The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1856-1888, 1883-01-20


OF 10000 known species of plants
a man eats only 300 and 100, 700 to the
doctors to make INTO medicine.
81 aim to tell the truth YES inter
rupted an acquaintance, and You are prob
ably the worst shot in America"
If a two-wheeled wagon is a bicycle and a
t~hree-wheeled wagon is a tricycle., what
would you call a fve-wheeled one p
George. A V-hicle, of course.
The difference between a tree and a dog is
that the bark of the latter is more than skin
deep. That is the reason why so few peo-
pie find any beauty in it.
.H.PIatt county, ILL.,. has 1000 inhabit-
ants and not a single %saloon..' For ought
that can be gained from the above informa-
ton, PIatt county may have II 900 saloons
for each single inhabitant.
Kerosene is a very convenient and mex
pensive auxiliary to the kitchen fire, but is
not to be recommended on the score of
economy, as the funeral expenses usually
more than Offset the saving in fuel.
Keep the pure
From worldly faint by the repellent strength
OF nature. Cherish noble thoughts and deeds,
And ever count the rosary Of truth
And practice preceptS which are proven wise.
Walk boldly and wisely in the light thou hast
There is a hand above will help thee on.
Said Fogg to a policeman, Wednesday, Can
you tell me, sir, through what streets the Transit
Of Venus is to pass p ''Sorr?" asked the city
guardian. The transit, :" exclaimed Fogg, "the
Transit of Venus, you know, takes place to-day /;
thought you might tell what streets it passes
through" Policeman " Musht be mistake,
sorr. At onny rate, there was no detail Mt our
ahtation '-ROSEOn Tran Scr;nf
81 called to look at those rooms you adver-
tised," said a gentleman to a State street land
lord. "All right Just hop into the elevator, -
said the landlord. &" But | understood they were
on tie first floor demurred the other man
" That's all right; we count from the top down.
ward in this block. You don't imagine a man is
going to cling to all the obsolete styles Of the an
tedeluvians, do you p
An amusing anccdote is related Of NJ. De Les
seps. One of his little ones had a boil at the
fnger's end; arriving at maturity, papa under
took to pierce it. How you treInble." said
Nine. De Lesseps, afraid of the improvised sur
geon's experiment. Tremble tremble a.
piercing a fester-I, who have pierced an
istbmus.?'
A Mr.. Edney, Of England, married the. sister
OF his first wife. On the death Of the second wife.
he described her in the notice Of burial sent u
Archdeacon PhillpOtts as Eliza Jane Edncy.
otherwise Eliza Jane Brokenshir. on which the
Archdeacon wrote to tell him that he had been
guilty Of a misdemeanor, and insisted that the
notice should be amended, and that Mrs. Edney
should be described only by the name of Broken
shir. Mr.. Edney has declined to pay attention
to this. Miss Brokenshir. by the injustice Of The
English law, was not legally married in Engl'n nd
to Mr.. Edney but, having assumed the name Of
Einey, she had precisely as much right to it as
the Archdeacon to Pbillpotts. \ letter Of sym
pathy, received by Mr.. Edney from Lord Hough-
ton, says -" shall ask your leave to allude to
the case the next time [ bring the Deceased
Wife's Sister question before Parliament. The
Archdeacon's letter is unnecessarily rude even
for his own Object
Eva Briggs, of Lawrence, Massachusetts,, was
recently cured of hip disease by prayer and faith.
That made her SO religious that she went mad
and now an old school physician, who once
thrashed a preacher and ran three deacons through
a churchyard, has been called in TO restore her to
reason. He says if he can bring back the hip dis
ease he is not without hope that she will return to
the peaceful condition of a sinner.