The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1856-1888, 1856-09-18

TRUrT1 is worthless until exemplifed in conduct.
SPEAKING without thinking is shooting without
taking aim.
The man who thinks laboriously will express him
self concisely.
In tries infinitely clearer than In great deeds, ac
tual character is displayed.
If we get knowledge into cur minds edgewise, it
will soon find room to turn.
Form one upright, genuine resolve, and it will up
lift into higher air your whole being.
Owls look wiser than eagles, and many sheepskin
passes for charnois.
To be deprived of person love is a happiness in
comparison of living with one we hate.
ANY enc may do casual act of good nature, but O
continuation of them shows it is part of the temper
ament.
We should be cautious how we indulge in the feel
ings of virtuous Indignation. 1t is the handsome
brother of anger and hatred.
FRIEND-one who will tell you Of your faults and
follies in prosperity and assist you with his hands
and heart in adversely.
If a z1an were to set out calling everything by its
right name, he would be knocked down before he got
to the corner of the street.
ASTIoUARY-too often collector Of valuabes that
are worth nothing, and a recoector of all that Time
has been glad to forget.
So quickly sometimes has the wheel turned round,
that many has lived to enjoy the benefit of that
charity which his own piety projected
Let so order our conversation in the world that
we may live when dead in the affections Of the
BEST and leave an honorable testimony in the con-
sciences of the worst.
Why are German Theologians like catfish? Do
you give it up' Because they are continually wrig-
Cling about Sc the diet Of worms .
There is man in Connecticut who has such q
hatred for anything like monarchy, that he won't t
wear a crown on his hat
Socrates rightly said of contentment opposing it to
the riches of fortune and opinion that is the wealth
of nature for it gives everything that we want and
really need.
It is singular fact that women cannot look from
pfecipice of any magnitude without becoming dizzy
But what is still singular the dizziness departs
the very moment somebody puts his arms around
her waist to 'skeep her from falling Queer, ism
Childhood is like mirror catching and rejecting
images around it. Remember that an impious, pro-
fame vulgar thought may operate upon your heart
like careless spray of water thrown upon polished
steel. staining it with rust that after efforts can
eface.
The farmer whose pigs were so lean that it took
two of them to make shadow, has been beaten by
another, who had several so lean that they would
crawl out through the cracks In their pen He finally
stopped that S by tying knots in their tails.''
Az INVENTION CALLED FoR.-The scientific Ameri
can says it costs So 900 900 husk the corn grown
In the United States, and that machine for huskinr
would make the fortune of the inventor. But what
is to become of the merry husking parties when ma
.chinery is introduced? All the fun and romance of
the thing will be gone.
The N Y Duichman publishes the following for
the benefit of those who disposed to commit sui
eide rainy days:
For low spirit recommend clear con-
science fresh air. lots of exercise and taste for the
flute. And it to pass when the evil spirit was
IN Saul, that David took harp and played with his
hands, so Saul was refreshed and well, and the
evil spirit departed from him. In treating diseases
OF the mind, music is not sufficiently valued. In
raising the heart above despair old violin is worth
Two doctors and two apothecary shops.''
women endure pain, poverty and the severest mis-
fortune with more fortitude than men, but melt at
the nrst marsh word from those that they love. With
her own heart open before her, no true mother can
speak harsnly 10 her chld-the tone would rend the
little tendrils of affection that are clnpinr to her
and like vines in spring ruthlessly cut they might
bleed with fatal hindrance to health