The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1856-1888, 1882-03-11
Miscellaneous Items.


O. PAPA, me has becn baptize> hint mel?
asked little 3-year old. - Yes. delr.'' - Then
me won't have 10 be baptized again? - - No
but cin You remember anything about being bap-
tizcd ? ' - de-s can - Well, what did tie
minister d. o. you? 80 - lle showed up my sleeve
GaRstuek knife in my arm
r4IvO men &-cussing the wonders Of modern
a hce Stid one 4; - Look 1T astronomy. now
u1gh have learned the distance 10 the stars and
with a. -paCtrO-cJpe they have even found out
the substances they are made OF. - - Yes said
the other, 80 bat strunscst Of all to me is how
they found out all eheir names :
The Collector OF Customs ut Toronto, Canada,
has clni-ctted au importation Of Tom Paiue's
- Age Oi Reason 90 and u little work entitled
&" Pocket Theology, made up Of extracts from
YoltaIrc, On she ground that they are blasphem-
Ou-. immoral aud indecent. The Press Of tile
dJmruiou condemns the assumption Of the official
in creating himself literary censor. He stands
% hts guns, however. and the immediate result
has been that prIdrgIOu- demand for the works
in question has arisen throughout Canada peo-
pie vino never before heard Oi the names Of Paine
or N0ltaire having made inquiry and learned
what remarkable men these we're lt j. stated
thnt vast quantities Jt the books were promptly
printed 10 America. ON the disturbance occurring,
and smusgled Wholesale across the border.
.. P,RDON me for troubling you, cir, but did
you drop twenty y-dplIlr gold piece - asked a
muu with IN earnest look ON his face and mem.
Il
diviiual. The man addressed ran hIs hand ner-
vousy into various pockets and replied Well.
now, | drclarc2 Can u be possible that was so
careless ~ O. drop tlat cOin2 Yes it's gone. |
must have lust 70 right here, where stand.
The man opened his memorandum book took
from hI- vest pocket the stub Ul a lead pencil, and
-uri-ss Will yJu favor me with your name and
address p They were given. ana the questIouer
started on, when the well dressed man cried
Ill. there Where's the money? Give me NV
a a. H. 81
took nJtion thi- morning, that 4 city like this
wherc thousands and Thousands Of dollars are
handled every hour. there must be great losses,
and started cut 90 investigate the matter. Be-
tween here and the river found seven men that
l0-t twenty-dJllar gold pieces, and expect To
the ii-r up 20 200 before I reich the City Hall.
GJOd-day, -Ir.
TRUTH j. STRANGER TusN FlCTION.-The second
Duke Of Richmond. Lord March, while a boy,
had been married 20 Lady Sarah CadOgau, daugh-
ter Of that Lord CldOgan, who, a. n cavalry off,
GER distinguished himself 81 much in the Duke Of
MarIbo-ough's waIs. This marriage was made
20 cancel gambling debt, the young people =
consent having been the Inst thing thought Of.
The EIrl OF March sent Tor from school and
the young Indy from her nursery a clergyman
was ~ Attendance, and they were told they were
immediately 70 become man and wife. The young
lady j. not reported u have uttered a word ; the
gentleman exclaimed o.. They surely are not going
10 marry me 10 that d1wdy - The ceremony,
however. took place. pJst-chaise was ready at
the door, and Lord March was Instantly packed
of with his tutor TO make the % Grand tour -
while his young wife was returned to her mother,
Dutcu woman, daughter Of William Minister,
Councillor Of the Courts o. Holland. After some
years spent abroad, Lord March returned, a
well-educItsd. handsome young man. but with
no very agreeable recoIIecti1ns Of his wife.
Wherefore, instead Of at seeking his own
home. he went directly 70 the opera or theater,
where he amused himself between the acts by ex-
aiming the company. lie had not been long oc
copied IN this manner, when very young and
beautiful woman more especially struck his fancy
and turning to u gentleman beside him, he asked
who she was 50 You must be stranger in Lon
dom replied the gentleman, - not to know the
toast Of the town, the beautiful lady March. .
AgreabIy surprised az this intelligence, LORD
March proceeded TO the box, announced himself
and claimed his bride, the very dOwdy whom h'
had 20 seOrnfully rejected some years before, eu
with whom he afterwards lived so happily tha
she died Of P broken heart within the year Of hi
decease, which took place at GOdalming, IN Sur
rey, in August, 1850.