The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1856-1888, 1882-06-03
Misc cellaneous Items.

Men like to see themselves i'm print; wO-
men prefer silk or velvet.
A man is like an egg; keep him in hot
water, and he will become hardened
Give your. appearance careful and serious
thought in your dressihg-room. and forget
IL elsewhere.
"If thought ] was going TO become
grey, Pd die" And when she became
grey she did dye.
Bills introduced in the British parliament
propose the expenditure of 1926. 900 900
upon new railroads and SlS4.00O.0 900 upon
those already existing.
A venerable couple Of Smiths reside at
Smithtown. l.. |. The other evening they
celebrated the seventeen anniversary Of their
marriage. MIR. Smith is ninety-two and his
wife eighty-nine years of age.
They know bow to have fun in Kentucky
At a recent fair, grab-bag was feature; it
was twent-6ve cents grab, and the grabs
were numerous, but nobody got anything.
though every fellow was satisfied The bag
contained a young alligator.
A foreign exchange gives the 70 lowing
abstract Of sermon on gambling by Tai
mage =" IL devoured money and morals"
and, continued the pastor, " it was destruc-
tive to life. You don't End old stock gam
blers, as a rule Worst Of all it destroys the
soul. See the dying gambler in his deiirium.
He talks Of options percentage, buyer
sixty days. stocks up stocks down. He
. rises at midnight crying 1000 shares of
Illinois Central at 1884 Take it y And
he falls back dead No more dividends
Swindled out Of heaven Stocks down
Let Us pray" Send round the plate.
The intellect Of New Haven has been
sorelv tried of late In trying to discover
whether servant girls or shop girls make
the best wives. Instead of proceeding in the
scientific way by collecting statistics and
making experiments, the parties TO the
controversy argued from PriOri con-
alterations. The tedium of the discussion
was relieved by a new method of arriving
at accurate conclusions adopted by n shop
GIRL and servant girl. After discussing
the merits of the question for while, they
adjourned to the rear of a livery stable
and clutched and clawed each other till
separated by the police
Mr.. Longfellow got the munificent sum
of TWENTY-FIVE dollars for the - Wreck of
the Hesperus." The story of its inspira-
tion Is found in his diary for 1889. Decem-
ber 18th of that year, he wrote, "News of
sbipwrecks, horrible, on the coast. Forty
bodies washed ashore near Gloucester.
One woman lashed to piece of wreck.
There Is a reef called NOrman's Woe,
where many of these took place. Among
others the schooner Hesperus- Also, the
Seafower. on Black Rock | will write
ballad on this" The sequel to this is found
In the entry In the diary dated December
3Oth. sWrOte last evening" he says, "a
notice of AllstOn's poems. after which sat
till one o'clock by the fire smoking; when
suddenly it came into my mind to write
the ballad of the schooner Hesperus.
which accordingly did. Then went TO
bed. but could not sleep. New thoughts
were running in my mind, and got up to
add them 20 the ballad 1t was three by
the clock"
The Rev. DR.. Hughes. the Freethought
lecturer, who now occupies the boards OF
the SYDNEY Theatre Royal on Sunday
evenings, was formerly priest of the
Church of England at marlborough,
Queensland. He had quarrelled with his
Bishop, and. fairly starved out of Mary
borough, was starting by steamer to Rock
hampton, when big butcher came aboard
and loudly demanded settlement OF L" that
account The little DR.. demonstrated. He
represented his unfortunate circumstances
and situation. He would pay soon as
he had means The big butcher was i'm
pIacobIe. Come ashore, you little beg
gar" he said, "and by blood and bones
IN take it out of your hide" The small
eccIesiastic meekIy submitted, permitted
himself to be hustled along the gang-way
and on the wharf, and, when arrived. there
humblv took off his coat and - gave that
butcher the most scientific display of plain
and fancy boxing ever seen IN the Wide
Bay district. The Rev. gentleman had
studied something besides theology at
Cambridge, and the name of his Prof was
Nat. LanghamI When the by-standers
finally picked up that big butcher he
looked ike half-a-side of his own beef