The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1856-1888, 1881-01-22
Miscellaneous.

Gracie's first experience in eating peach: s'I've
eaten it, cloth and all, mamma; now, what shall
| do with the bone?'
No, sir, =" said the Cincinnati man, 80 Cincin-
natl is not the Paris of America. Paris IL the
Cincinnati of Europe" That's how the Cincin-
natl men feel.
An elephant, travelling in n car next the
locomotive on an Indian railroad, opened the
tank and drank all the water, and 30 compelled
the stopping of the train.
Native to stranger 81 We have always an east
wind in Galveston d" But ! see the wind right
now is from the west "Oh, that's the east
wind coming back, you know All"
A London druggist has hit the popular taste
for good bargains. In his window he displays a
card which says: Come in get twelve emetics
for one shilling"
The price of a wife in Siberia is eight dogs, and
an exceptionally good wife is worth ten dogs.
But dogs are plentiful in that country, and a wife
doesn't cost as much rs the number Of dogs indi-
cate.
A number Of visitors who in September last
imprudently approached the crater Of Mount
Vesuvius too closely were struck by n shower OF
fiery projeciles, and were much injured. They
were carried to the hospital by the guides.
A Liverpool ship which lately crossed the
Atlantic sailed through ten miles Of deal boards.
which would point to the loss Of some large
IIIlDeT- Iuueu SUPP DOUb VI TIC uculb WcIC
picked up, but no mark was found on them likely
to lead to their Identification. ~
So LONG as merchant vessels, built under
English protection and patronage, are allow cd co
draw annually from our wealth $780, 600, DOC, 81
compensation for freightIng our mmerce just
so long will our inferiority exist. Whenever our
own commerce shall be carried on in vessels
owned and built by our own people, capable of
being turned into ships OF war when necessary,
then we shall reach a point Of equality with her
and be prepared, when necessity shall nrise, to
test with her the question Of superiority upon
the sea. The time for active and energetic mea-
sures has now arrived, and every future year OF
neglect will add to our inferiority. -Erirdc
from annual report Of u. s.. Secretary Of Navy,
Thompson. IL.
The APosTATEs' CREFD.-Tbef following is pub
lished as the - Apostates' Creed "a hit ut the
unscientifc belief Of the day 81 believe In a
chaotic nebula self-exiztent, evolver of heaven and
earth. and in the differentiation Of the original
homogeneous mass, it's first begotten product,
which WAS self formed into separate worlds, d.
vided into land and water, self-Orpanizcd into
plants and animals, reproduced in like species,
further developed into higher orders, and ulti-
mately refined, rationalized, and perfected in
man. He descended from the monkey. assembled
to the philosopher, and stitch down in the rites
and customs Of civilization under the laws Of n
developing sociology. From thence he shall come
again, by the disintegration Of the beterogenized
COSMOS back to the original homogencousness Of
chaos. I believe in the wholly impersonal abso-
lutte, the wholly un-catholic church, the disunion
of the saints, the survival Of the Gttest, the per-
sistence of force, the dispersion Of the body, and
in death everlasting
DR.. GEORGE NJ. BEARD is high AUTHORITY ON
nervous diseases. and the degeneracy of Americ-
an - nerves > Is what mainly troubles him. lie
attributes the national nervonsness. which is
manifest in the early decay Of our teeth, our pre-
mature haldnpGa and otr Iiabitffv fo afcJ had
ache, hay lever, nervous dyspepsla, epilepsy and
certain forms OF insanity, to the misguided tenn
peranco OF the people. In a recent lecture ia
Chicago, as reported in the Times, he said -
80 Among Americans Of the higher orders, those
who live in doors, drinking is becoming a lost
art among these classes drinking customs are
now historic, must be searched for, read or talked
about like extinct or dying-away species. A
European coming to America secs a sight that
no other civilized nation can show him--au inn
mense body OF intelligent people voluntarily and
habitually abstainiDg from alcoholic LIQUORS.
females universally so and males abstinent, If not
totally abstinent. There is, perhaps, no single
fact in sociology more instructive and far-reach-
ing than this, and this is but a fraction OF the
general and sweeping fact that the heightened
constituencies of Americans forces them to abstain
entirely, or to use in incredible and amusing
moderation, not only the stronger alcoholic
liquors, whether pure or impure, but also the
mIlder wines, ales and beers, and even tea and
coffee. half OF my nervous patients give up
coffee before see them, and very many abandon
tea-next to chocolate the mildest of table
drinks. An absurd proportion give up milk. be-
cause they cannot tolerate it, or believe they
cannot; and very many drink scarcely any
water, which with all its defects, is the mildest
fluid that Nature gives to man. Thirstlessness-a
lack OF desire for water, and the difficulty OF as
similating its as common among the upper
classes of Americans as lack of desire for solid
food, and is a most serious symptom, expressive
of a lower grade of nerve degeneration. No peo-
pie in the world drink so little fluid as we,
either with or between meals. To see how other
nations drink, and to learn how our fathers, half
a century ago, used to drink, is, to a philosophic
nature, worth a trip to Europe. though nothing
else be seen since one may live mere for a life
time and never take the pains to study the habits
of recently imported foreigners in our midst, or
the habits of American born citizens in the far
distant west.