The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1856-1888, 1877-09-29
VARIETY.

Cost of living in North Carolina Three can
taloupes and a half bushel of peaches for 70
cents one visit from the docter, 81; pine
coffin, So total, S5 20. Cheap as dirt
The following is the full name of little girl
living near Union Point, Georgia 80 Margaret
ann f.agsv-ann EIiza-ann Lucinda Gordon Sceny-
ann Scrockingham Jenny-ann Perkins Ruf Han
cock Saggers."
Nile. Sarah Bernhardt, the charming actress
and !. scuIptress,' now in Rome, is said to have
written home to friend: 90 When walking in
the Vatican gardens my Hebrew instincts arose
in me, and despoiled the Pope of four oranges !"
. Mother, mother, here's Freddy teasing the
baby. Make him cry again, Freddy, and then
mother will give him some sugar, and III take
it away from him; then he'll squall and mother
viii give him some more, and you can take
thar, and We'll both have some."
Edith's mamma was sick, and the little one
felt, as she expressed it, g very mournful.' AT
night she prayed 90 Lord. please to make
nv dear mamma well again. She must have
eaten something that didn't digest. Don't let
her be sick any more, for it's no fun to her, nor
70 me, either"
Gail Hamilton, in her last letter argues that
James Russell Lowell is not fit man to repres-
ert this country abroad, because he is not sufi-
cientIy patriotic. She thinks he will be ga
Minister who may impress men with his own
leaning and culture, but who will leave behind
Kim an impression not favorable to the honor
and dignity of the American people"
California piety '' Oh. my, she sighed,
wasn't it q beautiful sermon? So spiritual
and heavenly" she continued, as they walked
away IS it was really melting. And, oh, my
dear,'' she added, 81 hear they've struck it at
lsst in Mexican, real rich ore, and if you can
bay it tomorrow for $12, get hundred. It's
Sound to 60 up. Goodby. God bless you,
darling. Ia tai Sweet sermon, want's?"
% Stand by your friends. let come what may, -
Is a good motto. If you don't stand by them,
YOU needn't expect them to stand by you. So
whether they be friends of high or low de-
cree, in affluence poverty, stick to them, and
don't stop to inquire whether it will pay OF
whether it will be popular. Whenever you
move traitor and desert those who have stood uI
for you and helped your battles, you will find
yourself without any one to congratulate you
upon your achievements, or comfort you in ar
evil hour when misfortunes come thick and fast
Al well-known member OF the Scottish~bar
when youth, was somewhat sharp in his tenn
per. He was once going to pay visit in the
c6untry, and was making great fuss in biz
INSPIRATIONS. His old aunt was much annoyed
at all this hustle, and asked, contemptuously
a What's this you're gaun, Robby, that ye max
eic grand work about yer claes? The young
man lost his temper, and pettishly replied, "I'm
Going to the de7il.'' "Deed, Robby, then,'
pas the quiet answer, "ye medina be sac nice
At just TAX Je DIS yG are.
A prominent church member of Gold Hill,
Nevada, who is down here on q visit, on Sunday
last attended the First Presbyterian church and
vas so deeply impressed with the sermon that,
upon the conclusion of the services, he made his
way forward to the clergyman, and heartily slap
ping the astonished divine upon the back burst
ont with enthusiasm
'' say, brother; you'er just the style of a
nan L like to bet on. Come out and have q
drink -
de looked chagrined when the person coldIy
ceelined.-S F. Post
CHANGE OF ScENE-Midnisht ON North hill
The declining CLEANS from the starry
neesens like the smile on the face of iack-oS
lantern A young man leans against the end Of
the ylne-embowered porch beneth the window n,
his dear, and sings" /" Oh, for touch of thai
soft white hand on my fever-throbbing brow u
And then her father, emitting himself stealtbilv
from the front door, stole up and touched tbs
Young man just below the tournure with a No
boot, and the moon went down in a sea n
bEood, and the pail of darkness blotted out tn,
hars-BurhntOn H1iUkeye.
An amiable and witty countess, Bonapartis
By conviction, made proposition the other da-
Intended to relieve the government Of the crue
pressure it is likely shortly to experience. "Don'
dissolve the chamber said she; divide it
Then the Republicans can SIT on Mondays
Wednesdays, and Fridays, and the Monarchist
on Tuesdays, Thursdays, and Saturdays
4 But interposed friend, /" whatever the AS
sembly did one day the Assembly of the mex
day would hasten to undo. 1t would be lik
Penelope's tapestry" I" Precisely" said th
lady s. and while things were being spun an
pndone why-Ulysses might arrive 20