The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1856-1888, 1880-10-23
MISCELLANEOUS.

Marriage makes the man; /; the woman was
maid before.
What kind Of fur did Eve wear the first Win
ter ? Bare skin OF course.
Cervantes, has said, 80 Everyone is the son of
his OWn works.. Tins makes Armstrong son
OF gun. nsENNf f+TtH Ii snEt
A leopard never changes his spots A mos
quit does, however. 1t will settle in a new
spot every five seconds, and sing all the time it
is changing. sfs. -.ssF -.r
A little girl in church, after the contribution
plate had been passed, sOmplacently and audibly
said = paid for four, mamma, was that
right?'' o. erl- sFsE TraEEf fa-E
A point made by Mr.. Moody during the recent
conference at Mortified was that man does not
need to be rich TO worship money Some poor
men make god Of their little.
Miss Emily Faithful has accepted an engage
ment 20 lecture in America during the autumn
and winter season. Her subject will be Mod
eTn Exlrayagance its Cause and Cure
The rank Of doctor (honoris causa) has been
conferred upon the Imperial Crown Prince of
Prussia, by the University of Prague, for the
book entitled - Fifteen Days on the Danube Z"
recently published by His Imperial Highness.
Toddlekns is a very small man indeed, but he
said he never minded it at all until his three
boys grew up to be tall, strapping young fellows,
and his wife began to cut down their old clothes
Within twenty years more than 10000
divorces have been granted in four New England
SI1tes. In 1860 the number of divorces in these
same States did not average 200, but now it
averages every year almost twice that number
About 336, 800 900 gallons Of beer were manu-
faetured in the United States in 1879 and ,245,-
coo 600 gallons IN Great Britain. ~ - Sc =
The manufacture Of clothing IN Chicago, has
doubled in four years, and gives employment to
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NJ. Gambetta's ingenious political methods are
illustrated by an aneedote from q new book lust
printed IN Paris. One day, it lie stated, at Gam
beta house the conyersatIun turned on the ex-
puIsion of Prince Napoleon, whom NJ. Theirs
had had arrested at n. Richards chateau at
MiIIemont and conducted to the frontier NJ
Gambetta criticised severely Thiers fashion OF do
ing this, and when asked how he would have
done it answereds I" In bis place should have
disguised a hundred agents of police as peasants
and sent them to MIllemoDt with orders to make
= great uproar, to break windows and shout
abuse of the Prince Then as head of the Gov
erument, | should have interpOsed, have stated
the indignation caused among tJe rural popula-
tiOn by the mere presence of Bonaparte and
should than have arrested the Prince, at the
same time restoring order and protecting his per
son against the just anger of the people. And
all the world would hare applauded-'s EiTIEJ
No public speaker ever excelled Mr.. Spurgeon
in proluseness Of anecdotal illustration in ' DIS
courses" His sermons and addresses TEEN with
anecdOIe. which ara usually very much TO the
point To his students last year be told n good
story 20 show the need Of preachers being at
tractive. 80 When I was in Arran quite recent
Iy,v sald he, " heard of a mInister who
preached in a certain church, and at the close o
the service was strongly. urged by the ruling
Elder to promise future supply of similar dis
courses, the collection after his sermon having
been unusually large. Dear me, said the minis
ter with becoming pride, what might your
ordinary collection amount tot Last Sunday il
was twopence- half penny 80 What is it to-day
then 2 asked the minister, expecting to hear a
large cum named. 'Eghtpence-halfpenny was
the reply. Woe is me- moaned the ;Sinister
within himself, for l gave the sixpence my
SELF Chambers Journal 30 p - .E - -
A scandalous incident which occurred at the
inauguration of ". Theirs statue. After the un-
yelling Of the statue and at, the conclusion oI
Jules SImon's speech, Olivier Pain, who was
standing close to Mime. Theirs, got upon bench
and, in clear, deliberate tones, exclaimed, a. 10
the name Of the IS 900 who were shot IN May,
protest against the erection of this statue" NJ
Pain was instantly hustled away by the indig-
nant spectators, amid loud cries of ?. Down with
the Prussian,' and d To Prussia with him." II
10 believed tbat he was subsequently arrested.
Nine. Theirs remained perfectly tranquil during
| this acme, though several times previously
during the ceremony she had been moved to tears.