The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1856-1888, 1856-10-23
VARIETY.

He that overcomes his passions, eonquers his great
est enemies.
Never check the impulses of conscience stife
its voice
Think not Of doing as you like, do as you ought TO
do.
Nature clad in russet is more agreeable than afec-
tation in embroidery.
She is the most beautiful whom we love the most !;
and the woman we love the most is frequently the
one to whom we talk of it the least
The ancients we're of opinion that Echo was mai
den who had pned away for love, till nothing but
her voice was left.
Why are fowls the most economical things farmers
keeps Because for every grain they give peck.
Why is benevolent lady like all others of her SEX
Because one is q kind woman and the others wo-
mankind.
The following contains the alphabet :--st John P
Brady gave me black walnut box OF quite small
size''
The reason there is so frequently &c screw loose
somewhere is because the sc screws generally
put to individuals of loose habits.
scolding never did any body good. 1t hurts the
child it hurts the parents it is evil, and only evil
everywhere and always.
Cheerfuness keeps up a kind of daylight in the
mind, and fills it with steady and perpetual seren-
ity
DoCToR APPREcIATED.-The death of Pope Adr-
an, occasoned such joy at Rome that the night after
his decease, they adorned the door Of has chief phys
clans house aUih gariGnds, adding this incription-
"Tc the deliverer of his country
Praise, like gold and diamonds, owes its value only
to its scarcity 1t becomes cheap it becomes vul-
gar and viii longer raise expectations animate
enterprise.
A writer has compared worldly friendship to our
shadow, and better comparison never made,
for while walk in the sunshine is sticks to u.s. but
the moment we enter the shade it deserts
Those can most easily dispense with society who
are the most calculated to adorn 1t they only are
dependent on it who possess mental resources
for though they bring nothing to the general mart,
like beggars they are too poor to stay at home
The English papers give the details of a monster
blast which was let off few weeks since at the new
harborworks at Holyhead 1t is said it required the
labor of six In its formation for ten months and
charge of 81 tuns of powder to explode it. The
quantity of stone loosened by the blast was calculated
at $4,000 tuns.
Skirts have become so voluminous in Paris rs to
be both disfguring and ridiculous An unfortunate
lady the other day saluted on the boueyarls nv
one of the gamins de Parts, as le balon de M God
ard, (the famous seronaut)
The Rev. Antoinett Brown Blackwell, has settled
in New York, and her husband has followed her
''Where thou goest, will CO. and where mot when7
thou lest, will lie''
An Irish lady, on hearing her eloquent country.
man Meagher, (the windows of whose soul are no
large) lecture before an immense audience said ss H
has mighty small eyes but he sees good dale with
them.''
lighthouses in all parts of the world, of which 331
are IN Great Britain and Ireland 148 in France 4S4
the rest of Europe Al in Africa, II in Asia the
East Indies, and Australia SO in South America and
lndies, ll6 in British North America. ON the
nusslan coast OF the Pacific, and 464 in the United
S1ases Inc amount expended by the United States
HuIng tne year ending June 80, 1856, for building
Ignthouses was $e4o 1885, and for lighting 81 O02
lM Great Britain. Norway and Sweden lew sns-
eal duties on vessels passing each light Franpo
Prussia, Russia, and the United States more maane
nlmousy assume the system of aids to nayipato3 -
national duty, and construct and maintain the
works by direct appropriation '