The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1856-1888, 1856-12-18
JON II.
VARIETY.


He is the best accountant who can cast up correctly
the sum of his own errOrs.-.NeUinS.
1t not easy straghten in the oak the crook that
grew in the sapling
You will never have q friend if you must have one
without failing.
Better be the head of yeomanry than tail OF the
gentry. ---
Be contented and thankful cheerful spirit makes
labor light, sleep sweet, and all around cheerful.
The story of a man who had nose so large that
he couldn't blow It without the of gunpowder, is
said to be hoax.
stranger is received according to his dress, and
taken leave of according to his merit.
g NOTICE. FOR FASHIONABLE SHopPERs.-es La
dies not intending to purchase anything, reques
ted not to keep any article longer than ten min
utes !''-Puach.
rights and feelings. In all contentious let peace be
fatl.er yutsI etls. sri.aI'h.
only as the means of peace.-Sydney Smith.
How TO CoxvERsE.-The thread of conversation
is sustained ongst several persons, by each know
ing when to take stitch in time.-Punch.
Tt rained so in Boston the other day that all the
fishes in the harbor crowded under the bridges to get
out of the wet.
The man who &c shot at random did not hit it-he
has since lent his rifle to the youth who aimed at i'm
mortality.
Its curious fact that the Girard College turned
out last year. more lads to follow the business of
printing than any other class. Nineteen pupils have
taken the types, and twelve have become farmers
ten others choose to be chemists, and the remainder
we're distributed in mechanical avocations.
An exchange says, that restless and crying infants
may frequently be relieved and quieted by draught
Of cold water. Who knows but this simple agent
might prOftably supersede both spanking and pare
goric?
FAT, DO You SAY Y?--The Home Journal in ar
tcle on the influence of parents, says: &c Mothers
have no weight in this country
We beg to differ with the Journal. The lady who,
with her three darling cherubs, squeezed us almost
into an indistnguishable mass in the omnibus, must
have hefted at least one hundred and eighty.
A young clerk undertook TO commit suicide last
week by shooting his daguerreotype He was unsuc-
cessfuI however This is the third attempt he has
made on his life within the last three months Cause
broken sleep brought by intense devotion to q
young lady with auburn ringlets.
Words must be fitted to a mans mouth twas well
said by the fellow that was to make speech for my
lord mayor, when he desired to take measure of his
lordship's NORTHEASTERN.
SAYS scientific writer :-ss To obtain some idea of
the immcnsity of the Creators works, let us look
through Lord Ross telescope, and we discover star
in the infinite depths of space whose light is 800 900
years in trayersng to our earth moving at the yeloc-
ity of twelve millions Of miles in minute. And be-
hold God was there"
HAPPY FIREsIDE.-Home is the residence not
merely of the body but Of the heart it is place for
the affections to unfold and develop themselves for
children to love and learn and play in for husband
and wife to toll smlngly together, and make life
blessing. The object of all ambition should be to be
happy at home; if we not happy there we cannot
bc happy elsewhere 1t is the best proof of the Yir
tues Of a family circle to see happy freside
Music not only improves mans tastes but his
morals. 1t gives him a taste for home that amends
his habits wonderfully The man who spends his
evenings with piano, is seldom seen in dram shops
and never with night brawlers. We believe in music
and eandidly think that one flute will do as much
towards driving rowdyism out of neighborhood as
four policemen and bulldog.
care you an Odd FeIloU?'' ssNo Sir, I've been
married a week. s'I mean do you belong to the
Order of Odd Fellows?'' 's.No! I belong to the
Order of Married Men, How dumb Are you a
Mason go ''No! I'm carpenter by trade -
Worse and worse Are you a Son Of Temper
Gnce 90 sc ssConfound you, no 1 am a son of Mr..
John Goslng." The querist went his way with
something of flea in his
WAsHINGToN's SERvANTs.-Almost every negro that
dies in the south at advanced age, days, is
proclaimed by the paragraph makers to have been a
housenoia servant of Washington, and most of them
were at ms bed side when he died'' If all were
present at MS bedside that claimed to have been
1t would have required forty acre lot to have held
them all ! :.
Come here sonny, and tell me what the four sea
sons are?'' -
Young Prodigy Pepper, mustard salt and
vinegar thems what nanny always seasons with ,,
A man in Chicago not long since committed suicide
ny drowning As the body could not be found the
coroner held an inquest his hat and Jacket found
on the bank Of the lake Verdict IS found empty