The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1856-1888, 1857-06-18
VARIETY.

The homes of birds are hollow and filled with air
instead of morrow.
COW eats 100 pounds of green food every "a hours
and yields five quarts, or ten pounds of milk
Fish are common in the seas of Surinam with four
eyes-two of them horns which grew on the top of
their heads.
Two thousand nine hundred sk-worms produce
one pound ofsi but it would require 27 900 spiders,
8 all females to produce pound of web.
Captain Beaufort saw, near Smyrna, in 1841, a
cloud of locusts 46 miles long, and 800 yards Deep
containing, he calculated, 169 billions
Blows suspended over the head fall upon the SOUL
Growth is the nature of habit, not of one sort or
another, but of all, even of an unnatural habit
Every lie, great or small, is the brink of preci-
pice the depth of which nothing but Omniscence can
fathOm.
An English writer classifes old maids and bachelors
as solitary mature men and women acho haze moth
ing happening to thenn.
The Yankee has been styled ga well-developed
interrogation point
Lafayette said of Marie Antoinette that a purer
being never lived more heroic ever died. -
Rubies and babies the emblems of love-especi-
ally the babies.
Dantes famous line, Sc All hope abandon, ye who
enter here?'' has been recommended as motto for
American railroad cars.
The honest man who marres and brings up a large
family does service than he who continues single
and only talks of population.
4 Chinese proverb tells that every man is the
architect of his fortune, for character is fate.
He who says in his heart ssI will be useful to my
race, ought to begin by mastering the knowledge Of
himself
It's with old bachelors as with old wood; it is hard
to get them started, but when they do take fame
they burn most prodigiOusly.
Why are the ladies of the present day like the lilies
Of the Scriptures Because they toll not neither do
they spin; yet Solomon in all his glory not
arrayed like one of them.
ALWAYS WELCOME.-The lady who sent a mince
pie, says a Western editor, with the request to
"please insert,' is assured that such articles
never crowded out by press of other matter
Lewenhoeck reckoned II 900 divisions in the
outer coat of the eye) of butterfly, each one Of
which he thought possessed crystalline lens. Spi-
ders, etc., are similarly provided for.
NEwspApERs-Dr. johnson, when in the fllless Of
years and knowledge said ''I never take up
newspaper without finding something would have
deemed it loss not to have seen; never without
deriving from it instruction and amusement"
There is no crime more infamous than the violation
Of TRUTH be sociable beings longer than
they believe each other
Though it may not be in your power to be natu-
rast poet an orator, n mathematician, it is in
your power to be a true man, which is best of ALL
Stupiditv must not be tolerated. Action promotes
the health of the mind, we'll as that OF the body
and we must render an account for every idle SEN
tence, as well every idle word
There is q sentiment as beautiful as Just in the
following lines He who forgets the fountain from
which he drank and the tree under whose shade he
gamboled in the days of his youth, Is stranger to
the sweetest impressions of the human heart
QUAuTY-Some people all quality; you would
think hsy were made up of nothing but title and ge
NeNgy the stamp of dignity defaces in them the very
Character OF humanity, and transports them to such
degree OF haughtiness, that they reckon it below
them either TO exercise good nature good manners
PRIpE-The disesteem and contempt Of others il
nseparable from pride. 1t is hardly possible
value ourselves, but by undertaking our neghbors
,Jo,x, ~, orr-bo"
other men thought to be wiser than we are; and it is
a kind of jealousy in ourselves that they are so,
Which provokes pride.
QUEEN VIcroRIA's FAMILY.-Queen Victoria has
eight children-four and four daughters. Their
names and titles are as follows Victoria Adelaide
Mary Louisa, Princess Royal, now fifteen years Of
age; Albert Edward, Prince of Wales, fourteen years
91 age; Nice NJ. and Mary, twelve years of age;
elen H Augusta Victoria, nine years old; Louisa
p4! Alberta, years of age; Arthur William
nA i0A ALBERT five years DID, and Leopold William
Dulcan Albert, two years old
proWn IS bit of wag, and an admirer of Mr.
nsIelloW Jones, who had got some hints from the
;Spapers, mentioned s. Hiawatha'' to Brown, and
;ntFHme1 whether it was original poem IS Orig
It said Brown, why, sir, it is aboriginal !''
oUa who is no scholar, like Brown felt that his
1s0On had been answered in the affirmative and
something over'' "DO
of cross grained are by no means the worst
POlished in feeling. ''-'9' - ''''''0n 'Re least
sensaton g-whose theory of storms created quite
sviS some few years since-1sed tn he fcofonSl,.
rrofessor of Thunder and Liehtninr,;'