The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1856-1888, 1857-06-25
VARIETY.

The days of courtship the happiest of our lives.
Prudence is too often the only virtue left US at
seyenty-twO.
1t is well for the humble when they have sufficient
education to render them callous to contempt.
Premature consolation is but the remembrance of
sorrow
The fall of an apple taught Newton the clock-work
of the universe
The sum of all things is to serve God we'll aud do
10 i'll thing.
Death makes our enemies cease to hate us, and
friends TO love more.
Praise, to be valuable. must come from good
Judge.
Benefit your friends that they may love you more
dearly still
The Atlantic Ocean is estimated as three miles,
and the Pacific as four miles deep.
There are six or seven generations OF gnats in n
summer, and each lays 250 eggs.
There about 5000 cells in square foot of
honey-comb 5000 bees weigh pound.
A swarm of bees contains from 10000 to $4,000 in
natural state, and from 30 900 to 40, 900 i'll hive
FORCED RELIGIoN-A forced match between man
and his religion stemper and leaves barren
bed
SELF-LOvE.-It is easy to look down on others; to
look down on ourselves is the difficulty.
A French talks great deal more than she
thinks-an English woman thinks great deal more
than she talks.
thwart the purpose of It's gift When the alternative
is martyrdom apOstasy.
Friendship requires actions; love requires not so
much proofs as expressions of love. Love demands
little else than the power to feel and to requite love-
They don't make as good mirrors as they used
to- remarked old maid, she observed her
sunken eye, wrinkled face and liyid complexion in
glass that she usually looked into.
Oceans Of ink and reams of paper have been ex-
pended to reform the social and political condition of
only 10
as y0u would be done by
Diogenes being asked the biting of which beast was
most dangerous answered ''If you wild beasts,
It's the slanderers-if tame ones, the fatterers.'
\ canary bird singing in cage, which was
hanging inside of window, ut the residence of
Ebcbezer Rogers, ESQ., of Beverly, recently, when q
sp,rrOw-hawk pounced at him from without, striking
the glass with great force, but without breaking it.
The bird was SO frightened that it futtered two or
three times around the cage and dropped dead.
Here is excellent paragraph which we find in
one of our exchanges. 1t is eloquent-it is true
"If there is q who can eat his bread in peace
with God and man. it is the who has brought
that bread out of the earth. 1t is cankered by no
fraud, it is wet by tears, it is stained by no
blood
A biography of Robespierre, published in late
Irish paper concludes with the following remarkable
sentence :-' This extraordinary man left no children
behind him except his brother, who killed at the
time
How To JUDGE OF CHARACTER.-It has been
shrewdy remarked that what persons are by starts,
they by nature You see them, at such times, Off
their guard Habit may restrain vice, and virtue
may be obscured by passion; but intervals best dis
cover the man. We fancy this is strictly true.
0PINI0N.-If those who differ on speculative points
would walk together, now and then, in the country,
they might find many objects that must unite them.
The bodily feeling productive In degree,
of the same mental one Enjoyment from sun and
air. from exercise and odors, brings hearts together
that schools and council-chambers, and popular
haV between
A DANDY AND HIS TURKEY-Justice Marshall was
in the habit of going to market himself, and carrying
home his purchases Frequently he would be seen
sunrise, with poultry in one hand and vegetables
in the other On one of these occasions, fashionable
younp man from tie North, who had removed to
Richmond was swearing violently because he could
find no one to carry home his turkey. Marshall
stepped up and asked HIM where he nVed. anu sald,
Tn being told
THAT'S on my way, and will take it for you"
When he came to the house the young man in
CURED s. What shall pay you 20
80, nothing said the Chief Justice, sit my
way and no trouble
''Who was that polite old man that brought home
my turkey!'' inquired this man of a bystander
THAT replied he, E'is John Marshall, Chlet
Justice of the United States.''
why did he bring home my turkey?' asked he.
"To give you severe reprimand and teach you to
attend to your own business, - was the reply.
True genuine greatness never feels above doing
anything that is useful, but especially the truly great
man will never feel above helping himself
Eiza Cook very truly says To appreciate the
value newspapers, we have only to suppose they
were to be discontinued for month.
?, "A woman is always at the bottom of trouble. -
iOu remember the Shah of Persia When he was
uoia that workman had fallen from ladder, he
called out s'Who Is she? Who is she?'' Sc Please
SI Sur majesty, tits he.' " Nonsense 70 said the
onah, ''there was never an accident without wo-
man; who is she?'' The Shah was right; the man
nau fallen from his ladder by looking at a woman in
window. Many man does this in other countries
selt is given out that General Tom Thumb received
valentines at London, ON the 4th of February
mere is specimen ofquaint, chidlike description
s.d 'd wanted to describe snake to its aunt and
1t was ''a thing all tail clear up to the head.''
eoI stated that $4 ,000,000 worth of oysters are
VI IN New York annually