The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1856-1888, 1882-02-25
Miscellaneous Items.

The ay that walks olemargarinc is not th,
butter hy..
At the polls recently. it was easy to tell the
man who voted .. yes - ON the license question BY
the appearance OF his - nos.
GAINsB9RoUGH hats are being hissed in the New
York theatres. =. Take your clothes of your
head, si-, IL the somewhat startling remark.
The origin of the saying that oysters must not
be eaten during - Months without an r, I" is found
Buffers "Dyets Dry Dinner written in
1909.
ANsSG the members Of the Lower House Of the
Tennessee Legislature white man aud ne
gro who held the relation Of master and slave be-
lore the war. Now one isJust as low down as the
other.
seeing long line Of military men filing into the
State House. - That is not n regiment" was the
reply; - that is only the GOyernors staff
PHYSICIANS who say that it is not healthy to
sleep the daytime are rebuked by religious
journalist Of tire Keystone State, who says that
people who attend church have remarkably good
health
The new fashion Of short dresses is very pretty
but hard on the Main-street clerks. They have
% sweep of the sidewalks every morning now,
and one very fashionable dry-goOds house was
compelled TO buy broom this week. thing they
hadn't done IN years
Sweet Sixteen must now take a back seat,
as the Americans say lhe a.lhetlCs ueClaIe
that the quite tOO-tOO age Of quiyerIng sensIbIIy
ami sudden sympathy twOand-twenty. 1t is
impossible, they say, To be - utterly utter " be-
fore that Hge--SOc'ety
PHYSICAL INJCRIEs INHERITED BY OFFsPRISG.-
In un article ON - heTitance," contributed To
Nature, Mr.. Darwin says MIR. Bishop has also
given me a Of inheritance Of another kind,
namely, OF peculiarity which arose, as 1t
appears. from an injury. accompanied by dis
eased OF the part. This latter fact seems To
be an important element in all such cases, as
have elsewhere endeayOred to show gentle
man, when q boy, had the skin Ot both thumbs
badly cracked IRON exposure 20 cold, combined
with some skin disease. HIS thumbs swelled
greatly, and remained IN this state for long
time When they healed they were mis-shapen,
and the nails ever afterwards were sIngularly
narrow, short, and thick. This gentleman had
four children. OF whom the eldest, Sarah, had
both her thumbs and nails like her fathers; the
third child, also a daughter, had one thumb simi-
larIy defJrmed. The TWO other children, boy
and girl, were normal. The daughter, Sarah,
had four children. OF whom the eldest and the
lhird, both daughters, had their two thumbs
deformed the other two children, boy and
girl, were normal. The great grandchildren OF
this gentleman were all normal. Mr.. Bishop be-
eves that the old gentleman was correct in atITI-
butinz the state Of his thumbs 10 cold aided by
skin disease, a. he positively asserted that his
thumbs we're not originally mis-shapen, and
there was no record OF any previous inherited
tendency OF the kin in his family. lie had six
brothers and sisters, Who lived 10 have families,
some Of them very large families, and IN none
was their any trace Of delormfty in their thumbs.
A CLEVER CALIFORxtA GIRL-A young
an the nets shbOrhJod had taken up loo acres Of
Iand, built house upon q, bored wells. dug
ditchcs sJwn IL in wheat, and spent hundreds OF
dllIars upJn 10. Il happened to be dry season
and the crop failed lie became discouraged,
and offered his claim and improvements at a sac
riice The young lady gave him 500 'or his
right title and interest ~ the land and every
thing ON "a. She let IL lIe. She need do nothing
rnlre She sol the in-uiheens crop for hog feed
The hiss rooted and scattered IT. The wInter
rains ctms, and with % came the volunteer crop.
which maturcd and has just been cut, yielding
twelve bushels per acre on 100 acres. She will
clear at least 81 500, besides having the land and
Improvements