The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1856-1888, 1857-05-14
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Modesty is q sweet song-bird, no open cage-door
can tempt to flight
Why is twice ten like twice eleven! Because twice
ten is twenty, and twice eleven is twenty-ttco.
Benefcence is the most exquisite luxury; and the
good man, after all, is the genuine epicure
Beware of judging hastily; it is better to- suspend
an opinion than to retract an assertion.
If we all had windows in our hearts, many of us
would take good care to keep the blinds closed.
He is the best accountant who count up, cor
rectly, the of his errors
Prayer not invented; it born with the first
sigh, the first joy, the first sorrow of the human
heart.
To hear the discourse of wise men, delights us, and
their company inspires us with noble contempations.
A game of checkers played by telegraph,
between Boston and Provincetown the other evening,
Cape Cod winning.
CAUSE AND EFFEcT-" Mother, this book tells
about the sangry waves of the ocean, Now, what
makes the ocean get angry?'' Because it has been
crossed so often, my son.
Those who reprove u.s. are more valuable friends
than those who 1atter The who would
improve, must have either faithful friends
enemies
The greater the difficulty, the more glory in sur
mounting it; skful pilots gain their reputation from
storms and tempests.
River water contains about % grains of solid mat
ter to every cubic foot. Hence, such river as the
Rhine carries to the sea every day 14 $50 cubic feet
of sand or stOne
Mole-hills are curiously formed by an outer arch
impervous to rain, and an internal platform with
drains, and covered ways on which the pair and
young reside The moles live and roots,
and bury themselves in any soil in few minutes
Few insects live than.a year in their perfect
state Their first state is the egg, then the CATERPILLAR
then the chrysalis or pupa, and finally the procrea
tive FORM But in these changes there infinite
degrees and varieties of transition all of which con-
pleasing of
Entomology
LOOSE THoUGHTs-BY A FAST MAN.-When the
maiden aunt comes in at the door, it is mefor the
cigar to fly out of the window
In my dealings with knowing cards. | have
found them pretty generally turn up knaves
Every rose has its thorn. / never helped to shawl
the flower Of ball without being convinced, by
painful evidence. that she had pin about her.
[ have learned by experience that when ones head
splits in the morning, the best thing is to soda it.
Crossng-sweepers may talk of the difficulties of
life; but, to my mind, there is nothing half hard
as to walk straight home to your rooms after wine
party and having found your latchkey, to ascertain
without dropping it the whereabouts of the keyhole
When man intends to make night of it, he viii
do well to leave his card-case behind him. The
name of Sc Smith, covers multitude of sprees, and
his address will be shown by his skill in conceang.
What animal but man did you ever see maltreat
female of his species? The claims to pity and n
common consideration every woman builds up during
q few years of marriage Her inestimable value IN
the house How true she is, unless her husband
corrupts her, drives her to despair How often
she is good in spite of her example, How rarely she
is evily disposed but by his example God made her
weaker, that might have the honest satisfaction
and superior joy of protecting and supporting her.
To torture her with the strength ntrusted him for
her good is to rebel against heaven desgn-t is to
be monster, coward, and fool.
PRINTERS QUIRKs--During the Mexican War,
one of the newspapers hurriedly announced as an
important item of news from Mexico, that General
Pillow end thrty-seven of his men had been lost in
bottle,
Some other paper gravely informed the public not
long ago =" That a man in brown surtout, yes
terday brought before the police-court on charge
of having stolen q small or from ladys work-bag.
The stolen property was found IN his Wa1stcoat
pocket
GA rat" says another paper descending the
river, came in contact with a steamboat; and so
serious the injury to the boat, that great
tions necessary to save it,
An English paper once stated, &c that the Russian
general Rackinof kowsky found dead with long
lU0rd sticking in his MOUTH
1t was, perhaps, the same paper, that in giving a
description of a battle between the Poles and Rus
sians said that the conflict dreadful; and the
enemy was repulsed with great iaughter.'
Again: '' a gentleman was yesterday brought up
to answer charge of having eaten stage-driver,
for demanding more than his fare.''
At the late Fourth-of-July dinner In the town Of
Charestown of the poultry were eatable except
the o1Uls."
An admonition against hasty funerals occurred last
week at Fremont, Ohio. Daniel Stearns, who had
been sick with fever, apparently died. All ar
rangements were made, and the friends and the
clergvmen were assembled to pay the last tribute Of
respect to the supposed deceased when the body ap
peared warm to the touch. Restoratives were admin
istered, and in a few minutes the man who came so
near being buried alive, sitting up. He is now
In q fair way of recovery.