The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1856-1888, 1856-11-06
VARIETY.

VARIETY.
The roots of tree are hidden-so are the sources
of evil
thmble full of powder will split rock forty feet
square.
Plough deep, while the sluggards sleep, and you
shall have grain to sell and to keep.
Pride is as loud a beggar as Want, and great
deal more saucy-
Silks, satins, scarlets, and velyets put out the
kitchen fire
ANT1ouARY-Tooo often collector of valuables that
worth nothing, and recollector of all that Time
has been glad to forget.
We aint our lives in fresco. The soft and facile
plaster of the moment harens under every stroke Of
the brush into eternal rock
There is time for all things. The time to ss leave
is when young lady asks you how the walking is.
s'Tis false,'' the girl said when her beau told
her she had beautiful hair.
Mrs Dawdle says one of her boys don't know moth
ing and the other does. The question is, which is
ahead?
Before you commit suicide, take an emetic. What
you take for despair may be only couple of pig 8
feet. Try it on.
They are all discoverers that think there is no land
when they see nothing but sea.
The less weight race-horse carries, the quicker
he runs and the same speed holds good with the
human tongue.
Remember that true fortitude surmonnts difficult
or but through that of virtue.
woman about to sign deed, was asked by the
Judge if her husband compelled her to sign. 6 He
compel me 90 said the indignant woman, Sc no,
twenty like him couldn't do sueher thing !?
PovERTY-Tt was Washington Irving we believe,
who observed that when we are willing to appear
poor, we have taken from poverty its sharpest sting.
Somebody describing the absurd appearance of a
man dancing the polka, says tSh he looks as though
he had hole in his pocket. and was trying to shake
= shilling down the leg of his trowsers.'
An orphan girl of 20, with $4,000 year, adver-
tises herself in New York paper as wanting hand
some and respectable young man in marriage. She
prints her picture, and it is pretty, and halls from
Springfield.
The bachelors of Cleveland are ungallant set of
fellows. AT their annual supper few nights ago,
the following was the seventh regular toast Our
future Wives-Distance lends enchantment to the
view
SCATTERING AND INcREAsING.-serving God with
our little whether in the way of time, talents pro-
perty or influence is the very way to make 1T more.
Nothing is wasted by which Ged is honored man
blessed It is but seed sown to be gathered again
hundred fold In the harvest.
The PowER- OF STEAM-A pint of water, evapo-
rated by two ounces of coal, swells into two hun
dred and sixteen gallons of steam, with mechanical
force sufficient to raise weight of thirtyseven tons
foot high.
OMNIBUS JoKE.-It is told of Charles Lamb, that,
one afternoon, having taken seat in crowded ON
nlbu2, stout gentleman subsequently looked IN ana
politely said-'' All full inside? &c l don't know how
it may be with the other passengers, answered
Lamb but that last piece Of oyster pie did the bus
ness for me.''
e 1t is summer now but it was winter, clear
and cold, and the finely packed, when DIR.
Meadows was one of sleighing party, which he
describes, far as he and the young Widow Lambkin
were concerned, in the words following
Sc The lively Widow Lambkin sat in the sleigh
under the same buffalo-robe with me.
0s Oh, oh ! don't. don't she exe1aimed we
came to the first bridge, at the time catching
by the arm, and turning her yelled face toward me-
while her little eyes twnked through the moonlight
s'sDon't what? asked Pm not doing any
thing
essWell but thought you going to take
TOLL replied Mrs. Lambkn.
"s Toll rejoined what's that?'
sst Well, declare = cried the Widow, her clear
laugh ringing out above the music of the bells you
pretend you don't know what toll is =
"sIndeed don't. then,' I said laughing spray
explain, If you please
"s You never heard, then.' said the Widow, most
provokingly-s you never heard that when are on
asleigh-ride the gentlemen always-that is some
ames-when they cross bridge, claim kiss, and
call 1t toll. But never pay it,
. said that had never heard of it before but
Wnen we came to the next bridge claimed the toll
and the Widows struggles hold the vail over her
lace were not enough to tear it. At last the vail
removed, her round, rosy face was turned directly
toward mine, and IN the clear light of frosty moon
the toll was taken, for the first time in his life. by
DIR. Meadows. Soon we came to long bridge. with
several arches the Widow said it was no Ise In
toll without murmur.
g s But you won't take toll for every arch aDiu
you, Doctor the Widow said so archly, that could
not tail to exact all my dues, and that the begin
nng.-But ncrer mind tie rest. The Eambkin ha6
she aeadows all to herself in the spring Harper