The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1856-1888, 1857-11-26
VARIETY.

Never keep editor from his duty. Fifteen
minutes is the longest possible time for him devote
to any one subject or to any one man.
The best mode Of revenge, is not to initiate the
injury.
That which is to be loved long, is to be loved with
reason, rather than passion.
The heart of young girl is ike nest where the
little swallow chrps, shows its head, tries its wings
and watches the favorable moment to fly.
Woman by the-decree of nature, has smiles like
the kind heavens, for all creation; and when clouds
intervene and she is sad, her very tears like rain
and dew, are equally benefcent
Detract not from Others neither be excessive in
commencing
'.The proper study of mankind is man, says
Pope; but the popular study is how to make money
out of him
Self confidence is the first requisite to great under
takngs; vet he vino forms his opinion of himself,
without knowing the powers of other men, is very
liable to error
As sin proceeds, they ever multiply; and, like
figures in arithmetic, the last stands for more than
al that went before it--Sir Thomas BroUne.
An Eastern sage, when asked for a motto for ring
which might support its alike in prosperity
and adversely, wrote And this, too, shall pass
away -
IL is now said that eating the young and tender
shoots of the sugar certain to cure consumptive
tendencies
The THREE PowERs-The press; the pulpit; and
the petticoa,s the three ruling powers of the day
the lazt-considerably
BE,riyuL THouGHr-A little Swedish GIRL while
walking with her father n starry night absorbed
in contemplation of the skies, being asked of what
she was thinkin = replied 50 was thinking If the
rroag SIDE Of ven is so glorious. what must the
Dr. Isaas&ay, Superintendent Of the Butler Hos
pita for Insane. in Providence, r. l., in his last
report SAYS s that hearty laugh - more desirable
for mental health than any exercise of the reasoning
f,eulties'' He has high reverence for amusements,
and amens deeply the prevalence of the unamusabie
temperament among our counfrymen Inc worst con-
sequences Of this appear after 1t has driven them
into nadhOuse-
ClIlIren often utter uncommonal original sayings
We beard. says the Boston TTareiIer, OF Juvenile
prayer-ofered up few nights ago-whicn exceeds
in originality anything we ever heard Of 1t ran
sIhay my body down to sleep,
And pray the Lord my sOq6fo keep;
Pop goes the weasel" 4
So SAYING she fell asleep 1t about time
IDLE Vr-us-The idle sre a very heavy tax upon
the Industrious. when by frivolous visItatlons they
rob them their time Such beg their dairy
happiness from door to door, as beggars their daily
bread and, like them, sometimes meet with reoun.
mere gossip ought not 10 wonde. if we evinee signs
that tired of him. seeing that we are indebted
FOR honor Of his visit solely to the circumstance OF
his being tired Of himself He sits at home until he
has accumulated insupportable load of ennu, and
then saes forth distribute it among his acquaint-
anees.
FATE OF THE Observation-Disclosures is supposed to
have suffered martyrdom, put to death by the
sword at the city Of Ethiopia
Mark was dragged through the streets OF Aiexan-
dria, in Egypt, till he expired
Luke was hanged upon an olive tree In dreece-
John was put in a cadron of boiling oil, at Rome,
and escaped death. He afterwards died natural
death at Ephesus, in ASIA
James the Great was beheaded at Jerusalem.
James the Less was thrown from pinnacle or
wing of the temple and then beaten to death with
fuller's club.
Philip hanged up against pillar at Hierapo-
LIS, city of Phrygia
Bartholomew was fiayed alive by the command of
barbarOus king.
Andrew was bound to a cross, whence he preached |
to the people till he expired.
Thomas was thrc' Z the body by lance near |
Maipar, in the East In a.
Jude was shot to death With arrows
Simeon Zeotes was cruciied in Persia
Matthias was first stoned and then beheaded.
Peter was crucified with his head downwards
Paul, the last and chief of Apostles, also died by
violence.
LITTLE tinIs.-There is something inexpressiby |
sweet abous little girls. Lively, pure, innocent, in
genuou, unsuspecting full of kindness to brothers,
babies, and everything. They are little human
flowers, diamond dew-drops Of the breath Of morn.
What pity they should ever become women, firts,
and heartless coquettes
The sHAsoHu's ALARx-What can that long |
legged Shanghai mean by uttering his aarm-cluck. /
surely he must either hawk or his shadow. i
hen who is scratching woodpile, flies with all
her chickens and hides beneath the logs. The panic
spreads to al the poultry in the yard Still, neither
IN the sky ON the earth do see hawk shadow.
That long-legged Shanghai must have keen senses.
hark now hear thcm-the bird-ofpassage notes
their way southwsrd. Lone-leered Shanghai What
AIS tnees know thee to be bird OF courage when
pi'sed against thy fellows What ais theei And
1oes ~ hod good with chickens with men, that
nm .o-s .osnd ofien brssds more ascs han dro0n