow
ire " Opinion of the Press - upon the subject of
the text that tells you that " Jacob kissed
Rachel, and lifted up his voice and wept IF
Rachel was a pretty girl and kept her face clean,
we can't see what Jacob had to cry about
Daily Telegraph. How do you know but she
slapped his face for him ?-Lades' Treasury.
Weeping is not unfrequently produced by extreme
pleasure, JOY, or happiness it might have been
50 in Jacobs case.-Hard,oick' Science Gossip.
The cause of Jacobs weeping was the refusal of
Rachel to allow him to kiss her again.-Noncon-
fornist. 1t is our opinion that Jacob wept
because he had not kissed Rachel before, and he
wept for the time he had lost.-Ihe City Press.
The fellow wept because the girl did not kiss
hIm.-PaH Mall Gazette. Jacob wept because
Rachel told him to do it twice more, and he was
afraid to.-MethOdiSt Recorder. Jacob cried
because Rachel threatened to tell his
Sunday Gazette. He wept because there was
only one Rachel to kiss herkenUeH Ne,os.
He wept for JOY because it tasted SO good.-JeO-
iSh Chronicle. We reckon that Jacob wept
because Rachel had been eating onions.-BritiSh
Standard Our own opinion is that Jacob wept
because he found after all I" 1t was not half
what it was cracked up to be.''-NeU Zealand
Examiner. A mistake-not his eyes but his
thought it was fast colour, and wept to see the
paint come of:-Ffne Arts Gazette. He remem-1
bered that he was her uncle, and recollected
what the Prayer Book says.-C Church Journal.
He was a fool and didn't know what was good
for him.-Engishuooman's Advertiser. He knew
there was a time to weep-it had come, and he
dare not put it of.-Methodiat Ne,cs. He
thought she might have a big brother sporting
Chronicle. Because there was no time for
another -E1press. When he lifted up his voice
he found it was heavy, and could not get SO high
as he expected Notes. He tried to i'm
pose on her feelings, because he wanted her to
lend him 5s.-Baptist Guide. A truce to all
Beneath the starry vault or golden sun is there
aught In nature or in art equal to the rapture or
intense Righteousness of the first kiss? l answer
verify no. Jacob had never kissed fair maiden
before and his first realisation of 's crowding a
life's deliciousness " in these moments overcame
him, and he wept for joy.-HOrney Hornet.
HE FAMINE IN INDA.-A private letter in
Auckland, received from an officer of Engineers
stationed at Calicut in Madras, dated 18th
August, 1877 contains the following statement
regarding the famine &c You will, I suppose,
have seen from the papers that famine is raging
over a great part of Madras. In reality, no one
can form an idea of the misery and sufferings there
are in the districts where it is felt most. History
mentions no such famine; and as there has been
almost a complete failure of the south-wester
monsoon, on the eastern coast, it is impossible to
tell how things will end Already people are
dying in all directions of sheer famine in some of
the districts, and what it will be in time no one
can say, as the stocks of grain which the better
off Ryots had, are now getting exhausted, and
the railways are already working up to their ut
most extent, and cannot get sufficient grain into
the famine country. There is another difficulty
now springing up from the cattle having nearly
died, fodder being unprocurable. 1t was through
their labor the grain was to be distributed to the
furnishing population from the railway stations,
but now Coolies have to be employed dragging
carts instead of oxen even women and children
have, IN some instances, been seen pulling the
dough. and tryInO fn Gora fob nm tho ground and
make, at least, an attempt to plant crops.
LAS a people there are, 1 believe, none in the
world more attached to their families than they
are out here yet, in Bengalore my wife writes
TO say that 1t is quite common to see children
onered Tor sale for a few annas apiece"