The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1889-08-31
Even men who do right get left

Even men who do right get left
sometimes.
Beating retreat-jumping up
board bill at summer resort.
Time cannot be arrested, but it
can be taken up.
According to official reports there
were 1S6,017 colored men enlisted in
the Union Army.
The flower bonnets are the chief
charm of the present dainty display
of French millinery.
The tomato, or love apple, as it
was formerly called, originally came
from South America.
: DR.. Hammond says that for drink
ing purposes water should never be
below fifty degrees.
The Union S. S. Company have
decided to dispatch the steamer
Oreti to carry on insular trade III the
Fiji group.
The population of Berlin in 1886
was 1,315,412. The Board of Health
estimates the population of New
| 1Ork dU I,OOf,oAt.
Patrick Francis Slavin, the Aus
tralian champion pugilist, has issued
a challenge to meet any English
professional boxer.
The cable for the elevator of the
Eiffel Tower is fat in shape, twenty
centimeters wide, four centimeters
thick, and weighs 5000 kilogrammes.
St. Peter-I do not recognize you.
What is that bundle under your
arm? Mortal-Only the earth. 1
-. st. Peter Walk right in, Mr..
! Gould!
In Paris the saccharine, or sugar
made from coal, has been unani-
mously condemned by the medical
profession, because it seriously
troubles digestion.
The visit of the Shah of Persia to
England recalls the fact that no
Persian monarch ever had grey hair.
Grey hair is by universal custom
prohibited in Persia and is never
seen. :
Earth-worms have been found in
Australia measuring six feet In
length; yet the Australians are not
proud and in conversing with them
one would not think they had any
worms.
, Milton was once asked why In GER
tain countries kings were crowned
at fourteen but not married until
they were eighteen. Because" an
+ swered the poet, ''it is more difficult
to govern woman than kingdom"
Assistant learning the business)
lis there any sure way OF telling
whether tooth is sound?" Dentist
Yes. Hit it with your hammer.
liz the patient knocks you down you
may infer that the tooth is decayed
and pull it out"
Much suffering among the Sa.
means is said to exist. TIE want a
food is pressing. Rear Admiral
Kimberley has brought from Pangt
P,sngo sa,eh rravisions, which -
Turned over for distri66,22fflon to IA
Catholic missionaries.
Jack Borrowit- There's no use il
tryin9 to economic, Tom. Tn,
mon = bound % go one way o.
the 4ner. Niggins"W Why. what
tt natter now" Jack Bor-owit
Ivy, I've been walking HON,
every night for a month to save m,
car fare, and now Mrs. Pancake ha
raised my board on account of il
creased appetite. Life.
There are children alive who Wi
see, or III all events may see Mort
American Republic with popnli
ton of 100000, 700; and the idea c
mourning the enmity of snch powt
is as appalling as the idea of -fgh
ing Russia would be, say, to Italy {
Spain. America could be met OIL
by a confederation of Europe, WIKI
p without some great change of CT
" cumstances, would be impossible, {
mn possible only if all Europe felt it
be dangerous to put up with til
treatment one Power was receiving
-ILondon Spectator.