The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1856-1888, 1856-10-09
HONOLULU, HAWAIIAN ISLANDS, OCTOBER 9, 1856.
VARIETY.


What sort of trees will best bear removal and
! transportation? ? Ans.-Axle-trees.
Speaking without thinking is shooting without
taking aim
The man who thinks laboriousy will express him
self concisely
We should be cautious how we indulge in the feel
ing OF virtuous Indignation. 1t is the handsome
brother Of anger and hatred.
He has good income who has but few occasions OF
I spending not ne who has great rents and great
vents.
We paint our lives in fresoo The soft and f'cle
plaster Of the moment harens under every stroke of
/ the brush into eternal rock.
Men of the noblest disposition always consider
themselves happest when others share their happi-
ness with them.
The fellow who damned up the Mississippi with
chip, has been sent for to cure the cancer at the
/ tropic
| On what material should spiritual journal be
| printed? WraTp;ag paper.
Guests should be neither oquacious silent be-
cause eoquence is for the FORUM and silence for the
bedchamber
A Yankee describing opponent, says Sc tell
you what, sir, that man don't amount to sum IN
arithmetic-add him up, and there is nothing to
carry -
a large trade in frogs has lately sprung up in New
York some of the restaurants serve them up regu-
lary, the Americans hayin. become consumers Of
them well as the Johnny Crapeaus.
Voltaire defined a physician as an unfortunate
gentleman expecting every day to perform miracle
namely, to reconcile health with intemperance.
Let the miser have his gold, and the man of honor
his emblems of renOWn but let my portion be the
boon of friendship secured within faithful heart,
in which peace conentment, and every virtue reigns
supreme.
The net of our life is mingled yarn, good and i'll
together virtues would be proud if cur faults
whipped them not and our crimes would despair,
Al ct,pr Inv HoL-
SpeGre.
An old cynic, at concert the other night, read in
the programme the title of song viz, Oh give
a cot in the valley I love- Reading it atten-
lively, the fellow finally growled-' Wen, if had
my choice, should ask for q 6edstead''
A maiden lady Of our acquaintance, while in
pany one evening, abiding to her youthful preco
cousness, among other things said that at six months
old she went alone. wag present remarked
Is Yes, madam and you've been alone ever since -
Il afraid, said lady to her husband, that
am going to have a stiff neck Not at all i'm
probable my dear, replied her spouse, q have seen
strong symptoms of it ever since we were married.
1t is well known that in the region of South Amer
lea, which affords the largest supply of hides to
merce, an immense quantity of beef is annually left
to decay, after the removal of the hides from the
slaughtered animals. The idea of bringing this beef
into market having been suggested by some mercan-
tile gentlemen, Mr.. Hamilton undertook series
Of experiments, with the view of preserving the meat
in fresh state during its transportation to Europe
The plan adopted, a basis, to incloSe TIE flesh
in suitable vessel, and display the atmospheric air
qualities. After trying chlorine, ammonia and others
he found that nitric oxide gas most efficient.
Half pound of fresh meat was suspended in glass
sOppered bottle, spit Of wood, and the bottle
filed with nitric acid at the end Of tweny-o days
/ the color was not changed and the beef sweet and
good
! A TRUTH FOR PARENTs.-Rev. DR.. Duff remarks
sc am prepared from experience to say that in
o,s1S SNPc 111o4ol
money given to children, by whom they were never
earned, and who acquired 30 habits of industry,
thrift or aboriousness prove IN point of fact rather
curse than blessing. [ am prepared to substan
tiate that a matter of fact, not merely from my
own knowledge of the subject but from the state
ments of men who have been of watchful and obser-
want habits, cultivated not i'll Great Britain, but in
America. Yet it is melancholy that little do
parents know OF the of misery they accumu-
latng for their children heaping up these boards
for them, little do they think how big with misery
these boards are. The remark is worthy of the best
consideration Of parents and the truth it nculcates
should constran them to their wealth in doing
gcod and not hoard up to injure their children.
/ TIE PHILos0PHY OF RAIN.-To understand the
beautiful and sublime phenomenon, often witnessed
since the creation of the world, and essential to
the very existence of plants and animals few facts
derived from observation and long train of expert
! r2ents must be remembered
Were the atmosphere at all times ola uniform
temperature, we should never have rain, hail
.
the sea and the eartf's surface would descend in
imperceptible vapOr cease to be absorbed by the
air when 1t was once fully saturated.
The absorbing power Of the atmosphere, and con-
sequently It's capacity to retain humidity is propor-
tionally greater in warm than In cold air.
The air near the surface of the earth is warmer
than it is in the region of the clouds. The higher we
ascend from the earth the colder we find the atmos-
phere. Hence the perpetual snow very high
mountains in the hottest climate.
Now, when from continued corporations the air is
highly saturated with vapOr, though it be invisible
and the sky appear cloudless, yet its temperature is
suddenly reduced by cold currents Of air descending
from higher to lower latitude it's capacity to re-
tam moisture is diminished, clouds are formed and
the result IS ram 1t condenses, and cools and like
+ a sponge filled with water and compressed pours
out the water its diminished capacity cannot hold
How singular, but how simple the philosophy of rain
What omnisclence could have devised such an admir-
able arrangement for watering the earth?
VAIN GLoRY.-Among the peace illuminations. one
of the most popular devices combination of the
initials of the Queen Prince Albert Louis NAPOLEON
and the Empress Eugene. The result of this ar
rangement display o. the letters V. A. N E.
which suggested to the philosophic mind connec-
ton between popularity, and the weathercock-
Punch.
! Sub Rosa, term that passes current as sgnifi-
cant of secrecy Its origin is this-Among the Greeks
the rose was consecrated to Hppocrates, the genius
of silence, and either the its gare was pac
ed upon the ceiling Of their rooms, Implying that