The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1856-1888, 1857-09-24

OOO a year. Ii wealth Jed to happiness. As+a-- =:
De the most contented man ia the world. RI. WOLF
not To keep away the govt, he feeds b Dus he
uranam Dreao, ana indulges in a less penerons c>
than we DO. hstor. instead of being tha l - diet'
man in New York, is, perhaps, one e .ne naples,
contented. He is in law with his tenar. 49, most dis
time and instead of taking the worls ns OF the
spends eight hours of ten in reading unon n1,uy, kS
utes of fraud. Astor's income is S30OO $esasx ~
yet we could furnish all he consumes.A ~
Such being the case, it strikes us tt1Es ~
makes $15 a week is just as well QEYSAS =
pie who worship ducats, place .1fdise estimdv~
them. Three of the best tbiags in the world
tanned gratis-ylz: ply water pure ar
THE SuGAR CRose4Th Louisiana sursa tf
ises a larger yield than for several year, Is
900 to S00,Q)0 hogsheads, against onlJ
year. The price III this country, and, to o.
prisirS extent, also in Europe, is now affected
N xdction of Louisiana. The stock of sugar H.
rope is considerably lower than last year, but III
United States it is much larger, and holders viii
greatly disappointed in the demand the present =
Bcn, which they have been anticipating would
very large from the interior, on account Of Tie
ness of stock there, as the high price has g
checked the ~nsumptio At New York, the
ON the LIST of June, was II 1000 hogsheads, IN
bags, and % 900 boxes, against 5000 hogshe4%
1880 bags and 1900 boxes last year.
FRIGHTENED By A SrArUE--An amusing incide
occurred. recently in regard to Powers Fisher b
A gentlemen who set a high value of his copy of th|
graceful work, before embarking for Europe, had
carefully shrouded in cotton and deposited it in q b
A gang of Juvenile burglars invaded his premi1
broke open the case, and thought from, It's weigh
find plate within but, when the white visage Of
marble sleeper caught their eyes. by the dim l;g
a lantern, thinking they had disturbed a COD
they dropped their thieving tools and incontind |
fed, without a particle ofspoil-Bosfoa Tran.
A Grandmother AT TwESTY-NISE YEARs on
"A woman who was last week brought befor
magistrates of Wigan, for an assault committed
a neighbor, affords a striking Instance Of ~
early marriages. She is the wife of Patrick G
a tailor. They reside in Douglas-Terrace, win
He is forty years OF age, and she is t~wenty-n
They were married before she had attained the
of fourteen years, and she was a mother at the
of fourteen years aud seven months. Since I
time she has had eleven other children. Strangtx
say, the eldest girl, who was fifteen years old
Wednesday week, is the mother of two children. q
elder of whom is nearly two years of age, she havi
married earlier in life than her mother. Mrs. Gas
is, therefore, at the age of twenty-niue years. mn
mother oftwelye and the grandmother oitwo children.
-Lirerpooi Paper.
IMPORTANT GEoGRA PHICAL DISCOVERY IN FLoRuA.
"A writer in the Natton0i Ltefifgeaces announces
a most important discovery, if one it he, IN that
the waters Of Florida everglades have found an out.
let through which they are pouring themselves, in
great volume, into the Gulf of Mexico. An area OF
many millions, acres, hitherto submerged, is thus "a
NC SonfO c. hfto piobuCtAfC utilS duLuiIiDtN dtiI\
ted to the cultiSn1isp Of the sugar-cane and otlJ
tropical fruits@ - Seminoles, they Will -
left high on dry ound. Should this prove true.
the Peninsular r lroads would be the best in the
world, as by the s. swamp grant the everglades are
all the property Of the State, and by her Internal i'm.
provement act, pledged to the several railroad enter
prises.
PoLITESEss.-The New Haven Register, tells an
incident which occurred on the New York Railroad
which forcibly illustrates the g power of politeness,'
(as our friend Carnes would express it, The seats
were all full. expect one which was occupied bya
&ough-lookiIg, but honest Irishman-and at one Of
the stations, a'couple of evidently well bred and in
telligent young ladies came in to procure seats but
seeing no vacant ones, were about to go into a back
car-when Patrick rose hastily, and offered them
his seat, with evident pleasure. Blu you will have
no seat for yourself responded one Of the young
ladies with a smile-heit ating, with true politeness,
as to accepting it. Niver We mind that - said
the Hibernian, yer welcome to St I'd ride apon
the coac-catcher till New York, any time, for a snMk
from SIGN jintemaniy ladies 20 and retreated hasti-S
" into the next car, amid the cheers of those who
had witnessed the incident.