The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1856-1888, 1856-08-07
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of your bed and the walls of your chandler If you
do not rise early, you make progress IN nothing
Ii you DO not set apart your hours OF reading, If you
suffer yourself, any one else, to break in upon
them, your days will slip through your hands unpro-
table and frivolous, and unenjoyed by yourself .
Lord Chatham.
GREAT SPEED.-The train which conveyed the En-
peror Napoleon to Windsor, ON his visi to England
ran at the rate Of - miles an hour. Tie distance
was % miles. Brunrell, the great engineer, man
aged the locomotive
CoURAGE.-Haye sufficient to speak to poor
friend, in the street, and when rich one is
nigh. The effort is not great many people may
imagine, and the act is worthy of a king.
Top boots are all the spasm in New York now, the
cream of Broadway wear tassels to them, and s..
sporting whip thrust out from the side pocket COM
petes the tableaux Next thing we shall hear of will
be gilt edged shirt collars.
He that is good will infallibly become better, and
he that is bad, will certainly become for
vice. virtue and time, are three things that never
stand still.
The Kaick6ocker states that two boy babies who
CHANGED to be born III the same house on the same
day III this city, were in the hustle of the moment
placed in the same cradle, and when taken out. 1t
proved impossible to tell which which, matter
Of great distress to their respective mothers, and
which can never be certainly decided
The product of the California mines since their dis
covery in 1913 to Jan l, 1856 was 1856, ,345. 900
that of the Australian from their discovery in 1851
to the same date 1929 ,934 900, making total of
1856, ,279, ,000 and considerably larger annual
rage for Australia than California. What has become
of it all?
TIE largest reading room in the world is now near
ly completed in the British Museum. It is circular,
one hundred and forty feet in diameter and hun
dred and forty feet in height The tables will accom-
modate four hundred readers. The wrought iron book
cases will contain 102 100000 volumes The cost Of
the room viii be about R300,OOO.
d. r
manufacture of curiousy wrought and inlaid furni-
ture has just completed couple of center tables, in
laid with 45 900 pieces of colored woods, arranged
as to represent bouquets and of flowers, birds,
insects, c and on one table are representations Of
Washington, jackson, 1TapOieUl, Frciesio t7 GREAT,
and Robert Bruce.
The weaIthiest heiress in England at this time is
Miss Jones Lloyd, daughter of Lord Overstone, the
banker She has but just come out, and created an
immense sensation at the last 's drawing room. "
The New York Times says this lady has uncle in
that city who is now acting in the capacity Of a
salesman ut Genin's Bazar.
HoUsEKEEpING.-We commend the following to our
fair cOuntrywomen:
Wewll give to intellect TO immortality, to religion,
and to all virtues, the honor that belongs to them.
And still it may be boljiy affirmed that economy,
TASTE skill and neatness in the kitchen, have great
deal to do in making life happy and prosperous.
Nor it indispensbly necessary that house should
be filled with luxuries The qualifications for all
good housekeeping, be displayed well on
small scale large
A small house can be easily kept clean than
palace
Taste is as well displayed in placing the dishes on
pine table, as in arranging the folds Of ddmask
curtain.
Slillful cooking is as readily discovered in nice
ly baked potato or respectable johnnycake, as III
nut brown srloin brace of canvass backs.
The charm of good housekeeping is in the order,
economy and taste displayed in attention to little
things, and these little things have wonderful infu
ence
! y dirty kitchen and bad cooking have driven many
a one from home to seek for comfort and happ-
ness somewhere else.
Domestic economy is q science--a theory of life
which all sensible ought to study and practice,
None of our excellent girls fit to be married until
they thoroughly educated in the deep and pro-
/ found mysteries of the kitchen.
/ See to it. all we who mothers, that your daugh-
ters all accomplished by experimental knowl-
edge Of good housekeeping.
The consumption of coffee in the United States is
surprisingly large, when take into the account
the great quantity of other articles mixed with the
pure article The import last year was 195 AIS, ,657
] pounds, valued at $40, ,940, ,4G0.
Yle Scotch pebble is said to excel all other ar
tcles for making spectacle glasses 1t is perfstly
clear and transparent, and free from the slight
est color to interrupt the rays Of light.
The aurora borealis ocenrs at an elevation it is
calculated, of about seventy miles above the earth
surface, at which elevation the air is rarifed to de-
gree tar above that afforded by our best modern air
pumps.
Not only was the well known chestnut-tree in the
garden of the Tueres in leaf this year the 10Th OF
March, but number of other trees principally cher
ry, peach and apricot, were in flower.
! As proof of the very valuable services rendered
by swallows, it is estimated that one of these birds
will destroy, at low calculation 900 insects per day
and when it is considered that insects produce
as many as nine generations in q summer the state
of things but for these birds may be readily concey-
ed.
There more than eight thousand miles of rail-
way IN Great Britain, costing two hundred and
eighty-sx millions of pounds The tunnels are more
than fifty miles in extent, and the earth-works mea-
sure titty-fye millions of cubic yards. The number
of miles of telegraph wires is thrty-sx thousand-an
increase of ftyold in period Of only seven years.
Goods acquired by industry prove commonly more
, lasting than lands by descent Thomas Fuller.
SIX sisters were recently married in the same
evening" at their house in Somerset county Penn
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