The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1856-1888, 1883-01-27
Miscellaneous Items.


The feeling between ague and quinine is
exceedingly bitter.
The price of rubber has gone up-re
bounded, so to speak.
What gorgeous feather for cartwheel
hat the comets tail would have made.
When Adam called the animals together
for their MONDAY repast his temporary stop
ping place became the " Garden Of feedin'."
.sThe parting gives me pain" as the man
said when be had troublesome tooth ex-
trActed.
Phosphorus is the striking ma me of a new
color It will be worn by match-makin
mammas
Miller. the poet of the Sierras. h,s ceased
grinding verses and is searching for grist in
Wall street.
There is not brownstone front house in
Louisville, but there are lots Of brownsto1e
jugs. Blue grass will tell.
A Lowell man makes the sententious
remark that if every man voted as he
drinks there would be no prohibition"
ParadoxicaI as it may seem. when there
is " bear movement in wheat 1t is worse
for the granger than it is for the grain.
wealthy man in MiIIersburg, Ohio,
drives a dray Just to keep busy. II that is
his object he ought to try to run a daily
paper.
The new song, Papa's Home Tonight"
has no attractions for bashful young man,
and a sensible girl won't sing it when her
best beau is around.
A MARYLAND youth was aImest hugged to
death by bear, and now the young ladies
in that section have organized bear-hunting
parties
He who courts and goes away. may live
to court another day; but he who weds and
courts girls still may g IN Court against
his will.
Alexander n. Stephens, Of Georgia. since
his recent election to Office has become heart
;Iv sick of the title Governor" which he
hears everywhere he goes. He prefers the
prefix which is spelled q" mister
A fashionable lady in boasting of her
new .palatiaI residence said the windows
were all of stained gl,ss. That's too badI'
said her mother; " but won't soap and tur-
pentine take the stains out2'
In giving recipe for preparing oyster
.-,J, saIad an exchange SAYS: The crabs
should be slightly boiled before they are
Immersed in dressing. Just as If anybody
would eat a raw crab. Ugh.
4 new York paper describing boat race
aIIudes TO the flashing of 10000 eyes. and
,be pIaudets Of twice as many fair hands
,vhat n lot of one-eyed women there must
have been at that race
Tbinqs one would wish to express differ
sotIv. Musical maiden--I hope l am not
bou1e YOU, playing SO muchP Enamored
vouth---.Oh, no! Play on. lid so much
sooner hear you play than ia TX.
A Kentucky girl always carries her money
in her stocking when she goes shopping,
taking along lady friend to divert the al
..,,on Of the saIesm n while she hauls out
her money. Her friend must be fascinating
beyond belief.
Mr.. Thomas Beaver, of Danville. Penn
- -;ven N the Dickinson College. through
,,s PTesident, $50, 900 for the increase OF Its
''.-a,anent endowment The fund will bear
-. ,an,s of his father, in whose memory 1t
IS given
The movement for the higher education
of women in England, which led to the es-
s.bI;sbment of various excellent COLLEGES fOr-
,heU- seems to be justifying
s;a.I rssnIts- Miss Betham Ed'-
scEnowiedeed authority ON EgyPtolos
NJ Mar0aret Hardness is now delIveri-
(. caurse of lectures on the Ancient Assyr-
ans at the British Museum