The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1889-12-04
OF GENERAL INTEREST.


5000, 900 bushels season.
The wealthiest col0red man in the
South is New Orleans sugar planter
named Marie. He has an income OF
$40, 600, and is cultivated gentleman.
The once fighting Modoc Indians
have become Industrious farmers in the
past twelve years and half OF them
have protested Christianity.
"A Wisconsin lover wrote to his
sweetheart: There is not a globule
of blood in my heart that does not bear
your photograph"
"A colored man, on trial for rob-
berry in Washington, instructed his at
torney to challenge every negro on
the jury. He said he preferred to en-
trust his case to white men.
A farmer in Huntingdon County,
Pa, caught an owl and put it in
his barn to fight his rooster. The
owl fought, and the rooster did the
best he could, but when the battle vas
over the rooster was dead.
"A Kingston On. - minister mar
ried couple one night recently, and
when signatures were asked to the
certificate it was found that neither
the bride, groom, best man nor brides
maid could write their names. They
all signed by making marks.
"A Georgia colored man is very
fond of alligators as food product
He captures the saurians, and. after
duly preparing them, cures them as he
does his hams. In his smokehouse at
present five or six of these reptiles are
hung up undergoing the smoking pro-
cess.
The crowd of immigrants that
may be seen in Castle Garden any day
at present are subjected to more
rigorous examination than the immi-
grants of former years were. A good
many are sent back to the countries
from which they came, on the ground
that they belong to the excluded
| classes.
AT one of the crossroads in Brazil,
an idol carved from the wood of an
orange tree was placed for the Indians
to worship. On one occasion it was
noticed that an old red man omitted to
perform his act of obeisance. On be-
ing commanded to kneel he stubbornly
replied: mo; knew him when he
was an orange tree"
| "A Washington woman, prosecutor
in late assault and battery case, who
called the courts attention to the
marks on her face, the result, she said,
of the beating she had received, almost
tainted when the Judge ordered an Off
Ger to closely examine the injuries.
He rubbed a handkerchief over her
face, when the marks instantly disap-
peared. having been made with paint.
The case was then dismissed.
"A trader at Americus, Ga, boasts
of having a remarkably smart wife.
Although he has been marrisd ten
years, she has never asked him for a
dollar and he has never given her any
money. He generally borrows from
her, and she makes more than he does.
She sells all home products, such as
meat, lard, chickens, wood, hay, etc,
and beats his store. He does not buy
any thing but sugar, coffee and a lit.
tie rice, as he has every thing else te
sell off his place.
On the evening of May 20, 1866
the citizens of Boston celebrated the
repeal of the Stamp act by hanging
one hundred and eight lanterns in the
Old Liberty Tree on Essex street
One of the lanterns, which, according
10 it's inscription, was hung on 'th'
west bough, opposite Frog lane" ha
been in the Zimmerman family eve
since, and was recently presented t.
the Bostonian Society by the widow
r and children of the late Joseph Fl
Zimmerman, of Roxbury.
"A San Francisco spinster of uncer
tain age. possessed of much wealth
n and little beauty, agreed to give
n marriage bureau 800 to secure her
y husband. Forty dollars was paid down
A marriage resulted, but the remain
. ing $50 was not paid, whereupon Mrs
Meyer. proprietress of the bureau
sued for $185 for services rendered
This included the unpaid $50, 800 fo
board and lodging and $40 for wee
ding breakfast. The bride. to avoi
notoriety, compromised by payin
$50.
AT a recent fashionable weddin
in New York the father of the brio
wore a broad grin as he walked i
the church aisle with his daughte
During the ceremony he chuckled Sc
eral times, and at its close he brol
into an unmistakable laugh. AS he
a prominent citizen of unimpeachab
sobriety, and is known to have Il
tenderest regard for his family al
for this daughter in particular, mai
were somewhat scandalized by su,
an apparent breach of decorum. .
the wedding reception the good ge
tleman solved the mystery. He h
suddenly remembered that the Ia
time he had been inside of any chur
was when he was himself married
that very edifice.